Pink Floyd, In The Flesh - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2024
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In the final stage of his inside-the-wall experience, we find Pink’s true self left behind (”at the hotel”), while his inhuman side is going about tearing apart those labeled ”with spots”.
Here’s the link to the original song by Pink Floyd:
• In The Flesh
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The Wall is easier to understand when you listen to it 40+ years in a row . Thanks Amy , again, for being a part of my life’s musical journey
AGREED LOL!!!
Watch the movie if you haven't already.
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Saw them in concert in Toronto. The great gig in the sky was epic
And watch the movie.
Or when someone explains it to you before getting into it. That happened to me when I joined a huge open air (semi-professional, but mostly amateur) music theatre production in 2014 as a marching drummer. After that I kept listening to the album every once in a while.
Nick's drumming on this track is absolutely exceptional. Crisp and deliberate - no fluff.
to be fair, Nick NEVER put fluff in any PF songs
@@trsidn I want to tell you a story, about a little man, if I can.
You gotta give credit to the precision on the fill in the finale as well. Takes tremendous dexterity to hold the rhythm as tight as he did. I dare to say he was never off -tempo.
I'm glad you used the term 'provocative lyrics' and not offensive, because they only get more intense from here and it's important not to take them at face value.
They are totally context-appropriate, indeed. They share the thoughts of a very mentally ill person, Pink. And many draw from race riots and general racism especially in the UK in the 1970s. It’s all so good. Such an important work ❤
"It has an acrid feel..." Oh, lord, what's coming....
I lolled at that too! I thought... I'm all here for the facial reactions....... nuts to the analysis.....
@@jujuUK68thank goodness I grew up with this music from a young age in the 1970s😊
The "old" Pink stayed at the hotel. The "resurrected" now runs the show. Nice job!!! ❤
It's his finally decent into his madness,and he is lashing out at the audience.
For me, The Wall is Pink Floyd’s masterpiece.
Well, duh.
one of them
I'm so looking forward to you doing Dark Side of the Moon.
And then Animals. As a politically neutral ex professional finnish soldier (raised by another similar and his politically neutral wife) who attended a music-oriented class at school, studying a little bit of clarinet and drums, with talents who later studied around the world playing their own instruments, ending up in philharmonic orchestras or as conductors in opera and whatnot, I just love how she nails the points of these rock music pieces that I have listened (more then once) and figured out just the same; Animals is a pretty brutally accurate description of different types of people, us human apes. I 'wasted' all my talents using my working life practicing how to eliminate human apes, of course in the belief that it will maintain peace; Pretty disgusting business, I don't recommend it except for Dogs who have no talents to waste!
Not if it is done and torturous drawn out like this album. Sheer painfully slow!
I really hope she does it all in one listen. You really have to hear the whole thing to get the full effect.
I agree on DSOTM. Animals is good too, but there are other bands, as much as I would like to hear Animals in the same way. I think either are far better albums than The Wall.
@@kentl7228...The Wall is brilliant because it is like a novel in depth and complexity of thought. Animals is a redux of Animal Farm. DSOTM is beautiful, but is wide brushstrokes, as opposed to prose detailing and specifics.
Most rock music doesn’t need to be analyzed like this. Pink Floyd on the other hand, I’ve been listening to for about 40 years and I still get different meanings every time.
I'm waiting for the worms to come.❤
For the final solution to strengthen the strain
@@scottwilliamscreek2427the strength and the strain he says
Just let the tigers break free
The wordless vocals, before Fascist-No-Longer-Pink sings, have a very Beach Boys sound and one of the guest vocalists is Beach Boy Bruce Johnston!
Oh the visceral reaction to the lyrics! Yup pink went dark. But being most of us have seen the movie and (some of us) the stage show we know what she missed. My curiosity is will she pick it up from the music alone? I tend to think she will but that connection evaded me till I saw the movie the first time. She never ceases to amaze me as to what she picks up from the music alone.
She has seen the movie and heard the album all the way through. She has also read Roger's comments about the meaning of the album. She does her homework.
