Why is Pink Floyd's The Wall so Great - Analysis & Album Review

[@adamspeople]

Just finished my meat and am ready for pudding

[@BumKnuckle]

Fresh out of pudding mate.

[@progqueen5952]

How ‘bout pie with no crust?

[@Anonymous-o6t6p]

Adam Strohschein he was, 69k subscribers

[@pablobenjamin127]

@@progqueen5952 They only have round apple pies, what are you going to do about it?

[@progqueen5952]

Pablo Benjamin , the funniest thing I ever heard, as a consolation, they offer Nick some blood pudding and he shakes his head in disgust and says, “No thank you!” Greetings from Illinois!

[@GoldenworkUSA]

35 minute Pink Floyd review? Yes, please.

[@lscarpeggio]

I think this is longer than the White Album review. Wow.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Far better than the Nostalgia Critic who completely trashed the entire meaning of the album with a sorry and pompous "critique" of it.

[@090nj2]

Yess

[@sopronto3303]

I think Adam Baker did it best

[@RR-ir6ss]

I love how dark, unsettling and even depressing the album is.

[@coles1660]

R R and beautiful

[@jooree7696]

I almost cry every time i listen to this album This is the best album ever for me

[@biancadiaz3848]

maybe that's why I like the album so much...

[@joeking433]

Yeah, I'll give you that, it's depressing. I would even say hopeless.

[@insert-name101]

​@@joeking433hopeless is the perfect way to describe it. Dark was dark side of the moon. Wish you were here was depressing. Animals was in a way unsettling. This is plainly hopeless. Especially knowing the whole process of the wall will be repeated. It's basically supposed to show the fate of almost every rockstar or even music artist more or less. Shutting themselves off from the world with their wall and when the wall tears apart, they break down with it

[@stuarthunt4606]

I see Animals lurking in the background. Next review? Please?

[@bryanstein7859]

Here, here! My favorite album of theirs.

[@shortstuff780]

Just about to say this!! Yes please my favorite pink Floyd album

[@michaelcurry97]

stuart hunt ... lol. That’s Funny... and cool. : )

[@Biomancer99]

Now that would be amazing I would absolutely sub if that is the plan.

[@sgt.purp1e]

I wanna see a review of Piper first before any other album

[@pinecone9619]

"Goodbye cruel world" "this song sounds suicidal"

[@michaelkennedy4023]

Ya think?

[@kieran1059]

it is actully

[@jamielaw9696]

Saying that, it’s actually about Pink saying goodbye to the world before completing the wall and closing himself off, not him considering suicide

[@wispa1a]

Transitioning

[@cdelgado7296]

Hmm yes this floor is made of floor

[@thejimmydanly]

Dammit, I've got homework, but then I see this on my feed. Oh well, guess I don't need no education

[@felipemcarullo1556]

Proud to be the 60th liker

[@lowertrack]

So you need education but you don’t want to do it

[@tigerplayzz9221]

Jimmy Danly same

[@hedgehog1965uk]

"Yes you do, you just used a double negative". Sorry, reflex action when someone uses that phrase.

[@johni-m8944]

hedgehog1965uk nerd

[@lemursteaks]

This album is horrifyingly human. It's everything we persuade ourselves we aren't, it's all that we are destined to become. The wall is not the story of Pink, but of man in society. It's entirely unprecedented and unique. It's beautiful. Roger is a genius

[@motodrummer]

great take on it.

[@johnhermann5301]

Conceptually and lyrically it’s great, but in my opinion, it’s too long and the music is overrated (some tracks are great, like In the Flesh, Hey You, Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb, and Run Like Hell).

[@rileyvosper411]

@@johnhermann5301very valid take and I agree, gotta have lots of free time to listen through.

[@Skwid-Lives]

@@johnhermann5301wrong the entire album is great

[@fuzer909]

This album got me through cancer in 2017. In recovery now, Comfortably Numb is my song to deal with chemotherapy. Thank you for reviewing this record and breaking all of it down.

[@fuzer909]

@Grateful Alive Some days yes, most days no. Work from home now, doctor has to sign a release if I ever go back to retail sales.

[@kaitodesire]

@@fuzer909 all the best my friend. God bless you

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Damn, makes my use of this record to get over being dumped by my first love back in 1983 seem incredibly trivial. All the best to you.

[@gigglingevil]

Mother and Blue Sky are underrated IMHO.. those 2 songs are really masterpiece!

