The Wall (2011 - Remaster)

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Album Information
  • Artist: Pink Floyd (See All Albums by Pink Floyd)
  • Date Released: Sep 26, 2011

  • Genre: Rock/Pop, Style: Rock

  • Label: CAPITOL

Total Tracks: 26   Total Length: 80:49

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Roger Waters constructed The Wall, a narcissistic, double-album rock opera about an emotionally crippled rock star. The Wall paints such an unsympathetic portrait of the rock star, cleverly named “Pink,” who blames everyone — particularly women — for his neuroses. Such lyrical and thematic shortcomings may have been forgivable if the album had a killer batch of songs, but Waters took his operatic inclinations to heart, constructing the album as a series of fragments that are held together by larger numbers like “Comfortably Numb” and “Hey You.” The fully developed songs are among Floyd’s finest, but The Wall is primarily a triumph of production: its seamless surface, blending melodic fragments and sound effects, makes the musical shortcomings and questionable lyrics easy to ignore. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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