Goodbye Blue Sky is the metaphor for having to spend most of your time in a bomb shelter, but is also a metaphor for broken innocence. The song is set in UK WW2. You guys should watch The Wall movie :)
@@guidosarducci 9/11/01 was also a clear, beautiful day. Those kinds of days seem to be chosen for demonstrations like these ones. Give everyone a clear view of the carnage.
"Goodbye blue sky" is also about the innocence lost by the millions of kids who's lives were disrupted by the German Blitz in 1940-1941. That opening line about the plane in the sky was the last time that kid (or any of that era in England) would be able to look up in innocent wonder and marvel at a plane....once the bombs stared to fall all wonder and innocence was lost, replaced by fear and loathing.
It is an innocent airplane. It is a child growing up post war. The song is a reflection of the war. They are questions of the past, did you see the frightened ones? Not do you see the frightened ones? Did you? The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on. The war is over. The fires are out. But the devastation is still there.
People that know nothing about the premise of the wall or Roger Waters upbringing will connect this song to more current events, of course, but you need to take it more literal, the horrors of the blitz and the bombing of Great Britain was with the people endured it through the rest of their lives
Pink Floyd is a band for the thinking person. Attention must be paid to the lyrics in each song on the entire album -- the albums are STORIES, start to finish ("The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon" are examples, but there are others from this band).
Unfortunately though, he remains utterly befuddled by the meaning of sometimes very simple and straightforward lyrics about 95% of the time. Or he'll get tripped up by a couple of words in one line and then get lost running off on some irrelevant tangent. Lex, on the other hand, her mind is a marvel of nature! Lol!
One of my favorite PF songs. The guitar is exquisite, and the mood how it shifts back and forth from promising to ominous so quickly is just amazing. You both should listen to the full album The Wall at some point, as it tells a full story.
Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the Promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue Sky? Such evocative lyrics.
The philosopher who wrote the book "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, also wrote another famous book called "The Doors of Perception". The band "The Doors" was named after this. More strange still, "The Doors" singer, Jim Morrison, his father was the Commander of the naval fleet that was involved with the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.. this incident is what started the Vietnam War. Life is stranger than fiction.
This is an astonishing piece of songwriting. The major upbeat chords and harmony…. Shift effortlessly into minor chords, and fear… perfectly captures the songs message. Superb .
This, for some reason, is my absolute favorite Pink Floyd song. I just fell in love with it the first time I heard it. We were sitting in my friend's backyard, kicking it by the pool; the album had just come out.
If you watch the original video for "Goodbye Blue Sky", you will really see, what Pink Floyd was talking about... So much more in the pictures, than just words.❤
I saw System of a Down in concert and they played this song. It sounded just like Pink Floyd, it was amazing! Yes, I agree with everyone else. It’s time for you guys to listen to the Wall in it’s entirety.
I know you probably already know this but the Wall is a concept album with each song being like a chapter in a book telling a bigger story. i strongly recommend you listen to the whole record in it's entirety. when you do, the lyrics make a lot more sense.
The Wall was very interesting to our group of friends growing up. Also a time when we would gather at a friend's house with the sole purpose of listening to an entire album. As a teenager one of the things to do was drop a couple blotter paper squares on your tongue and pop the movie in a VCR. We had an opportunity to see it at a movie theater in 1995. It was an intense experience, and one to remember. But watching it again in my forties took on a whole new meaning. And this track will put you in a place in time that none of us could even imagine. This is an album/movie that can only be understood as a grown adult. And how it tells a complex story about growing up during WWII. Coming of age, dealing with heartbreak, and becoming a successful artist. I don't know who's story it told. But it is definitely one of the greatest stories ever told. And done in a way that will never be copied.
Pink Floyd possesses a lyrical eloquence and evocative musicality that transcends much of popular music in logical depth and artistic sophistication. I enjoyed your journey through this song but can not get past the emotional burden of acknowledging that this motif of lost innocence and fading blue skies is a reality for the people of Ukraine right now. Thank you.
