Are you going to do a megalisten video where you experience all of the wall at once but do not stop and analyze? Would be fun to see you put it all together
Maybe I answer a question for you. Remember hearing some backwards speaking? I Believe it says something like, "congratulations you found the secret message. please send your answer to Pink. care of the funny farm"
To me this section is ‘Pink’ talking about estrangement creeping in to a relationship. I feel, at this stage, he is almost determined to build his wall, he is just looking for the last couple of bricks before rejecting the world for good. Having suffered with depression for many years now I find myself identifying with a lot of the feelings that Waters touched on in this album. I started building my wall when I was in my teens and it almost ruined my life. Thankfully I met my wife and we will celebrate our fortieth anniversary next year.
Have you heard the extended version, from the film? It has a much more rocky and energetic middle part with a LOT more lyrics. If you haven't, it's on RUclips accompanied by the animated part of the film it backed up. Lyics: What shall we use to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger roar? Shall we set out across the sea of faces In search of more and more applause? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights? Leave the lights on? Drop bombs? Do tours of the east? contract diseases? Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone? Take to drink? Go to shrinks? Give up meat? Rarely sleep? Keep people as pets? Train dogs? Race rats? Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all With our backs to the wall
As someone else that suffers from depression, I think later on Pink Flyod albums, it seems David Gilmour dives deeper into it more in Keep Talking (Division Bell)
The power of the film and live concert versions relies upon Gerald Scarfe’s visuals more than on the music. It’s a very successful audio-visual presentation that is more than the sum of its parts considered in isolation. The music separate from the presence or remembrance of those visuals is nowhere close to Pink Floyd’s career best music, even if it does work well as a soundtrack/accompaniment piece.
@@SelfEvident haven't actually seen the film :). So both Empty Spaces and What Shall We Do are on it? Because the portion of What Shall We Do that is musically similar to Empty Spaces uses different lyrics. As I understood it Empty Spaces is not in the film.
If you ever did the album “Wish You Were Here,” the 2 Shine On You Crazy Diamonds are a masterpiece right up your alley and you’d experience their musical genius 😊
Shine On is their finest moment and considering their body of work that is saying something. It’s a true masterpiece. It frustrates me she hasn’t reacted to it, lol.
Disagreed. Another Brick Pt. 2 with the keyboard solo, Last Few Bricks, and full versions of Brick the Boys Back Home & The Show Must Go On are all worthy additions.
Amy did it again! Once more I'm listening a song I've known for (four) decades in a new and much more informative way, not only musically but also in its meaning - Amy is such a master at making these connections relevant and making sense of them.
I'm so glad the algorithm gods brought me to your channel. There aren't words for how much I love Pink Floyd and I really love the approach you take to their music. I've gotten a lot out of what you have to say about The Wall so far. Thank you. ✌🏽 Btw, my profile picture 👈 is from the Empty Spaces part of the movie. I also have this tattooed on my arm. 🙂
If you heard what sounded like some vocals in there, it was actually a secret message, recorded backwards, and overlaid onto the song tracks. It says something like, IIRC, "Congratulations, you have discovered the secret message...", and then it says something about writing or calling to someplace or someone to get some information. Back in the day, people who were huge fans of rock and roll were at times convinced they were hearing "messages" imbedded in the music, sometimes even that someone was sending them a personal message hidden inside the music. So this kind of played into that whole undercurrent in 1970s rock and roll. Also, back in the day, almost everyone listened to these records on vinyl LPs played on a turntable, so if you had the right kind of turntable, you could turn off the motor that turned the platter, and using your finger, turn the disc backwards, in order to hear the message. Just some trivia for you.
it's roger doing the secret message. after the congratulations he says, "please send your answer to old pink c/o the funny farm". there is then someone calling to him from off mic saying his wife is on the phone. roger just left that in. it is a fun bit of trivia that you can't hear without the vinyl version to play backward. it's been online for years,but there was something special about running the record backward that you miss from just hearing the online version.
Belt drive turntables allowed you to do this. Some Direct drive motors didn't allow you to rotate backwards. And some stylus'really didn't like being spun backwards.
@@colinsmith8908 I used to do it with cassette tapes. I would get the kind that had screws and unscrew it and take the tape out and flip them so the real wasn't going on the outside but going towards the inside of the rolls, and I did it for stairway to heaven, was the only one, and it does say forgive my sweet Satan on the part where forwards it says if there's a bustle in your Hedgerow don't be alarmed now...
What a shame you didnt continue to "young lust" because that segway is one of the most smooth transitions i have ever heard, and the best one from the album. Cool video anyway😘🤘 in my opinion you should hear this "transition tracks" with their following song, because thats the meaning of them, and they are not "real length songs".
This is the album version which was cut for time. The live version (concert) is much longer. The lyrics of the whole version were included in the liner for LP. Read the whole lyrics to get a better idea of this song or listen to a live version.
I'm almost 46 and have been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 5. Absolutely my favorite band. Their music brings me so many memories. My children now listen to them and love them too. They're 14, 9, 9.
I know it’s my favorite song! I’ll never forget Bryan Adams and rogers water’s singing this live in Berlin. When the actual real wall was being torn down. And how young I was thinking things in the world would get better.
I played the backwards message once as a young fella. It says something along the lines of "Congratulations, you've discovered the secret message. Please submit your answer to Pink, care of the funny farm."
In the original film/live version, the song is extended. Well worth listening to. What shall we use to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger roar? Shall we set out across this sea of faces In search of more and more applause? What Shall we do Now? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights? Leave the lights on at night? Drop bombs? Do tours of the east? Contract disease? Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone? Take to drink? Go to shrinks? Give up meat? Rarely sleep? Keep people as pets? Train dogs? Raise rats? Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all With our backs to the wall Backs to the Wall
OTOH, that extra stuff is probably on the next song on the album. It would be a pity if they skipped this part entirely on the album, because it is pretty powerful.
