Rock Icon Put Childhood Trauma to a DISCO Beat…Became His Band’s ONLY #1 Hit! | Professor of Rock
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- The backstory of today’s classic rock epic reads like the front page of The National Enquirer. Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd from their landmark record The Wall but at first it was only a minute long and musically it was a little boring… it would take producer Bob Ezrin's secret mission and a fair amount of subterfuge to turn this Another Brick In the Wall to into the monster anthem it is today. With Roger Waters's prophetic lyrics and David Gilmour’s Disco guitar riff... It’s the tale of one of the most controversial songs ever to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And you’re not going to believe just how controversial it was. The story is coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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The mid to late 70s were a rough time, artistically, for rock acts that didn’t make dance records. From 1974 to 1979, the conventional wisdom was, that you either jump on the disco bandwagon, or you don’t have any hits or get major radio play. So to stay hot on the scene, many of the biggest names in rock n roll succumbed to the pressure and created music with a disco beat. Rod Stewart had a huge #1 with ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’. The Stones had ‘Miss You’, and Kiss, the band that taught us how to Rock and Roll All Nite and Party Everyday released ‘I Was Made for Lovin’ You.’
Other headliners like Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Queen also dabbled in the genre. But perhaps the most shocking, and incredulous incorporation of disco, was when the paragon of prog-rock-Pink Floyd-recorded today’s featured song: ‘Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 Pink Floyd, comprised of guitar genius David Gilmour, bassist and conceptual genius Roger Water, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboardist Rick Wright, began the recording sessions for Waters autobiographical masterpiece The Wall in December 1978… when disco was at its peak. Disco was the sound buzzing in the streets, and the dance beat that devoured the nightclubs. Which makes the enormous success of The Wall all the more impressive.
The Wall tells the story of Waters’ semi-fictional protagonist Pink… beginning with his traumatic post-war English childhood and culminating with a harrowing psychological stand-off with all the pain he has endured in his life. When Pink was a young boy, his father died in combat during World War 2… Enough to damage even the strongest soul, Pink searches for ways to cope with this stark reality. His childhood grows darker under the care of a smothering mother and the reign of cruel and despotic school-masters. Later as an adult, Pink becomes a disillusioned, hedonistic rock star caught up in a failing marriage. Decades of mental and emotional trauma come to a head when Pink discovers his wife has been unfaithful to him… triggering a complete mental breakdown.
Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST Double album of the rock era?
Frampton Comes Alive
I'll nominate The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album).
Bob Seger's "Nine Tonight"
Bruce Springsteen - The River;
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life;
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road;
Derek & The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
UFO - Strangers In The Night
I’ve listened to that song ever since it debuted and never once did the term “disco” pop into my mind. ...Update: I got quite a response to my brief off the cuff comment, so here’s my wider take on the song…yes, Another Brick in the Wall can be interpreted as disco in the broad technical sense with its 103 bpm 1/4 note kick drum throughout, as does most if not all disco songs, and Gilmours guitar rhythm was probably influenced by the sound of the late 70`s [maybe on purpose tongue in cheek], but for me that`s where it ends. Music is so much deeper than the technical. Disco as a genre is about simple dance, party, get laid, etc repeat. Pink Floyd songs when viewed in the context of their albums [as they are meant to be] take on a greater meaning. I see Brick more as a March, reminiscent of soldiers in WWII. I don`t feel a dance party vibe to this song when I view the lyrics and context of the album. I owned the vinyl record in my younger years and as was typical of the late 70`s and early 80`s, listened to it cover to cover looking for the full meaning of the song and album. That`s why the term ‘disco’ never entered my mind. It`s also why I appreciate the Professors deep dive into the song in this video. Getting the background context of how the song came about and other history is greatly appreciated.
Listen closely!
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" actually did make the Disco/Dance chart in Billboard, so there's that.
Agreed, I've also been listening to this album since '79, never once thought this song sounded at all like disco.. still don't! ;) I'm not hearing it.
@@ProfessorofRockyes, the kick drum is doing the straight four on the floor beat but the Bass offsets it nicely with a funky syncopation, which I suppose is my particular focus and the fact that Floyd wasn’t a disco band is the reason I never considered the disco angle. It’s all subjective of course and bands of any given era are influenced by the surrounding music culture. I must say you did a bang up job on researching the album. I love your work. You remind me so much of the late great Casey Kasem.
I agree - I think it’s an incredible stretch to call it disco.
