The Wall - Album Reaction Part 1 (In The Flesh, The Thin Ice and Another Brick In The Wall Part1)
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"In the flesh" was the name of the Pink Floyd tour for the animals album. The tour that inspired Roger Waters to write the Wall. So the album starts off on stage with that large arena echo as Pink confronts the audience. The flashback of Pink's life begins with the baby crying.
This album is a perfect "Rock Opera"- The protagonist, Pink, becomes alienated and isolated by the loss of his father in the war when he was an infant, his overprotective mother, his abusive teacher, and his cheating wife. When he has completely withdrawn into his own mind, his manager gets a doctor to shoot him up with drugs in order to get him to be able to perform his next concert. His personal crisis becomes a trial in his mind, where a judge calls these characters from his past to testify against him.
It ends on a hopeful note, or does it? The very last snippet of sound is a voice saying "Isn't this where". The rest of the phrase was the very first thing audible at the beginning of the album- "we came in?"
One interpretation of the "isn't this where we came in" is that it's an unending loop, like Groundhog Day.
@@sourisvoleur4854 exactly. Us humans on our endless loops of discovery to bitterness/ because of our flawed human animal behaviour
@@sourisvoleur4854 That was always my interpretation. Pink will keep on building his wall, tearing it down, rebuilding it, tearing it down...until the day he dies. So the seemingly happy ending to the album is nothing of the sort.
@@sourisvoleur4854 I think the album is actually meant to start with "Hey You" and end with "Goodbye Cruel World" as those are the only two songs that dont flow into each other. That way you get finality to the story.
@@nathanpapp432 But the album is set up to deny finality. The very end "isn't this where" segues into the very beginning "we came in?"
I've heard this album many, many times and it never gets old. Seems that the themes are universal; each of us has our own wall, it is only the building of that wall that differs.
Dude the album Wish You Were Here will blow your mind. Both Shine On You Crazy Diamond is probably Floyd’s best work.
This albums deep cuts are killer. Watch The Wall Movie when you're done with the album. The album, movie and stage performance were all planned as a performance trilogy from the start.
The live album _Is There Anybody Out There?_ captures the ferocity & power of the 1980 arena experience. Worth a spin.
nailed it as usual, man. don't know why most miss the concept of the wall as isolation, but you get it
I’m so excited that you are reacting to The Wall!!! I love your insights and appreciation for the music
Aw man im so excited for this. This album is such a huge part of my life. And the introspection on it is great there is soo much here to unpack and you never get all of the picture unless you sit down with it.
There is so much foreshadowing in this story. I remember writing a thesis on it.
Note: On your lyrics you'll see "[INTRO] ...we came in?
Remember that because at the end of side 4 the last words you'll hear are "Isn't this where..."
Which, of course, is your cue to get side 1 spinning again and start all over. Which I certainly did back in the day, and I'll be many others did as well. Q: What does a person who has just listened to "The Wall" want to do most? A: Listen to it again!
A space cadet is a derogatory term for someone who is spaced out or drugged up. A sore spot for Waters particularly at their "In The Flesh" tour for the Animals album was those people who would show up at the concert spaced out but had no interest in listening to the music but would rather just scream and yell and carry on to the detriment of other audience members. One of whom he spat on at the Montreal show to his shame as he later admitted. This was the genesis of The Wall. The idea of protecting oneself from the destructive emotion that would have someone (Roger) lashing out in anger at the audience. This was not the only incident where Roger has had these emotional outbursts at the audience. His idea was to just build a wall across the stage and just separate and isolate the band from these emotionally charged encounters.
Generalizing this, it was not a great leap for someone as brilliant as Waters to draw a parallel with Syd Barrett's circumstances. A person who literally isolated himself not only from the music business and its audiences but society itself. Syd lived out his life as a recluse living in a world of his own creation. Being familiar with Roger's works from Dark Side going forward one can draw his overall theme of not shirking or hiding from the stresses and difficulties of modern life.
Our main character here, Pink, (remember in Have A Cigar: "Which one's Pink?") is going to go on a journey that will wall himself off from the emotional and psychological slings and arrows of life. The first 13 songs recount all the bricks he will use to wall himself off. The second 13 songs will give show the effects of his isolation and the nightmare world his imagination creates.
The "In the Flesh Tour" was 1977, "The Wall" was released in 1979. Interesting to think how many bands spat on or were spat upon by their audience during that time period.
