The whole album was conceived as a “rock opera” and tells a story, but was intended to be listened too in its entirety. There is also the movie they made that also tells this same story. It’s intense and amazing.
Yes, that's right. The dial tone at the end moves right into something totally different an it's hard to follow if you take parts of The Wall and try to diagnose how they are individually.
"The Wall" It is a rock work focused on the story of a fictional character: a rock star named Pink who, due to a series of psychological traumas, gets to build a mental "wall" around his feelings behind which he isolates himself. The discomforts, especially childhood ones, that lead Pink to this dramatic choice are the death of his father towards the end of the Second World War, the overprotective mother, the overly authoritarian school teachers accustomed to corporal punishment and the betrayals of his wife.The bassist of the group, Roger Waters, took inspiration for the creation of the album during the In the Flesh Tour, in 1977. The character of Pink is inspired by his own personal experiences and those of former member and founder of Pink Floyd Syd Barrett
The album is based upon an idea in psychology. The idea is that people build up a wall (metaphorically speaking) around themselves (emotionally and mentally) to prevent others from hurting them. All the songs on the album are referring to how others have harmed him (his teacher, his mother, his ex-wife), and each of them is one of the bricks in his wall. There are also songs on the album about how he hurts others and himself because of his wall. And he eventually develope's a disassociation disorder, in which he can't even acknowledge others. He eventually becomes so hateful he becomes prejudice and forms a Nazi hate group. At the end of the album there is a trial, which is really just him evaluating himself and what he's become, and he realizes the only way back to sanity is to "tear down the wall". And he does. And at the very end of the album quietly in the background you'll hear him say "isn't this where", and then when you flip the album to the first side again the first words on side one are "we came in". So it's like he was restored to sanity and tore down the wall, but then it just starts over again and he starts building a knew wall. And the whole album is based on this "Wall" concept, hence "The Wall". When you listen to the whole album keep this concept in mind it'll help it make more sense. Also there is a great (trippy) movie "The Wall" for the album that shows his whole story.
From Rolling Stone: “The song was inspired by Roger Waters’ miserable experience with the British educational system as a child in the Fifties. “Some of the teachers there were locked into the idea that young boys needed to be controlled with sarcasm and the exercising of brute force to subjugate us to their will,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2015. “That was their idea of education.””
we have that now, every kid that finishes college becomes left leaning liberal. That means they become another brick in the wall same like all the other bricks, yet if everybody thinks the same that means nobody is thinking.
@@sten260 They become more liberal because a) higher education teaches critical thinking b) they are exposed to diverse cultures, people, and ideas rather than the homogeneous environment they grew up in.
Yeah for the most part you have to listen to entire Pink Floyd albums as an experience. Hearing one song is great and you get to feel what their vibe is, but Floyd were the kings of "concept albums" and just like Dark Side Of The moon, their albums are almost entirely complete pieces of music that should be experienced as a total package.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 exactly, for me it's a necessary part of the song, even if you may not be aware the whole album gives you the complete picture of the message Pink was trying to convey in the album.
This is just one chapter in the album "The Wall." The album needs to be listened to in its entirety, in one sitting. It's a masterpiece! This song title is a metaphor for the walls a lot of people build to protect themselves, mentally.
Actually not, the bricks are all the problems in Waters life. But it's easier to see in that way. Obviously they wanted this meaning too, but is not the main meaning of the entire album.
This is the most perfect long-form album of all time. Even as a Who fan, this is superior to Tommy. Quadrophenia is a close 2nd to The Wall, not so much in creativity (is The Wall), but definitely in overall critical acclaim and popularity / radio play.
Imagine being in a stadium full of people, all singing along with this song, everybody knowing every word. That's what seeing Pink Floyd live is like...well, that and amazing light shows!
Unfortunately, it's unlikely Pink Floyd will ever be in concert again... but there's the next best thing. The Australian Pink Floyd Show, on tour now. If you get the chance, you must get a ticket. They are awesome. Æ
I actually used to tell people "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" out of the blue and look at confusion on their face.
Years ago, I had a young Asian dentist who was performing a root canal on me. He asked me how I was feeling, and I told him that I have become comfortably numb. He like my answer, but I could tell he had no idea that it wasn't an original thought.
Someone told me this just the other day during a phone call... we both had a good chuckle. It's nice to connect at that level through a common experience and shared understanding.
Is it funk? Is it groove? No my friend it’s Pink Floyd, one of the greatest bands in the history of music. Pink Floyd is their own genre. Watch the music video and you’ll understand it a little more, for the full effect listen to the whole album and then watch the movie The Wall you’ll enjoy it. It’s nice to see Brad getting into the rock/metal a little more and Lex is just a born rocker/guitarist. You two are fun to listen to music with 👏👏👏
It is absolutely just "Pink Floyd". But it would also be disingenuous to not place the song within its original context of the end of the 70s, when many rock groups were flirting with adding light funk and disco basslines & beats to their repertoire, if only to reach a whole new audience. Thus we get "Another One Bites The Dust" "I Was Made For Lovin' You", "Rock n Roll Fantasy", "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy", "Kiss You All Over", "What A Fool Believes", and even the Stones got into the act with "Miss You".
The Wall was a concept album, you really should watch the movie The Wall to make better sense of the songs, or do an entire album review because the songs really need to be listened to in order.
@@natehatchell7146 Yes especially when it comes to Time and Great Gig in the sky. Those songs have to go hand in hand they are meant to. One is about the journey of life and one is the ascension to heaven or the metaphor of heaven The Great Gog in The Sky
This is music art. It’s not straight forward all the time, they also happen to be some of the best musicians of the modern era. They were ahead of their time and still ahead of most contemporary simple music.
From comfortably numb to hey you to shine on, and DOGS, my god the guitar in Dogs... that man's ability to just extract whatever emotion he wants out of that guitar is simply unparalleled.
The song is mostly about Roger Water’s experience in a specific school it really resonated with British youth of the time. It reached number one in days and stayed there for weeks. Prior to Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd sold lots of albums but were only played on late night radio, their singles did nothing. The same was true after Another Brick in the Wall. After WWII in the UK the school leaving age was raised to 15 then later 16. There was full employment, with lots of jobs that didn’t need a high level of education. Many kids had jobs lined up. They didn’t want to be in school, so were very disruptive. Teachers had to develop a way of handling this. Not a great learning environment. Unfortunately I think this culture still exists. Maybe not everywhere, but still widespread.
Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Any band would kill to produce one album as good as any of those in their whole career. Pink Floyd knocked out all 4 albums within 6 years. Just astonishing talent.
The movie is cool I actually saw it in the movies but listening to the album in a dark room with some good headphones would be what i would recommend for any first listener the way the artist intended it the movie or even the videos can be a distraction but once you digest it you should watch the film it is still great.
@MIKE JONES Clearly your teachers didn't do you any favors. For all the idiocy being raised about it, Critical Race Theory is a LAW SCHOOL course. So unless you are in 3rd grade law school, that statement only shows how uninformed and gullible you are.
