"The Wall" album is a story about a character named "Pink", told from his perspective. Pink never knew his father, because he (the father) was killed in action during World War II, so Pink only knew of him through photos in the family album. This was an emotional scar. Each of his emotional scars (fatherless, an overbearing mother, abuse in school, etc.) became metaphorical "bricks" Pink used to build a psychological wall around himself as a way to protect himself from feeling the pain. Once he completed this wall (in his own head), he became "comfortably numb".
Did you know who Pink Floyd got their name from. Two people. They were blue's musicians. And no he was not fatherless. Pink Anderson of Laurens South Carolina. And Floyd Council of North Carolina.
@@brianfranklinlee8490 Yes, I know how PF got their name, I've been a fan for 45 years. I wasn't referring to Pink Anderson. "Pink" is the name Roger Waters gave to the fictional character whose story is told throughout the album. Roger Waters wrote the album as semi-autobiographical, and just like Waters' real-life father, Pink's father died in World War II.
His father flew across the ocean for WWII and killed. This started building the bricks in his emotional wall around himself. As you follow the story through the album, other events contribute additional bricks to this emotional wall until it is complete and he completely walls himself from the world. They literally built a wall around the band when they performed this live.
I’ve never heard anything about heroin. People seem to think it’s mainly about Syd Barrett but it’s more about Rodger Waters and him being emotionally disconnected and not having a father.
The girl here is so in tune with the world she is passing through. She has a really quick mind, agile, emotive and imaginative. But it is her empathy that enables her to bring all her talents into exploring someone else's footsteps through life. She is a genuine traveller.
You’re probably going to hear this a bunch- but trust me there is a very good reason for it. You guys are picking up on the genius of The Wall album but since you are missing the context, this is why you’re left with a little bit of a feeling of “I’m not quite entirely sure what they’re trying to say.” The Wall album needs to be heard in its entirety. Actually scratch that- The Wall movie needs to be seen in its entirety. The album deals with a British kid who lost their dad in WWII. How it affected his outlook on life, and how the lens through which he saw the world caused him to experience life. How each trauma was basically a brick in the wall he would build around himself to shield from the pain, and his struggle navigating life while seeing and feeling the way he does. Any of the versions/parts of “Another Brick In The Wall” you can think of as the chorus/hook of a larger song made up of the entirety of The Wall album. All of it is related and you’d appreciate the experimental sounds more if you heard how it flowed together. You guys want to have a good time with your viewers? Announce a live reaction stream to either the original The Wall movie OR Roger Waters’ live The Wall concert and give us the date. I bet you would have a hell of a turn out and you’d learn some really neat stuff, and most of all you’d experience a legendary piece of music as it was intended to be heard: in full! I think you’d be glad you did :)
It would be almost criminal to do The Wall movie before listening to the album in full. The album is the original work. The film adaptation is scatter shot at best. Some powerful imagery but does not do justice to the original music.
@@flubblert Liked the movie, but I heard this album first at 8 years old in the back seat of the family car on many many road trips. Usually I was sitting on the floor reading. 70s parenting at its finest.🙃 Album first, movie second, and then watch Parker's other music movie, The Commitments.
"Daddy flown across ocean" his dad flew from UK to Italy where he fought and died in WW2. Pink Floyd - Gunners Dream, is a great song that goes deeper I to that perspective.
@@pettyeddie2000 that's my fav one too, love "the final cut" , "the Gunner's dream" "fletcher memorial home", "the post world dream", "your possible pasts", "paranoid eyes", "one of the few", " Southampton doc", "two suns in the sunset"... all masterpieces
The whole “Wall” album is semi-biographical of Rodger Waters life. Each song on the album is about people and events that added a brick into the symbolic Wall he built to isolate himself from being hurt. Yet, it also isolated him from experiencing life.
Lex watching you pick apart these songs and what you think their writers were intending is so interesting. Even when you've concluded something 'wrong', if you can even really use that word for art, it's very insightful and makes complete sense. It's so interesting watching those gears turn while listening to music I grew up with in the 90's like Floyd and Zeppelin and The Beastie Boys, etc. Really fun and interesting. Brad, you've got a special partner. Keep her fed and happy. She's one of a kind.
Remember that what is normally considered a “song” doesn’t apply to Pink Floyd, their tracks are basically just “movements” of a larger composition comparable to a “opera” situation. The album is a book with the individual tracks being chapters.
That is good what you said. An old sole but so young. This album is a story. I think Lex would get it if she takes her time before going on to something else.