Spot on... also using the name "Sunshine" is his calling out the hippie drugged out audiences of the uber massive rock concerts of the 1970's. Waters had enough of it. His feelings were almost more aligned with the rising punk scene than anything else. The Wall really is a satiric 1970's rock and roll concert gone to hell. Every detail, right down to the MC and Waters' constantly addressing and challenging the audience in many of the songs.
A lot of credit for bringing this together has to go to Bob Ezrin as Waters and the rest of the band weren't exactly getting along.
Hovered together, great way to put it. The very first line, if you turn it up loud says, “we came in”. The last line on the last song says, “this is where”. It plays to their desire for us to continue to listen to Pink’s story. I listen to people reviewing The Wall all the time. You are fantastic, especially as a new listener. Love the analysis. You have a great understanding as a first time listener.
Awesome. reaction. I cannot wait to hear you peel back more layers of this great album
Love This so much
More album resctions like this
Maybe for the next album ? Days of Future past- The Moody Blues
Is this one uncut? Subscribed just because you managed it. Best album ever. First heard in 1986 when I was 16. Working in a kitchen in the south of England. Thus started an endless fascination with all the narratives and so on. There’s so much to unpack ❤
Yo Sy,
Love the way you interpret Pink Floyd's music and share your own personal perspective, the way you see the story. Enjoyable... definitely, and these guys are still so relevant. Loving the reactions man, keep up the good work/music dude. Kia Ora from New Zealand bro.
Great Reaction . I’m glad you’re doing the whole album. it’s an absolutely mind blowing album. The one thing is to remember this album is about someone losing their grip on reality and going insane and it’s written in that Way. it absolutely shows the genius of Roger Waters. We all have bricks in our metaphorical wall. For the fictional character of this album(pink) he’s letting the bricks enclose him in to his own Wall. Although some of it is based in Roger Waters true life. I hope you enjoy and love this very dark album for what it is true genius.❤️✌️🌼
When i was 11 years old i accidentally discoverd The Wall...by the time side one had finished i knew Pink Floyd were my band...id never heard anything like it..the drama and granduer...i was hooked 🎸
Pink's story officially starts at the baby crying on Thin Ice
Great reaction so far. I was 16 when this album came out. Bought it immediately and have loved it for 43 years. Always listen to entire album, not just individual songs. Can’t wait to go on this journey with you!
Same age. Same story. Love it.
Legendary music. Probably my favourite album. You’re gonna enjoy this
Great choice, one of Great concept albums ever, as were their previous 3 albums. You just can't go wrong with Floyd. After the Wall, try Echoes, it is from Meddle and is as classic as what you will be hearing from the Wall. Do the studio and also Live at Pompeii versions, they are in their prog peak on that song and seeing them play in the old Roman ruins will freak you out. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Great reaction! I've never heard someone use the "God talking to the pre-birth soul" storyline before... that is very clever. I like it. Enjoy the ride!!
excellent analysis
Keep going. All the way to the end. You won’t regret it.
I once heard a person explain that David Gilmour could do more with one note, than many guitarists can do with their full guitar. Nonetheless, when the days comes, I will enjoy your breakdown of Echoes, Live at Pompeii.
I'd include Santana and BB King as guitarists who can / could say so much with just a single note.
Great reaction and its refreshing to see someone has done a little research on the album and indeed the band. Pink Floyd have always used whatever technology they could to make sounds and develop their own sound. Even before DSOTM, Intersteller Overdrive, Echoes, just about any song of theirs.. The lyrics in Another brick in the wall pt1, my interpretation is more that the fact his dad left his family to go to war leaving nothing but snapshots in the family album is laying the building blocks, foundations for the wall/his life. If that makes sense. But yeh enjoying your enjoyment of this, i prefer this album over DSOTM personally, but i love their older stuff to. Pre DSOTM.
Good on you this is an amazing piece of work and it always shows our tendency towards fascism if unchecked no matter what nationality you are
After Pink Floyd split up, Waters went on to do more concept albums you will enjoy.
Roger Waters and Eric Clapton joined forces to make the album "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking". A story of a troubled man who decides to move his family across the country for a new life. A new life that goes kinda pear shaped.
Later came "Radio KAOS", which is the curious tale of a Welsh boy who can hear radio waves in his head, and builds a friendship with a radio host across the other side of the world.