[@alexb9597]

Ahhh Ahhh smash

[@gabrielherbas402]

Definitely Mother is an amazing song... in history, I mean

[@dandydolphin64]

Nah Waiting For The Worms is defiently the most underrated on the album

[@egthethird6081]

@@dandydolphin64 Agreed, even the movie hates Waiting for the Worms, it gets like 2 minutes cut out! I just made an extended version for personal viewing.

[@Johnnyrocks34]

So great! Classics

[@cre8ivecat23]

That plane sound at the end of In the Flesh is actually a Stuka dive bomber, which had special attachments to make that distinctive sound. It was used quite a bit by the germans during WWII and the plane that crashes into the wall in the live show is a model of a Stuka. Just a bit of extra information I thought some people might find interesting.

[@prettyshinyspaghetti8332]

It certainly was great to learn, thank you!

[@vladob3]

Exactly. My grandfather and many relatives around Europe told to me: "Whoever heard the Stucka sound during WWII will never forget it." The plane had one or two Jericho trumpets mounted upon the leading edges of the main gear legs. The original idea was to give good "haptic" feedback to the pilot about airspeed during steep dive. It actually became a propaganda symbol of German air power.

[@Lasse3]

You're such a know it all huh pal? You think you're better than me!?

[@carolricard1903]

Really enjoyed your narration. ❤‘twas nice

[@DaleKirkley]

Important thing to notice is that the first instance of “In The Flesh” has a question mark after it, and the second instance does not, suggesting the second reflects his real personality.

[@taco_guitar]

That's just wow

[@taco_guitar]

Outstanding move

[@jamesdean9183]

I've never thought about that, that's so cool! You are very observant

[@flyk3n]

I see it as Pink suddenly getting thrown back into his rockstar life and saying "Huh? In The Flesh again?" He already has the "cold eyes" mentioned in the song.

[@mathewhale3581]

The live tour had a fake band play the opening in Floyd masks, therefore “In the flesh?”

[@carpet163]

Probably one of the best rock albums if not best albums of all time. It perfected the idea of a concept album. It's almost impossible to cherry pick a song from the album without marathoning the entire thing. Rock Opera is such an odd and underrated style.

[@renardsubtil3455]

it's the best album of all time .

[@youhk]

@@renardsubtil3455nope

[@joeking433]

Meh. It was Waters at his most arrogant.

[@carpet163]

@@joeking433 I didn't ask for your opinion.

[@joeking433]

@@youhk It's not even Pink Floyd's best album.

[@michaelwilson2340]

How about a review of Meddle? I consider it their "Hunky Dory". A great album before the fame really kicked in. And you cannot beat Echoes! As soon as you hear Richard's "ping" the tingling in the spine comes alive.

[@EvilEyeGypsy]

Fearless is pretty awesome as well.

[@michaelwilson2340]

Evil Eye Gypsy Absolutely! It's very friendly and organic. I love that guitar and the crowd's voices in unison.

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Not as if Dark Side of the Moon spent LITERALLY YEARS on the USA album charts, is one of the biggest selling records of all time, contains their biggest hit single and made them arguably the biggest live act on the planet. Basically I'm not sure your analogy holds up.

[@michaelwilson2340]

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab Actually, if you consult Guitar World Magazine, February 2012 page 70 there is a fantastic article on the making of Meddle. It states that " More than Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall-it finds a spot in the heart of true Pink Floyd fans, such as Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, who has long championed Meddle as the great Floyd album". He mentions the warm, organic and golden 1971 sound. So, in effect I subscribe to that philosophy. Again, it's similar to Hunky Dory in which many true Bowie fans consider Hunky Dory their favorite.

[@michaelwilson2340]

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab In addition, If you go by charts and sales you might as well eliminate The Velvet Underground, Big Star, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and The Ramones. Not a good option.

[@RayHigh4708]

Get right outta town !! One of the greatest albums ever reviewed by VW doesn't get any better .

[@ezekielrose5173]

This record and I have a... complicated history. As a kid, Pink Floyd was my favorite band, and The Wall was my favorite album. As such, I listened to it, and Pink Floyd's discography in general, waaaaaaaaaay too many times. This was how I learned something very important about myself: that I have an obsessive personality, and by overplaying it to such a degree when I was young, it actually creates a sort of negative reflex in me as an adult. It taught me a very valuable lesson about the dangers of overdoing something good, I haven't listened to the thing in literally years, largely in an attempt to make it fresh again for me.

[@travishumaneproject5322]

Indigo Swirl I’ve done this exact thing, it’s quite sad. I still love Pink Floyd though.

