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The Wall track ranking

26. Goodbye Cruel World (Track #13)
Score: 2
Biggest Fan(s): Evillordexdeath (#14)

Johnbobb: By all means, this should be part of Another Brick, Pt. 3, but who am I to criticize the greatest songwriters of their time?

25. Stop (Track #24)
Score: 3
Biggest Fan(s): darkx (#13)

Johnbobb: This isn't ranked so low because it's 30 seconds long, it's ranked this low because I'm upset that Waiting for the Worms ended.

24. Vera (Track #17)
Score: 5
Biggest Fan(s): ChainLTTP (#12)

Johnbobb: I didn't know who Vera Lynn was before this song! And by the time it was done I still didn't!

23. Bring the Boys Back Home (Track #18)
Score: 6
Biggest Fan(s): ChainLTTP, HBJDubs (#13)

Johnbobb: it's not much of a song on its own, admittedly, but it exists as the holy shit moment of Pink psychosis breaking into the dreary nothing he has left.

22. The Show Must Go On (Track #20)
Score: 9
Biggest Fan(s): SpikeSetsFire (#13)

Johnbobb: There are quite a few songs on the album <2 minutes long, and it's easy to just dump them all at the bottom (which I'm doing, to an extent), but it's never because they're bad, and short tunes like this could easily be standouts on a weaker album.

21. Outside the Wall (Track #26)
Score: 11
Biggest Fan(s): Evillordexdeath (#6)

Johnbobb: isn't this where...

20. Don't Leave Me Now (Track #11)
Score: 12
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#11)

Johnbobb: Please don't CTRL-F the word "ominous" because I know I'm using it too much. It's just so damn sad, as you see Pink desperately pleading to not be left behind, as he knows how close he is to lose everything, including his own sense of self.

19. Empty Spaces (Track #8)
Score: 27
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs (#4)

Johnbobb: Are there filler songs on The Wall? No. Fuck you.

18. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 (Track #12)
Score: 31
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#8)

Johnbobb: And there it is. He's broken. He's given up. His last plea was ignored, and he has nothing left but a killer guitar track.

17. Is There Anybody Out There? (Track #15)
Score: 32
Biggest Fan(s): ChainLTTP (#7)

Johnbobb: it wouldn't be a proper Pink Floyd concept album without a track mostly make up of bizarre screeching and creepy noises overtop sad acoustic guitar.

16. The Thin Ice (Track #2)
Score: 36
Biggest Fan(s): VeryInsane (#9)

Johnbobb: If In the Flesh? is the intro to the album's pure power and style, The Thin Ice is the intro to the album's pure scope, opening its concept album with both a literal and metaphorical baby, a character that is both unprepared for and terrified of his future.

15. Nobody Home (Track #16)
Score: 39
Biggest Fan(s): SpikeSetsFire (#5)

Johnbobb: The time has passed, he's trapped within the Wall, and he accepts what little, forgettable bits of his life are still remaining from everything he's locked out of reach of himself. Waters sounds legitimately broken here, and the fuzzy sounds of the TV in the background only amplify the dread as helplessly hopes for something he can't have.

14. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Track #4)
Score: 43
Biggest Fan(s): Snake5555555555 (#2)

Johnbobb: It's short, and it's often combined with the following Another Brick Pt. 2, and to be honest, I'm sad that most radio versions of Another Brick 2 don't include Happiest Days, because its haunting warning of teachers who hate and abuse students, combined with sounds of helicopters and war, lays a terrible ground for the much more upbeat track to follow.

13. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 (Track #3)
Score: 51
Biggest Fan(s): SpikeSetsFire, neonreaper, HBJDubs (#7)

Johnbobb: I can see the argument for combining Another Brick 1, Happiest Days, and Another Brick 2 into one track. They flow seamlessly, both in concept and sound, to make what is an incredible 9 minute song. However, Brick 1 stands on its own just fine too, ominous and solid.

12. One of My Turns (Track #10)
Score: 73
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#1)

Johnbobb: Oh look at this, a calmdown after Young Lust, something to settle you into the midpoint of th--NOPE FUCK YOU YOU THINK YOU'RE SO GREAT WITH YOUR HAPPY LIFE AND YOUR LACK OF CARES SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST STICK AROUND AND WATCH ME DESTROY MYSELF FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT. Chills everytime.

11. Goodbye Blue Sky (Track #7)
Score: 77
Biggest Fan(s): SpikeSetsFire (#3)

Johnbobb: I'll probably mention how haunting this album is several times in its writeups, but this is something Pink Floyd's always been great at; they use soft, melodic vocals with dark lyrics and subtle, low-toned instrumentals to creating a sinking sense of dread. It's basically the entirety of Wish You Were Here.

10. In the Flesh? (Track #1)
Score: 81
Biggest Fan(s): firefdr (#2)

Johnbobb: It's often easy to tell from the first 30 seconds of an album whether it'll be bad, good, or great, and In the Flesh? doesn't hesitate to throw its listener directly into the action with its opening grungy chords, before dropping down into an almost Beatles-like soft poppy vocal, and then back into grungy chords but now with terrifying sounds, screaming vocals, and a wailing keyboard. It's fucking incredible, and in 3 minutes, without so much as a chorus, cements this as an experience not to be missed.

8 (tie). In the Flesh (Track #21)
Score: 84
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin, Evillordexdeath (#3)

Johnbobb: "In The Flesh/Run Like Hell/Waiting for the Worms" is one of the most thrilling, shocking, and inspired album chunks I've ever heard. Each of the three is excellent on its own, and they're that much better together. Here is where it begins, and after the cracks in Pink's psyche began to show a few songs earlier, here is where they fucking shatter into teeny bits and he goes what could borderline be considered "full on crazy," completely losing track of who he is, lost in guilt over his own actions and the brutal authoritarianism of the people in his past.

8 (tie). Waiting for the Worms (Track #23)
Score: 84
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs (#2)

Johnbobb: I already did a whole write-up on this song for the villain rankings (this came in 2nd or 3rd place I believe?) and I'm tired after all of this, so just know this song is creative (both conceptually and musically) and excellent.

7. Mother (Track #6)
Score: 93
Biggest Fan(s): neonreaper (#3)

Johnbobb: Right after the cheery, upbeat horror that is Another Brick, Pt. 2, we get one of the most emotionally devastating songs Pink Floyd has ever written. I'll fully admit to having sobbed in the car while hearing this song. It juggles the overprotective strictness of the mother with the son's legitimate need for love and acceptance, and on top of that it's still a great song.

6. The Trial (Track #25)
Score: 119
Biggest Fan(s): Evillordexdeath (#1)

Johnbobb: I've always said The Wall needs to be made as a full Broadway rock opera, and maybe someday I'll end up doing it myself because goddamn if this isn't just a perfect climax, complete with constant character switching (all done in their own voices), instrumental variety, sound effects... just tell me you can't perfectly imagine this on stage with the choir in the back, the judge and his defendants surrounding the stage, each getting their moment in the spotlight while Pink mumbles the chorus, ending with the physical wall getting destroyed in the middle of the stage as the choir and audience chant. Wait, was this still an album? What kind of crazy motherfuckers think they can just throw a whole damn stageplay into their shit like that's just a normal thing to do?

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