The Wall Pink Floyd-Album Reaction Part 8 (Waiting For The Worms, Stop, The Trial, Outside The Wall)
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Thanks for joining me on this awesome musical journey. I'm glad I got to share this with all you guys, this channel makes it so much fun for me to back and hear these old classics. See you on the next one!
Try Iron Maiden album. Seventh son of a seventh son. Has a story also. Good stuff
Thanks for investing the time and effort to analyze this amazing album. You’re my favorite reaction channel!
Go ahead with the next one, Rhe Final Cut is awesome!
High Hopes comes closer to PF finally crossing the eternal redemption line beyond his past, imo. Personally a top 5 of all PF songs.
Please see the movie "the Wall"
Imagine getting this album at a record store in 1980, not having a clue what is about to hit you, listening to it over and over, trying to figure out the meanings of the story. And, all the while, reveling in the music. Glorious days.
Had to play it on a turntable, side 1, turnover, side 2.... 18yrs old, bought the album, went home, smoked, put on the headphones, I was done.....
Still an all-time favorite!!! 😃
“After Comfortably Numb it is all perhaps just in his mind” that is correct, and is really impressive you came to that conclusion on your own.
Exactly. Which may be why you didn't hear any Gilmour vocals after that point.
@@SantamanitaClauscaria except in this song, which i more interpet as the warm, welcoming voice that entices people into fascism until the sharper, rallying cry of Waters screams for their enemies to be eradicated. Its a terrifyingly accurate depiction of how people are swept up into those beliefs.
The story is a paradox, it was fascism that started his downward spiral ( as it resulted in ww2 and the death of his father ) the first brick in the wall, paradoxically he became a fascist himself (in his own mind )
Waiting For The Worms is the sleeper of the whole album, and it is my favorite track. Most people really only want to get into the biographical narrative here, but on another level, the album is a reflection on the psychology of alienation that underpins fascism. The 'secret message' of the album is YOUR deepest fear.
Yes, and as Carl Jung notes "that which you most desire is in the place you most fear to look."
With out the introspection and the journey he takes in examining himself (dark shadow and all) and the eventual separation from the alter egos, (pink, hammer...) he would not be able to face his deepest fear and expose himself, connect himself, his actual self, before his peers, the bleeding hearts and the artists out side his wall.
Ah yes, The Trial. One of my favourite Floyd tracks. So theatrical and bombastic. The movie really nails this scene, as it does with much of the imagery from The Wall. Great reaction, glad you enjoyed it!
The Trial is modern Rock's Gilbert & Sullivan; rock operatta.
Isn't it weird how much the "run like hell-worms" part of the album resonates with the rise or come-back of fascism today all over Europe and the US? I loved the Wall back then when it was released, i was 13 and I got mad with it, later on I got more and more embarrassed by the kind of bombastic and self-indulgent hybris of Water's fantasy. Nowadays I come to realign with my old feeling for this record, realising how much it is a visionary masterpiece, so far ahead of its time. And thanks for your work Syed, you nailed it!
I've been listening to this album since it came out, think I was in junior high back then, lol.
Your analysis has been very insightful, I've enjoyed watching it.
One thing just occurred to me, that I didn't pick up on in my younger years---- there's a very sad irony in that young Pink's world was turned upside down, because of the Nazis.
( his father being killed in the war, along with the trauma of living through the Blitzkrieg, and the aftermath..)
But at the end, after the cumulative traumas of his life, we can see how he ends up embracing Nazi/fascist ideology.
He became the very thing that damaged him in the first place.
This, my friend, you knocked out of the park! I've never saw this irony until now, thanks!
@@AndyAllex thank you for the kind compliment. I've lost count of how many times I've listened to the album, and watched the movie, but this aspect never occurred to me until today. Perhaps I was in a more analytical frame of mind, as there was a lot of intelligent dissection in this reaction.
