Songs That Changed Music: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt.2
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Pink Floyd began their career as an experimental, psychedelic rock group of the late sixties, but by the seventies the band had shifted directions to progressive, conceptual art rock under the newly assumed leadership of Roger Waters. In 1979, Waters and Pink Floyd would record and release their most ambitious project - a rock opera called The Wall. From the heart of this album came a revolutionary single, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” bringing together progressive grooves and production alongside iconic rock sounds and provocative themes and lyrics, and topped off with a haunting, unforgettable children’s chorus.
“Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” was released as a single on November 23, 1979, a week ahead of the full album on November 30. Guthrie recalls the the decision to release the song as a single: “As the album took shape, ‘Brick 2’ was clearly the best choice for a first single. We were not trying to make it blatantly commercial, just a good groove. But the commerciality of Roger’s chorus hook was already clear on his demo and the school kids certainly helped”. Ezrin, too, was convinced that the song would be a hit single. He explained: “I pushed it through because I knew that it was an undeniable hit song. The band was not interested in singles but that was the culture I came from and so I was determined to make it into one.”
The song hit number 1 on both the UK singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart as well as in several other countries including: Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Portugal, Norway, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Ireland and Canada. And in the top 5 in Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Australia. The response was powerful and lasting, although there was some pushback to the song’s critical lyrics. Water’s recalled: “People were driven to frenzies of rage by the song. They thought that when I said, ‘We don’t need no education,’ that it was a kind of crass, revolutionary standpoint-[but] if you listen to it in context, it clearly isn’t at all.”
Despite this critique, the song’s legacy has extended for decades, as has that of the album. In 1983, the song won a British Academy Award for the Best Original Song for its appearance in the film version of The Wall. And the album was nominated for two 1980 Grammys: “Album of the Year” and “Best Performance by A Duo or Group With Vocal.” Both the song and the album have cemented the band’s legacy as one of the most creative forces in rock music history. In 1996, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2005 they were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
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What other songs do you think changed music? Let me know by commenting below!
This maybe either a great fit for the series or entirely too obvious, but I think "Smoke on the Water" should get an episode. It would be totally meta.
@@dariomeneses5756 Great idea!!
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits was just massive in 1985 - would love to see a deep dive in to that, or anything else from the incredible Brothers In Arms album!
@@dariomeneses5756 What is " meta? "
@@dariomeneses5756 If only for one of the greatest riffs ever made.
Substitute teacher (when I was about 6 or 7) wrote ‘Pink Floyd 1979’ on the blackboard at the start of class. Then he explained who Pink Floyd were and what the Wall was. Then proceeded to teach us this song. After a couple of days rehearsal, he brought the class into the yard to sing it as loud as we could, disrupting all the other classes going on in the school. We all felt so rebellious!
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Best teacher ever! Not even Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society ;)
My headmaster gave a school assembly warning us children about how dangerous this song was. I loved it from the moment I heard it and I still listen so many years later. Thanks Warren.
Haha best way to get kids to be a fan of something is to tell them not to listen to it! Haha
Sounds like a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.
Haha... in 1987 I got a one year studentship in South Africa. On arrival immigration confiscated my CD of the Wall. They also took my Peter Gabriel albums and several copies of VIZ magazine, all deemed as "subversive".
@@musamusashi that would have the year the single was released or soon after. I only remember that 9ne and one about rabies. Funny how memory works!
I was at school when it was played as the music after the bell calling the kids to class - until it was banned
I didn’t realise the irony at the time, but being called to class by “we don’t need no education” was magic while it lasted
This entire album, and the associated film, had what was probably an oversized impact on my life. Two anecdotes come to the mind. The first was my friends laughing at me for crying by the end of of the film. I just... related to it, and it was a vicarious cathartic release.
The second was that it helped me keep my sanity during the basic training. Listened to it every single night once we were allowed personal possessions. It was my own private rebellion in a high pressure system designed to subsume individuality.
It had the same oversized impact on my life! Thanks for your great comment
@@Producelikeapro Here in Australia, my older brother bought back a first pressing vinyl set (1980?) from WEST GERMANY for me to listen to. I literally wore them out. I still have those records and the sleeves.
