That descending line "did you ever wonder, why we had to run for shelter, when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?" is one of the most intriguing, yet beautiful lines ever written in rock music. And it is that because the music underlines it.
Absolutely amazing line, delivered in an incredible fashion. The lyrics descend the scale, as they descend into darkness as you realize what is going on
Oh I know, gives me goosebumps, especially watching the movie, when the line is spoken over the image of frightened gas mask people hiding terrified in the tunnel followed immediately by the looming seemingly indestructible, invincible image of the planes flying from the monolith of a war machine. This isn’t a brave new world, it’s more like hell. It’s utterly haunting. I can’t help but feel the word “unfurled” should rather be “died”. Considering the extent of Nazi bombing during the Blitz, it very much felt like the promise of a brave new world died beneath a clear blue sky with this onslaught of fascism dominating Europe, how much people caught in it must have felt like the world WAS really ending. Also haunting with the film as a visual image, is the Oohs sung over the image of the giant bird ripping up the countryside trailing blood.
@@JackMellor498 I believe that the word unfurled was intentional since brand new world promises are sometimes used as an excuse to start the war in the first place, because "the opposite side is sabotaging the 3rd party's path to prosperity for their own benefit", especially in scenarios when battles take place at the territory of smaller countries, involuntairly involved into this P.S. No direct references to real life political situations or attemts to accuse you of misinterpretation, everyone thinks of same art objects in different ways and I understand it
My mother survived the Blitz in East London. 74 consecutive nights of bombing (bar two). Her descriptions of it made it clear how deeply it affected her all her life. She would occasionally have nightmares that would start out as ordinary dreams, but then she would hear the engines of massed bombers approaching...she would have been in her early teens. At one point she virtually lived underground. Goodbye Blue Sky indeed.
My Grandmother (lived in Birmingham) was the same way, she said the first time she heard this song in particular it had such a huge emotional impact on her not only from the lyrics but the plane sound at the beginning, and for years just hearing the song would induce a panic/anxiety attack that would leave her a wreck.
@@MoreIrrelevantTwaddle To live in a world where death rained out of the skies. When I stop and really think about it rather than treating it as a mere historical fact, I wonder if I would have broken under the pressure.
When the Covid-19 lockdowns started in 2020, I told my daughter that she will now have a teeny-weeny better understanding of what life under the Blitz must have been like.
I just read the lyrics for this song and realized if you say them instead of sing them, it sounds like a person stuttering with fear. Brilliant song writing.
Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky Ooh 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? Ooh Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye Goodbye Rail station.. The eleven fifteen from Newcastle is now approaching The eleven eighteen arrival
If you read the lyrics for the entire album like a book it gives you a very good idea of what the album is all about. Then watch the movie made from the album and you will get visual aids that really bring it all home. It is truly a work of art.
@@jimmyd486 I have a thorough understanding of the album and have seen the movie many times. The level of creativity that went into making this album is quite remarkable.
On 9/11/01 I was walking with my daughter in the morning before taking her to school and we were both marveling at how clear and blue the skies were... and then a few minutes later we witnessed what dreadful things had come out of those clear blue skies.
Another reason, and I think, more relatable, sadly. Now days more and more people are anticipating good times. When these times come, we're already thinking about how this will end and what can we do to make it like this in the future. If we could just appreciate the moment for what it is, we wouldn't feel these anxious anticipating.
I accidentally stumbled on this album when I was listening to my dad’s forgotten music collection somewhere around 10 years old. In a shoebox of 70 tapes, this was a complete standout. The intensity and production was hugely overwhelming and created a deep and lasting impression on me, even now that I’m 40something. This song always brings me to tears or close to it, a stark innocent beauty in the guitar in contrast to the dangers of the world, for me resembling ones inner hurt and silent battles in this world of good and evil that often times no-one else seem to grasp.
GoodBye Blue Sky is one of the few songs which gives me chill bumps and makes the top of my scalp prickle like my hair is standing on edge. "Unexpected and unsettling...ought to be rising but instead falling" is such an apt analysis. Amy got it exactly right, I would say. Whenever I hear the opening of this song, my attention snaps to it and grabs my full attention because the song has a foreboding of doom and danger coming. I see the blue sky, the bombs falling, people running in terror to the shelters. I hear the screams of someone's legs blown off, see a skull shattered from shrapnel and the charred body crumpled in the gutter smoldering. The song fills my entire head like one of those huge drive-in movie screens of the past. I can see the song. Very, very few musicians are good enough to cause that. My imagination explodes when I hear this song. I am overwhelmed by the imagery it invokes within my mind. Even now I am glancing out the window at a blue sky, thinking about bombs falling at any moment.
@@MYwinters1945 Waters had a penchant for just showing people a card with something and then recording their reaction. I can imagine him saying to some little girl.. "You see an airplane.. what do you say?". And then hit record. And you hear all the innocence you would naturally expect. And he knew that would happen. Friggin genius.
It's dark alright. I can't listen to this album without falling apart about 3-4 songs in . Art by definition makes us feel. And this is art at it's highest level
The Wall is one of the finest "concept albums" that has ever been made! There is also a film of this, that acts out the songs of the album. It's pretty wild, and potentially disturbing.
This has always been one of my favorite songs from The Wall. I always imagine Pink spotting this plane in the clear blue sky with a child's wonder and fascination but then he says something to his mother. She knows right away it a German bomber and in a panic scoops up Pink and runs for the nearest subway station along with everyone else. Then he finds himself in a dark underground station with hundreds of other people. He looks at the terrified faces around him, some crying, while his mother clutches him tightly to her. From outside he can hear the bombs exploding and the wail of air raid sirens. He doesn't understand what's happening. All he knows is something terrible is going on. For Pink it's the experience of his child like wonder being transformed into terror.
Your reaction and analysis of The Wall album is the best I've ever seen or heard. At the end of the day, setting analysis aside, I hope you share your thoughts as to whether or not you love, like, or dislike the album as a whole. If you do indeed enjoy it, I'm sure most of us would love to hear your reaction/analysis of other Pink Floyd albums such as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. Thank you!
This is the Floyd song that left the deepest impression on me after discovering them in my late teens. Mother was Pink's fear and the projection of his mother's pain. Goodbye Blue Sky IS his mother's pain. The Blitz bombings of London and other civilian areas must have been terrifying, though it was never publicly spoken of. Probably similar to what Ukraine is going through right now. The cycle of trauma never ceases. And sadly it's mostly because the previously traumatized won't allow it.
Isn’t it clever how they conveyed the previous song’s fears into a hellish real world battlefield that becomes an internal conflict? The child’s voice is the perfect transition, then later the line “the flames are long gone but the pain lingers on”
The B with A on bass Would be A-B-D#-F#, like an A13#11 (with no 3rd and 7th). And that #11 could be a tritone of A if you play it an octave lower. Maybe that gave you that reaction of darkness. Am I right?