Ending at comfortably numb??? -Then the story is a tragedy. He would end in a drugged up disconnection from all human caring and from his actual self. The introspective end (all in his head) is necessary in order for him to come to grips with the difficulties of his childhood and to find his own volition in the mess. In following the path isolation would lead him down (hatred and disconnection) he finds additional reason to undergo the difficult self analysis that can lead him out of his state. He is putting himself on trial and moving himself into a place where he can let his walls fall and notices the ones who have been waiting for him outside the wall. Ending at comfortable numb may make a better album, commercially at least, but continuing the narrative till the end makes a better man, a better life.
As a phycological exploration I am glad the artists chose to continue the work til it's conclusion.
Wow. I'm liking this arguement. Kudos
If the introspective part dragged on a bit it was probably because Roger was still going through or processing some of it at the same time as writing it. Makes it hard to pin everything down concisely (hence my lack of any finished lyrics haha)
i think he mean like a epic ending like comfortably numbs guitar solo
I don't know where you got those lyrics. But I found it super interesting to finally read what the worms are chanting in Waiting For the Worms. It's basically impossible to hear most of it just listening to the album by itself.
I actually love the tracks after Comfortably Numb. I feel like since it was all fantasy it aloud them to create an entirely fantastical world. The songs are less traditional-sounding and more over the top. It's fun
You should really give “Wish You Were Here” a whole listen as well. Amazing album.
I have enjoyed every part of this reaction. Your interpretations are so very close to spot on. You absolutely MUST watch the movie. Maybe even a movie reaction?
BTW if you ever get a chance. Watch the concert footage. The performance live goes through a process of building a wall that hides the band and then a large part of the concert is played behind the wall and then the tearing down of the wall works so well
I loved this series man. The trial is by far my favorite climax of an album the scene in the movie will stick with me forever.
The real question at the “Isn’t this where we came in” is has Pink broken the cycle or will it repeat yet again back to In The Flesh?
Well, he is an idiot, so it most likely will repeat indefinitely.
Yes, Yes! This whole album is a repeating loop inside the head of a character who is huddled on the floor of a room somewhere trying to banish from his life all the dread, stress, worries and difficulties of daily life. Having imprisoned his mind and imagination, thinking he can bathe it in victimology, his mind breaks loose and takes him into the deepest and darkest parts of the human psyche. This is a fate worse than life's daily struggles. The argument that Waters presents is that a person cannot shirk or hide from the stressful difficulties of everyday life. Personal agency is actually freeing. Conceding or giving up on one's personal agency is imprisonment.
Pink sees the way out but in the end we see that he doesn't take it. But, just like with Dark Side Of The Moon, it ever repeats because the stresses of daily life don't go away. They require constant action. Problems require solutions not avoidance. Waters has said that for him the overall theme of all of his songs is empathy. He has had his share of personal tragedies; many of them are on this album (and other albums) and he has overcome each and every one. And each and everyone of us can do it too. So where is Roger Waters today? He's almost 80 and touring his latest show, This Is Not A Drill. He is a multi-millionaire with a catalog of personal achievement that is unrivaled. He didn't let his fatherless childhood hold him back or the oppressive school system or his sheltering mother or his first divorce. He didn't let his fear of flying keep him from touring their music or the failure of bad investments or the criticisms of his music. Achievement comes from action not contemplation. It's very Hamletesque.
I love how the album kind of loops. The same melody continues from the end of Outside the Wall into In the Flesh?. You can also hear a "Is this where..." in the end of Outside the Wall and a "...we came in?" in the start of In the Flesh?.
It also kind of symbolizes the way depression and isolation will always be around despite of individuals overcoming them. Also the way people who have experienced these same difficulties carry them onto others.
Looking forward to finishing this. I enjoy your interpretations of the lyrics and music. I've been listening to this for 40 years but never looked at lyrics or tried to understand it, just love the sound. This adds another dimension. Thanks. Keep it coming.
This series has been a high point in music reaction videos for me. Well done! It doesn't hurt that I love Pink Floyd.
I really enjoyed your analysis thank you for the great video! 👍👍
Thank you so much for taking me on this journey again! Excellent analysis, and a lot of great insight. Great job!
Brilliant commentary, in all 8 parts. I have been listening to this album since it first came out and you taught me to hear parts of it I had never heard before. I love the connection with Dostoevsky.
