Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces/Young Lust (REACTION)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- @AirplayBeats reacts to Pink Floyd - The Wall
Like comment and subscribe
patreon.com/user?u=81569817
Airplay Beats
3609 Bradshaw Rd Ste H #337
Sacramento, CA 95827
Www.Airplaybeats.com
We had to upload piece by piece due to RUclips blocking the full video.
Maybe we need some Cool And The Gang (Celebrate Good Times come on! Orange Boy Perk Walk Day). But Pink Floyd The Wall is amazing beginning to end. Both for Syd and musically. In the vein of The Who's Tommy, it wasn't trying to be commercially appealing. They went into the studio to make a statement.
So the person who went to war was Roger Waters' dad, where he was killed...and which was "another brick" in his wall. The wall represents Waters' limitations; all the things that screwed him up. Other bricks in his wall include his overbearing mother, his drug use, his own racism, etc. PS. Sactown here. Great channel.
Pink never went to war. Pink is essentially part Roger and part Syd Barrett. Roger lost his father in WWII. This began the building the wall around him that culminated in Roger spitting on a fanbduring a concert and Syd having a mental breakdown. The dirty woman is a groupie. But also pretty much what his mother considered any woman he dated.
Don’t want to spoil anything, but to avoid confusion, Pink did not go to war. It was his father. He is a rock star, and this is while on tour.
Fun fact, that's an actual operator at the end who had no idea they were making an album, and was genuinely concerned that someone at Mr Floyd's house kept answering and hanging up while she was trying to complete a collect call to his wife.
That's funny. Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing 😊
I heard they had to call a bunch of different operators to find the voice they liked
I heard that a long time ago. Still a classic ❤
"There must be someone there besides your wife.... And it's a man answering..."
I've always wondered if the actual operator was ever told that she was the unwitting victim of such a well-known prank on such a famous album. Or if she ever got paid or if so, how much? I know the kids who sang in ABITW2 only got a pitifully-small amount of money, but later on, after the parents bitched, they paid them more.
The story goes like this: Pink, is a fictional rock star who, throughout his life experiences trauma and sadness, and has built a proverbial “wall” to hide from the world. The parts of the story that talk about war, was Pink’s dad going off to fight in WWII. This, among his strained relationship with his mother, his experiences in school, and disappointment with his life, in general, led to Pink building a “wall”, thus “Just Another Brick In The Wall”. Comfortably Numb is about Pink using drugs to numb the pain. The story culminates with the wall coming crashing down and Pink losing his mind. I truly believe this entire concept is loosely based on Syd Barrett, a former member of the band, early on. Syd essentially did so much LSD that he lost his mind! The story goes, that while recording the Animals album, Syd, who had been out of the band for years, showed up at the studio, and the members didn’t recognize him at first. Story goes that once they realized who he was, that several members of the band weeped with sadness. I always have believed that this album was written by Roger Waters about Syd..
Excellent summary. With concept albums, a general understanding of the story outline is helpful, but many of us have had 44 years of digesting this album. Certainly one of the best concept albums. The movie is also very good.
@Doomsday - Great summation! I think when the wall comes crashing down at the end, though, Pink broke down the barrier and began an attempt to put the pieces of his life back together. The reason I think that's the case is the cyclical feel to the album (... where we came in?), and the quasi-hopeful lyrics/message to Outside the Wall. It's just my interpretation though and you could very well be right on him losing his mind at the end. I believe the album is inspired by both Syd and Roger's experiences to make up what Roger felt at the time was the hybrid face of Pink Floyd. Which I disagree with because it's the sum of the parts, imo.
Also, Syd wandered in during the recording for Shine On during the Wish You Were Here album, not Animals. Cheers, man!
Excellent description
@@ianfortier6796 my fault, I always get them confused. You are correct, I went back and looked, and I stand corrected! 👊🏼👊🏼 You may be spot on with the interpretation, and that’s what I love about great music, and art in general. It is often left to the viewer, or listeners, interpretation! I think hope is always within any darkness, and that’s the point of the end of the album. THAT, and maybe they were saying, “Aren’t we ALL a little mad?”🤔
Yes but a lot of this was Roger writing about his own life (war, his dad, his mom, wanting a "wall" between him and others) how he was feeling at the time.
