I don't know if you noticed it, but the album ends with the phrase "isn't this where..." And begins with the phrase "we came in", you can hear it really low in the background The end is the beginning, Pink is doomed to repeat the cycle, a true masterpiece
To me, The Wall almost killed the "concept album" as a thing, just because it raised the bar so insanely far out of reach that it felt like no other concept album could ever hope to match it. It's practically perfect.
it took me a long time to learn with art/music you fall into a trap if you start comparing things like this. there is no such thing as 'the best' because it's 100% subjective. it's just art. you just make it if you're inspired to make it. you don't worry about what Floyd or Zeppelin or Hendrix or The Beatles or whoever did before you. you just do it and express it.
It is incredible to get to The Wall level! Some have come close and in some parts better (like Dreamtheater imo)... but just the will to make it and stay consistent and tight during The Wall 1 and 2?... I can only wish someone will create something as meaningful and impactful in the next dozens of years!
@@paradoxstudios6639 - Tommy had some good songs but the story was just inherently non-sensical. A deaf, dumb, and blind kid becomes a a master of pinball so much so that people begin to worship him and founds a religion based on pinball? That’s almost as silly as the concept to Radio K.A.O.S.: a crippled Welsh boy who only speaks through a Stephen Hawking box gets in trouble with the law because he and his cousin accidentally kill some people so his parents send him to live with his Uncle in Los Angeles, where he befriends a DJ and decides to fake a nuclear missile strike. There’s some really good songs on it, but just, what? Seriously? That’s the story?
Bass is Pink Floyd's secret weapon. Underneath the celestial guitar, the infinte key pads, the mountainous drums, underneath the haunting, confronting lyrics, the bass is ... groovy. It feels good. They are singing about the pain of boarding school and the sadistic scottish teachers, but you are nodding your head and thinking "I like this! This is my jam." It's the bass.
Now that you’ve headed the album, it’s worth it to watch Alan Parker’s 1982 movie Pink Floyd: The Wall. It’s a cinematic version of the story set to the album’s music, and gives more visuals to expand the experience even further.
I have watched The Wall about a hundred times throughout my life. The album came out when I was 11 years old and it absolutely blew my mind. 3 years later the movie came out and it completely blew me away so thoroughly that I can still remember it over forty years later.
Fantastic reaction. There aren't many people I believe actually "get" the wall but you definitely do. If you want to understand in an even deeper way, exactly what shaped Roger Waters' entire life and the direction of Pink Floyd, you have to listen to the song When The Tigers Broke Free. I blub like a baby every single time.
Many thanks! I believe I'm far from "getting it" in it's full richness, though, but I'm definitely hooked! Been listening to it almost exclusively for the past two days. Just saw that the song you mentioned is in the movie, which I will absolutely react to.
@@NocturneVideos keep in mind in the actual concert it was all outside but each time that BRICK was added to THAT 🧱 WALL it slowly became an inside and Outside concert and each song reflects that....
The Wall is absolutely amazing, but personally I don't think anything touches the utter perfection of DSotM. That album is just completely unreal, an immaculate sonic representation of the experience of life. It's perfect. All of Pink Floyd's 70's albums are... just on another level though. Like there was this perfect confluence of energies flowing through four men, pulling something out of a higher dimension and translating it into sound.
@@danetrain8798 Most of life is pretty boring too, when you stop and think about it. And then, later, when you are older and pay more attention to how amazing life can be, and how precious it is, it becomes a bit more interesting again. Don't discard one of the most insightful disections of the human condition as "boring" please.
for me "THE WALL" is the best album ever made. i have watched plenty of reactions to Floyds work but you get it my friend. Your reaction is exactly as it should be, some people like dark side of the moon more than the wall but not me. Both great albums but the wall just edges it. One song leads onto the next and the end of the album, well its like a circle and you could start the album again. But your reaction is precise. Its as it should be.
It is produced to be a "circle." It is a Wall and it surrounds the protagonist. Also, if you turn the volume up, you can hear (I think) Roger say "Isn't this where..." at the end of the album; and at the very beginning he says "....we came in?"
The reason that sounds modern is because so many people nowadays use their methods! They are basically the teachers of a lot of current methods of recording which amazingly enough "The Wall" was done in the analog period for the most part! For instance if you were to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" which was recorded in 1972 and 73 you would think based on how it sounds that it was recorded last week!!
I'll definitely have to check out the other albums, then! The layering is so well architectured that it reminds me of the precise way in which electronic composers have total control over what is heard, which is typically difficult to accomplish with analog because of how many variables are present in micing the instruments and in the perfomance.
The second comfortably numb solo communicates more than any other solo I can think of off the top of my head. It's the sudden panic at the peak of a high that forces you back to reality. The reminder of the real world thats waiting for your inevitable come down, and the realization that you can never be high enough to see over the wall. It feels a little more obvious on the live versions where the solo is extended.
I actually watched the movie first while on two tabs and had never heard the album before and I rewatched it over and over I started at 1am and was there until 9am and the amount of endorphins and thrill through my body was an experience I'll never get back, Ive listened to the entire album at least a few times a week since then and that was almost a year ago. Everytime I listen to it I want LSD lmao
@@vV4L1UM I had no interest in Floyd during a prolonged period of space cadetting. A guy left us The Wall one night with a parting footnote that the bass playing would trip us out to new worlds. We had massive mission speakers and no neighbours, however the mid-range units had been blown out weeks before, so I was not looking to play the vinyl. My mate reminded me later that as the Bass units were as good as new and so we should do a trip because it had been the bass playing / sound our vinyl donor had been on one about. The next 12 hours were an absolute joy, kick drum, bass guitar and those deep droning keyboards flipped us into places of unimaginable and indescribable experience. When the guy collected his album he asked us what we thought of it. He was taken aback with our enthusiastic waffle about the bass and asked what we thought of the solos. Upon hearing "what solos?" he called us weird and left. He came back a few hours later with the vinyl, psychedelics and a desperate need to experience WTF we were on about.
I've only recently listened to this album and watched the movie. It gave me am exestiential crisis at first and I broke down. (Am I college student questioning if I'm on the right track). I've been breaking down my own wall and trying to not build it up again. It's fun to listen through it again with you. Very wholesome experience. Thank you for sharing this with us 🥰
I am 56 years old and I remember buying this album new (I still have that record set) and I can tell you that to this day, I still listen to this and get emotional. If this dragged you in, you should see the movie.
I know I’m super late, but it makes me so happy that you allowed yourself to fully experience this album, and so thoughtfully as well. I heard it for the first time when I was 12, shortly after losing a parent. It helped me face all those difficult emotions that I didn’t have a name for
1979 I was 13 Yrs old and became completely immersed in this album and I started living my life as a “Bleeding heart & artist” and have been on-stage ever since…Still trying to avoid the bricks. Pink Floyd has been in my Movie score ….all along Thank you for reminding me 🎁
Great video! The ending of the album is supposed to blend in with the beginning. Making it a loop and sometimes you don’t even know that you are at the beginning of the album again. There’s even a phrase right at the end that cuts off “isn’t this where-“ on the last song and “we came in” immediately after the first song starts. Also you should react to the pulse version of Comfortably numb that has an extended solo, and the pulse concert also has a few songs from the wall if you want to check them out as well. The experience is totally different!
