Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. In The Flesh
2. Thin Ice
3. Another Brick In The Wall
4. Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5. Another Brick In The Wall
6. Mother
7. Goodbye Blue Sky
8. Empty Spaces
9. Young Lust
10. One Of My Turns
11. Don't Leave Me Now
12. Another Brick In The Wall
13. Goodbye Cruel World

Disc 2:

1. Hey You
2. Is There Anybody Out There
3. Nobody Home
4. Vera
5. Bring The Boys Back Home
6. Comfortably Numb
7. Show Must Go On
8. In The Flesh
9. Run Like Hell
10. Waiting For The Worms
11. Stop
12. Trial
13. Outside The Wall

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #451 in Music
• Released on: 1994-10-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Double CD, Original recording remastered

From Amazon.com
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 arguably 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 subtly 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

Customer Reviews

An Absolute Masterpiece
The Soundtrack to the film by the same name, this is a musical masterpiece. It is basically telling the story of Pink through music, and it works so well. It is not Pink Floyds best album but it deserves 5 stars because of the originality alone.

It does also contain some very well known Pink Floyd songs such as "Another Brick in the Wall pt2" and "Comfortably Numb".

You should definately buy this album, it is great to listen to all the way through but also has some great individual tracks on it. Anyway it is an important piece of musical history and no collection would be complete without it.

The folly of buying the single
For many who bought the wall based on the released 'brick in the wall' single, the album can be dense and may not be to the taste of the single buying public. You either like rock or you you don't. The single was not representative of pink floyd's output, but appealed to the general public with its catchy school chorus. I would imagine that someone could have made the same mistake buying Van Halen's 'Jump'. In both cases the single was the cover to the book, so never judge a book by its cover. So to the guy who bought the album and hated it, ask yourself, had you ever listened to Pink Floyd before?

The Greatest Album of All Time
There are many reasons why 'The Wall' is on a completely different level to many of the albums through the ages and of the modern day. The highly emotional story of the anti- hero rock star 'Pink' and his life growing up in post war Britain after losing his father. He begins construction on his emotional "wall" that isolates him from the painful events in the world around him. Musical masterpieces such as 'Comfortably Numb', 'The Trial' and 'Waiting for the Worms' make their grand appearances on 'The Wall'. The tremendous guitar playing of David Gilmour combined with the incredibly talented lyricist Roger Waters make this, quite simply, the greatest rock album and concept record ever conceived. It's no wonder it has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.