You weren't clear enough for me, though it now seems you know this. This portion you quote isn't on the album at all, as the next song is Young Lust (I just perused the rest of the album). It's a shame this portion isn't on the album, because it's VERY good, but assuming she does the film, as she said she would, we will see that well enough. I'm not entirely convinced, should she do it, that she won't dump analyzing the music, because it's very much the same, but here, as you point out, there's this significant difference.
@@markraishbrook Yes, I was reading around about it, and one post had mentioned they didn't have enough "empty space". Quite ironic I think. Actually, one small correction in your lyrics. You didn't give the "mores" enough credit in referring to the applause line. I think you could say there are only two mores as you list, but there are what you might also call two echo mores, making four total.
@@charles2241 Yes, the "mores" are echoes. Not my transcription, btw. My point was just that this whole section of the song is missing off the album. I saw The Wall live at Earls Court in the summer of 1981 and, although that was a very long time ago, I am PDS the extended version was played. Anyway, it's in the film, the music is great and it just makes the song... better.
The empty space in-between this song and the next is one of the best musical breaks in history when treating the two as one. @10:15-Many who are depressed only hear the added words of help from the outside as re-enforcing the emptiness. Peace/JT
I never understood how someone could spend time watching for other's reaction to music, I mean, there are so many things in this world to listen to, and to discover, to deepen... I know my life won't be long enough to listen to all these things already released (and even currently being released), so I found it ridiculous to spend any second in my life behind a reaction video when I first met this format. BUT, lately a friend of mine told me about your channel, he pushed me a lot so I finally watched 3 or 4 of your videos (Rush, King Diamond and Zappa) and I have to admit the way you working here on your content is really interesting, especially (obviously) I like the fact that you add an analysis after each listen, and I must say, a real analysis since you look like a very scholar musician! Very professional work. Now I roam from time to time on your channel, and spend pleasant time listening to these analysis. In France we say : " only idiots never change their mind " ;D If one day you want to go very far outside of your comfort zone, this is waiting for you : ruclips.net/video/ahJB_6xzxxo/видео.html Bonne continuation with this awesome part of The Wall album, and with your channel !
You should listen the complete song in the movie or in live versions. The studio version is missing the second part and its lyrics help to understand better the whole song.
I think you'd be very interested in Pink Floyd's track Atom Heart Mother (Side 1 of the eponymous titled album). The foundation of this piece is classical with a beautiful, haunting choir with some challenging chords. In essence, it's Pink Floyd accompanying an orchestra.
Amy, you seem to knock it outta the park every time. Your analysis of these songs, and all the other bands/songs, is always so thoughtful, and your careful attention to detail is so fun, interesting, and dare i say eager? Far and away my favorite reactor on RUclips. Thanks for all you do. Your efforts are so obvious to those who pay attention. Now this is the part where I ask, nay, I plead for your listen and analysis of YES’ song “Turn Of The Century” , or even to risk the hope that you’ll choose instead, that mountaintop of prog songs, “Awaken”. I so love to click on your videos!
When you move on to the next track Young Lust, you should replay this one before it as the two work perfectly together. In fact most radio stations play them together as one song.
Your reactions are always enjoyable and enlightening, and I really enjoy your channel! I like it even more that you left the breaking harp string in the video!!! Great job,
When I was in my late teens, a local theater played the movie The Wall every Friday night at midnight. And they played The Rocky Horror Picture Show next door. I went every weekend to see The Wall for an entire summer. I have owned the album, the cassette, the CD and now on digital and I own the movie. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've listened to and watched The Wall. It’s fascinating to watch you analyze these songs. For the most part, I feel that you’re spot-on and it has caused me to hear them in a whole new way…especially when you were so affected by the abusive teachers. Every time I log-in to RUclips, I eagerly check to see of you’ve done another song.
@@Valarmorgolis It was in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Glenbrook Cinema. Glenbrook is a huge mall that had a small, 2 screen theater in the parking lot. Sadly, the theater was demolished years ago.
@@youyoutube126 I know that in the film there are more songs and I also would have preferred them to have been left in but it acts like a prelude in the context in which she is listening too. So yes. It is.
"Empty Spaces" are a direct reference the empty spaces in the wall. At this point in the concert/movie is the wall not far from being completed. Pink has said goodbye to the blue sky, and are now looking to complete his wall. Remember that the end of the last track of part one is the moment the final brick is put in the wall. And did you know they started "Hey You" in the middle of the break between the two halves, while people where buying hotdogs and beer, and dark on the scene, to catch people kindof off guard, making the "Hey You" really hit home?
'What shall we do now?' is a seperate song. Cut from the original album but included in the film and live shows. The lyrics are still on the original album artwork and shown as much. Don't forget to play it backwards to hear what the voices are saying.
Pink Floyd is great at creating this sort of industrial mechanized dystopian feel in their music. I think it symbolizes the dehumanizing influence of the modern world where one feels like a cog in a great machine that stifles one’s humanity and individuality. Or maybe I’m just full of it!
When I listened to this back in the day, as a teenager, I interpreted the first part of this song as bombs falling off in the distance on a nice day. The transition in the middle of the song was as planes were spotted headed towards Pink's location as a child, with the murmur of voices being being the adults and their concern and panic. The song as a whole being his remembering that feeling impending doom from his childhood and connecting it to the feeling of impending doom as an adult as he creates his wall.
I thought I understood the wall until I watched your videos. I only grew up on it and seen them in concert four times. We just watched The movie and had fun lol this is way more interesting!
This album never die...it change the meaning of the wall every time it works with all generations for one single person as an individual to a whole world politicly speaking..that's why you never get bored with it..bravo Roger!!