Still relevant even now. Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
Agreed 100%!
I sang that so much when this came out I had a British accent in preschool…now I’m a teacher. I learned everything about teaching from British rock bands….leave them kids alone and, the kids are all right.
@@louderthangod thanks for sharing
I love this series SO MUCH!!
its go to be big becose off its qualiti. for sur.
@@guttormurthorfinnsson8758 thanks ever so much!
Thanks Colteastwood!
I agree! Great series. Very educational, informative, and inspirational!
@@johncox2552 thanks ever so much!
I’m 54 and my experience of the song as a kid was the same. Everybody sang it in school.
Yes, so amazing!
I think the keyboard progression Rick Wright plays during Gilmour's solo is actually the coolest part of the song. It's also the part most covers tend to fail at.
It's fantastic! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
Our school was divided into dozens of subcultures with divers and almost mutual exclusive musical preferences from Smokey over Van Halen to Cockney Rejects. This one song brought everyone together.
I’m 51 and right there with you about this incredible song, brother.
Yes! Thanks! We had a great time!
the wall cost £5.99 when it came out-i remember because my brother and i clubbed together and bought it for my dad that christmas!(he loved pink floyd)
Nice! Yes, several weeks pocket money for me!
Warren, your reaction is similar to mine in the US. I was 15, bought The Wall with my newspaper money in December 1979. For you youngsters out there, you have no idea just how big Brick Pt. 2 was. In the midst of 1979 albums (Highway to Hell, A Night in the Ruts, Desolation Angels, Dream Police, London Calling, Tusk, Unleashed in the East, Van Halen II and In Through the Out Door), The Wall was everywhere. It was blaring at parties, car stereos, radios, boomboxes and even the first Sony Walkmans, if you could afford one. Today, I proudly display my The Wall album on my music room Wall.
For other "Songs that Changed Music", please consider Jeremy, Fast Car and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.
Thanks ever so much Craig! I really appreciate it!
Bob Ezrin is all over the album. The ultimate producer. Schools Out, Another brick in the Wall. Without Ezrin, the album would never have happened. ✌️🤘🏴☠️🇦🇺
Senior in high school in 1979 and we were blown away. I had been playing keys in bands at that point since 1977 and my mom would drive me to gigs with the The Wall playing in her car stereo, best mom ever. What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the 80’s. Thank you Warren.
Very well said Benjamin! 'What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the '80s' agreed 100%!
Along with Blondie and Queen,, I think that's at least the 3rd band in this series with a Chic-inflienced hit. Nile and Company really don't get their proper credit.
I'm a HUGE Chic fan! Nile has been in many of my videos and will have his own VERY soon!
Even more than that. David Bowie who has been in this series was more than a "little" inflenced by Nile. Bowie used Nile directly.
Nile also produced the SRV-Jimmie Vaughan album "Family Style", a must have for blues fans.
Pink Floyd's The Wall is a masterpiece. Certainly "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" is one of their best tracks. "Comfortably Numb" is also a great track. Thanks for sharing Warren.
As a guy who loves guitarists, David Gilmour always seemed underrated. "Another Brick in The Wall, Pt. 2" is a highlight. But my favorite Gilmour stuff is "Wish You Were Here," especially "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V)"
David Gilmour is very high on my list!
For me Gilmour is one of the best out there, second only to Gary Moore.
@@philmccracken6134 David Gilmour is phenomenal
Dave does his best soloing on Dogs off the Animals album.
Distinctly different solos all 3.
Gilmour was not the guitarist who performed the solo on ptII. That honor belongs to Lee Ritenour who is not credited.
Sadly, Gilmour does not vocalize that this amazing solo was not his.
We in the GDR had nothing. But we had great music. However, that didn't matter to my parents. We listened to the radio from the FRG.
And me? I was like Freddy Mercury singing years later in "Radio Ga-Ga": "I'd sit alone and watch your light / My only friend through teenage nights / And everything I had to know / I heard it on my radio"
But there was this one song that I once heard secretly in the dark. It was already late, only the lighted scale on the radio was on. After that I had restless nights for ages. I had no idea what the song was called. But it was dark, dangerous, evil. My goodness!
"Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" has such a special magic for me to this day. I know of few songs that had such a strong impact on me. I think I was almost most shocked by the deep, rumbling bass in the background. I was even more shocked at the age of 6 or 7 by the fact that there were children singing such an evil melody.
At an age when you know children's songs, such an experience is formative. I think it's fair to say that I was afraid of the song for a while. And it touches me enormously deeply to this day. At that time, of course, I had no idea what the song was about. That has changed. What remains is this very special magic of one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
Thanks ever so much for your great comment! Yes, I have alto of East German friends and they tell me similar stories! One says he would tape songs off of West German Radio and trade them at School with friends. Thanks for sharing Henning!
You brought the story to life
Thanks ever so much!!
Yeah Warren, right there with you, man. As a child of the 70s and 80s The Wall was transformative!
Thanks ever so much Wes! I really appreciate it!
A long interview of Bob Ezrin would be awesome. He's produced so many of the records I love.
Ab-so-bleeding-loot-lee!
I was also a kid. I also saw them do the wall in Earls court. I ran 3 miles home to get money and then 3 miles back to the record shop that was arranging a coach trip and gig package. I too get goose bumps about the gig. Especially Gilmour on top of the wall playing comfortably numb with a huge shadow stretching across the arena. I'm not the biggest Floyd fan these days but that was a seminal moment in my musical life.
In The Flesh still gets me - what a powerful opening song!
Masterpiece
A true story.
A couple of years back I was riding a bus home from somewhere...and the driver had his Playlist of songs on loud. Loud enough to entertain all the folks riding on his line.
Another Brick Pt 2 came on, and I was determined. I started singing along with the lyrics, people started looking around like what the heck? And sure enough. When the kids choir part started up, I had the whole bus load of passengers singing... "WE DON'T NEED NO EDKCATION..." and they actually SHOUTED "HEY TEACHER...LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!!"" I laughed my ass off about it as wall as a bunch of other folks who "GOT IT."
the driver decided he needed to turn down the music after that. LOL!
Haha amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I’ll never forget it either… I was in 7th grade in a wealthy suburb of Long Island, NY and every single kid I knew had the album. So inventive and an instant classic! 🎸🥁👏🏼 Good one, Warren.
Thanks ever so much Elise!
Warren - it was this album that put the guitar into my hands and pulled me from the darkest period in my life: the loss of my 14 yr old sister, when I was 16. I mean, it was 1992 and this album had already been out for several years but inexplicably off my radar until after her death. At the time, I had no idea that the record was 'autobiographical' for any one of the members of the band and, at the time, I don't think I even knew any of their names. All I knew is that the song "Is There Anybody Out There?" would 'speak to me' (no pun) in a way that music really hadn't previously. When I got my hands on an acoustic guitar, I tried (not very successfully) to emulate that tune and through that effort - it managed to shelve the turmoil I was dealing with temporarily. I really am truly and personally grateful for this record.
Thank you so much for making this video. How cool it must have been to meet THE Bob Ezrin.
Cheers!
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Pink Floyd ! GREAT !!! There would be no music for me without their fabulous albums .... we would be missing something and we wouldn't don't know what ...The Wall , of course , the album and the film ...no comment ...HUGE ....Great Song ...
And , of course ,a great video !...like we are used to get from you . Thank you !
Pink Floyd will always have my respect.
Thank you for giving this story about the group and their great music.
Thanks ever so much!
Iconic tune for sure, I too went to that Leicester Square showing, marvellous show,the first time I'd seen a standing ovation at a cinema movie,the whole house was on its feet..
Fantastic! Yes, it was so amazing wasn’t it?
@@Producelikeapro absolutely ⭐
Guitarists who changed music - Wilko Johnson please. The man is a legend; the only things we share are a love of Teles and a Cancer diagnosis, talent wise we're world's apart but gotta love him.
HUGE Wilko fan!!
In 1979 when the LP came out, I was working in audio post in midtown Manhattan. A few years later when the film debuted, I was in London on my honeymoon and we went to a showing at a cinema on Fulham Road in West London. Years later, my son (who must have been about 10 years old) and I watched the film on television and it absolutely blew the hair off the top of his head. Great stuff... and yeah, the Nile Rodgers-style lick was an inspired suggestion by Ezrin.
