This is the album I listened to more than any other when I was young. Most people miss all the historical WW2 references such as Vera Lynn (referencing her song, We Will Meet Again) The Battle of Britain, and the actual sound of a German Stuka dive bomber siren (the sound synonymous with terror in all of Europe during the war) and also in the song When The Tigers Broke Free (not on the album but in the movie- referring to the dreaded German Tiger tank) and the Battle of Anzio (where Pink’s father was killed). Excellent and well researched review. The bonus cover at the end was fabulous! BRAVO! 👍
Fun fact, 'In the Flesh' was written at least somewhat about Eric Clapton, who had an extreme racist meltdown at a show in 76. There was even an organization, 'Rock Against Racism' that formed in response to it.
@@blueboy4244 I don't think anyone would call Movin Out a rock opera. I think the only distinction is whether it was initially devised as a rock album vs. the stage.
@@jyutzlerThere kind of is. In musicals, in the old Hollywood sense, the songs were interjected into the story and dialogue and action. In an opera the whole narrative is carried by the music and lyrics. The Sound Of Music is a musical, Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera.
The Wall is not a musical, or a rock opera. It is a concept album, like a lot of other albums back then. Later it was used as the soundtrack to the film called the Wall.
The loop is a brilliant reminder that sometimes history is doomed to repeat unless you intervene. Apparently the idea for the wall came from a concert in Canada (I think?) during the Animals tour. The crowd were particularly boisterous and kept calling out for their favourite songs rather than let the band just perfom. The fractious atmosphere culminated in Roger spitting on a fan and he tore them off a strip because they were setting off fireworks. Hence the idea for putting a wall across the front of the stage. Roger ran with that position of isolation letting his own experience drive the concept and The Wall was born. And afterwards it was basically the end of the band as we knew it, Rick Wright was sacked and the last album Final Cut was pretty much a Waters solo effort, the band basically recorded it separately. Fantastic reaction again, loved it.
Great reaction! And great analysis as well. I love how the album loops by the last words being "isn't this where," then the first words being "we came in." I see it as a way of saying we all build walls in our life, and once we tear them down, we just start building new ones. Life is a never-ending wall building process.
@garryiglesias4074 yes, you are absolutely right. For me he has to go down as the most melodic guitar player that I've ever heard. Every bend vibrato , every note on his solos fits in perfectly to every song.
@@musopleb Mark is a great guitarist, he's just lacking of the rest of The Pink Floyd band... But yes, as "solo artist" I'd rather listen to Mark than David... But as a band, Pink Floyd breaks it all.
The joy of The Wall in concert is that during the first half of the gig they slowly build the wall across the front of the stage until the band is completely obscured. I had the joy of seeing Roger Waters perform this in Melbourne a few years ago and it was one of the highlights of my life.
I don't know how many times I've listened to this album. Maybe a thousand times already. And I want to listen further. I can't explain it. You did the right thing - Pink Floyd should be listened to with headphones. There's a lot of background noise. A quiet sigh, the distant barking of a dog, the creaking of door hinges, indistinct muttering and much more that is lost when listening through speaker systems. I take my hat off to the sound engineer and Roger - titanic, hellish, colossal studio work.
My favorite Pink Floyd album, we used to listen to this constantly in high school. Loneliness and isolation, the perfect themes for high school kids. Don't neglect the albums Animals & The Final Cut in your Roger Waters era Pink Floyd journey.
Left a comment on your previous Pink Floyd video and watching this just solidifies that -the look on your face when you’re listening to Pink Floyd that’s all you need to see. It just makes me so happy.❤ (oh, And your actual classical music trained analysis is also amazing. I don’t mean to leave that out -you catch stuff I would never catch as a ‘civilian’ and I’ve been listening to Floyd since I was 5 in the mid 70’s) Clearly your IQ is off the charts. And on a lighter note, being a Kate Winslet double certainly doesn’t hurt, lol. I hope people appreciate you as much as you should be appreciated. ❤
I was fortunate enough to see "The Wall" performed on stage. There was a brick wall at either side and in the middle there were a couple of rows of bricks (roughly 3ft high and 5/6ft across and 2/2.5ft wide) and the stage was above that. During the show roadies would come on and place another brick in the wall. The stuka dive bomber was a model that came down on a zip wire from the back of the arena. On one side a panel in the wall flipped down and the set was a room in a hotel and when that part was over it flipped up again to make the wall. By the end of the first half, the wall was complete and we couldn't see anyone. In the second half the doctor is on our side of the wall and when pink replies he was on top of the wall. The surrogate band come out on the stage in front of the wall. When the judge orders the wall to be torn down, all the loose bricks vibrated and came tumbling down. It was a spectacular show.
Wish I'd seen the stage show! But, those that didn't, it can be found on youtube in all its glory from the demented announcer after intermission and the surrogate band, and the wall exploding. Good stuff!