I too had a controlling mother and for many years I listened to this album, seemingly unaffected. Had a lot of trouble at school...this was an era that no one listened. I saw it at the movie theater, with my mother and my sister. I had to get up and move to sit by myself at one point. It hit so close. I went to see the stage version when Roger Waters went on tour with it about ten years ago...I started to weep early on and when that piercing scream came (you all know the one I'm talking about), I screamed as loud as I ever have in my entire life, until not another sound could come out. Couldn't talk for a whole day afterwards and people turned to look from two sections over. It was like 40 years of anger and feeling powerless all spilled out into that amphitheater, For a moment I felt levity...but I was liberated forever. Things changed. I'm now taking care of her because she has dementia and our "relationship" is more professional than familial because the old harpy has always been incapable of feeling or expressing love, kindness and respect, opting to be horrible. But I can deal with her better now because I'm the grownup of the two of us...and I often think of how fortunate she is that I don't have any speck of her in my personality, I cannot bring myself to be mean and nasty, and I seriously doubt she is aware that the movie she complained about and told me I was an idiot for wanting to see had some turn in the fact that she isn't sitting in a nursing home right now. If you have a loving, good mother...go tell her right now you love and appreciate her.
Anyway, excellent episode, Professor! I'd love to see you do an exclusive 27 Club special!
I hope that you have found some peace.
Thank god my mom is still with me. She’s a parent advocate who works with children with disabilities in grades K-12. I am grateful for what she does for us every day.
I had some issues with my mother and had to work through them after her passing. What helped me heal was forgiving her, not always because she deserved it, but because I did. Also, try to remember how people used to be raised 70 or 80 years ago. It was usually a lot of "spare the whip, spoil the child". Your mom likely went through a lot of trauma herself. Understanding that can help you put it in context and move on and not repeat the patterns in your own life. Be well.
Good for you I to made the decision to not be like my cold distant father. I helped him when his health went bad and am the better for it. So are you.
The Wall is one of those rare albums that takes you into an audio journey of emotions and inner reflection. Every song is a layer over layer of raw confessions of what trauma can do to someone. How your psyche breaks and and how that truly feels. This isn’t an album that you skip to your favorite song. This is an album to sit back and listen for a while.
I return to it again and again! Thanks for watching!
One of my very favorite albums and I've probably watched the movie a hundred times...
@@pattonmoore Same here!!
@ProfessorofRock I was bartenders and often we would have bull sessions after closing. The question came up, what band would you most want to join us here. Unanimously Pink Floyd was our choice. Could you imagine sitting around with Pink Floyd having coffee and talking till the wee hours of the morning?
Roger Waters would likely monopolize the conversation.
When I went to see The Wall when it premiered at the theater, there was a line of people waiting to get in, all chatting and laughing. When the movie was over, nobody was saying a word as we all walked out, shell-shocked.
I remember the usher having to come out after the movie and tell us it was over and it was time to leave. It was such a mesmerizing film.... And I wasn't even high.....
I never thought of Another Brick in the Wall as disco.
That’s because it’s not.
Because is wasn't and still isn't.
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I was a junior in HS when this was released. It instantly became our schools 'song'. Most of the teachers liked it also. And it was played at my graduation, with everyone in attendance signing it. Everyone knew what it meant and almost everyone agreed.
Cool! I was in grade 9 at the time.
We had an assembly and the grade 10s set up a screen in the gym and they played this.
We all sang along, but what I loved the most was some of the teachers singing along too.
Fondly stuck in my memory
But was it called disco?
@@ricogomez4020 Oh heck no. We never would have played that garbage. 🙂
@@CoffeeTroll Awesome memories from that time period, or sure.
So why does the professor say this song was disco?@@kinjunranger140
I never think of The Wall as a disco song
Me neither.
Not once.
Never ever. The Professor is off his rocker.
Cause it isn't.
That's cause The Wall isn't a song
I went to a Brit Floyd concert a few months ago, the crowd screamed “Teacher leave them kids alone” at the top of their lungs when they played this!
Wow! Awesome!
Australian Pink Floyd show is also really good and the crowd sang it at the overzealous ushers quite a few times.
Seeing Britt Floyd again in a month so in LA
Looking forward to it. Sure it’s not the actual band but it’s a lot of fun.
Teachers, leave Those kids alone!
It’s LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE, not leave our kids alone!🤪🤪🤪
@@RayLeejr corrected! LOL, that’s what happens when you get old 😂
Wow, I have to admit I never thought of Another Brick as a Disco song.😂
Me neither.
It isn't
Goes to show how Pink Floyd, especially in what could be considered their prime, were such a versatile band. Legendary for all reasons, and prog would certainly not be the same without them.
No question. Thanks RC32. Have a great weekend!
@@ProfessorofRock Likewise!
One of the top 10 greatest bands ever.
My favorite part of the album is the ultimate admission that our emotional defenses developed in childhood will even push away those trying to love us or help us.
“All alone, or in two's
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall”
I’ve felt that too. Inadvertently pushed people away because they thought my actions were “too weird.”
I was introduced to The Wall my freshman year of high school in ‘79. That was also my first exposure to Pink Floyd. That changed my life! I am not kidding. They have become my favorite band. (Not many bands can repeatedly bring you to tears due to their music and lyrics. it pierced my soul.) All credit goes to Mark Whipple, who was a senior in architecture class my freshman year, who told me I needed to listen to that album. I have never been the same. God bless you for creating this channel!