As others have said, you have to listen to the album as a whole. And Pink Floyd are masters of shifting the mood of their music. Something so beautiful can masterfully transition to an ominous sound or back-n-forth during the course of a song.
I would love to see your reaction to the Wall from start to finish. Live stream would be great. The whole album and the why the songs transition make the songs that much better.
Come to think of it, you hear and see many metal bands who want to be scary, devil inspired music ?, well Pink Floyd's concepts are scarier because those feel real, I mean, Pink Floyd is really heavy.
You gotta watch “The Wall” to get this in context. My grandmother lived in London during WW II. I wish I had thought of playing this for her. Watch the movie.
These songs are so hard to properly put in context without listening to the whole album. It's an experience that rolls from one into the other and explains so much!
One of my favorite songs of all time. It’s kind of hard to believe that there is actually someone left on the planet who has never heard THE WALL in its entirety let alone this song. But hey I am sure they are out there. I would recommend that you listen to the entire album to understand how you may what Roger Water’s was trying to convey by this masterpiece.
This song begins the story of "The Wall" and juxtaposes the innocence of a child seeing an airplane with the destructiveness of the planes of war, the war that claimed the life of the little boy's father. For people of Roger Waters' generation, they remembered the terror of London being firebombed by the Luftwaffe and people having to take refuge underground to survive, surfacing to see their neighborhoods obliterated and possibly losing loved ones who could not scramble underground quickly enough. The song is a farewell to the innocence of childhood, an innocence lost all too soon. And it is quintessential Pink Floyd. Oh, and if you ever visit the 9/11 memorial in New York City, there's a wall of different shades of blue paper, intermingled with gray and black pages. They asked people who were in NYC during the 9/11 attack to choose a color that represented the color they remember the sky being on that day. So yes, in times of war, the sky does sometimes appear blue, but it can also appear smoky and dark. It all depends on one's perspective.
you guys HAVE to watch the wall. all this music is the soundtrack to an awesome ninety-five minute long video. all the songs make so much more sense. love you two!
Pink Floyd band members, like most of the musicians of the 60s and early 70s, were born during or immediately after World War II. Even the Americans had relatives that served, but the Brits had relatives who experienced it from the civilian side too. Same for other countries, of course, but that played out in different art forms in different places.
I think this song works best in the context of the album. Like many commenters say, you should really do full albums for Pink Floyd. Especially The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals and Wish You Were Here, which are all albums build around a concept.
Goodbye Blue Sky, flows into Empty Spaces and Young Lust, a real banger which you've heard. You guys might like "What Do You Want From Me?" from The Division Bell album. It's very groovy, in that low-down, slow kinda Floyd way!
Back in the 90's it was always a thing for me & my friends to (take a mind altering substance). And watch The Wall... It's quite the story to see when you're under the influence. Lol! Really deep time, especially if you ever watch the official movie.. Congratulations also you two!!
@@martinL1577 oh I've had that debate many times... But music is personal and everybody thinks their interpretations are the best.. Just good times with good friends..
Yeah for me in the 80s on vhs as I was just not old enough to watch the movie in the theater(I think I was 12),. The cartoon parts are great but when he loses his shit in the hotel room with the groupie during the song "One of my Turns" is one of the most mind blowing scenes on film.
I still remember this time me and a couple friends had taken some blotter and and the trippy aspects were starting to die as we left to drive to another friend's house. This song was playing just as a light rain started and the oooooo, oooooo part was playing when an ambulance went by as we were waiting to pull onto the road. No siren, just the lights signaling it was a deceased person within. We just sat there in silence for about 5 minutes and yet we sensed exactly what each of us was thinking. Like a living sad dream.