Piggybacking on my comment in your Mother video pinned comment, this is the first song of side 2 of the album, so it's the start of the next "chapter." Again I feel so much of the listener's experience is lost in that this song would come immediately after the song Mother in a streamed or digital release of this music. This song would have come after we had a built in pause to get up and flip the album over and the first song of the next chapter in the story as we start listening to side 2 of the 4 sides of the album.
The opening with the birds is an interesting (and possibly unintentional) reference to a somewhat obscure recording made by a British ornithologist who was recording nightingales, but the birdsong was interrupted by a flight of RAF bombers. This recording had, in 1975, inspired the album "Nightingales and Bombers" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band (a great album, btw) - and the actual recording was used in the song "As Above, So Below". In this song, the birdsong is a skylark, and the noise of the aircraft is louder and more disruptive - preparing us for the lyrical subject. As the instruments come in, the guitar plays a major chord with the 3rd lifting a half-step (sus4), giving a happy and peaceful feeling, then descends to the minor with the lift moving to the 5th / flat6 - the happiness of the major giving way to the sad and almost eerie minor! I find it a very effective use of simple chords to convey a great deal of emotional content :-) In the end, of course, Pink must say goodbye to the hope and promise of freedom that the blue sky represented, for the sky had become a source of pain and terror and death!
this could be pink's mother answering him when he says, "look mummy,there's an airplane up in the sky". pink was too young to remember or understand the bombings in england, so mother is telling him about the time when they had to "run for shelter", and how "the pain lingers on" for her. just another way she put her fears into him.
I always thought the child said "Look mummy, there's no plane up in the sky". I took it to mean the war was over. Obviously I was wrong. Bu that is ALL I can hear. I even listened to it again at 1:24 and it still sounds the way I've always heard it.
@@stanleymyrick4068 Same with me. I can't hear "a plane" at all. Of course, it is a bit silly for a kid to say that, because even during the Blitz, there had to be countless times one could look up and not see any. But, when I say that. I'm thinking of German planes, as that's what everybody would be concerned with, but if he technically meant NO planes, then that would cover the RAF too, and they were probably quite busy when raids weren't going on, getting guys trained up, etc. So it might have been actually somewhat rare in daylight hours to have not seen a plane. Naturally, even then, there would be lots of skies with no planes, but if you saw one virtually every time you went out, you might find that rather remarkable. Of course, it depends where they lived too, because if you lived by an airport, even during peacetime it could be pretty remarkable to look the whole sky over and not see one, especially whenever primetime for flights going out were. The only thing I can figure out as to why we hear "no" is because he must be pronouncing the letter A the way brits more commonly do, which doesn't sound like our A at all. It's that Ah sound. Even considering that, and trying really hard to hear it that way, it still comes out 'no'. Maybe the actor just blew the line?
I’ve always heard, there’s no plane in the sky. An I interpret it as I’ve experienced in real life, cuz there’s times I’ve heard planes goin by sometimes I can’t see them in the sky, plus when I’ve thought I’ve heard them in a certain direction an I don’t see them in that same direction, I’ll look in the opposite direction but the sound travels away from where their actually flying…. Plus I live in an area where the Mississippi is to the west of me an maybe a quarter of a mile away directly to the east of me we have maybe like 500 to a 1000 foot high bluffs, an some of the planes I might hear are on the other side of the bluff an can’t see but just hear them. An the sound of the plane bounces off the bluffs. So maybe he’s saying he hears them but theres no plane up in the sky. But what do I know…😂
I've always understood this to be a reference to the Germans bombing campaign that all U.K citizens experienced regardless of age, and the underlying message of closing the chapter of Pinks youth. Also I've always wonder if the brave new World line was influenced by Aldous Huxley's Book of the same Name.
It wasn’t the Germans. It was the UK bombing their own people, telling them it was Germans, so that they could get involved in the war with the backing of the UK public. Same thing happened in the US with 9/11
Huxley got the phrase from Shakespeare. It's from The Tempest, where the character Miranda (who has grown up on an island isolated from the world) meets a group of outsiders for the first time and says "Oh wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!". Shakespeare uses it to show how naive Miranda is, whereas Huxley has the Savage character say it to show his naivety and also comment sarcastically to the reader on the kind of future he's portraying.
One of my favourites. It's about the destruction of innocence by war. It is really powerful. I love this song. The whole album tells his journey through life from childhood through to adulthood, with all its pitfalls. He gets judged harshly at the end. He is, like us all, highly flawed. Great album :)
This has been my favourite band since the first time I heard them (another brick in the wall on the radio) when I was 13. I remember excitedly asking my dad "who is this?" the moment he got back in the truck, luckily before the song ended. Everything after David Gilmour joined the band to combine his guitar playing talents with Roger Waters' impressive writing talents left a profound impression on me. I enjoyed watching this video and seeing your reaction to hearing this for the first time.
The best story ever written in song....in an entire album. The only other group I have felt pulled this off very well was Queensryche, with the Operation Mindcrime album. I never cared for listening to Pink Floyd as a kid...I was too young and you only hear a song at a time on the radio. I didnt gain my appreciation for them until I was in my late 40s. The album also sounds amazing on a good stereo.
I'd have to acknowledge Tommy by Peter Townsend's Who which is a very deep and moving tale with engaging songs. The Wall is so much darker. Both share the same source - a missing father.
This song will always remind me of September 11th.... Watching that black smoke in front of a beautiful blue sky. Definitely the reason I signed up to serve my country and proud to be retired... But miss it everyday
People don't instantly recognize the sound of the old war machines any more. (The sound of the bombers needed no explanation in the 70's - even to kids - because a lot of people alive at that time still remembered the sound that arrived before the bombs, the firestorms, the laying-waste, and even the kids knew lots of old movies with those sounds in them.)
I deeply appreciate your channel, your perspective, your deep love and understanding of music, and your open-minded approach to music you're not familiar with. Not to mention your generosity in sharing your vast knowledge. I love "reaction videos" in general, but your channel is on a different level. Please continue.
I just caught up with where your at on the album. A very small percentage of people understand what "The Wall" is all about. They just like the song. I am so glad I found your channel and get to follow your journey through the rest of the album. I love it when you get the songs and the deep meanings inside them.
I love the fact that your analytical & intellectual journey thru this album is helping me understand why I love this Floyd album (as well as many of their others). In my humble opinion, you are absolutely on the mark with everything, even tho some aspects are outside of your personal experience / time period. As for what's to come, buckle in, it's about to turn a lot darker.
Genuinely one of my favorite songs on the album, it's one of the first I ever learned to play on guitar and still do now and then. The beauty of the way it sounds is counteracted by the creeping sense of malice, particularly in the descending lyrics you mentioned, but also in the brass instruments you hear. For some context, this would be the first song you'd hear on the second side of the album (since it was a double album with two records, there are four sides) and is among the last we get of Pink's childhood, indicated by the voice talking about the airplane up in the sky.