Good, you're moving along nicely. As others have said, there is a special message back masked on this song. If you have a vinyl record version, you can spin the record backwards and hear an interesting message. 🤔
Can't wait for the next reactions, this was the first album I ever owned (taped from my older brother when I was 9 or 10) back in the mid 90s Loving your reactions and professional inputs ✌️❤️🇭🇲
Up to 9:57 with those octaves we've heard a signature sound from Pink Floyd harking back to The Dark Side of the Moon from six years earlier; Dark Side has all of the sorts of soundscape elements you mention -- incidental, indistinct voices (and some almost distinct) and machines in some sort of public space accompanied by subtle, spare instrumentals and then an equally spare few lines of lyrics -- only in this song they are radically stripped back. Dark Side was also structured such that its songs too flowed into each other through these sorts of liminal soundscapes.
“A lot to unpack,” no truer words spoken about the music of Pink Floyd. There aren’t many bands who wrote Music at their level or were able to combine it with theme and lyrics.
Up to this point the Wall has been constructed by others- by forces beyond Pink’s control. Here he is contemplating how to become active in his own destruction. As if to say, “ If I’m going to be broken, I insist on doing it myself.” And if the ties are to be severed, he will spitefully see to it that they are severed permanently- that there’s no going back.
“It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play.” -- Miles Davis on the Empty Spaces in music. I love the analysis of something I've been listening to and drawn to for over 40 years. It is giving me insight into why I love this album so much. Please keep going. One thing I've thought for awhile about this track is it's use of (what I believe is) reversed vocal tracks just before the vocals come into play. It's clearly human voice but unintelligible and draws your attention in to listening for words rather than tones, and then the lyrics come. I can't think of any one else doing this to focus the listener on the lyrics that are to come. I'm sure this was the intent and I'm still surprised I can't find anyone else using this trick. (pretty sure I just don't get around enough to know)
The film version of this song and the visuals crafted by Gerald Scarfe are an umholy piece of eerie. The apex of rockstardom and madness converging inside of Pinks mind.
"Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Empty Spaces" is a juxtaposition of war time memories and his failed relationships. "Goodbye Blue Sky" is saying good bye to clear skies because of the WWII bombers over London as well as goodbye to his easy and unencumbered relationships and the building of the wall. "Empty Spaces" starts with a subtle bass sound that brings to mind bombs exploding in London juxtaposed with his relationships "exploding / failing" in a similar manner. So much symbolism in Floyds work as every song feeds into the next one.
This is a song where it really does pay to listen straight on the next one since that gives the answer to what's used to fill the empty spaces and complete the wall. The musical transition is also one of the best.
I am No musician, I do not know much beyond music that touches me, but when you first came on and I heard "that noise" , the first thing I thought was, that sounds like when I try to tune my acoustic guitar I Always break that high E string...Now I am sure someone, probably You, knew which string broke by the sound...all I knew was , sounded like a broken string and then you actually included that in your video...yet another reason I love you and your analysis, real is real
I twice saw Roger Waters live doing the wall. This was probably my favourite song which was extended for the live shows. It is an incredibly powerful piece of music and what made it remarkably better, was the projections onto the wall of the flowers coming together. I very highly recommend watching the live performance on you tube. Its incredible!
I love the unabridged version from the movie. I wish you heard that one. "How shall we fill the empty spaces?" In the movie he continues "Shall we buy a new guitar?... Shall we build a more powerful car?... Shall we work straight through the night?... etc.
That Jump into "Young Lust" is explosive, and abrupt, and I Love It. Roger Waters is so "blatant" about His Statements, and we continually get Bombastic Guitar Riffs, with one track, then back to moody, dark, and foreboding in the next. A Rollercoaster Ride through the Circular Nature of Humans. The ending where the children are gathering bricks for their own walls.
I see this song as a way of explaining the perspective of someone at the edge of completely shutting themselves out. Meaning the wall is almost completely built but there are areas left unfinished. Bright open moments here or there. Those few open areas of the wall where you can still see through to the outside are the few connections left to others such as with a spouse. Pink losing his relationship results in one less connection to the outside world and that hole in his heart that was once filled with a personal connection and conversation is now left vacant. After losing his relationship he doesn't have much left keeping him grounded and looks for ways to fill his broken heart. He tries to find something to replace his lost love. Material items, cheap sex, or even drugs. None of them bring him happiness. He becomes even more bitter and closed off. He gives up on the world. He knows he doesn't have a reason to be happy and begins to wonder if he should even try finding happiness anymore. He is fighting against depression but begins to accept a sleepwalk like apathy. Essentially, when he asks "What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk?" he is looking for something to heal his broken heart but that result in only superficial results. He then asks "How shall I fill the final places? How should I complete the wall?". What he is doing is he's allowing himself to spiral down further into despair. Instead of the bricks accumulating on their own he begins to create them himself. For example, self isolation. Instead of trying to find a new relationship or friends he avoids the possibility entirely. The pursuit of happiness becomes too painful. Accepting loneliness and depression lowers expectations of happiness leveling off at an empty existence. Unironically, becoming comfortably numb. Often people in their deepest level of social isolation and depression begin to form an almost addiction or longing for more isolation. People who almost drown speak about a kind of calm that comes over them moments before they expect to die. I think thats what its like near the 9th circle of hell. You fall so far it almost feels better to get the fall over with than to fight it anymore. Thats my view on it.
This album has lots of sonic similarities with Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare album, especially this track. Both albums were produced by Bob Ezrin, and you can hear his influence here.
@2:55, the voiced you hear are a backward recording. Get the vinyl and check it, it did, it is there. The "message says: "Congratulations you have discovered the secret message, please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm."
