Best is to watch the movie so you’ll have the visual of the concepts of each song! Why nobody does reactions to the movie is beyond me! Kinda missing the whole experience by skipping the movie!
@@tradeladder146 Not sure to which comment yours is directed, but the album was released before it was made into a movie so I'm not sure what your meaning is with your statement.
I love your assumptions. They make me laugh. This song is about how school seeks to turn out mindless slaves to the system. Not to educate. Making them all just another brick in the wall.
Martin l. That's my belief too. There's a few of these concept albums Emerson lake and Palmer with their carcass albums very good King crimson in the early years. Even early Ozzy Osbourne the Black Sabbath the album very political very 2021. Crazy
Well, I don’t think so. The school system makes a student build more bricks for the wall in his mind. That is then "another brick in the wall". First his mother, then the teachers, then his girlfriend and so on. To make out of the pupils "mindless slaves" is just a "side effect", if I understood Roger Waters correctly.
@@stanlibuda5786 you're basically saying the same thing, when you try to make it sound more complicated but of course you know how Roger thinks. You are the only possible expert
Pink Floyd is timeless. Defintely need to explore more Pink Floyd. The musicianship and the lyrics and the message is powerful. Even a song like Great Gig in the Sky which doesn't exactly have "lyrics" but has killer vocals is so powerful. Pink Floyd will always give me goosebumps.
its in my very short will.. i have it written... that whatever poor dumb bastard shows up to my final farewell, they will be hearing Great Gig in The Sky..
It looks like you are new to Pink Floyd. The band was formed in London in 1965. The name Pink Floyd is in recognition of two Black American southern blues musicians named PINK Anderson and FLOYD Council.
A lot of people misinterpret this song as anti-school and anti-education because they are taking it out of context with the rest of "The Wall". In this case, bitter and spiteful teachers(🎶"...there were certain teachers..."🎶) are disenchanting the students to education and making them rebel against the entire institution because these few bad teachers make them FEEL like they are going through a grinder instead of fostering their creativity. This has tragic consequences later in the album/movie when these uneducated youth get radicalized by mob mentality because they don't know any better. They never learned their history so now they begin to repeat it. They get swept up in tribalistic fervor and become neo-nazi's and fascists in the songs "In the Flesh" and "Run Like Hell". The album in general is not about him being a brick in the wall. The bricks are his traumatic experiences. This violently critical teacher becomes another brick in wall of his mind. A wall built to isolate him from any feelings or connections with others. The world can't hurt him anymore if he walls himself up from the rest of the world. I still get chills by the end of the album when they chant, 🎶"Tear Down the Wall!" because that is no way to live. It really is an amazing movie that needs to be watched several times.
It's so good to see someone with a more nuanced take of that song so thank you for taking the time for that. It's tiring to see all these lazy "indoctrination" comments in every video of that song.
Yep. Cant understand each songs meaning until you watch the movie. Meaning of all songs will be revelaed. Reaction videos of songs from The Wall are most painful because the guessing outside the context of the movie is a waste of oxygen. :)
Having Attended A Grammar School In The UK Around The 70s,I Can Vouch For The Fact That If You Were "Different" It Was Frowned Upon,When I Think Of The Abuse Some Teachers Handed Out I Still Feel Anger 50yrs Later..This Tune Became An Anthem For All Those Who Were "Different"Within The Strict Structure Of Learning..Some Learned And Some Didn't..Wonder Why?🇬🇧
At my All-Boys Grammar School between 1965=71 near Brixton in South East London we WERE treated as individuals (mostly) and most of us DID have a good rapport and mutual respect between the teachers though some of the Male Teachers were severe. Every week aged 12 we had weekly Geography Tests and if half of the class got under 10/20 we ALL took the test again and for every half mark under 10/20 the second time we then got a stroke of the cane, up to 4 strokes maximum. I got caned for 23% English Literature exam aged 12...lol
It is a reaction, it is not the official video of the song, those who make reactions want to earn money and that UA-cam does not demonet them for using material protected by copyright, if you do not want stops, do not watch reaction videos.
@@giovsant3049 I’ve seen many channels listen all the way through a song & then give their reaction at the end. Most have 6 figure subs so I don’t know what’s different
@@Shawn-rq4py Maybe these channels paid the rights or maybe those channels have other income, a small channel depends on all their visits and that they are not penalized with copyright
According to the band, the "wall" is the self-isolating barrier we build over the course of our lives, and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn us inward and away from others.. 😀
This is taken from the movie, The Wall. Pink Floyd's basic topic, IMO, was mental illness. The walls start being built in childhood. Here, they comment on the effect of bad teachers. The poem is in their song Money.
@@therealtorsteph22 that's the overall surface level theme of "The Wall" but the overall message is more about the damages conformity causes the mind in general.
In fact, this song does not really condemn education in general, if it's well done. What it condemns, is the way of educating children without considering their own personality, their natural strengths, or the artistic side of certain children. Compliance and discipline at the cost of student real development.
You are not kidding, I was listening to them in 1968, A decade before they started recording this brilliant album. They should listen to the whole album.
Lol i was looking for this comment giggling my a$$ off soon as i heard BJ make that comment abt Money. Lolol in his defense, reading them how The Teacher does sound rather odd. For me, it takes me straight to college watching Dark Side of Alice or Dark Side of Oz especially.. for the Floyd lifers like me.. i hope ya’ll know theres perfectly matched versions of Dark Side of Oz, if not taken down by now... but def used to binge it on YT for sure. ⚒⚒
The album "The Wall" is a concept album , and they also made a movie from the content. If you watch the movie, and check up on what the story is about , it's actually really good. It was made in the early 80's. If you watch the movie really pay close attention to his story to follow it.