I've seen Roger perform the whole thing twice. Each time was slightly different and a different emphasis, first one was very personal and lots about his dad etc the 2nd much more political to current times. Both were outstanding performances.
You should do Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking next. Roger brought The Wall and Pros and Cons to the band and asked which one they wanted to do , they chose the Wall. Roger and Clapton are amazing on Pros and Cons. Roger and the band felt there was a barrier between the audience and the band hence all their mid to late 70s stadium concerts of like 40 thousand plus, Floyd preferred small venues like arenas of 15-18,000. so on their last date in Montreal the crowd got very rowdy and Roger flipped his lid, spit in a persons face, the wall was born,
15:43 - "I think this album would be a really interesting study in how you turn one melody into many different arrangements..." I strongly suggest you look into the channel VIRGIN ROCK. On that channel, a classical musician who has never heard The Wall does an INCREDIBLY DEEP DIVE into the entire Wall album, one song at a time. It's still ongoing! She has two sets of videos, one in which she does a "first listen / reaction" to each song, and the other in which she does the deep dive. Of course, she has other videos as well, covering other pieces of music. Have fun going down the rabbit hole! 🙂
This music always brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat, Pink's pain is so excruciating and I feel so sorry for him. Same happens every time I watch the movie.
Não sei por que tanta pressa em reagir tão rápido. Eu gosto muito das legendas que você coloca na tela e os comentários que você faz. Acho que você deveria ouvir uma música inteira de cada vez. Seria maravilhoso, ainda mais se tratando do Pink Floyd. Beijos do Brasil ❤❤❤
My favorite album of all time. I know how to play exactly two songs from it all the way through on guitar and they’re the two you mentioned as having lovely guitar parts, “Goodbye Blue Sky” and “Is There Anybody Out There?” Picking up my guitar and playing them now and then makes me feel better, even thought both songs (and much of the album) express a great deal of loss and loneliness. While I don’t think The Wall has ever been adapted into a musical, there is a very bizarre film made of it and the stage show that Pink Floyd put together to tour the album is one I wish I could have seen live.
I was like 9 when this album came out and I struggled at that young age to figure out what this album was about. I loved music and listened to it over and over trying to piece the story together (where was UA-cam back then :). One thing that confused me was I thought Goodbye Cruel World" was a suicide song which is now obvious that he is just saying goodbye to the world as he is now going to disappear behind his wall of isolation.
Fantastic job, and I love that you picked the Trial. It is so well done with the various voices and influences and pressures coming down on him. I personally am so attracted to "Nobodys Home" -the combination of the beautiful melody, the piano work, the vocals, the reference of drugs ("silver spoon") and the use of the audio clips....(one is a 60's sit com "Gomer Pyle" which was so obscure in 1979) Very powerful and emotional at the same time.
Such a brilliant album. I simply love your reactions Caroline, and miss them. Absolutely love your cover! '79. 20 years old at university. Bought the album the day it was released. Went back to the dorm, smoked a doobie, and put on the headphones. Yea.
Pink Floyd made a film of The Wall, and there are a couple of live performances out there by Roger Waters, one of his enormous 1990 Berlin performance and one of his 2009-2011ish world tour. All three are well worth watching.
A masterpiece. The film is a must watch. It's a perfect visual depiction of the music. And at the same time, I'm sure it will be exactly the same as how you saw it in your mind. Incredible stuff. Listened to it countless. Watched the film countless times. Enjoy...... for years to come.
Last night I saw a rare theatrical screening of the film version of this album - which is in my top ten favorite films of all time - and it was so good to see it again with a crowd and a LOUD sound system. If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it (although it's not streaming anywhere as far as I know). There are a few songs included that weren't on the album, and a few are reworked into different versions, plus Bob Geldof's vocals replace Roger Waters during the 'In the Flesh' tracks. There's also a sad reworking of "Stop" that really fits as the lead in to "The Trial", which features all the Gerald Scarfe animation they showed during the live concerts.
Wonderful reaction and analysis! You grasped way more in your fist listen than I did in mine many moons ago. I suggest you check out the movie sometime, I think you'll enjoy it. In many ways the stage show was a musical theater performance as well. I also highly recommend you do a first listen and reaction to "The Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking" by Roger Wagers as this album was his alternative idea to The Wall. The band voted and chose The Wall and Waters decided to keep "Pros and Cons" for a solo project after his departure from Pink Floyd. Again, great reaction! I enjoyed greatly!
When it comes to Album play, this has to be my favorite of all time (age 69). I can't count the number of times I laid back on the sofa in the dark with my headphones on and just absorbed the brilliant song writing and musical production of The Wall. It is a masterpiece. And Caroline, I appreciate the effort you went to produce this video. Tell me you have the uncut video of your complete album reaction on your Patreon and I will join today.
Just a quick note: You mentioned how you appreciated leitmotifs in musicals, and included "Phantom of the Opera," as an example. interestingly the leitmotif in "Phantom..." was STOLEN from Pink Floyd's "Echoes" on the Meddle album which preceded "Phantom..." by a number of years. Check it out! And I enjoyed your version of "the Trial" very much.