It was "Dark Side Of The Moon" for me!! It's true, they change you!
I agree the wall and quadrophenia both did that to me because I could see myself in both stories.
Pink Floyd know how to create the perfect mood music.
Did anybody call it disco in 1979? Nobody in 1979 called this disco in my high school.
I never heard it called disco. It just floored all of us.
If only we could take the Wall to heart. I don't think Roger Waters even comprehends the message. We're in the age of industrial education, pervasive thought control through all the forms of electronic media. Real individual creative expression through music is, by necessity now, cloak and dagger. Peace to all in your path of life.🙏
Peace!
That’s right. Let’s get through these times together.
This is a most welcome upload. As a drummer, RUSH is my favorite band, but as a person, Pink Floyd has no rival. Where I grew up, it was a right of passage to drop acid and go see Pink Floyd - The Wall at the midnight movies. (How I miss the midnight movies! Every Friday and Saturday nights all doors to the Malls were locked except those serving the movie theatres. The choices were always the same: Pink Floyd - The Wall, Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same, Heavy Metal, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.) To have been in high-school while the anthem "We don't need no education" was regular radio play was a time like no other. This album was the background music of some of the greatest parties I ever attended. I simply cannot imagine navigating life without Pink Floyd.
I can imagine high school seniors used this as their graduation rallying cry back then.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 yep that was very very common :D
Try Bridge Across Forever by Transatlantic if you like drums. Or anything Porcupine Tree.
Everything you said except “ as a drummer “ should read, “ as a guitarist “ ….. is ME. Are you my lost twin 😄
I can completely relate to all of that 👍🏻
How rock and roll is that! To sneak that children's choir out of school to make this smash hit especially saying we don't need no education, a classic double negative! I remember when I was in high school someone sneaking a copy of the wall in the office and playing it over the pa system throughout the school for a couple minutes before they heard the needle scratch across the vinyl, lol. Pink Floyd episodes are always great because they are so deep with everything that went on. Great episode professor!!
This song is no joke! Thanks My Name!
@@ProfessorofRock I grew up in the era when teachers could physically punish you and many of them took full advantage of it. Not saying I may have done things right but I have been paddled for things as small as not doing a homework assignment and leaving my seat without permission. Some of those teachers could really swat too
I want to sing in a choir on a popular hit single sometime in the future.
It never occurred to my mind that "Another Brick In The Wall" was disco-themed since I could not dance when it's played
Interesting isn't it?
Rather, silently tap my foot.
@@ProfessorofRock Because it wasn't disco and still isn't.
The wall was being played on the radio at my friend's house and when we heard the part "we don't need no education”, his grandmother shouted"oh yes you do¡”
😆 Grammy was based!
Thank goodness for a voice of reason 😂
😆
“It freaked me out” is exactly how I felt. I was very young and I loved this album but felt disturbed by it at the same time. My father was an abusive alcoholic with superb taste in music. Much of my favorite music is influenced by the soundtrack of my dad’s music and a traumatic childhood of my own. Pink Floyd was mesmerizing. As a powerless child, hearing those children shouting, “We don’t need no education! We don’t need no thought control! Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!” was most likely what started me on my way to questioning unjust rules and authority figures in my life who hadn’t earned my respect. Thank you for featuring this song.
Pink Floyd is one of the very few bands where each generation that experiences their music will come to the same conclusion: Pink Floyd’s music is ahead of its time!
Recently, scientists reconstructed Another Brick in the Wall by listening to brain waves, which makes it the first recognizable song to be decoded like that. Pretty cool!
Please elaborate!
I actually heard that audio clip and it was so creepy!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Wasn't it just? I heard it too! Freaky.
My 5th grade teacher let us listen to this record in class near the end of the school year in ‘79. Coolest teacher ever.
That's a great story and yes, a cool teacher, indeed.
I was in 7th grade in 1979 but knew little about Floyd until my first year in college. Then I really got into the prog rock that I'd never heard before. I only had top 40 stations in my area at that time.
I had never thought about it before but it turns out I was the same age as those kids that recorded those iconic background vocals. The Wall was already my favorite Pink Floyd album but now you've given me a bit of info that makes it an even stronger favorite. I loved the story how the music teacher took them out of class without permission. It reminded me of School of Rock!
So I am one of the biggest fans of Pink Floyd who's ever existed. The album The Wall, and Pink Floyd's music in general, changed my life forever, when I was 15 years old.
I am dyslexic and disgraphic. Throughout my childhood, my home family situation, and school was an absolute nightmare for me. When I heard The Wall, it was like someone actually understood what I was going through inside. It helped me to open up about things, and to cope with my own trauma and rage within, in ways that I don't think any counseling ever could have accomplished.
That being said... stories about The Wall, and even about Pink Floyd in general, are a bit warn out... HOWEVER... THIS is one of the VERY BEST break downs of the album The Wall, that I have ever heard!
This video you've created, is a MUST SEE for anyone who's ever been a fan of The Wall, and or of Pink Floyd... and even for people who have never before heard the album!