This was from the 1982 film "Pink Floyd: The Wall" a rock musical which was based on the band's album of the same title. The movie mainly has musical numbers of songs from the album and doesn't have a lot of speaking parts. This scene with the factory, masks and destroying the school was all in the boy's mind, it wasn't real. The kids did not kill the teacher since it was all in his head. The story can be hard to understand at times so you would have to follow almost every detail in the movie to really get what's going on. Good reaction.
Guys love as always. Im from London UK. My mum was in this Video. She was born in 66’ it was Filmed at Star Cross Primary school - Islington, North London!
The "poem" is from an earlier previous album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", to this day, one of the best albums. Ever. Give it a try. Look at Supertramp "Crime of the Century" too, especially, "School."
"The Wall" is a masterpiece that narrates the journey of a pure being (a child), who, as a result of having lost his father in the war, and from "Victorian" education, makes a journey from biophilia to necrophilia , becoming a rock artist (it is an analogy of fame) and later a dictator ..... Trying to understand "The Wall" from a single song is a mistake... See the picture.
You two gotta go down that PF rabbit hole!! So many amazing tracks! Us and Them. The Great Gig in the Sky. Mother. Wish You Were Here. Dogs. Time. Breathe…
Pink floyd is a great band to dive into. Comfortably numb is another great song by them and the live version(pulse concert)is like a nice exciting ride. You'll have to listen to the wall album to understand the story
The context for The Wall is not that the school kids are bricks. It's that the school system supplied "bricks" for the isolating "wall" that 'Pink' was constructing around himself. If you only see this video, it's hard to make that connection. This is just one chapter in the story.
You hit the nail on the head when you said it was an uprising, it spread to every school in the country as we all fought back against the brutality of that school system, teachers like him existed for real.
Also the Wall itself is essentially the thing a person puts up to protect themselves from the world, but that also imprisons them from being more. Listen to the song Mother. It is super deep and spooky.
The Wall album is best heard in order. Pink Floyd is the fictional character growing up after losing his father in WW 2 then eventually struggling with mental issues. The Wall he built to close off society around him.
Love a good Floyd reaction. School is just another 'Brick in the Wall' that isolates Pink from the rest of society. Other bricks in that wall of alienation are an overbearing mother, the death of his father, the war, rock stardom and drugs.
Interesting. I always took it that we as the ordinary people were just another brick in the wall. To be built up and knocked down by the powers that be whenever it suits.
@@allbies The song can of course be interpreted that way singularly. We are essentially bricks being churned out by society, schooling. But the film 'The Wall' is about Pink's struggle with isolation and alienation. The song 'Mother' shows an overbearing, controlling figure for example. 'Thin ice' I would think was a reference to the precarious nature of society. The Wall as a whole album is supposedly about the self-isolating barrier we put up against the world. The bricks being the things and people that influence us along the way. At least that's the interpretation I've read most often.
Actually I think the boy was day dreaming about what he wanted to do (tear down the school). And at the end, it is that same boy grown up and he is messed up for life. The trauma of the school was just one brick in the wall that caused him to close up and build a wall around him. His co-dependent life with his mother was another brick that closed him in etc. All these horrible life events caused him mental illness. ( Just my own interpretation). You really should listen and watch the whole album in order. It is absolutely amazing. You will never forget it.
The album as a whole is the story of a man having a nervous breakdown. The wall represents the barrier he builds between himself and reality. This video is part of an amazing movie they did with the whole story.
I really like you two! Appreciation of music is a real life lesson! You live, you learn! Music is not just the message! So are the words! Everything has a message!
Pulse version of "Comfortably Numb" please. EPIC tune Gotta watch/listen to the whole Wall album and it'll all make more sense Dig into Pink Floyd, no other band like them
This whole album was a representation of what he went through with the war when he was younger and in UK/England/Great Britain. This was how it was back in the day. The whole album is amazing and the movie is too. You've got to understand the way it was back then, by this song, to watch the movie. But this is how it was back then. Holocaust and just, like you said, a number. Not a person. A number.
New subscriber here, love the insight and thought in your reactions! You get the symbolic meaning so often when others miss it, I really appreciate that. Just wanted to add to this one, you got the meaning SO right; that industrial view of education really started in Britain with the Industrial Revolution. Suddenly there was a huge need for factory workers everywhere to help run the machines; they didn't want real people with real thoughts and feelings, they wanted bricks in the wall to build their strength as a power structure. The individuals didn't matter. In many ways, this unfortunately still applies not just in the U.K., also here in the USA etc. Love you guys, thanks for this ^_^
Oh my-who wants to explain the details of ICONIC Pink Floyd- There albums tell a story- one song flows into another- “The Wall” album is my favorite! And “Young Lust” is a favorite song of mine off the album . Such a groove- The MOVIE The Wall is a MUST see - watch the movie to answer your questions- 💜🤘🏼👍
The wall is highly “stylized” as is most Pink Floyd. “The Wall” is about the walls that separate us. There’s walls everywhere…….between teacher and student, band and audience, actors and audience, etc etc Literally everywhere we look in society. Roger Waters was exploring some heavy concepts for being a young man back then.