[@JobyJonesJnr]

You should watch roger waters the wall 2015 (movie/documentary). This will blow you away, don't worry..... The goosebumps will go away after a couple of hours

[@alternit41]

I've had this exact same experience with the Floyd.ever since I was very young I was drawn to the band and by the time the Wall came out I was in high school, doing lots of drugs and in a paychotic state. I shaved my eyebrows off and went into school after many days of watching the movie over and over again on acid.I want up in the hospital for 3 months after that I learned a lot about myself and I think what you say about obsessive this is very accurate to me too. I still listen to the Floydregularly but listening to the wall is almost painful.

[@vladob3]

Exactly! That is what The Wall is all about. I still have periods when I am obsessed with this album, diving into it truly. And I grasped the album when it was originally published. I was in high school back then.

[@chrismcginley6796]

The transition from the entire crowd chanting “Pink Floyd! Pink Floyd!” on the end of “In the Flesh” on side four and in the intro of “Run Like Hell” to, when at the end of that song and through the intro of “Waiting for the Worms,” half of the crowd is continuing to chant “Pink Floyd! Pink Floyd!” where the other half of the crowd is now chanting “Hammer! Hammer!” and that chant is drowning out the chant of “Pink Floyd! Pink Floyd!” and then, at the end of “Waiting for the Worms” and up to the intro of “Stop” where the entirety of the crowd is chanting “Hammer! Hammer!” to a crescendo, in my opinion, is one of the most remarkable and subtle parts of this section of the album.

[@chrislowe5462]

A brilliantly well thought out video and explanation to an incredible album , every Floyd fan should watch this .

[@joenormanmusic]

Hey You is such a fantastic song.

[@hugosanchez7599]

My favourite album of all time without a doubt

[@fuzer909]

Mine too.

[@FilipinoFood.Nicebro]

i love this album however I like Dark Side and Wish You Were Here more

[@fredrikmaceriksson1]

Pink Floyd - Animals next please!

[@ClarenceFisher]

Animals was.....(sigh) I love Animals.

[@MrGreggallman]

Animals... My favorite album of all time.

[@jossecoupe446]

@Dave Zimmerman Im listening to Animals right now and the length of the three songs in the middle can be a small issue, I often just cant bring myself to sit down and actively listen to those three. I find this strange because I can listen to Shine On You Crazy diamond at any time of the day, so now I've drawn the conclusion that this is because I'm simply very familiar with Shine On's instrumentals, so now in order to familiarize myself I constantly play Animals in the background as I study or do other menial tasks and I gotta say its really growing on me.

[@nickyvanlalhruai9627]

Yes thier best

[@ellacarmel]

Comfortably numb brings me to tears every time I listen to it. There’s nothing as amazing as listening to this album and finally getting to that track, a feeling that can’t be described

[@joeking433]

David's solo in Comfortably Numb is actually the only part of The Wall that I would rate highly. The rest is Waters's dark intellectual masturbation.

[@TheMilovilo]

One of the greatest album of all time. So powerfull brilliant story, lyrics, sound, everything. Masterpiece.

[@lisaheisey6168]

I used to play Pink Floyd's The Wall so much, that my mom would go watch tv in her bedroom to avoid it. She called it "suicide music". One night while I was downstairs listening to The Wall, she came down the stairs and was holding her arms out in front of her. She had taken a red marker and made slash marks on her wrists. She said "Your music made me do this." My mom's sense of humor could be a bit warped. Lol

[@glurmyworm]

Lisa Heisey wtf

[@nicholastosoni707]

"Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall."

[@stevensmith5160]

Honestly I can understand her. But it’s still a masterpiece. It is depressing but I just love Pink Floyd

[@lisaheisey6168]

@@stevensmith5160 I know. That's why I've listened to so much Pink Floyd. My mom just couldn't understand me liking music, that she found so dark & depressing. She liked music, that was happy and that she could dance to. So, she decided to have a laugh and act like my music had made her want to kill herself. Lol.

[@6debbie12]

Dude... this was above and beyond. Best work yet. Please do more Floyd.

[@luapworrag]

Someone needs to drop the link to this with Roger W or David G. Basically I don’t think they have ever seen such dedication to the deconstruction of the wall. Regardless of whether they agree, they would certainly appreciate the review.

[@amadeus2938]

luapworrag Mason said that Roger never respected David, Roger said that everyone can use a guitar and play it and that the writing is all. David said: Yeah you wrote the lyrics but we made the music. Dave and Roger are not in agreement till this day, and is understandable because of how Roger treated them, especially Rick.