I like how you dissect songs. But it almost makes me feel bad that I've missed so much of the music. P.S. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. 75 year old Texan nere.
I'm really enjoying your exploration of this release. I remember hearing this album (actually albums) being played on the radio before it was available for sale, and the DJs didn't seem to know how to play the songs as "singles," as there were no clear separations between the tracks. I recall the DJs being blown away by the innovative thinking behind this release and treating every piece with reverence. When I bought the album, I put it on my turntable and listened to all of the tracks in one listen. Four sides in one session, just like a movie. Like a story. It was like nothing ever recorded before. A true concept album....The Dark Side of the Moon on steroids.
Waters and Gilmour are musical geniuses. Listening to The Wall, the album, from start to finish takes you on an emotional journey like no other than I've experienced. I remember in 1979, lying on my bed in my college dorm room, listening to this album and wondering if I'd ever be the same. I haven't.
You did guess right, even though the intro sounds so melodious and beautiful, it hides something dreadful. The title is also a beautiful metaphor of the sky being obscured, but not by clouds or the darkness of the night.
This was the song that I most immediately fell in love with upon The Wall's release. It is both beautiful and ominous. I have watched several of your analysis thus far and have really enjoyed. I was a teenager when this album came out, right smack in the target demographic for sure. Back then we utterly inhaled albums.... I mean like 2 or more people sitting for 2 hours not saying a word and listening - an endeavor for which I think only idle youth could approach with such seriousness. Most of us had little-to-no musical training, thus all the listening was, as Aaron Copland would say, 'Sensual'. As I've learned more theory over the years, I definitely enjoy the new dimension of appreciation, but I would not trade those years of listening 'sensually' for anything!!
The album is about a boy who lost his father in WWII (and later went on to be a rock star) and this song marks the last time he remembers being happy as a child, and so you hear the happy cheerful chorus accompanied by the minor chord melody hinting at the darkness to come.
That child, I believe was Roger Waters.His father Served in world war two. He was a royal fuselier I believe that means Bomb and ordinance disposal. I don't think he ever met his father.His dad died in 1944, I believe
When I heard this, the chord change with the horns evoked the sound of fighter plane engines. These can be heard from quite a distance, and can be terrifying if they are not yours.
The chords always take me from happy and content way down to sad and dower. I guess that’s the ebb and flow your talking about. It’s a very cool use of chording that moves me almost physically way up and way down . Great first listen! Thank you 🙏
I have been watching these reaction videos, waiting for the moments that make you tilt your head and raise an eyebrow because something musically unexpected or interesting just played in the song. I love the genuine reactions to the songs I already know, and love even more discovering new facets to these familiar works. Thank you!
The sequence in the film The Wall that provides animation visuals for Goodbye Blue Sky really enhances the experience of this song, stunningly capturing its tragedy and pathos. Seminal use of film animation and historically great example of a wedding of music and video.
Thank you so much for these reactions and in-depth analysis. It is so interesting to see and listen to you break down the songs of my favourite band and the music that’s been the sound track to my life. I know you have your own list of songs and bands to get to, I would like to suggest the band Yes with their song Close to the Edge from the album of the same name. Have a great day.
My Scottish Father-in-law, born in 1930 in Glasgow lived through the Blitz and the worst of WW2 in Scotland. He cared little for "rock" music but he loved The Wall and the movie, was one of the most moving experience he'd ever had from a movie. He said he likely knew, Pink's (and Roger Waters) father, killed in Anzio Beach in 1944. The fathers death is a important and pivotal part of The Wall. A lot of missing fathers in post-war UK, and a lot of Boys raised by single mothers.
This is one of my favorite songs by Pink Floyd. I always get super irritated it wasn’t on their greatest hits. Love it’s part in The Wall movie as well.
How could they possibly put all their amazing songs on one album. A 'Greatest Hits' album is not appropriate for Pink Floyd, and definitely not for their fans.
There is something so touching about this. I actually felt as though I was again hearing this music for the first time, and that really moved me. Thank you.
Please remember that this music originally came out as an album, and in fact, a double album. The long intro on this song was a lead-in to let the listener know that things were about to take a turn, just like the turning of the first album to Side 2. And of course, your analysis of the title indicating that this is the end of childhood was spot on!
One of the most creative, heart grabbing intros I have ever heard in music is this song, where the little girl so innocently say "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" WOW! For those who know anything about the Blitzkrieg during WWII this line makes perfect sense and beautifully captures an ordinary time in life before it erupts into darkness. The problem with this song and others on this album is, it stirs up so much emotion in me that I am afraid I will start sobbing and not be able to stop.
When I first heard this at the age of 10, when it came out, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard! And even at that time, I knew exactly what the song was referring too . I guess in the 1970s they still taught about the greatest conflict The world has ever seen because my uncles were a part of it! Many of my family, and millions of others have suffered, especially the great people of Britain!! I appreciate the breakdown of the music itself, which is absolutely beautiful, but you need to fully absorb the lyrics!!! in a historical and deeply personal way that affected Roger Waters life up until this day!
Also one of my fav songs on the album. Beautiful and sinister. I'm a guitarist. Gilmour uses a Drop D guitar tuning. Tune down the bass E string to D and finger pick. It's exquisitely beautiful to play :)
The Wall came out when I was 13, this song was so relevant to my childhood experience, my parents were battling each other, they had high expectations of me, and were both trying to vie for my affection. I used this album as a means of escape. It literally got me through adolecence.
Your analysis is quite unique....after listening to this album all of my adult life, and hearing your insights, it makes listening to it even more satisfying . Keep listening to more Pink and Gabriel era Genesis please.
I think when you consider that the song was written in the late 1970's, with the Cold War in the background of everyone's mind, the lyrics and music fit well with the times.
Pretty sure this is about the second world war and the scars it left on the UK. Especially if you consider the imagery that plays during this song in the film. Also that Pink's father died during the war.
"Did, did, did, did, did, you see the falling bombs..." Yes, it's referring to WWII. No bombs fell during the Cold War, hence the name 'Cold War'. Many thousands of tons of bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz on London, Coventry, Birmingham and other civilian industrial centres.
@@derekspitz9225 I get that, but at the same time that was written at a time when the prospect of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR was a very real thing in people minds, so I believe that both are true.
@@Dan-C-71 Listen to the lyrics. It is clearly about WWII. Just because it was written during the Cold War doesn't mean it has anything to do with the Cold War. It was written at the same time as the Yorkshire Ripper was at large-perhaps the song is about him? smh
One of the rare vivid memories of my father (who passed away in 1969) was when we were camping in Humewood, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He called me to watch the 5 planes overhead and experience that you could only hear their engines long after they had gone out of view. It was like magic. The planes were out of sight, but it sounded as if they were still overhead. That was my first experience of the slow speed of longitudinal waves (which are dependent on an atmosphere) as compared to transversal waves. Those French Mirages were awesome, but one did not think at the time that they were war machines.