This song fills a self-referential function in the flow of the album. It is a bit of an intermission, after which the whole tone changes to something so much darker and more desperate. A part that explores the adult consequences of the childhood traumas experienced in the first part.. It is a brief piece to fill the empty space between the two acts.
The one note progression theme reminds me a bit of the part in Dire Straits' Private Investigations around the midway point where it's just a single bass note that's slowly repeated. Btw also a great song to react to someday, especially when Amy covers the 80's, along with Telegraph Road and the album they're from, Love Over Gold. Can't wait till she gets to Comfortably Numb, especially her reaction to the two guitar solos.
Congrats for Your Channel 😊the explanations well done and. Clear 🎉🎉🎉🎉You analyze Pink Floyd ❤and I analyze You😂.......Nice Isn’t??? From Los Cabos México
I'm waiting for the beginning of the next track. This album is one of my all time favorites. It has held up so solid in the may years since it's release in 1979
The main character of the story (Pink) is a famous rock star and the airport sounds at the beginning is him at one of many airports while he's touring.
An airport, or a train station? A train station can be much darker, more ominous, and at least in modern cities, the travel tends to at least start under ground. They're a warren of tunnels and passageways and and lines snaking in and out from every direction, all imposing marble and stone, tough and gritty, not the clean, bright and airy and hopeful environment that airports at least try to be.
Please when you have finished your project with the wall album, watch the stage performance. They build a littoral wall between the band and the audience as the show progresses. Its brilliant. The Wall movie is good as well at giving visuals to go with the music. Roger Waters always intended this to be a sight and sound performance.
There's a live version of this from Live In Berlin with Roger singing What Shall We Do Now with Bryan Adams, leading in to Bryan singing Young Lust. It's very good.
Hey Mike... Yes ...The Wall.. Live in Berlin..1990 is a breathtaking show.. "What Shall We Do Now" with Bryan Adams was amazing. It's obviously not on the album she's listening to. Amy NEEDS to see the 1990 Berlin show on video... She will flip !
Please carry on to the end. Also, you should watch the movie. I am od enough to have grown up on this and dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd were amazing 😊. Love your content by the way
5:24 The whole LP/work is about how we all to some extent build a wall. That's why it shifts focus from song to song. I've been listening to this marvel since day one, in whatever year it came out ( I can't be bothered to try and remember how long it has been, it seems almost my whole life, although at 64 I doubt that!), and every listening gives me a new insight. You really have to see the movie as well, I have a DVD which I watch about once a year just to re blow my mind. Oh, and no, I don't and have never, partaken of any mind altering chemicals, just your common or garden variety of nerd! So many people say that you need marijuana to "see" this LP or the movie...not this fella!
Always love your reactions. I would say that the chord implied is definitely minor as the tonal intervals from the tonic note are minor. The two additional tonal centers/chords also have a minor sound. I see them as 'chords' of some sort because playing major chords over them sounds completely wrong whereas minor chords sound correct. Of course, minor chords are well suited to create such a gloomy mood. This reminds me of a magazine interview from around 30 years ago in which Roger Waters was asked, "Are you or are you not the gloomiest man in rock?" 😁
Please write here your questions ONLY.
Are you going to do a megalisten video where you experience all of the wall at once but do not stop and analyze? Would be fun to see you put it all together
What string was it that broke? Might be a sign 🙂
Are harp strings costly, and does one string breaking, and the resulting tension change, necessitate an overall retuning?
Maybe I answer a question for you. Remember hearing some backwards speaking? I Believe it says something like, "congratulations you found the secret message. please send your answer to Pink. care of the funny farm"
How many times a year does a static / at rest harp string break? Just curious. Enjoying your ' The Wall ' reaction.
To me this section is ‘Pink’ talking about estrangement creeping in to a relationship. I feel, at this stage, he is almost determined to build his wall, he is just looking for the last couple of bricks before rejecting the world for good. Having suffered with depression for many years now I find myself identifying with a lot of the feelings that Waters touched on in this album. I started building my wall when I was in my teens and it almost ruined my life. Thankfully I met my wife and we will celebrate our fortieth anniversary next year.
Have you heard the extended version, from the film?
It has a much more rocky and energetic middle part with a LOT more lyrics.
If you haven't, it's on RUclips accompanied by the animated part of the film it backed up.
Lyics:
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall
Sorry to hear about your depression and your 40+ year marriage, that must be worse than the depression.
As someone else that suffers from depression, I think later on Pink Flyod albums, it seems David Gilmour dives deeper into it more in Keep Talking (Division Bell)
Congrats, Jim. I'm glad you are doing well.
@@sspbrazil - no comment 🤫
The version on the film isn't just better, it's one of the most musically powerful moments of Pink Floyd's career. Worth checking out.
She has, watch her In-depth Analysis video that she typically posts shortly after her First Listen video
It expanded on its message in every way possible.....Also worth mentioning the opening song before In The Flesh begins....wasn't even on the album.
The power of the film and live concert versions relies upon Gerald Scarfe’s visuals more than on the music. It’s a very successful audio-visual presentation that is more than the sum of its parts considered in isolation. The music separate from the presence or remembrance of those visuals is nowhere close to Pink Floyd’s career best music, even if it does work well as a soundtrack/accompaniment piece.
Came here to say pretty much the same thing. Great minds 😅
@@SelfEvident haven't actually seen the film :).
So both Empty Spaces and What Shall We Do are on it? Because the portion of What Shall We Do that is musically similar to Empty Spaces uses different lyrics. As I understood it Empty Spaces is not in the film.
If you ever did the album “Wish You Were Here,” the 2 Shine On You Crazy Diamonds are a masterpiece right up your alley and you’d experience their musical genius 😊
Totally agree, can't believe she hasn't found Shine on you Crazy Diamond. To me all 9 parts represent the very best of Pink Floyd.