Great reaction, adorable how fast you were able to defragment the puzzle of different layers. My uncle was a music producer and he donated it to my birthday in the year of its release enthusiastic as the biggest musical sensation of the year, I was just 13 years old and didnt had a clue 😁but the music was so transporting mystical that I loved it, especially the trippy trial , the worms, all those numb films...
But a big part of Waters' 'thesis statement' is right there in the last few songs. The dehumanization of the War Machine, the Industry Machine, and the School Machine; the alienation of falling through the cracks in the thin ice of modern life; these are the things that separate people from one another. The walls we build for self-preservation insulate us from others. And this disconnection makes it possible to hate other people.
The story is completely different if we leave it as the personal and idiosyncratic inner problem of Rock Star Pink. Because so what? Too bad for him. The whole point is how this dehumanization metastasizes, spills out, and even becomes mass-movements. It's problems that exist on a society-wide level that contribute to the numbness, dehumanization, and callousness. And this doesn't just affect isolated individuals, but it spills out onto the streets and fills stadiums.
"I am you and what I see is me." But if you and I are walled off from each other, it becomes bad for all of us. If we end with Comfortably Numb, we go out on a great guitar solo, but the story and the argument is not complete.
Completely agree.
Thank you for this series of videos. I've never taken the time to try & understand the album in its entirety. 🙏
Top drawer reactions. 'The Final Cut' album follows this one and is very under-rated.
Thank you for reviewing the full album. I was going through a rough patch with my family in high school and this album got me through some pretty dark times. You have to listen to it the whole way through. I would listen to the album completely at least once a day. To listen partway makes it a tragedy, to get to the end gives you hope and a reminder that you are not alone. Those dark times were in the late '80s and I still teared up a little.
Hah I wander what it says about me that I only listen to the most depressing parts heheh.
Great Reaction. Giving you a standing ovation. This album is absolutely mind blowing🤯. I understand what you said about the first half and the second half. The whole concept of the thing though is mind blowing that somebody could write this. My favorite albums are Dark Side of The Moon then Animals wish you were here and then of course the Wall. ❤️✌️🌼
The genius concept and writing by Roger Waters
I got more into this album than I have ever done thanks to this brilliant series Syed. thank you so much . It has been a revelation
Really enjoy your reactions mate. One of the best on here.
Animals next? Or perhaps a deep dive into Roger's solo masterpiece "Amused to Death"" - anyway, keep up the good work!
And you've done a fantastic job taking us along for the ride.
Thank you for the personal insight about Brixton and your very spot on analysis.
I think the end part, "Isn't this where we came in?" represents the door he was so desperately looking for when he was trapped inside the wall. He couldn't seem to find it while inside, but now he can see it clearly from the outside. Of course, that lyric is also the at the beginning of the first song, so it almost appears his curiosity leads him back to where he started...which is perhaps reflective of the general symptoms of insanity i.e., repeating a behavior over and over and expecting a different result.
I love this album. I have probably listened to it over 100 times. I had no idea what the Brixton reference was. I really appreciate your take on this album!
Solid analysis on the entire album. Enjoyed your perspective.
Great observations on the song meanings. The album is hypnotizing. Somewhere between part 4 and 5 it looked like you might have a breakdown like Mr. Pink.
Have enjoyed this album for over 40 years, but your analysis has given me a much deeper understanding and appreciation for it. Thank you.
The last part I felt showed the evils of WW2 (where he lost his father) that started this whole life journey. It became him.
And is there a way back from that? Like Dostoyevsky, can the horizon overcome darkness again?
I really enjoyed your analysis of the Wall. I've been listening to this album for more than 30 years and I felt I actually learned something new from your perspective. It's not only a testament to the lasting quality of this work of art, but also your excellent critical thinking skills. Great videos!
Awesome! Great points as usual and 100% agree that the album drags and meanders off where it should go at the end. Run like hell is a great song though.
WISH YOU WERE HERE NEXT.
Hey Pal,
Just wanted to drop by, let you know I really enjoy and appreciate your thoughtful reactions and lastly…many Floyd fans (me being one of them), consider “Animals” their best work.