The Wall is a rock operathat explores abandonment and isolation, symbolized by a wall. The songs create an approximate storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Pink, a character based on Syd Barrett as well as Roger Waters, whose father was killed during World War II, which is where Pink starts to build a metaphorical wall around himself.
That was nicely described. I also love the genius in how that storyline exists in double-entendre parallel with a description of the large scale societal impacts that created the fascist forces that in turn lead to the death of his father. Growing up in North America, most of my friends focused on the personal themes around ego, insecurity and acceptance that you referred to. But when I lived in Eastern Europe--which only recently had come out from under the yoke of the USSR--far more of them focused far more on the societal, political interpretation about control and freedom etc. The fact that he could achieve the highly personal ends you referred to, while also commenting on the societal impacts that are created as a result, is brilliant. And the way they brought that alive through sound is one of the most incredible musical recordings ever. And the fact that they found a way to make both come alive on a stage was yet another level of that same genius. So glad I saw that show so many times. Very few concerts feature genuine climaxes.
I appreciate that Brad & Lex don't pretend to like a song just to please viewers. Brad didn't care for the children in the song and didn't try to hide it. I respect that completely. Keep it real guys, that is why I love your channel so much.
No, but they pretend the f**k out of pretending to not have heard the song. Come on, you expect us to believe two people in their late twenties have never heard Another Brick in the Wall? or, [insert legendary song of choice that's bound to get clicks on a reaction channel]. Before anyone says it - it came up on the algorithm and I happen to have a penchant for Pink Floyd.
This song is part of the album The Wall, which is a rock opera, a style of album where the songs are basically like chapters in a book. Also, as others have pointed out, this video actually contains two songs (or chapters if you will) that lead into each other. Some songs in this album work perfectly well when taken individually, with no context, others I would say less so. It all makes sense once you listen to the whole album and, more importantly, you pay attention to the themes and lyrics. Maybe one day you can sit down and watch the film The Wall from 1982. It's essentially a movie version of this album, though there are a few differences from the music on the album. Watching that film was probably one of the most powerful experiences I ever had from a movie.
You are correct: the song is part of a story. In fact, the entire album, The Wall, is one story told over the course of 26 songs. It is the story of one man’s rise to stardom while simultaneously descending into madness. Each song depicts an event in his life that adds another brick into the emotional wall he constructs. The wall is intended to protect him but it ultimately becomes a prison. There is a movie made of this album but I recommend you listen to the album before watching the movie because the movie you construct in your head will be far better than the one on the silver screen. Great reaction!
Always felt like it was based on Syd Barrett. Its kinda what happened to him, rose to stardom but lost his mind on the journey up. Maybe I'm wrong but that's what I always took from it.
@@KissMyFatAxe I’ve also heard that a lot of The Wall- like Wish You Were Here- was based on Syd Barrett. And yet, so much of it seems very based on Roger Waters’ own personal experiences, so who knows where the Barrett stuff begins and the Waters stuff ends?
The teacher you heard screaming at the kids? That's pretty much how it back in the day here in the UK, or when I was a kid in the 70's at least. Maybe it was the same with you, I wouldn't know, but in my school if we didn't finish our meal, we weren't allowed pudding, and yeah, we got hit and yelled at in class and the playground. The Wall is a phenomenal piece of work, timeless. Love y'all 👍👏👏👏
yes school for me in the 70's was a battle field,, teachers hitting us all the time, mostly for their amusement and they wondered why we were so violent , lol
I was at school when this record came out, As you would imagine all the kids loved it. We even had a whole school assemble dedicated to it. Where the head of year spent 1/2 an hour deriding it.
Tell ya what.. Lex has an amazing fast analysis of what she hears and her recall of rhythms and lines is outstanding after just one hit ! Yes, back in the 70's teachers would bully kids who didn't get what they were saying and "cherish" the rare few that did. Bamboo canes and wooden sticks beaten on kids legs and hands was normal back then.
Is it me, or do Brad & Lex immediately try to classify a song/band into a genre? There are bands (i.e. Floyd, Tull and Nightwish) where that gets in the way of reacting to the music.
i guess that's true. But most bands are able to put in a box, so it's a comfort or familiarity thing to try to classify - even if some defy genre norms.
You have to classify Renoir into Impressionist "genre" before you can really judge how well it was done. Otherwise it's a smudgy job done by someone on too much coffee; if you thought the goal was pure photo-realism And then there's Picasso...
When you hear something so unique for the first time, you try to classify it in your mind to compare it to what you know. If you didn’t grow up with this music, it’s harder to get used to good music. Today’s music isn’t complicated or all that thought provoking. It’s like eating grilled cheese all your life and then going to Turkey on a food discovery.
It was about Roger Waters' experience in the British school system of the 1950's. (It's hard to believe everybody in the world hasn't heard this song hundreds of times;) The bricks in the wall refer to bricks in the wall of alienation. The Wall is a rock opera about the theme of alienation. During live performances of The Wall, a literal wall was constructed on the stage. It came out in 1979. You guys have gotten me addicted to watching your reactions. I have heard it all from the 1950's onward. 1
After watching a few of these Pink Floyd reactions… I’ve come to the conclusion that Brad is one of many who are just not ready for their depth. When you’re trippin balls with your friends, one of them is like 😳 and has to get up to leave the room lol that is Brad.
As most have stated, Pink Floyd should be listened to an entire album at a time, especially with The Wall. The movie made from the album is trippy AF! Love the content, keep it coming. Cheers!
As it has been said, problem you are having with this song is like when you listened to Closer by NIN. They are part of concept albums and you basically jumped into the middle of the story. It is like opening a book to a random page near the middle, reading the chapter then trying to figure out the entire book from that. Or turning on a show like the Expanse when it is on episode three and trying to figure out wtf is happening. You need to have some kind of stream or something and do The Wall from start to finish, it will be worth it.
When we where kids in the late 60’s and 70’s I remember my parents telling us that if we got paddled in school, we would get paddled again when we got home! So I believe they are saying how this was a social standard that existed for many years and some teachers would abuse this standard to try and change bad behavior. Though this approach rarely worked and alienated the children from the rest of the class!
This record was huge in the UK when it was released, and lots of schoolchildren saw it as a revolutionary message and disrupted their schools. My school had us all in the hall where they played the song (minus the interesting first part), and then the headmaster downplayed the message and then read us the riot act about damaging school property/demonstrating etc. I seem to remember lots of fire alarms and damaged windows for a few days.
There's a threshold to a good education. I use Pythagorean theorem all the time, because I know it. Millions of people get by just fine not knowing it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't learn it. My grandfather owned a small town hardware store, and my Dad's garage was full of power tools. I grew up learning carpentry. Geometry is very important if you ever have to build something.
this song isnt necessarily what you are taught, but how you are taught it. the nature of our economic system requires and in consequence, creates the system in which, people must form their material lives around the making of money, and through industrialization, work for someone elses company doing a specific task. this creates a machine like existence built on efficiency. it is essentially physical control through the material and mental and emotional (thought) control through a monopoly on information by people at the reins of societies biggest operating systems. if given the methods to learn BY THEMSELVES, they wouldnt need that monopoly or system itself. therefore, no money for those who gain from the exploitation of peoples labor and intellect, which people could control by themselves if the power differential wasnt so extreme.