..you will hear it over and over and over,, "These albums should be listened to from start to finish" for good reason, young people had MUCH longer attention spans back in the 70-80's before cell phones/internet. They listened to full albums, at one sitting. .. simply put, , it is like picking up a book with 20 chapters, and just reading the 8th chapter, and saying " I dont get it"....Cheers
Lex. you nailed it! The idea of this track is that The Wall that "Pink" is building around himself began with the first brick IE: the absence of his father from his life after having gone to war and never returning. The greatest thing about PF imo is that the music speaks as importantly and purposefully to the story as do the lyrics. It is always a fully encompassing experience. Note: all PF albums are written and intended to be best listened to as complete stories cover to cover as each song and the progression through the album is very much like turning the pages of an amazing book.
Roger Waters' father was killed in WWII before ever seeing his son. The Wall is a reference to that which emotionally isolates us from each other. Each such event, such as growing up with a deceased father who was only a snapshot in the family album, is Another Brick in The Wall.
GOTDAMN Lex! You are very good at picking up what and where a song is going, what the lyrics mean. Your description of what Part 1 is about, and how it goes into Part 2 is spot on.
Guys, you would have a so much easier time with songs from the album ‘the wall’ if you listen to the songs in order. The first half of the album tracks all the issues that served to cause the main character to retreat into himself and isolate himself from the world. His father leaving and dying In the Second World War and the attitudes of his teachers created two of the bricks in the protective mental wall he built around himself.
This is one of the rare albums that needs to listened to in its entirety to be understood. It is a complete story that flows from one sing to the next, detailing Roger waters life and how he felt isolated and lonely as a rock singer. This song in particular tells of how he struggles to deal with the death of his father who died in ww2. You really should consider listening to the whole album even if it's outside of a reaction. Peace and love.
Lex you nailed it! They really do transport the mind On a serious note- Lex have you ever thought of being a therapist? You seem to have an amazing gift of seeing things that aren’t actually said with words, very sensitive to others emotions and incredibly empathetic. You could really change the world one person at a time ❤️
The album The Wall is a work of pure genius, that truly needs to be listened to all at once in sequential order. You guys are awesome, I love watching you listen to the music I grew up with, it allows me to experience it all over again, kind of like watching my children experience Christmas brings back my memories of Christmas when I was a child, please keep up what you do.
Oh, also, you guys may have done Comfortably Numb already, but it’s so worth it to watch them do it live at the Pulse concert. One of the best live performances I’ve ever seen. Even if you do it on your own, you really should check it out.
The scene in The Wall this song backs up is heart wrenching 🥺 his mom drops him off at the park to play so she can do her errands, he latches on to a man playing with his son and trys to follow them home.
Lex, does it again. Each song is a chapter of our protagonists story, all these events build the bricks of the emotional wall he creates to protect himself, eventually leading to… I’ll save that for you to discover. The journey is half the fun and this is one worth taking. 👍😉
You guys.. I really love your reactions, AND the musical choices. Also Brad s analytical thought process in conjunction with Lex s more feeling derived commenting and getting in the more rocky/mentally mindset works really great! You re doing great.. and I really enjoy revisiting all of these songs with you guys.. I wish the best to you, and hope to keep doing what you re doing.. *much love from across the ocean.. 🌊
Lex has a great sense of this, despite not hearing the story in order. The father dies in WWII when the son is around 2 rather than leaving them. But that doesn't stop the boy from feeling abandoned. And it does leave him feeling like he is lacking something as he ages into school. The other important song in the series is not another Another Brick in the Wall song, but Mother, which spells out his other early life relationship. That is a good one for Brad since it is easy to get that song wrong if one doesn't listen to the words carefully.
Absolutely EPIC...A masterpiece!! If I had to name my TOP 10 bands of ALL TIME....Pink Floyd would be at NUMBER ONE! NOTE: PLEASE WATCH THE MOVE...PLEASE WATCH THE MOVIE...It's unbelievable, only then will all the songs make sense!
Everyone has their own interpretation of this. Yes, The Wall was and always will be a complete analogy of the music and creative vision of the group. This will be a classic for years to come as long as individuals will continue to share. I want to thank Brad & Lex for giving their view while listening to Floyd. To watch Lex's emotions while listening, only confirms the depth that we have embraced throughout the years. Thank you '
The immediate transition from “the Thin Ice” to the hypnotic rhtyhm of “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” marks the transition from the idea of the wall in theory to the wall in practice. There is no pause between songs, no quiet break for analytical reflection or second-guessing. For Pink, the threat alone of the cracks beneath his feet leads directly to him cementing his first bricks into place. With the groundwork laid and the self-deluding justifications given by the previous songs, the metaphor of the wall makes its first appearance by name in this, the first and most restrained of the “Brick in the Wall” trilogy. Whereas the previous songs addressed life’s misfortunes, alluding to the defenses that are crucial in order to survive in the world, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” compiles all of these instructions and warnings into one uniform and universal symbol.