Beautifully said. In english you will hear it said, "made from scratch", meaning from start to finish, and all parts in between. I wonder what can be made, from scratches on our souls
Joining you on this journey here brings back so many memories of the time I was part of a series of 4 live performances of this entire album in a stone quarry, in front of 2500 people each evening/night. Before 2014 when I signed up to be part of that project I had never heard of The Wall, but since that time I've come to love it.
Pink Floyd is so thoughtful and subtly surprising. They bring to the music a creative spark that enhances their concept. Illustrating how a blue sky can bring birds and bombs is genius. Your analysis of this album has brought much greater appreciation of this great prog rock band. Pink Floyd and Genesis are easily my favorite bands. (Can't wait for you to discover Genesis!)
Hi, I Really enjoy your analysis of The Wall album. Pink Floyd are one of very few bands in their genre that produced music that takes you on such an emotional journey. Musical story telling at its finest. After over thirty years of listening to them it never gets old. Changing the subject I would be interested in your reaction take on a guy called Steven Wilson, often described as "the greatest song writer and musical genius that you probably never heard of" . Songs such as Drive home, Routine or The raven that refused to sing. Another great emotional musical story teller. Thank you for your intelligent thoughtful reaction approach.
I will always remember the awesome video and graphics for this song in the movie The Wall. Just like you used "innocent and dark" to describe this song, "Beautiful and Nightmarish" are the only two words I could come up with! 🎶🎸👍
When I first heard this song back when I was about 14, I thought the line was Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter with the promise of the brave who went and fell beneath the clear blue sky? (not - promise of the brave new world that was unfurled beneath a clear blue sky) Which I took to be a thought about the futility of hiding while his father was not returning. It fed into my idea of the mother trying to substitute the son for the father, wrapping him in cotton wool, controlling every aspect of his life so 'he' would not leave 'her' alone again in fear.
I'm so happy to watch you experience The Wall. I personally feel it a operatic masterpiece the story line and supporting music evoke the exact emotion needed in perfect harmony jmo
This and nobody's home are amazing gems on this album, which has many. I am trying to find more time to listen to your analysis. It is very well thought out and you really are picking up and predicting where it is going well. You are very interesting.
Keep in mind that Waters and the other members of Pink Floyd grew up in the aftermath of WWII, in the shadow of the Cold War. I don't know what it was like in England, but I do know that for a while bomb shelters and nuclear drills were all the rage in the US (for all the good they would have done).
It's not about the Cold War. "Did, did, did, did, did, you see the falling bombs..." It's referring to WWII. No bombs fell during the Cold War, hence the name 'Cold War'. Many thousands of tons of bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz on London, Coventry, Birmingham and other civilian industrial centres, including people's homes. And yes, the children of the war who witnessed aerial bombing grew up marked by their dreadful experiences.
@@SelfEvident There was a scary virus, and people took rational decisions to keep themselves and their family/friends as safe as they could. Things are different now, billions of vaccinations have happened, lots of people have topped up their immunity (post vaccination) with Covid infections that weren't severe (due to vaccinations), and we also have therapeutics now. Also the virus evolved to be far more infectious than we could ever hope to combat through social distancing or masks. Luckily that happened after most of the vulnerable people obtained a very good level of protection (from the vaccines). I don't know how it is where you live, but in my country we listened to what government said, especially as their message was delivered by politicians alongside very eminent doctors and scientists.
@@derekspitz9225 "No bombs fell during the Cold War"? I'm pretty sure the people of Viet Nam, Korea, and most of the Middle East would beg to differ. While we talk about those as separate conflicts, they all fell under the umbrella of the Cold War.
My father was a musician,born in Germany 1940 and came to Canada in 1951. My father loved Pink Floyd. I knew as a child why he was drawn to this band. The horrors my father had endured in Berlin as a child turned into my nightmares, my sisters nightmares,my brothers ,my mother,his own mother,his own brother. Its like the suffering of that war had morphed branching off its own different demons into the next generations. It was brutal what i and my family had to endure and still endure. One day maybe i can tell my story.
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That descending line "did you ever wonder, why we had to run for shelter, when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?" is one of the most intriguing, yet beautiful lines ever written in rock music. And it is that because the music underlines it.
Absolutely amazing line, delivered in an incredible fashion. The lyrics descend the scale, as they descend into darkness as you realize what is going on
Oh I know, gives me goosebumps, especially watching the movie, when the line is spoken over the image of frightened gas mask people hiding terrified in the tunnel followed immediately by the looming seemingly indestructible, invincible image of the planes flying from the monolith of a war machine.
This isn’t a brave new world, it’s more like hell. It’s utterly haunting.
I can’t help but feel the word “unfurled” should rather be “died”. Considering the extent of Nazi bombing during the Blitz, it very much felt like the promise of a brave new world died beneath a clear blue sky with this onslaught of fascism dominating Europe, how much people caught in it must have felt like the world WAS really ending.
Also haunting with the film as a visual image, is the Oohs sung over the image of the giant bird ripping up the countryside trailing blood.
Prophetic
Right! What you said.😊
@@JackMellor498 I believe that the word unfurled was intentional since brand new world promises are sometimes used as an excuse to start the war in the first place, because "the opposite side is sabotaging the 3rd party's path to prosperity for their own benefit", especially in scenarios when battles take place at the territory of smaller countries, involuntairly involved into this
P.S. No direct references to real life political situations or attemts to accuse you of misinterpretation, everyone thinks of same art objects in different ways and I understand it
One of my favorite songs on the album. It is beautiful and sinister at the same time
Yes … that’s a perfect way to describe it!
Airplanes can mean death from above
As in this case
This would be cooler if we had context first, otherwise, its just words.
Bittersweet
My mother survived the Blitz in East London. 74 consecutive nights of bombing (bar two). Her descriptions of it made it clear how deeply it affected her all her life. She would occasionally have nightmares that would start out as ordinary dreams, but then she would hear the engines of massed bombers approaching...she would have been in her early teens. At one point she virtually lived underground. Goodbye Blue Sky indeed.
My Grandmother (lived in Birmingham) was the same way, she said the first time she heard this song in particular it had such a huge emotional impact on her not only from the lyrics but the plane sound at the beginning, and for years just hearing the song would induce a panic/anxiety attack that would leave her a wreck.
@@MoreIrrelevantTwaddle To live in a world where death rained out of the skies. When I stop and really think about it rather than treating it as a mere historical fact, I wonder if I would have broken under the pressure.
Those poor Ukrainian children 💔
Thanks for sharing that
When the Covid-19 lockdowns started in 2020, I told my daughter that she will now have a teeny-weeny better understanding of what life under the Blitz must have been like.
I just read the lyrics for this song and realized if you say them instead of sing them, it sounds like a person stuttering with fear. Brilliant song writing.