ABSOLUTELY 👍🏻
Shine On is their finest moment and considering their body of work that is saying something. It’s a true masterpiece. It frustrates me she hasn’t reacted to it, lol.
~ "...Crazy Diamonds?..."
One diamond.
Please!!!
This is the only track that benefits from its extended version both in the movie and live
Agreed.
Agreed....this version doesn't pack the punch.
I'd add Outside The Wall, I've always liked the movie version a little better.
Disagreed. Another Brick Pt. 2 with the keyboard solo, Last Few Bricks, and full versions of Brick the Boys Back Home & The Show Must Go On are all worthy additions.
Mother too
Amy did it again! Once more I'm listening a song I've known for (four) decades in a new and much more informative way, not only musically but also in its meaning - Amy is such a master at making these connections relevant and making sense of them.
I'm so glad the algorithm gods brought me to your channel. There aren't words for how much I love Pink Floyd and I really love the approach you take to their music. I've gotten a lot out of what you have to say about The Wall so far. Thank you. ✌🏽
Btw, my profile picture 👈 is from the Empty Spaces part of the movie. I also have this tattooed on my arm. 🙂
👍 profile pic
If you heard what sounded like some vocals in there, it was actually a secret message, recorded backwards, and overlaid onto the song tracks.
It says something like, IIRC, "Congratulations, you have discovered the secret message...", and then it says something about writing or calling to someplace or someone to get some information.
Back in the day, people who were huge fans of rock and roll were at times convinced they were hearing "messages" imbedded in the music, sometimes even that someone was sending them a personal message hidden inside the music.
So this kind of played into that whole undercurrent in 1970s rock and roll.
Also, back in the day, almost everyone listened to these records on vinyl LPs played on a turntable, so if you had the right kind of turntable, you could turn off the motor that turned the platter, and using your finger, turn the disc backwards, in order to hear the message.
Just some trivia for you.
it's roger doing the secret message. after the congratulations he says, "please send your answer to old pink c/o the funny farm". there is then someone calling to him from off mic saying his wife is on the phone. roger just left that in. it is a fun bit of trivia that you can't hear without the vinyl version to play backward. it's been online for years,but there was something special about running the record backward that you miss from just hearing the online version.
Belt drive turntables allowed you to do this. Some Direct drive motors didn't allow you to rotate backwards. And some stylus'really didn't like being spun backwards.
@@colinsmith8908 I used to do it with cassette tapes. I would get the kind that had screws and unscrew it and take the tape out and flip them so the real wasn't going on the outside but going towards the inside of the rolls, and I did it for stairway to heaven, was the only one, and it does say forgive my sweet Satan on the part where forwards it says if there's a bustle in your Hedgerow don't be alarmed now...
@@colinsmith8908think you got it the wrong way around . DJ S use direct drive to cue up snd scratch etc. 😃eg SL 1210
What a shame you didnt continue to "young lust" because that segway is one of the most smooth transitions i have ever heard, and the best one from the album. Cool video anyway😘🤘
in my opinion you should hear this "transition tracks" with their following song, because thats the meaning of them, and they are not "real length songs".
This is the album version which was cut for time. The live version (concert) is much longer. The lyrics of the whole version were included in the liner for LP.
Read the whole lyrics to get a better idea of this song or listen to a live version.
I'm almost 46 and have been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 5. Absolutely my favorite band. Their music brings me so many memories. My children now listen to them and love them too. They're 14, 9, 9.
It's hard to listen to this without the following song.
I know it’s my favorite song!
I’ll never forget Bryan Adams and rogers water’s singing this live in Berlin. When the actual real wall was being torn down. And how young I was thinking things in the world would get better.
I'm here from the algorithm, I'm excited to see your response and opinion to more pink Floyd.
I played the backwards message once as a young fella. It says something along the lines of "Congratulations, you've discovered the secret message. Please submit your answer to Pink, care of the funny farm."
In the original film/live version, the song is extended. Well worth listening to.
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across this sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
What Shall we do Now?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on at night?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
Contract disease?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Raise rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall
Backs to the Wall
OTOH, that extra stuff is probably on the next song on the album. It would be a pity if they skipped this part entirely on the album, because it is pretty powerful.
You weren't clear enough for me, though it now seems you know this. This portion you quote isn't on the album at all, as the next song is Young Lust (I just perused the rest of the album). It's a shame this portion isn't on the album, because it's VERY good, but assuming she does the film, as she said she would, we will see that well enough. I'm not entirely convinced, should she do it, that she won't dump analyzing the music, because it's very much the same, but here, as you point out, there's this significant difference.
@@charles2241 It was edited out of the album, probably for space. No CDs back then remember, all vinyl.
@@markraishbrook Yes, I was reading around about it, and one post had mentioned they didn't have enough "empty space". Quite ironic I think. Actually, one small correction in your lyrics. You didn't give the "mores" enough credit in referring to the applause line. I think you could say there are only two mores as you list, but there are what you might also call two echo mores, making four total.
@@charles2241 Yes, the "mores" are echoes. Not my transcription, btw. My point was just that this whole section of the song is missing off the album. I saw The Wall live at Earls Court in the summer of 1981 and, although that was a very long time ago, I am PDS the extended version was played. Anyway, it's in the film, the music is great and it just makes the song... better.
Pink Floyd unite the people no matter what the language barrier is. Amazing.
It also gives a nod and a wink to "Welcome to the Machine" from "Wish you were here"
The empty space in-between this song and the next is one of the best musical breaks in history when treating the two as one.
@10:15-Many who are depressed only hear the added words of help from the outside as re-enforcing the emptiness.
Peace/JT
Waters voice is unique. Thrills me everytime.
Nothing makes me happier than when I see Pink Floyd song you have chosen.