You need to watch the movie. The little boy is pink Floyd. His father dies in the war and his mother raises him. He becomes a rock star and does drugs. Comfortablely numb is a dr trying to review him so he can go to the concert to play. You might have to watch it twice to understand all the trials and tribulations this boy went through
You will get a lot of negative comments regarding pausing too long/ too often unfortunately. Especially pausing during a guitar solo lol It's your reaction though but a long review is best done after the song with a few pauses/comments during it. Hope you enjoyed Pink Floyd , peace
It's really hard to grasp the meaning of any singular song on this album without hear and/or watching the movie ",The Wall" is a concept album that tells one contentious story from start to end.. a must see movie...
Brinks in the Wall, like the entire album is semi autobiographical, written by the bass player....and "you're just another brick in the wall" refers to anyone that treated him bad or screwed.over him is just making him isolate himself from ghe world...essencially building a mental wall to protect himself....basically if u treat me wrong all you are doing is putting another brick in my mental wall.
Thank you both for your excellent reaction! The rebellion sequence happens in the young man's dreams. That daydream is his protection from the reality he is living at this school - one more brick in the protective wall he is building around himself. The poem in his notebook is actual lyrics from the Pink Floyd song Money. PF wrote albums, not just songs, and you really need to listen to the entire album of The Wall. This has been my first time on your channel, but it most definitely will not be my last!! Keep up the great work!
I'm sure somebody may have said this but just in case they didnt...the "kids" on the train was a representation of Jews being shipped to concentration camps during WWII. This album is about the loss Roger Waters was dealing with (among other things) about his father dying in WWII while he was a child and never got to know his father.
You are watching this out of context from the movie The Wall. The poem is the song Money by Pink Floyd written by Roger Waters. I think that's what makes it confusing. But great song and album
The song is about how schools stifle creativity making us all the same and not preparing us for the real world. The meat grinder the kids are falling into represents the world that they aren’t ready for.
seriously guys, you have to see the movie and you will realize the context, so that you have a general idea each theme in the movie would be like a brick in the wall of the character Pink Floyd, greetings from Argentina
The album is a composit of the life story of a guy who's father is killed in WWII. He is raised by his mother and struggles to find his dentity. He develops mental health issues as he struggles with substance abuse and self imposed isolation. His mom is overprotective and he learns to build "mental walls" to isolate himself from feeling emotional pain, but he also cuts himself off from love. There's a lot more to it, but thats the jist.
Thsi song was made as an protest/anthem for kids. The complaint was that schools were like factories. Just churning out kids with little to no interest into their individuality. The result was a sick society. The Brick in the Wall is a reference to the wall you build around yourself to protect yourself. If you watch the move The Wall, it has the music from the album The Wall and it illustrates a story about a how a man comes to survive dealing with all the personal attacks from every aspect of his life. School is just one part.
Thank you, thank you, thank you BJ, for being the voice of reason, as Asia clearly thinks this film is a factual documentary, when in fact it is an artistic expression of a particular point of view.. That's what art is about, using images and themes to get across certain ideas about things in life which need to be questioned.
The poems are lines from the album Dark Side of the Moon, the track called 'Money'. I was at the Pulse Concert and I'm less than 2 miles from that school and recognise one kid in the video.
Nice that you are trying Pink Floyd,one of the very best bands from any genre. As good and provocative that this song is, you need to listen to the entire album to get the whole story of 'Pink', listen to the audio album sometime then watch the movie. Even better songs to be amazed by are Time, Comfortably Numb and Echoes. Enjoy! 🎸
This is just one song of a story... this song is him reflecting on his school days, which added to his life span of bricks that build the emotional wall that had him trapped in lonely seclusion. The album, or movie, is the complete story.
The train is a reference to the holocaust and how people were herded onto boxcars and taken to extermination camps. For older generations, with more vivid memories of WWII history, this is super clear imagery.
Awesome album. I saw this live in San Diego where the Clippers used to play… top most row. All the smoke rising, I just sat back and enjoyed the concert… man it was a trippy production, probably too much smoke 😎
This is one video from The Wall. A movie that plays the entire album like a music video. In the next song you see the protagonist "Pink" as the grown up rock star. Gotta watch the entire movie!
The brick in the wall is a recurring metaphor for them; in this case the bricks being the perfect little humans society wants kids to be, instead of the free spirits the kids want to be.
The picture at the end is of grown up 'Pink' and his wife. The phone ringing is him calling home while he is on tour, but his wife's with another man, which is another 'brick' in his 'wall'.
Context of the British song writers of those days is fundamentally important to the music they created. Their context was very different than US kids of the same age. Growing up in post war Britain. The 60s 70s rockers were born during or soon after WWII. When the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Stones, Deep Purple, Clapton, etc. were children. They grew up seeing and playing in and around bombed out buildings that had not yet been rebuilt and also hearing first hand stories of the Battle of Britain from their parents and others. This has been spoken about by many of them in the past.
Watching this on TV when I was growing up used to scare the crap out of me. Love your reactions, more intelligent than the others and I think Asia may have the nicest smile on youtube.
The meaning of the wall is the defensive psychological wall he built around himself...each bad thing that happens to him is another brick in his wall . You need to do the whole album or film.
It was very interesting to see her reaction to the video. Many of us first heard this album 40 years ago and are completely familiar with it. She was fixated on the school for a while and wasn’t hearing the music. Neither of em recognized the poem or the intro to the next song. But it a great ‘reaction video’ with so much thought. Not just shocked faces.