@audiophileman7047 not at the point of this video she hasn't. These are first listens. But she did watch the film after finishing the first listens of the entire album. I am amazed that Amy is picking up so much, that I didn't get until multiple listens.
Not so much a rebirth, but a death. A death of the old pink, who, in fact isn’t well, and was left back at the hotel, all shreds of his sanity and humanity.
Beautifully put. The cult movie sort of interprets this death in Comfortably Numb. It’s through his induction from those managing him that conforms his isolationism into projecting his fears as dangers. In turn he is set on destroying and oppressing, as his delusion feels justified. In The Flesh, no doubt, very spooky.
Glad you're back to The Wall!
There is no synthesized chorus...that was not available until the advent of sampling technology...about 5 years past the recording of this album. That is live vocals simply layered in the recording. That makes it sound as though there is a many member chorus since it's many voices. You are completely correct in that this is a portrayal of Pink after his breakdown and personality split. You might call him the "anti-Pink".
Pink was left “back at the hotel” in Comfortably Numb. He is still there though. Everything since then has been, and everything after is, a hallucination in his head. The next few songs are really rough.
Your analysis for first time listening is pretty spot on
The lyrical message is very simple really; if we let the walls divide us, it leads to hate, mistrust and division.
Absolutely still relevant today as it ever was.
The only real division is that the people aren't given any power over their lives and are treated as kids.
Prophetic
The most incredible thing about Pink Floyd is that the band's songs are tireless to listen to
I agree. The only album that's horrifically dated is Momentary Lapse of Reason.
The original version of Momentary Lapse does have a dated 80s feel, although I still enjoy it immensely. The 2019 remix has a far more typically Floyd feel. That being said, some songs still hit better with the 80s sound, One Slip being the one that stands out, imo.
One of your, many, key contributions Amy to understanding this work, is to take a much less literal perspective on it. I have always tended to do this, and so you've opened up new dimensions to this masterpiece, and for that I am deeply grateful - thank you.
My favorite moment of the album comes next. Maybe not my favorite musically, but sonically, production wise. Im excited to hear your take.
The wall is now complete and what that means is not nice.
Never saw Amy look so serious before! 😯
She was close after listening to "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" about bad teachers.
Bob Geldof's performance of this song in the movie takes it to a whole other level.
yes! it was perfect!
Including the kissing of a child...... hilarious is a way
damn, i could see in your eyes the moment he first said "put 'em up against the wall" and they were pretty much the standard reaction of everyone whos heard it for the first time: utter shock!
Great you’re back to the Wall. Thanks for all you do!!!!!
Can't wait for The Trial
It's an anti-fascist, anti-scapegoating song, sung from the perspective of the fascist scapegoater. The stigmatized, vulnerable hated "other" is selected for eradication - as always. I was raised on George Lucas and George Orwell and Alan Moore and Rodger Waters - all of whom helped me form an anti-fascist belief system and helped me recognize fascistic tendencies in my own culture early on.
Acrid feel. What a way to describe this one.
I’d say that was the design so it achieving its intended effect.
I love you well you land so closely to the actual meaning in your first listen. I can’t say I did as well 😊
Liked before seeing it. Probably the correct move. 😊
Definitely the correct move. Even when I disagree with Amy I still want to hear what she has to say.
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The little voice is doo wop
Heading towards ... "Good Morning, Worm, Your Honour........." That Pink is not a very well boy right now.............. Nice to see / hear you return to this Amy. 😊
It's the old pink that went back to the hotel (the death of Pink). Another pink has been born.
I hope that after you review the last song in this album, as a bonus track, you also reviwe "When the Tigers Broke Free" (that you listened to as the opening song in the movie The Wall). It was part of "The Wall" (but didn't fit in for various reasons) and it was then released as a single, but being it the opening of the movie shows how important it is. I like it very much and I think it would be worth adding it to this video series
It has been included on recent re issues of The Final Cut.
The organ flails while the old Pink is in his death throes, the guitar celebrates the rise of the new Pink as the drums callously bashing the corpse of the old persona. 👌
Thank you so much for the great analysis. Wonderful channel.