That’s a real treat, especially your cover. Concept albums with unified stories like this and say, the musical, Tommy, kinda died out since the seventies.
Loved this reaction! One of my favorite Floyd albums! As someone who loved watching your Beatles discography journey, I'm very glad you've started listening to Pink Floyd. I recommend listening to 'Animals' (1977) next.
Yknow i appreciate your explanation of The Wall's meaning, i never realized exactly what it was about and to have it so clearly explained helped, i just thought "oh, so thats what Comfortably Numb means" it was cool
Is There Anybody Out There, was one of the first PF tracks I learned on the guitar when I did lessons in primary school, it’s one of the only ones I remember too, along with Wish You Were Here, I gotta start playing again but it’s been so long, this album made quite an impact on me as a kid back in the mid 00’s, I was introduced to PF via their debut around that time from my uncle, it was a strange place to start but tracks like The Gnome and Bike were so hilarious and captivating in a whimsical way, so getting into their biggest records was quite a bizarre experience as they were so different.
Ok. This is my second video from you, and it's a follow. Excellent production, insight, and narration. In addition, i really loved your knowledge, and informative analysis. You're working hard and it shows. Glad i find ya. Thank you.
Your Beatles reviews are a wonder to listen to over and over again, I miss those surprises you enjoyed and how so many songs were beautiful and "Sooo Pretty!!" I look forward to your review of their individual albums and later two more Beatles releases "Free As A Bird " and "Real Love" both with John Lennon.
Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us. I'm pretty sure *The Wall* was the first 'rock' album that I bought with my own money. (My record collection had already been fattened by contributions from my older brothers.) It still ranks up there among my favorite albums.
I've heard certain people say that a lot of the songs on The Wall are filler. I disagree. To take any of these songs away would, for lack of a better term, tear down the wall.
Wonderful analysis Caroline. I was just starting high school when this album came out and the deeper cleverness was well over my head but the angsty aggro was perfect for my age - especially when accompanied by Gilmore guitar solos! You mentioned in another vid you wondered how their concerts work. I beg you to watch the 1994 Pulse concert! Comfortably Numb on that concert is truly transcendental! But im really loving your actual musical analyses not just reactions so Id love to see your response to Live in Pompeii 1972. You'll never listen to Phantom of the Opera in the same way again!
I never would have guessed you would have picked that song. Much respect. I love your docu-comentary style of reaction it is truely unique. If you watch reaction videos. I reccomend Virgin Rock. She is doing an in depth musical analysis of this album song by song.
Oh Caroline, please don’t. Virgin Rock is the epitome of paralysis by analysis in my opinion. She sucks the very soul out of great emotional pieces such as this. But if you like your music paused every two seconds for bar by bar critique, it might be for you.
@@peterhughes8699 i think its ok to like both. They have differences but they both show a deep appreciation for the subject matter. I am here to hear what other people have to say. I have heard the music. I know it is good. When they pause i let it play in my mind as they share what I came to hear.
Caroline, your remark about Waters's vocal there (on the line you make it "...running awaaaaaayyyyyyyy") made me think about a song on another of my formative albums, John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. His song "Mother." In general, actually, the emotional rawness (and range) of The Wall probably owes a lot to that album, now that I think of it. But particularly, that sort of agonized caterwauling Roger does here is really reminiscent of John's in "Mother." I'd never thought of that before until you remarked on Roger's singing just there. So yet again, I'm in your debt for opening my ears to things I've been hearing since I was 12 but hadn't necessarily explicitly noticed (and I explicitly notice a lot! :),
I like in the song Stop the delay. How he Said have to know and then in the 2nd verse time. So it makes: time to know. And the fact that next song is the trial. Just wow
Due to the massive amount of sets and gear that had be moved, Pink Floyd only performed The Wall 31 times live in only 4 cities worldwide. I was blessed to see one of these shows in Los Angeles. The album was a double album with 4 sides. They performed the entire double album. As the first two sides were performed, stagehands built a giant wall - 230 feet wide and 35 feet tall - brick by brick. As the last note of side two played (Goodbye Cruel World), the last brick was put in place and the band was behind the wall and not visible. The next two sides were performed with holes opening in the wall for some performances. animations projected onto the wall, huge dangling puppets (the mother, the judge, etc.) until the entire wall crumbled in a sonic earthquake, revealing the band once again for the finale. It was February of 1980. I left the arena stunned and amazed. Loved your reaction.
Hi, i'm a concept album lover. I love Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Who, ELP, Jethro Tull, Queensryche, and so on... but i really like to know your opinion about some metal albums: "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory" by Dream Theater and "The Metal Opera Pt.1" by Avantasia for example. Thanks 🙂
Thanks for that, I had never thought of The Wall as a musical before but of course it is! The trial being particularly theatrical, as you point out. If I could possibly make a recommendation? A little out of left field after this album but perhaps something you might not yet have considered and that is some Tom Waits. I would recommend starting in 1974 with one of my favourites of his - "Heart of Saturday Night" or maybe "Blue Valentine"? Pure poetry and a voice that could break rocks. I think that he might appeal to you, I would love to hear sing some of his melodies. 0:16
I have listened to this entire album, and watched the movie, countless times. It is staggering. And perhaps you will notice, as Roger Waters himself points out, the only thing missing from Pink's life is Humour.