That's a brilliant observation that had never occurred to me, even after thousands of listens. Thank you for sharing!
Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky
Ooh
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?
Ooh
Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on
Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye
Goodbye
Rail station..
The eleven fifteen from Newcastle is now approaching
The eleven eighteen arrival
If you read the lyrics for the entire album like a book it gives you a very good idea of what the album is all about. Then watch the movie made from the album and you will get visual aids that really bring it all home. It is truly a work of art.
@@jimmyd486 I have a thorough understanding of the album and have seen the movie many times. The level of creativity that went into making this album is quite remarkable.
@@teacherlion 👍☺
Even a clear, blue sky can represent gut-wrenching dread.
After all, clear skies are good bombing weather.
On 9/11/01 I was walking with my daughter in the morning before taking her to school and we were both marveling at how clear and blue the skies were... and then a few minutes later we witnessed what dreadful things had come out of those clear blue skies.
@@andytraiger4079 that is incredibly compelling. Were you in NYC? What are your daughter's memories of that day?
absolutely...Kokura Japan had the bad weather to thank for the second A bombing to move on to Nagasaki
Another reason, and I think, more relatable, sadly. Now days more and more people are anticipating good times. When these times come, we're already thinking about how this will end and what can we do to make it like this in the future.
If we could just appreciate the moment for what it is, we wouldn't feel these anxious anticipating.
"But remember the enemy can see you too" Catch-22
I hear that voice of the child at the beginning and I'm already crying. Everytime.
הבן של רוג'ר ווטרס
"It seems there is something dark under the surface." I love seeing you anticipating what I know is coming.
I accidentally stumbled on this album when I was listening to my dad’s forgotten music collection somewhere around 10 years old. In a shoebox of 70 tapes, this was a complete standout. The intensity and production was hugely overwhelming and created a deep and lasting impression on me, even now that I’m 40something. This song always brings me to tears or close to it, a stark innocent beauty in the guitar in contrast to the dangers of the world, for me resembling ones inner hurt and silent battles in this world of good and evil that often times no-one else seem to grasp.
GoodBye Blue Sky is one of the few songs which gives me chill bumps and makes the top of my scalp prickle like my hair is standing on edge. "Unexpected and unsettling...ought to be rising but instead falling" is such an apt analysis. Amy got it exactly right, I would say.
Whenever I hear the opening of this song, my attention snaps to it and grabs my full attention because the song has a foreboding of doom and danger coming. I see the blue sky, the bombs falling, people running in terror to the shelters. I hear the screams of someone's legs blown off, see a skull shattered from shrapnel and the charred body crumpled in the gutter smoldering. The song fills my entire head like one of those huge drive-in movie screens of the past. I can see the song. Very, very few musicians are good enough to cause that.
My imagination explodes when I hear this song. I am overwhelmed by the imagery it invokes within my mind. Even now I am glancing out the window at a blue sky, thinking about bombs falling at any moment.
I love the way the voice in the little girl breaks a little, it makes her a bit more cute.
@@MYwinters1945 Waters had a penchant for just showing people a card with something and then recording their reaction.
I can imagine him saying to some little girl.. "You see an airplane.. what do you say?". And then hit record. And you hear all the innocence you would naturally expect. And he knew that would happen.
Friggin genius.
Vera is the same way. It's so light on the surface, and so creepy underneath.
Only the great Roger Waters is capable of such lyrics , amazing lyricist !!!!!
It's dark alright. I can't listen to this album without falling apart about 3-4 songs in . Art by definition makes us feel. And this is art at it's highest level
This song has one of the best lines ever, "flames are all long gone, but pain lingers on"
The music draws you in and makes you feel the emotions. That's the genius of Roger Waters.
Exactly
Blud most music does that 😅 don't sell Roger short with that waffle lol
David Gilmour
The Wall is one of the finest "concept albums" that has ever been made! There is also a film of this, that acts out the songs of the album. It's pretty wild, and potentially disturbing.
This has always been one of my favorite songs from The Wall. I always imagine Pink spotting this plane in the clear blue sky with a child's wonder and fascination but then he says something to his mother. She knows right away it a German bomber and in a panic scoops up Pink and runs for the nearest subway station along with everyone else. Then he finds himself in a dark underground station with hundreds of other people. He looks at the terrified faces around him, some crying, while his mother clutches him tightly to her. From outside he can hear the bombs exploding and the wail of air raid sirens. He doesn't understand what's happening. All he knows is something terrible is going on. For Pink it's the experience of his child like wonder being transformed into terror.
Which one is Pink?
@@zeitghost1321 Pink is the character in the album building the mental wall.
By the way …………?
Your reaction and analysis of The Wall album is the best I've ever seen or heard. At the end of the day, setting analysis aside, I hope you share your thoughts as to whether or not you love, like, or dislike the album as a whole. If you do indeed enjoy it, I'm sure most of us would love to hear your reaction/analysis of other Pink Floyd albums such as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. Thank you!
And the Final Cut of course
@@justinshallard893 and ummagumma That will break her lol
Dark Side of the Moon really needs the same treatment. Fingers crossed she does that whole album.
I'd love to hear her reaction to the early singles like Arnold Lane or see Emily play.
Yes, great suggestion, please do.
As someone who knows every word and sound on this album it is so uplifting to watch your take. To me this music is as old as time itself. Great job.
This is the Floyd song that left the deepest impression on me after discovering them in my late teens. Mother was Pink's fear and the projection of his mother's pain. Goodbye Blue Sky IS his mother's pain. The Blitz bombings of London and other civilian areas must have been terrifying, though it was never publicly spoken of. Probably similar to what Ukraine is going through right now. The cycle of trauma never ceases. And sadly it's mostly because the previously traumatized won't allow it.
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Isn’t it clever how they conveyed the previous song’s fears into a hellish real world battlefield that becomes an internal conflict? The child’s voice is the perfect transition, then later the line “the flames are long gone but the pain lingers on”
The B with A on bass Would be A-B-D#-F#, like an A13#11 (with no 3rd and 7th). And that #11 could be a tritone of A if you play it an octave lower. Maybe that gave you that reaction of darkness. Am I right?
That’s how things get stuck up in the air.
Piggybacking on my comment in your Mother video pinned comment, this is the first song of side 2 of the album, so it's the start of the next "chapter." Again I feel so much of the listener's experience is lost in that this song would come immediately after the song Mother in a streamed or digital release of this music. This song would have come after we had a built in pause to get up and flip the album over and the first song of the next chapter in the story as we start listening to side 2 of the 4 sides of the album.
The opening with the birds is an interesting (and possibly unintentional) reference to a somewhat obscure recording made by a British ornithologist who was recording nightingales, but the birdsong was interrupted by a flight of RAF bombers. This recording had, in 1975, inspired the album "Nightingales and Bombers" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band (a great album, btw) - and the actual recording was used in the song "As Above, So Below". In this song, the birdsong is a skylark, and the noise of the aircraft is louder and more disruptive - preparing us for the lyrical subject.