Pink Floyd was unlike any other rock sound. They are unique and in the genre of progressive rock for their time. Just like Led Zeppelin was progressive rock as well. They broke the molds of the period. Their little sounds that you hear are part of the story they are telling from one song to the next. Their concerts were stories with themes and lessons.
You really have to listen to the entire The Wall album, (just like most Pink Floyd albums) because trying to figure out the meaning of a single song or the context is like starting in the middle of a novel and expecting to know what the novels about.
Brad and Lex tell me if I am wrong here. Brad you seem more analytical about the music more intent to gauge the music or overall song then determine if it's of interest? Lex seems the music builds more in your soul and courses through your body seems more spiritual? Would you two say that's a fair assessment? You two are great really enjoy your reactions, great couple keep doing you keep enjoying this experience. We are all blessed to be enjoying you enjoying this.
As a long time viewer you're pretty much spot on. Brad will often try find meaning behind the lyrics and structure whilst lex just lets loose and feels the music. It's especially funny to see how she reacts to solos and then you see Brad sneak a look over with a grin haha.
I have been binge watching your videos for the past few days and love that you are exploring much of the music I grew up listening to. I love you guys! Please watch the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall". The album is a Rock Opera. Each song on the album tell a piece of the story. The story being about one man's life. The movie provides visual support for the the lyrics to the entire album.
The purpose of advanced mathematics is not to be able to perform advanced mathematics at some job later in life. The purpose of advanced mathematics is to develop critical and analytical thinking skills so you can solve complex problems later in life.
The beginning introduction of this song. Is an acting technique know as murmuring. Murmuring is used by actors when the actors want the audience to know what the character is thinking/the voice inside their head. The theme for Just Another Brick in the Wall is existential loneliness in life. Jim Morris was using poetry as a medium when he wrote that song.
Phone beeping* "Hello?" "Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd. Will you accept the charge from the United States?" *Phone clicks* "Oh, he hung up. That's your residence, right? Well, I wonder why he hung up. Is there supposed to be someone out there besides your wife there to answer?" *Phone redials and beeps again* "Hello?" "This is the United States calling. Are we reaching..." *Phone clicks* "See, he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering."
A classic song from a classic album ... Another Brick In The Wall (part two) sold 4 million copies world wide .... songs on the album reflects many different issues. The specific issue in this song is government run failing public schools that was more about other things than actual education - the song uses a boy church choir. It was produced by Bob Ezrin who produced KISS Dynasty and I Was Made For Lovin' You - you can hear elements of disco in both songs.
I don't think Roger (who wrote most of the song) is condemning what is taught in school (after all even learning Pythagorean Theorem teaches critical thinking and how to learn anything) but rather the politics of people. In the case of teachers who have considerable power over children, and due to the fact that, oddly, teaching for some crazy reason is not well respected in society, some teachers use their power to crush kids they don't like or even just relate to. Add to that, kids who are not well suited to desk or factory jobs, especially artistic kids, are often seen as needing to be broken of independent thought to be subservient to bosses. School not only doesn't tend to teach supremely important basic skills, like money management or interpersonal skills, they generally don't give any thought to teaching how to become an entrepreneur, just a subservient malleable worker bee. That's what Roger rightfully hates, IMHO.
Of course the guitar solo is good.... it's David freaking Gilmour! My favorite guitarist of all time! He uses space as effectively as he does notes... and his use of notes is crazy effective!
I think you’ve been listening to mainly “dark side of the moon”. “The wall” is also amazing but “the wall” is an album and a movie. The album is like one long video really. So a lot of the weird sounds or the kids for instance are in the movie/video. Both albums are amazing. The wall is just…. Different. Love you guys. Thank you for entertaining me at a time where I refuse to watch TV, sports, movies,ect. Also I’m not sure if you guys realize how cool and good of a thing you are doing or even if you’ll know what I mean when I tell you. Anyway have a great night
Who the hell needs the Pythagorean Theorem to keep planes in the air, buildings and bridges from collapsing or your computer from crashing? Gosh that's just stupid math stuff!
I don't think they're saying it's not needed, just that most of us unless we go in to that field we generally forget it that's providing we ever grasped it in the first place. And brad did follow by saying basic education is needed.
That certainly is not what Pink Floyd meant at all maybe you should try and listen to the whole record front to back and it will make much more sense in proper context.
Please please watch the movie. It is quite "trippy" for lack of a better word. But it will not disappoint well worth watching. You could react to it but I'm sure it's highly copyrighted but if ya edit the best sections together you should be ok.
The idea of schools teaching exactly the same curriculum, and corporate business training you with only what you need to do the job they want you to do, makes you just Another Brick in the Wall.
It's so exciting to watch you guys connecting the dots between all these different songs that you've been experiencing. It's been such a fun journey to watch. And to think, you hadn't heard of these songs a year ago!
oddly enough.... I was building a deck a couple months ago at my house, and used the Pythagorean theorem. I was like... hold on... a squared, plus b squared equals c squared. wow... 9th grade math.
This is actually two songs, the first part is called The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, and actually Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 starts with the "We dont need no education" line. The two are usually played together though, as they relate to eachother and flow into eachother like that. Oh and "is it funk? is it groove?"... well it pains me to say it's actually disco. Disco was the big thing at the time this was released, and after recording an early version of this, one of the producers (I think it was Bob Ezrin, but I could be wrong) suggested reworking it with a disco beat and release it as a single. To which he was promptly told to "fuck off, we dont do singles", but clearly he persuaded them in the end, and obviously the single reached number 1 in many countries. There's one more song on the The Wall album with a disco beat and that's Run Like Hell. One more fun fact about this song: it was banned in South Africa, because there the black kids started using it as a protest song against the Apartheid regime
YO. Digging the multiple drops in one day. You guys are reacting to some good music. Although you have ALOT still ahead. Keep em coming. ( few suggestions) - WAR "lowrider" "so" "four cornered room" " Cisco kid" - THE DOORS "backdoor man" "roadhouse blues" "five to one" "peace frog" - SANTANA. "evil ways" "persuassion" "practice what you preach" "she's not there" "noone to depend on"
“Most of a job is learning to be an employee” so true no matter the field. Only career people shouldn’t learn on the job are transportation and medical fields. I work as a biologist and 99.9% of my job is procedural. 0.1% is biology.
I'm a biologist as well (I'm an ornithologist), and much of what I learned in school (at least in grad school) is applicable in my field. Still lots of other stuff I only learned on the job.
@@chasingbirds3073 I get what you’re saying. Tons of super specific fields out there that need a high level of education. I was coming at it from the “will anyone die if you’re not educated” angle
Guys, you have to see Pink Floyd live! Their stage shows are legendary. Try "Comfortably numb" , "Sorrow", "Coming back to Life" or "High Hopes" from their live 1994 album Pulse. Lex will love it.