[@luapworrag]

Tony AlPaquino yes I’d forgot about the “challenges” if I recall, there was a hijacking of the album, with Richard being fired and then hired as a session player throughout the tour

[@floydloonie4880]

@luapworrag-- Actually if you think about it.... Roger Waters spent at least 5 years "deconstructing The Wall" first it was WW2, then Afganistan, then Iraq or Iran, plus Isreal & Pakastani refugee tensions, then anyone who had died in a war anywhere on the planet EVER!... What did I miss? Korea? The Falklands?? Donald Trump?? Every year or so- Rog had a new demon to tour The Wall around the word with!! At $500. for a pair of nose bleed seats, my wife +I could only afford to attend a limited number of those THE WALL concerts.

[@fatdude2763]

@@floydloonie4880 You and Roger can't seem to not dip good things into impure blood. Everything I like and love is being used to smear something: I saw a video (quite like this one) about Radiohead's OK Computer in which it is claimed that it is an album to resist Donald Trump and the societal changes he's inflicting. It's pure madness, the only comparable things about Trump and this album is that both use walls in ways that are not meant to construct buildings with.

[@robertreynolds2212]

I’ll never forget the first time I listened to it on a good dose of LSD. You really get a sense for how dark it is. A few friends of mine were curious about tripping & decided to try it one night. Being the “experienced” friend, I made a playlist that would at least last the majority of the trip. I saved The Wall for the very end & good thing I did. One friend couldn’t take it, he literally laid face down on the floor moaning while “Empty Spaces” played. I’ve tripped with many people, The Wall is the only album I’ve had people ask to stop/pause the music. Powerful piece of work.

[@roadiethegamecat4124]

I saw the movie in the theater trippin and one of the guys who went with us lost it when Pink started shaving off all his hair.. went running out of the theater.

[@Punk-Mask]

This is one of those albums that should definitely be listened to on LSD but only if you are willing to experience a terrifying beautiful hell.

[@AlanPereira69]

People ask to stop because the album sucks

[@JulioIsKilluminati]

I’m a simple man. I see Pink Floyd, I click.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Pavlovian response.

[@zackzallie8735]

Oi Levi! I was a Wall fan too!

[@someguywithadog3239]

@@zackzallie8735everyone gangsta until a 60 meter muscle guy break the wall

[@zackzallie8735]

@@someguywithadog3239 lol not sure if Reiner or Nostalgic Critic.

[@mimkyodar]

I never even noticed the heartbeat drums on "In the Flesh?" There is just so much musically going on in this album!

[@edward4840]

Anyone else notice the Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking record in the background?

[@The1uptriforce]

That album topped Dark Side of the Moon for me Rogers Waters best work

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Wet Dream by Richard Wright and David Gilmour's self titled solo album to it's right as well.

[@amadeus2938]

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab Those are better 😌

[@stevejackson8094]

I love that album.

[@barryhopwood6172]

Yes, it's the later cover with the censored image. I have the early cover ... she has a perfect bottom.

[@stevejackson8094]

Being a Pink Floyd fan for 50 years I love your review of this album. Very professional and interesting to watch. You really show a deep understanding of the album. Subscribed.

[@kennethcook8857]

The 'groupie' we hear in the background in "One Of My Turns" is Toni Tennille of the soft-rock band, The Captain & Tennille.

[@martin.coronado]

Brilliant review. I would like to add a small point of view of a small section on this record. In The Trial, the judge dictates sentence on Pink: "I sentence you to be exposed before your peers". From my point of view, the penalty that Pink receives is precisely to write The Wall and expose his miseries in front of everybody. That will help Pink to break free. Again, beautiful review. Thanks.

[@ixtacoyotlpena]

You have no idea how excited i am for this

[@mje6444]

Floyd was masters at creating the perfect sound for the story being told, they gave emotions to music, matching the mood lyrically and musically. Super philosophical and excellent musicianship. A lot of bands can't/don't do this.

[@freddiemoore3033]

Absolutely brilliant video, massive PF fan but hadn't picked up on all the little details you discussed.

[@elicapps6585]

My favorite part is when there is a quiet "is there anybody out there" and it bleeds into "comfortably numb"

[@tannerreid6714]

It’s not just this album but everything pink floyd did was to be listened to with full attention. The music is life changing and every moment counts. That is why they’ll always be my favourites.

[@vintagevinylvets1187]

Great job on this review. Honestly,”Comfortably Numb” has the greatest solo ever recorded.🎧

[@ClarenceFisher]

Right up there with "Money"

[@brovold72]

Too true. If there was ever a *reason* for a Stratocaster to exist...

[@busterthebear6756]

Vintage Vinyl Vets high hopes as well

[@vintagevinylvets1187]

Buster The Bear “High Hopes” is one of our favorite PF songs. Love the solo in it as well, but it’s played on that Fender lap steel. We’re comparing “guitar” solos.