I never understood how someone could spend time watching for other's reaction to music, I mean, there are so many things in this world to listen to, and to discover, to deepen... I know my life won't be long enough to listen to all these things already released (and even currently being released), so I found it ridiculous to spend any second in my life behind a reaction video when I first met this format. BUT, lately a friend of mine told me about your channel, he pushed me a lot so I finally watched 3 or 4 of your videos (Rush, King Diamond and Zappa) and I have to admit the way you working here on your content is really interesting, especially (obviously) I like the fact that you add an analysis after each listen, and I must say, a real analysis since you look like a very scholar musician! Very professional work. Now I roam from time to time on your channel, and spend pleasant time listening to these analysis. In France we say : " only idiots never change their mind " ;D
If one day you want to go very far outside of your comfort zone, this is waiting for you : ruclips.net/video/ahJB_6xzxxo/видео.html
Bonne continuation with this awesome part of The Wall album, and with your channel !
''What shall we use to fill the empty spaces......where we used to talk?''
You should listen the complete song in the movie or in live versions. The studio version is missing the second part and its lyrics help to understand better the whole song.
This is definitely one for the video... so powerful. As always, great reaction. Thank you. 😊
I think you'd be very interested in Pink Floyd's track Atom Heart Mother (Side 1 of the eponymous titled album). The foundation of this piece is classical with a beautiful, haunting choir with some challenging chords. In essence, it's Pink Floyd accompanying an orchestra.
Your reactions are always honest and authentic, and your analyses always make me think. Compelling stuff.
Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... For the Worms..., and The Analysis. Thank you, we really enjoy your work in family.
Nobody can explain and dissect Pink Floyd like you can! Look forward to more
Amy, you seem to knock it outta the park every time. Your analysis
of these songs, and all the other bands/songs, is always so thoughtful, and your careful attention to detail is so fun, interesting, and dare i say eager? Far and away my favorite reactor on RUclips. Thanks for all you do. Your efforts are so obvious to those who pay attention. Now this is the part where I ask, nay, I plead for your listen and analysis of YES’ song “Turn Of The Century” , or even to risk the hope that you’ll choose instead, that mountaintop of prog songs, “Awaken”. I so love to click on your videos!
... or "Close To The Edge," but yes, the 2 you mention are also up there in my Yes faves.
I dont think Amy will enjoy Close to the Edge as much as the two that I requested.
very nice perspective of this song amy loved it simplicity is sometime blessed
This is the first of 3 I've been waiting for, love your reactions to this piece of my teen years🤘
When you move on to the next track Young Lust, you should replay this one before it as the two work perfectly together. In fact most radio stations play them together as one song.
Your reactions are always enjoyable and enlightening, and I really enjoy your channel! I like it even more that you left the breaking harp string in the video!!! Great job,
You are doing just fine lady. Love you reactions
Very industrial sounding, and menacing. "Empty spaces" in his heart.....the wall is still under construction.
Can't wait to see the next ones! What a great journey and analysis.
next song rocks! i am just a new boy, stranger in this town........
When I was in my late teens, a local theater played the movie The Wall every Friday night at midnight. And they played The Rocky Horror Picture Show next door. I went every weekend to see The Wall for an entire summer. I have owned the album, the cassette, the CD and now on digital and I own the movie. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've listened to and watched The Wall.
It’s fascinating to watch you analyze these songs. For the most part, I feel that you’re spot-on and it has caused me to hear them in a whole new way…especially when you were so affected by the abusive teachers. Every time I log-in to RUclips, I eagerly check to see of you’ve done another song.
Garneau Theatre?
Somewhere in New Jersey, by chance?
@@Valarmorgolis It was in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Glenbrook Cinema. Glenbrook is a huge mall that had a small, 2 screen theater in the parking lot. Sadly, the theater was demolished years ago.
This song is basically the prelude for the next song in the album version. You essentially just listened to an intro.
@@youyoutube126 I know that in the film there are more songs and I also would have preferred them to have been left in but it acts like a prelude in the context in which she is listening too.
So yes. It is.
I would recommend viewing the movie version of this. It's on RUclips.
The Wall could be my documentary as well. PF is family for ever.
Love you to bits with your analysis 😮
Lovely analysis, spot on. Looking forward to the rest of the album from your point of view.
Then we'll suggest some YES. With harp. Of course.
"Empty Spaces" are a direct reference the empty spaces in the wall. At this point in the concert/movie is the wall not far from being completed. Pink has said goodbye to the blue sky, and are now looking to complete his wall. Remember that the end of the last track of part one is the moment the final brick is put in the wall. And did you know they started "Hey You" in the middle of the break between the two halves, while people where buying hotdogs and beer, and dark on the scene, to catch people kindof off guard, making the "Hey You" really hit home?
Most menacing, yet most beautiful piece of music ever.
'What shall we do now?' is a seperate song. Cut from the original album but included in the film and live shows. The lyrics are still on the original album artwork and shown as much. Don't forget to play it backwards to hear what the voices are saying.
Every week, I only wait for your Pink Floyd - The Wall series. Just a small request, kindly do not skip the week, just kept it consistent, thank you!
Birth time coming and Amy have to use all prerecorded material
This is not complete without the 2nd part that appears in the movie. Love these.
Pink Floyd is great at creating this sort of industrial mechanized dystopian feel in their music. I think it symbolizes the dehumanizing influence of the modern world where one feels like a cog in a great machine that stifles one’s humanity and individuality. Or maybe I’m just full of it!
On that note, I'd say the Pink Floyd song Welcome to the Machine exemplifies just what you're talking about.
Spot on with this analysis.
