After this one, you may be thinking that I have “a thing” for concept albums. And you’d be right, I do - both because I like albums that tell me something, rather than just being “pleasant to listen to”, but also because concept albums tend to come from a single vision, being more “personal”. This is certainly the case here.
What more can anyone add about “The Wall” after all these decades? There are thousands and thousands of reviews out there, some of them brilliant (and some of them even on Amazon.com). Unless you think the album, or Floyd in general, are “pretentious” (a term which I’ve found usually means “too intense” or “too good” - how many times have you seen it applied to, say, Dream Theater?), if you know the album, you probably consider it a masterpiece.
So, were I doing a review, I wouldn’t have much to add. Fortunately, this is not a reviews site. 
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I have to admit, I only “discovered” Pink Floyd in late 2005. Considering that the band formed in 1965, I’m a couple of years late.
Why only now? Well, I have to admit that, without really knowing their music (just “Another Brick in the Wall part 2″, which everyone knows whether they want to or not), I always dismissed them as “just another old rock band”. The fact that I don’t have any friends who are Pink Floyd fans (at least, as far as I know) also contributes to that.
I began to get curious about it when Jeff Minter, a games designer and programmer, mentioned them so much in interviews and blog posts. I admire that guy a lot - if you like video games, you owe it to yourself to play Gridrunner++, at least. So, I thought, if that guy loves that band so much, there just might be something to it.
So I bought several albums, and I’ve been slowly “digesting” them, and so far it’s been a pleasure. Oddly enough, so far, my favorite isn’t “Dark Side of the Moon” or “The Wall”, but, instead, “Animals”, made in 1977.
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