I'm so happy I took the time to watch this!
Your videos are always wonderful, and you always put so much thought and research and understanding into your videos, but this one really is next level. You're an amazing human being, and an amazing RUclipsr! Thank you Adam, AKA Professor of Rock!
I’m autistic, and The Wall has helped me understand myself a lot more too.
For having random kids from a struggling school, those kids sounded spot on. It always amazes me how those in the music industry can put together something that is just an idea into something that we can’t stop listening to.
Pink will always be my favourite band just for how it transformed my thinking about music and how it hasn’t lost its impact over my 30 years of listening to it.
I loved it when I was partying and I love it even more now that I’m sober. Not many bands can be that transitional with the same music. Just mind blowing is what Pink Floyd is.
I used to wear my “I Love DISCO” button on my overalls next to my Led Zep button. I loved both!!
Thank you. I love disco, too. I used to wear a Saturday Night Fever t-shirt. It's so refreshing to hear from another disco lover. There's no reason you can't be open-minded with diverse tastes and love both.
I was in my early twenties when this slapped us in the face. With the Bob Geldof movie it was a double hit. How great life was... All the Pink Floyd concerts I attended including "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals", this one was literally jaw dropping. And I know how to use the word "literally", my friend reached over and closed my mouth a couple of times! And the cop whom I thought came over to take my joint away, ended up sitting next to me on the stairs and took a hit and gave it back! The Floyd got him...😁
I’m 52 and millennials and Z’s have no idea just how great it was to have the musical soundtrack to grow up with that we and the two prior generations had! It was a major part of most of our lives! I believe we were the better for it…
I was fortunate enough to be stationed in Germany with the Canadian Air Force when the Berlin wall came down in the fall of 1989. When Roger Waters announced he was re-staging "The Wall" outdoors in Berlin in July of 1990, a group of us jumped at the chance to see it. Yes, I know it wasn't Pink Floyd, just Roger and a bunch of high-priced help (The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, et al), but it was still an experience. After seeing the effects of the Cold War and the Berlin wall on East Berlin (which looked like it was stuck in the late 1960s), being part of a crowd of more than 300,000 people, all chanting "Tear down the wall!" at the end was a definite goosebumps moment.
Always remember the Live in Berlin version with Cindi Lauder singing and Thomas Dolby as the teacher dangling from the wall.
Yes indeed! Have you seen it live in person?
@@ProfessorofRockwas going but it was the same night I was flying out to Corfu. But luck would have it as it was the end of the Cold War, new flight paths opened and we flew over Berlin and the stage and concert area was that big you could see it from 30,000 feet!
Haha, I need to see that!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it’s on dvd and YT. Believe me it’s the biggest concert you’ll ever see. Even had stretch limos and military trucks driving across the stage!
I was SO looking forward to seeing it when I got it on VHS and I still have it! I must say though it was kind of a let down for me. I expected it to be better.
Hey Professor, I remember going to see "The Wall" at the theater, awesome acoustics, we went several times.😊✌️
It’s a great movie.
The song applies to today more than it did in the past. We don’t need no education. (Indoctrination) Teachers leave those kids alone. I find myself singing this song frequently today, as stress relief. Always loved it but it means more to me today than when I was in school, all those many years ago.
get real
@@VibeagainThis person's comment is real.😉
@jimmymelendez1836 no it's not. It's colored with his lens of Ed = indoctrination, and teachers are somehow oppressors. Get real
I didn't pay attention to Pink Floyd until fairly recently and didn't realize the genius of the music and lyrics. Trying to make up for it now.
I remember The Stones catching flack for Hot Stuff
I liked it. Ocassionaly, I play it on the TouchTunes jukebox if it has a killer sound system.
Some people say i haven't heard this since the 70s. The younger crowd says, Who the eff is this?"
Hands down without question an awesome timeless classic whatever your favourite genre or era of music.
I agree!
All I know in Chicago radio stations none of the black R&B stations played this song but played the Stones & Queen disco hit. Even Eagles ONE OF THESE NIGHTS.
No joke - this song is one of my 80 year old mother's favorites. She remembered hearing it when The Wall came out, as my older brother played it constantly on the family stereo back then. She liked the beat, and eventually the message of the song. What made it funny to her was the children's chorus. She said: "Where did they get the kids to sing the song? They must've been troublemakers!" LOL - she was right!
Thanks for explaining the history behind this fantastic song. Cheers Professor of Rock!
I recently bought my 80 year old father a shirt that says "Beware old people who listen to Pink Floyd". Its interesting how the grandparents of people my age listened to Lawrence Well while our children's grandparents listened to Zepplin, the Stones and Floyd.