The airplane in the beginning is a Luftwaffe bomber from WW2 during the Blitz of England. The little girl spotted the bomber coming in. Roger Waters, who wrote the lyrics but liked David’s voice for the song, lost his father in WW2 and his mother was badly mentally affected by his death. He was a young child being raised by a single mom who was probably unstable for a long time. It affected him. It sure did help him write some phenomenal music over the years. Thank God he had three of the finest musicians you’ll find outside of symphony orchestras to help him put it all together. Gilmour did a tremendous amount of the instrumentation and song sculpting. Heck of a team. Lennon/MCCartney level writers. That’s not easy…
You guys have to watch the movie or listen to the full album uninterrupted! Its a must for any music fan. The experience is like nothing else. If you know you know. Lol.
When I was 18 I visited my sister in Florida and she took me a laser light show of The Wall. It was at a planetarium and one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Up to that point at least.
Pink floyd the wall is meant to be listened to as a whole...its a story to be told. There's also a pretty trippy movie the band put out by the same name you should just watch if you are going to listen to the whole album. It explains so much of the album. Hands down top 5 best music experiences. I've also seen them in concert (David Gilmour) it was pretty epic. Fun fact I discovered with my parents records...there is a song that appears on the album the wall they had, that does not appear on the subsequent releases!
What is the song please? Also ( I may be way off ) if it's an old vinyl record in good condition with an extra song there is a chance it may be valuable if it's very rare. Of course you may not want to part with it but it's probably worth finding out
They tell a story with a whole album. Every song is linked. You guys should really watch the movie "The Wall". It will give you a totally different perception of their music and you will see how the songs are linked.
In 'The Wall' story, the war (World War II in this case), was one of the 'bricks in the wall' that contributed to the social breakdown of the character 'Pink'.
It's been said, metaphorical for the common belief of "blue skies" typically being equated to happiness and good thoughts but in this case, the juxtapose of not always and the irony of the young boy innocently pointing out to his mother the airplane up in the sky, when it's actually there to do them harm, but the boy just sees blue skies and a airplane, completely oblivious to what is happening and the loss of innocence that will affect him the rest of his life..."the flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on..."...hence goodbye blue sky, he'll never see it the same again...
Like many 70’s rockers, the members of Pink Floyd were born around the time of WW2 or shortly thereafter. They had to have been influenced by it in some way.
Bassist Roger Watters was referring to what it was like for the English kids when the German Bombers were bombing England. And the memories of them having to hide down in the subways until the Air Raids were over with.
As others have said, the whole album - and movie! - need to be heard as one. And yes, it's the change from the innocence of seeing a plane to the discovery that it's a bomber and hiding in a shelter away from the sky, specifically in the UK during World War 2. The gentle guitar work reminds me of an earlier Pink Floyd song about idyllic England - "Grantchester Meadows".
I heard “brave new world” which is a book about dystopia. Check out “Well well well” by John Lennon. I’ve known that song for years and just had the “aha” moment. The first sentence is a hint
Few of the songs on The Wall --this one included---were meant to be stand alone songs. Its a concept album where each song is meant to be a contributing chapter to the story.
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Goodbye Blue Sky is the metaphor for having to spend most of your time in a bomb shelter, but is also a metaphor for broken innocence. The song is set in UK WW2. You guys should watch The Wall movie :)
It almost matches the day Hiroshima was obliterated also...it was a clear "blue sky" when the bomb was dropped...
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Or listen to the full album (What they won't do).
@@guidosarducci 9/11/01 was also a clear, beautiful day. Those kinds of days seem to be chosen for demonstrations like these ones. Give everyone a clear view of the carnage.
Alan Parker, the director really brought the epic album to life..he also directed, Mississippi Burning, a must see…
"Goodbye blue sky" is also about the innocence lost by the millions of kids who's lives were disrupted by the German Blitz in 1940-1941. That opening line about the plane in the sky was the last time that kid (or any of that era in England) would be able to look up in innocent wonder and marvel at a plane....once the bombs stared to fall all wonder and innocence was lost, replaced by fear and loathing.
The song is taking place in WWII. It was never an "innocent airplane", it was a bomber being seen through the eyes of a child.
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It is an innocent airplane. It is a child growing up post war. The song is a reflection of the war. They are questions of the past, did you see the frightened ones? Not do you see the frightened ones? Did you? The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on. The war is over. The fires are out. But the devastation is still there.