Here’s hoping you get to it one day. Cheers!
Great reaction/review, Syed! You're one of the best! The track Stop is him realizing how far he's fallen and that needs to come to a conclusion one way or the other. The cell is his space behind the wall, and where he waits as he puts himself on trial to decide whether or not all his issues with school, his mother, his wife, etc are his fault in the end.
Or at least to realize his own agency in how his life is become and there fire realize the hope it can be different
The movie will help your appreciate it even more. The transitions from song to song will make more sense. I saw this at afternoon showing at The Ziegfeld theater in NYC, which has a great sound system. I sat right in the center and was surrounded by it. Awesome. Rock on.
Hey this was such a fun journey to take with you!
dude your album listens/interpretations are my favorite series on youtube. Can't wait til you get to bob dylan
great review
Great analysis
Best reaction to The Wall I have seen so far. You really nailed it! I always thought Waters went a little too far and lost his way during side four. That meandering continued through the next album, The Final Cut. I hope you go back and do a full album review of Wish You Were Here. That is a tight piece of work and is my personal favorite Pink Floyd project. Well done!
I've heard so many wildly different interpretations of this album (since I first began absorbing it in 1982), and it's possible none of them are more correct than the others. I suppose the best works of art always leave room for the viewer/listener to add color and texture from their own life experiences and perspectives, which makes them unique for each individual. I appreciate every interpretation, and yours has been among the most enjoyable, respectful, and intelligent, especially considering how you are attempting to do it on the fly. Great job, sir.
You should do the animals album. Perhaps a more interesting concept album and definitely a much stronger album musically. Three long songs, amazing guitar solos and piano. Singing top notch. Floyds best album. Many fans agree.
Gilmour's voice is the lime wedge to the tequila shot that is Waters' voice. Always better together.
Ha!!
Nice! For me, Gilmour's voice is the buttery satisfying mashed potatoes that perfectly accompany the bark-covered rare steak of Waters.
Fun fact, the very end of The Wall “Isn’t this where… we came in?” is also the very beginning of the album which means that the whole album is loop. Pretty trippy.
I think the "worms" are meant to be just Pink's nazi brainrot that's a symptom of his trauma.
thank you for the full review of the album. now you need to watch the movie.
Great job and interesting interpretation, as far as your better album comment Wish you were here is the best band collaboration album they did after Meddle. You should review WYWH next!
At last someone on RUclips is giving and in-depth educated analysis.
Historian, engineer & child of an immigrant. Explains the depth of your analysis and the joy we experience while you explore and discover. Your content FAR exceeds 99% of what’s out there. “We” need you to hit a million subs. Keep having fun! We are!
In the song The Trial they mention two songs Toys in the Attic from Arosmith which is about losing connection with reality and Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz which is about longing for a better place where dreams come true.
Syed, although I new the story behind the wall....or I think I did, you have torn it right apart and gone right to heart of Roger Water's lyrical story (perhaps his masterpiece) of a person's troubled mind that led to his departure from social life and then blamed for his isolation. You have great insight. More reactions of this nature please.
I'm so sorry your father had to go through that kind of hatred you describe. And I can't thank you enough for taking me back through this album. I've listened to The Wall who knows how many times, but always for the music. I always considered Dark Side and Wish You Were Here were the true masterpieces and somehow looked down on the Wall as great music but a tad commercial. How wrong I was. What an incredible character study, and incisive statement on the nature of facism. People whose dreams and decency have been crushed, just pissed off looking for someone to blame.
Nice reaction and damn you're adorable!!
I took away a couple of great ideas from your 8-part excursion! First, your pointing out the ways his feelings about his father keep popping up, and the idea that everything after Comfortably Number took place inside his head.
The end is a Roger Water's halucination of Pink coming to grips with the Wall and what he has become. It is the culmination of the story but when the album came out we were perplexed at this weird tune, something you would hear in a play rather than the climax of this massive album experience. My views have softened over time, no doubt this is a classic album. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Roger told Joe Rogan that during his last Wall tour, one country (sorry, I've forgotten which) wouldn't allow him to use the local children's choir, as he does for every show, because they believed he is an anti-Semite! If you watch it, and I hope you do, you'll see why he is the absolute opposite of that.