The wall is like a psychoanalysis tale about Pink (Roger Water alter ego if you will) and how hurtful situation in his youth made him built a wall to protect himself. But that ended up hurting him and others later on in his life. So the loss of his dad, the over protective mom, the strict school teachers...are all bricks in this wall.
think with floyd songs is you need to listen to the full albums in 1 sitting as they are all in order and send you to a magical place if you listen to them. they are works of art.
Your difficulty understanding this is mostly because back when we listened to music in the 70s, 80s, most people listened to entire albums...especially "concept albums" like the Wall. Albums had the lyrics inside & listening from start to finish was almost like watching a movie in your mind. Ahhh, the good old days. :-) (Lex, your interpreting of lyrics is good... I think you're an old hippie in your soul...lol)
Lex you have a very spiritual soul that knows more than just listening to a song. It resinates in your being to bring it to life for you. Your hair is beautiful, and your spirit gental.
Lex nearly nailed it in her interpretation of this track. Roger Waters was Pink Floyd's bassist and primary songwriter in this era of the band. His father didn't "leave" but was killed in WWII when Roger was an infant so he grew up never knowing his father other than the "snapshots in a family album". The Wall was conceived by Roger as the biographical story of a character loosely based on his own experiences growing up as a fatherless outcast and then carrying that sense of isolation into his career as a rock star.
Lex picked out the playground sounds very well. In the film 'Pink' is at a playground and asks a father to put him on the merry go round, goes for the ride and follows the father's child on the slide. When the father and son head out hand in hand, Pink follows and tries to grab the Father's hand but is told to go away. He tries again and is rejected again more forcefully. He is left dejected to sit on a swing but he doesn't know how to begin. Really a heartbreaking scene.
They actually had some awesome screen effects and laser lights and some absolutely crazy stage shows. Pulse came through my senior year in high school.
Across the ocean from the UK is europe as the united kingdom is an island. He left England and went to fight in europe during world war 2. Also keep in mind that songs from the Wall are telling a story and makes more sense when you watch the movie.
Allow me to be the first: This is about father issues, WW2, and the meat grinder of life that artist's saw the commercial world as. Imho, of course. 🤟🤠🤘
@@raenellefisher8514 I'd say "extreme alienation" rather than "mental illness," at least when it comes to The Wall. Songs on earlier albums like Wish You Were Here referenced Syd Barret, the band's original front man, who was an acid casualty. "Now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky." That certainly seems to be about mental illness.
Building the brick wall of life is kinda how I perceive this whole album which to really appreciate you need to hear all of it at same time. This don't really belong here in this comment but love the respect you show quitarist and vocals but need to give some drummers some love. I suggest rushs Neil peart live in Frankfurt hard to count all but at least 28 things to be played in his circle of drums.LITERALLY
The Wall is a concept album, and must be listened to im entiterty instead of out of context but its mandatory to smoke a joint before putting The Wall on 😂
His Daddy was killed in the big war at the Anzio bridgehead in Italy. When he say another brick in the wall, it is his adult self building a mental wall to shield himself from the pain of reality.
Remember setting down put this album on grabbed the headphones and the bong turned it up and listened to whole album and this was in 1972 and it still doesn't get old it's what us hippies called head music and Lex you got it right
This is the first album that I bought for myself (I was 12 years old). Pink Floyd is my favorite band. And Roger Waters is my all time favorite lyricist. Thank you for this, it's my favorite reaction video you've done so far. But also, check out the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall". It visually fills the voids in story that is told being told through out this album. The movie is intense and very weird, so be ready for that. But overall, I consider it an experience not to be missed.
Ok so you guys really need to watch pink Floyd the wall movie if you want to understand the songs off this album. It's a great movie about a rock star who looses his mind and goes insane ends up in a mental hospital. It's very creative and original. It's partly based on there original lead guitarist named sid barriet who lost his mind do to drugs. This song is about how his dad went to war in WW2 and died so the character in the movie grew up without a father figure and that was another brick in his wall to help him go insane. I highly recommend you watch the movie. Reaction to it would be amazing.
You have to watch the movie "The Wall", all of these songs fall into place and you don't have to wonder anything... His father was killed in WW2 and his mother became EXTREMELY protective of her only son. The mother is the one who builds the wall (or is the wall). The scene that takes place during the musical part of this song is of the young boy in a playground, watching the other children playing with their fathers, being pushed on swings, getting caught at the bottom of the slide, etc. The boy is alone. He tries to attach himself to another kid and his father, but it doesn't really work out and when they are leaving he tries to hold the man's hand and go with them, but the man obviously breaks free and tells him to go on. If I remember correctly the scene ends with the young boy sitting alone on a swing and trying to swing without being pushed, but failing. It has to be one of the most heartbreaking scenes from any movie that involves no spoken words. You really, really have to watch this movie. It is amazing on so many levels... When I was younger this was known as a "smokers" movie, it enhances the experience but by no means is needed.. Cheers!!!
