Album · 1979
The Wall
by Pink Floyd
The Wall is an album by Pink Floyd, released in 1979 on Pink Floyd Records, with 26 tracks.
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Album · 1979
by Pink Floyd
The Wall is an album by Pink Floyd, released in 1979 on Pink Floyd Records, with 26 tracks.
1 rating · avg 4.5
26 tracks · 82 min
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Rock's most ambitious nervous breakdown: Waters builds a wall of war trauma, fame-loathing and fascist fantasy, and the band — fracturing in real time — delivers "Comfortably Numb"'s twin solos as the album's aching heart. Bloated, hectoring, and impossible to dismiss: The Wall earns its monument status through sheer totality.
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Released as a double album on 30 November 1979, it was subsequently performed live with elaborate theatrical effects, and adapted into a feature film, Pink Floyd—The Wall. As with the band's previous three LPs, The Wall is a concept album and deals largely with themes of abandonment and personal isolation. It was first conceived during their 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when bassist and lyricist Roger Waters's frustration with the spectators' perceived boorishness became so acute that he imagined building a wall between the performers and audience. The album is a rock opera that centres on Pink, a character Waters modelled after himself, with some aspects based on the band's original leader, Syd Barrett. Pink's life experiences begin with the loss of his father during the Second World War, and continue with ridicule and abuse from his schoolteachers, an overprotective mother and finally, the breakdown of his marriage. All contribute to his eventual self-imposed isolation from society, represented by a metaphorical wall. The Wall features a notably harsher and more theatrical style than Pink Floyd's…