I feel like The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking is an amazing demonstration of the creative energy waters gave to Pink Floyd. Excellent, and interesting Album. What a journey.
I had to pause. I love your take at the beginningbof the thin ice. It's not correct, but it fits like a glove at that point, just after the baby cries. Great idea.
You should watch the movie The Wall to really understand the album
Need the movie to get the full experience
Maybe. I loved this album way before the movie and while the film is cool, I like to have my own mental images to the music now.
You should listen to "When the Tigers Broke Free" - a great accompaniment that fits the theme of the album, although it isn't on it. It is in the movie, however.
Love the whole album. I graduated HS in 81 and this was kinda my album of the year. I really connected with the lyrics and overall theme as my dad passed 4 years prior. The lyrics of Part 1 Another brick in the Wall hit me hard. “Daddy what’d leave behind for me?” Literally, for me, all and all it was just a brick in my wall.
Lots of memories to unpack every time I listen to the album.
Great album, it definitely has to be listened to all together
Finally!!!.....next the Film, it has a couple of tracks that are more expanded. 🇨🇦🇨🇦❤
100 percent right
The wall to me is a wall of isolation
Built by his mother mainly to protect him
This feels fresher with someone else listening for the first time 👌
PF weren't sure if they were going to do this or Waters other concept album, " Pros and con of hitchhiking" I feel they made the correct choice. However I will say that album Waters did as a solo project AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!
Pros and Cons album has been in my catalog since 1984, I saw the tour in 84 with Clapton on guitar. No special effects, they just came out and played 90 min of Floyd, took a 20 minute intermission, and then did the Pros album in it's entirety. One of the best concerts I've ever seen. I think it's Clapton's finest guitar playing on Pros.
@@alphajava761 by far Clapton's best work in my opinion. I would had loved to see it live. I really wish they would have done both movies.
@@JJMcClure397 Waters didn't even have the money to do a live concert video for the Pros show. There were maybe 5,000 people at the show so it was very intimate, every seat was a great seat. They came out all dressed in black against a black stage and large black backdrop. Best sound of any concert I've ever been to and I've seen a lot of great bands. I've seen Floyd twice and it was better than the Floyd shows.
@@alphajava761 well, I saw it in Chicago at a sold out 20,000 seat arena with a massive backdrop of like a giant window, and a room? It's kind of foggy all these years later. But I definitely remember the giant window.
the airplane sound is specifically a Stuka Dive Bomber used by the German Luftwaffe during WW2. Very important detail
".... we came in"
This opening spoken line is hard to hear but this is the start or maybe the end or just the middle....
The album ends with...
"Isn't this where"
Quite a scary idea of cycles of mental health issues, challenging the listener to break the cycle and give the next generation stability and love.
I saw "The Wall" at Earl's Court in 1981, at the appropriate time a scaled down spitfire flew over the heads of the audience before crashing into a section of "the wall"
OK I subscribed but will only stay if you try some music by YES one of the greatest progressive rock groups of all time and my favorite band. Some good ones include "Roundabout", "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium". "Awaken", "Turn of the Century"... Loads of good ones. In the meantime I'm enjoying this reaction to The Wall.
You are in for a ride... enjoy!
Sadly Rick Wright isn't playing the Hammond organ. It's a Canadian musician named Fred Mandel who also played with another "prog rock" band Supertramp on their "farewell" tour in '83.
In many ways "The Wall" was Roger Waters' self-psychoanalysis about the scars left on him by his father's death. Even more so the movie of The Wall, which is a Freudian head-trip. And you're exactly right "The bricks in the wall" are the mental barriers which Waters built up as a result of his childhood.
Yes yes yes.....please also watch the film.....a few songs there not on album...which explain the WW2 part
Very powerful song ..when the Tigers broke free
This my GOAT! Got to see Pink Floyd Pulse tour, in which they played Dark Side of the Moon album.Then saw dream come true, Roger Waters The Wall (full album) tour. Also got to see the must see film lying on the floor in front of the screen at Sarratt Movie theater at Vanderbilt University midnight movie tripping lsd! This album covered everything I experienced in my adolescence in the '80's! I even had the dark fantasy of offing myself & leaving "Goodbye Cruel World" on repeat on my record player so when my parents came home they'd get the full horror show!
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Syed, I get why you are putting out the vids at 2 per side, but are you listing/recording your reaction in a single start-to-finish listen to the album?