Best transition on the album. Seamless
funk, soul, folk, jazz, pop, rock?? what is this? its everything
"Young Lust" might be their most rockin song.....
naaaaaaaaaaaaaa............listen to The Nile song
@@user-zh2ey5og9e Song was horrible..!
Drumming was great...!
Was that Mason...?
Was Mason ofc. From 1967 till the end. @@2869may
ofc Mason was, the one and only from the beggining till the end, as Waters, Right @@2869may
Keep in mind about this album, when they reference war, they're speaking of WWII. "Pink" lost his father when he was a child to that war. England was being bombed during that time. Hence the child talking to his mother about the planes up in the sky. The blue sky turned black with planes.
The album resembles a movie that goes back and forth in time. One moment he's a child being traumatized by living in bomb shelters and the next thing you know he's back to being a rockstar in deep pain and looking for some relief from sex and drugs.
And shout out to Rick Wright for the ability to always set the mood no matter where the band is going. RIP, sir.
The soldier who went to war, was Pink's (Roger's) father, and he DIED there. The death of his father is what starts the Wall going up. This is from Google: "Eric Fletcher Waters died in 1944 while serving as a second lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers as they advanced through Italy. Earlier this year, his son Roger made an emotional journey to visit the battlefield where his father was killed along with thousands of other Allied troops"
My late husband was a Nam vet. It wasn’t til the 80s that he could talk about it😥
In the movie, when the song Young Lust comes in, its a groupie invited to spend some time with Pink a rock star who had lost his father in WWII.
I served 20 years in the military and yeah this song is a favorite of GIs from my generation.
I so wish I could hear all this for the first time again. My older brother used to play this on record over & over when I was a toddler ❤❤
The start is a touch reminiscent of "Welcome To The Machine" from 1975's "Wish You Were Here". Which kind of makes sense since the album "The Wall" is one big Welcome To The Machine. The machine that is Roger Waters' mind and thoughts and views on society. A society that hasn't gone better in the fourty-four years since the album was released. You also have to keep in mind that in 1948, when the London Olympics were going on, people still had to stand amidst the ruins to wait in line with food-stamps to get groceries. In '48, thanks to the Marshall Plan, Germany was already back on its feet. Cheerio lads, thanks for your insightful and sharp reactions.
Ahhh! The Cosmic Blues of Pink Floyd. My favorite song of theirs.
Remember when the radio used to play these tracks?
floyd knew how to soundscape behind the music, what an album ! never gets old . there is no substitute for class .
That failed phone call to his wife is important context for the next song.
My profile pic 👈 is from the Empty Spaces part of the movie. I also have it tattooed on my arm. It's my favorite of my Pink Floyd tattoos. 🙂🌈💗✌🏽
I remember listening to this album over and over for months when it was released, and understood perhaps 65%-75% of it. It wasn't until I saw the movie that I finally got it, and gave me a new appreciation for it. It's a thing of beauty.
Empty spaces flowing into young lust is a great example of their contrasting vocals. Rogers vocals dripping with emotion followed by Dave's vocals on young lust which are definitely more rock oriented. You will not hear a better example of how different but complimentary their styles are. Young lust is about our protagonist Pink and how when he tours the US he would find young women to entertain himself. Separated from his wife, who from the phone call is clearly not faithful either, anonymous physical relationships fill the void inside temporarily but as he soon finds out it is fleeting in its effect
I still can't believe that a lot of people can't tell the difference between their voices, it's so obvious.
(7:00) I think some of the artists you mention sing/speak about war the way they do because they all had parents who experienced WWII and they lived in a still recovering England. I'm sure they saw the war's aftermath every day, especially as children.
My favorite Pink Floyd song... great guitar grove.