I'm so glad you liked this on your Floyd journey. I used to listen to this one all the time - it truly is amazing. BUT. It's so depressing I don't always have the stomach for it these days.
It's true, it is a real downer, but I go back and forth on whether we as a society would have been better off if it were Who's Nextified, if you know what I mean. It was an incredible achievement, but I am also burned out on it, particularly the abusive scenes. Much like Tommy, they are important to the plot but I get no joy from listening to them.
My definitive version of this album is the Is There Anybody Out There? concert album that has all songs, including the cut ones, all performed with the bands great live energy. Speaking of cut songs, check out Gerald's Scarfe animations for the movie on youtube, What Shall We Do Now? is an absolute banger both as a song an an animated short.
Your video makes it fresh again for me, thank you. I’m sure someone’s mentioned, but the Live in Berlin version is the fantasy league musical theatre version. The Trial is performed by Tim Curry, Albert Finney with the exquisite Ute Lemper and Marianne Faithful as the exquisite Wife and Mother. It’s bonkers in the best possible way. Also Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Sinéad O’Conner, Paul Carrack, Van Morrison, Scorpions, The Band, etc.
About that movie, version, I don't recommend you watch it TOO soon. The movie stars Bob Geldof (of the Boomtown Rats, who went on to Band Aid and Live Aid fame) and film is pretty great. Still, the movie's imagery is so, SO striking - so overwhelming, really - that it can take the place of your listening experience. In other words, you risk one director's vision overtaking your own personal experience of the music. The film is that strong, visually. Better to watch the movie after you've thoroughly ingrained the album as your own. By the way, Pink Floyd DOES like their leitmotifs on a lot of their albums, but no doubt this is most fully realized on "The Wall." And thank you for singing one of the songs for us! You always have such a Caroline way of doing reactions! Love it!
This is the album I listened to more than any other when I was young. Most people miss all the historical WW2 references such as Vera Lynn (referencing her song, We Will Meet Again) The Battle of Britain, and the actual sound of a German Stuka dive bomber siren (the sound synonymous with terror in all of Europe during the war) and also in the song When The Tigers Broke Free (not on the album but in the movie- referring to the dreaded German Tiger tank) and the Battle of Anzio (where Pink’s father was killed). Excellent and well researched review. The bonus cover at the end was fabulous! BRAVO! 👍
Me too, but that probably wasn't a good thing, looking back on it.
Fun fact, 'In the Flesh' was written at least somewhat about Eric Clapton, who had an extreme racist meltdown at a show in 76. There was even an organization, 'Rock Against Racism' that formed in response to it.
I don't know how fun that is, but I find it very interesting. Especially since Roger worked with Eric on his first official solo album.
@@remixandkaraoke Which, BTW, is an awesome album that so few people know about (Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.)
Clapton was drunk
@@The777OpenDoesn’t make it any better
@@inferiorpattymaybe not
Awesome! Your reactions topped off by your singing - the icing on the cake!
Thankyou!
@@CallMeCarolineseeing at SATANISTS HEARING PINK FLOYD
brung me joy, absolutly
This is one of the best analyses of the album I've ever seen. It is indeed a musical, a rock opera. You capture it so well.
I'm so happy you chose The Trial! People tend to look over it as too theatre-y, but that's what I love about it. Fantastic cover, and great video!
Exactly the reason as to why the album would be a great stage musical, most notably an opera
Pink Floyd's album The Wall is a lot of things to a lot of people, is it also a musical? Technically yes.
There isn't really a strict line delineating rock opera vs. musical.
@@jyutzler aren't they one in the same except maybe they use guitars in rock operas
@@blueboy4244 I don't think anyone would call Movin Out a rock opera. I think the only distinction is whether it was initially devised as a rock album vs. the stage.
@@jyutzlerThere kind of is. In musicals, in the old Hollywood sense, the songs were interjected into the story and dialogue and action. In an opera the whole narrative is carried by the music and lyrics. The Sound Of Music is a musical, Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera.
The Wall is not a musical, or a rock opera. It is a concept album, like a lot of other albums back then. Later it was used as the soundtrack to the film called the Wall.
The loop is a brilliant reminder that sometimes history is doomed to repeat unless you intervene. Apparently the idea for the wall came from a concert in Canada (I think?) during the Animals tour. The crowd were particularly boisterous and kept calling out for their favourite songs rather than let the band just perfom. The fractious atmosphere culminated in Roger spitting on a fan and he tore them off a strip because they were setting off fireworks. Hence the idea for putting a wall across the front of the stage. Roger ran with that position of isolation letting his own experience drive the concept and The Wall was born. And afterwards it was basically the end of the band as we knew it, Rick Wright was sacked and the last album Final Cut was pretty much a Waters solo effort, the band basically recorded it separately.