Just to let you know that Fred Mandel, a Canadian session musician, supplies the big Hammond Organ sound on the two 'In the Flesh? tracks.
Your pretty good at feeling & understanding this
This is the only album by Pink Floyd other than Dark side of the Moon that I think needs to be listened to in full to really appreciate. Maybe Wish You Were Here as well. Glad to see this. A lot of great tracks and the album has an incredible flow to it. This and Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins are the only double albums that I truly love.
I might add, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis, is worth a listen or two
@@denysmace3874 or 100 times
Always Wanted Pink Floyd to Cross over Tour with Rush, Epic Sounds of Legends, The Ecstasy of Sound
Great reaction, ya should check out Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) "The Wall" Live in Berlin 1990 , they literally built a wall on stage
Actually they did that on every concert of the original live tour for TW.
Isn't this where... we came in?
The cyclical nature of the constructed wall between ourselves and the exterior.
😍 Gilmours guitar is connected to MY SOUL
You really should watch the Movie to really get all of what’s going on in the story and the music. It takes the album to a whole new level.
Having listened to this for almost 40 years, I never thought of In the Flesh? as describing a birth. It fits very well!
Good choice - you should have done "Animals" first. It sets it up so nicely. Ah, well.
I'm surprised that you went straight into the album The Wall and not into the album after Dark Side of the Moon which is Wish You were Here.
When you hear the drums and the keyboards on The Wall, it's not automatically Mason or Wright playing. Especially since Waters kicked Wright out of the band during recording.
I'm all in with Roger Waters. Gilmour is little more than an imposter. Post Waters, "Pink" just referred back to early space sounds. Waters changed and made so many great new innovative songs. Gilmour was inspired by the gifts that Waters created. Later guitarists that played with Roger were amazing
You’re correct that’s Nick Mason and Rick Wright on the first track, but don’t assume they’re on every track, because they’re not. This is where it all started to fall apart for Floyd as a band, as Waters started treating them like session musicians, and bringing in outside players.
The person referred to as "Sunshine" in "In the Flesh?" is Roger's father, and "the show" is the Second World War. A space cadet, back in the day, was a mildly insulting way to call someone naïve. The "airplane descending" is of course a Stukka dive-bomber killing the father, awash in the chaotic horror of war to the excitement of the people running the "show" but to the dismay of the baby Roger (or Pink in the context of the story). The baby's cry, of course, is replacing the sound of the explosion of the bomb but is nevertheless, the explosion that is the catalyst of the story.
In the live show its not even the floyd on stage for the intro - hence "is this notwhat you expected to see"
As always, great reaction!
This album is so great to listen from beginning to the end, such a sad story for all of the characters.
I tried to do a similar thing in german language about "building a house", where every song figures out another character involved in it, from the builders to the house-owner to the evil investor who invests in the construction-company, to a tragic death, which involves a priest, an undertaker and a finale about all of the characters, here is the first part of it: ua-cam.com/video/9IPwEVmHgd8/v-deo.html
At the time of this particular recording i didn't know that the story would go that big, so the first song is quite "happy sounding" for the following ones...
Not sure if Richard Wright was kicked out at this time, this might be someone else on the keys, but not 100% sure
"Movie soundtrack"? Goes rather well in 'The Wall'... llo! Love your suss. Of course, please see the film.
A fascinating interview with Roger Waters was just released on the Joe Rogan Experience which I urge you and your subscribers to watch if you're a Floyd fan. His take on Ukraine, and everything else, is spot-on.
A nod to Sergeant Peppers intro from a brutalist stand point
I don't know about Mr. Gilmour's soul but his guitar playing is connected to. mine.
Richard Wright was fired by Roger Waters during the recording of "The Wall", he was a paid employee during their limited tour of this album in Los Angeles, NYC, London, and Dortmund.
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If you listen carefully at the beginning and end you will notice that the album loops around seamlessly.
You must watch the movie of the album, it's an absolute masterpiece !
You need to watch the full movie.
It is not Pink who becomes a racist, it is supposed to represent the Nazi military rising to power around himand he is the one that has to "Run Like Hell". The movie makes it more clear as there are a lot of characters involved that blur together if just listening.
On a side note, if you like concept albums like this I highly recommend "Operation Mindcrime" by Queensryche.