Hello Asia and Bj! The poem the kid had and the teacher read out load is the song "Money" from Pink Floyd. So the Kid was most likely Roger Watters of Pink Floyd perhaps reliving his school days of how it was for him.
it was a normal boys' school. i went to one. they used to believe that boys were inherently bad and had to be kept in line, through physical punishment. Roger Waters, the lyricist, went through this experience. the background goes back to the beginnings of education, in the UK. up until the late 19th century, all education was private and paid for, mostly run by the churches. in the church schools, you were deemed to be sinners [especially the boys] and had to be beaten into submission, to save you from yourself. in the expensive public schools [called 'public' because they were open to people of any, or no, religion, although still had to be paid] ] the pupils were being groomed for high public office, and the military. when the socialists demanded state education, the elite, who were in power, decided that the education system would mimic the private system and would be geared towards "civilizing the masses"; which was the phrase they used.
Absolutely loved your reaction. Thank you so much for sharing. There's a component to this song that I don't think has been mentioned in the comments, the anti-fascism component. Roger Walters described the song as a protest against the enforced uniformity of fascism. It's pretty relevant at the moment I think given that some of that nonsense is rearing its ugly head again. The ugly machine of fascism is precisely the point, and i'm so glad you picked up on that without even knowing the history of the song. You guys have gained a fan tonight, thank you.
No, many of the commenters are missing the whole metaphor of the Wall. You have listen to the whole album. What is happening to the protagonist ("Pink" in the movie) is that each traumatic event in his life creates another brick in the wall he builds around his mind. To manage his pain and suffering, he walls himself off from the world, from feeling, from caring, from anything that would potentially hurt him.
the song "another brick in the wall" was banned in my high school because whenever anyone played it everyone would join in for the " teachers leave them kids alone" part.. and it made the teachers nervous..
This is from The Wall movie version of the album. There is a 'pop video' of the song, mainly kids running about on a housing estate with clips from the film. This song got to no1 in the UK charts back in 1979. It stars Bob Geldof as 'Pink' and later he would organise Live Aid 1985 & Live8 2005 in which he persuaded PF to reform for 20 minutes of pure musical bliss....
It’s talking about how schools are so systematic and cold, teaching every child the same lesson and treating them like just a name or brick in the wall to the systematic education
At my All-Boys Grammar School between 1965=71 near Brixton in South East London we WERE treated as individuals (mostly) and most of us DID have a good rapport and mutual respect between the teachers though some of the Male Teachers were severe. Every week aged 12 we had weekly Geography Tests and if half of the class got under 10/20 we ALL took the test again and for every half mark under 10/20 the second time we then got a stroke of the cane, up to 4 strokes maximum. I got caned for 23% English Literature exam aged 12...lol
The Wall is a concept album. It’s meant to be listened to from start to finish. It’s all connected to tell the whole story of his life.
True, but at the same time, musically, each song on the album can be listened to individually and enjoyed on its own merit.
Best is to watch the movie so you’ll have the visual of the concepts of each song! Why nobody does reactions to the movie is beyond me! Kinda missing the whole experience by skipping the movie!
The Wall is a Pink Floyd Movie, do some research first, then you wont sound so stupid.
@@tradeladder146 Not sure to which comment yours is directed, but the album was released before it was made into a movie so I'm not sure what your meaning is with your statement.
I didn't know that and I grew up with this music. Ty
This song is just one piece of a much larger puzzle, every song on the album is part of a story.
Speaking of puzzles they really chopped this video to pieces.
My god, I’ve never seen so many pauses in a reaction video before, it’s ridiculous.👎
I love your assumptions. They make me laugh. This song is about how school seeks to turn out mindless slaves to the system. Not to educate.
Making them all just another brick in the wall.
She's taking it too literally -- they didnt really slow march kids into meat grinders!!
Martin l. That's my belief too. There's a few of these concept albums Emerson lake and Palmer with their carcass albums very good King crimson in the early years. Even early Ozzy Osbourne the Black Sabbath the album very political very 2021. Crazy
Well, I don’t think so. The school system makes a student build more bricks for the wall in his mind. That is then "another brick in the wall". First his mother, then the teachers, then his girlfriend and so on. To make out of the pupils "mindless slaves" is just a "side effect", if I understood Roger Waters correctly.
@@stanlibuda5786 you're basically saying the same thing, when you try to make it sound more complicated but of course you know how Roger thinks. You are the only possible expert
@@dmead4106 No, it is not the same thing. I read and heard interviews he gave. That is all. This is no reason to be sarcastic.
Pink Floyd is timeless. Defintely need to explore more Pink Floyd. The musicianship and the lyrics and the message is powerful.
Even a song like Great Gig in the Sky which doesn't exactly have "lyrics" but has killer vocals is so powerful. Pink Floyd will always give me goosebumps.
Great Gig still makes me shiver, and I imagine always will. Such an indescribable experience.
its in my very short will.. i have it written... that whatever poor dumb bastard shows up to my final farewell, they will be hearing Great Gig in The Sky..
This song is still relevant today. Schools don't nuture the kids, they just try to mold them into mindless followers.
It looks like you are new to Pink Floyd. The band was formed in London in 1965. The name Pink Floyd is in recognition of two Black American southern blues musicians named PINK Anderson and FLOYD Council.
Preparation for the work force a “human resource”
It's not education, but rather indoctrination.
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@@phogandivephogandive3885 -- Exactly!!