@@NocturneVideos in the Live concert the WALL surrounded the entire concert stadium 🏟️ blocking off half of audience. So for example if your where seated "wrong" it meant the 🧱 blinded you from the concert....
@@tonyyul703 I mean the wall blocking the concert is pretty much the whole point… they built the wall while on stage slowly blocking out the band members
Imagine dealing with this album in the advent of your teenage years. The insecurities the first real love crush and the first devastating heartbreak, all while you're trying to find your place in the world. This album becomes your friend. Both a safe place and an house of pain. It was,still is, all that for me, getting into my 50s.
I love to watch reaction videos. Especially when it's music that I grew up with. Watching your reaction here is absolutely priceless. I was about 14, maybe 15 the first time I listened to this album (I'm now 48). I'm almost certain that first time (and still to this day) I felt every human emotion possible. It was literally life changing. Very few people listen to The Wall and their first experience just...get it. You did and your reaction was, like another comment said, "just as it should be".
I’ve been listening to Floyd for years, and every time I hear any song, some lyric or chord or other meaning clicks into place. This time is was “would you like to learn to fly, would you like to see me try?”
What a treat for me to enjoy your reaction to the entire album. Thank You. 1979 or now, it is the same! By the time most people reach half way through the second side they realize that they are tripping. No drugs, alcohol, or distractions from the experience. You become "in it" due to the effect of the music and lyrics inside your brain. I've been there bro. Young whippersnappers like you get it. Thank you again! P.S.-- There are many more albums as trippy as this going back hundreds of years.
I've been a huge Pink Floyd fan since the release of their "Dark Side of the Moon" album in 1973, I was 15 years old. Fast forward to 1980 and I was fortunate enough to garner tickets to The Wall concert in February 1980 at The Coliseum in Uniondale Long Island NY. Because of the massive logistics and cost of touring this The Wall Shows, they performed only 12 concert dates in the US in 1980. Six on the west coast in LA, and six on the east coast on Long Island. This Show, and it was a Show, sooo much more than just a concert, it was like watching a musical play being performed. As soon as the very first song, at the opening of the show, finished, a small plane, (like a Cessna), came flying from the back of roof rafters of the Coliseum ceiling, over the audience, and on fire, and crashes into the right side of the stage with an explosion and more fire! After that epic opening, the Show continued to astonish the audience with all kinds of strange things that told the story of Pink. One of the most epic goings on were these 30 foot tall, blow-up puppets of Pinks Teacher, and Pinks overbearing, suffocating Mother. These caricatures puppets came walking on stage as the band continued playing, It was an incredible sight to see and hear what was going on! I'm 65 years today and I've been to many concerts, shows, plays, movies etc. during the course of my life,.. and I've never seen a performance of any kind that could equal The Wall Experience. Just google how iconic this production was!
I was born in 1980. I missed the whole The Wall experience back then. I stumbled across The Wall album when I was in high school and it is my favourtite album since, a total masterpiece. Happily Roger Waters did his own The Wall tour, with a little changes here and there (mostly in the general message and story, but to be honest The Wall is so universal that it actually made sense anyway). and man it was an experience. The best show I've ever been to. A dream come true to see it finally live (although not in original PF lineup, that I will never witness sadly). Such a masterpiece. Not only the album, but everything around it. For me The Wall is 1) the album, 2) the movie, 3) the show -> each adds something.
It has been a real joy to experience this very familiar album, watching your genuine and sincere reactions. You are very lucky to be able to grasp the story from the start. I am dutch and 16 years old when I first bought this album in 1979. My english was not at the level where all details and metafors could be comprehended. It was years later when things really fell into place for me. The funny thing with this album is it naturally is devided in two parts. Not only by the two records or cd's but also the storyline. In part one we witness all the situations that turned out to be the bricks in the wall. Part two handles Pink isolated from everyone and everything around him, by the wall he had build. You can play record two before record one and the story than begins with the present situation, followed by the history of it all. Another experience. You will notice that the end of cd 2 is audibly continued at the opening of cd 1. Funny thing watching your video: at one point you tried to explain how you felt, but could not put your finger on it. You were cocooning...
As someone who played Pink in his senior year marching band show... Its easy to relate to if you're a loner. But to truly recognize the impact Roger Waters' The Wall had, thats a feat unto its own. I only realized it as the years went on. Roger grew up in the 40's, I was a 90's kid. Oh how times change but many things stay the same...
Pink Floyd has such a vast repertoire of music. Everything pre-dark side of the moon is so unique and so strange that it’s hard to think at the same band that came up with the wall was the same band that came up with the weird tracks on Umaguma or even experimental tracks like saucerful of secrets or piper at the Gates of dawn.
watching this was an absolute delight this album is absolutely indescribable on so many levels to me, both on the surface and in a deeply deeply personal way, and as i get older and continue living, i find it gets more and more relevant. it’s an album rooted in hindsight, and all of the wonderful yet horrible things looking from the outside can do to a person. often i dont find myself realizing im on the inside looking out until im ripped away by circumstance- and when i am i revisit this album. it constantly puts things into perspective. it forces you to examine your own actions and question not just yourself but the way you handle others. its a humbling experience realizing how much of your own actions and the actions of others are echoed back at you when you sit and listen to it. each time i go back to it, i feel i find not just more parts of myself that ive lost, but i learn something new. tldr; its a masterpiece, unlike anything else ive ever had the absolute pleasure and dread all in one to hear. edit: highly recommend the Is There Anybody Out There? live version. there’s extra stuff that wasnt put on the album due to time constraints, plus some extra stuff tacked on to already existing tracks. plus Waters’ performance is so completely raw and emotional, and the whole band just shines. the film is also another good place to go.
A key song from the movie that is inexplicably missing from the album is called "When the Tigers Broke Free". It's about when the main character, Pink, learns about how is father died. There's a video on youtube of that portion of the movie. Gut-wrenching, and highly recommended. Roger's father died in WWII. Much of the story is autobiographical.
the other members rejected the track. they thought it was to personal of a song. the album The Final Cut has more songs that were intended for the wall album. but the other band members didn't like them. its all a crazy story how this album was created
@@tonyhoable The track was not rejected. Both it and another track were dropped due to the vinyl format. Back then they had a limit and they had to choose two songs to drop at the end of production.
@@musiccer7446No, it isn’t. It was included in the film version of The Wall, and wasn’t on the original 1983 release of The Final Cut. It was only included on that album in later editions.
Great reaction mate. I was 23 when this came out. I'd been a Floyd fan for years but this blew me away with the musicianship, sound textures, detail, lyrics and emotion. Watching your reaction was a bit like reliving that early listening. Still just as great today. So good to see younger generations appreciating fine music. By the way, if you listen carefully, the first thing you hear is a quiet voice saying "we came in?", as the melody starts. Listen carefully to the end of the album and as the melody comes to an end, the quiet voice says "Isn't this where......". Enabling you to play the album as a continuous loop. Nice. Attention to detail. Hope you enjoy the film too.