"You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat." I have no idea how many times I've said that at the dinner table to my young children, and my wife too; even when we're not eating meat, and there's no pudding. 😂 Such a great line! Classic! I was a senior in high school when this was released, I can remember being at school, in the weight room, working out with others, and this song came on, we all got the biggest smiles. 😁
This album has Probably my favorite vocal performance of all time . Waters is more then just a singer on this album , but an actor as well . As a kid I couldn’t believe it was mostly one guy doing all these songs , my dad played this album a lot . I knew it word for word by the time I was like 8 . Watching the movie also lit in perspective what the album was about ( I was a kid so a lot wnet over my head ) . Truly an epic album
Remember lying down beside the speakers countless times, listening to the sound of the helicopter the happiest days of our lives and then the ultimate burst of ABITW part 2, forty years later I still get chills listening to it. Three of greatest albums that has stayed with me until 62 years of age alternates between The Wall, Dark Side of The Moon and Wish U were Here
I have been a huge fan of this album ever since it came out. I couldn't begin to guess how many times I've listened to the whole album. I have respect for Disco too. I had never thought of this song as being Disco at all.
Another Brick In The Wall part 1 and Part 2 should be played back to back on classic rock radio.
Great idea.
When The Wall came out, we had a crazy science teacher in middle school who would end every class by saying, "Kids, you are just another brick in my wall" and then play the song.
I look forward to the background info the prof provides.
We may not have liner notes anymore but we have the Professor.
I do too. Just wish they hadn't mess this one up so bad with a bizarre attempt to label the song a disco track.
Sometimes you have to shake things up. I’m glad that some musicians were confident and very talented to bridge trends when required.
Me too. They tried new things, and I appreciate them for that.
Disco did shake a lot of things up. Many of it for the worse...
Some good stuff came out of it tho. Like the roller rink and the stars on 45.
I've heard this song since I was 13 on half days my mom would bring me to the mall food court, she'd buy me lunch, then she'd buy me something at a store like a video game, or a CD or 2. The 1 half day of the month we'd have at the beginning Wednesday of every month. She died 22 yrs ago when I was 20 but she left me with memories on the way to the mall listening to this tape in the 80s and 90s. I never saw this as Disco.
The album is great. I still remember when I found out the movie actually had extras on it like “What shall we do now” that made it even better
That's right! How many times have you seen it?
@@ProfessorofRock Don’t know if I can count that high :). Between watching on t.v, vhs, dvd and various streaming platforms over the years, to many to count
@@ProfessorofRockon acid or not? Serious question
4 in Theaters, plus the DVD. Just blast it through the stereo. The extra songs with the orchestra? So powerful.
@@celticc9580 Once. First time. Near Cleveland. Because Cleveland Rocks
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was 14 when The Wall came out, and the musical, political, and social influences that were going on at the time were instrumental in forming my young mind.
I bought my first album (The Sweet) when I was 9 (1974) and I've really been into music since then. The Wall was the perfect album for the time (taking in all of the things that were happening) - the themes and struggles have remained so, even to today's woke society and what group think allows and what is frowned upon,
I've secretly been wanting you to do The Wall for quite a while, and it's finally here. It takes you on a journey of self-reflection and hits you between the eyes.
One of Gilmours finest solos ever layed down.
This and Comfortably Numb.
The guitar work on The Wall part 1 is very underrated. It's not flashy like Money or Comfortably Numb but it's subtle and very artistic. Ezrin's idea to lengthen the song out was brilliant. He knew it had a lot of potential.
As a High School DJ I played this on my "morning show" before classes started. This was just after the album came out but long before the song was a hit, so most of the kids and very few teachers or administrators had ever heard before. It took them almost until the end of the song before they cut me off. That was my last morning show. I didn't get banned for playing Sweet Transvestite from the Rocky Horror Picture show, but I got banned for We Don't Need No Education.
Empty Spaces and One of My Turns are for my $ the darkest songs on the album, depicting the sad death throes of a failing marriage
You’re right on the money.
I was lucky to have an 7 years older brother to introduce me to such great albums as Who By Numbers, Physical Graffiti, Toys In The Attic, The Wall and a host of guitar slingers, such as Steve Mariott, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman & Billy Gibbons, who have laid down the soundtrack of my life. I really enjoy listening to your history lessons... they bring back many fond memories. ✌️😎
Roger is a very complicated genius!
So true!
He may be flawed, but he really does know how to write a compelling lyric.
My grandmother used to child mind Roger while his mother was work so my mum and her brother knew him quite well as a kid. Who knew who he'd grow up to be. This was before he attended the grammar school which shaped this album.
My first experience of Pink Floyd is when my sister brought home copy of the film and showed it to me when I was 10. Been in love with their music ever since.
It never occurred to me that The Wall had a disco beat. One of the best albums ever.
Vaguely so.
Back in Black by AC/DC too. Both quite intentional., joining all the ones in the vid
Don't know how many conforming 'Dorks' LOVED THIS SONG; but I was one. It was released in the first year of undergrad and it began my late-blooming rebellion which blew my Mom away as 'REBELLION BECAME MY MIDDLE NAME' which is pretty sad since I had NOTHING to rebel about.