According to the band, the "wall" is the self-isolating barrier we build over the course of our lives, and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn us inward and away from others.” Pink Floyd created a movie called “The Wall”
The male teacher at school, Lashes out and treats his students like crap, to go home and have hos wife belittle and berate him. His only power in life is going to school and taking his life out in school. The kids are just a cog in the machine (another brick in the wall)
Well now you’ve hit me in the “feels”. PINK FLOYD is my all time favorite band on this planet. Been listening to them since I was like 13 or 14, I’m now a few days away from 53. You have to remember this album was primarily written by Roger Waters who has been accused of being obsessed with his childhood and the war and possibility of new wars. You cannot listen to just one song off the The Wall and expect to understand it. You have to listen to the entire album, many times, and watch the movie to get a better understanding. And you asked if this is the original song and the answer is yes. But the video you showed us is definitely not. If you had reacted to the actual PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall video then you would have understood the lyrics a lot better. Still I’m glad you reacted to the song. Stay safe ✌️
Please react to BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME!!! They’re a modern progressive metal band, best of their genre and just released an epic album. Two of their new singles from the album have cool music videos too. The Future is Behind Us and Fix the Error. They’ve also done an entire cover album covering songs from some of their influences, including “Us and Them” by Pink Floyd.
Listen to almost anything from the Live Pulse concert to hear the Pink Floyd sound. Especially Sorrow, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell. All have wonderful guitar solos that don't do what Brad was saying and grate on the ears. They take you to a new place. Even if you have heard the studio version, you haven't heard it till you've heard it live.
Pink Floyd is a “ Progressive Rock” band. All the music has a message behind it, it’s a “Thinking mans band “ . You feel the music, you feel the emotion from David Gilmore’s solos! To me it’s the greatest bad of all time! You can listen to their songs thousands of times , and I have, and they never get old or irrelevant to the times we live in! You never get bored listening to The Floyd!!!
I wonder how the teachers that systematically beat the kids in there care feel now in my time at school if I didn't take note of there teachings I would be beaten until I did learn to learn it's strange to look back now that these sadists were aloud within a hundred miles of a vulnerable child
From the #classicalbum released on this day in 1979 #thewall #todayinmusichistory #musichistory #mandatorylisten #musthave #masterpiece #classicrock #bobezrin #jamesguthrie #pinkfloydhistory
I think to get the whole "Another Brick in the Wall" experience, you guys should also listen to "Another Brick in the Wall" pt. 1 and 3. You guys just listened to pt. 2.
it's because its about breeding people who can accept instruction and reproduce desired results, rather than trying to facilitate the people being educated (at a systematic level, the teachers involved these days I think genuinely are trying to do good)
The whole album was conceived as a “rock opera” and tells a story, but was intended to be listened too in its entirety. There is also the movie they made that also tells this same story. It’s intense and amazing.
My favorite front to back album ever. Coming from someone who binge listens to new music
The wall was the name of that movie and if they were to watch that the music would make more sense.
Especially on LSD 😆
@@kyronfrain6774 I second that ✋🏻
@@thereal_ap232 legit exactly what I came here to reply.
Point 1: The album needs to be listened to in its entirety from beginning to end.
Point 2: Watch the movie!
Perfectly correct on both points
Most Pink Floyd, but especially Gilmore's stuff. ;p
Agreed!
Point 3: Repeat
Yes, that's right. The dial tone at the end moves right into something totally different an it's hard to follow if you take parts of The Wall and try to diagnose how they are individually.
"The Wall" It is a rock work focused on the story of a fictional character: a rock star named Pink who, due to a series of psychological traumas, gets to build a mental "wall" around his feelings behind which he isolates himself. The discomforts, especially childhood ones, that lead Pink to this dramatic choice are the death of his father towards the end of the Second World War, the overprotective mother, the overly authoritarian school teachers accustomed to corporal punishment and the betrayals of his wife.The bassist of the group, Roger Waters, took inspiration for the creation of the album during the In the Flesh Tour, in 1977. The character of Pink is inspired by his own personal experiences and those of former member and founder of Pink Floyd Syd Barrett
Yes, and they were reacting to the execution of these government backed policies by the schools. seems to be what is going on in America currently.
@@patpulis9922 preach brother
they should listen to the whole album and watch the movie.
Most of Pink Floyd's song circle around mental illness, IMO.
Bravo, perfect description, listening to a Pink Floyd song out sequence is like reading a random chapter of a book
The album is based upon an idea in psychology.
The idea is that people build up a wall (metaphorically speaking) around themselves (emotionally and mentally) to prevent others from hurting them. All the songs on the album are referring to how others have harmed him (his teacher, his mother, his ex-wife), and each of them is one of the bricks in his wall.
There are also songs on the album about how he hurts others and himself because of his wall.
And he eventually develope's a disassociation disorder, in which he can't even acknowledge others. He eventually becomes so hateful he becomes prejudice and forms a Nazi hate group. At the end of the album there is a trial, which is really just him evaluating himself and what he's become, and he realizes the only way back to sanity is to "tear down the wall". And he does. And at the very end of the album quietly in the background you'll hear him say "isn't this where", and then when you flip the album to the first side again the first words on side one are "we came in". So it's like he was restored to sanity and tore down the wall, but then it just starts over again and he starts building a knew wall.
And the whole album is based on this "Wall" concept, hence "The Wall". When you listen to the whole album keep this concept in mind it'll help it make more sense. Also there is a great (trippy) movie "The Wall" for the album that shows his whole story.
Thank you
wow did not know.👍👍
From Rolling Stone:
“The song was inspired by Roger Waters’ miserable experience with the British educational system as a child in the Fifties. “Some of the teachers there were locked into the idea that young boys needed to be controlled with sarcasm and the exercising of brute force to subjugate us to their will,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2015. “That was their idea of education.””
Exactly. I am not sure they got this. Had nothing to do with subject matter taught but the psychological trauma inflicted.
That's exactly what i was going to type, but am too stoned to be bothered to reach my keyboard..🧱
No much has changed. Less physical beatings but..........you're still a product that needs to be converted to the way.
we have that now, every kid that finishes college becomes left leaning liberal. That means they become another brick in the wall same like all the other bricks, yet if everybody thinks the same that means nobody is thinking.
@@sten260 They become more liberal because a) higher education teaches critical thinking b) they are exposed to diverse cultures, people, and ideas rather than the homogeneous environment they grew up in.
Any one song from The Wall, taken alone, is like a portion of a puzzle without seeing its entirety. Difficult.
With the ONE exception of Young Lust. which on its own, makes sense.
Beautifully said kj
Yeah for the most part you have to listen to entire Pink Floyd albums as an experience. Hearing one song is great and you get to feel what their vibe is, but Floyd were the kings of "concept albums" and just like Dark Side Of The moon, their albums are almost entirely complete pieces of music that should be experienced as a total package.
Very well said
@@paulb4604 Yep, the worst thing you can do with a Pink Floyd album is to play it on random.
“I don’t want to hear the kids” - oh, the irony of that statement given the theme of the song lol 😀
Hey Brad, leave those kids alone!
Oh wow
🤣🤣🤣🤣 exactly, for me it's a necessary part of the song, even if you may not be aware the whole album gives you the complete picture of the message Pink was trying to convey in the album.
exactly what I said when I heard that.
agreed. sometimes this channel just seriously doesn't get it.