I remember going to day camp in the summer of 1980; the summer I turned 11. Every single day that whole summer, all of us on the camp bus would sing together at the top of our collective lungs, "We don't need no education…!" It was our anthem that entire summer.
A few years later, when I was in high school, I had a very obnoxious and opinionated teacher who I wasn't too fond of and who often would go on rants about how much he hated the song. That made me love the song even more and inspired me to finally go out and buy the album as a big F-U to him. (I probably would have bought it anyway, as I had become a big Floyd fan by then.)
Haha I hear you with the obnoxious teacher!!
I was 16 when The Wall was released. To say it was huge would be an understatement. My favorites from the album are Hey You, Just One of My Turns, and of course the amazing Comfortably Numb.
All great songs indeed!
I'm a fan too! I put Pink Floyd with the Beatles as standard bearers of creativity and quality of production. I'm a little older than you but I remember playing Floyd on my Granpa's tube HiFi with 15" speakers. WOW! To me, it was the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Yes, Queen, Bowie, Alice Cooper and Lou Reed soon followed. I saw the Wall concert at the time and it was a mind blower. The album was so successful for so long that I burned out and pivoted to punk and it's offshoots. It's been fun to reconnect. I envy youngsters of today who get to discover this music for the first time with fresh ears. Thanks, Mr. Huart for sharing this music (and context) with a broader audience.
That's probably the best electric bass line ever (sound wise too), the real foundation of the song
Agreed 100%!
Here's another fan. I must have played that album a thousand times. I can dream the movie. That huge film poster on my bedroom wall. Concerts..., Pink Floyd meant a lot for me. Still does actually. ❤️
I was 9 when this came out and I thought it was so unique and it was the mantra of the day.
That’s my exact experience
Oh wow! I'll never forget how I first heard this song: kids chanting "We don't need no education!" in the locker room in 1979!
I remember that first time I heard it as well!
Honestly, the majority of The Wall is great
I love the whole album! It's a masterpiece!
Warren your fire for this song shows and I dig it!
Thanks Johannes!
One of the first rock songs that changed my life.. in Argentina this song and the movie were banned by the military goverment. I knew the song in 1984, after dictatorship was over, I heard The Wall album all day long in high school (recorded in a cheap cassette tape), in the 80s..thanks for this great video!! you did it again!
I play in a Chic and Nile Rodgers tribute band, I didn’t realise that pink floyd had been influenced by Chic and Nile. Amazing 🤩 keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing!
I was an English schoolboy punk when this: came out. I thought it was naff and didn't take it seriously. All these years later Pink Floyd are one of favourite bands.
Fantastic!!
I had a friend who's aunt got an advanced copy of this .. she worked for Atlantic I think it was (Ar person) .. blew my mind then .. but in todays world .. blows my mind even more .. was really something hearing this before others did ..as a kid
Fantastic! Yes, this whole album still sounds so current! Incredible production
This REVOLUTIONARY song spoke to me as a ten year old boy. Thank you for this video!
There is another revolutionary song from 1979 that in retrospect made history as the first Lovers Reggae Hit song: Silly Games by Janet Kay. Deserves a video as songs that changed music!
Peace.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
This was the song that hooked me onto pink floyd in 79, I'm still hooked.
I hear you!!
They played this album at every party for 10 years after it came out.
And so they should…still! I listen all the time! Absolute masterpiece
I was in my late teens playing in a cover band when this was a hit . . . I had to learn that cool guitar part, loved playing it! It was a huge hit in South Africa and carried a real protest message, it hit home big time. Classic!
I'm 34. My first memories I remember having are with my dad in his woodworking shop as a really young kid, maybe a baby. My mom worked late nights so Dad watched me while woodworking at the same time. Dad made my brother and I these tiny wooden fake guitars to play air guitar along with is Pink Floyd collection while he played air guitar with his tape measure. I couldn't even talk at the time, but I knew I wanted to play music even if I didn't fully understand what it was.