Gilmour's guitar in the background for the most part until he jams .
This CD is still in my Bose CD player ❤
Thanks for going through the painstaking upload process to comply and keep from getting blocked. I wish you guys could keep this album going thru to the end! Great reaction. They nailed this live live and it’s delivered in a theatrical manner.
My favorite Pink Floyd tune Young Lust
Nice back masking at the beginning courtesy of ol' Rog....
I'm amazed at how many reaction channels will hit "Hey You" and "Run Like Hell" but miss "Young Lust" completely.
EDIT: "Congratulations. You've just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont." ...in case you hadn't heard what it says.
"Young Lust" is a blues-inflected hard rock number in E minor, approximately three minutes, 25 seconds in length. Lead vocals are sung by David Gilmour, with background vocals from Roger Waters during the chorus. The lyrics are about a "rock-and-roll refugee" seeking casual sex to relieve the tedium of touring. It's one of few Pink Floyd songs in which Gilmour plays bass guitar and one of three songs Gilmour co-wrote for The Wall. On the album, the preceding song, "Empty Spaces," ends with an abrupt transition into "Young Lust."
Awesome pick it is a very underrated song to me ❤ thanks 👍😎🍾🔥
To me, this is brilliant piece of music and kicks ass too!
Gotta watch the movie to see what's happnin' during this tune...
The war that is referred to in this story is WWII... the main character did not go to war, part of his trauma was caused by the fact that the war took his father from him, when he was still a child, which led to his mother's overprotectiveness, which led to her indoctrinating all her doubts and fears into him, etc...
fun fact... the vocal that is in reverse just before the main vocal starts , when played the right way says....... " congratulations you have just discovered a secret message please send your answer to old pink care of the funny farm chelmsford " . all my best to you and yours from Liverpool
Superb. 🎶❤️🎶
This is one of the beat parts of the movie. The animation for this song is crazy. Also, the song is different
yall do a great job! It was his father who was killed in the war who he never knew,
The originally-intended song line-up for this side of the album had to be altered for the final album because of time constraints on how much music could fit on one side of an album. In fact, the original copies of the LP had the originally-intended song line-up complete with lyrics listed on record 1's record sleeve rather than the line-up they had to use in the end. In fact, if you listen to any live renditions they've done of the album, they actually perform it the way they had wanted to in the first place. The first deviation from the line-up Roger had wanted was in Empty Spaces. It was originally supposed to be What Shall We Do Now instead, with Empty Spaces appearing later along with a short medley of already-visited musical themes just before Goodbye Cruel World.
This is the coolest thing to watch live! It has a plant that it is growing and it pulsates on the wall! Nothing like it ever! It’s only on the live wall tour. The movie this is animated and is WICKED BAD ASS!
The sound of David Gilmour's guitar on that solo is exactly what it's supposed to sound like. My air guitar is just like that. ✌️🙂
David Gilmour is the 'sound' of Pink Floyd. You need to listen to his solo albums and you'll love them, I promise
Can't wait til you guys watch the movie.
Pink Floyd tells the story in between story!!
Love you guys
When you guys watch the movie, the lightbulb will go off.
Played backwards he says "Congratulations! You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answers to Old Pink in care of the funny farm." It's right before he starts singing Empty Spaces.
Yes! Keep the Pink Floyd train running. Thanks gentlemen 😊
You guys really need to watch the movie PINK FLOYD THE WALL!!!! It will really make you understand the real concept of this album. Its sooooo good!
Now a famous musician, he’s in the US trying to get ahold of his wife in the UK (and a guy is answering the phone and hanging up)
Back from the war? Pink didn't go to war. His father died in WW2.