People that know nothing about the premise of the wall or Roger Waters upbringing will connect this song to more current events, of course, but you need to take it more literal, the horrors of the blitz and the bombing of Great Britain was with the people endured it through the rest of their lives
Listen to the entire album to grasp what it's all about. 1979 and I had it on every day for almost six months. One of the highlights of my life.
I was right there with you. It consumes you until you figure out every Last detail. With no Google!!
It really is a flawless, timeless album. It never gets old…..ever
I got a hold of this album in '86. The movie was in constant VHS rotation in my room for weeks.
Pink Floyd is a band for the thinking person. Attention must be paid to the lyrics in each song on the entire album -- the albums are STORIES, start to finish ("The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon" are examples, but there are others from this band).
@@artbagley1406 absolutely correct!
"Every song by Pink Floyd is like a movie, like a mind movie." -Lex LOVE IT!
This is about the main character (Pink) as a child during the blitz when the German bombers were laying waste to London.
Just wanted to point out that WW2 didn't have "jets" in combat as we know and militaries use today. They still used em propellers to fly.
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Gotta hear the whole album. Listening to just one song is like reading just one chapter of a book.
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Seriously, Brad is so much into lyrics and their meaning, you two should do whole concept albums.
Unfortunately though, he remains utterly befuddled by the meaning of sometimes very simple and straightforward lyrics about 95% of the time. Or he'll get tripped up by a couple of words in one line and then get lost running off on some irrelevant tangent. Lex, on the other hand, her mind is a marvel of nature! Lol!
@@dggydddy59 I know. That's why we should experience it.
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I wholeheartedly agree
Simple song, but always so powerful
Glad you did this one. War is never over for those who live through it.
Yay! Pink Floyd 😀
One of my favorite PF songs. The guitar is exquisite, and the mood how it shifts back and forth from promising to ominous so quickly is just amazing. You both should listen to the full album The Wall at some point, as it tells a full story.
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Pink Floyd is just magic
Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the
Promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue
Sky?
Such evocative lyrics.
The philosopher who wrote the book "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, also wrote another famous book called "The Doors of Perception". The band "The Doors" was named after this.
More strange still, "The Doors" singer, Jim Morrison, his father was the Commander of the naval fleet that was involved with the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.. this incident is what started the Vietnam War.
Life is stranger than fiction.
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1940 Blitzkrieg
@@KendrickJ2Jim Morrisons IQ was ridiculous. Dude was an absolute musical genius
One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. No one reacts to it, so thanks for the reaction.
we are all affected by our own experiences, but also the experience of our parents. Water's Dad died in WWII. He never came back home.
This is an astonishing piece of songwriting. The major upbeat chords and harmony…. Shift effortlessly into minor chords, and fear… perfectly captures the songs message. Superb .
It's a mixed feelings scenenario. The acoustic sound of the guitar with the synth, feeling some nostalgic hope but overwhelmed by fear.
My gosh this is such a beautiful song
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"Every Pin Floyd song is like a imnd movie..." Perfect!
Goodbye blue sky is a metaphor in this song. Meaning, goodbye to a happy and carefree life. War has a way of taking happiness away from the victims.
Awwww...🥰 A few moments later...
Oh, that changed really quickly...😫
Every song from Pink Floyd is like a movie. Perfectly said, Lex
This, for some reason, is my absolute favorite Pink Floyd song. I just fell in love with it the first time I heard it. We were sitting in my friend's backyard, kicking it by the pool; the album had just come out.
Everything floyd put out is gold
This is hands down my all time favorite Floyd track.
If you watch the original video for "Goodbye Blue Sky", you will really see, what Pink Floyd was talking about... So much more in the pictures, than just words.❤
Definitely one of the best songs on the wall
oe of my favorites. so simple and pretty but menacing.
Must listen to full album, start to finish.
