All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall. To me, The wall is the definitive Pink Floyd album, the crown jewel of the big four and the greatest album of the 70s. It's a miracle, really, the production of the album tore Pink Floyd apart, closing off their legendary run of concept albums as a result and sending the band into turmoil, legal battles and lawsuits. The album really changes the way you think about things.
I never liked this, nor saw the hype. The music just doesn't sound good or right, y'know?
When NWA said "fuck the police", they were right.
There are some good ones (like the nile song) but this album is overall inessential.
The Floyd's first album where Syd Barrett isn't present, this was made as the soundtrack for a small European film about drugs or something, it's really the only inessential part of their discography and the start of the band's early struggles without Barrett, until Waters took firm control of the band to produce the "big four" in the '70s. But this is a review, not a history ... read more