Hallelujah. Only five more. Sorry. It’s just that it’s been…..a year? More?
One of the greatest and highest selling albums of all time is by Floyd; Dark Side of the Moon. And yet……..you’ve not heard a single track from it. Because of……The Wall. It’s like a log jam.
Floyd is one of my two favorite bands but Lordy. Since all the reactions have been done already on Patreon, how about just releasing them to RUclips so you can move on to other Floyd material? They’ve got so much GREAT music that you haven’t heard.
Signed; a long-time sub and patron 🙃😊
While I would love to see these videos come more quickly as well, I do wonder if you may be disappointed with her experience with DSotM.
The Wall, to a classically trained musician, is absolutely miles deeper (recurring musical components across the entire album) than Dark Side. It isn't even close.
Dark Side will be a different experience for her. It is amazingly crafted for its purpose, and it does its purpose better than almost any album ever made. But to someone who analyzes music at the deepest level? The Wall is miles deeper. Going backward to Dark Side will require her to release the expectation of such music theory oriented album creation as a whole, instead focusing on its sonic experience with individual songs having their own musical theory, connected, but not fully related. She'll love it, but she will know the difference. I wonder if the Wish You Were Here album would strike that theoretical analysis need more.
Side note, my background in this: I spent my twenties sitting in the dusty old basement of the Library at San Diego State University analyzing symphonic scores for funsies. I was a psychology major.
@@Mhantrax i can't help being left with the rather depressing feeling that the whole POINT of the general 'life affirming wonderfulness'' of pop/rock/dance is being lost here.....!!!
Amen to that!
The Wall = Log Jam…BEAUTIFUL analogy! And more of a Roger Waters project than a Pink Floyd one at that. I love it and Amy’s associated in-depths, but…. Echoes+ / DSOTM / WYWH / Animals. That’s A LOT of true, prime Pink Floyd that has not been touched. I feel that Amy’s missing out on a key component of this journey she’s on.
Perhaps a better follow-up to this project is an in-depth listen to and analysis of The Who's Quadrophenia?
Remember "there is someone in my head but its not me" lyric VR pink snapped
Not sure Amy's heard that lyric yet! But I very much look forward to when she does. :)
Wrong album
merci Amy, je patiente pour la suite, meme si c'est long je trouves vos analyses très intéressante, alors merci pour ca..
Pink's madness has the creative part of his mind abandoning him. All this is playing in the mind of a person who has locked himself away so he doesn't have to deal with the pressures of real life. Initially, he was comfortable in his isolation (side 3 of the album). But his creativity, the creative part of his mind is not going to be contained. As Claudius says of Ophelia in the play Hamlet, "Poor Ophelia, divided from herself and her fair judgment, without the which we are pictures or mere beasts." So too with Pink. Curled up on the floor of a hotel room, and having conjured its escape, through the device of a doctor injecting him with stimulant's, Pink's mind takes off on a journey of terrifying proportion. As a rock star he is bolstered by the experience of holding audiences in the palm of his hand. His mind takes on the role of a totalitarian; a world we he has the ultimate control over everything including life and death.
I can’t wait till you see some live performances.
When i listened to the album when it first came out, I had a different image of the story as I overlayed my own life and experiences. It wasn't until the film came out that I fully understood the story Waters was telling.
You are so thoughtful! Very interesting take on every analysis.
Next «Animals» by Pink Floyd please! A true masterpiece. Definetely the best album in music history!
why? best album
HaHaHa.....one of only 2 Pink Floyd albums I dont like, although Animals is not the worst .
Final Cut holds that title.....like having one's ears sandblasted with cut glass. lol
Brilliant, brilliant album. Brilliant lyrics. Gilmour even better than on DSoM, WYWH and The Wall. And how good is that? Unmatched.
Amazing intial analysis. The first time I heard this I was 14, and I was shocked by the lyrics but could just about make out the context.
This particular song is a pivotal point in the journey of The Wall. I could explain exactly what the significance is, but I'd like to allow you to think it through for yourself. The only hint I'll give is to think about cause and effect.
This is the First track leading toward "The Trial". (Along with "Run Like Hell", "Waiting For The Worms", and "Stop".)