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One of my favorites from this album
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I saw System of a Down in concert and they played this song. It sounded just like Pink Floyd, it was amazing! Yes, I agree with everyone else. It’s time for you guys to listen to the Wall in it’s entirety.
I know you probably already know this but the Wall is a concept album with each song being like a chapter in a book telling a bigger story. i strongly recommend you listen to the whole record in it's entirety. when you do, the lyrics make a lot more sense.
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This album should be listened to from beginning to end
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My mother was born in England before ww2, whenever we had a thunderstorm, it upset her remembering the bombs that she had heard during her late teens.
The Wall was very interesting to our group of friends growing up. Also a time when we would gather at a friend's house with the sole purpose of listening to an entire album. As a teenager one of the things to do was drop a couple blotter paper squares on your tongue and pop the movie in a VCR. We had an opportunity to see it at a movie theater in 1995. It was an intense experience, and one to remember. But watching it again in my forties took on a whole new meaning. And this track will put you in a place in time that none of us could even imagine. This is an album/movie that can only be understood as a grown adult. And how it tells a complex story about growing up during WWII. Coming of age, dealing with heartbreak, and becoming a successful artist. I don't know who's story it told. But it is definitely one of the greatest stories ever told. And done in a way that will never be copied.
Pink Floyd possesses a lyrical eloquence and evocative musicality that transcends much of popular music in logical depth and artistic sophistication. I enjoyed your journey through this song but can not get past the emotional burden of acknowledging that this motif of lost innocence and fading blue skies is a reality for the people of Ukraine right now. Thank you.
Sadly, yes !
The epitome of hauntingly beautiful
"The Wall" album is itself a complete story. Each song is a different aspect of a man's experience from childhood to adulthood.
Thank u for this reaction. A song that needs more exposure 🙂
i subbed just because i couldbt believe anyone had never heard this song.
thanks for keeping 70s and 80s music alive.
As others have said, you have to listen to the album as a whole. And Pink Floyd are masters of shifting the mood of their music. Something so beautiful can masterfully transition to an ominous sound or back-n-forth during the course of a song.
I would love to see your reaction to the Wall from start to finish. Live stream would be great. The whole album and the why the songs transition make the songs that much better.
Pink Floyds The Wall is one of the best albums of all time. You cant just listen to one song at a time.
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It's part of the Wall album and they have a full length movie of the hole album almost like a 2 hour music video
It's not creepy, it's beautiful. C'mon!!!
That song always hits me meloncholy and also beautiful
Ya gotta see the movie to understand the songs. I promise you will be changed in heart and soul afterwards. Its powerful stuff.
Come to think of it, you hear and see many metal bands who want to be scary, devil inspired music ?, well Pink Floyd's concepts are scarier because those feel real, I mean, Pink Floyd is really heavy.
You gotta watch “The Wall” to get this in context. My grandmother lived in London during WW II. I wish I had thought of playing this for her. Watch the movie.
I know everyone has said it. But you have to just listen to the entire album. It’s so great. Love the reaction
One cannot react to a single song off of The Wall. One must listen to the entire album. Watch the movie as well. Masterpiece
These songs are so hard to properly put in context without listening to the whole album. It's an experience that rolls from one into the other and explains so much!
Y’all should watch the movie, it all goes together and gives the whole album context that can’t be gotten one song at a time and out of order.
One of my favorite songs of all time. It’s kind of hard to believe that there is actually someone left on the planet who has never heard THE WALL in its entirety let alone this song. But hey I am sure they are out there. I would recommend that you listen to the entire album to understand how you may what Roger Water’s was trying to convey by this masterpiece.
You guys should check out the video that goes with this song its badass and its from the Pink Floyd The Wall Movie
Can’t wait until you watch this movie. This tune is a huge point in the movie, and you’ll understand these tunes better.
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This song begins the story of "The Wall" and juxtaposes the innocence of a child seeing an airplane with the destructiveness of the planes of war, the war that claimed the life of the little boy's father. For people of Roger Waters' generation, they remembered the terror of London being firebombed by the Luftwaffe and people having to take refuge underground to survive, surfacing to see their neighborhoods obliterated and possibly losing loved ones who could not scramble underground quickly enough. The song is a farewell to the innocence of childhood, an innocence lost all too soon. And it is quintessential Pink Floyd.