[@MIB_63]

Absolutely agree.

[@vinnyreed723]

And now for something completely different 1.Please Review Queen II as it is their best album 2.When Another Brick in the wall pt.2 finishes with the beeping i always think Have A Cigar will start playing

[@nowheremannnap6976]

Do the Piper at the gates of dawn!!

[@alancrane4693]

Umm! Agumma?

[@nowheremannnap6976]

Alan Crane that’s also a great album love the live work on that album

[@michaelwilson2340]

Yes! I hate the fact that Classic Rock radio avoids anything before Dark Side Of The Moon. Then again, most people don't want the complete picture. Who's Syd Barret?

[@nowheremannnap6976]

Michael Wilson for real man don’t get me wrong I love dark side but I love the Syd Barrett stuff better and I hate that they don’t play his songs

[@michaelwilson2340]

Yes, in the U.K. he's respected. When Syd died it was a major event! You saw his face on the covers of Mojo and Uncut magazines. I have a lot of respect for David Gilmore because it made sure Syd was getting the royalties due to him. Around two hundred thousand dollars a year. And Dave made sure Syd had five of his songs on Echoes-The Best Of Pink Floyd which gave Syd two million dollars according to photographer Mick Wall. People love Gilmore and I can see why

[@tavadaardendrian319]

My mom really likes this album. My favorite compliment to give her is that the song ‘Mother’ doesn’t remind me of her 😂

[@samcarroll6210]

The session musician was Joe Di Blasi actually, Roger couldn't remember his name so he came up with Ron because he knew it was a three letter name

[@jankoegl]

My favourite album ever! I first saw it as a kid in the local library and was struck by the contrasting artwork: a plain white wall on the outside, a vivid comic on the inside (which even then I knew wasn’t supposed to be one of the funny kind). I just knew there was something intense about this record. Then I saw an ad in the TV paper, with a picture of the teacher puppet, announcing Waters' Berlin show, and of course I had to watch that! So I did, and even though I wouldn’t quite get most of the story, I definitely loved the tunes, the theatricality and the general weightiness and sincerity of it all. Then I finally listened to the record, and it felt even more intense, almost claustrophobic (fittingly enough!). I actually became somewhat obsessed by it and viewed it as sort of an aural retreat ... I had some personal issues back then I just couldn’t come to terms with, and THE WALL appeared to offer me a strong sense of comfort in a way I couldn’t really pinpoint. Later in my life, when music had become my main source of solace and I had grown to master the English language, I completely understood the album‘s thematic content - and I noticed that quite a few elements of it happened to coincide with my life and my general state of mind that had derived from it: I had sort of an overbearing mother who made it difficult for me to evaluate many things, especially on the social level - more specifically put, I kept fucking up relationships of any kind. So more often than not, I was all on my own, and in order to feel happy, I glorified many aspects of my solitude - which inevitably leads to building a wall around yourself. Today, although I have been able to sort myself out quite neatly, there are still remnants of the old issues cropping up from time to time ... And that’s when I take a walk and play THE WALL on my headphones, using it as the perfect inner-self cleansing tool. I imagine, anybody’s favourite record must be one that serves a similar purpose.

[@travishumaneproject5322]

I see Rogers Waters Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, David Gilmour’s self titled and Rick Wright’s Wet Dream up in the corner. You’ve done your homework lol

[@brendanduffy443]

The original release of pro's and cons in Europe didn't have a redacted tush on it

[@jewfroDZak]

I would like to say as a big Pink Floyd fan, one who has listened to all of their albums 100s of times each, that The Wall was the first piece of music I truly adored, ever. It changed my life. I can think of at least seven songs on that album that at one point in my life were my favorite song off that album. Nobody Home was the first. I cried like a unmovable crying thing that just experienced genuine emotion for the first time in it's existence the first time I heard it...So that was about 20 years ago when I was in high school. I'd say for about the last two years my favorite song off the The Wall has been What Shall We Do Now. The entire song is basically a response to the call of Empty Spaces (the two songs are Inseparable in my mind). Name a Floyd Track that rocks harder, more in your face agressively than that track. I can't. I could make a case for two songs, The Nile Song off More and the live rendition of Careful With That Axe, Eugene off Ummagumma. Buy those two still don't rock as hard as that track in my opinion. Nick Mason's drumming at the beginning of the song--the part when Empty Spaces ends in an orgiastic climax that is the entirety of What Shall We--is transcendent. Its freaking timeless. I don't know enough about the history of Pink Floyd in the recording of their albums or anyting and my opinions are entirely subjective. I don't know anyone's else opinions about the Band's music besides my opinions, which I have formed only through the continual re digestion of their discography for the last 20 years. So, maybe they use drum sampling on that part or something, because I don't know how the hell he could even play that were it recorded live. The guitar, raw af. The lyrics, super punk af. It's got everything you could ask for from Pink Floyd squeezed into the smallest track Length possible. A minimalist masterpiece....Anyway, food for thought.

