Pink Floyd: The Wall

[false]

Does anyone else think this album is describing someone with social anxiety, specifically avoidant personailty disorder? I can't get over some of the lyrics.

The entire "wall" concept is simple enough to imagine...someone building a "wall" between themselves and the real world to protect themselves, then suddenly realizing they want back out, but can't.

I think the lyrics "there must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in" in the last song of the second disc really cinch how I feel today. I built the wall but now I want out. Yet I can't.

Of course the judge orderes the destruction of "the wall" and sentences the protaganist to be "exposed before his peers" at the end, but one thing I can't figure out is who the judge represents.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Thanks for reading.

 

[COALPORTER]

I THOUGHT THE WHOLE ALBUM WAS ABOUT SID BARRET OR ROGER WATERS CRAPPY CHILDHOOD OR HIS DAD GETTING KILLED IN WAR OR SOMETHING. 8O :?:

 

[Remus]

my favourite album of all time!!!!

as my my avatar proves lol

yes I totally connect with the album after having childhood trauma and a breakdown myself

 

[Tryin]

Does anyone else think this album is describing someone with social anxiety, specifically avoidant personailty disorder? I can't get over some of the lyrics.

I love this album. It makes me feel that I am not alone or abnormal or anything. Because we all (and I do not mean only SAD sufferers, but every single one on this planet) do have moments when we feel down and a bit (or more) social phobic. We are all crazy and we all struggle and suffer and have to destruct our walls. And we are all the same.

 

[false]

Hey I thought no one was ever going to reply to this, lol.

To the guy in all caps:
I admit I am rather young and I am sure many pot smoking scientists have analyzed the album over the years to determine exactly what he was singing about; I should have made it more clear that this was more my interpretation than anything else about the album.

Even though I was like.........6 when this album came out I really enjoy listening to it, and usually listen to some of one of the discs each day, in my car.

Thanks for the responses!

edit - yes, I have seen the movie, although I forget most of it due to my "state of mind" at the time. My friends convinced me there was only one way to experience that movie...

 

[Kasini]

Hell yes, when this album came out and I heard it, I immediately felt an affinity with it...

 

[mikebird]

I discovered Pink Floyd piece-by piece. I think Atom Heart Mother was the best material, in the '70s.

Even the latest Division Bell was pretty good - based on a lack of communication in the age it was released - all about divorce, and not getting on.

The Wall seemed a bit brainless - based on schoolboy rebellion - but I need to look into it more now.

I was reading an amazing book about Syd Barrett - 'A Very Irregular Head' when I joined this forum.

 

[Kasini]

The Wall seemed a bit brainless - based on schoolboy rebellion - but I need to look into it more now.

Wow, really? Yes, look into it more...in fact sit down and listen to the whole album from beginning to end.