10 Perfect Rock Albums For Production

For most of the albums that we’ve seen so far, there’s never a point where you don’t realize that you’re listening to an album. As much as they may seem like just another collection of songs, these are the kind of records that are meant to take you on a journey, even if it’s just a journey away from the real world for a little bit. Roger Waters was looking to make something more cinematic though, and the road to making the Wall almost feels like an undertaking unto itself.

In the process leading up to this album coming out, Roger took control of Pink Floyd and even had to fire Richard Wright after he couldn’t provide the parts that he was hearing in his head. Amid the turmoil though, progress was getting made on one of the most operatic concept albums of all time, telling the story of Pink closing himself off from society.

Though it’s easy just to come here for the classic songs like Another Brick in the Wall or Comfortably Numb, there’s a lot of emotion coming out of even the most subtle things here, like the loneliness behind the classical guitar on Is There Anybody Out There or the different cartoonish voices playing into the idea of this being meant for the stage as much as it is for the vinyl. Once you start paying attention to detail, hearing different melodic passages show up again make the whole thing come together, like Hey You interpolating the lick from Another Brick in the Wall over again. After years of coming to grips with their celebrity status, Floyd took their insecurities and turned it into high art.