[@MaxNokes]

I saw the Animals album in the back!! Possible review soon?!?!?

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Much more interested in the 3 Floyd solo albums on the shelf behind and above him.

[@joeb4142]

It’s impossible to overstate the influence of “Another Brick in the Wall 2” when it was released. Now we’re just evaluating it for its musicality but in 1979-80 it was a behemoth of emotion.

[@danpejril]

Came for the Floyd but stayed for the great analysis and insights. Nice work. Sub'd

[@seancraig2372]

I just realised that the last one being 'OUTSIDE the wall' and the first being 'IN the flesh' is probably very deliberate, especially with the cycle that was explained in this video

[@digitalcat303]

Absolute favorite album of all time. One of the few albums that has to be listened to from beginning to end. Love the emotional roller coaster ride it takes me on every time.

[@tepidtooth8539]

Fun Fact: When they demoed The Wall to the record company, the bomber in In The Flesh? blew out one of the speakers they were playing it on

[@girlwithaguitar24]

After seeing you review this album, I feel like you should review Kid A. It has a really similar undertone of mental illness, isolation and cacophany.

[@TheJedwardo]

Side 4 Is Always my favourite, I feel it’s got so much variety to it and the progression of him becoming a dictator then realising he’s a monster and giving himself a trial of wether he’s crazy, I feel just all songs flow into each other and they just, it’s great.

[@jtirello3_111]

Well done comprehensive review of what I consider the most important album in history. I was fortunate to see Roger perform The Wall in 2010 & 2012. I was shaken to my core, and the second show was better than the first. The Wall never ceases to amaze. I hear something new every time I listen to it. It truly is an experience.

[@jeremytallis5243]

I feel like the way you described this album is the way you described me and what I’m going through. It was nice to hear someone put it into words. Really great stuff

[@Conar.]

Hey m8, I was in the exact place. All I wanna say is really take into account the ending. Breaking down the wall is hard but worth it. Cheers.

[@TheMaddogMiner]

I wish I could give this video more likes! This has always been my favorite album and blew my mind the first time I listened

[@fazeman2586]

I still don't know what people don't like about Vera. One of my favs on the album.

[@Zhnatko]

Fun fact, Vera is actually Roger Waters' favourite

[@michaelhogg5498]

You didnt mention the superb production. Amazing dynamic range, fantastic arrangements ,best rock drum sound on record and Richard Wrights keyboard genius all over the album. Michael kamens string arrangements also help .I dont think there will be another rock album sounding this GREAT anytime soon .

[@light.jeremy01]

Do Wish You Were Here, the best one imo.

[@GraceToo_]

The girl from 'One of my turns' is Toni Tennille. Love this review, as many times as I have heard this album I never thought about the ending and beginning being an endless loop. Wonderful review, really made me appreciate this album even more then I did before. The one thing I wish Pink Floyd would do however is release a soundtrack version from the movie, I really love the songs that did not appear on the album and with the space CD's can hold there is no reason why it couldn't be done.

[@ClarenceFisher]

So, love didn't really keep Pink and the groupie together.

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

@@ClarenceFisher Muskrats are randy little buggers.

[@zackmccrea4731]

Lee Anne are you canadian

[@mindofprog]

My tears are falling. You know Vinyl, sometimes I forget how deep was this record to me & how timeless is. The album meaning, the lyrics, Roger's ultimate expression. I don't know, it's such a classic album, such an experience. Thank you very much for this review, tomorrow I'll play the whole record, cheers

[@Pr0jectFM]

Ooh babe a new vinyl rewind

[@fidelrivera2887]

During my sophomore year at college I devoted about an entire year to Pink Floyd. Not intentionally but once I started looking into their vast catalogue I couldn't stop . I listened to everything they put out, learned all I could about the band, looked into the making of this and just about every other of their albums, devoured every live performance I could find, learned all the guitar parts to The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon and pretty much exclusively delved into the deep, deep mine of work this band has. Obsessed is not a strong enough word for it. It took me ages to get all the information presented here but there were things covered here I had totally missed... Damn! Great job. This album is loaded with secrets, hidden messages, overt and subversive meaning and loads of character. It's not easy music but with every listen you'll hear something you missed before and over time it gets under your skin as you see how it beautifly speaks of the universal human condition in a modern world through a story both relatable and terrifying with some of the best music of its time and ours. It's a rare instance of high art with mass appeal. Listen to it on a good set of headphones and really appreciate just how much they packed into this album... Wonder to think if they weren't under those conditions with a tight deadline would it have still been as good? Great job on the review! Subbed after part 1. Thank you for putting all this together.