This is just one chapter in the album "The Wall." The album needs to be listened to in its entirety, in one sitting.
It's a masterpiece!
This song title is a metaphor for the walls a lot of people build to protect themselves, mentally.
Actually not, the bricks are all the problems in Waters life. But it's easier to see in that way. Obviously they wanted this meaning too, but is not the main meaning of the entire album.
@@franca6987 I specifically said, this song is one chapter.
Your interpretation of the wall is basically what I said! 🤷♂️ You just worded it poorly.
This is the most perfect long-form album of all time. Even as a Who fan, this is superior to Tommy. Quadrophenia is a close 2nd to The Wall, not so much in creativity (is The Wall), but definitely in overall critical acclaim and popularity / radio play.
Loved the video adaption of the entire album.
@@FrowningIke sure bud
Imagine being in a stadium full of people, all singing along with this song, everybody knowing every word. That's what seeing Pink Floyd live is like...well, that and amazing light shows!
Sounds like conformity hell, which is ironic since that was what the Wall supposedly was against.
@@nealm6764 Nah, conformity is forced. I'd call it unity.
Also giant inflatable pigs bouncing around the crowd.
I've been to a Pink Floyd Concert and everyone new this song.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely Pink Floyd will ever be in concert again... but there's the next best thing. The Australian Pink Floyd Show, on tour now. If you get the chance, you must get a ticket. They are awesome. Æ
I actually used to tell people "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" out of the blue and look at confusion on their face.
Years ago, I had a young Asian dentist who was performing a root canal on me. He asked me how I was feeling, and I told him that I have become comfortably numb. He like my answer, but I could tell he had no idea that it wasn't an original thought.
I still say this. 😂
@@sanigirlmpls3732 and do you still get the WTF? look? I sure as hell do
I used to 'say' it to my children as they were growing up!!! LOL
Someone told me this just the other day during a phone call... we both had a good chuckle. It's nice to connect at that level through a common experience and shared understanding.
Is it funk? Is it groove? No my friend it’s Pink Floyd, one of the greatest bands in the history of music. Pink Floyd is their own genre. Watch the music video and you’ll understand it a little more, for the full effect listen to the whole album and then watch the movie The Wall you’ll enjoy it. It’s nice to see Brad getting into the rock/metal a little more and Lex is just a born rocker/guitarist. You two are fun to listen to music with 👏👏👏
I said the exact same thing... It's Pink Floyd.
Well said my friend
Masters of timing - no band can match pink floyds odd time signatures
The guitar and bass grooves are definitely funk like inspired.....That was Lexy was implying to.
It is absolutely just "Pink Floyd". But it would also be disingenuous to not place the song within its original context of the end of the 70s, when many rock groups were flirting with adding light funk and disco basslines & beats to their repertoire, if only to reach a whole new audience. Thus we get "Another One Bites The Dust" "I Was Made For Lovin' You", "Rock n Roll Fantasy", "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy", "Kiss You All Over", "What A Fool Believes", and even the Stones got into the act with "Miss You".
That solo gets me everytime. Gilmour can play the crap out of that strat
he played this with a 1955 gibson les paul goldtop /p90 pickups ;-)
Oh yes.
The way he bended and held those notes…amazing stuff.
Guitars hope and dream that David Gilmour will play them.
@@switzeridoo lmao was about to say this, on a side note he also can play the crap out of a tele, like in Dogs.
Man that guitar solo...and the underrated mesmerizing keyboard/synth dwell underneath it are some of the best rock music ever recorded.
The Wall album/s will forever remain to me as one of the greatest musical pieces ever written! It is a Masterpiece/s (2 CD's) anywhere you look at it.
The Wall was a concept album, you really should watch the movie The Wall to make better sense of the songs, or do an entire album review because the songs really need to be listened to in order.
Exactly this album needs to be listened to as an album as does Tommy or Quadraphenia
I feel the same way about dark side of the moon it's gotta be at least the whole side of the album
@@natehatchell7146 Yes especially when it comes to Time and Great Gig in the sky. Those songs have to go hand in hand they are meant to. One is about the journey of life and one is the ascension to heaven or the metaphor of heaven The Great Gog in The Sky
This is music art. It’s not straight forward all the time, they also happen to be some of the best musicians of the modern era. They were ahead of their time and still ahead of most contemporary simple music.
Gilmour is the only person on this planet that can make me literally cry with his guitar....
Gary Moore is another
I posted this on their 'Time' reaction. I can't stop the tears no matter what I'm doing or where I'm at when he starts wailing on that guitar
The second solo in comfortably numb packs more soul into a couple minutes than most artists do in a lifetime
Gilmour holds notes, and bends it somehow to perfection
From comfortably numb to hey you to shine on, and DOGS, my god the guitar in Dogs... that man's ability to just extract whatever emotion he wants out of that guitar is simply unparalleled.
The song is mostly about Roger Water’s experience in a specific school it really resonated with British youth of the time. It reached number one in days and stayed there for weeks. Prior to Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd sold lots of albums but were only played on late night radio, their singles did nothing. The same was true after Another Brick in the Wall. After WWII in the UK the school leaving age was raised to 15 then later 16. There was full employment, with lots of jobs that didn’t need a high level of education. Many kids had jobs lined up. They didn’t want to be in school, so were very disruptive. Teachers had to develop a way of handling this. Not a great learning environment. Unfortunately I think this culture still exists. Maybe not everywhere, but still widespread.
Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Any band would kill to produce one album as good as any of those in their whole career. Pink Floyd knocked out all 4 albums within 6 years. Just astonishing talent.
It's hard to get context on the intro and outro without seeing the whole movie. Its a work of art.
Gotta watch the movie.
No, just gotta hear the entire album. The movie's a different animal.
The movie is cool I actually saw it in the movies but listening to the album in a dark room with some good headphones would be what i would recommend for any first listener the way the artist intended it the movie or even the videos can be a distraction but once you digest it you should watch the film it is still great.
I haven't seen this movie in so long. holy shit
@MIKE JONES Clearly your teachers didn't do you any favors. For all the idiocy being raised about it, Critical Race Theory is a LAW SCHOOL course. So unless you are in 3rd grade law school, that statement only shows how uninformed and gullible you are.
The Wall is a rock operathat explores abandonment and isolation, symbolized by a wall. The songs create an approximate storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Pink, a character based on Syd Barrett as well as Roger Waters, whose father was killed during World War II, which is where Pink starts to build a metaphorical wall around himself.
That was nicely described. I also love the genius in how that storyline exists in double-entendre parallel with a description of the large scale societal impacts that created the fascist forces that in turn lead to the death of his father. Growing up in North America, most of my friends focused on the personal themes around ego, insecurity and acceptance that you referred to. But when I lived in Eastern Europe--which only recently had come out from under the yoke of the USSR--far more of them focused far more on the societal, political interpretation about control and freedom etc. The fact that he could achieve the highly personal ends you referred to, while also commenting on the societal impacts that are created as a result, is brilliant. And the way they brought that alive through sound is one of the most incredible musical recordings ever. And the fact that they found a way to make both come alive on a stage was yet another level of that same genius. So glad I saw that show so many times. Very few concerts feature genuine climaxes.