A lot of people misinterpret this song as anti-school and anti-education because they are taking it out of context with the rest of "The Wall". In this case, bitter and spiteful teachers(🎶"...there were certain teachers..."🎶) are disenchanting the students to education and making them rebel against the entire institution because these few bad teachers make them FEEL like they are going through a grinder instead of fostering their creativity. This has tragic consequences later in the album/movie when these uneducated youth get radicalized by mob mentality because they don't know any better. They never learned their history so now they begin to repeat it. They get swept up in tribalistic fervor and become neo-nazi's and fascists in the songs "In the Flesh" and "Run Like Hell". The album in general is not about him being a brick in the wall. The bricks are his traumatic experiences. This violently critical teacher becomes another brick in wall of his mind. A wall built to isolate him from any feelings or connections with others. The world can't hurt him anymore if he walls himself up from the rest of the world. I still get chills by the end of the album when they chant, 🎶"Tear Down the Wall!" because that is no way to live. It really is an amazing movie that needs to be watched several times.
It's so good to see someone with a more nuanced take of that song so thank you for taking the time for that. It's tiring to see all these lazy "indoctrination" comments in every video of that song.
Thanks
Well said.
can´t talk about THE WALL without reading into it. it´s one of the greatest concept albums of all time. also made into a movie, as you can see.
Yep. Cant understand each songs meaning until you watch the movie. Meaning of all songs will be revelaed. Reaction videos of songs from The Wall are most painful because the guessing outside the context of the movie is a waste of oxygen. :)
Come on are you guys that simple Come on look at what's gonna on for years and still happening Come on guys really
@@josephpenzes43 Yeah! Come on guys, like really, come on, you know, it's happening, and come on, really guys! Come on! Guys! Come on guys!
Amen Gerald.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Dude, he just wants someone to come on him.
Having Attended A Grammar School In The UK Around The 70s,I Can Vouch For The Fact That If You Were "Different" It Was Frowned Upon,When I Think Of The Abuse Some Teachers Handed Out I Still Feel Anger 50yrs Later..This Tune Became An Anthem For All Those Who Were "Different"Within The Strict Structure Of Learning..Some Learned And Some Didn't..Wonder Why?🇬🇧
At my All-Boys Grammar School between 1965=71 near Brixton in South East London we WERE treated as individuals (mostly) and most of us DID have a good rapport and mutual respect between the teachers though some of the Male Teachers were severe.
Every week aged 12 we had weekly Geography Tests and if half of the class got under 10/20 we ALL took the test again and for every half mark under 10/20 the second time we then got a stroke of the cane, up to 4 strokes maximum. I got caned for 23% English Literature exam aged 12...lol
@Steven Charnock: Grammar School and yet you capitalised every word!
@@Loki1815 That's Called Having A Choice..Plus My Eyes Are Crap!
Steven did not want to keep it Low Key er, Loki....
@@Isleofskye lol, SE humour!
The poem was the lyrics to Money , too many stops for me
It is a reaction, it is not the official video of the song, those who make reactions want to earn money and that UA-cam does not demonet them for using material protected by copyright, if you do not want stops, do not watch reaction videos.
@@giovsant3049 I’ve seen many channels listen all the way through a song & then give their reaction at the end. Most have 6 figure subs so I don’t know what’s different
@@Shawn-rq4py Maybe these channels paid the rights or maybe those channels have other income, a small channel depends on all their visits and that they are not penalized with copyright
@@giovsant3049 understood. Would make sense though. Thanks
@@Shawn-rq4pywhy do they have to conform to what you want? Go watch a different reaction channel. PERFECT SO G FOR YOUR TYPE OF ISH 🤡
According to the band, the "wall" is the self-isolating barrier we build over the course of our lives, and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn us inward and away from others.. 😀
This is taken from the movie, The Wall. Pink Floyd's basic topic, IMO, was mental illness. The walls start being built in childhood. Here, they comment on the effect of bad teachers. The poem is in their song Money.
It's very much an allegory for mental health and how trauma compiles and corrupts.
I thought the topic was mind control to prepare the kids for war....hmmm?
@@therealtorsteph22 that's the overall surface level theme of "The Wall" but the overall message is more about the damages conformity causes the mind in general.
In fact, this song does not really condemn education in general, if it's well done. What it condemns, is the way of educating children without considering their own personality, their natural strengths, or the artistic side of certain children.
Compliance and discipline at the cost of student real development.
BJ those were the lyrics to a huge hit!!! Number 1 and the song that puts Pink Floyd on the map.
PINK FLOYD WERE ON THE MAP WAY BEFORE THIS SONG
@@kevinohara2618 he’s referring to the poem, which were part of the lyrics of Money on Dark side of the Moon.
You are not kidding, I was listening to them in 1968, A decade before they started recording this brilliant album. They should listen to the whole album.
Lyrics to money!!!
Lol i was looking for this comment giggling my a$$ off soon as i heard BJ make that comment abt Money. Lolol in his defense, reading them how The Teacher does sound rather odd. For me, it takes me straight to college watching Dark Side of Alice or Dark Side of Oz especially.. for the Floyd lifers like me.. i hope ya’ll know theres perfectly matched versions of Dark Side of Oz, if not taken down by now... but def used to binge it on YT for sure. ⚒⚒
The album "The Wall" is a concept album , and they also made a movie from the content. If you watch the movie, and check up on what the story is about , it's actually really good. It was made in the early 80's. If you watch the movie really pay close attention to his story to follow it.
Have you heard Pink Floyd's song, Money? In the beginning that is the lyrics in Money that the teacher is reading.
Indeed
This was from the 1982 film "Pink Floyd: The Wall" a rock musical which was based on the band's album of the same title. The movie mainly has musical numbers of songs from the album and doesn't have a lot of speaking parts. This scene with the factory, masks and destroying the school was all in the boy's mind, it wasn't real. The kids did not kill the teacher since it was all in his head. The story can be hard to understand at times so you would have to follow almost every detail in the movie to really get what's going on. Good reaction.