[@stevedale616]

So I’ve been binging your channel for the past couple of weeks and came across this one. I just want to thank you for the super in depth breakdown of The Wall. Till today, I could never get into it and never bothered to read what the whole underlying story was about. That paired with the fact that you provided sound excerpts of all the parts of songs as you broke them down. And now it makes sense too to think of each side of the vinyl as a different section of the story. And pretty cool how the beginning of the album is essentially the end of it still fading out and the line “isn’t this…where we came in?” loops it. Now I get the hype. Now to just get into their pre-TDSOTM albums (much harder). (Also wouldn’t mind more Weird Al content 😀)

[@khengliatong5991]

This may be your best album review yet! Awesome review!

[@lisaheisey6168]

I hope, you'll do more long reviews like this again. I love that you were so detailed.

[@abigail71636]

I saw the laser show of this album in Memphis a while ago... it was incredible... life changing even. In The Flesh? Is my favorite and the laser to that song were just awesome. The riff is infectuous.

[@mevdinc]

Probably the best review of any album. It beautifully captures the essence and the impact of the album, music and Roger's lyrics. Well done.

[@darrens7040]

Great analysis of a truely wonderful album, I was 11 years old when this came out thank goodness my parents were into all this music and we had (at the time) a decent stereo system old akai prolab. We lived in a huge old farm house and I would crank it up loud man loved it.On a side note we had a protest march at school against a certain teacher (lol) and just about the entire school marched around singing "WE don't need no education " etc oh they were great days.

[@jjmah7]

no one breaks these albums down like you do man...loved this

[@jeffcobb2734]

The loop is mind blowing. The end becomes the beginning, and visa versa. Brilliant.

[@ufoclips1]

Got to be one of the best things ever put on vinyll,stunning in every way,a fitting end to the 70s.

[@booled1]

Goodbye Cruel World is definitely Pink’s failed suicide attempt. The final lyric just being a plain, empty “Goodbye”, makes me feel like it’s Pink thinking he’s about to die, and then he doesn’t. And then Hey You comes on, and the story continues.

[@matipedia_]

Saw it as premiere hehehe As with every review you put out. Loved it! Amazing quality and very interesting to watch. A lot of info on the music and thanks for all the detail on the story the album tells. Usually reviews omit a lot of this by just saying "There's a film go watch it" Wish you had talked about the cover design or who drew the stuff from the gatefold. That's pretty much how Pink sees the other characters from the story. (if you did I'm sorry. I might have missed it) Amazing how it seems that you look through some bricks that haven't been placed yet to kinda enter his mind.

[@BigDogsDangler]

A little known fact that blew me away when I first noticed it. At the very beginning of the album, you hear one of the band members say "we came in", just as the quiet music starts. At the very end of the album, right at the last second of the music (which is the same music as the intro), you hear the same band member say "isn't this where". F**king genius.

[@The90slim90]

It's great but hardly a "little known fact".

[@cullenbrownmusic]

he says this already

[@mikenash7049]

I was given a copy of The Wall for Christmas in 1979, when it first came out, and it's been my favourite album ever since.

[@mavisevelyn618]

In the Flesh? Is one of my favorites. Very underrated

[@SteveNC61]

Absolutely superb. So wish I had had this analysis the day I bought the album on release day.

[@dirtydeadasheville]

Even though it arrived late in the prog rock and concept album years, it really is the best. The story is clear, the melodic motifs are used to great effect and it's a brilliant album altogether. I always liken it to Genesis' LAMB, but without the confusing storyline (and the LAMB is much more musically complex).