Love your reaction, saying how sounds make you feel and they way you are describing "this is so much better in context" "the level of details, you can hear his fingers"...is so enyoable, tyvm❤
@@NocturneVideos In fact, try the whole gig as its out on blu ray 18/2/22 but you might want to hear the studio versions first to enjoy & get to know the music. Then onto the boys live:). It really doesn't get much better than this. Enjoy PF...I've been for 43 years!. BTW, 'Pink' in the movie is played by Sir Bob Geldof who organised Live Aid 1985 & Live 8 2005. for the latter, he achieved the seemingly impossible, getting PF back together with Roger Waters.
Personally my favorite piece of music front to back, beginning to end, regardless of genre. It completely resonated with my soul and got me through a terrible childhood and early adulthood. I probably went through 3 albums due to over playing, not to mention the multiple cassettes. I still listen almost daily, to at least 1 side of the 4, depending on how I feel.
LOVED this. You should revisit it with the lyrics. I think the full picture will start coming into fruition even more than it already has. BUT... this was an ABSOLUTE JOY. I'm SO happy you enjoyed it, and your reactions had me laughing my ass off, and I was anticipating certain moments to see what you thought and never disappointed. 😂 I stuck through the WHOLE thing, because I enjoyed it so much. Subbed.
It’s useful to know what this whole story is about, but I believe the music speaks for itself and whatever you can imagine, listening to it, is surely relevant.
I've watched this at various stages in my life. First time at 16 when I'd trip on acid and shrooms thinking it would bring me closer to the music on advice of idiots like me. Throughout my life I discovered that all of these songs struck a chord with me. It wasn't until I gained wisdom that it all came to bare. That's not to say that you can't feel it at 16. This is such an important album. Everyone needs to listen to it and feel it snd talk about it. Pink floyd is so important
Great reaction to a fantastic album. I was fortunate enough to experience the Roger Waters tour of The Wall.. I left the arena knowing I would never experience a better concert in my life again.. Keep on rocking in what's left of the free world man😎
The Wall was really my first Pink Floyd album. I remember, as I do today, that my cousin from Sweden sent it to me for my birthday in 1980. To clarify: I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1965, where the communists hated all rock music. They banned it from being released and the most you could listen to modern music was "Radio Luxembourg" or albums that you could only get secretly from abroad or on the black market :-(. But I listened to Pink Floyd since I was a kid and my friends and acquaintances loved them. Everything was copied hundreds of times on tape, so the quality was really desperate... So the first time I held "The Wall" in my hand, I was in seventh heaven. A simple white cover with fanciful drawings and lyrics inside. I listened to it a thousand times and couldn't get enough of it. I used a dictionary to translate the lyrics. I still love it to this day and pretty much everything Pink Floyd recorded. Your great response shows the importance of listening to this epic from start to finish without interruption. One gets in context exactly what Waters, Gilmour Wright and Mason intended with this album.... Go back to the other Pink Floyd concept albums, "The Dark Side of the Moon", Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" and listen to them again in just one piece. You'll see how deep and meaningful it is.
What a story! Very difficult for me to imagine music being scarce, let alone unavailable due to tyrannical policies. And yes, I will definitely listen to the other albums in the same way! When you finally got to listen to The Wall, was it a legitimate copy or a "desperate" copy?
My first thought here was "man I'd love to see this reaction without the cuts". I understand you likely cut parts out for time's sake, but I enjoyed your take on each song. Thank you and well done. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Check the movie out as well, now that you've had the album experience.
The first time I heard this album 42 yrs ago, it literally changed my life. I felt a connection that I hadn't felt with any other music....I was understood ! It ripped through my soul Still my favourite after all these years and still as relevant in my life. Ps Vera Lynn was a singer during ww2 and sang about the war and keeping up morale
The second solo of Comfortably Numb has always felt very emotional to me. It's got this feeling of the need to say something intense and express some strong emotions, but also being quite contained. It feels more like a jam because it's less tight and is more a feeling of signing your heart out with the guitar.
I still have the exact same reaction as 30:32 everytime I hear those strings come in, they always give me chills. Same goes for the strings at 35:25 in Comfortably Numb!
His reaction to the end when the words just cut off. Want many people don’t know is that the album is actually a loop if you play outside the wall before playing in the flesh? it say isn’t this where we came in
If you haven't yet, you should watch the movie. It helps put everything into context, and you'll see where the woman asks, "wanna take a bath" 😂 Crazy movie. Gives the full experience of the album. Really a must see.
I know I'm super late to the party on this post. I just wanted to say that I'm honored to to have witnessed your first reaction to this albumn. I discovered this on my dad's 8=track player when I was about 7 or 8 in the late 70s and its impression on me only seems to deepen over time. Great album and great reaction! Cheers!
I really enjoyed watching your reaction to this classic album! Fortunately, I got to experience it when it was released. I used to listen to the entire album while driving around in my car late at night and played it so many times, I knew every word, every sound, everything about it. It is, in my mind, a masterpiece. So glad that younger generations are discovering it and enjoying it as much as I have. You clearly have a great appreciation for music and I enjoyed your deep interpretation of this album. I look forward to watching more reactions on your channel.
You’ll love it more once you know the background story behind this. The loss of Roger and Syd’s father during WWII. The gradual meltdown of Syd Barret, Rogers ex-wife issues. It’s mostly about Syd and the things that absorb within you in the rock n roll business. Watch The Wall the movie 1982 with Bob Geldof as Pink
When comes right down to it, this is a psychological history of a certain time in life for a generation that grew up. That’s interesting that you can relate to this being so young it is an absolute masterpiece.
i've watched both of your reaction to The Wall and TDSOTM, what a great reaction, i really enjoyed it a lot, i highly recommend you to react to Echoes both the studio version and live version in Pompeii and Gdansk, and one more its called High Hopes live at Pompeii 2016
When The Wall came out, I was in Junior school in England, or fifth grade. Our form teacher was livid when us pupils would sing "we don't need no education". She threatened the whole class she'd send anyone to the headmaster to get cained.
Two years later here it landed in my feed. So here are my thoughts with regard to the hell and anguish Roger Waters and the rest of the band went through making this absolute masterpiece and why it was probably always going to be the last time it could happen like this. In the words of Ren, from Hi Ren, and as known by Taoists, then Buddhists for millennia: The brighter the light, the darker the shadow it casts.
It is really nice to see someone react to this album and not just a song. I was 15 when I heard this for the first time. I actually saw the movie first. I had no idea who Pink Floyd was. Changed my entire outlook in life.
Comfortably Numb, Pulse concert 94. 9+ minutes of the most brilliant live performance in HISTORY! Michael Kamen wrote the orchestration without having heard the song. Another brilliant achievement
Dude you do the perfect react to my favorites and underated songs of them : One of my turns, Don't Leave me now ! I can suggest you 2 other underated songs of them : The gunner's dream and the final cut from the same underated album of them lol.