Oh, and if you ever visit the 9/11 memorial in New York City, there's a wall of different shades of blue paper, intermingled with gray and black pages. They asked people who were in NYC during the 9/11 attack to choose a color that represented the color they remember the sky being on that day. So yes, in times of war, the sky does sometimes appear blue, but it can also appear smoky and dark. It all depends on one's perspective.
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you guys HAVE to watch the wall. all this music is the soundtrack to an awesome ninety-five minute long video. all the songs make so much more sense. love you two!
Pink Floyd band members, like most of the musicians of the 60s and early 70s, were born during or immediately after World War II. Even the Americans had relatives that served, but the Brits had relatives who experienced it from the civilian side too. Same for other countries, of course, but that played out in different art forms in different places.
"Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky" is the voice of Roger Water's young son, Harry. He was about 2 years old at the time.
Thank you for sharing this with me 😊
While Pink Floyd aren't even in my Top 5 Favourite Bands, I don't know that there is any album I love more than "The Wall" 🤘❤💔
listening to only one song from The Wall is like watching one play of the Super Bowl and trying to figure out if it was a good game.
I think this song works best in the context of the album. Like many commenters say, you should really do full albums for Pink Floyd. Especially The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals and Wish You Were Here, which are all albums build around a concept.
Goodbye Blue Sky, flows into Empty Spaces and Young Lust, a real banger which you've heard. You guys might like "What Do You Want From Me?" from The Division Bell album. It's very groovy, in that low-down, slow kinda Floyd way!
Back in the 90's it was always a thing for me & my friends to (take a mind altering substance). And watch The Wall... It's quite the story to see when you're under the influence. Lol! Really deep time, especially if you ever watch the official movie.. Congratulations also you two!!
dam,,me and my friends did the same thing in the early 80's and after we debate on what it all meant
@@martinL1577 oh I've had that debate many times... But music is personal and everybody thinks their interpretations are the best.. Just good times with good friends..
Yeah for me in the 80s on vhs as I was just not old enough to watch the movie in the theater(I think I was 12),. The cartoon parts are great but when he loses his shit in the hotel room with the groupie during the song "One of my Turns" is one of the most mind blowing scenes on film.
It is like a movie because it IS a movie (Pink Floyd: The Wall, directed by Alan Parker) from Pink Floyd's concept album The Wall.
I still remember this time me and a couple friends had taken some blotter and and the trippy aspects were starting to die as we left to drive to another friend's house. This song was playing just as a light rain started and the oooooo, oooooo part was playing when an ambulance went by as we were waiting to pull onto the road. No siren, just the lights signaling it was a deceased person within. We just sat there in silence for about 5 minutes and yet we sensed exactly what each of us was thinking. Like a living sad dream.
You have to listen to Pink Floyd songs More than once to understand the songs because they are so deep
Have you guys ever done a reaction to Portishead? Beth Gibbons has one of the purest voices ever.
The airplane in the beginning is a Luftwaffe bomber from WW2 during the Blitz of England. The little girl spotted the bomber coming in. Roger Waters, who wrote the lyrics but liked David’s voice for the song, lost his father in WW2 and his mother was badly mentally affected by his death. He was a young child being raised by a single mom who was probably unstable for a long time. It affected him. It sure did help him write some phenomenal music over the years. Thank God he had three of the finest musicians you’ll find outside of symphony orchestras to help him put it all together. Gilmour did a tremendous amount of the instrumentation and song sculpting. Heck of a team. Lennon/MCCartney level writers. That’s not easy…
You guys have to watch the movie or listen to the full album uninterrupted! Its a must for any music fan. The experience is like nothing else. If you know you know. Lol.
When I was 18 I visited my sister in Florida and she took me a laser light show of The Wall. It was at a planetarium and one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Up to that point at least.