Isn't it amazing how Pink Floyd saw the indoctrination back in 70's. Yal should listen to the entire album in song order. The album is a story.
Guys love as always. Im from London UK. My mum was in this Video. She was born in 66’ it was Filmed at Star Cross Primary school - Islington, North London!
The "poem" is from an earlier previous album, "The Dark Side of the Moon", to this day, one of the best albums. Ever. Give it a try. Look at Supertramp "Crime of the Century" too, especially, "School."
The "Poem" is the song "Money" isn't it?
"The Wall" is a masterpiece that narrates the journey of a pure being (a child), who, as a result of having lost his father in the war, and from "Victorian" education, makes a journey from biophilia to necrophilia , becoming a rock artist (it is an analogy of fame) and later a dictator ..... Trying to understand "The Wall" from a single song is a mistake... See the picture.
i was in the eight grade when this came out in 1979 and they actually allowed us to play this at our prom lol
You should react to the whole album in a live stream since the whole album is a story that would be 🔥🔥
As so many have said……… listen to the whole album.. better still watch the whole movie. You’ll understand it much better.
When I was young my dad showed me this song. Loved it since 😁
I could not count the number of times I've listened to this album or watched this movie. Just an absolute Masterpiece all around.
The wall they are talking about is not a physical one, but the emotional one that we build around ourselves as we grow to protect ourselves
You two gotta go down that PF rabbit hole!! So many amazing tracks! Us and Them. The Great Gig in the Sky. Mother. Wish You Were Here. Dogs. Time. Breathe…
No matter times I hear this song, I always get chills. Good reaction guys.
Pink floyd is a great band to dive into. Comfortably numb is another great song by them and the live version(pulse concert)is like a nice exciting ride. You'll have to listen to the wall album to understand the story
The context for The Wall is not that the school kids are bricks. It's that the school system supplied "bricks" for the isolating "wall" that 'Pink' was constructing around himself. If you only see this video, it's hard to make that connection. This is just one chapter in the story.
You hit the nail on the head when you said it was an uprising, it spread to every school in the country as we all fought back against the brutality of that school system, teachers like him existed for real.
Also the Wall itself is essentially the thing a person puts up to protect themselves from the world, but that also imprisons them from being more. Listen to the song Mother. It is super deep and spooky.
Our schools today are like factories. They want all the children to think, act and respond exactly the same and they must follow the rules they set.
It's why the arts in education are so so so important.
BJ, your interpretation of this video was spot on. Love this channel.
The Wall album is best heard in order. Pink Floyd is the fictional character growing up after losing his father in WW 2 then eventually struggling with mental issues. The Wall he built to close off society around him.
WAS LOOSELY BASED ON ROGER WATERS LIFE....
What most people don't know about the band and the album, "The Wall" was it was a tribute to the original lead singer Syd Barret.
Love a good Floyd reaction. School is just another 'Brick in the Wall' that isolates Pink from the rest of society. Other bricks in that wall of alienation are an overbearing mother, the death of his father, the war, rock stardom and drugs.
Interesting. I always took it that we as the ordinary people were just another brick in the wall. To be built up and knocked down by the powers that be whenever it suits.
@@allbies The song can of course be interpreted that way singularly. We are essentially bricks being churned out by society, schooling. But the film 'The Wall' is about Pink's struggle with isolation and alienation. The song 'Mother' shows an overbearing, controlling figure for example. 'Thin ice' I would think was a reference to the precarious nature of society. The Wall as a whole album is supposedly about the self-isolating barrier we put up against the world. The bricks being the things and people that influence us along the way. At least that's the interpretation I've read most often.
@@steveparker8065 I've never seen the film in all honesty but thanks for the insight!
@@allbies I implore you to watch it. One of the few rock operas available and a real trip. I'm sure you'll love it :)
Actually I think the boy was day dreaming about what he wanted to do (tear down the school). And at the end, it is that same boy grown up and he is messed up for life. The trauma of the school was just one brick in the wall that caused him to close up and build a wall around him. His co-dependent life with his mother was another brick that closed him in etc. All these horrible life events caused him mental illness. ( Just my own interpretation). You really should listen and watch the whole album in order. It is absolutely amazing. You will never forget it.
The album as a whole is the story of a man having a nervous breakdown. The wall represents the barrier he builds between himself and reality. This video is part of an amazing movie they did with the whole story.
the wall represents the wall that was built FOR him. not one he built himself..
I really like you two! Appreciation of music is a real life lesson! You live, you learn! Music is not just the message! So are the words! Everything has a message!
Pulse version of "Comfortably Numb" please. EPIC tune
Gotta watch/listen to the whole Wall album and it'll all make more sense
Dig into Pink Floyd, no other band like them
This whole album was a representation of what he went through with the war when he was younger and in UK/England/Great Britain. This was how it was back in the day. The whole album is amazing and the movie is too. You've got to understand the way it was back then, by this song, to watch the movie. But this is how it was back then. Holocaust and just, like you said, a number. Not a person. A number.
New subscriber here, love the insight and thought in your reactions! You get the symbolic meaning so often when others miss it, I really appreciate that.
Just wanted to add to this one, you got the meaning SO right; that industrial view of education really started in Britain with the Industrial Revolution. Suddenly there was a huge need for factory workers everywhere to help run the machines; they didn't want real people with real thoughts and feelings, they wanted bricks in the wall to build their strength as a power structure. The individuals didn't matter.