The first time I heard this song I was driving to my aunts house after work for Easter dinner with family. I drove right passed the house and kept going so I could listen to this in it's entirety.
roger waters idea for the wall was to have it brought out in three types of production (could not think of the right wording), first as a album, second as a concert experience then thirdly as a movie, you would do yourself a favour by watching the movie.
I agree!!! You would benefit from watching the movie then listening to the album again. Of course, the way your mind SEES the music is affected but you will not be disappointed. I enjoyed your reactions. I was 10 when the album came out but my parents restricted my life and did not hear it until I was 14. I became obsessed with the wall specifically, the concept, the story, and could relate to the character in many ways. I became a Pink Floyd fan and remain one to this day. Subscribe.
So my friend put on the wall; I was like oh great gonna hear The Wall and he plays like 3 of the songs.I think it was in the flesh.Mother and comfortably numb so lame.
It always blows my mind how Gilmore’s high pitched leads never cross that uncomfortable noise level. Mastering geniuses. Love your reaction by the way 👍👍
At last, someone who reacts to the album & understands context!!. There are people on YT who react to separate PF tracks, which doesn't work really, and always get confused as to 'why did it start like that?' or 'Why did it end that way?'. Well, they're chopping the transitions up, so no wonder its confusing!. Looking forward to you trying PF's masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.
Haha, that's also why it's hard to get friends to listen to it and like it. I have listened to dsotm, but it was years ago and I would probably "get" a whole lot more of it now, I feel.
Great reaction to an absolute masterpiece. For me, I can’t get through this album without having a box of tissues by my side, no matter how many times I listen to it.
When I was in High school and a few years after, with a marriage to my girlfriend ending in a quick divorce, this album became my theme. I listened to it nonstop and got very dark before I came back. I still love every moment of it.
I was born in '77 growing up listening to Floyd, my 4 kids ages 10-16 love them too and rock out to them with me and often ask to play the wall or dark side of the moon on road trips. It brings a tear to my eye just knowing they appreciate it. It's just beautiful...
"This is so cinematic" Lol, I've watched so many reactors realize that, and presumably find out later that it was actually made into a movie that is basically just two hour music video of the whole story.
I've listened to this album hundreds of times, maybe a thousand, who knows. I still well up at various times. It conjures a lot of memories with emotions attached. I have very much been the protagonist in the story, and I think there's a lot of us who more or less relate to it - the tension between wanting to be alone but also connect with people. And how the pressures of life can really get to us and at times completely break us. We can harden up and shut people out. But ultimately it's about tearing down that wall and allowing vulnerability in there again, and connecting with our humanity, but at the same time making peace with those darker parts of who we are so we don't feel so divided and full of self-hatred. It's a complicated journey, with no easy answers, and for me it's taken years to figure out how to live with the trauma I've experienced, and how to feel comfortable in my own skin. When I first heard this album as a teenager I had no idea what it actually meant, and how much I would go on to relate to it. I remember Trent Reznor saying that this album meant a lot to him, and that it was the first time he had heard something so vulnerable and honest. I have no doubt it inspired him in making the music he did, particularly The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. Thanks for your reaction. It was great to share that with you
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body! Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
Best wall reaction mate. Pretty cool-just throw one out there as u seem to have heard most floyd-crime of the century by supertramp. Good concept album brilliantly produced.👍
Listened to the album as a teen, didn’t really pay much attention. Listened to it last night, I was just where you are, fighting back tears and losing! Music is some powerful alchemy.
I'm sure someone in your comments section has recommended it already, but you should give the film a watch. You talked a lot about context, and it gives sooo much more. Not my favorite Floyd album, but definitely a masterclass in conceptual album writing. I would also recommend listening to Floyd's 1972 record, Obscured By Clouds. It was produced as a soundtrack for a film, but it stands alone as a phenomenal entry in their discography.
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18:42 "Alright, now I feel like we're in a happier place" *One of My Turns starts, followed by Don't Leave Me Now*
The second he said that I was just like 'oh nooo'
The happiest days of our lives into Another brick in the wall pt2 is the best transition on an album ever.
Brain damage + Eclipse
Empty Spaces + Young Lust
He skipped the buildup completely so in this video it's not good
In the rapids --> It (genesis)
Empty spaces --> What shall we do now
35:46
"You can't, like another solo"
Famous last words
Wait until he hears the live one
@@allgamegamer4880 i hope you mean the 1980-81 version and not PULSE
The 1980-81 version is way very underrated
I don't know if you noticed it, but the album ends with the phrase "isn't this where..."
And begins with the phrase "we came in", you can hear it really low in the background
The end is the beginning, Pink is doomed to repeat the cycle, a true masterpiece
To me, The Wall almost killed the "concept album" as a thing, just because it raised the bar so insanely far out of reach that it felt like no other concept album could ever hope to match it. It's practically perfect.
it took me a long time to learn with art/music you fall into a trap if you start comparing things like this. there is no such thing as 'the best' because it's 100% subjective. it's just art. you just make it if you're inspired to make it. you don't worry about what Floyd or Zeppelin or Hendrix or The Beatles or whoever did before you. you just do it and express it.
Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime hit that bar, but no other concept album I’ve ever heard has come even close to those two.
It is incredible to get to The Wall level! Some have come close and in some parts better (like Dreamtheater imo)... but just the will to make it and stay consistent and tight during The Wall 1 and 2?... I can only wish someone will create something as meaningful and impactful in the next dozens of years!
Not even "Tommy" or "Quadrophenia" ?
@@paradoxstudios6639 - Tommy had some good songs but the story was just inherently non-sensical. A deaf, dumb, and blind kid becomes a a master of pinball so much so that people begin to worship him and founds a religion based on pinball?
That’s almost as silly as the concept to Radio K.A.O.S.: a crippled Welsh boy who only speaks through a Stephen Hawking box gets in trouble with the law because he and his cousin accidentally kill some people so his parents send him to live with his Uncle in Los Angeles, where he befriends a DJ and decides to fake a nuclear missile strike. There’s some really good songs on it, but just, what? Seriously? That’s the story?
For me as a German, this album always had a very special meaning. The wall had to be torn down!
A literal spin on a figurative meaning. Cool!
When I was a kid in the 90s I always thought that was the wall Pink Floyd were talking about 😄
Bass is Pink Floyd's secret weapon. Underneath the celestial guitar, the infinte key pads, the mountainous drums, underneath the haunting, confronting lyrics, the bass is ... groovy. It feels good. They are singing about the pain of boarding school and the sadistic scottish teachers, but you are nodding your head and thinking "I like this! This is my jam." It's the bass.
It does my heart just fine to watch someone experience this life changing album for the first time.
yes!
Made me cry more than once.
Now that you’ve headed the album, it’s worth it to watch Alan Parker’s
1982 movie Pink Floyd: The Wall. It’s a cinematic version of the story set to the album’s music, and gives more visuals to expand the experience even further.
For any fan of PF its a absolutly must to "understand" the album. Its a Alan Parker movie, but with Roger Waters mind. :)
That movie is insane and wonderful
I have watched The Wall about a hundred times throughout my life.