I appreciate that Brad & Lex don't pretend to like a song just to please viewers. Brad didn't care for the children in the song and didn't try to hide it. I respect that completely. Keep it real guys, that is why I love your channel so much.
"YKWIM" cap hates English
Same here. They keep it real and don’t act like they love something just for the views. I also love how they thoroughly diagnose songs
It's really difficult to fake Lex's enthusiasm. That lady's about as genuine as a person can get.
Always keep it real!
No, but they pretend the f**k out of pretending to not have heard the song. Come on, you expect us to believe two people in their late twenties have never heard Another Brick in the Wall? or, [insert legendary song of choice that's bound to get clicks on a reaction channel].
Before anyone says it - it came up on the algorithm and I happen to have a penchant for Pink Floyd.
I've had the privilege of seeing Pink Floyd live in concert three times. One thing Pink Floyd is great at is giving eargasms
This song is part of the album The Wall, which is a rock opera, a style of album where the songs are basically like chapters in a book. Also, as others have pointed out, this video actually contains two songs (or chapters if you will) that lead into each other.
Some songs in this album work perfectly well when taken individually, with no context, others I would say less so. It all makes sense once you listen to the whole album and, more importantly, you pay attention to the themes and lyrics.
Maybe one day you can sit down and watch the film The Wall from 1982. It's essentially a movie version of this album, though there are a few differences from the music on the album.
Watching that film was probably one of the most powerful experiences I ever had from a movie.
You are correct: the song is part of a story.
In fact, the entire album, The Wall, is one story told over the course of 26 songs. It is the story of one man’s rise to stardom while simultaneously descending into madness. Each song depicts an event in his life that adds another brick into the emotional wall he constructs. The wall is intended to protect him but it ultimately becomes a prison. There is a movie made of this album but I recommend you listen to the album before watching the movie because the movie you construct in your head will be far better than the one on the silver screen.
Great reaction!
Excellent synopsis Mr. Bakke. Thank you.
Always felt like it was based on Syd Barrett. Its kinda what happened to him, rose to stardom but lost his mind on the journey up. Maybe I'm wrong but that's what I always took from it.
@@KissMyFatAxe I’ve also heard that a lot of The Wall- like Wish You Were Here- was based on Syd Barrett. And yet, so much of it seems very based on Roger Waters’ own personal experiences, so who knows where the Barrett stuff begins and the Waters stuff ends?
Well said. Perfectly described.
I thought it was also about the Berlin wall.
The teacher you heard screaming at the kids? That's pretty much how it back in the day here in the UK, or when I was a kid in the 70's at least. Maybe it was the same with you, I wouldn't know, but in my school if we didn't finish our meal, we weren't allowed pudding, and yeah, we got hit and yelled at in class and the playground. The Wall is a phenomenal piece of work, timeless.
Love y'all 👍👏👏👏
Well, how can you have any pudding if you haven't eaten your meat?
wish hed stop pausing - this isnt an eminem video
Did they use a tawse on your hands?
yes school for me in the 70's was a battle field,, teachers hitting us all the time, mostly for their amusement and they wondered why we were so violent , lol
Love that these guys who are just getting into listening to rock music can immediately identify the greatness and "feel" of Dave Gilmour's playing.
I was at school when this record came out, As you would imagine all the kids loved it. We even had a whole school assemble dedicated to it. Where the head of year spent 1/2 an hour deriding it.
Tell ya what.. Lex has an amazing fast analysis of what she hears and her recall of rhythms and lines is outstanding after just one hit !
Yes, back in the 70's teachers would bully kids who didn't get what they were saying and "cherish" the rare few that did. Bamboo canes and wooden sticks beaten on kids legs and hands was normal back then.
The "Roger Waters: The Wall" concert was absolutely fantastic. Absolutely great production put into live performance.
saw it twice - a true masterpiece
I saw it twice as well 2010 and 2012. Just an amazing show. Saw the movie opening day too, and multiple times after that in the theater
I saw it twice also.....best gigs ive ever been....and ive been to a few i can tell ya
Couldn't agree more.
My ex girlfriend saw it. Sad I missed out. Waters, despite leaving Pink Floyd, keeps the spirit of the band alive the best imo.
Is it me, or do Brad & Lex immediately try to classify a song/band into a genre? There are bands (i.e. Floyd, Tull and Nightwish) where that gets in the way of reacting to the music.
That is the early experience. 3 albums and a trip or 3 later, and they'll get it.
i guess that's true. But most bands are able to put in a box, so it's a comfort or familiarity thing to try to classify - even if some defy genre norms.
Its rock end of story but it's a powerful message
You have to classify Renoir into Impressionist "genre" before you can really judge how well it was done.
Otherwise it's a smudgy job done by someone on too much coffee; if you thought the goal was pure photo-realism
And then there's Picasso...
When you hear something so unique for the first time, you try to classify it in your mind to compare it to what you know. If you didn’t grow up with this music, it’s harder to get used to good music. Today’s music isn’t complicated or all that thought provoking. It’s like eating grilled cheese all your life and then going to Turkey on a food discovery.
Psychedelic/progressive rock. With a bluesy feel. Y'all turning into some of my favorite reactors. Keep up the great content!
It was about Roger Waters' experience in the British school system of the 1950's. (It's hard to believe everybody in the world hasn't heard this song hundreds of times;) The bricks in the wall refer to bricks in the wall of alienation. The Wall is a rock opera about the theme of alienation. During live performances of The Wall, a literal wall was constructed on the stage. It came out in 1979. You guys have gotten me addicted to watching your reactions. I have heard it all from the 1950's onward.
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Brad seems uncomfortable with ambiguity.
After watching a few of these Pink Floyd reactions… I’ve come to the conclusion that Brad is one of many who are just not ready for their depth. When you’re trippin balls with your friends, one of them is like 😳 and has to get up to leave the room lol that is Brad.
Exactly what I think, but Lex doesn't get it either. She killed Fast Car by Tracy Chapman....you have to see it.
This is def the original. Their “The Wall” album was pure artful mastery and will go down in history as such.
It already has.
As most have stated, Pink Floyd should be listened to an entire album at a time, especially with The Wall. The movie made from the album is trippy AF!
Love the content, keep it coming.
Cheers!
Have watched multiple times, tripping balls everytime. Great Albumn.
watch the movie. This is kind of Progressive Rock from 60's to 70's.
@@russellboynton8798 balls?
Tripping balls means I was extremely happy in the hallucinogenic haze 8 was experiencing. It is an old term from the days of my youth.
As it has been said, problem you are having with this song is like when you listened to Closer by NIN. They are part of concept albums and you basically jumped into the middle of the story. It is like opening a book to a random page near the middle, reading the chapter then trying to figure out the entire book from that. Or turning on a show like the Expanse when it is on episode three and trying to figure out wtf is happening. You need to have some kind of stream or something and do The Wall from start to finish, it will be worth it.