[@Lee-bt2cy]

It's the story any avid pink Floyd fan knows,but to hear it all worded out and described by the orator is not only hitting all the nails on the head & just laying it all out there with an obvious passion for the album,that feels like actually taking the words and thoughts from out of my head in relation to the album & saying them all back to me with precision and care taken for the artists work....but also that you are so succinct in your descriptions of each track and it's perceived meaning,that I can only thank you for the time it took you to do that,beautifully worded review of an exceptional album. I feel your passion for music and for the art of music revision. Love it..a deserved subscribe and another fan of your work created 😊👍

[@SaintPierrot_]

When I was a kid my dad played me the movie and for a long time that really was my only reference of music. I didn't get into listening to music until 7th grade when I revisited The Wall just to listen to. One day me, my sister, and my uncle went to an antique store nearby that had a copy of The Wall and I used what little I had (for a 12-13 year old) to buy it. At first I thought this was the only record I would have. Little did I know that would snowball into picking up more Floyd and just more music in general. The Wall is what got me into not just record collecting but music as a whole (granted Gorillaz also helped a bit there with their animated videos making an impression on me when I was younger). At this point, I thought I knew everything there was to know about The Wall and I am pleasantly suprised to say that I learned more about The Wall that I just did not before. This video is phenomenal and does the album justice. Keep up the great work Eric and I can't wait to see whats in store for the other Wall-related videos!

[@Tampo-tiger]

This bloke does a fantastic job of explaining the nitty-gritty of The Wall. He picked up on a lot of intricacies I never did, and I'm really grateful to him.

[@edward4840]

You have no idea how happy I was when I saw this notification

[@honuman39]

Well done. I had no idea there was a message in the Empty Spaces played backwards. Great review.

[@nateds7326]

Nobody home is one of my favorite pink floyd songs, great that someone finally gave it some praise

[@snappystettner]

I really love your take on the story and message of the different instrumental parts. My dad showed me the movie when I was 14 and I think it was over my head but I loved it. It was like a puzzle to me and I thought about it a lot. It’s nice to hear someone else’s interpretations. I’d love to hear your thoughts on other concept albums. This channel has quickly become one of my favorites ❤

[@IsraelQuezada999]

Loved your review of The Wall, my friend!

[@martindupont2249]

It’s the soundtrack of all my depressions and I cry every time comfortably numb solo starts for the lasts 35 years of my life

[@mcpuncake3244]

Great episode!

[@PenguinGirl470]

Wow! This is a very well done review of The Wall. Even with how much I already know about the album, it still gave me an even greater appreciation for it. Truly a masterpiece, this video and the album itself. Loved all of your Pink Floyd videos. The quality and setup of your videos really ties your thoughts and analyses together.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Fantastic review, this album gets a little bit poo pooed by Pink Floyd fans for some reason, imo it's a masterpiece. This album needs to be played at high volume, this album is meant to be felt I'm every way, it's incredibly dynamic. I had an amazing experience listening to this album on a CD walkmen laying in bed listening through headphones after indulging in some "green herbal medicine" ;) My heartbeat started synchronizing itself with the beat of the music perfectly where it felt like there was no separating myself from the music, it felt like we melted together as one, it was an incredible experience that I'll never forget. Something I've never experienced from any other music before.

[@ctn3850]

You're great at explaining things with such depth. I appreciate your work! 🙂

[@SpaceCattttt]

What I like about the album is that there's nothing else that sounds like it. Not even among Floyd's other albums. Many of the songs are thematically similar, but the actual music is very varied and sometimes extremely so. Yet, the production gives everything a unique consistency and ties it all together. In the same way that Dark Side and the other albums do. They all present their own little insular world to the listener, and they're all different enough to have been made by totally different bands. But even so, The Wall represents an almost unbelievably radical departure from what the band had done before. Not necessarily better, but ever fearless and endlessly ambitious. And I respect that.

[@JoeToff]

This should have more views and more recognition. Great job, looking forward for the rest "The Wall" videos.

[@rupman27isback]

My favorite album by them.

[@gogbone]

My 2nd favorite pink floyd album, my favorite concept album ever, and an all time classic overall. I feel too many floyd fans are overly critical of this album and dont appreciate its genius.

[@michaelwooldridge6880]

Awesome! Thanks so much definitely worth the wait

[@Nchubbz]

Will you be looking at 'The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking' that I see sat on your shelf? It was the other concept they were running with, but they went with The Wall concept for the Floyd band. Honestly, I think 'Pros and Cons' is really good, and a honestly, after 'The Wall' and 'The Final Cut', it's a breath of fresh, positive air that isn't heard in most of Roger's music. No real heavy, moral message beyond, 'Be faithful and true to the ones you love', and with the playground of a dream-scapes to paint bizarre and wonderful images. And the musicianship is fantastic! Just found this review, love your channel already!

[@linguiniindiscuise1268]

Amazing video as usual...but now you have to do a full review of Joes Garage acts 1-3

[@stephengaffney626]

That sir was a fantastic review. Poetic. I was at the Feb 10 ‘80 Anaheim show