In many ways, this unfortunately still applies not just in the U.K., also here in the USA etc. Love you guys, thanks for this ^_^
Oh my-who wants to explain the details of ICONIC Pink Floyd- There albums tell a story- one song flows into another- “The Wall” album is my favorite! And “Young Lust” is a favorite song of mine off the album . Such a groove- The MOVIE The Wall is a MUST see - watch the movie to answer your questions- 💜🤘🏼👍
The wall is highly “stylized” as is most Pink Floyd. “The Wall” is about the walls that separate us. There’s walls everywhere…….between teacher and student, band and audience, actors and audience, etc etc Literally everywhere we look in society. Roger Waters was exploring some heavy concepts for being a young man back then.
You need to watch the movie. The little boy is pink Floyd. His father dies in the war and his mother raises him. He becomes a rock star and does drugs. Comfortablely numb is a dr trying to review him so he can go to the concert to play. You might have to watch it twice to understand all the trials and tribulations this boy went through
You will get a lot of negative comments regarding pausing too long/ too often unfortunately.
Especially pausing during a guitar solo lol
It's your reaction though but a long review is best done after the song with a few pauses/comments during it.
Hope you enjoyed Pink Floyd , peace
It's only a sin if you pause in a deathcore breakdown. Everybody reacts differently.
The Wall, the movie is a must watch to really get the feel for a concept and understand the album.
Pink Floyd is a awesome band!!! Y’all need to dive into the rabbit hole of the their music!!!!!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻. By the way great reaction!!!!!❤️❤️
It's really hard to grasp the meaning of any singular song on this album without hear and/or watching the movie ",The Wall" is a concept album that tells one contentious story from start to end.. a must see movie...
It's wild. Everyone pauses at the exact same times and asks the exact same questions. This video is way too distracting
The guitar at the end is so great but you can't hear it because of the shouting.
Brinks in the Wall, like the entire album is semi autobiographical, written by the bass player....and "you're just another brick in the wall" refers to anyone that treated him bad or screwed.over him is just making him isolate himself from ghe world...essencially building a mental wall to protect himself....basically if u treat me wrong all you are doing is putting another brick in my mental wall.
Thank you both for your excellent reaction! The rebellion sequence happens in the young man's dreams. That daydream is his protection from the reality he is living at this school - one more brick in the protective wall he is building around himself. The poem in his notebook is actual lyrics from the Pink Floyd song Money. PF wrote albums, not just songs, and you really need to listen to the entire album of The Wall. This has been my first time on your channel, but it most definitely will not be my last!! Keep up the great work!
TOO many STOPS for me!
I'm sure somebody may have said this but just in case they didnt...the "kids" on the train was a representation of Jews being shipped to concentration camps during WWII. This album is about the loss Roger Waters was dealing with (among other things) about his father dying in WWII while he was a child and never got to know his father.
You are watching this out of context from the movie The Wall. The poem is the song Money by Pink Floyd written by Roger Waters. I think that's what makes it confusing. But great song and album
The song is about how schools stifle creativity making us all the same and not preparing us for the real world. The meat grinder the kids are falling into represents the world that they aren’t ready for.
the 'poem" was actually lyrics,,in a song called "money" on their previous album,dark side of the moon,,,
seriously guys, you have to see the movie and you will realize the context, so that you have a general idea each theme in the movie would be like a brick in the wall of the character Pink Floyd, greetings from Argentina
The poem the teacher read is actually lyrics to Pink Floyds song called Money, on the album Dark Side Of The Moon.
SO MUCH for listening to the music!
This song was #1 for over 6 weeks when i was in high school !!! .. the opening poem is the lyrics from Money from the Dark Side of the Moon album
You have to see the whole film to understand , Story of one of the Floyds founder members Sid Barrat !
The album is a composit of the life story of a guy who's father is killed in WWII. He is raised by his mother and struggles to find his dentity. He develops mental health issues as he struggles with substance abuse and self imposed isolation. His mom is overprotective and he learns to build "mental walls" to isolate himself from feeling emotional pain, but he also cuts himself off from love. There's a lot more to it, but thats the jist.
Thsi song was made as an protest/anthem for kids. The complaint was that schools were like factories. Just churning out kids with little to no interest into their individuality. The result was a sick society. The Brick in the Wall is a reference to the wall you build around yourself to protect yourself. If you watch the move The Wall, it has the music from the album The Wall and it illustrates a story about a how a man comes to survive dealing with all the personal attacks from every aspect of his life. School is just one part.
Thank you, thank you, thank you BJ, for being the voice of reason, as Asia clearly thinks this film is a factual documentary, when in fact it is an artistic expression of a particular point of view.. That's what art is about, using images and themes to get across certain ideas about things in life which need to be questioned.
The poems are lines from the album Dark Side of the Moon, the track called 'Money'.
I was at the Pulse Concert and I'm less than 2 miles from that school and recognise one kid in the video.
The poem was actually the song “money” off dark side of the moon
Nice that you are trying Pink Floyd,one of the very best bands from any genre. As good and provocative that this song is, you need to listen to the entire album to get the whole story of 'Pink', listen to the audio album sometime then watch the movie. Even better songs to be amazed by are Time, Comfortably Numb and Echoes. Enjoy! 🎸
This is just one song of a story... this song is him reflecting on his school days, which added to his life span of bricks that build the emotional wall that had him trapped in lonely seclusion. The album, or movie, is the complete story.
Pink Floyds music can be deep when it comes to their lyrics
You have to watch the movie to better understand the album, it is one of the greatest concept album's ever..
Pink Floyd is my favorite. Saw them in concert back in 1989 and it was raining. Perfect.