It could be argued that this whole performance on Side 4 doesn't actually happen. It's all a deranged fantasy in Pink's mind while he's having a breakdown in his hotel room (or backstage. In the film he's in the bathroom stall while the trial plays out in his head).
that's a very interesting view..i get that..
Bingo! Exactly right… all in his mind… behind his wall…
Not an easy one to tackle, Amy, especially after only one listen...though your analysis is very close to my understanding of this song after 40 years of listening to it. Thank you for your commitment to this project and I look forward to your in-depth analysis of this track and it's place within the larger context of the album.
Pink we all love you! 🙏😇🤗🪶❤️❣️
I just discovered and binge watched this whole first listen to the album series, and am now realizing that I'm up to date and have to wait for her incredible insights on the next tracks like everyone else T_T
Plus, like, what a powerful track to be left hanging ç_ç
I'm smiling because I know what comes next :)
The Wall was the first album I listened to by the band. I could see an entire movie unfold in front of me. It was such a great experience. I notice that in the comments people actually mention a movie, but I haven't seen that one. Just from the music, I could see before my eyes Pink's life being narrated in the album- which I learned of from a little research after my first listen, trying to find what the album was about- just from the songs, feeling the emotional rollercoaster that was Pink's life. One of the phenomenal creative endeavours of Pink Floyd! Really enjoyed your analysis!
I can recommend the movie. Saw it when it came out in 1982 and went back twice just to try to understand all the details, it was quite overpowering for me.
Your powers of deduction are amazing, it took me years to fully figure out what is going on in the album (granted I did first hear it when I was 11)
you are great! I love your sensible brains ⚡
FINALLY!
Happy to see you have returned to The Wall. I'm looking forward to the In-Depth for you to really dig into this one. Now with Daylight Savings Time we are two hours apart, since we don't change in Arizona. So I guess I will have to set my alarm if I want to make sure I get up in time for the premiere.😉
Amy - I've been subscribed and watching your analysis videos for a while, and I LOVE them. You are one of the few I think is getting a true understanding of "The Wall", as you seem to be reaching for the psychological connection to "Pink". Yes - the music is great....Yes the songs are individually good...But it's the overall [project that should strike home to people, and I think it misses the target in most cases. You seem to get it.
Nope, the whole project is better than great, and I can say that, because I was born on the wrong side of the wall !
You are so brilliant. Understanding this the first time through is just mind boggling. Amazing. It took me years to understand this song, and its commentary on the lostness of fascism in particular.
I love your dissertations, Amy. Hi to Vlad. Please keep at it. Much appreciation.
It's been an interesting journey Amy. You have perceived so much about this album in one listen, despite it being spread over several months. I really hope when you get to the end, you'll llsten to the album in its entirety and then give us one more video summing it all up. Becuase Pink Floyd are a concept band, and this album in particular should be appreciated in one sitting. It's a dark story, but in parts it's a bit disjointed. As an album, it's a masterpiece. I think Roger Waters is the Bob Dylan of his generation, and though he's a little dark for some, his writing is simply outstanding.
The hotel seems a metaphor. Any ideas as to what the hotel represents? Is it life? Is it death? Is it Reality? Refuge? Or our humanity?
Describing this song as having an "acrid feel to it" is perfect. Love your locking onto the 'they' concept allusion that is so pertinent now in politics, but so inhuman, and isolated from any empathy. Trying to blame 'others' for our problems or inadequacies seems is so prevalent now.....making this song/concept album so relevant today.
Not having really listened to it, I find this album is even darker and more cynical than I had first imagined. Having Amy along for this ride has been wonderful.