When I listened to this back in the day, as a teenager, I interpreted the first part of this song as bombs falling off in the distance on a nice day. The transition in the middle of the song was as planes were spotted headed towards Pink's location as a child, with the murmur of voices being being the adults and their concern and panic. The song as a whole being his remembering that feeling impending doom from his childhood and connecting it to the feeling of impending doom as an adult as he creates his wall.
I thought I understood the wall until I watched your videos. I only grew up on it and seen them in concert four times. We just watched The movie and had fun lol this is way more interesting!
There's a million and one interpretations one can give to a Floyd track, just brilliant and more!
This album never die...it change the meaning of the wall every time it works with all generations for one single person as an individual to a whole world politicly speaking..that's why you never get bored with it..bravo Roger!!
Good, you're moving along nicely. As others have said, there is a special message back masked on this song. If you have a vinyl record version, you can spin the record backwards and hear an interesting message. 🤔
Can't wait for the next reactions, this was the first album I ever owned (taped from my older brother when I was 9 or 10) back in the mid 90s
Loving your reactions and professional inputs ✌️❤️🇭🇲
Up to 9:57 with those octaves we've heard a signature sound from Pink Floyd harking back to The Dark Side of the Moon from six years earlier; Dark Side has all of the sorts of soundscape elements you mention -- incidental, indistinct voices (and some almost distinct) and machines in some sort of public space accompanied by subtle, spare instrumentals and then an equally spare few lines of lyrics -- only in this song they are radically stripped back. Dark Side was also structured such that its songs too flowed into each other through these sorts of liminal soundscapes.
i never understood why they made a "short" version.... the full song is masterful.... lyrically brilliant
They had to cut the "What Shall We Do Now?" portion because it wouldn't fit on Side 2 along with "Young Lust."
They should have cut young lust out instead. Least favorite Floyd song. It’s sounds like the eagles
“A lot to unpack,” no truer words spoken about the music of Pink Floyd. There aren’t many bands who wrote Music at their level or were able to combine it with theme and lyrics.
Up to this point the Wall has been constructed by others- by forces beyond Pink’s control.
Here he is contemplating how to become active in his own destruction. As if to say, “ If I’m going to be broken, I insist on doing it myself.”
And if the ties are to be severed, he will spitefully see to it that they are severed permanently- that there’s no going back.
Enchanting, as always.
“It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play.” -- Miles Davis on the Empty Spaces in music. I love the analysis of something I've been listening to and drawn to for over 40 years. It is giving me insight into why I love this album so much. Please keep going.
One thing I've thought for awhile about this track is it's use of (what I believe is) reversed vocal tracks just before the vocals come into play. It's clearly human voice but unintelligible and draws your attention in to listening for words rather than tones, and then the lyrics come. I can't think of any one else doing this to focus the listener on the lyrics that are to come. I'm sure this was the intent and I'm still surprised I can't find anyone else using this trick. (pretty sure I just don't get around enough to know)
This series of analyzing "The Wall" has been awesome.
The film version of this song and the visuals crafted by Gerald Scarfe are an umholy piece of eerie.
The apex of rockstardom and madness converging inside of Pinks mind.
~ The animations are the only thing in the movie I actually like.
"Goodbye Blue Sky" and "Empty Spaces" is a juxtaposition of war time memories and his failed relationships. "Goodbye Blue Sky" is saying good bye to clear skies because of the WWII bombers over London as well as goodbye to his easy and unencumbered relationships and the building of the wall. "Empty Spaces" starts with a subtle bass sound that brings to mind bombs exploding in London juxtaposed with his relationships "exploding / failing" in a similar manner. So much symbolism in Floyds work as every song feeds into the next one.
This is a song where it really does pay to listen straight on the next one since that gives the answer to what's used to fill the empty spaces and complete the wall. The musical transition is also one of the best.
I am No musician, I do not know much beyond music that touches me, but when you first came on and I heard "that noise" , the first thing I thought was, that sounds like when I try to tune my acoustic guitar I Always break that high E string...Now I am sure someone, probably You, knew which string broke by the sound...all I knew was , sounded like a broken string and then you actually included that in your video...yet another reason I love you and your analysis, real is real
I twice saw Roger Waters live doing the wall. This was probably my favourite song which was extended for the live shows. It is an incredibly powerful piece of music and what made it remarkably better, was the projections onto the wall of the flowers coming together. I very highly recommend watching the live performance on you tube. Its incredible!
Great reaction as usual... and the best thing is Young Lust is next 😁
I think the harp is picking up on the emotions you're feeling as you progress through this album.
I love the unabridged version from the movie. I wish you heard that one. "How shall we fill the empty spaces?" In the movie he continues "Shall we buy a new guitar?... Shall we build a more powerful car?... Shall we work straight through the night?... etc.
That Jump into "Young Lust" is explosive, and abrupt, and I Love It. Roger Waters is so "blatant" about His Statements, and we continually get Bombastic Guitar Riffs, with one track,
then back to moody, dark, and foreboding in the next. A Rollercoaster Ride through the Circular Nature of Humans. The ending where the children are gathering bricks for their own walls.
Love that jump. Happy someone else appreciates that.
He urgently needed a dirty woman to fill his empty spaces... Because he had a room bigger than her apartment...
And yes, those are all his guitars.
@@garryiglesias4074 LOL, but then His wife is cheating on Him. His own fault though. He should have talked to her more often than He did.
I saw Roger Waters in 2010. Absolutely one of my favorite concerts.
The imagery in the movie for this is pretty powerful.
David Gilmour wrote a similar song later for Pink Flyod called Keep Talking on the Division Bell album.
I see this song as a way of explaining the perspective of someone at the edge of completely shutting themselves out. Meaning the wall is almost completely built but there are areas left unfinished. Bright open moments here or there.