The album came out when I was 11 years old and it absolutely blew my mind. 3 years later the movie came out and it completely blew me away so thoroughly that I can still remember it over forty years later.
@@ScotlandSword I was 10 when my mother brought me with her to see the movie. Something I could never forget. Definitely mind blowing 😂
Just hearing the one song by Pink Floyd itself, is like opening a great book and randomly reading one chapter
Exactly
Beautifully said
Fantastic reaction. There aren't many people I believe actually "get" the wall but you definitely do. If you want to understand in an even deeper way, exactly what shaped Roger Waters' entire life and the direction of Pink Floyd, you have to listen to the song When The Tigers Broke Free. I blub like a baby every single time.
Many thanks! I believe I'm far from "getting it" in it's full richness, though, but I'm definitely hooked! Been listening to it almost exclusively for the past two days.
Just saw that the song you mentioned is in the movie, which I will absolutely react to.
@@NocturneVideos WTTBF is as much a poem as it is a song, but it's really powerful and incredibly sad.
@@NocturneVideos keep in mind in the actual concert it was all outside but each time that BRICK was added to THAT 🧱 WALL it slowly became an inside and Outside concert and each song reflects that....
Agreed. I believe he was trippin too. Nice.
@@NocturneVideos I once listened to this also, once s day when I was 17. Not kidding.
Greatest album of all time.
The Wall is absolutely amazing, but personally I don't think anything touches the utter perfection of DSotM. That album is just completely unreal, an immaculate sonic representation of the experience of life. It's perfect. All of Pink Floyd's 70's albums are... just on another level though. Like there was this perfect confluence of energies flowing through four men, pulling something out of a higher dimension and translating it into sound.
100% agree
Well, most of the wall is boring, but has some AMAZING songs like comfortably numb
@@danetrain8798 Most of life is pretty boring too, when you stop and think about it.
And then, later, when you are older and pay more attention to how amazing life can be, and how precious it is, it becomes a bit more interesting again.
Don't discard one of the most insightful disections of the human condition as "boring" please.
@@Varksterable please tell me you just wrote that because I said that the wall is for the most part not good. "Boring"
First solo of Comfortably Numb is one of the most beautiful moments of rock history. Period.
And the second is the most emotional and epic.
@@mr.orange8211 especially the live version from pulse!
And mother solo follows right behind
im gonna cry, i love this album and i love how the people reacts, so cool
Hits me the same way when I see people reacting to songs I love, ecstatic!
for me "THE WALL" is the best album ever made. i have watched plenty of reactions to Floyds work but you get it my friend. Your reaction is exactly as it should be, some people like dark side of the moon more than the wall but not me. Both great albums but the wall just edges it. One song leads onto the next and the end of the album, well its like a circle and you could start the album again. But your reaction is precise. Its as it should be.
It is produced to be a "circle." It is a Wall and it surrounds the protagonist. Also, if you turn the volume up, you can hear (I think) Roger say "Isn't this where..." at the end of the album; and at the very beginning he says "....we came in?"
@@seajaytea9340 Really?
@@emiliegoddard8936 Yep! But no need to take my word, have yourself a listen!
The reason that sounds modern is because so many people nowadays use their methods! They are basically the teachers of a lot of current methods of recording which amazingly enough "The Wall" was done in the analog period for the most part! For instance if you were to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" which was recorded in 1972 and 73 you would think based on how it sounds that it was recorded last week!!
I'll definitely have to check out the other albums, then! The layering is so well architectured that it reminds me of the precise way in which electronic composers have total control over what is heard, which is typically difficult to accomplish with analog because of how many variables are present in micing the instruments and in the perfomance.
That guitar swell on "Don't leave me now" makes me cry every time.
Best song on the whole album.
The second comfortably numb solo communicates more than any other solo I can think of off the top of my head. It's the sudden panic at the peak of a high that forces you back to reality. The reminder of the real world thats waiting for your inevitable come down, and the realization that you can never be high enough to see over the wall. It feels a little more obvious on the live versions where the solo is extended.
First time I heard this album. I was tripping my ass off. One of the greatest moments in my life! Couldn't believe what I was hearing!
I actually watched the movie first while on two tabs and had never heard the album before and I rewatched it over and over I started at 1am and was there until 9am and the amount of endorphins and thrill through my body was an experience I'll never get back, Ive listened to the entire album at least a few times a week since then and that was almost a year ago. Everytime I listen to it I want LSD lmao
So jealous 😂
@@vV4L1UM I had no interest in Floyd during a prolonged period of space cadetting. A guy left us The Wall one night with a parting footnote that the bass playing would trip us out to new worlds.
We had massive mission speakers and no neighbours, however the mid-range units had been blown out weeks before, so I was not looking to play the vinyl. My mate reminded me later that as the Bass units were as good as new and so we should do a trip because it had been the bass playing / sound our vinyl donor had been on one about.
The next 12 hours were an absolute joy, kick drum, bass guitar and those deep droning keyboards flipped us into places of unimaginable and indescribable experience.
When the guy collected his album he asked us what we thought of it. He was taken aback with our enthusiastic waffle about the bass and asked what we thought of the solos. Upon hearing "what solos?" he called us weird and left.
He came back a few hours later with the vinyl, psychedelics and a desperate need to experience WTF we were on about.
Same here!!!
I've only recently listened to this album and watched the movie. It gave me am exestiential crisis at first and I broke down. (Am I college student questioning if I'm on the right track). I've been breaking down my own wall and trying to not build it up again. It's fun to listen through it again with you. Very wholesome experience. Thank you for sharing this with us 🥰
I am 56 years old and I remember buying this album new (I still have that record set) and I can tell you that to this day, I still listen to this and get emotional. If this dragged you in, you should see the movie.
I know I’m super late, but it makes me so happy that you allowed yourself to fully experience this album, and so thoughtfully as well. I heard it for the first time when I was 12, shortly after losing a parent. It helped me face all those difficult emotions that I didn’t have a name for
1979 I was 13 Yrs old and became completely immersed in this album and I started living my life as a “Bleeding heart & artist” and have been on-stage ever since…Still trying to avoid the bricks.
Pink Floyd has been in my Movie score ….all along
Thank you for reminding me 🎁
Great video! The ending of the album is supposed to blend in with the beginning. Making it a loop and sometimes you don’t even know that you are at the beginning of the album again. There’s even a phrase right at the end that cuts off “isn’t this where-“ on the last song and “we came in” immediately after the first song starts. Also you should react to the pulse version of Comfortably numb that has an extended solo, and the pulse concert also has a few songs from the wall if you want to check them out as well. The experience is totally different!
Thanks!
What that loop implies is absolutely terrifying.
@@NocturneVideos in the Live concert the WALL surrounded the entire concert stadium 🏟️ blocking off half of audience. So for example if your where seated "wrong" it meant the 🧱 blinded you from the concert....
@@tonyyul703 I mean the wall blocking the concert is pretty much the whole point… they built the wall while on stage slowly blocking out the band members
@@NocturneVideos just means you have to break the cycle before you find yourself back in it. That’s my interpretation
The movie The Wall will give you all the context you need. You have to watch it to fully understand this masterpiece
Imagine dealing with this album in the advent of your teenage years.