Fantastic reaction again, loved it.
Loved your cover in the end of " The Trial" you have a beautiful voice!
Great reaction! And great analysis as well. I love how the album loops by the last words being "isn't this where," then the first words being "we came in." I see it as a way of saying we all build walls in our life, and once we tear them down, we just start building new ones. Life is a never-ending wall building process.
The guitar solo's on Comfortably Numb are absolutely breathtaking, and iconic.
Like many Gilmour solos with Pink Floyd... Time, Shine On, Dogs...
@garryiglesias4074 yes, you are absolutely right.
For me he has to go down as the most melodic guitar player that I've ever heard. Every bend vibrato , every note on his solos fits in perfectly to every song.
@@bmac5085 Second, behind the best of Knopfler for me... but yes.
@musopleb omg sultans of swing was out when I was 13. And yes Mark is a very good melodic guitarist.
@@musopleb Mark is a great guitarist, he's just lacking of the rest of The Pink Floyd band... But yes, as "solo artist" I'd rather listen to Mark than David... But as a band, Pink Floyd breaks it all.
The joy of The Wall in concert is that during the first half of the gig they slowly build the wall across the front of the stage until the band is completely obscured. I had the joy of seeing Roger Waters perform this in Melbourne a few years ago and it was one of the highlights of my life.
I don't know how many times I've listened to this album. Maybe a thousand times already. And I want to listen further. I can't explain it.
You did the right thing - Pink Floyd should be listened to with headphones. There's a lot of background noise. A quiet sigh, the distant barking of a dog, the creaking of door hinges, indistinct muttering and much more that is lost when listening through speaker systems. I take my hat off to the sound engineer and Roger - titanic, hellish, colossal studio work.
If you like the music it might be interesting to see the motion picture too. It's incredible.
My favorite Pink Floyd album, we used to listen to this constantly in high school. Loneliness and isolation, the perfect themes for high school kids.
Don't neglect the albums Animals & The Final Cut in your Roger Waters era Pink Floyd journey.
Left a comment on your previous Pink Floyd video and watching this just solidifies that -the look on your face when you’re listening to Pink Floyd that’s all you need to see. It just makes me so happy.❤ (oh, And your actual classical music trained analysis is also amazing. I don’t mean to leave that out -you catch stuff I would never catch as a ‘civilian’ and I’ve been listening to Floyd since I was 5 in the mid 70’s) Clearly your IQ is off the charts. And on a lighter note, being a Kate Winslet double certainly doesn’t hurt, lol. I hope people appreciate you as much as you should be appreciated. ❤
You have amazing powers of observation. Brilliant. I'm enjoying binging your channel a lot.
Awesome, thank you!
This was great! I love this album so much, and I can't believe you managed to make a 17-minute video that somehow didn't feel rushed or incomplete!
It’s great the way u research the album and songs I’m glad I found ur channel
Thankyou!
Gotta say I absolutely love your way of 'reacting' to with your condensed analysis. Excellent stuff.
Me and my gf used to sing the karoke versins. She sang Guilmores parts and I did the Waters
I was fortunate enough to see "The Wall" performed on stage. There was a brick wall at either side and in the middle there were a couple of rows of bricks (roughly 3ft high and 5/6ft across and 2/2.5ft wide) and the stage was above that. During the show roadies would come on and place another brick in the wall. The stuka dive bomber was a model that came down on a zip wire from the back of the arena. On one side a panel in the wall flipped down and the set was a room in a hotel and when that part was over it flipped up again to make the wall. By the end of the first half, the wall was complete and we couldn't see anyone. In the second half the doctor is on our side of the wall and when pink replies he was on top of the wall. The surrogate band come out on the stage in front of the wall. When the judge orders the wall to be torn down, all the loose bricks vibrated and came tumbling down. It was a spectacular show.
Wish I'd seen the stage show! But, those that didn't, it can be found on youtube in all its glory from the demented announcer after intermission and the surrogate band, and the wall exploding. Good stuff!
I've seen Roger perform the whole thing twice. Each time was slightly different and a different emphasis, first one was very personal and lots about his dad etc the 2nd much more political to current times. Both were outstanding performances.
I love it! I really loved your performance at the end. I don’t know why but it reminded me of Cabaret.
You should do Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking next. Roger brought The Wall and Pros and Cons to the band and asked which one they wanted to do , they chose the Wall. Roger and Clapton are amazing on Pros and Cons. Roger and the band felt there was a barrier between the audience and the band hence all their mid to late 70s stadium concerts of like 40 thousand plus, Floyd preferred small venues like arenas of 15-18,000.
so on their last date in Montreal the crowd got very rowdy and Roger flipped his lid, spit in a persons face, the wall was born,
Great video, Caroline! I love your cover at the end! You are brilliant!