I always found it funny that the bit everyone thinks of from another brick in the wall is actually the end of “the happiest days of our lives” and it’s weird if they aren’t together.
It's about loosing his dad in the war. You should listen to "when the tigers break free". That is a song about his dad being killed in the war and the "tigers" being a model of army tank
best enjoyed by consuming the official concert film... through live action, and mind bending animation, each of the stories are fully presented in a flowing, sequential manner..
You guys need to get the vinyl double-album which has the lyrics in it written in semi-sloppy fountain pen ink. Listen to the whole album start to finish. It’s a trip. Then if you want, see the movie which is a whole other trip.
You guys are great rock stars🤘 How do you know so many rock songs? You play one good song right after another. I'm ringing 🔔your bell👍 you guys are doing a great job
Every hurtful, painful moment is just another brick in the wall you build up to shield yourself against others, from ever being hurt again. Until it’s so high you are all alone and have shut everyone out. Afraid to feel..
You guys have to watch the movie where all these songs come from. Pink Floyd The Wall is the story of a guy that grew up in post-war Britain after his father has been killed in WW2. He grows up to be a rock star with a lot of problems resulting from his childhood. He's built a wall around himself, and each problem he has is one more brick in the wall he built around himself. "All in all it was all just bricks in the wall."
"The Wall" album is a story about a character named "Pink", told from his perspective. Pink never knew his father, because he (the father) was killed in action during World War II, so Pink only knew of him through photos in the family album. This was an emotional scar. Each of his emotional scars (fatherless, an overbearing mother, abuse in school, etc.) became metaphorical "bricks" Pink used to build a psychological wall around himself as a way to protect himself from feeling the pain. Once he completed this wall (in his own head), he became "comfortably numb".
Did you know who Pink Floyd got their name from.
Two people. They were blue's musicians. And no he was not fatherless. Pink Anderson of Laurens South Carolina. And Floyd Council of North Carolina.
@@brianfranklinlee8490 Yes, I know how PF got their name, I've been a fan for 45 years. I wasn't referring to Pink Anderson. "Pink" is the name Roger Waters gave to the fictional character whose story is told throughout the album. Roger Waters wrote the album as semi-autobiographical, and just like Waters' real-life father, Pink's father died in World War II.
Yes I'm in the same age group as you I guess. I'm 61 now. The only reason I knew that is North Carolina is where I was born and raised.
Bingo...Great short explanation. Much better than I could have done. I would have gone on and on..
you saved me the words.
His father flew across the ocean for WWII and killed. This started building the bricks in his emotional wall around himself. As you follow the story through the album, other events contribute additional bricks to this emotional wall until it is complete and he completely walls himself from the world. They literally built a wall around the band when they performed this live.
Nicely put
Actually WW1😊
@@cobrakari WWII...how old do you think Waters is?(78) In the movie 'The Wall', it is Anzio where he perished(1944).
from what I gather he had a heroin addiction that’s a big ass brick.
I’ve never heard anything about heroin. People seem to think it’s mainly about Syd Barrett but it’s more about Rodger Waters and him being emotionally disconnected and not having a father.
The girl here is so in tune with the world she is passing through. She has a really quick mind, agile, emotive and imaginative. But it is her empathy that enables her to bring all her talents into exploring someone else's footsteps through life.
She is a genuine traveller.
It is quite special and unique, and very rare indeed.
Agreed 100%.
She says some mad things sometimes.... but love her.
😊
You two so NEED to do an entire Pink Floyd album at once. They really are meant to be listened to that way and the experience is on another level.
"The Final Cut" is a very underrated album. I think because it came right after The Wall. But I'd say its even better.
I always considered the Pink Floyd concept albums to really be one song with several parts.
Lex is just VERY perceptive. That’s all I can say. Brad, when she says something, just say “you’re probably right”…cuz she probably is. 🤪
@@patrickarts9091 yes...much like RUSH 2112 side 1
They need to listen to Animals from beginning to end. The solo's alone are worth the experience.
You’re probably going to hear this a bunch- but trust me there is a very good reason for it.
You guys are picking up on the genius of The Wall album but since you are missing the context, this is why you’re left with a little bit of a feeling of “I’m not quite entirely sure what they’re trying to say.”
The Wall album needs to be heard in its entirety. Actually scratch that- The Wall movie needs to be seen in its entirety.