The insecurities the first real love crush and the first devastating heartbreak, all while you're trying to find your place in the world.
This album becomes your friend. Both a safe place and an house of pain.
It was,still is, all that for me, getting into my 50s.
I'm 4 minutes in and can tell this is going to be a great reaction. Thanks in advance for sharing it with us.
Hey man, it was a joy to watch you experience my favourite album for the first time. Thanks for sharing!
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching you hear the wall for the first time. Took me back to my first time
I love to watch reaction videos. Especially when it's music that I grew up with.
Watching your reaction here is absolutely priceless.
I was about 14, maybe 15 the first time I listened to this album (I'm now 48). I'm almost certain that first time (and still to this day) I felt every human emotion possible. It was literally life changing.
Very few people listen to The Wall and their first experience just...get it. You did and your reaction was, like another comment said, "just as it should be".
I’ve been listening to Floyd for years, and every time I hear any song, some lyric or chord or other meaning clicks into place. This time is was “would you like to learn to fly, would you like to see me try?”
Gotta give you props for doing the whole album. There are some really good gems found between the more mainstream PF songs.
Couldn't imagine listening to it any other way!
What a treat for me to enjoy your reaction to the entire album. Thank You. 1979 or now, it is the same! By the time most people reach half way through the second side they realize that they are tripping. No drugs, alcohol, or distractions from the experience. You become "in it" due to the effect of the music and lyrics inside your brain. I've been there bro. Young whippersnappers like you get it. Thank you again! P.S.-- There are many more albums as trippy as this going back hundreds of years.
I've been a huge Pink Floyd fan since the release of their "Dark Side of the Moon" album in 1973, I was 15 years old. Fast forward to 1980 and I was fortunate enough to garner tickets to The Wall concert in February 1980 at The Coliseum in Uniondale Long Island NY.
Because of the massive logistics and cost of touring this The Wall Shows, they performed only 12 concert dates in the US in 1980. Six on the west coast in LA, and six on the east coast on Long Island.
This Show, and it was a Show, sooo much more than just a concert, it was like watching a musical play being performed. As soon as the very first song, at the opening of the show, finished, a small plane, (like a Cessna), came flying from the back of roof rafters of the Coliseum ceiling, over the audience, and on fire, and crashes into the right side of the stage with an explosion and more fire!
After that epic opening, the Show continued to astonish the audience with all kinds of strange things that told the story of Pink. One of the most epic goings on were these 30 foot tall, blow-up puppets of Pinks Teacher, and Pinks overbearing, suffocating Mother. These caricatures puppets came walking on stage as the band continued playing, It was an incredible sight to see and hear what was going on!
I'm 65 years today and I've been to many concerts, shows, plays, movies etc. during the course of my life,.. and I've never seen a performance of any kind that could equal The Wall Experience. Just google how iconic this production was!
Such a larger than life experience, these must have been! How in the world could they garner such money and expertise to pull this off?
I was there. 27 Feb 80.
I was born in 1980. I missed the whole The Wall experience back then. I stumbled across The Wall album when I was in high school and it is my favourtite album since, a total masterpiece. Happily Roger Waters did his own The Wall tour, with a little changes here and there (mostly in the general message and story, but to be honest The Wall is so universal that it actually made sense anyway). and man it was an experience. The best show I've ever been to. A dream come true to see it finally live (although not in original PF lineup, that I will never witness sadly). Such a masterpiece. Not only the album, but everything around it. For me The Wall is 1) the album, 2) the movie, 3) the show -> each adds something.
It has been a real joy to experience this very familiar album, watching your genuine and sincere reactions. You are very lucky to be able to grasp the story from the start. I am dutch and 16 years old when I first bought this album in 1979. My english was not at the level where all details and metafors could be comprehended. It was years later when things really fell into place for me. The funny thing with this album is it naturally is devided in two parts. Not only by the two records or cd's but also the storyline. In part one we witness all the situations that turned out to be the bricks in the wall. Part two handles Pink isolated from everyone and everything around him, by the wall he had build. You can play record two before record one and the story than begins with the present situation, followed by the history of it all. Another experience. You will notice that the end of cd 2 is audibly continued at the opening of cd 1. Funny thing watching your video: at one point you tried to explain how you felt, but could not put your finger on it. You were cocooning...
As someone who played Pink in his senior year marching band show... Its easy to relate to if you're a loner. But to truly recognize the impact Roger Waters' The Wall had, thats a feat unto its own. I only realized it as the years went on. Roger grew up in the 40's, I was a 90's kid. Oh how times change but many things stay the same...
Pink Floyd has such a vast repertoire of music. Everything pre-dark side of the moon is so unique and so strange that it’s hard to think at the same band that came up with the wall was the same band that came up with the weird tracks on Umaguma or even experimental tracks like saucerful of secrets or piper at the Gates of dawn.
watching this was an absolute delight
this album is absolutely indescribable on so many levels to me, both on the surface and in a deeply deeply personal way, and as i get older and continue living, i find it gets more and more relevant. it’s an album rooted in hindsight, and all of the wonderful yet horrible things looking from the outside can do to a person. often i dont find myself realizing im on the inside looking out until im ripped away by circumstance- and when i am i revisit this album. it constantly puts things into perspective. it forces you to examine your own actions and question not just yourself but the way you handle others. its a humbling experience realizing how much of your own actions and the actions of others are echoed back at you when you sit and listen to it. each time i go back to it, i feel i find not just more parts of myself that ive lost, but i learn something new.
tldr; its a masterpiece, unlike anything else ive ever had the absolute pleasure and dread all in one to hear.
edit: highly recommend the Is There Anybody Out There? live version. there’s extra stuff that wasnt put on the album due to time constraints, plus some extra stuff tacked on to already existing tracks. plus Waters’ performance is so completely raw and emotional, and the whole band just shines. the film is also another good place to go.
My favorite movie
A key song from the movie that is inexplicably missing from the album is called "When the Tigers Broke Free". It's about when the main character, Pink, learns about how is father died. There's a video on youtube of that portion of the movie. Gut-wrenching, and highly recommended. Roger's father died in WWII. Much of the story is autobiographical.
the other members rejected the track. they thought it was to personal of a song. the album The Final Cut has more songs that were intended for the wall album. but the other band members didn't like them. its all a crazy story how this album was created
@@tonyhoable The track was not rejected. Both it and another track were dropped due to the vinyl format. Back then they had a limit and they had to choose two songs to drop at the end of production.
It’s from the final cut, not the wall
@@musiccer7446it wasn't on the final cut had the single that says from the forthcoming album but it wasn't only appeared in the movie
@@musiccer7446No, it isn’t. It was included in the film version of The Wall, and wasn’t on the original 1983 release of The Final Cut. It was only included on that album in later editions.
