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[[File:PinkFloyd-wall1.jpg|frame| The movie is pretty weird, too.]]

 

 

 

''The Wall'' started as a [[Rock Opera]] released as a [[Concept Album]] [[Distinct Double Album|double album]] by the English Progressive band [[Pink Floyd]] late in 1979. The theme of this album is similar to the one found in the band's earlier work ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' as it involved descent into insanity.

* [[Author Avatar]]/[[Composite Character]]: Pink is based on Roger Waters, with a bit of Syd Barrett.

* [[Beneath the Mask]]: "In The Flesh?"

* [[Black Comedy]]: "Mother". There are also isolated lines every now and then that manage to provoke some nervous laughs amidst all the horror, like ''Mother will they try to break my balls?''

* [[Blood Is Squicker in Water]]

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Roger Waters appears as one of the witnesses during the wedding scene in the film version of "Mother," and plays the doctor in "Comfortably Numb,"

* [[Contemplating Your Hands]]: Appears in "Comfortably Numb" when Pink is on drugs.

Now I've got that feeling once again }}

* [[Cover Version]]: ''[[wikipedia:Rebuild_the_Wall|Rebuild the Wall]]'' by alternative country band [[Luther Wright and the Wrongs]], which reimagines the entire album -- including the inter-track dialogue and sound effects -- as a country-bluegrass work, with sometimes hilarious and sometimes very insightful results.

*** [[Word of God]] says it's "Eins, zwei, drei, Anger!"

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: The teacher.

''Within inches of their lives''}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Especially "Comfortably Numb" and, well, the rest of the album.

* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: Both versions of "In The Flesh", "Another Brick In The Wall" parts 1 and 3, "The Happiest Days of our Lives", "Young Lust", "Run Like Hell", and "The Trial" all lack their titles in their lyrics.

* [[No Name Given]]: We're never told Pink's full (or real) name. There are hints (the operator at the end of "Young Lust" tries to connect "a collect call from Mr. Floyd to Mrs. Floyd"; his father's name on the death scroll is "J. A. Pinkerton"), but not enough to put it all together.

** When he's putting the bullet on the traintrack, his friends refer to him as "Pinky".

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: According to the 2010 tour, the answer to the question "Mother, should we trust the government?" is "NO FUCKING WAY".

** ''The Wall'' is given a reference in ''[[Stilyagi]]'' during the Komsomol meeting, which is shot the same way.

* [[Subliminal Seduction]]: The song "Empty Spaces" contains the amusingly self-referential, if kind of hard to make out since it's so buried in the mix, backward-masked message:

'''Roger Waters''': "Okay". }}

** This bit can also double as [[Fridge Brilliance]] since in the context of the album, it's a bit of [[Foreshadowing]] about Pink's mental breakdown. Also, one ''[[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|incredibly detailed]]'' analysis of the album points out that Waters abandoning the message to pick up the phone reinforces the entire album's theme about the importance of communication. This interpretation's also aided by Waters' later admission that he would've ended up like Pink if it wasn't for Carolyne.

* [[Technology Marches On]]: Pink has "thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from."

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: After Pink's [[Freak-Out]] when his wife leaves him, he is forced back on stage to perform - but emerges as a neo-Nazi, and announces his change by claiming to be a new person:

''We're gonna find out where you fans really stand''}}

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]

* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Particularly after Pink's revival.

* [[Title Drop]]: "When the Tiger Broke Free Part 2".

** "All in all it's just Another Brick In The Wall."

*** Let's face it, apart from "In The Flesh(?)", "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives", "Young Lust", "Run Like Hell" and "The Trial", every song in the album has its [[Title Drop]] (though some of them like "The Thin Ice" or "One Of My Turns" make it more subtle).

* [[You Are What You Hate]]: A recurring theme. Pink becomes a fascist, the very thing his father had died fighting against, as noted in the later songs "In The Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting For The Worms". And he tries to rebel against the conformity of his school by becoming a rock star, only to realize that his teenage fans are so mindlessly devoted to him that they've forgotten how to think for themselves--making him, in his own way, just as oppressive as his [[Sadist Teacher|teachers]] once were.

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