At the time, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Good-bye Yellow Brick Road' were my favorite double albums. Now, hands down...
Pink Floyd. LOVE just tuning-in and letting it flow over, around and through the atomic anatomy and let it reverb among the elements in the surrounding environment on the road and off. SUBLIME!!!
From rock operas like 'JC Superstar' and 'Tommy' to the pop-ish sounds of Styx's 'Kilroy was Here' or Janet Jackson's 'Control', I loved concept or thematic albums. No thematic album was greater than 'The Wall'. The double album is a complex story, but many of the tracks tell compelling stories or paint vivid scenes on their own. Another Brick in the Wall made you want to stand up to the system even if you weren't feeling particularly oppressed by it.
I think one of the best thematic albums or 'rock operas', I believe the first one made, was in 1968 by The Pretty Things called 'S.F. Sorrow'. That's a great album too.
Concept albums are always fun listens.
My first real experience with a concept album was Rush's "2112". It was mesmerizing!
I was a nerd all through school, followed the rules, and understood the value of education. My parents had ground that into me from before any memory. This song.... it is a form of social vandalism. The Who's "My Generation", The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" are also examples of music that capture what is wrong with respected society. I'm 64 now, and to this day I understand that this type of "vandalism" is necessary for society to grow. You could say that Gandhi and MLK and Jackie Robinson were guilty of social vandalism, and think of them with respect and admiration. So it is with the musical artists, above. Music has played a MAJOR ROLE in improving the fabric of society, though new music has routinely been condemned of trying to tear it down. Instead, I like to think that such "vandalism" is needed to rebuild society...better. And even bricks in the wall, like me, were targeted by "dark Sarcasm, in the classroom."
"Another Brick Pt II" played its part in helping me to embrace (what we now call) Progressive Rock andto enjoy the music of acts like Pink Floyd. I was always into disco, but my teenage self struggled with Prog Rock. Hearing this song was pivotal in helping ease me into the field and to realize I could get into it.
One bandleader put "Another Brick Pt III" into our repertoire briefly. She didn't approve of the opening line from Pt II", taking "We don't need no education" too literally. I wish I had tried to explain it wasn't half as much about education as it is about administrative authoritarianism. I only hope she's "seen the light" in the time since.
Thanks Eric. Always enjoy your insight!
She probably didn’t know - and that’s okay!
Minus the father dying, this is my story, and I am positive many other's story as well. It showed me there is a way out of our self torture due to what was self perceived as failure.
Learning from mistakes is the key here.
I was 6, I can still remember what the pizzeria looked like in Kirkland WA. I got to pick a song from a jukebox and I liked the title. When the bass hits that funk sound I danced openly. In 1979 funk was my favorite. That’s the first memory I have of the song 😁
Complete the wall. The only solo that eclipsed the one on 'The Wall' was the one on 'Time'
1980 I was a freshman in high school. I had grown up listening to the greatest decade of music ever. I'll argue that with anyone. I would listen to my radio (like most of my peers) waiting to hit Record when that perfect song came on.
I was in class (don't ask me which one. I don't remember and don't care), when the teacher, a female version of the teacher in The Wall, left the room. I took the opportunity to turn on my portable radio and caught this song just as it was starting.
We all listened mesmerized. We'd never heard anything like it.
And that's what led me down the Floyd rabbit hole.
The Wall was so ahead of its time. Playing the music and watching the visuals today is chilling.
It still applies to current events!
My first memory of Pink Floyd was my dad treasuring his 'The Wall'album and listening to it over 1970s style stereo headphones. Another Brick in the Wall - we don't need no education. There was no way I was forgetting that! That sticks in a kids mind like Schools Out for the Summer.
Thanks Professor! That was a really nice deep dive. I have an excuse to listen to the album again!🤘🔥
Rock on!
Did you need an excuse? 🤘
@@nedhorner not really 🤘🔥
Professor! I spend a lot of time, hours really, running or walking outside. I used to listen to music but discovered if you subscribe to RUclips, you can listen to videos with your screen off on your phone. Once I figured that out, it all POR all the time... well, mostly. I'm afraid I'm going to run through your catalog one of these days but that's ok, as I've already listened to many of them several times. Redux is my favorite series but they're all good. THANK YOU!!!
When a song is good, it's good. Whatever the style, whatever it has a disco beat or not. 😉
That’s right. Not everything has to be about disco.
Another Brick in the Wall pt2 was my jam.., mostly because I had a teacher who was quite abusive to the kids she didn’t like. She kicked me out of reading group, called me stupid, and made sure I knew she thought I was slow. I’m dyslexic not stupid. It was something that stuck in my head for years.
Oddly she wasn’t fired over throttling a kid for bumping into her or ripping another kid’s hair out for getting a drink from the in room fountain without permission. She retired by the 90s.
"The Wall" is a fantastic album-There's not one bad song on it.