Bullshit this song stands alone. The play it on classic rock stations all the time
@@johnLennon255 I agree, I have loved this song for a long time but haven’t listen to the full album
@@NikkieTwix well it is like looking at one page of a comic. Good, but you would get more idea of what the story is if you look at the whole comic.
This song has one of the most iconic guitar solo's ever
This and Confortably Numb.
Not if you know pink Floyd it's not.....but it is up there😉🤴
When we where kids in the late 60’s and 70’s I remember my parents telling us that if we got paddled in school, we would get paddled again when we got home! So I believe they are saying how this was a social standard that existed for many years and some teachers would abuse this standard to try and change bad behavior. Though this approach rarely worked and alienated the children from the rest of the class!
This record was huge in the UK when it was released, and lots of schoolchildren saw it as a revolutionary message and disrupted their schools. My school had us all in the hall where they played the song (minus the interesting first part), and then the headmaster downplayed the message and then read us the riot act about damaging school property/demonstrating etc. I seem to remember lots of fire alarms and damaged windows for a few days.
There's a threshold to a good education. I use Pythagorean theorem all the time, because I know it. Millions of people get by just fine not knowing it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't learn it. My grandfather owned a small town hardware store, and my Dad's garage was full of power tools. I grew up learning carpentry. Geometry is very important if you ever have to build something.
this song isnt necessarily what you are taught, but how you are taught it. the nature of our economic system requires and in consequence, creates the system in which, people must form their material lives around the making of money, and through industrialization, work for someone elses company doing a specific task. this creates a machine like existence built on efficiency. it is essentially physical control through the material and mental and emotional (thought) control through a monopoly on information by people at the reins of societies biggest operating systems. if given the methods to learn BY THEMSELVES, they wouldnt need that monopoly or system itself. therefore, no money for those who gain from the exploitation of peoples labor and intellect, which people could control by themselves if the power differential wasnt so extreme.
Pink Floyd needs to be listened to from start to finish album wise
Pink Floyd was unlike any other rock sound. They are unique and in the genre of progressive rock for their time. Just like Led Zeppelin was progressive rock as well. They broke the molds of the period. Their little sounds that you hear are part of the story they are telling from one song to the next. Their concerts were stories with themes and lessons.
Lol,I don't know who requested pink Floyd.But I guarantee they are hitting a bong watching you guys react.
You really have to listen to the entire The Wall album, (just like most Pink Floyd albums) because trying to figure out the meaning of a single song or the context is like starting in the middle of a novel and expecting to know what the novels about.
To appreciate this song you have to listen to the whole album. It's kind of like a full story.
Brad and Lex tell me if I am wrong here. Brad you seem more analytical about the music more intent to gauge the music or overall song then determine if it's of interest? Lex seems the music builds more in your soul and courses through your body seems more spiritual? Would you two say that's a fair assessment? You two are great really enjoy your reactions, great couple keep doing you keep enjoying this experience. We are all blessed to be enjoying you enjoying this.
As a long time viewer you're pretty much spot on. Brad will often try find meaning behind the lyrics and structure whilst lex just lets loose and feels the music. It's especially funny to see how she reacts to solos and then you see Brad sneak a look over with a grin haha.
I have been binge watching your videos for the past few days and love that you are exploring much of the music I grew up listening to. I love you guys!
Please watch the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall". The album is a Rock Opera. Each song on the album tell a piece of the story. The story being about one man's life. The movie provides visual support for the the lyrics to the entire album.
The purpose of advanced mathematics is not to be able to perform advanced mathematics at some job later in life. The purpose of advanced mathematics is to develop critical and analytical thinking skills so you can solve complex problems later in life.
So true. Exercise for the brain
The full album Animals is a must..Floyd fan's are so passionate.
I dig "Meddle"
The album The Wall is a rock opera.
It came out in 1979. This is not a cover! This is the original.
"Is this funk, is this groove?" This is 1979!
The beginning introduction of this song. Is an acting technique know as murmuring. Murmuring is used by actors when the actors want the audience to know what the character is thinking/the voice inside their head. The theme for Just Another Brick in the Wall is existential loneliness in life. Jim Morris was using poetry as a medium when he wrote that song.
Very difficult to understand songs from The Wall without hearing the entire work. Nice job nonetheless.
Phone beeping*
"Hello?"
"Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd. Will you accept the charge from the United States?"
*Phone clicks*
"Oh, he hung up. That's your residence, right? Well, I wonder why he hung up. Is there supposed to be someone out there besides your wife there to answer?"
*Phone redials and beeps again*
"Hello?"
"This is the United States calling. Are we reaching..."
*Phone clicks*
"See, he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering."
Please please do Shine on you Crazy Diamond. A masterpiece is an understatement.
Preach
That's the song I always encourage reviewers to listen to when they're getting into Pink Floyd.
@@neillenet291 for sure. It encompasses Pink Floyd to the fullest.
@@kp-iv2mp agreed. It has the vocals that Brad likes and the guitar leads that Lex likes. It's both a tense and a relaxing song all wrapped up in one.
A classic song from a classic album ... Another Brick In The Wall (part two) sold 4 million copies world wide .... songs on the album reflects many different issues. The specific issue in this song is government run failing public schools that was more about other things than actual education - the song uses a boy church choir. It was produced by Bob Ezrin who produced KISS Dynasty and I Was Made For Lovin' You - you can hear elements of disco in both songs.
I don't think Roger (who wrote most of the song) is condemning what is taught in school (after all even learning Pythagorean Theorem teaches critical thinking and how to learn anything) but rather the politics of people. In the case of teachers who have considerable power over children, and due to the fact that, oddly, teaching for some crazy reason is not well respected in society, some teachers use their power to crush kids they don't like or even just relate to. Add to that, kids who are not well suited to desk or factory jobs, especially artistic kids, are often seen as needing to be broken of independent thought to be subservient to bosses. School not only doesn't tend to teach supremely important basic skills, like money management or interpersonal skills, they generally don't give any thought to teaching how to become an entrepreneur, just a subservient malleable worker bee. That's what Roger rightfully hates, IMHO.
Other people in the comments said what needed to be said about it being a rock opera, so I'm just going to say thanks and thumbs up.
Of course the guitar solo is good.... it's David freaking Gilmour! My favorite guitarist of all time! He uses space as effectively as he does notes... and his use of notes is crazy effective!
I think you’ve been listening to mainly “dark side of the moon”. “The wall” is also amazing but “the wall” is an album and a movie. The album is like one long video really. So a lot of the weird sounds or the kids for instance are in the movie/video. Both albums are amazing. The wall is just…. Different. Love you guys. Thank you for entertaining me at a time where I refuse to watch TV, sports, movies,ect. Also I’m not sure if you guys realize how cool and good of a thing you are doing or even if you’ll know what I mean when I tell you. Anyway have a great night
Who the hell needs the Pythagorean Theorem to keep planes in the air, buildings and bridges from collapsing or your computer from crashing? Gosh that's just stupid math stuff!
I don't think they're saying it's not needed, just that most of us unless we go in to that field we generally forget it that's providing we ever grasped it in the first place. And brad did follow by saying basic education is needed.