@@keithandersonbrady5026 you’re right. His dad being gone was like the first 1/3 of the album lol
A lot of the rock stars of that era were children of world war two
“We built our walls up so high we reaching new heights over here” -Mick Jenkins Scottie Pippen
Rodger Waters was interviewed on an L.A. radio show when this Album came out. Yes, album. He explained it song by song and I tapped it but of course can't find it now. But they actually called the UK and recorded the phone call. That is a real phone operator. The guy on the other end was told to hang up. The phone operator's reaction was so good the asked if they could use it for the movie/ album
Many of the sound fx were Gilmour on guitar and Waters. They hate each other now but their best stuff was this. Gilmour musical director and Rog concept and lyrics
you really must watch the film . it will explain a lot more
You gents will need to do a reaction set of you watching your reactions after you watch the movie. It will all make sense :)
You guys really need to watch the movie. The visuals will blow your mind and also make the story make more sense
Its a cool movie but the visuals are by no means mind-blowing. Some nice animation and thats about it. THe stargate sequence in 2001 is trippier than anything in The Wall movie
Oh and YL is one of the best guitar solos to play on electric and they used a riff from that much much later live ❤🎉
You should listen to the soundtrack version with all the cut tracks etc
you guys really need to watch the movie!!
Just to reiterate what a hundred people have probably already said, he’s a rockstar on tour, not a soldier in a war zone; a “rock and roll refugee”as it were. The man answering the telephone when he calls his wife in England from the United States is someone she is seeing outside of the marriage.
I can't stop the movie playing in my head
Roger's father died in WWII, and his grandfather in WWI. The band members were young kids during the bombing of England in WWII.
You have to watch the movie... The Wall to really understand this album...it great
Guys, see the film. The Wall.
Would love to see your reactions to the movie.
Hi guys, your last two reactions seem to have been cut short. Thanks for playing prog rock!
God I love this album!
You're absolutely killing these interpretations on these reactions.......subscribed
They did not go to war but they were/are that generation who grew up during WWII.
As little kids they saw the falling bombs and the frightened ones.
Maybe this explains the evolution of Rock music and that specific sounds and lyrics of all those U.K. bands and the feelings they transport. The US bands for example went later through that Vietnam trauma as young men and that created a different sound with different lyrics and different feelings.
And don't let us forget the German Rock sound (Krautrock) with the experiences of a generation who also grew up during war and as little kids they saw falling bombs and frightened ones too on one side but were the children of the guilty ones. Whose parent generation had done all those terrible things what made them revolt as young men. That's why the sound of many German bands was even more aggressive and the lyrics even more delusional, even sometimes more mechanical and cold. Unfortunately many of them were not really able to express their feelings in proper English in a lyrical sense.
But If you are interested, check out bands like Amon Düül II, Can, Jane or Lucifer's Friend and you might understand what I mean.
All of the war references and sounds have to do with his dad having been killed in WWII (flashbacks). The only war Pink is dealing with is in his head while on tour as a rockstar in the United States. The "dirty woman" is just a fan/groupie.
The war he is referring to is WWII where his father died... It is broadly about growing up in a broken post-WWII England, after the Nazi bombings, with no father and an overprotective mother, wounds not so easily healed, lost empire, etc...
Here is the real meaning.....
Song Facts;
"Young Lust" is about the sometimes grotesque lifestyle of rock stars and their love lives (or lack thereof). It's part of the concept album The Wall, which follows a troubled rock star named Pink. In the song, Pink's libido has full control; he shows up in a city and immediately seeks out a "dirty girl" for a good time. The song is in some ways a satire of the sex and rock n' roll clichés so common in '70s rock. Pink Floyd found more cerebral subject matter for their songs.
At the end of the song we hear a phone call connected by an operator. It's a collect call from America to England "for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd." Instead of Mrs. Floyd, a man answers and hangs up. They try again and again the man answers, leaving the operator to break the bad news to Mr. Floyd: "It's a man answering."
The phone call represents Pink's attempt to contact his wife, only to find her having an affair of her own.
The call was real. James Guthrie, an engineer on the album, was working in Los Angeles and placed the call to his friend in London. He recorded it, so that's a real American operator, not an actress. It's a rare case of a prank call making it onto an album.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THESE TWO SONGS!!
