It became a very important part of my musical, cultural, and spiritual formation, although I didn’t realize it at the time.įor those who have never listened to this music as an album, it might only be familiar through the tracks that became hits, such as “Brown Sugar” and “Bitch”. My older sister bought it for me when it first came out in 1971, and, since my record collection was quite limited at the time, I listened to it thousands of times. This album is one with which I’m very familiar. Since this is one of the greatest albums of all time, I’ll take a different approach here. “Sticky Fingers” by The Rolling Stones (1971) Music as art doesn’t get any better than this. ![]() Rock music as art doesn’t get any better than this. We are richer, healthier, and more integrated as a result of joining Pink Floyd on the journey. And it leads to redemption, if only in the discovery of the safe haven of stasis. But does the artist see with clarity? Does the artist see what might also be seen within the viewer/listener? Does the artist see the good, the true, and the beautiful? In “The Wall”, this vision becomes vivid. And others might be put off by what the artist sees. Can one imagine trying to fully understand the works of Van Gogh without a progressive series of his self portraits? In order to come to grips with the human condition, the artist must look inside. ![]() While the dramatic vehicle (autobiographical reminiscences of a ‘fictional’ rock star) can be fairly criticized as self indulgent, pretentious, overblown, and narcissistic, “The Wall” shares these features with other introspective works of art. But the album’s power lies in its symbolic exploration of the human psyche, summarized in its central metaphor-traumatic phenomena which are defensively reduced to symbolization as “bricks in the wall”-as the cumulative antisocial and life denying effect of anesthesia, denial, and isolation. ![]() Sublimely harnessing all aspects of production, “The Wall” excels in composition, musicianship, engineering, storytelling, and performance. Augustine’s “Confessions”, and the book of Job. It is an exquisite work of art, treating of the theme of individual introspection on a level with Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, St. This concept album is a genre-defining progressive rock opera that became a classic immediately upon its release.
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