The album deals with a British kid who lost their dad in WWII. How it affected his outlook on life, and how the lens through which he saw the world caused him to experience life. How each trauma was basically a brick in the wall he would build around himself to shield from the pain, and his struggle navigating life while seeing and feeling the way he does.
Any of the versions/parts of “Another Brick In The Wall” you can think of as the chorus/hook of a larger song made up of the entirety of The Wall album. All of it is related and you’d appreciate the experimental sounds more if you heard how it flowed together.
You guys want to have a good time with your viewers? Announce a live reaction stream to either the original The Wall movie OR Roger Waters’ live The Wall concert and give us the date. I bet you would have a hell of a turn out and you’d learn some really neat stuff, and most of all you’d experience a legendary piece of music as it was intended to be heard: in full! I think you’d be glad you did :)
It would be almost criminal to do The Wall movie before listening to the album in full. The album is the original work. The film adaptation is scatter shot at best. Some powerful imagery but does not do justice to the original music.
"The Wall movie needs to be seen in its entirety" I hear that, same as Interstella 5555.
@@flubblert Liked the movie, but I heard this album first at 8 years old in the back seat of the family car on many many road trips.
Usually I was sitting on the floor reading. 70s parenting at its finest.🙃
Album first, movie second, and then watch Parker's other music movie, The Commitments.
I’ve seen that movie so many times and I would watch it again.
100%
"Daddy flown across ocean" his dad flew from UK to Italy where he fought and died in WW2.
Pink Floyd - Gunners Dream, is a great song that goes deeper I to that perspective.
The Gunners dream is my fav pink floyd song
Somebody knows about THE FINAL CUT. My favorite album by PINK FLOYD by the way. 👍 ✌️
Two suns in the sunset Is the best
@@pettyeddie2000 that's my fav one too, love "the final cut" , "the Gunner's dream" "fletcher memorial home", "the post world dream", "your possible pasts", "paranoid eyes", "one of the few", " Southampton doc", "two suns in the sunset"... all masterpieces
@@oscarjhon exactly !!!!
Lex is amazing in how she accurately interprets songs on the first listen without context.
Yes I was thinking the same thing
If you can find a copy. Get "The Wall" on DVD. It'll put everything in to perspective.
Amazon has it.
The whole “Wall” album is semi-biographical of Rodger Waters life. Each song on the album is about people and events that added a brick into the symbolic Wall he built to isolate himself from being hurt. Yet, it also isolated him from experiencing life.
This.
just an opinion but.......telling his story of how the wall went up was also a key factor in tearing down his wall.....
@@weedthepeople2795 I think music was part of the mechanism that helped him tear down the wall
@@nunyabidness1841 ya thats what i was referring to....
So, you’re saying it made him “Comfortably Numb”
Lex watching you pick apart these songs and what you think their writers were intending is so interesting. Even when you've concluded something 'wrong', if you can even really use that word for art, it's very insightful and makes complete sense. It's so interesting watching those gears turn while listening to music I grew up with in the 90's like Floyd and Zeppelin and The Beastie Boys, etc. Really fun and interesting. Brad, you've got a special partner. Keep her fed and happy. She's one of a kind.
Remember that what is normally considered a “song” doesn’t apply to Pink Floyd, their tracks are basically just “movements” of a larger composition comparable to a “opera” situation. The album is a book with the individual tracks being chapters.
I love how Lex is gradually putting the puzzle pieces together without realizing the album is a full story. She is the epitome of an old soul!
That is good what you said. An old sole but so young. This album is a story. I think Lex would get it if she takes her time before going on to something else.
..you will hear it over and over and over,, "These albums should be listened to from start to finish" for good reason, young people had MUCH longer attention spans back in the 70-80's before cell phones/internet. They listened to full albums, at one sitting.
.. simply put, , it is like picking up a book with 20 chapters, and just reading the 8th chapter, and saying " I dont get it"....Cheers
perfectly stated
Lexi, spot on as usual. Lexi proving the power in listening!
Entire album “The Wall” is a must, in order-
Lex. you nailed it! The idea of this track is that The Wall that "Pink" is building around himself began with the first brick IE: the absence of his father from his life after having gone to war and never returning. The greatest thing about PF imo is that the music speaks as importantly and purposefully to the story as do the lyrics. It is always a fully encompassing experience. Note: all PF albums are written and intended to be best listened to as complete stories cover to cover as each song and the progression through the album is very much like turning the pages of an amazing book.
Roger Waters' father was killed in WWII before ever seeing his son. The Wall is a reference to that which emotionally isolates us from each other. Each such event, such as growing up with a deceased father who was only a snapshot in the family album, is Another Brick in The Wall.
GOTDAMN Lex! You are very good at picking up what and where a song is going, what the lyrics mean. Your description of what Part 1 is about, and how it goes into Part 2 is spot on.