Great reaction mate. I was 23 when this came out. I'd been a Floyd fan for years but this blew me away with the musicianship, sound textures, detail, lyrics and emotion. Watching your reaction was a bit like reliving that early listening. Still just as great today. So good to see younger generations appreciating fine music. By the way, if you listen carefully, the first thing you hear is a quiet voice saying "we came in?", as the melody starts. Listen carefully to the end of the album and as the melody comes to an end, the quiet voice says "Isn't this where......". Enabling you to play the album as a continuous loop. Nice. Attention to detail. Hope you enjoy the film too.
I envy everyone who hears this masterpiece for the first time. ❤
Love your reaction, saying how sounds make you feel and they way you are describing "this is so much better in context" "the level of details, you can hear his fingers"...is so enyoable, tyvm❤
Thank you!
Watch the Pulse 1994 live version of comfortably Numb if you really want to fly:). Blistering guitars solo & insane light show....classic Floyd.
I will!
@@NocturneVideos In fact, try the whole gig as its out on blu ray 18/2/22 but you might want to hear the studio versions first to enjoy & get to know the music. Then onto the boys live:). It really doesn't get much better than this. Enjoy PF...I've been for 43 years!. BTW, 'Pink' in the movie is played by Sir Bob Geldof who organised Live Aid 1985 & Live 8 2005. for the latter, he achieved the seemingly impossible, getting PF back together with Roger Waters.
Personally my favorite piece of music front to back, beginning to end, regardless of genre. It completely resonated with my soul and got me through a terrible childhood and early adulthood. I probably went through 3 albums due to over playing, not to mention the multiple cassettes. I still listen almost daily, to at least 1 side of the 4, depending on how I feel.
LOVED this. You should revisit it with the lyrics. I think the full picture will start coming into fruition even more than it already has.
BUT... this was an ABSOLUTE JOY. I'm SO happy you enjoyed it, and your reactions had me laughing my ass off, and I was anticipating certain moments to see what you thought and never disappointed. 😂 I stuck through the WHOLE thing, because I enjoyed it so much. Subbed.
It’s useful to know what this whole story is about, but I believe the music speaks for itself and whatever you can imagine, listening to it, is surely relevant.
Absolutely agree!
This is one of my favorites videos in this entire website, thank you so much for posting it
A new world to a 60 year old
Watching kids react to Floyd
And memories of our first time is so cool 😎
Congrats 👏 on doing the whole album
Peace ✌️
Eagerly waiting to see your reaction to 'wish you were here' which is personally my favourite Pink Floyd album😁
I've watched this at various stages in my life. First time at 16 when I'd trip on acid and shrooms thinking it would bring me closer to the music on advice of idiots like me. Throughout my life I discovered that all of these songs struck a chord with me. It wasn't until I gained wisdom that it all came to bare. That's not to say that you can't feel it at 16. This is such an important album. Everyone needs to listen to it and feel it snd talk about it. Pink floyd is so important
The album stands best on it's own, but check out the movie they made of this too. It adds mood & some additional visual flavouring.
also the movie has an extra track after Empty Spaces that was cut from the album ("What shall we do now?")
@KangarooJay It's not an extra track. It's a song of its own, Empty Spaces is originally a reprise of it.
Great reaction to a fantastic album. I was fortunate enough to experience the Roger Waters tour of The Wall.. I left the arena knowing I would never experience a better concert in my life again.. Keep on rocking in what's left of the free world man😎
The Wall was really my first Pink Floyd album. I remember, as I do today, that my cousin from Sweden sent it to me for my birthday in 1980. To clarify: I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1965, where the communists hated all rock music. They banned it from being released and the most you could listen to modern music was "Radio Luxembourg" or albums that you could only get secretly from abroad or on the black market :-(. But I listened to Pink Floyd since I was a kid and my friends and acquaintances loved them. Everything was copied hundreds of times on tape, so the quality was really desperate... So the first time I held "The Wall" in my hand, I was in seventh heaven. A simple white cover with fanciful drawings and lyrics inside. I listened to it a thousand times and couldn't get enough of it. I used a dictionary to translate the lyrics. I still love it to this day and pretty much everything Pink Floyd recorded.
Your great response shows the importance of listening to this epic from start to finish without interruption. One gets in context exactly what Waters, Gilmour Wright and Mason intended with this album....
Go back to the other Pink Floyd concept albums, "The Dark Side of the Moon", Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" and listen to them again in just one piece. You'll see how deep and meaningful it is.
What a story! Very difficult for me to imagine music being scarce, let alone unavailable due to tyrannical policies. And yes, I will definitely listen to the other albums in the same way!
When you finally got to listen to The Wall, was it a legitimate copy or a "desperate" copy?
My first thought here was "man I'd love to see this reaction without the cuts". I understand you likely cut parts out for time's sake, but I enjoyed your take on each song. Thank you and well done. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Check the movie out as well, now that you've had the album experience.
The first time I heard this album 42 yrs ago, it literally changed my life. I felt a connection that I hadn't felt with any other music....I was understood ! It ripped through my soul Still my favourite after all these years and still as relevant in my life. Ps Vera Lynn was a singer during ww2 and sang about the war and keeping up morale
Thank you for doing this and sharing with us all. I really liked your reaction!
Well thank you for the kind words!
The second solo of Comfortably Numb has always felt very emotional to me. It's got this feeling of the need to say something intense and express some strong emotions, but also being quite contained. It feels more like a jam because it's less tight and is more a feeling of signing your heart out with the guitar.
Which Gilmour seems to be incredibly gifted at doing! The ideas come to his mind and he's instantly able to manifest it musically.
Is Anybody Out There? Is the title of the live version from 1980. The second side is a masterpiece in concert history.
I still have the exact same reaction as 30:32 everytime I hear those strings come in, they always give me chills. Same goes for the strings at 35:25 in Comfortably Numb!
His reaction to the end when the words just cut off. Want many people don’t know is that the album is actually a loop if you play outside the wall before playing in the flesh? it say isn’t this where we came in
If you haven't yet, you should watch the movie. It helps put everything into context, and you'll see where the woman asks, "wanna take a bath" 😂 Crazy movie. Gives the full experience of the album. Really a must see.
I know I'm super late to the party on this post. I just wanted to say that I'm honored to to have witnessed your first reaction to this albumn. I discovered this on my dad's 8=track player when I was about 7 or 8 in the late 70s and its impression on me only seems to deepen over time. Great album and great reaction! Cheers!
I really enjoyed watching your reaction to this classic album! Fortunately, I got to experience it when it was released. I used to listen to the entire album while driving around in my car late at night and played it so many times, I knew every word, every sound, everything about it. It is, in my mind, a masterpiece. So glad that younger generations are discovering it and enjoying it as much as I have. You clearly have a great appreciation for music and I enjoyed your deep interpretation of this album. I look forward to watching more reactions on your channel.