15:43 - "I think this album would be a really interesting study in how you turn one melody into many different arrangements..." I strongly suggest you look into the channel VIRGIN ROCK. On that channel, a classical musician who has never heard The Wall does an INCREDIBLY DEEP DIVE into the entire Wall album, one song at a time. It's still ongoing! She has two sets of videos, one in which she does a "first listen / reaction" to each song, and the other in which she does the deep dive. Of course, she has other videos as well, covering other pieces of music. Have fun going down the rabbit hole! 🙂
That little performance of yours was a joy!
This music always brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat, Pink's pain is so excruciating and I feel so sorry for him. Same happens every time I watch the movie.
Great surprise choice. Love your singing voice.
Não sei por que tanta pressa em reagir tão rápido. Eu gosto muito das legendas que você coloca na tela e os comentários que você faz. Acho que você deveria ouvir uma música inteira de cada vez. Seria maravilhoso, ainda mais se tratando do Pink Floyd. Beijos do Brasil ❤❤❤
My favorite album of all time. I know how to play exactly two songs from it all the way through on guitar and they’re the two you mentioned as having lovely guitar parts, “Goodbye Blue Sky” and “Is There Anybody Out There?” Picking up my guitar and playing them now and then makes me feel better, even thought both songs (and much of the album) express a great deal of loss and loneliness. While I don’t think The Wall has ever been adapted into a musical, there is a very bizarre film made of it and the stage show that Pink Floyd put together to tour the album is one I wish I could have seen live.
I was like 9 when this album came out and I struggled at that young age to figure out what this album was about. I loved music and listened to it over and over trying to piece the story together (where was UA-cam back then :). One thing that confused me was I thought Goodbye Cruel World" was a suicide song which is now obvious that he is just saying goodbye to the world as he is now going to disappear behind his wall of isolation.
Fantastic job, and I love that you picked the Trial. It is so well done with the various voices and influences and pressures coming down on him. I personally am so attracted to "Nobodys Home" -the combination of the beautiful melody, the piano work, the vocals, the reference of drugs ("silver spoon") and the use of the audio clips....(one is a 60's sit com "Gomer Pyle" which was so obscure in 1979) Very powerful and emotional at the same time.
Loved your reaction! Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride! ❤❤❤
I love that you chose The Trial. I’ve always thought it among the most beautiful songs on the album.
Thanks!
As always, thankyou for your support Roger!
Such a brilliant album. I simply love your reactions Caroline, and miss them. Absolutely love your cover!
'79. 20 years old at university. Bought the album the day it was released. Went back to the dorm, smoked a doobie, and put on the headphones. Yea.
Pink Floyd made a film of The Wall, and there are a couple of live performances out there by Roger Waters, one of his enormous 1990 Berlin performance and one of his 2009-2011ish world tour. All three are well worth watching.
Another wonderful job with another classic album.
Loved your analysis and your expressive singing of the trial!
An extremely entertaining reaction. Loved it. Hadn't listened to the Wall in 25 years probably.
I havent listened to this album in forever it seems.. I forgot how epic it was..
Love this review Caroline! Great to hear the story behind it too. One of my favourite albums.
A masterpiece. The film is a must watch. It's a perfect visual depiction of the music. And at the same time, I'm sure it will be exactly the same as how you saw it in your mind. Incredible stuff. Listened to it countless. Watched the film countless times. Enjoy...... for years to come.
Last night I saw a rare theatrical screening of the film version of this album - which is in my top ten favorite films of all time - and it was so good to see it again with a crowd and a LOUD sound system. If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it (although it's not streaming anywhere as far as I know). There are a few songs included that weren't on the album, and a few are reworked into different versions, plus Bob Geldof's vocals replace Roger Waters during the 'In the Flesh' tracks. There's also a sad reworking of "Stop" that really fits as the lead in to "The Trial", which features all the Gerald Scarfe animation they showed during the live concerts.
Wonderful reaction and analysis! You grasped way more in your fist listen than I did in mine many moons ago. I suggest you check out the movie sometime, I think you'll enjoy it. In many ways the stage show was a musical theater performance as well. I also highly recommend you do a first listen and reaction to "The Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking" by Roger Wagers as this album was his alternative idea to The Wall. The band voted and chose The Wall and Waters decided to keep "Pros and Cons" for a solo project after his departure from Pink Floyd. Again, great reaction! I enjoyed greatly!
You have more soul than 10,000 American women combined! Wish I could meet someone like you. Wish you were here. 😢😊
The musical themes repeat all across the album but also on to The Final Cut and The Pros and Coins of Hitchhiking.
If you want to try a really nice rock opera, check TOMMY by The Who
Hope you're still creating. And this was fun. Nice cover!