Those few open areas of the wall where you can still see through to the outside are the few connections left to others such as with a spouse. Pink losing his relationship results in one less connection to the outside world and that hole in his heart that was once filled with a personal connection and conversation is now left vacant. After losing his relationship he doesn't have much left keeping him grounded and looks for ways to fill his broken heart.
He tries to find something to replace his lost love. Material items, cheap sex, or even drugs. None of them bring him happiness. He becomes even more bitter and closed off. He gives up on the world. He knows he doesn't have a reason to be happy and begins to wonder if he should even try finding happiness anymore. He is fighting against depression but begins to accept a sleepwalk like apathy.
Essentially, when he asks "What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk?" he is looking for something to heal his broken heart but that result in only superficial results. He then asks "How shall I fill the final places? How should I complete the wall?". What he is doing is he's allowing himself to spiral down further into despair. Instead of the bricks accumulating on their own he begins to create them himself. For example, self isolation. Instead of trying to find a new relationship or friends he avoids the possibility entirely. The pursuit of happiness becomes too painful. Accepting loneliness and depression lowers expectations of happiness leveling off at an empty existence. Unironically, becoming comfortably numb.
Often people in their deepest level of social isolation and depression begin to form an almost addiction or longing for more isolation. People who almost drown speak about a kind of calm that comes over them moments before they expect to die. I think thats what its like near the 9th circle of hell. You fall so far it almost feels better to get the fall over with than to fight it anymore. Thats my view on it.
This album has lots of sonic similarities with Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare album, especially this track. Both albums were produced by Bob Ezrin, and you can hear his influence here.
@2:55, the voiced you hear are a backward recording. Get the vinyl and check it, it did, it is there. The "message says: "Congratulations you have discovered the secret message, please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm."
This song fills a self-referential function in the flow of the album. It is a bit of an intermission, after which the whole tone changes to something so much darker and more desperate. A part that explores the adult consequences of the childhood traumas experienced in the first part..
It is a brief piece to fill the empty space between the two acts.
The one note progression theme reminds me a bit of the part in Dire Straits' Private Investigations around the midway point where it's just a single bass note that's slowly repeated.
Btw also a great song to react to someday, especially when Amy covers the 80's, along with Telegraph Road and the album they're from, Love Over Gold.
Can't wait till she gets to Comfortably Numb, especially her reaction to the two guitar solos.
I had no idea Harp strings could just randomly break! As a guitar player, it's usually when I'm playing too hard!!! 😃
The empty spaces lead you to empty spaces 😱💚
Admit it it’s a masterpiece.
Congrats for Your Channel 😊the explanations well done and. Clear 🎉🎉🎉🎉You analyze Pink Floyd ❤and I analyze You😂.......Nice Isn’t??? From Los Cabos México
Thanks for another great reaction.
I'm waiting for the beginning of the next track. This album is one of my all time favorites. It has held up so solid in the may years since it's release in 1979
The main character of the story (Pink) is a famous rock star and the airport sounds at the beginning is him at one of many airports while he's touring.
For a first time listener, very insightful.
I like this format
An airport, or a train station? A train station can be much darker, more ominous, and at least in modern cities, the travel tends to at least start under ground. They're a warren of tunnels and passageways and and lines snaking in and out from every direction, all imposing marble and stone, tough and gritty, not the clean, bright and airy and hopeful environment that airports at least try to be.
Please when you have finished your project with the wall album, watch the stage performance. They build a littoral wall between the band and the audience as the show progresses. Its brilliant. The Wall movie is good as well at giving visuals to go with the music. Roger Waters always intended this to be a sight and sound performance.
There's a live version of this from Live In Berlin with Roger singing What Shall We Do Now with Bryan Adams, leading in to Bryan singing Young Lust. It's very good.
Hey Mike... Yes ...The Wall.. Live in Berlin..1990 is a breathtaking show.. "What Shall We Do Now" with Bryan Adams was amazing. It's obviously not on the album she's listening to. Amy NEEDS to see the 1990 Berlin show on video... She will flip !
I always understood this song to mean… the empty spaces in the wall, in his life, in his relationships.
Any thought as to when you'll explore the next track? Have really been enjoying these.
Ce n'est pas de la musique mais une oeuvre musicale presque cinématographique. C'est ce qui fait la beauté de la musique de ¨Pink Floyd.
Enjoyable series 🙂Are you doing the rest of the album?
Please carry on to the end. Also, you should watch the movie. I am od enough to have grown up on this and dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd were amazing 😊. Love your content by the way
im wondering it is only the "Empty space" part, the "What Should We Do Now" part is in movie, also on you tube. highly recommended. cheers.
It's VERY Hard to be alone....The fear of dying alone....The existential thought of life.....
5:24 The whole LP/work is about how we all to some extent build a wall. That's why it shifts focus from song to song. I've been listening to this marvel since day one, in whatever year it came out ( I can't be bothered to try and remember how long it has been, it seems almost my whole life, although at 64 I doubt that!), and every listening gives me a new insight. You really have to see the movie as well, I have a DVD which I watch about once a year just to re blow my mind. Oh, and no, I don't and have never, partaken of any mind altering chemicals, just your common or garden variety of nerd! So many people say that you need marijuana to "see" this LP or the movie...not this fella!
Please watch one of her in-depth analysis videos. She already knows and has done all of this
Always love your reactions. I would say that the chord implied is definitely minor as the tonal intervals from the tonic note are minor. The two additional tonal centers/chords also have a minor sound. I see them as 'chords' of some sort because playing major chords over them sounds completely wrong whereas minor chords sound correct. Of course, minor chords are well suited to create such a gloomy mood. This reminds me of a magazine interview from around 30 years ago in which Roger Waters was asked, "Are you or are you not the gloomiest man in rock?" 😁
When your done I hope you watch the movie The Wall and see their rendition.