Great review, bro. Nobody on RUclips does what you've just accomplished...top Man!
BTW, back in the day, when the film was debuting, my friends and I all dropped acid on the way to see it!
I think you’re about ready for Close to the Edge now ❤
Everybody gets lost on side 4, man, don't sweat it. lol But you, unlike most other reactors I've seen, got it mostly right. Incredible piece of art.
Brilliant reaction.
Hopefully it's the album "Wish You Were Here"? (think you've only done the title track)
Or the album
"Meddle" which has two instantly recognisable Pink Floyd, "One Of These Days" and the huge track "Echoes" along with "Fearless" & "Pillow of Winds" and finally a fun filler track with guest vocals from Seamus the dog🤣
Syed, I think you are accurate when you say that Comfortably Numb is the last we see of "Pink" as a person, and then we go into his dark fantasy realm. I think the end of the album is necessary to close the loop and show the current state of the artist. I think of Pink's isolation behind his "Wall" as being similar to an addict's journey deeper and deeper into addiction. They say that addicts get to a point where they need more and more of whatever gets them high in order to feel the same high (the body builds up a tolerance) and that's how people come to bad ends with death by accidental overdose. Below is how I see a parallel with Pink starting after Comfortably Numb to the end of the album.
As "Pink" descends further into his own dark fantasies, he latches onto the only thing that's real--which is his stardom. In that fantasy, he transcends being a rock star who can make whole stadiums sing and dance to his music to a political leader who can make a nation "march" to the beat of his own drum. It's a kind of escalation of power over others. And since he doesn't believe he can feel anything any longer, the darkest impulses in him want to inflict pain on others.
At the beginning of the album, we learned his father died in World War II fighting against the rise of fascism in Europe. And in his mad dark fantasies, Pink starts to imagine himself as the very kind of fascist leader that his father's generation fought against. The "Worms" are Pink's imagined hordes of adoring followers, like the mind-numbed masses that are swept up by the rhetoric of populist political leaders on the extreme liberal and conservative wings of politics in England, mainland Europe, and the USA.
Finally, I think with "Stop" and "The Trial," Pink literally scares himself with how dark his fantasies have become, and he realizes that hiding himself away from others behind his Wall was not the right decision after all.
Love this series of reactions, you should watch do the film or the wall concert in berlin 1990 (ita on RUclips) so you can enjoy visualy the stoey of pink
I agree with you about the last few tracks. They do sort of close the story, but didn't quite do it as well as the rest of the album. But it's the Wall, and so what. Still one of the greatest albums of all time. There's the Wall movie which people should check out. It tells the story clearly.
Sayed you mentioned it is like a good novel. A good novel I have read about 80s Brixton is East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatl. I think latterly that The Wall turns into a twisted little fable about government controls as well as everything. But your analisis makes sense. I am reviewing my previous idea of The Wall as a Big Brother 1984 and concept
Very deep!!
All his trauma kind of ate him up and left him a being full of hate, lashing out at anyone he saw, and trying to point his army of fans against anyone he could, until finally he collapsed inside of himself and lay exposed. It's kind of a brilliant story.
This is Deeep stuff. sheeesh. I never realized the lyrics were that deep I always listed to the music & nebver knew what he was saying in some of this.
the outro melody is also the beginning......WHAT A TRIP
PF Animals album next!?? 😁
Lots of references to Orwell's Animal Farm in this gem. 💎 You'll love it!
You definitely need to listen to their album The Final Cut. Especially being a history buff. One of my favorites
My absolute favorite. The emotion rivals no other.
I couldn't have asked for a better review
Yeah, every time I listen to this album I remember it's a masterpiece, and then I get to the end and remember why it's still not in my top 5 PF albums
Also, jsut MO, but I hear the first sound of Industrail and goth music in The Wall, particularly the last side with songs like Waitng For the Worms with Waters's use of vocal distortion and the heavy percussion and darkness of Run Like Hell.