That certainly is not what Pink Floyd meant at all maybe you should try and listen to the whole record front to back and it will make much more sense in proper context.
You got to watch the film The Wall (1982) or the video, made for the song to understand the changes during the song
Please please watch the movie. It is quite "trippy" for lack of a better word. But it will not disappoint well worth watching. You could react to it but I'm sure it's highly copyrighted but if ya edit the best sections together you should be ok.
Gotta listen to the whole album as a work of art. The way it blends the songs together.
you need to take a hit and listen to the whole album to enjoy it fully!
SO AT THE END WITH THE DIAL TONE THEY'RE GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT SONG YOU GUYS! :)
The idea of schools teaching exactly the same curriculum, and corporate business training you with only what you need to do the job they want you to do, makes you just Another Brick in the Wall.
Pythagoras very important. You literally could not build anything without it.
It's so exciting to watch you guys connecting the dots between all these different songs that you've been experiencing. It's been such a fun journey to watch. And to think, you hadn't heard of these songs a year ago!
oddly enough.... I was building a deck a couple months ago at my house, and used the Pythagorean theorem. I was like... hold on... a squared, plus b squared equals c squared. wow... 9th grade math.
This is actually two songs, the first part is called The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, and actually Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 starts with the "We dont need no education" line. The two are usually played together though, as they relate to eachother and flow into eachother like that.
Oh and "is it funk? is it groove?"... well it pains me to say it's actually disco. Disco was the big thing at the time this was released, and after recording an early version of this, one of the producers (I think it was Bob Ezrin, but I could be wrong) suggested reworking it with a disco beat and release it as a single. To which he was promptly told to "fuck off, we dont do singles", but clearly he persuaded them in the end, and obviously the single reached number 1 in many countries. There's one more song on the The Wall album with a disco beat and that's Run Like Hell.
One more fun fact about this song: it was banned in South Africa, because there the black kids started using it as a protest song against the Apartheid regime
This is not disco. I can't imagine the Beegees singing something like this.
you need to find Pink Floyd's The Wall full movie to watch! When you do that, all these songs will make more sense! I guarantee it!
We dont need math? Holy Shit! That is why every other country is kicking our ass in education.
YO. Digging the multiple drops in one day.
You guys are reacting to some good music. Although you have ALOT still ahead. Keep em coming. ( few suggestions)
- WAR "lowrider" "so" "four cornered room" " Cisco kid"
- THE DOORS "backdoor man" "roadhouse blues" "five to one" "peace frog"
- SANTANA. "evil ways" "persuassion" "practice what you preach" "she's not there" "noone to depend on"
“Most of a job is learning to be an employee” so true no matter the field. Only career people shouldn’t learn on the job are transportation and medical fields. I work as a biologist and 99.9% of my job is procedural. 0.1% is biology.
I'm a biologist as well (I'm an ornithologist), and much of what I learned in school (at least in grad school) is applicable in my field. Still lots of other stuff I only learned on the job.
@@chasingbirds3073 I get what you’re saying. Tons of super specific fields out there that need a high level of education. I was coming at it from the “will anyone die if you’re not educated” angle
Guys, you have to see Pink Floyd live! Their stage shows are legendary. Try "Comfortably numb" , "Sorrow", "Coming back to Life" or "High Hopes" from their live 1994 album Pulse. Lex will love it.
According to the band, the "wall" is the self-isolating barrier we build over the course of our lives, and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn us inward and away from others.” Pink Floyd created a movie called “The Wall”
The male teacher at school, Lashes out and treats his students like crap, to go home and have hos wife belittle and berate him. His only power in life is going to school and taking his life out in school. The kids are just a cog in the machine (another brick in the wall)
Well now you’ve hit me in the “feels”. PINK FLOYD is my all time favorite band on this planet. Been listening to them since I was like 13 or 14, I’m now a few days away from 53. You have to remember this album was primarily written by Roger Waters who has been accused of being obsessed with his childhood and the war and possibility of new wars. You cannot listen to just one song off the The Wall and expect to understand it. You have to listen to the entire album, many times, and watch the movie to get a better understanding. And you asked if this is the original song and the answer is yes. But the video you showed us is definitely not. If you had reacted to the actual PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall video then you would have understood the lyrics a lot better. Still I’m glad you reacted to the song. Stay safe ✌️
Love watching your reactions! Pink Floyd doesn't just make songs, they create experiences. They are the best there is.
Please react to BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME!!! They’re a modern progressive metal band, best of their genre and just released an epic album. Two of their new singles from the album have cool music videos too. The Future is Behind Us and Fix the Error.
They’ve also done an entire cover album covering songs from some of their influences, including “Us and Them” by Pink Floyd.
kids with English accents freak me out a little, not sure why. That's why i don't want to see the Harry Potter movies.
The deliberate irony of course is the poor grammar and double negatives in the lyrics.
Listen to almost anything from the Live Pulse concert to hear the Pink Floyd sound. Especially Sorrow, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell. All have wonderful guitar solos that don't do what Brad was saying and grate on the ears. They take you to a new place. Even if you have heard the studio version, you haven't heard it till you've heard it live.
All of Pink Floyd holds up so well to this day! Thank you for reacting to this, it's one of my favorites. Glad y'all enjoyed it!
Pink Floyd is a “ Progressive Rock” band. All the music has a message behind it, it’s a “Thinking mans band “ . You feel the music, you feel the emotion from David Gilmore’s solos! To me it’s the greatest bad of all time! You can listen to their songs thousands of times , and I have, and they never get old or irrelevant to the times we live in! You never get bored listening to The Floyd!!!
You guys need to watch the movie. You can't piece this album together, it's a story.
You really need to watch the movie the wall slightly different songs and amazing combination of animation and live action
I can’t imagine being good with only hearing this once. I’ve probably listened to it 10,000 times.
Me too
Lol me too😪
This song could be nothing but bassline and still be a banger.
Brad: I think the gov has given us a lot of reasons we should not trust them.
Me: you got it man!
I kind of want to hug you right now!
I wonder how the teachers that systematically beat the kids in there care feel now in my time at school if I didn't take note of there teachings I would be beaten until I did learn to learn it's strange to look back now that these sadists were aloud within a hundred miles of a vulnerable child
From the #classicalbum released on this day in 1979 #thewall #todayinmusichistory #musichistory #mandatorylisten #musthave #masterpiece #classicrock #bobezrin #jamesguthrie #pinkfloydhistory
I think to get the whole "Another Brick in the Wall" experience, you guys should also listen to "Another Brick in the Wall" pt. 1 and 3. You guys just listened to pt. 2.
it's because its about breeding people who can accept instruction and reproduce desired results, rather than trying to facilitate the people being educated (at a systematic level, the teachers involved these days I think genuinely are trying to do good)
The album "The Wall" is an album that tells a story. You should listen to the whole work.
These are not songs the whole album is a story, you are only listening to one chapter of the story.
As a 13yo in 1973 in the uk I remember a whole school bus singing this at the teacher 😊
Puzzling, that's about 6 years before it was released.🙂