Love Lex's analysis as it's damn good guesswork without knowing about Waters and his semi-autobiographical take.
Guys, you would have a so much easier time with songs from the album ‘the wall’ if you listen to the songs in order. The first half of the album tracks all the issues that served to cause the main character to retreat into himself and isolate himself from the world. His father leaving and dying In the Second World War and the attitudes of his teachers created two of the bricks in the protective mental wall he built around himself.
Lex, you have a natural ability of analyses of things before you.....very refreshing to leap into something like life with curiosity and enthusiasm.
This is one of the rare albums that needs to listened to in its entirety to be understood. It is a complete story that flows from one sing to the next, detailing Roger waters life and how he felt isolated and lonely as a rock singer. This song in particular tells of how he struggles to deal with the death of his father who died in ww2. You really should consider listening to the whole album even if it's outside of a reaction. Peace and love.
Lex you nailed it! They really do transport the mind
On a serious note- Lex have you ever thought of being a therapist? You seem to have an amazing gift of seeing things that aren’t actually said with words, very sensitive to others emotions and incredibly empathetic. You could really change the world one person at a time ❤️
The "bricks in the wall" throughout the whole album are all the people, events, emotions, etc. that made him who he is, and caused his issues.
The album The Wall is a work of pure genius, that truly needs to be listened to all at once in sequential order. You guys are awesome, I love watching you listen to the music I grew up with, it allows me to experience it all over again, kind of like watching my children experience Christmas brings back my memories of Christmas when I was a child, please keep up what you do.
Just do the whole The Wall, damn it! That's what we're all waiting for! :)
Oh, also, you guys may have done Comfortably Numb already, but it’s so worth it to watch them do it live at the Pulse concert. One of the best live performances I’ve ever seen. Even if you do it on your own, you really should check it out.
The scene in The Wall this song backs up is heart wrenching 🥺 his mom drops him off at the park to play so she can do her errands, he latches on to a man playing with his son and trys to follow them home.
I’ve watched you progress. You kids are now getting used to the weirdness of our generation’s music. 😁. Lovin it!
C'mon now. They may be younger than you, but Brad and Lex are grown adults.
I grew up on it.
Lex, does it again. Each song is a chapter of our protagonists story, all these events build the bricks of the emotional wall he creates to protect himself, eventually leading to… I’ll save that for you to discover. The journey is half the fun and this is one worth taking. 👍😉
You guys.. I really love your reactions, AND the musical choices.
Also Brad s analytical thought process in conjunction with Lex s more feeling derived commenting and getting in the more rocky/mentally mindset works really great!
You re doing great.. and I really enjoy revisiting all of these songs with you guys..
I wish the best to you, and hope to keep doing what you re doing..
*much love from across the ocean.. 🌊
Lex has a great sense of this, despite not hearing the story in order. The father dies in WWII when the son is around 2 rather than leaving them. But that doesn't stop the boy from feeling abandoned. And it does leave him feeling like he is lacking something as he ages into school. The other important song in the series is not another Another Brick in the Wall song, but Mother, which spells out his other early life relationship. That is a good one for Brad since it is easy to get that song wrong if one doesn't listen to the words carefully.
I love the ending with Lex pretty much explaining music to Brad
The Wall is a concept album with a complete story. So it's difficult to pick one song and try to understand it independently.
Best comment!
Absolutely EPIC...A masterpiece!! If I had to name my TOP 10 bands of ALL TIME....Pink Floyd would be at NUMBER ONE!
NOTE: PLEASE WATCH THE MOVE...PLEASE WATCH THE MOVIE...It's unbelievable, only then will all the songs make sense!
Everyone has their own interpretation of this. Yes, The Wall was and always will be a complete analogy of the music and creative vision of the group. This will be a classic for years to come as long as individuals will continue to share. I want to thank Brad & Lex for giving their view while listening to Floyd. To watch Lex's emotions while listening, only confirms the depth that we have embraced throughout the years. Thank you
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It’s important that you listen to this album the way you would watch a film. Absolute masterpiece!
Love lex's synaesthesia, love brads slight bafflement but caring curiousity...its reassuring you guys complement each other so well
:) Lexi gets it. :) also when real music don't need words to convey emotions and or a story. but yet just, enough words to tell his story.
Wow, our Lex is perceptive to the max.... So cool to see!
Can't go wrong with Floyd, thank you.
You have to listen to Pink Floyd albums from beginning to end. They all tell incredible stories through music.
Dark Side of the Moon…the entire album all at once , as it’s intended. Then Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Then Comfortably Numb Live at Pulse 1994.