I was 15 when this came out and me and my father couldn’t talk about anything without fighting except Pink Floyd. When I got the album we poured over every detail and I worked on my keyboard to learn the licks. It’s ironic Roger Waters brought me and my father together with an album about a missing father. I saw the show with him at Madison Square Garden it’s one of the greatest memories of my youth !!!!!!!!!
Wow! Thanks ever so much Gilbert for sharing!! I really appreciate it!
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan. Even though this is one of my least favourite of their songs, I can't wait to watch the vid later this evening. I'm sure it will be excellent as all others in the series are! Thanks Warren!
Thanks Jorgos for sharing!
I love how Warren can't hide his absolute love for this song and album. He gets all hyped up speaking about it! Being my favorite album EVER I can relate to that feel very much. I use to say to my friends "Don't get me started on Pink Floyd The Wall" cause I get all excited analyzing and discussing its music, lyrics and visuals. What a great album it is.
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
You and Rick Beato make these tunes so interesting by dissecting the songs.
Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan and this is one of my all-time favorite albums. I have to tell you that I love this series Warren.
I always learn something new musically.
I never knew how Pink Floyd got their name, so this one is quite interesting for me. In your classic words, "Thank you ever so much for your 'marvelously wonderful' videos. 🙏Peace ☯
Thanks ever so much for your kind words!
An epic album for a whole generation around the world at a time when internet did not exist and english was, all in all, a poorly understood language outside the commonwealth: isn't that an incredible thing in itself?!? Hats off to PF!
I bought the album as soon as it came out and I was blown away, like everyone I knew. One of my classmates was at their first The Wall show at Earls Court and I wasn't in the UK, I was so jealous!! In retrospective, The Wall the album is not by far my fav Pink Floyd album but Another Brick and Comfortably Numb I couldn't do without, definitely. Thx Warren !
Yes, absolutely wonderful comment! Huge fan of the album, the show, the movie haha all of it
@@Producelikeapro The movie was extraordinary, still is even by today's standards imho... cheers Warren, a Pink Floyd fan salutes you from Geneva
@@Steedonline thanks ever so much!
Still got my tour program from Earls Court and yes my school wasn't any different - Ants vs Two Tone stand-offs in the playground not realising in a couple of months the synth revolution in pop music would blow them all away. And change music production forever.
Amazing! Every kid learned how to tap out Antmusic with their pencils on the desk! Haha
@@Producelikeapro And unison beating out Kings of the Wild Frontier on crash mats in the gym.
OMG! I saw The Wall concert.....at Earls' Court..and saw the film at Leicester Square too!...and I was sharing the exact same excitement as you!...thanks Warren for this excellent breakdown/analysis...just SUPER!..your passion and enthusiasm..with your knowledge....and your SHARING of this ....is wonderful...thanks so much..Tear down the Wall!
Thanks for sharing!! Wow! That’s amazing! Both incredible experiences
Brilliant video about a wonderful song, still sounds so groovy today. As a Scotsman I would like to point out that not all Scottish school teachers are psychopaths like the dude we hear shouting at the end of this song. Probably no more than 98%.
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it! Haha thanks for the insight on School Teachers!
I love when someone can appreciate music this much! I feel like sometimes people think i'm weird when i talk passionately about pink floyd or any other music that just speaks to me
I completely understand!!
I was in 1st grade in Tennessee, and WSKZ played almost every morning as we got off the bus as school.
been waiting for pink floyd, this is genuinely my favourite series on youtube
Wow! Thanks ever so much
A reminder of just how good the music and bands were in this period. An album like The Wall would never get made today. Great insight into how this fabulous track was created. Thanks.
Hi Paul, it made get made! It just may never be heard by such a huge audience! Ultimately the songs 'Another Brick In The Wall Pt2' and 'Comfortably Numb' are bastions of incredible songwriting and production, I would welcome such incredible songwriting now!
We were just as excited about this song across the pond here in the United States. Your enthusiasm is well placed.
Great to hear!
Great to hear!
In Brazil people would sing the song without knowing the lyrics, just the feeling of screaming "hey teacher" was great
Thanks for sharing!
Pink Floyd is my favourite band and David Gilmour is my favourite guitarist. My favourite Floyd song happens to be Sorrow.