As the instruments come in, the guitar plays a major chord with the 3rd lifting a half-step (sus4), giving a happy and peaceful feeling, then descends to the minor with the lift moving to the 5th / flat6 - the happiness of the major giving way to the sad and almost eerie minor! I find it a very effective use of simple chords to convey a great deal of emotional content :-)
In the end, of course, Pink must say goodbye to the hope and promise of freedom that the blue sky represented, for the sky had become a source of pain and terror and death!
this could be pink's mother answering him when he says, "look mummy,there's an airplane up in the sky". pink was too young to remember or understand the bombings in england, so mother is telling him about the time when they had to "run for shelter", and how "the pain lingers on" for her. just another way she put her fears into him.
I always thought the child said "Look mummy, there's no plane up in the sky". I took it to mean the war was over. Obviously I was wrong. Bu that is ALL I can hear. I even listened to it again at 1:24 and it still sounds the way I've always heard it.
@@stanleymyrick4068 he says “there’s an aeroplane…”which is why you’re hearing that long o.
@@stanleymyrick4068 Same with me. I can't hear "a plane" at all. Of course, it is a bit silly for a kid to say that, because even during the Blitz, there had to be countless times one could look up and not see any. But, when I say that. I'm thinking of German planes, as that's what everybody would be concerned with, but if he technically meant NO planes, then that would cover the RAF too, and they were probably quite busy when raids weren't going on, getting guys trained up, etc. So it might have been actually somewhat rare in daylight hours to have not seen a plane. Naturally, even then, there would be lots of skies with no planes, but if you saw one virtually every time you went out, you might find that rather remarkable. Of course, it depends where they lived too, because if you lived by an airport, even during peacetime it could be pretty remarkable to look the whole sky over and not see one, especially whenever primetime for flights going out were.
The only thing I can figure out as to why we hear "no" is because he must be pronouncing the letter A the way brits more commonly do, which doesn't sound like our A at all. It's that Ah sound. Even considering that, and trying really hard to hear it that way, it still comes out 'no'. Maybe the actor just blew the line?
I’ve always heard, there’s no plane in the sky. An I interpret it as I’ve experienced in real life, cuz there’s times I’ve heard planes goin by sometimes I can’t see them in the sky, plus when I’ve thought I’ve heard them in a certain direction an I don’t see them in that same direction, I’ll look in the opposite direction but the sound travels away from where their actually flying…. Plus I live in an area where the Mississippi is to the west of me an maybe a quarter of a mile away directly to the east of me we have maybe like 500 to a 1000 foot high bluffs, an some of the planes I might hear are on the other side of the bluff an can’t see but just hear them. An the sound of the plane bounces off the bluffs. So maybe he’s saying he hears them but theres no plane up in the sky. But what do I know…😂
@@stanleymyrick4068 interestingly the boy was Roger’s son Harry!
One of the most haunting songs ever written. And beautiful at the same time. Odd juxtaposition that digs into your soul.
The feeling of being set adrift permeates the song to me. Great listen thanks
The word that always comes to mind for me is "ominous."
Good one. I was thinking "sinister" might work also.
I've always understood this to be a reference to the Germans bombing campaign that all U.K citizens experienced regardless of age, and the underlying message of closing the chapter of Pinks youth. Also I've always wonder if the brave new World line was influenced by Aldous Huxley's Book of the same Name.
Imho, saying goodbye to the blue sky happened when descending into the London Underground shelter during a WWII air raid/blitz.
@@kenjordan5750 Same here
It wasn’t the Germans. It was the UK bombing their own people, telling them it was Germans, so that they could get involved in the war with the backing of the UK public. Same thing happened in the US with 9/11
@Pin Ky no, that’s part of the story the Zionists came up with to deflect from what they really did in WW2
Huxley got the phrase from Shakespeare. It's from The Tempest, where the character Miranda (who has grown up on an island isolated from the world) meets a group of outsiders for the first time and says "Oh wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!". Shakespeare uses it to show how naive Miranda is, whereas Huxley has the Savage character say it to show his naivety and also comment sarcastically to the reader on the kind of future he's portraying.
This is a favorite of mine on this album. The acoustic guitar and harmonies make it a beautiful piece
One of my favourites. It's about the destruction of innocence by war. It is really powerful. I love this song. The whole album tells his journey through life from childhood through to adulthood, with all its pitfalls. He gets judged harshly at the end. He is, like us all, highly flawed. Great album :)
This has been my favourite band since the first time I heard them (another brick in the wall on the radio) when I was 13. I remember excitedly asking my dad "who is this?" the moment he got back in the truck, luckily before the song ended. Everything after David Gilmour joined the band to combine his guitar playing talents with Roger Waters' impressive writing talents left a profound impression on me.
I enjoyed watching this video and seeing your reaction to hearing this for the first time.
I love her analysis, she points out things I never observed. That’s why she’s the music expert.
The 'comfort food' of the classical guitar sprinkled all over The Wall has some beautiful lines amongst the dark.....
This one's a tear-jerker.
My favorite youtube channel at the time. Can’t wait to see the whole álbum
The best story ever written in song....in an entire album. The only other group I have felt pulled this off very well was Queensryche, with the Operation Mindcrime album. I never cared for listening to Pink Floyd as a kid...I was too young and you only hear a song at a time on the radio. I didnt gain my appreciation for them until I was in my late 40s. The album also sounds amazing on a good stereo.
I'd have to acknowledge Tommy by Peter Townsend's Who which is a very deep and moving tale with engaging songs. The Wall is so much darker. Both share the same source - a missing father.
This song will always remind me of September 11th.... Watching that black smoke in front of a beautiful blue sky. Definitely the reason I signed up to serve my country and proud to be retired... But miss it everyday
People don't instantly recognize the sound of the old war machines any more.
(The sound of the bombers needed no explanation in the 70's - even to kids - because a lot of people alive at that time still remembered the sound that arrived before the bombs, the firestorms, the laying-waste, and even the kids knew lots of old movies with those sounds in them.)
Genius, masterpiece of lyrics, music and visuals. Probably seen "The Wall" 100 times. It's amazing. 🔥🔥🔥
I deeply appreciate your channel, your perspective, your deep love and understanding of music, and your open-minded approach to music you're not familiar with. Not to mention your generosity in sharing your vast knowledge. I love "reaction videos" in general, but your channel is on a different level. Please continue.
I know in real time this is ages ago, but throwing back my voice to that time, I'm currently excited for what she's still going to hear.
I just caught up with where your at on the album. A very small percentage of people understand what "The Wall" is all about. They just like the song. I am so glad I found your channel and get to follow your journey through the rest of the album. I love it when you get the songs and the deep meanings inside them.
I love the fact that your analytical & intellectual journey thru this album is helping me understand why I love this Floyd album (as well as many of their others).