The immediate transition from “the Thin Ice” to the hypnotic rhtyhm of “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” marks the transition from the idea of the wall in theory to the wall in practice. There is no pause between songs, no quiet break for analytical reflection or second-guessing. For Pink, the threat alone of the cracks beneath his feet leads directly to him cementing his first bricks into place. With the groundwork laid and the self-deluding justifications given by the previous songs, the metaphor of the wall makes its first appearance by name in this, the first and most restrained of the “Brick in the Wall” trilogy. Whereas the previous songs addressed life’s misfortunes, alluding to the defenses that are crucial in order to survive in the world, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” compiles all of these instructions and warnings into one uniform and universal symbol.
The wall is like a psychoanalysis tale about Pink (Roger Water alter ego if you will) and how hurtful situation in his youth made him built a wall to protect himself. But that ended up hurting him and others later on in his life. So the loss of his dad, the over protective mom, the strict school teachers...are all bricks in this wall.
Lex is very insightful about this considering she never heard it before, well done!
think with floyd songs is you need to listen to the full albums in 1 sitting as they are all in order and send you to a magical place if you listen to them. they are works of art.
I'm behind on all your videos and am catching up
Loving all your classic rock reactions!
Lex is 100% spot on... the notes and tone of the guitar are telling you a story... if you listen very carefully.
In awe of Lex' intuitiveness. Amazing!
Your difficulty understanding this is mostly because back when we listened to music in the 70s, 80s, most people listened to entire albums...especially "concept albums" like the Wall. Albums had the lyrics inside & listening from start to finish was almost like watching a movie in your mind. Ahhh, the good old days. :-) (Lex, your interpreting of lyrics is good... I think you're an old hippie in your soul...lol)
Lex is right on the money. You
have to listen to the Wall album
from start to finish. It tells a story.
Lex you have a very spiritual soul that knows more than just listening to a song. It resinates in your being to bring it to life for you. Your hair is beautiful, and your spirit gental.
The Wall is an album that needs to be played from beginning to end in one sitting.
You should watch the movie The Wall by Pink Floyd its on RUclips
They should do a live reaction while watching the movie.
@@vyprkngsnk The copyrights would probably take them down thats why they usually don't do official videos
Need to listen to the entire wall album nonstop. the songs build an entire story.
Lex nearly nailed it in her interpretation of this track. Roger Waters was Pink Floyd's bassist and primary songwriter in this era of the band. His father didn't "leave" but was killed in WWII when Roger was an infant so he grew up never knowing his father other than the "snapshots in a family album". The Wall was conceived by Roger as the biographical story of a character loosely based on his own experiences growing up as a fatherless outcast and then carrying that sense of isolation into his career as a rock star.
I've said it before , do research before listening to the song . Its so much better when you know what the songs are about!!
Lex picked out the playground sounds very well. In the film 'Pink' is at a playground and asks a father to put him on the merry go round, goes for the ride and follows the father's child on the slide. When the father and son head out hand in hand, Pink follows and tries to grab the Father's hand but is told to go away. He tries again and is rejected again more forcefully. He is left dejected to sit on a swing but he doesn't know how to begin. Really a heartbreaking scene.
They actually had some awesome screen effects and laser lights and some absolutely crazy stage shows. Pulse came through my senior year in high school.
Hi, Lex your mind is red hot and working 100%. I like the way you think. Stay safe to you two and your loved ones.
Across the ocean from the UK is europe as the united kingdom is an island. He left England and went to fight in europe during world war 2. Also keep in mind that songs from the Wall are telling a story and makes more sense when you watch the movie.
Allow me to be the first: This is about father issues, WW2, and the meat grinder of life that artist's saw the commercial world as.
Imho, of course. 🤟🤠🤘
The Stones did sex, the Beachboys did summer, the Beatles did love, Neil Diamond did loneliness, Pink Floyd did mental illness.
@@raenellefisher8514 I'd say "extreme alienation" rather than "mental illness," at least when it comes to The Wall. Songs on earlier albums like Wish You Were Here referenced Syd Barret, the band's original front man, who was an acid casualty. "Now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky." That certainly seems to be about mental illness.
@@raenellefisher8514 Brilliant!
Sounds like we need a Pink Floyd The Wall movie review , live!
YES!!!!
they give you a thought AND time to contemplate too
I was in Germany, when the "movie" for this album was released there...what a ride!!!