I've been watching this whole series of yours about "The Wall" and in this last video you forgot to turn on the "subtitles" option. Unfortunately, I don't speak English well and subtitles help me a lot.
Brilliant analysis, well done. Zappa's Joe's Garage ends up being played from the imagination of Joe who is in prison with no guitar, music having been made illegal.
Now, that would be worth the same treatment !
I believe you would really enjoy seeing this movie version it really makes things clear.
Though it inexplicably does not have HEY YOU in it, THE WALL movie puts some unforgettable visuals to the music that add tremendous depth of meaning to the story.
It's back to back live action and animated greatness front to back.
I for one would be interested in your reaction to it.
The first time I ever listened to the wall I was doing the same thing I was so fascinated that the album is like a movie or a show of somewhat of roger waters life
When they were filming the riot scene the scene turned into a real riot, this is stone throwing music to be sure
I like very much this songs , the Wall is a puzzle which and is ONLY complete with the Trial , which on the concerts ends with the break of the wall , who was builded in the first half of the concert. Hey You is the opening of second part and the band is no more seen until the end of the Trial. End the album with Confortably numb , and let Run like hell,the trial wating for the worms out out wouldnt BE ok. Of course are not as comercial songs, but very good and absoloutly necessary
I know you do just audio reactions, but it would be interesting for you to react to the film.
Now you get it, the trial reveals all.
🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
100% agree with Syed about his analysis that the album after Comfortably Numb being a downhill slide after the peak.
While I agree that, musically, the album drags following Comfortably Numb, if it did end there there would be no self-confrontation, exposure, and redemption - and the album would be bleak as hell - as a result. I'm not saying that there weren't narrative alternatives, either, but what it really comes down to is the format: it remains incredibly hard to compose a truly solid, beginning to end, double album!
That said, I don’t 7nderstand why a track like, When the Tigers Broke Free and the extended version of What Shall We Do as well as the instrumental Bricks in the Wall (from the live performances) weren’t on the album and in place of other tracks
@@CFCMahomet I'm not sure, either, but it's quite possible that the first two, which would occur before Comfortably Numb, would've been too much for one or both of the sides of vinyl on which they would've appeared, as well as Side 3. As for the instrumental, that may have been developed specifically for the show, maybe to fill time during which some other element of the show was taking place, such as physically building the wall or moving equipment around behind the wall. Just conjecture on my part, though.
May I suggest you turn your attention to Leonard Cohen. I'd suggest starting with "Famous Blue Raincoat", look forward to seeing you work it out, incredibly delicate & beautiful.
I think he would adore Leonard Cohen.
Nice Ending. My first concert was Roger Waters The WALL in Potsdam Platz in Berlin in 1990. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Isn't this where we came in? Outside The Wall is the music that can be faintly heard before In The Flesh, the first track on side one.
The circle is complete
It's impossible for me to describe what it was like at age 18 to see this show live at Earl's Court. I queued up all night for tickets. Twice. To see them literally build a 200 foot wide, 40 foot high, wall during the show, completing it for Gilmour to stand on top of it and slay an extended version of that 2nd solo. That last act is absolutely necessary to the story and the relief and catharsis of the wall coming down and all Pink's friends and band mates milling around, playing acoustic instruments and loving him back to health could not happen without the bitterness and the trial that comes before it. I also like DSOTM better than The Wall (along with WYWH and Animals, actually) but there's no denying the power and achievement of this as a piece of theater and a comment on the human condition. It is, in my opinion, the last of 4 masterpieces by Pink Floyd. Possibly the best run of consecutive albums by any band, ever. Close to the Edge thru Going For the One comes close, though, but that's a story for a different reaction. 🙂
You have to listen to the "wish you were here" album. It's the best one imo.
If you like this, have a listen to Judy Collins "Marat/Sade" from In My Life album. "Pirate Jenny" from that same album is also good. Both songs tell a story in dramatic fashion.
The point of the cycle mention (isnt this where we came in) is that it shows others (the ones who love you) being damaged by the whole incident, giving way to being a block in their own wall. In the movie, it shows kids picking up the pieces of the wall and taking them on, which signifies how one cycle breeds the next