Watch the movie and ya'll will get it. Peace/JT
Not a military war.... a mental war Pink was going through. Pink is a rockstar.
Sit down and watch the movie together have your favorite drink and smoke and other things that may help
Guys, most of these bands from Britain where born during or at the close of WW2 and their cities were bombed. Then another war in 1950 in Korea. They have more knowledge about then us. Oh don't forget the Cold war with Soviet Union.
If you like music that tells a story I highly recommend Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche. It's a concept album. A story about a heroin addict who is drawn into and used by an underground revolution against the government. It's a really amazing album,but you gotta listen to the whole thing from beginning till end.
Dirty Girl because he is a rockstar
Daddy went to war and was kiled. He's just coming of age
This whole generation of English rockers were born during World War II. The Germans bombed London every night for a year or two trying to break their will to fight, and every night the sirens would go off and the people would go into the subway stations that they used for shelters, and every morning they’d find out who was killed the night before. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) was a baby then and says he has no memory of it, but that to this day when he hears a siren the hairs stand up on the back of his neck. They played in the rubble when they were kids, and there was never enough food.
mr. floyd calling mr. floyd....he keeps hanging up....mr. floyd has checked out...
Oh goodie, you're back at The Wall. I love your willingness to throw yourself into the mystery. Great stuff.
As I'm sure others have/will tell you, my understanding is that this record is sung by our semi-autobiographical rock star "Pink Floyd", who, is now a young adult. He's alienated from his wife in the first half goes out whoring, and his experience trying to call his wife confirms why. She's with another man.
Like Steely Dan, this album is full of indirect references, changes in perspective. and a story that the listener has to figure out. Both Waters and fictional Floyd's father was killed by a bomber in the war. That's what you hear at the end of "In The Flesh"--a bomber killing Floyd's father, followed by baby Floyd's cries. Goodbye Blue Sky also references his father's death, and the Water's subsequent fear of war and death. "Do you think they'll put me in the firing line?"
I think Pink Floyd gave us an aural kaleidoscope, to hear, enjoy, and ponder.
To get the context of these songs you really need to see the movie
Love Roger Waters ' voice and bass riffs. It makes David Gilmour's fantastic guitar licks shine and groove. They better kiss and make up before it's too late. Wright and Mason great obviously. But the foils of Roger and David in voice and guitar licks with the great lyrics... Wow. Mt Olympus of Music.
"Must be someone else there besides your wife to pick up the phone" Thanks Operator for that Info. You need to see the movie, the flowers of lust.
Your heads were bobbing in synchronization.
Their fathers and uncles and brothers suffered through WW2
Well, it's not so much about the protagonist going to war, but about growig up in the paranoia of Cold War, without a father who died in WW2, while coming of age and becoming a jaded Rockstar, alienated and angry, and struggling for sanity. Gilmour called it a catalogue of complaints.
Bands like Pink Floyd, the Who & The Beatles, all of them were children of World War II and the devastation that England suffered because of the war they were brought up in a Very strict economic and conservative society
Remember, the album opens with the rock star coming on stage to screams from adoring fans and he says "So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow.
Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes
You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise."
And then the rest of the album tells the story of what made the character "Pink" be who who is and the wall he mentally built around himself and all the things that made up the bricks in the wall.
There is a backwards message in Empty Spaces. Before Roger speaks.
You should see the movie.
Watch the film!
Not to war, on tour.
The operator on the phone is telling him when he calls his wife that "there's a man answering, and he keeps hanging up" Not what you want to hear when you call your spouse from overseas.
Pink isn't at war, but the reason all these British groups painted war so vividly is because they're, well, British and they would have grown up in the aftermath of WWII and the Blitz where the nazis bombed London for weeks relentlessly. That's what Goodbye Blue Sky was about
You Guys need to Watch the Movie. Or just the Video of Dirty Woman.
The war you're talking about is World War II and it's his father who went to war. He was born during the war and his father went off to war and didn't come home hence the pain.
Young lust is about him as the rock star on tour i though
Biggie sampled the verse for Hypnotize