Thank You Adam!!! I remember when Pink Floyd The Wall album was released. I was in 6th Gr. attending a Catholic school and it was the end of the school year we were allowed to bring records to play in class. Someone brought this album and the entire class sang "Brick in the Wall" song. On the 3rd go we sang so loud we actually scared the teachers because 2 other classes joined in. It was great because those 6th Gr. teachers really were very demoralizing. Some of the 8th Grade teachers were laughing. Cheers from NYC!!!
Another Brick in the Wall was the first song I heard from Pink Floyd. One of my classmates had a boombox and played it very loud during our lunch recess. And it was played almost every day.
Awesome!
He loved it so much!
I was born in 1946……a “Boomer”. I skipped Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the late 60s. Preferred the Beatles at the time. One day in the summer of 1992 I was driving home from work. Another Brick in the Wall came on the radio. I was hooked but didn’t know who the band was or the name of the song. When I got home I called the radio station and asked them who the band was and the name of the song. They told me and of course I then became a huge PF fan. A few years later (summer of 1994), I took my 16 year old daughter to the PF Pulse concert in Vancouver, British Columbia. We rode on 5 buses leased by the radio station here in Spokane. It was the most amazing concert I have ever been to. I’ve attended many. I will never forget it. My 78th birthday is this Friday. Brit Floyd is here in Spokane and my kids bought me VIP tickets. This will be the 3rd time I have seen Brit Floyd. I have also seen Australian Floyd twice here in Spokane. The tribute bands are not PF, but they both do a decent job and are very much worth the time. Its the best we can do now that PF is no more. I played in a band in LA in 1964-65 before I got drafted. I have 11 keyboards (4 Kurzweils which PF prefers) and play a whole bunch of PF songs. Sorry I went so long.
There are only a few disco songs that I like, the WHO's "Emminence Front" is one, and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" is another.
Love both of them! Should I cover Emminence Front?
@ProfessorofRock
Indeed, you should cover it as that was a big hit song for The WHO, and back then, The WHO were my absolute favorite band.
it was close but i wouldnt call it disco beat..
@tracy2762
You'll get a whole lot of disagreement from rock music purists and musicians. I'd say it is absolutely disco! But I liked it anyway, because I am not snobbish about music. Regardless of genre, I either like a song, or I do not.
@ProfessorofRock Yes, please! That is one of the best songs the who ever did.
I'd like to point out two things:
1. Gilmour - perhaps in his ongoing feud with Waters - sees "The Wall" as basically a very lucky and rich man dishing out abuse against people who "have never done anything to him".
2. There's a distinct disco influence in the second part of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", in both Gilmour's guitar parts and Wright's synth and electric piano parts.
I remember the music video, especially the teacher pinata. It really traumatised little me! 😱
That music video is so ingrained in my brain.
This song, album and movie were so impactful. I was in the sixth grade when it started being played on the radio by the time I was able to buy the album I was in the 7th grade and when the movie came out I was right around 16 or 17 and we would got to the midnight movie showing (by that time Rocky horror and Heavy Metal were in rotation and they started adding The wall) so this was part of my life for years, some albums come out and make a splash and disappear but this stayed in the public spotlight for years. in my senior yearbook I listed “The Wall” as my favorite album, my first year in the military I bought it on cassette to make sure I had a copy I could bring with me everywhere I went.
"We don't need no education." They clearly do, if they used a double negative. 😂😉
We used to sing it in the playground at school to wind the teachers up until one English teacher stopped and told us that very thing.
Go away little grammar police
@@edwardhodgkinson8268 it was a joke
Problems with the American interpretation of English, and in this case British musicians wanting to sound American for money
It was clearly done intentionally, consistent with lyrical styling. You have a LOT to learn!
I was blown away and eternally impacted by The Wall as a young man growing up in the 80s. We watched it over and over again and I still find it so moving and emotional. What an absolute masterpiece, and yet so musically simple too. Some of those songs are so moving I can hardly listen to them... Goodbye, Cruel World. Mother. Waiting for the Worms! They don't make music like this anymore. I will say this though, the hardening of the heart that this journey describes is something I never want or wish on anyone. So to Mr. Pink I say, tear down that wall!
One of the best albums ever made
No question!
What's your favorite Floyd album?
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gotta be the wall followed by dark side@@ProfessorofRock
For months every day at least once I would sit on the floor in my room with headsets hooked to my stereo listening to The Wall. The only days it didnt happen were those glorious few hours if my parents went shopping on the weekend and left me home. This was when I would bring my album to the living room to play it on our wall length sound system and crank it up loud enough to shake the paintings on the walls. Eventually a neighbor let my Mom know how it got very loud at our house sometimes, it was worth every one of the extra chores :)
Thanks for sharing Randy!
The neighbors deserved to hear that sonic bliss!
Thank you Dave Rick. And Nick
Roger waters the legend 🙌
Waters made the magic.
We don't need no single releases.
We just need that album rock.
Hey! A.R.! Leave them tracks alone!
The Wall dominated a very unfocused 1980. One of the reasons I liked this year of the old clashing with the new.