Why did you cut the cover short? It was really good
Hi, I've watched all your vids since the Beatles. This is by far my favorite one. :)
When it comes to Album play, this has to be my favorite of all time (age 69). I can't count the number of times I laid back on the sofa in the dark with my headphones on and just absorbed the brilliant song writing and musical production of The Wall. It is a masterpiece. And Caroline, I appreciate the effort you went to produce this video. Tell me you have the uncut video of your complete album reaction on your Patreon and I will join today.
Your performance was exciting, . . . Thanks!👏
Just a quick note: You mentioned how you appreciated leitmotifs in musicals, and included "Phantom of the Opera," as an example. interestingly the leitmotif in "Phantom..." was STOLEN from Pink Floyd's "Echoes" on the Meddle album which preceded "Phantom..." by a number of years. Check it out!
And I enjoyed your version of "the Trial" very much.
Good reaction. Good cover. You are a wholly enjoyable person. Keep up the good work.
That’s a real treat, especially your cover. Concept albums with unified stories like this and say, the musical, Tommy, kinda died out since the seventies.
Loved this reaction! One of my favorite Floyd albums! As someone who loved watching your Beatles discography journey, I'm very glad you've started listening to Pink Floyd. I recommend listening to 'Animals' (1977) next.
Wow! That was an outstanding performance, Caroline!!!
BRAVA!!
BRAVA!!!!
YAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENCORE! ENCORE!!!!!
Yknow i appreciate your explanation of The Wall's meaning, i never realized exactly what it was about and to have it so clearly explained helped, i just thought "oh, so thats what Comfortably Numb means" it was cool
Incredible insight into a complex Pink Floyd masterpiece
You squeezed it all in perfectly! Great reaction! Great performance!!!
Excellent analysis. Just wish it was longer. It deserved that.
Is There Anybody Out There, was one of the first PF tracks I learned on the guitar when I did lessons in primary school, it’s one of the only ones I remember too, along with Wish You Were Here, I gotta start playing again but it’s been so long, this album made quite an impact on me as a kid back in the mid 00’s, I was introduced to PF via their debut around that time from my uncle, it was a strange place to start but tracks like The Gnome and Bike were so hilarious and captivating in a whimsical way, so getting into their biggest records was quite a bizarre experience as they were so different.
The fact that you chose the Trial definitely makes me kinda love you 😁🥰😘
Ok. This is my second video from you, and it's a follow. Excellent production, insight, and narration. In addition, i really loved your knowledge, and informative analysis.
You're working hard and it shows. Glad i find ya. Thank you.
Love the album review and you happened to pick one of my favorites off of it to cover.
🤘🤘great job.
Another great review with a bonus at the end! Thank you Caroline.👍
Nicely done video. Picking The Trial was a surprise - well done.
Currently watching you through a small hole I chipped through my wall. You sing beautifully.
Your Beatles reviews are a wonder to listen to over and over again, I miss those surprises you enjoyed and how so many songs were beautiful and "Sooo Pretty!!" I look forward to your review of their individual albums and later two more Beatles releases "Free As A Bird " and "Real Love" both with John Lennon.
Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us. I'm pretty sure *The Wall* was the first 'rock' album that I bought with my own money. (My record collection had already been fattened by contributions from my older brothers.) It still ranks up there among my favorite albums.
Compliments on the editing of this video!
I've heard certain people say that a lot of the songs on The Wall are filler. I disagree. To take any of these songs away would, for lack of a better term, tear down the wall.
Wonderful analysis Caroline. I was just starting high school when this album came out and the deeper cleverness was well over my head but the angsty aggro was perfect for my age - especially when accompanied by Gilmore guitar solos!
You mentioned in another vid you wondered how their concerts work. I beg you to watch the 1994 Pulse concert! Comfortably Numb on that concert is truly transcendental!
But im really loving your actual musical analyses not just reactions so Id love to see your response to Live in Pompeii 1972. You'll never listen to Phantom of the Opera in the same way again!
I never would have guessed you would have picked that song. Much respect. I love your docu-comentary style of reaction it is truely unique. If you watch reaction videos. I reccomend Virgin Rock. She is doing an in depth musical analysis of this album song by song.
Oh Caroline, please don’t. Virgin Rock is the epitome of paralysis by analysis in my opinion. She sucks the very soul out of great emotional pieces such as this. But if you like your music paused every two seconds for bar by bar critique, it might be for you.
@@peterhughes8699 i think its ok to like both. They have differences but they both show a deep appreciation for the subject matter. I am here to hear what other people have to say. I have heard the music. I know it is good. When they pause i let it play in my mind as they share what I came to hear.
You beat me to it! 😀(I still made my comment, though. 🙂)
Caroline, your remark about Waters's vocal there (on the line you make it "...running awaaaaaayyyyyyyy") made me think about a song on another of my formative albums, John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. His song "Mother." In general, actually, the emotional rawness (and range) of The Wall probably owes a lot to that album, now that I think of it. But particularly, that sort of agonized caterwauling Roger does here is really reminiscent of John's in "Mother." I'd never thought of that before until you remarked on Roger's singing just there.
