10 Greatest Double Albums In Music History
5. The Wall - Pink Floyd
The concept album is always looked at as the boldest statement you can really make in rock music. Since you no longer have to rely on songs about sex and drugs, this is the moment where you cross the barrier and become the storyteller that you were always destined to be. Then again, if you have a childhood like Roger Waters, The Wall is something that feels all too familiar from time to time.
After already letting out the socio political side of him on Animals, The Wall is one of the biggest undertakings Pink Floyd have ever made, as Waters imagines a story of Pink and how he builds a barrier between himself and everyone else in his world. Throughout the story line, you can see him slowly putting up different bricks in his wall, eventually closing himself off to reality before putting himself on trial for what he has done.
In between the tracks though, there are many songs that could work just as well on their own, with Comfortably Numb serving as one of the greatest songs that the band have ever made, taken from when Pink is injected with drugs to get him up on stage for the night. As much as this album pulls from musical theatre from time to time, it almost serves as a warning sign for any up and coming rock stars. It's a nice business to be in, but you have to make sure that you don't lose yourself along the way.