The Wall

You just have to get this—-the music is awesome .

I've owned Pink Floyd "The Wall" on cassette, early vinyl, CD, and now this heavy vinyl reissue. It is my favorite rock album overall. I remember purchasing this record on cassette when it first came out. After listening to it all the way through for the first time in 1980, it was clear to me that it was and is an extraordinary classic, arguably PF's greatest album. This is PF's most fully realized album with so much happening both musically and lyrically that it challenges you to listen and understand the powerful concept and all of the tragedy that feeds into it. I remember being 16 years old when it was first released and digging into the lyrics to understand their message. It was then and some 30 odd years later it still is an emotionally powerful album. "The Wall" just doesn't succeed as a rock album; it succeeds as a true work of art. It is like a Shakespeare tragedy that's not designed to make us happy, but to help us learn from life's sufferings on both an historical level and on a personal level. Don't we all build walls in our lives in some way? The message of "The Wall" is to break down the walls that prevent us from being truly happy people. You're probably more interested in the reissue rather than my musings about the album's art. It's a very nice 180 gram pressing that was remastered by James Guthrie, who was one of the original people who worked on "The Wall". The source tapes were used. The remaster is excellent, and it sounds good right out of the jacket. I cleaned the visually perfect records with a VPI wet/vac RCM, and the sound was illuminated after the cleaning. I played the records with my classic SONY STR-V5 85 watts/channel clean power receiver with a Technics turntable equipped with a GRADO cartridge through a pair of NHT Classic Three book shelf speakers on stands. I used the flat response settings. The sound is rich and full, yet it sounds balanced. I did encounter some noise on Side 3 in some spots, but I'm thinking further RCM cleanings will reduce or eliminate the noise. The packaging is very nice. The jacket has much of the original artwork and some new artwork on the back. It comes with a big 32"x38" poster that has all of the album's lyrics with the white brick wall in the background. You also receive a card with a code to complete a free MP3 download of the entire album. You get pink poly inner sleeves as well as the original paper sleeves (heavier than the original sleeves) with the lyrics on them that came with the original vinyl release. Overall this is an excellent reissue. Some have complained about the price. Great music will command a higher price, and we're talking about one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Whether or not what's in this package is worth it to you will depend on your own personal standards. If this album means as much to you as it does to me, you will have to have it, and remember, "...the ones who really love you walk up and down outside the wall...".

Great album.

Arrived early and in perfect condition.

What can I say, Pink Floyd classic sound. For me not up to the standards of Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here but the next best thing the group did.

While it's definitely not Pink Floyd's best album, it is kind of essential to a PF collection. It is a thematic album, like those before it. But, unlike them this one is chopped up into little pieces, making it a more difficult listen. While PF music was never about bright happy topics, The Wall is downright depressing, seeming to offer little if any hope of escape from a bad situation. Roger Waters was never as good a vocalist as David Gilmour and the album suffers somewhat from Roger's vocal efforts. And the album seems to be less a PF album and more a Roger Waters solo piece. It didn't help the album that the rest of the band couldn't stand to be in the same room as Waters, so the album was put together piecemeal by the band members while they were all at different locations. I believe Waters' less than nice personality got the better of him during the writing of the lyrics and the album turned into a vehicle for him to spew out all his repressed bile. But, over all a decent recording. Despite his contributions to previous albums, I believe getting Waters out of the band was an excellent move on the other members' part.

ended up doing a return on it. the first track of the album had loud popping that i couldn't get rid of no matter how i cleaned it, but amazon qas quick and did a refund.

Just get it. Top 5 best, no issue with CD or with mp3 conversion

Ésta pieza no debería de faltar en cualquier casa, un clásico, un imperdible... aunque musicalmente no es la obra cúspide de Pink Floyd (Dark Side of th Moon ó Animals ó Wish You were here pueden pelear por serlo), significa mucho para la banda en sí: la toma del poder casi total de Waters al frente de la banda, un monumento a la megalomanía, un punto de inflexión para la banda... pero sobre todo, una pieza de culto desde el primer track. No sé si sea mi imaginación, pero desde que empieza a sonar "In the Flesh" en el tornamesa (edición en vinil claro está) el sonido es distinto a la de una edición digital, se siente una atmósfera más cálida con las primera notas de esa especie de oboe que abre el disco, y mas siniestra cuando Mason da sus primeros dos golpes a la batería, seguida de un rasgueo violento de Gilmour... ya no tienes escapatoria, has sido encerrado en el muro. Y así transcurre el disco, como un viaje sin retorno, "Mother" te abriga y a la vez sacude tus ideas (¿Quién te había dicho que tu madre te heredaría sus traumas?) , "Young Lust" es exactamente lo que pides en tu adolescencia, vivir desenfrenadamente. "Goodbye Cruel World" tiene uno de los mejores cierres para una canción y para cerrar el lado 2, un sencillo "Adiós" seguido por un silencio desconcertante (por cierto, ver en vivo a Waters cerrando el muro con ésta canción es memorable). "Hey You" y "Comfortably Numb" con solos de guitarra geniales y de lo mejor de la historia del rock. "Run Like Hell" inquietante, perfecta para el soundtrack de un psicópata, "Waiting for the worms" descubrí lo maravillosa que es al ritmo de los encendedores en vivo.... bueno hay tanto que decir que faltaría espacio.

Inspelad och mixad analogt, ska lyssnas analogt så var rädd om skivan, eller köp cd(eller streama via någon musiktjänst)

Thank you to seller. Cd came in great condition more over at great price. As it was mentioned used but the condition was extremely excellent. Not even a single scratch on cd and cover. Happy to have it 🤘🏻 One of my favorite cds.

S'è detto tutto. Posso aggiungere che non ci si stufa mai di ascoltarlo e io che all'uscita l'avevo giudicato monumentale e magniloquente, se lo apprezzo dal 2015 in poi vuol dire che il lavoro è ben fatto e non datato

Originales, de buena calidad, no hay nada mas que agregar a disfrutarse