Although the instrumental version (except for the cute live dog) on the “Live at Pompeii” film is one of my favorites, if only to see Rick Wright prodding and coaxing the dog into singing 
I listened to the Floyd all during my teens. DSotM came out the year I turned 12 and I got it new. Started buying the older albums and then got WYWH new. Animals came along and IIRC The Wall was a much anticiptaed release, due out Nov 30th 1979. I had connections at a record store and went there as they were closing the 29th and begged to buy the album they were about to unpack. They let me take it home that night and I spent all that night up to dawn listening over and over, trying to explain away my disapppointment. The Floyd does disco. The horror. The sell out.
*Another Brick In The Wall * might not have been the type of disco Bee Gees were doing, but it had the beat, the hi-hat, the snare.
A little more than 26 years later I have perspective on the whole thing. The 70’s ended with a wimper. The Village People recorded a song called Ready for the eighties, I was gonna leave high school and get my own apartment. The decade of protest marches was gone, the last trails of the Summer Of Love had evaporated. The next decade was gonna be chrome plated and we were all gonna get rich. One of the final signs that the 70’s ended was the Floyd doing disco. They even played it at clubs and people who’d never heard of them danced (it’d get worse when Bowie released Let’s Dance, but I digress). I was extremely upset, but now, the whole feeling is more of a “meh”.
I got the Pulse DVD last year and it certainly confirmed an opinion I’ve formed over the years - the more influence Waters got, the worse the band was. I never got The Final Cut and never considered getting any of Waters’ solo projects. To say that the man is pretentious and self absorbed is understating things several magnitudes. The Wall deals with his upbringing, the longing for a father he has no own memories of, his distrust of the English class system, school system (yet he endorses fox hunting) and I think it was a really smart trick to make his audience pay for his psycho analyzis, instead of him paying a shrink.
You might thik this is thread shitting, and I realize that I’m extremely critical about an album that is so clearly loved by so many, but bear in mind that the Floyd provided the soundtrack for my life during high school. I had all their albums (2 copies of each, one to play, the other for archive purposes), Japanese deluxe pressings and got a Thorens turntable to fully appreciate the sound. I still have DSotM and WYWH in mint condition, complete with posters, stickers and postcards, with the shrink wrap intact. Like **AHunter3 ** says, I can actually play back DSotM and WYWH in my head, I don’t even need to start the disc anymore.
I’m sorry, but back then, The Wall was a betrayal.
Now, it’s a bloated intellectual masturbation by Waters and I never listen to it. I don’t even have a copy anymore.
Brain Salad surgery------- Emerson,Lake and Palmer How’s that for high concept 
It’s unfortunate that I have already heard all the Pink Floyd worth hearing that will ever exist. The Wall is an astounding album. The Who and Rush are all hacks next to Pink Floyd in my opinion.
As far as The Wall goes, I still don’t get it and that’s the beauty of it. It’s very deap at times but any presumed plot is deliberately vague. I never cared much for the movie, it’s the music that I like. It’s the feel of the music. That is what Pink Floyd was so good at in their heyday. They understood how to make music feel.
Then it became David Gilmours band. He knew what Pink Floyd had, but it was no longer personal. It was a pre-programed studio extravaganza.
My favorite Pink Floyd album of all time is Atom Heart Mother. I will listen top the whole album from start to finish, late at night alone getting drunk. (When the wife is out.) Of course I always finish up with some fried eggs. Yummm.