The train is a reference to the holocaust and how people were herded onto boxcars and taken to extermination camps. For older generations, with more vivid memories of WWII history, this is super clear imagery.
Awesome album. I saw this live in San Diego where the Clippers used to play… top most row. All the smoke rising, I just sat back and enjoyed the concert… man it was a trippy production, probably too much smoke 😎
This is one video from The Wall. A movie that plays the entire album like a music video. In the next song you see the protagonist "Pink" as the grown up rock star. Gotta watch the entire movie!
Haha BJ! That little poem went number one in multi-million album sales and still an iconic song today
An inside joke wrapped into an even better movie
The brick in the wall is a recurring metaphor for them; in this case the bricks being the perfect little humans society wants kids to be, instead of the free spirits the kids want to be.
The picture at the end is of grown up 'Pink' and his wife. The phone ringing is him calling home while he is on tour, but his wife's with another man, which is another 'brick' in his 'wall'.
and no they aren't taking the train to school. That scene is a metaphor for treating school kids like cattle going to the slaughter house.
When you think of rock songs, and who are the best rock bands of all time and what are the best rock songs of all time this is certainly one of them!
Context of the British song writers of those days is fundamentally important to the music they created. Their context was very different than US kids of the same age.
Growing up in post war Britain. The 60s 70s rockers were born during or soon after WWII. When the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Stones, Deep Purple, Clapton, etc. were children. They grew up seeing and playing in and around bombed out buildings that had not yet been rebuilt and also hearing first hand stories of the Battle of Britain from their parents and others. This has been spoken about by many of them in the past.
I love that your bringing in my ERA. THANKS 😃
The Wall is a soundtrack to the movie The Wall. Check out the movie.
This song is part of the story of how this individual built a mental wall between himself and the rest of the world.
The poem is the lyrics from the song Money off of Dark side of the Moon Pink Floyd is Truly TIMELESS!!
Watching this on TV when I was growing up used to scare the crap out of me. Love your reactions, more intelligent than the others and I think Asia may have the nicest smile on youtube.
Watch the movie the wall. Every song on the album is a piece of the movie. Then you can understand the meaning of each.
The "poems" he was writing are the actual lyrics to Pink Floyd's song Money from the album The Dark Sude of The Moon
The meaning of the wall is the defensive psychological wall he built around himself...each bad thing that happens to him is another brick in his wall . You need to do the whole album or film.
It was very interesting to see her reaction to the video.
Many of us first heard this album 40 years ago and are completely familiar with it.
She was fixated on the school for a while and wasn’t hearing the music.
Neither of em recognized the poem or the intro to the next song.
But it a great ‘reaction video’ with so much thought.
Not just shocked faces.
Hello Asia and Bj! The poem the kid had and the teacher read out load is the song "Money" from Pink Floyd. So the Kid was most likely Roger Watters of Pink Floyd perhaps reliving his school days of how it was for him.
it was a normal boys' school. i went to one. they used to believe that boys were inherently bad and had to be kept in line, through physical punishment. Roger Waters, the lyricist, went through this experience. the background goes back to the beginnings of education, in the UK. up until the late 19th century, all education was private and paid for, mostly run by the churches. in the church schools, you were deemed to be sinners [especially the boys] and had to be beaten into submission, to save you from yourself. in the expensive public schools [called 'public' because they were open to people of any, or no, religion, although still had to be paid] ] the pupils were being groomed for high public office, and the military. when the socialists demanded state education, the elite, who were in power, decided that the education system would mimic the private system and would be geared towards "civilizing the masses"; which was the phrase they used.
the poem is from the Pink Floyd song "Money"....it's a good song with great guitar and sax
You really need to watch the movie. Its amazing even today
Absolutely loved your reaction. Thank you so much for sharing. There's a component to this song that I don't think has been mentioned in the comments, the anti-fascism component. Roger Walters described the song as a protest against the enforced uniformity of fascism. It's pretty relevant at the moment I think given that some of that nonsense is rearing its ugly head again. The ugly machine of fascism is precisely the point, and i'm so glad you picked up on that without even knowing the history of the song. You guys have gained a fan tonight, thank you.
Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands ever . Dive deep , you won’t be disappointed
No, many of the commenters are missing the whole metaphor of the Wall. You have listen to the whole album. What is happening to the protagonist ("Pink" in the movie) is that each traumatic event in his life creates another brick in the wall he builds around his mind. To manage his pain and suffering, he walls himself off from the world, from feeling, from caring, from anything that would potentially hurt him.
the song "another brick in the wall" was banned in my high school because whenever anyone played it everyone would join in for the " teachers leave them kids alone" part.. and it made the teachers nervous..
This is from The Wall movie version of the album. There is a 'pop video' of the song, mainly kids running about on a housing estate with clips from the film. This song got to no1 in the UK charts back in 1979. It stars Bob Geldof as 'Pink' and later he would organise Live Aid 1985 & Live8 2005 in which he persuaded PF to reform for 20 minutes of pure musical bliss....
It’s talking about how schools are so systematic and cold, teaching every child the same lesson and treating them like just a name or brick in the wall to the systematic education
At my All-Boys Grammar School between 1965=71 near Brixton in South East London we WERE treated as individuals (mostly) and most of us DID have a good rapport and mutual respect between the teachers though some of the Male Teachers were severe.
Every week aged 12 we had weekly Geography Tests and if half of the class got under 10/20 we ALL took the test again and for every half mark under 10/20 the second time we then got a stroke of the cane, up to 4 strokes maximum. I got caned for 23% English Literature exam aged 12...lol