It's the literal hotel, the one that he smashes up and terrifies the groupie in during One of My Turns and Is There Anybody Out There and Hey You etc, and then later is the one he overdoses in during Comfortably Numb. When his manager and the physician and crew bring him back his mind is now altered. The drug fueled hallucinations he has during this period solidify his new persona as one of the Worms. He is no longer scared and isolated behind his wall looking for help (on the surface, deep down he is insecure and lonely still), and so as he's been dragged out to 'finish the show ' he envisions himself into the very fascism his father died fighting against. So the "original " or "normal" Pink figuratively died in that hotel room and was replaced by this new Pink who left it. The old Pink was left far far behind. In the later half of the album there's a lot of background audio of the concert goes chanting "Pink Floyd!" His godlike rockstar status and how his fans view him starry eyed combined with his character developments and the state of extremism in post war Britain are what shift the story into this new chapter. He sees himself as a fascist leader and his fans as his undyingly loyal Blackshirts. Ultimately his bigotry here is simply him lashing out at everyone and everything. Minorities are used for historical context but in Pink's mind he hates all of them, even the ones who follow his orders and agree with him because he hates himself. It was Waters way of showing how self destructive and self devouring fascism is and that it stems from insecurity and inner brokeness.
I don't know why, but this song reminded me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. You should go out and see it next Halloween.
Enjoyed that.
I'm glad you mentioned the incredibly faint voice near the start. I think it is just singing the lyrics from the first In The Flesh? but very quietly. Up until now I had assumed I was imagining it.
Thanks
When you're done with the album you should see the movie it will answer a lot of questions.
My favorite scene in the movie.
Best song on the album.
Welcome back Amy, where have you been? I thought you'd deserted The Wall. I've been patiently waiting for this moment.....my favourite track off the album is next, I can't wait for you to injest and analyse it.
The "little voice" in the background is an old doo-wop technique where the bass singer provides the "bottom" for the other singers.
Another call for the song "Travel" by The Gathering, the TG25 live version. "I wish you knew your music was to stay forever".
I will tell you this much: It's even creepier with orchestration behind it (The Wall in Berlin, etc.)
You should what the movie " the wall " it really puts imagery to the music
Ahh yes, the narcissistic meltdown song. So familiar, historically and present day.
I always thought it was a schizophrenic alter ego, a nazi alter ego
Been waiting for this one. He’s really lost all connection to humanity. He has hit rock bottom.
"In the Flesh?" and "In the Flesh" are two songs by the English rock band Pink Floyd,[1] released on their 1979 album, The Wall.[2] "In the Flesh?" is the opening track, and introduces the story concept of the album. "In the Flesh" is the twenty-first song of the album, and is a reprise of the first with a choir, different verses and more extended instrumentation.[3]
The title is a reference to the band's 1977 In the Flesh Tour, during which Roger Waters, in frustration, spat at a fan who was attempting to climb the fence separating the band from the crowd.[4][5][6]
Wikipedia.
Thanks, Wikipedia.
Looks like it's been over a year since you first heard _In The Flesh?_ ... and between that and this, you give me lots of reasons to be looking eagerly forward to your in-depth of this track. I know it's coming, I've got the notification on for it... And, yeah, I kinda love that you're spreading this out, in a way, because it gives that anticipation. (At the same time, I kinda hate it... because I keep wanting more! But I guess you're supposed to leave us wanting more? Well, it's working! 😂)
In keeping with Amy learning to play drums, and with her orchestral background, I'd like to see her do an in depth review of the Moody Blues "Isn't Life Strange" with full orchestration. I recommend watching a live version with an adequate attention paid to the extra drummer/percussionist. (Not all live versions for that.) It'd be nice to hear the drum teacher weigh in as well as to the need for all those different drums and cymbals. I know it's wild to watch; it's like he's doing a dance in there amongst a ring of instruments. ❤
Also: This song made even more sense during the tour. At the beginning of the show, the MC (usually a local radio DJ) came out, rather merry, and gave the audience the rules and things.
Right before this song, the MC emerged again, but this time in gray makeup, and HE...TALKED...MORE...LIKE...THIS.
And the fascist show was like a bad parody of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, with the new Floyd dressed as the SS and the old Floyd playing silent instruments as if at gunpoint.
I saw The Wall in 1980 in Dortmund but was far away from the stage which was not a problem considering the huge stage but missed a small detail. At the beginning of the show the band was in front of the wall. Years later I read that was already a surrogate band who were wearing masks and just play backed. Pink Floyd was already behind the wall and playing the music. The many layers of the music, movie and show are still still fascinating.
