The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) | Pink Floyd

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	The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) Pink Floyd Capitol, 2002 average customer review:based on 1032 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Wall is less a collection of songs than a single work, which is sometimes frustrating; the plot lacks enough coherence to hold the snippets of music together. However, there are occasional flashes of brilliance on what ranks as Pink Floyd's most ambitious project. Most of these come from the fully developed songs, which have become classics in their own right. "Hey You," "Mother," and especially "Comfortably Numb" are subtle, incredible pieces of music. Though complex, they move at a relaxed pace, allowing the listener to absorb them slowly; this kind of pacing was something Pink Floyd excelled at. Also worth noting is the "Another Brick in the Wall/The Happiest Days of Our Lives" medley, which has become a staple of rock radio. --Genevieve Williams

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Pink Floyd, "The Wall" 1979

By this time Pink Floyd were starting too reach the breakup and this was pretty much there last great album(The Final Cut was really just a Roger Waters solo album) Rick Wright was already out of the band at this time but they still mannaged too make a rock opera. The Wall is a story of about a rockstar named Pink the first disc shows his humble begginings but by track 9 he's grown into the Pink we know. By disc two he's pretty much gone insane and in the movie his sink is filled with blood and he cuts himself but the main song out of this album is, "Comftarbly Numb", about when he overdoses on drugs. All in all this album is timeless and is for every pink floyd fan alive new or old,
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All in all...

The best Pink Floyd album in the post Dark Side of the Moon years, this relentlessly bleak and bitter rock opera is three sides of angst and anger is so meticulously produced that - some 25 years later - it still strikes nerves. Be it Roger Waters' working through his own personal disintegration (the oft-repeated story of his spitting on a fan who kept screaming through acoustic passages), to a life-story of a rock-star with a bad/oppressive childhood or yet another glance askance at the band's lingering emotional weight about Syd Barrett, "The Wall" looks at the many ways we barricade ourselves.

Theatrically produced by Bob Ezrin (KISS, Alice Cooper), it also found the Floydians tightening their songs from meandering electronic experiments - think the multi-part "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" from Wish You Were Here - to the point where "Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2" unwittingly became a hit. It also found songs kicking up the tempo to the point were some of these compositions actually "rocked." "Run Like Hell" and "In The Flesh?" became AOR staples despite their segueing into each other. But some of the other songs were so perfect that they have become classics (or played to death, depending on your POV), like "Comfortably Numb" or "Hey You." Also, like so many of Bob Ezrin's best work, he pulls amazingly theatrical performances, particular the vocals. Waters' tortured wail on "Don't Leave Me Now" can give you shivers.

The theatricity is also the album's final undoing. On the original double LP, it was side four that could not hold "The Wall's" weight. The operatic "Waiting For The Worms/Stop/The Trial" climax flies so over-the-top that it becomes the weakest brick. It's also kind of telling that, in Pink Floyd - The Wall Movie, it's almost entirely animated. It's as if it was so unrealistic as to be incapable of being portrayed by actual humans. And as the protagonist rocker ("Pink," who seems to be a snide reminder of the "Which one's Pink" line on Wish You Were Here) slowly drifts into emotional fascism, the mental/musical bombast of this CD overshoots itself.

Be that as it may, "The Wall" has few equals when it comes to the insistent self-loathing of self-centered rock and roll stars; perhaps The Downward Spiral comes closest. Perhaps the bleakest thing about "The Wall" is that Pink Floyd/Waters sees all this as a viscous cycle...the first words on the album are "we came in?" and the last ones are "Isn't this where..." Now if THAT isn't depressing, then what is?

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Not Floyd's best, but still great.

I don't think this is Floyd's best album, but it is rock solid. I've always prefered Meddle to this. Still, it's a must own for any Floyd fan or rock enthusiast in general.

It's the Friggin' Wall

It's "The Wall"--- needed it on CD, Roger Waters tells all biography. If you haven't heard it-----your parents have. Or maybe the worms ate into your brain. Either way----- you love it or hate it on this one---- I love it.

Slick, bombastic -- but not a lot of substance

This was one of the first CDs I ever spoke, and as a teenager its anger and bitterness really spoke to me. Now, looking back 15 years later, the music just doesn't resonate and some of it actually makes me cringe. That's not to say you shouldn't pick it up - lots of people genuinely love this album - but that you should know what you are getting into.

In the case of The Wall, the tunes played on the radio are a fairly good representation of the album's best work. "Comfortably Numb", "Run Like Hell", "Hey You", "Run Like Hell" and "The Happiest Days/Another Brick #2" are all enjoyable, if (to many radio listeners) played so frequently that they offer few surprises at this point. There are a few gems hidden elsewhere - "Mother" may be the best song on the album, and "Nobody Home" is a very poignant Waters + piano + orchestra ballad. "Goodbye Blue Sky" and the acoustic guitar sequence on "Is There Anybody Out There" are worth mentioning as well.

And then there are sides 2 and 4 of the original double album. The album's key weakness is an excessive focus on lyrics over the music, and the second half of each CD really showcase this problem. The sequences from "Empty Spaces" to "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Waiting for the Worms" to "Outside the Wall" are, at best, boring and occasionally unlistenable. There's a common argument from Waters critics that the songs cowritten with Gilmour are the best on the album, but that conveniently ignores the lame "Young Lust". And "The Trial" - yikes - awful, awful, awful, even worse than "The Dogs of War".

The Wall remains enormously popular with many listeners - I think it is still Floyd's best seller after Dark Side of the Moon - and most people will enjoy it. But it is flawed, and for those who prefer Pink Floyd's "head music" through 1975, a likely disappointment.

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