Rock's most ambitious nervous breakdown: Waters builds a wall of war trauma, fame-loathing and fascist fantasy, and the band — fracturing in real time — delivers "Comfortably Numb"'s twin solos as the album's aching heart. Bloated, hectoring, and impossible to dismiss: The Wall earns its monument status through sheer totality.
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