Y'all really need to watch the movie The Wall. It'd basically a mind trip of all the Pink Floyd songs from the album.
I was in high school when this came out. The most interesting track on the album for me.
One of my fave songs from The Wall🤟 you guys just survived a hurricane, Britain got bombed during WW2 with "buzzbombs". This song is about that.
Pink floyd the wall is meant to be listened to as a whole...its a story to be told. There's also a pretty trippy movie the band put out by the same name you should just watch if you are going to listen to the whole album. It explains so much of the album. Hands down top 5 best music experiences.
I've also seen them in concert (David Gilmour) it was pretty epic.
Fun fact I discovered with my parents records...there is a song that appears on the album the wall they had, that does not appear on the subsequent releases!
What is the song please? Also ( I may be way off ) if it's an old vinyl record in good condition with an extra song there is a chance it may be valuable if it's very rare. Of course you may not want to part with it but it's probably worth finding out
When The Tigers Broke Free?
@@davidmellish3295 I wish I could tell you, sadly my mothers house burned down to the foundations last year. A lot of family heirlooms were lost.
@@OneEyedJack1970 I think you are right..I dont see that one in the main list of songs on the CD.
@@shaarinya6932 sorry to hear that
They tell a story with a whole album. Every song is linked. You guys should really watch the movie "The Wall". It will give you a totally different perception of their music and you will see how the songs are linked.
In 'The Wall' story, the war (World War II in this case), was one of the 'bricks in the wall' that contributed to the social breakdown of the character 'Pink'.
You should really see the powerful video for this song!
When I was seven, my dad gave me a copy of the wall on a cassette player. This song made me think of dying and upset me deeply.
It's been said, metaphorical for the common belief of "blue skies" typically being equated to happiness and good thoughts but in this case, the juxtapose of not always and the irony of the young boy innocently pointing out to his mother the airplane up in the sky, when it's actually there to do them harm, but the boy just sees blue skies and a airplane, completely oblivious to what is happening and the loss of innocence that will affect him the rest of his life..."the flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on..."...hence goodbye blue sky, he'll never see it the same again...
That acoustic guitar picking reminds me of the Metallica song "Fade To Black".
To me , blue sky is a metaphor for freedom.
Like many 70’s rockers, the members of Pink Floyd were born around the time of WW2 or shortly thereafter. They had to have been influenced by it in some way.
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Bassist Roger Watters was referring to what it was like for the English kids when the German Bombers were bombing England. And the memories of them having to hide down in the subways until the Air Raids were over with.
This is such a dark and touching song. One of the prettier moments on The Wall. Iconic.
watching on RUclips at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING Pink Floyd
Pretty song-- Brad gets it
IMO this part 1 of a 3 part song
Good bye blue sky
Empty spaces
Young lust
The video for this song is pretty chilling
"The Wall" came out towards the end of 1979, my senior year of h.s. - Thrust me right on into adulthood. (sigh..)
Your reaction to the little kid was hilarious
"They just accepted it" = Keep Calm and Carry On
As others have said, the whole album - and movie! - need to be heard as one. And yes, it's the change from the innocence of seeing a plane to the discovery that it's a bomber and hiding in a shelter away from the sky, specifically in the UK during World War 2. The gentle guitar work reminds me of an earlier Pink Floyd song about idyllic England - "Grantchester Meadows".
This song is so dark. Pink Floyd will get you to the extreme of all emotions
And Lex, girl, you have a talent to understanding songs like crazy.
I heard “brave new world” which is a book about dystopia. Check out “Well well well” by John Lennon. I’ve known that song for years and just had the “aha” moment. The first sentence is a hint
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It's an airplane! It's innocent! And it's war."
Lol. Sums up Pink Floyd quite beautifully, actually. At least, this song!
Few of the songs on The Wall --this one included---were meant to be stand alone songs. Its a concept album where each song is meant to be a contributing chapter to the story.
Pink Floyd "THE WALL"!!!!