In my humble opinion, you are absolutely on the mark with everything, even tho some aspects are outside of your personal experience / time period. As for what's to come, buckle in, it's about to turn a lot darker.
I have shared a lot of this series with friends for the reason you state. Well said !
Genuinely one of my favorite songs on the album, it's one of the first I ever learned to play on guitar and still do now and then. The beauty of the way it sounds is counteracted by the creeping sense of malice, particularly in the descending lyrics you mentioned, but also in the brass instruments you hear. For some context, this would be the first song you'd hear on the second side of the album (since it was a double album with two records, there are four sides) and is among the last we get of Pink's childhood, indicated by the voice talking about the airplane up in the sky.
This is low key one of my favorite songs
I like how you dissect songs. But it almost makes me feel bad that I've missed so much of the music. P.S. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. 75 year old Texan nere.
That's probably my favorite one on the Wall.
I'm really enjoying your exploration of this release. I remember hearing this album (actually albums) being played on the radio before it was available for sale, and the DJs didn't seem to know how to play the songs as "singles," as there were no clear separations between the tracks. I recall the DJs being blown away by the innovative thinking behind this release and treating every piece with reverence. When I bought the album, I put it on my turntable and listened to all of the tracks in one listen. Four sides in one session, just like a movie. Like a story. It was like nothing ever recorded before. A true concept album....The Dark Side of the Moon on steroids.
This song is one of my favorites from this album. I wish it was longer. Looking forward to your analysis.
My favorite Floyd song! So haunting and beautiful.
Waters and Gilmour are musical geniuses. Listening to The Wall, the album, from start to finish takes you on an emotional journey like no other than I've experienced. I remember in 1979, lying on my bed in my college dorm room, listening to this album and wondering if I'd ever be the same. I haven't.
It's simply the magic of Pink Floyd.
You did guess right, even though the intro sounds so melodious and beautiful, it hides something dreadful. The title is also a beautiful metaphor of the sky being obscured, but not by clouds or the darkness of the night.
‘A current that is flowing.’
Your insight is brilliant.
This was the song that I most immediately fell in love with upon The Wall's release. It is both beautiful and ominous. I have watched several of your analysis thus far and have really enjoyed. I was a teenager when this album came out, right smack in the target demographic for sure. Back then we utterly inhaled albums.... I mean like 2 or more people sitting for 2 hours not saying a word and listening - an endeavor for which I think only idle youth could approach with such seriousness. Most of us had little-to-no musical training, thus all the listening was, as Aaron Copland would say, 'Sensual'. As I've learned more theory over the years, I definitely enjoy the new dimension of appreciation, but I would not trade those years of listening 'sensually' for anything!!
The album is about a boy who lost his father in WWII (and later went on to be a rock star) and this song marks the last time he remembers being happy as a child, and so you hear the happy cheerful chorus accompanied by the minor chord melody hinting at the darkness to come.
When the Tigers broke free...
That child, I believe was Roger Waters.His father Served in world war two. He was a royal fuselier I believe that means Bomb and ordinance disposal. I don't think he ever met his father.His dad died in 1944, I believe
When I heard this, the chord change with the horns evoked the sound of fighter plane engines. These can be heard from quite a distance, and can be terrifying if they are not yours.
The chords always take me from happy and content way down to sad and dower. I guess that’s the ebb and flow your talking about. It’s a very cool use of chording that moves me almost physically way up and way down . Great first listen! Thank you 🙏
I have been watching these reaction videos, waiting for the moments that make you tilt your head and raise an eyebrow because something musically unexpected or interesting just played in the song. I love the genuine reactions to the songs I already know, and love even more discovering new facets to these familiar works. Thank you!
The way the guitar twists around the words makes this song so beautiful
Probably in my top ten of favorites. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've listened to The Wall. Truly a masterpiece!
The sequence in the film The Wall that provides animation visuals for Goodbye Blue Sky really enhances the experience of this song, stunningly capturing its tragedy and pathos. Seminal use of film animation and historically great example of a wedding of music and video.
Thank you so much for these reactions and in-depth analysis. It is so interesting to see and listen to you break down the songs of my favourite band and the music that’s been the sound track to my life. I know you have your own list of songs and bands to get to, I would like to suggest the band Yes with their song Close to the Edge from the album of the same name. Have a great day.
❤️❤️So much wisdom. Thanks, Amy❤️❤️
My Scottish Father-in-law, born in 1930 in Glasgow lived through the Blitz and the worst of WW2 in Scotland. He cared little for "rock" music but he loved The Wall and the movie, was one of the most moving experience he'd ever had from a movie. He said he likely knew, Pink's (and Roger Waters) father, killed in Anzio Beach in 1944. The fathers death is a important and pivotal part of The Wall. A lot of missing fathers in post-war UK, and a lot of Boys raised by single mothers.
This is one of my favorite songs by Pink Floyd. I always get super irritated it wasn’t on their greatest hits. Love it’s part in The Wall movie as well.
How could they possibly put all their amazing songs on one album. A 'Greatest Hits' album is not appropriate for Pink Floyd, and definitely not for their fans.
There is something so touching about this. I actually felt as though I was again hearing this music for the first time, and that really moved me. Thank you.
Ah a cheery little ditty about The Blitz.
Joni Mitchell knocks this song out of the park on the Waters Live Wall in Berlin concert. Heart breaking.
Please remember that this music originally came out as an album, and in fact, a double album. The long intro on this song was a lead-in to let the listener know that things were about to take a turn, just like the turning of the first album to Side 2. And of course, your analysis of the title indicating that this is the end of childhood was spot on!
One of the most creative, heart grabbing intros I have ever heard in music is this song, where the little girl so innocently say "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" WOW! For those who know anything about the Blitzkrieg during WWII this line makes perfect sense and beautifully captures an ordinary time in life before it erupts into darkness. The problem with this song and others on this album is, it stirs up so much emotion in me that I am afraid I will start sobbing and not be able to stop.
When I first heard this at the age of 10, when it came out, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard! And even at that time, I knew exactly what the song was referring too . I guess in the 1970s they still taught about the greatest conflict The world has ever seen because my uncles were a part of it! Many of my family, and millions of others have suffered, especially the great people of Britain!! I appreciate the breakdown of the music itself, which is absolutely beautiful, but you need to fully absorb the lyrics!!! in a historical and deeply personal way that affected Roger Waters life up until this day!
Also one of my fav songs on the album. Beautiful and sinister. I'm a guitarist. Gilmour uses a Drop D guitar tuning. Tune down the bass E string to D and finger pick. It's exquisitely beautiful to play :)
listening to pink floyd overwhelmes me with feelings
The Wall came out when I was 13, this song was so relevant to my childhood experience, my parents were battling each other, they had high expectations of me, and were both trying to vie for my affection. I used this album as a means of escape. It literally got me through adolecence.