Pink Floyd's chart run in the U.K. is strange, with The Final Cut and "Atom Heart Mother" hitting no.1, but The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon failing to do so.
Isn't that insane? How? Why do you think it missed out?
@@ProfessorofRock In the case of Dark side Floyd may have been in decline there, as they were rising here.
In the late seventies they faced a backlash from the punk obsessed media. The Wall isn't as revered there as it is here. Can't explain the final cut.
That is so weird!
I was lucky to have an older sister with great taste in music. One band that she loves is Pink Floyd, and I grew up listening to their music. When I was a high school sophomore, I was visiting my sister who was in college at the time. My sister, her boyfriend (now husband) and I were at the laundromat washing their clothes. Then this song comes on over the laundromat's speakers. We were stunned at first, then we thought that the song was really cool. The next album that my sister bought was The Wall!
I was never a Floyd fan, love the song High Hopes, but I do respect their genius and musicianship.
High Hopes is amazing
I love High Hopes too.
I never in my life connected this song with disco, but now that I listen to it again, I don’t know how I missed it.
I thought the song " Run like Hell" was a Disco song as well?.
I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. It was a monster hit. All the students were singing this song in the hallway. For weeks.
This was the first album I ever bought on my own.
Nice!
If you can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat, you will really enjoy this channel’s content!
Pinks name was inspired by the character Henry Fonda played in the movie the Mean Streets. Do yourselves a favor and watch that movie it has the tremendous acting of Lucille Ball. It's my favorite Lucille Ball film you will call her a "B! "🌈🌈🌈🌠 The More You Know!
That's complete fukkin bullshit.
You're the man! Have you seen U2 at the sphere yet?
The story is they combined the names of two blues musicians: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council
@@ProfessorofRock Yes I have. I told you that Saturday morning that I was at the opening of the Sphere.
@@4Mr.Crowley2 Old Wives Tail. Heard it from the man himself
This song shook me to the bones. It encapsulated everything I was going through at school at the time.
How can you have any pudding if you don't beat your meat? 😂
I've heard that one a few times in my growing up years. Where'd you grow up?
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@@ProfessorofRock same place Lilly grew up
Has anybody ever noticed at the one minute mark of Happiest Days of Our Lives, you can hear Nick Mason appear to drop his drumsticks and swear under his breath "ooh f**k!"? No one's ever mentioned it, I feel like I'm the only one that's noticed it. It's one of those things that once you hear it, you can never unhear it.
My workmate asked a question the other day.
Q: why must vegans eat meat?
A: how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?😂
Haha, I need to use that phrase more often.
I was in 8th grade in 79 and they put all of us 8th graders in the cafeteria to tell us all about how the HS moved the smoking area on the north side of the building so the smokers/tokers would freeze in the winter, one of the counselors brought up The Wall and mentioned the line and we all just erupted singing it and all the faculty from the principal on down were as embarrassed as hell and knew their plan/message sank like the titanic.
I was a freshman in the 1979/80 school year, and I just happened to be in Catholic high school that year (it was my final year in Catholic school - I transitioned back to public school at my own insistence after that).
I remember that the Class of 1980 at my Catholic high school chose Another Brick in the Wall as their class song. The priests and nuns in charge of the school were mortified for its anti-scholastic and anti-establishment lyrics -- two things you don't want in a class song at a Catholic school! They challenged the Class of 1980 to choose another song, and true to the spirit of The Wall, they refused. As far as I know, this remains their class song.
Yeah, but a lot of us kids were singing, "No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom." Or, uh, "Alan Alda's just another brick in the wall." Never heard the story of the kids choir before. I always wondered about that. Always wondered why the headmaster didn't tell them band to get lost. Without permission? Yeah, lucky there wasn't legal action!
😂😂😂 My brother is going to be so happy to know he wasn’t the only one who thought it was Dukes of Hazard in the classroom.
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Serious? Where was this?
@@ProfessorofRock Oh, just anytime USA. Milford, NH, to be specific. Oh, truth be known, I was the only one singing "Alan Alda's just another brick in the wall!"
Americans 😂
This song and "School's Out" gave me my doses of anti-establishment ear candy back then. Ironically I became a middle school teacher and I cringe to wonder what students are listening to now that's anti-establishment!
Flave! Thanks for commenting!
How could you not rate "School" by Supertramp?
And l too became a HS teacher. A subversive Metal and Timber Tech teacher
As a high school senior, these songs mean so much more to me because I can’t wait to get out of that building!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 As an educator, you can call these songs "underrated" if you like. No one should tell you which terms to use, no matter whose ears it hurts...
I was a junior in high school when this came out in our PE class was taking rollerskating at the rink a block away from the high school. This song was playing every day as we rollerskate around the rink. I didn’t consider a disco at the time, but it did have a good beat.
One of the highlights was singing, the chorus to our draft teacher in drafting class. He just stood there in his white shirt and black tie and smiled. RIP, Mr. Spinks.