This album is no doubt one of the greatest rock albums ever
the album does not include this starter track from the movie - just bringing it to your attention - - - also, 'The Final Cut' must be gone through to finish the entire sequence, IMO - - - great job ! the link to 'When the Tigers Took the Field" ----> ua-cam.com/video/l9b9UhFe6Eg/v-deo.html
It's next to impossible to find, but the VERY best way to experience "Pink Floyd: The Wall" is to watch the movie!!!! The album is actually the soundtrack for the movie (SERIOUSLY!!). I was lucky enough (and am thus old enough...) to have been in high school when the movie and album was released, and there was a movie theater near where I was living that showed the movie on late night Friday nights for what I remember now as for a couple of years. So I watched it with friends more times than I can count so that I can still picture portions of the movie that go along with the songs whenever I listen to the songs all these years later.
"The Wall" album is not a soundtrack to anything. It is an original work. The movie directed by famed British director Alan Parker was a Hollywood adaptation of the classic album that came out some 3 years later.
@@flubblert 3 years earlier you mean? Typo?
Personally, I can't stand the film. Maybe it's because Bob Geldof has always irritated the crap out of me. Or maybe it's because the music is chopped up a bit in the movie, and I love the flow of the album. I prefer to listen to the music and form my own pictures in my head, as the music was originally intended.
@@doscwolny2221 the movie came out 3 years later. That's the way I wrote and what I meant. I think you may have misread it.
@@creepingbrain I'm not a huge fan of the movie either. I can't believe so many people get so fixated on the movie every time the album is mentioned. I figured everything out by listening to the album years before the movie was released. That was part of the fun and challenge of listening to it. The idea that nothing makes sense unless you watch the movie is complete fiction. The more you listen, the more you know.
British dead in WWII are reckoned at about 384,000 military and about 70,000 civilians. 😢💔
You really miss the video on this one. Roger Waters " in the flesh" ( live) ( from roger waters The Wall) ( digital video). If you watch this you will wamt to see the whole show. AMAZING beginning
Question: why are so many people doing reaction videos to Pink Floyd? Enough!!!! I looove the fact that the UK is an amazing blend of beautiful cultures from around this world but Pink Floyd are a band I SIMPLY DON'T WANT TO SHARE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. It's our band. However, like a girl with long tanned legs, how long would it be before they'd be noticed?
“We’re in for a ride…” brother, you don’t know the half of it.
Pink Floyd the movie will let you see ware his mind is
Guitars ask for David Gilmour for Christmas.
When you have no musical sensitivity or emotional intelligence you simply make declarations like, “This person is on that instrument!” or, “Listen to that being played!” And you detect no feeling from the music itself, but instead have your own ideas swirling around in your head and think, “Wow this is so chill,” when it’s tragic, or desperate, or triumphant, or sad and all you here is fun happy tunes.
A solo is going off and you say, hey listen to those pedal tones in the background-you have no idea what’s going on.
Don't want to sound like a 'music snob' but HOW THE FK do you go back to HipHop after this journey?
Probably the same way I got into hip hop coming from listening to Pink Floyd ;
Listen to “No Church in the Wild” by Jay-Z and Kanye. It has great lyrics and and a nice beat. One could really do an analysis of the lyrics in particular and the images they paint for you in the head.
How can you ask this question if you don’t listen to hip hop 🤦♂️
bro i dont like hiphop much either but just let people listen to what they want. even if i dont enjoy hiphop personally i know there are a lot of amazing artists out there who do hiphop
@@funguy1453 I worked as a DJ at a strip club for 3 yrs .. you have NO CLUE how much Hip/Hop I've listened to :)
You have to be a huge fan of Pink Floyd to claim The Wall is one of the greatest albums ever. Like many concept albums, the idea is better than the execution.
Sides three and four drag. I only really enjoy the two obvios masterpieces from the second disc. Side one and two are great, though.
To me The Wall falls to seven in their discography:
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Animals
3. Dark Side of the Moon
4. Meddle
5. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6. A Saucerful of Secrets
7. The Wall
1 > 2
Sorry to see that you divided it into 8 instead of 4 parts. Why did you decided this way?
the video lengths would just be too long :(
@@SyedRewinds oh I see! Did you react to whole album at once and then cut it?
Space cadet is a stoner teenager.
Down the years since its release The Wall to me is bloated, if you chucked out a fair bit and made it a single album it would be much better, it suffers from too much of Rogers rather bitter self pity and his massive ego to boot, as far as the four of them working together as Pink Floyd, Animals is where it really ends for me.