Thanks ever so much for sharing
@@Producelikeapro I know that Sorrow is not considered a classic Floyd song but would you do an episode on the recoding of this track?
I read somewhere that they recorded some of the guitar parts at the LA Sports Arena. Also they used both analog and digital to record the album.
I love Foyd, I love this series, I love this channel.
Thank you very much Warren!
Thanks ever so much George!!
That guitar solo is just fantastic
Brilliant tear-down, as always. Just wanted to point out that Roger tuned the 4th string of the bass down so it’s a drop-D. It’s a brilliant move that gives some gorgeous richness to the bottom-end. When he played the octave in the riff it really shook, and his Fender Precison has such great sustain - leaves some wonderful well-judged spaces (I’m a bass player btw!)
I remember it just as you described Warren. I'm from a housing scheme in Glasgow & you can just imagine the 'blunt' smoking lads blasting this song /album for many years over ghetto blasters (yes im that old) and in bedrooms via uncles & friends big brothers... I know I sound 100 years old but young peeps just can't imagine what ALL that music was like (when rock, pop, motown, reggae folk & country ruled along side disco).. 🌎🕺 Maybe soon were due a Talking Heads (SMS) vid? Cheers mate..
Warren... The busiest man on RUclips. I went to the toilet, came back and three new videos! FLOYD, my favourite band and architects of my favourite album. DOSOM. Nice work Mr. Huart!
Haha thanks ever so much!
The Wall changed me. I had never been so introspective before that. In 1984 I would be taking the bus to collage and it was a long boring trip every day. Most days I would sing to myself the entire album, double album, there and back to school. I knew every song, lead, and bit in between.
Thank you. (BTW, my Dad saw the album and it's art and had heard things about it and was concerned so he listened to it to better understand what his son was being influenced by. He was instantly as big a fan as I was and to this day drops everything when Gilmour plays on TV.)
Agreed Loren, such an important album!! Thanks for your great comment
For more contemporary context and how this song almost didn’t get onto radio at all due to a power struggle with label executives and radio pluggers, read the beginning of an awesome book called Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business. Fascinating stuff.
Yes, this is Gen X stuff. I was also impressed by the song and the album. I was tagging the cover art wherever I could. I was so impressed by the font and the background with bricks. When I look back the link to Chic and the funky guitar playing is what made the song so important to me, like Good Times/Rapper’s Delight, Le Freak or Sex Machine did it when my parents had their discotheques in Germany in the 70s.
Our 8th grade class sang this impromptu to our teachers in 1988 at the final dance of our class. One teacher was crying. I’m not sure if she was upset about us singing the lyrics at her or if she was going to miss us. Lol I still know her today and she’s pretty anti-establishment. I’m hoping it was the latter. :-) Yep. This song caused a ruckus even 8 years after it came out.
This is a great snapshot into the key people and influences behind album and how it captured the imagination of a generation.
Thanks ever so much
Thanks for that vid. Pink Floyd is one of the goat bands if not the one. debatably. The wall is timeless masterpiece album that each generation can connect to, but its only one of many timeless albums of the band. As child I ear my father listening to them as teenager i listening to them and now my kids listening to them. its extremely rear that a band is crossed generational loved like that ,and its a strong sign of their greatness
What a great albom and songs!!!
And not forgeting Comfortably Numb.
What a great song, and imortal guitar solo.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks ever so much! Agreed, the album is a masterpiece!
daves solos embiggen every song. the guy is a genius.
Wonderful guitar player!
Greatest school music teacher ever
Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much
So glad that Pink Floyd and their management gave you permission to review the song. Amazingly, some artists (e.g. The Eagles) fail to understand how it can make their music known to another generation.
This album is an absolute masterpiece! Thanks Donald!
I wasn't a Floyd fan when this album first came out (I was a Who and Clash fan at that time), though I definitely became a fan. I remember sitting in Mr. Hill's grade 9 math class at HD Stafford Junior Highschool in Langley, BC (a fairly conservative area of the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver), listening to the whole record. For whatever reason, Mr. Hill allowed the class to listen to music one day and someone brought in this new double album. It seems like a very dark record for a class of grade 9's, but those were different days then.
Good Lord,… that is a gorgeous Strat!!!!