I remember my neighbors crankin this album in their adjoining apartment lying in bed at 16 ,loved it from the gitgo
Building the brick wall of life is kinda how I perceive this whole album which to really appreciate you need to hear all of it at same time. This don't really belong here in this comment but love the respect you show quitarist and vocals but need to give some drummers some love. I suggest rushs Neil peart live in Frankfurt hard to count all but at least 28 things to be played in his circle of drums.LITERALLY
With Pink Floyd, you just have to let the music take you away. 😎
Keep going Lex, poor old Brad really needs your perception 😂😂😂
The Wall is a concept album, and must be listened to im entiterty instead of out of context but its mandatory to smoke a joint before putting The Wall on 😂
So Lex is definitely the music lover in you guys relationship. From Pink Floyd to Megadeth she gets it
I love how Pink Floyd makes you think and analyze...it's intelligent music
His Daddy was killed in the big war at the Anzio bridgehead in Italy. When he say another brick in the wall, it is his adult self building a mental wall to shield himself from the pain of reality.
Remember setting down put this album on grabbed the headphones and the bong turned it up and listened to whole album and this was in 1972 and it still doesn't get old it's what us hippies called head music and Lex you got it right
The whole album is a must! It takes you on a journey 🤟
This album really needs to be listened to as a whole as some tracks make more sense when listen to in order.
This is the first album that I bought for myself (I was 12 years old). Pink Floyd is my favorite band. And Roger Waters is my all time favorite lyricist.
Thank you for this, it's my favorite reaction video you've done so far.
But also, check out the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall".
It visually fills the voids in story that is told being told through out this album.
The movie is intense and very weird, so be ready for that. But overall, I consider it an experience not to be missed.
Ok so you guys really need to watch pink Floyd the wall movie if you want to understand the songs off this album. It's a great movie about a rock star who looses his mind and goes insane ends up in a mental hospital. It's very creative and original. It's partly based on there original lead guitarist named sid barriet who lost his mind do to drugs. This song is about how his dad went to war in WW2 and died so the character in the movie grew up without a father figure and that was another brick in his wall to help him go insane. I highly recommend you watch the movie. Reaction to it would be amazing.
You have to watch the movie "The Wall", all of these songs fall into place and you don't have to wonder anything... His father was killed in WW2 and his mother became EXTREMELY protective of her only son. The mother is the one who builds the wall (or is the wall). The scene that takes place during the musical part of this song is of the young boy in a playground, watching the other children playing with their fathers, being pushed on swings, getting caught at the bottom of the slide, etc. The boy is alone. He tries to attach himself to another kid and his father, but it doesn't really work out and when they are leaving he tries to hold the man's hand and go with them, but the man obviously breaks free and tells him to go on. If I remember correctly the scene ends with the young boy sitting alone on a swing and trying to swing without being pushed, but failing. It has to be one of the most heartbreaking scenes from any movie that involves no spoken words. You really, really have to watch this movie. It is amazing on so many levels... When I was younger this was known as a "smokers" movie, it enhances the experience but by no means is needed.. Cheers!!!
I always found it funny that the bit everyone thinks of from another brick in the wall is actually the end of “the happiest days of our lives” and it’s weird if they aren’t together.
You guys should watch the movie. It's so freaking awesome
It's about loosing his dad in the war. You should listen to "when the tigers break free". That is a song about his dad being killed in the war and the "tigers" being a model of army tank
Such an awesome band!
The wall live in Berlin is a must view
One of the greatest shows you will ever see
I so wish you two could live stream watching The Wall. I think both of you would enjoy it in different ways.
best enjoyed by consuming the official concert film... through live action, and mind bending animation, each of the stories are fully presented in a flowing, sequential manner..
Floyd made albums that tended to follow a specific concept or story. The Wall tells the story of Pink and his life, and this is one part of it.
We need to see a reaction video of you two watching the Movie Pink Floyd - The Wall.
Yeah I agree your looking at snapshots and not seeing the picture without hearing the whole Wall album from start to finish
Lex is either unbelievably clever or she watched the movie...
You can sense he is hurt and has become jaded while the tension builds.
You guys need to get the vinyl double-album which has the lyrics in it written in semi-sloppy fountain pen ink. Listen to the whole album start to finish. It’s a trip. Then if you want, see the movie which is a whole other trip.
Prog Rock is such a dope genre
You guys are great rock stars🤘 How do you know so many rock songs? You play one good song right after another. I'm ringing 🔔your bell👍 you guys are doing a great job
Every hurtful, painful moment is just another brick in the wall you build up to shield yourself against others, from ever being hurt again. Until it’s so high you are all alone and have shut everyone out. Afraid to feel..
Underrated song---sonic yet very powerful.
If they insist on listening out of order, they need to hear Mother to understand this
This song is about being in the military. Another Brick in the Wall. I freaking love this Album and Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.
You guys have to watch the movie where all these songs come from. Pink Floyd The Wall is the story of a guy that grew up in post-war Britain after his father has been killed in WW2. He grows up to be a rock star with a lot of problems resulting from his childhood. He's built a wall around himself, and each problem he has is one more brick in the wall he built around himself. "All in all it was all just bricks in the wall."