So yet again, I'm in your debt for opening my ears to things I've been hearing since I was 12 but hadn't necessarily explicitly noticed (and I explicitly notice a lot! :),
YESSS IM SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS, THE WALL IS MY FAVORITE PF ALBUM :)
I like in the song Stop the delay. How he Said have to know and then in the 2nd verse time. So it makes: time to know. And the fact that next song is the trial. Just wow
Due to the massive amount of sets and gear that had be moved, Pink Floyd only performed The Wall 31 times live in only 4 cities worldwide. I was blessed to see one of these shows in Los Angeles. The album was a double album with 4 sides. They performed the entire double album. As the first two sides were performed, stagehands built a giant wall - 230 feet wide and 35 feet tall - brick by brick. As the last note of side two played (Goodbye Cruel World), the last brick was put in place and the band was behind the wall and not visible. The next two sides were performed with holes opening in the wall for some performances. animations projected onto the wall, huge dangling puppets (the mother, the judge, etc.) until the entire wall crumbled in a sonic earthquake, revealing the band once again for the finale. It was February of 1980. I left the arena stunned and amazed. Loved your reaction.
Hi, i'm a concept album lover. I love Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Who, ELP, Jethro Tull, Queensryche, and so on... but i really like to know your opinion about some metal albums: "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory" by Dream Theater and "The Metal Opera Pt.1" by Avantasia for example. Thanks 🙂
Love your videos so refreshing. Grettings from Chile
Outstanding analysis of pne of the best concept albums ever conceived. Also, great job covering arguably the most difficult part of the album😄👍👍
Thanks for that, I had never thought of The Wall as a musical before but of course it is! The trial being particularly theatrical, as you point out.
If I could possibly make a recommendation? A little out of left field after this album but perhaps something you might not yet have considered and that is some Tom Waits. I would recommend starting in 1974 with one of my favourites of his - "Heart of Saturday Night" or maybe "Blue Valentine"? Pure poetry and a voice that could break rocks. I think that he might appeal to you, I would love to hear sing some of his melodies. 0:16
I have listened to this entire album, and watched the movie, countless times. It is staggering. And perhaps you will notice, as Roger Waters himself points out, the only thing missing from Pink's life is Humour.
I'm so glad you liked this on your Floyd journey.
I used to listen to this one all the time - it truly is amazing. BUT. It's so depressing I don't always have the stomach for it these days.
It's true, it is a real downer, but I go back and forth on whether we as a society would have been better off if it were Who's Nextified, if you know what I mean. It was an incredible achievement, but I am also burned out on it, particularly the abusive scenes. Much like Tommy, they are important to the plot but I get no joy from listening to them.
I hope that after listening to this album you watched the movie a brilliant rendition of a musical opera
Nice breakdown, it makes a lot more sense when you understand the concept behind it.
Oh wow this is a fantastic video! This is definitely a musical and I can see it adapted for the stage easily.
This is a brill reaction to a brill album, so impressed! Well done, love X
The Brits ruled the music scene for quite a while.
For an introduction to live Pink Floyd, check out the performances of Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell from their 1994 Pulse concert.
My definitive version of this album is the Is There Anybody Out There? concert album that has all songs, including the cut ones, all performed with the bands great live energy.
Speaking of cut songs, check out Gerald's Scarfe animations for the movie on youtube, What Shall We Do Now? is an absolute banger both as a song an an animated short.
That was awesome and I loved your song at the end
I'm a simple man. I see you reacting to Pink Floyd and I click. Love your reactions, great stuff.
Your video makes it fresh again for me, thank you. I’m sure someone’s mentioned, but the Live in Berlin version is the fantasy league musical theatre version. The Trial is performed by Tim Curry, Albert Finney with the exquisite Ute Lemper and Marianne Faithful as the exquisite Wife and Mother. It’s bonkers in the best possible way. Also Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Sinéad O’Conner, Paul Carrack, Van Morrison, Scorpions, The Band, etc.
i love you❤ you are doing a great job and the wall is a masterpiece🙂
Caroline does justICE, in a mere 17 min, to the amazing masterwork of RogerWaters, THE WALL!
An album simular to this is Genesis' The lamb lies down on broadway.
Aslo a very good concept album.
About that movie, version, I don't recommend you watch it TOO soon. The movie stars Bob Geldof (of the Boomtown Rats, who went on to Band Aid and Live Aid fame) and film is pretty great. Still, the movie's imagery is so, SO striking - so overwhelming, really - that it can take the place of your listening experience. In other words, you risk one director's vision overtaking your own personal experience of the music. The film is that strong, visually. Better to watch the movie after you've thoroughly ingrained the album as your own. By the way, Pink Floyd DOES like their leitmotifs on a lot of their albums, but no doubt this is most fully realized on "The Wall." And thank you for singing one of the songs for us! You always have such a Caroline way of doing reactions! Love it!
Caroline! Just try 'Oktaf Kanis - Starlight' for the next reaction 😍