I do love it!
The first single i ever owned. Well, my sister bought me this and Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush at the same time.
Thanks, Sis.
Your sister rules!
My favorite band! Man, when I learned to play the guitar, I sat next to my casette player and I figured out their songs by listening to them...what a good times!
Great times indeed!
Yup, I was 10 and was similarly blown away - Pink Floyd have gone punk-mad-opera!!!! And I'm so proud that my kids know all the words too (that's the whole album, btw).
However I think that taking your first girlfriend to see it at the movies was probably not the romantic winner you were hoping for. Excellent review as per usual - we're all fans!!
Haha she took me! She was older!
When the song goes to the G chord, there’s a second funky guitar that does syncopated hits and it such a cool effect hearing it next to the first guitar that’s just strumming that G chord steadily.
I started high school when it was in the charts. A double album in 1980 would be around £7 GBP. I saw the film at the cinema too.
Fantastic!! Thanks for remembering the price!
I remember as a kid being in the PX(Post Exchange), I lived on an Army Base., being in the record section and seeing all the "new releases" shelves. I remember seeing The Wall, Back in Black, Glass Houses, Double Fantasy, Hi Infidelity, The Game, and Crimes of Passion. I remember trying to save my paper route money so I could by an album a month. I always tried to save up enough to buy the Wall but because it was a double album it was more expensive. This was one of the first albums that turned me into a Prog Rock fan. Thanks so much
It was also regularly played on r&b stations in the Chicago area as well. Well done!
That's great to hear!
Pink had such an impact on my life, coming to the USA from Latin America right in 1979, here was this incredible sound, unique, compelling, insightful in every way... But the record that first blew my mind, was dark side of the moon, which first made a profound mark in my mind. I remember everybody at the school also, singing the wall.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Also for me The Wall had a huge impact on me. So many themes were relatable and helped me realise what was going on in my youthful mind and life. It was the first album that had me scrutinise the lyrics and made me aware that they could be as important as the music. Deciphering the bad handwriting on the sleeves was quite difficult and as a kind of zen exercise I meticulously copied the lyrics by typing them out and restart every time I made a mistake (on a mechanical typewriter, no word processors in those days). I went to see the original Wall tour in Dortmund, Germany. When the movie came out I went to see it three times in a week. There was so much going on in it that I could not grasp all of it in one time. This video brought back a lot of memories after all those years and thank you for that.
This is such a tasty snack about one of the most influential LP in history, thank you Warren!
Thanks Ady! You Rock!
that opening split clip on the right was from live at Pompeii. That was itself a monumental task playing live to an audience that didnt exist. I saw the movie in the theatre decades ago and a few times during the covid lockdown and it made weird sense and held value
Pink Floyd music was a weekend favourite at the Vancouver Planetarium lasarium. I prefered Darkside of the Moon but they did the wall, the animations, laser and all
A favourite floyd chord, like a d minor with a c# is on the most classic floyd songs, Breath for instance
For myself to be centered to play floyd I have to know that ghostly chord and associated scales
I'm glad we will always have songs and albums like this. Quite an experience to have actually lived through 6 decades of music, seeing it go from eternally memorable to, now, instantly forgettable...nothing to do with taste differences, everything to do with the almost total absence of quality and - the 'human touch'..!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
So much insane history behind this, I love it!
Yes! Love this song and album!
I was 4 years old. I remember the video on Top of the Pops.
A defining moment in my childhood.
I wasn't old enough to buy records yet but my uncle had the gatefold album, which just fascinated me.
One of my favourite albums, that isn't a Queen album.
Me too! It was so powerful to us as kids!
Greatest. Album. Ever. 🖤
Marvellous! One of my favourite albums of all time!
I recall the time well, including the Melody Maker review that pointed out the line "there were Certain teachers..." The song that opened my ears to the huge possibilities in modern music when I was a teen was "Hocus Pocus" and the album "Moving Waves" from Focus. (Also the 1st of many records I bought on the Sire label.)
Wonder what it's like to be one of the kids who got to go on a field trip to the studio, spend a half hour singing, and end up part of a timeless rock classic. Someone's grandkids are sick of hearing this story whenever the song comes on the radio.