Same. I listened to the album every night lying in bed on cassette, through a pair of tragic headphones.
Your analysis is quite unique....after listening to this album all of my adult life, and hearing your insights, it makes listening to it even more satisfying . Keep listening to more Pink and Gabriel era Genesis please.
This album is so powerful, it's been with me for so many years. It's importance is beyond just music.
Yea! Always waiting for more
"Wow, what a line!" Welcome to Pink Floyd. That was my reaction to that line as well.
This album sould be listened to as a whole!
I think when you consider that the song was written in the late 1970's, with the Cold War in the background of everyone's mind, the lyrics and music fit well with the times.
Pretty sure this is about the second world war and the scars it left on the UK. Especially if you consider the imagery that plays during this song in the film. Also that Pink's father died during the war.
@@bomberfox8360 I would say you’re both right.
"Did, did, did, did, did, you see the falling bombs..." Yes, it's referring to WWII. No bombs fell during the Cold War, hence the name 'Cold War'. Many thousands of tons of bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz on London, Coventry, Birmingham and other civilian industrial centres.
@@derekspitz9225 I get that, but at the same time that was written at a time when the prospect of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR was a very real thing in people minds, so I believe that both are true.
@@Dan-C-71 Listen to the lyrics. It is clearly about WWII.
Just because it was written during the Cold War doesn't mean it has anything to do with the Cold War. It was written at the same time as the Yorkshire Ripper was at large-perhaps the song is about him? smh
Pink Floyd the modern classical music
One of the rare vivid memories of my father (who passed away in 1969) was when we were camping in Humewood, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He called me to watch the 5 planes overhead and experience that you could only hear their engines long after they had gone out of view. It was like magic. The planes were out of sight, but it sounded as if they were still overhead. That was my first experience of the slow speed of longitudinal waves (which are dependent on an atmosphere) as compared to transversal waves. Those French Mirages were awesome, but one did not think at the time that they were war machines.
Mola como te deja sin palabras.
The Wall nos deja a todos con más preguntas que respuestas, con el alma llena de arañazos.
Beautifully said. In english you will hear it said, "made from scratch", meaning from start to finish, and all parts in between. I wonder what can be made, from scratches on our souls
Joining you on this journey here brings back so many memories of the time I was part of a series of 4 live performances of this entire album in a stone quarry, in front of 2500 people each evening/night. Before 2014 when I signed up to be part of that project I had never heard of The Wall, but since that time I've come to love it.
I am absolutely fascinated by your analysis in this series.
Pink Floyd is so thoughtful and subtly surprising. They bring to the music a creative spark that enhances their concept. Illustrating how a blue sky can bring birds and bombs is genius. Your analysis of this album has brought much greater appreciation of this great prog rock band. Pink Floyd and Genesis are easily my favorite bands. (Can't wait for you to discover Genesis!)
Wow, reliving this amazing album through your experience is really something extra. Thank you!
Hi, I Really enjoy your analysis of The Wall album. Pink Floyd are one of very few bands in their genre that produced music that takes you on such an emotional journey. Musical story telling at its finest. After over thirty years of listening to them it never gets old. Changing the subject I would be interested in your reaction take on a guy called Steven Wilson, often described as "the greatest song writer and musical genius that you probably never heard of" . Songs such as Drive home, Routine or The raven that refused to sing. Another great emotional musical story teller. Thank you for your intelligent thoughtful reaction approach.
Beautiful and sinister is the perfect description…. Still gives my chills
This song is deeply more meaningful along its video, one of the best videos ever.
I will always remember the awesome video and graphics for this song in the movie The Wall. Just like you used "innocent and dark" to describe this song, "Beautiful and Nightmarish" are the only two words I could come up with! 🎶🎸👍
I look forward to your reaction/analysis videos of The Wall always
What a line....what a great song
The beginning of the chorus always makes me think of the chorus of the Stones' 'Ruby Tuesday'!
When I first heard this song back when I was about 14, I thought the line was
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter with the promise of the brave who went and fell beneath the clear blue sky? (not - promise of the brave new world that was unfurled beneath a clear blue sky)
Which I took to be a thought about the futility of hiding while his father was not returning. It fed into my idea of the mother trying to substitute the son for the father, wrapping him in cotton wool, controlling every aspect of his life so 'he' would not leave 'her' alone again in fear.
I find your reactions and analysis so deeply sensitive and compelling. Wonderful to listen to.
I'm so happy to watch you experience The Wall. I personally feel it a operatic masterpiece the story line and supporting music evoke the exact emotion needed in perfect harmony jmo
It all comes together here👏
This and nobody's home are amazing gems on this album, which has many. I am trying to find more time to listen to your analysis. It is very well thought out and you really are picking up and predicting where it is going well. You are very interesting.
"Did you hear the falling bombs" - the German bombs had sound makers on them so you heard the bombs screaming/falling, installing more fear.
Not to mention how terrifying a V1 engine sounded.
Keep in mind that Waters and the other members of Pink Floyd grew up in the aftermath of WWII, in the shadow of the Cold War. I don't know what it was like in England, but I do know that for a while bomb shelters and nuclear drills were all the rage in the US (for all the good they would have done).
I think it's referring to the blitz rather than the cold war.
It's not about the Cold War.
"Did, did, did, did, did, you see the falling bombs..." It's referring to WWII. No bombs fell during the Cold War, hence the name 'Cold War'. Many thousands of tons of bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz on London, Coventry, Birmingham and other civilian industrial centres, including people's homes.
And yes, the children of the war who witnessed aerial bombing grew up marked by their dreadful experiences.
@@SelfEvident There was a scary virus, and people took rational decisions to keep themselves and their family/friends as safe as they could. Things are different now, billions of vaccinations have happened, lots of people have topped up their immunity (post vaccination) with Covid infections that weren't severe (due to vaccinations), and we also have therapeutics now. Also the virus evolved to be far more infectious than we could ever hope to combat through social distancing or masks. Luckily that happened after most of the vulnerable people obtained a very good level of protection (from the vaccines).
I don't know how it is where you live, but in my country we listened to what government said, especially as their message was delivered by politicians alongside very eminent doctors and scientists.
@Pin Ky Speak for yourself.
@@derekspitz9225 "No bombs fell during the Cold War"? I'm pretty sure the people of Viet Nam, Korea, and most of the Middle East would beg to differ. While we talk about those as separate conflicts, they all fell under the umbrella of the Cold War.
First song I learned in guitar. Still gives me goose bumps… classic
My father was a musician,born in Germany 1940 and came to Canada in 1951. My father loved Pink Floyd. I knew as a child why he was drawn to this band. The horrors
my father had endured in Berlin as a child turned into my nightmares, my sisters nightmares,my brothers ,my mother,his own mother,his own brother. Its like the suffering of that war had morphed branching off its own different demons into the next generations. It was brutal what i and my family had to endure and still endure. One day maybe i can tell my story.