Pink Floyd: ‘The Wall’ | Re-Imagined as Single Album
I’ve often wondered If Pink Floyd’s The Wall could be a single album. Here is my suggestion, just focussing on one part of the narrative
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@davidmusicmaker
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
My 14-song version of The Wall features 7 songs per side. The sequence of 7 songs on Side A remains intact, depicting early childhood, father's death, adversarial teachers, controlling mother, & resignation in the face of personal loss & alienation.
Side 2 begins with a harsh internal assessment, sexual experimentation, forlornness & yearning for something more, self-imposed isolation, anguish amid numbness, regret/pretense, & escape into insanity vs escape from it. . .
Side A
1. In the Flesh? (Intro to Pink)
2. The Thin Ice (love + foreboding parental angst)
3. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1 (Father dies.)
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (adversarial teachers)
5. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 (students' retaliation)
6. Mother (maternal manipulation and inculcated fear)
7. Goodbye Blue Sky (Sweet vocal harmonies paradoxically depict sorrow.)
Side B
1. Empty Spaces (Now what?)
2. Young Lust (sexual escapade/search for meaning &/orlove)
3. Hey You (hopelessness vs hopefulness)
4. Nobody Home (Pink is incommunicado: loss of love)
5. Comfortably Numb (idyllic recollections juxtaposed against self-recrimination and futility)
6.The Show Must Go On (Sweet vocal harmonies resurface, portending a release, but is it too late for a change?)
7. Run Like Hell (Has Pink succumbed to meaninglessness? Will he run like a purposeless fool, or run into hope?)
@SethFlix
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The White Album is perfect. So is The Wall.
@josephst.georgerockandroll
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I’d say I’d make the album as follows
The thin ice
Another brick part 1
Happiest days / brick part 2
One of my turns
Another brick part 3
Goodbye cruel world
Hey you
Comfortably numb
In the flesh
Run like hell
Waiting for the worms / stop
The trial
And I think that would probably fit on two sides
@dannystacy9824
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I've listened to side 4 once..that was plenty enough for me
@johnjackson3735
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The Wall Reimagined for me as a single album would be: This is actually a bit short.
1. In the Flesh 3:36
2. Thin Ice 2:27
3. Mother 5:32
4. Young Lust 3:25
5. One of My Turns 3:41
6. Hey You 4:40
7. Is There Anybody Out There? 2:24
8. Comfortably Numb 6:23
9. The Show Must Go On 1:36 wish this song was longer
10. Run Like Hell 4:20
about a little over 37 minutes
@montyernst2617
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Even though I love "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," it could benefit from being slimmed down to a single album. Half of Side Three and Side Four are dreadfully embarrassing pieces of self-indulgences (both lyrically and musically) and I'm probably one of the few Genesis fans who thinks the album should end with "In the Rapids" and omit the next song "it" since it has never sounded to me like it fits sonically with the rest of the album.
@Ballardian
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Interesting, but an absolutely terrible idea in my view.
@thekeywitness
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Physical Graffiti is a great double album. Perfect?
@234cheech
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
ITS ONE PEICE THE REASON FOR TWO ALBUMS IS IT WAS THE TECH BACK THEN POINTLESS 9.55 MINS OF MY FUCKING LIFE HEAR
@adamgrant7951
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Very interesting take. But Run Like Hell is better than some of the songs you've retained. The trial scene is also very entertaining and more interesting than the Vera song.
@joaquinlezcano2372
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I think London Calling is the finest double album, along with Goodbye Yellow brick road.
@justnodpdg1
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Somebody had better read this cos I just typed in the whole shebang once then lost it all thanks to a slip of the mouse (grrr).
I used to think The Wall was the Floyd's pièce de résistance but these days I am less sure. Under severe torture I might decide that accolade should go to Animals or Wish You Were Here. Anyway, a few months ago I decided to "create" a Wall single album but, rather than base it on the narrative, I based it on what I deemd to be the best songs. The result was:
In the Flesh
The Thin Ice
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2
Mother
Goodbye Blue Sky
Young Lust
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
(total running time about 42 mins)
So there 😀.
On the subject of perfect double albums I guess I consider Genesis Lamb Lies Down on Broadway to be pretty close. I think Layla (Derek and the Dominos) and Humble Pie's Rockin the Fillmore are also contenders.
Keep up the good work. I am trying to "stay safe", honestly, but have still managed to get covid twice (that I know of).
@jhillst
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The only track on The Wall that feels disposable to me is The Show Must Go On. It doesn't add much to the story, and musically it sounds like it was written in a hurry. That aside, I'd keep everything else. I love side three in particular — this is when Pink is fully behind "the wall" and all the songs describe the thoughts going through his head at the time.
@carncats07
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
No way am I losing "Revolution 9" of the White Album. It's awesome.
@stevescutt2865
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I got the Wall with the birthday money for my 9th birthday in 1984. I played it on the radiogram my dad gave me. Powerful album!!
@tondewit2000
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The Wall was released in late december 1979… My birthday is 17 december and then I got it☺️
@matthewmurray4753
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The Album us ,what it is , as the artists expresses conveyed it . All the parts go into making it's character. It's called a record for a reason , it is a record of the art and the expression. Why would you modify a classic artwork to your taste , it's not yours to do so it belongs to the world warts and all ,they are part of it .
@JohnnyArtPavlou
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Well I admire you taking on such a iconic album being willing to put it under the surgeon’s knife. I wonder how the “leftover“ tracks would work together as a second separate album. I have to sit down and do the math
@raypsychodad
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
The wall is the perfect double album. There's nothing you could cut. Now zeppelin physical graffiti would have been better as a single album ( ducks for cover) thin lizzy live and dangerous is a perfect double too.
@Emlizardo
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I think Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica deserved its four LP sides. It needed to be sprawling and relentless, even exhausting, like Melville's Moby Dick, for its full impact to come across.
@Emlizardo
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
Like so many others who were blown away by The Wall at an impressionable age, I've reassessed my opinion considerably downwards over the ensuing decades. The main problem is that much of the music isn't sufficiently developed to carry the emotional weight that Waters wanted to convey. I suspect a lot of this is down to Rick Wright's being largely absent from the proceedings.
@unclemonty9506
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
oh god, just watched the whole video – what a hatchet job 😂 you can't separate the war narrative from the alienated rock star narrative, what sense does comfortably numb make in this context? Holy moly – this album would have bombed big time. So many great tracks in the trash! It would be like listening to the full album on shuffle 😁
@walterevans5658
March 17, 2026 at 3:45 am
I've always felt this about The Wall. One record's worth of greatness, then a record's worth of filler/narrative. But then I've always been a Team Gilmour guy.
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