You should definetly do a listen an reaction of the movie...., some of the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place..., but you have done a tremendous job so far..., I bow in the cyber dust for you!
❤
A psychotic break Pink has suffered, sinister Pink is lashing out. But wait there’s more…
Try atom heart mother a song in beggining of pink floyd career with orchestra, a lot of instruments and diferent parts, no lyrics and about 20 minutes long . Also Dogs from animals or all álbum animals if you want because it is the previous album to the wall and very conceptual also 😊
7:50 - The "surrogate" is Fascist Pink.
12:00 - You can think of the two "In the Flesh" pieces as a sort of bookend to the backstory, and from this point on we're more or less in the present. The first one says, "If you wanna find out what's hehind these cold eyes / you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise" ... He's now fully in disguise as Fascist Pink.
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THIS ALBUM WAS MY LIFE WAY BACK WHEN
Roger Waters and other stars famously performed music from The Wall in 1990 at the site of the recently fallen Berlin Wall.
Buckle in…It’s about to get really weird and even darker.
The lyrics might be provocative, but sadly, they are as relevant today, if not more, as in 1979.
Enjoyed, and agreed, with your interpretation.
Your analysis at the 8:30 mark on is correct. Pink is the one singing; there isn't a substitute band; he is still trying to hide behind The Wall that he has put up between himself and everyone else. It manifests itself in a racist, homophobic rant against all those who he perceives as having wronged him. The songs "Waiting For the Worms" and especially "The Trial", both coming up shortly, will explain this in greater detail - and bring to a resolution of sorts.
Thanks!
The voices are not synthesized, only processed with effects
Once you finish reacting to the album you should watch the movie The Wall. I think it would clear up any questions and maybe tie up loose ends to see it acted out....
I feel that Pink is continuing the fruitless battle against what he knows is true. Here he is actively trying to deny his past decisions, including his own neglection of his wife and self. Trying to blame 'others' We don't move forward by leaving our past behind. Without our past we are ill equipped for the future. Peace/JT
In the flesh is a play on words. A common English phrase meaning “love and in person” and the literal- and visceral- under the skin.
The little guitar picking under the Aaaaaaahhh vocals reminds me so much of REM's Everybody Hurts. Ive never noticed that before.
You should say REM song reminds you of PF since this came way before that song.
@@maxwindham501 literally everyone is aware of that age difference, so your comment is redundant. However, if i had used the word 'influenced' instead, i could avoided this inane interaction.
It is similar, you're right, but it's a fairly common arpeggio style playing of simple chords. Might even be some of the same chords.
I was lucky enough to see this show live in Los Angeles 4 nights in a row. 1981 I think it was. When the line "Are there any queers in the audience" was asked, a pinpoint of a spotlight targeted 1 person in the audience.
Hashtag NAILED IT
I must admit I thought your journey through The Wall had come to an untimely end. I was thinking that this track would be difficult to get through the YT censors because of the provocative language, which is why there had been such a gap between this and Comfortably Numb. But The Wall has to be taken as 1 piece of music with many movements with each track viewed in context with the whole, not just a bunch of songs. On the subject of track naming, I always took In the Flesh? to be Pink's birth, then In the Flesh to be his rebirth after his descent into complete madness after Comfortably Numb. Good luck with Run Like Hell.
Roger has always said that the story of They Wall was inspired by the event on the Animals tour, when he was tired and ragged from the road, going through tough personal issues, trying to figure out how to follow Dark Side of the Moon and the fact that their success had put them in position to play larger vendues. In the even cited, he angrily spat on a fan that was behaving poorly in the crowd. The act stunned him. It was not him. It was an act of "othering" and that is the tool of fascism. Not acceptable.
This song recreates that event, in the form of a comfortably numb diva, descending in anger, paranoia, madness and into fascism.
Hi Amy! Nice dive in this world. To get fully immersed in this production check out the Video- Roger Waters The Wall 2014. This will give you a total explanation of his mind and life. Thanks. If you do watch it, Please let us know!!!