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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 285
Released: April 25, 2000 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
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
The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) Reviews:
Mother should I build the wall??? 
2009-11-09 - Pink Floyd is in my top four rock groups. The Wall is one of their three best albums. I will enjoy this CD for the rest of "time."
regardless of class a f*scist turd 
2009-11-06 - regardless of class this horrible albeit atrocious cd was made. It is full of whining horrid adolescent songs. It's like being forced to listen to a punk versus German schlager competition.
Had there been one song here half decent my judgment would not be so harsh, but the laughable hilarious lyrics (if that is what you can call these uninspired baby moans).
This album is amongst the most horrible in the world alongside Brintey's Sphears OOH! I did it again and the Neil Diamond songbook.
Good buys:
Silver Apples on Kapp
The music asylum on UA records
Joel Andrews - Paradise bird Golden harp
PF had their day...once
Obscured by clouds is a top nudge album
Ummagumma is and AHM is
Saucerful is if it only wasn't so outdated and sterile.
Thank you so kindly for reading my revue.
Rupert Hagg
Back to the Future. 
2009-10-29 - Even though these recordings were made in the 70s, I still believe that "Pink Floyd" was instrumental in shaping the future of rock.
They were far ahead of their time and, with the exception of U2, they are one of the most copied and popular rock bands.
Pieces such as- "Another Brick in the Wall" part 1 2 and 3, "Hey You," "Is Anybody Out There?" and "Bring the Boys Back Home" are all rock classics.
great
2009-10-26 - Pink Floyd has never made a bad album as long as Roger Waters was with them...
The Wall, the real story.............
2009-10-16 - Id just like to point out to Alan Caylow, great review, totally wrong information regarding the story behind the making of the epic album/film Pink Floyd's The Wall.
It is actually loosely based on the life of Syd Barrett - co-founder of pink Floyd and the original front man of the group. Syd (real name Roger Barrett) was the man who turned Pink Floyd into one of the Greatest bands and the sudden death of his father when Barrett was 11 is believed to have been at least partly responsible for triggering the mental problems that plagued him as an adult.
In 1965, he introduced a different flair for musical innovation (and the name Pink Floyd) to a group who had mainly been playing covers of Rhythm & Blues songs.
Under Barrett's influence, Pink Floyd began to experiment with a jazz-based psychedelic sound. He used "low tech" techniques like sliding a cigarette lighter up and down his guitar's fret board to give Pink Floyd a distinctive sound different from any other bands.
As the band's success grew with its first two albums so did Barrett's erratic behaviour. He would wander aimlessly around the stage during live performances, or play just one chord throughout an entire concert. Heavy use of drugs, especially LSD, made his mental instability even worse.
Barrett left/got sacked from Pink Floyd in 1968, just three years after co-founding it and he left the music business altogether, living the rest of his life in near seclusion in his boyhood home in Cambridge, spending his time painting, gardening and avoiding the public eye.
Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here was written and released as a tribute to Barrett.
This is actually a well-known fact and when I read the review I just had to write my own to set the record straight!
The Wall is an amazing album and a brilliant film, but you must understand what is going on or you would be completely baffled!
It is not about education systems, Nazi Germany or even Roger Waters spitting on a fan, it is an insight into the mind of a man who was extremely talented yet on the brink of madness and I think it was a mixture of these and also the amount of drugs available at the time that sent poor Syd over the edge.
Roger Barrett (Syd) died in July 2006 at the age of 60 of complications caused by diabetes.