You’ll love it more once you know the background story behind this. The loss of Roger and Syd’s father during WWII. The gradual meltdown of Syd Barret, Rogers ex-wife issues. It’s mostly about Syd and the things that absorb within you in the rock n roll business. Watch The Wall the movie 1982 with Bob Geldof as Pink
When comes right down to it, this is a psychological history of a certain time in life for a generation that grew up. That’s interesting that you can relate to this being so young it is an absolute masterpiece.
i've watched both of your reaction to The Wall and TDSOTM, what a great reaction, i really enjoyed it a lot, i highly recommend you to react to Echoes both the studio version and live version in Pompeii and Gdansk, and one more its called High Hopes live at Pompeii 2016
When The Wall came out, I was in Junior school in England, or fifth grade. Our form teacher was livid when us pupils would sing "we don't need no education".
She threatened the whole class she'd send anyone to the headmaster to get cained.
Having shared a snippet of your history, it's awesome that it's so heart-felt for you. Welcome to the great musical passion we all feel for PF!
I have listened to this over and over for more than forty years. I hope you get to as well.
Been listening to it almost exclusively for the past couple of days. I think I'm well on my way :)
Two years later here it landed in my feed. So here are my thoughts with regard to the hell and anguish Roger Waters and the rest of the band went through making this absolute masterpiece and why it was probably always going to be the last time it could happen like this. In the words of Ren, from Hi Ren, and as known by Taoists, then Buddhists for millennia:
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow it casts.
It is really nice to see someone react to this album and not just a song. I was 15 when I heard this for the first time. I actually saw the movie first. I had no idea who Pink Floyd was. Changed my entire outlook in life.
You might like to watch the movie they made of the Wall, featuring Bob Geldolf as Pink. The animated parts are awesome!
Best album ever. You should watch the movie “The Wall” . Loved your reaction Tis nice to see the younger generation appreciate real music. 🇦🇺👍🏻😁
Comfortably Numb, Pulse concert 94. 9+ minutes of the most brilliant live performance in HISTORY!
Michael Kamen wrote the orchestration without having heard the song. Another brilliant achievement
The ending wraps around to the beginning, “isn’t this where we came in?”
It even references it in Trial when he says “there must have been a door there in the wall where I came in,”
Dude you do the perfect react to my favorites and underated songs of them : One of my turns, Don't Leave me now !
I can suggest you 2 other underated songs of them : The gunner's dream and the final cut from the same underated album of them lol.
Don't leave me now is probably my favourite track as of now.
The first time I heard this song I was driving to my aunts house after work for Easter dinner with family. I drove right passed the house and kept going so I could listen to this in it's entirety.
roger waters idea for the wall was to have it brought out in three types of production (could not think of the right wording), first as a album, second as a concert experience then thirdly as a movie, you would do yourself a favour by watching the movie.
Definitely will! Wish I could've experienced this live.
I agree!!! You would benefit from watching the movie then listening to the album again. Of course, the way your mind SEES the music is affected but you will not be disappointed. I enjoyed your reactions. I was 10 when the album came out but my parents restricted my life and did not hear it until I was 14. I became obsessed with the wall specifically, the concept, the story, and could relate to the character in many ways. I became a Pink Floyd fan and remain one to this day. Subscribe.
You know that everyone’s of us envy you about your job, right? Great Reaction, thanks!
this album was such an experience the first time i heard it. Then i watched the movie. All i wish is i could rediscover it for the first time
Thank you for this . Right on time. Im so happy to see you enjoy the entire album…. That’s the only way to enjoy The Wall
So my friend put on the wall; I was like oh great gonna hear The Wall and he plays like 3 of the songs.I think it was in the flesh.Mother and comfortably numb so lame.
The Trial has to be experienced in the context of the film, with the visuals. They make it much darker and more meaningful.
I also really appreciate the bass/drum beat in Brick Part 2!
It always blows my mind how Gilmore’s high pitched leads never cross that uncomfortable noise level. Mastering geniuses. Love your reaction by the way 👍👍
At last, someone who reacts to the album & understands context!!. There are people on YT who react to separate PF tracks, which doesn't work really, and always get confused as to 'why did it start like that?' or 'Why did it end that way?'. Well, they're chopping the transitions up, so no wonder its confusing!. Looking forward to you trying PF's masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.
Haha, that's also why it's hard to get friends to listen to it and like it.
I have listened to dsotm, but it was years ago and I would probably "get" a whole lot more of it now, I feel.
Great reaction to an absolute masterpiece. For me, I can’t get through this album without having a box of tissues by my side, no matter how many times I listen to it.
When I was in High school and a few years after, with a marriage to my girlfriend ending in a quick divorce, this album became my theme. I listened to it nonstop and got very dark before I came back. I still love every moment of it.
I was born in '77 growing up listening to Floyd, my 4 kids ages 10-16 love them too and rock out to them with me and often ask to play the wall or dark side of the moon on road trips. It brings a tear to my eye just knowing they appreciate it. It's just beautiful...
Don't isolate. Love your way. Appreciate you use headphones...and yes, crank it up. Many of us have loss of hearing from these albums....worth it.
I love the moment when he realized what Mother is really about
"This is so much better in context" ya think :-) I've been trying to make people understand that about Pink Floyd for 40 years.
"This is so cinematic" Lol, I've watched so many reactors realize that, and presumably find out later that it was actually made into a movie that is basically just two hour music video of the whole story.
I've listened to this album hundreds of times, maybe a thousand, who knows. I still well up at various times. It conjures a lot of memories with emotions attached. I have very much been the protagonist in the story, and I think there's a lot of us who more or less relate to it - the tension between wanting to be alone but also connect with people. And how the pressures of life can really get to us and at times completely break us. We can harden up and shut people out. But ultimately it's about tearing down that wall and allowing vulnerability in there again, and connecting with our humanity, but at the same time making peace with those darker parts of who we are so we don't feel so divided and full of self-hatred. It's a complicated journey, with no easy answers, and for me it's taken years to figure out how to live with the trauma I've experienced, and how to feel comfortable in my own skin. When I first heard this album as a teenager I had no idea what it actually meant, and how much I would go on to relate to it.
I remember Trent Reznor saying that this album meant a lot to him, and that it was the first time he had heard something so vulnerable and honest. I have no doubt it inspired him in making the music he did, particularly The Downward Spiral and The Fragile.
Thanks for your reaction. It was great to share that with you
Fast forwarding thru Floyd is criminal - great album - fragmented reaction 🤪🤷♂️👍
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body!
Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
Best wall reaction mate. Pretty cool-just throw one out there as u seem to have heard most floyd-crime of the century by supertramp. Good concept album brilliantly produced.👍
Now you need to watch the movie. Bob Geldof plays Pink. Stunning.
This is the most genuine music reaction I’ve seen on UA-cam
Best Wall album reaction, bravo Nocturne! X End compliments; you spotted the loop
Listened to the album as a teen, didn’t really pay much attention. Listened to it last night, I was just where you are, fighting back tears and losing! Music is some powerful alchemy.
Only time music has made me cry
I'm sure someone in your comments section has recommended it already, but you should give the film a watch. You talked a lot about context, and it gives sooo much more. Not my favorite Floyd album, but definitely a masterclass in conceptual album writing.
I would also recommend listening to Floyd's 1972 record, Obscured By Clouds. It was produced as a soundtrack for a film, but it stands alone as a phenomenal entry in their discography.