A minor point, but the guy with the graduate gown and a mortar board wasn't a professor. He was simply a school master. Even in my school days, many school masters and mistresses at senior school wore these.
This is why I implore people to listen to the album "The Wall" first before approaching the film. The Wall is a musical experience *first* and foremost. The film, adapted from the album some years later, in many ways takes you out of that experience and distracts you from the music because there's so much going on. Always always do the studio version of Pink Floyd first.
It's a crimen to no listen Pink Floyd LP's in one from beginning to end (at least from Atom heart mother). And yes, it's mandatory to know the double álbum, before to watch the movie.
I agree, and then I prescribe an unhealthy dose of Syd Barrett. If "Jugband Blues," "Dark Globe" and "Vegetable Man" ain't Wall...well, let's don't kid ourselves. Best post-Wall decompression is to turn out the lights, fire up the blacklights and glow sticks, and crank "Terrapin." The Pink Floyd DNA is right there, in its primordial ooze of submarine Hawaiian psychedelic pop dripping off Syd's Interstellar-weary Telecaster. It's bloom back to seed, cap back to spore. IMO, you can't completely appreciate how Roger waits for the worms until your hair's on end about Syd. 😉
@@pangaea90 a prime example would be "Comfortably Numb". So much visual and background sound happening in the film version that that you barely notice one of the greatest guitar solos in rock history. "The Wall" is NOT a soundtrack to anything, it is the primary thing.. a musical journey all its own and must always be treated that way. ESPECIALLY for new arrivals.
I'd just like to clarify a few things and set the record straight: 1/ This is not a music video, but an excerpt from a feature film (with Bob Geldof as Pink) that was made later (1982) than the album (1979). 2/ Waters wrote this song as a not-so-good memory of the 1950s when he was in school. In the UK, 19th century school laws were in force then, so physical beatings of pupils, for example, were not uncommon. On the other hand, in the early 1960s there was a big wave of reorganisation of British education and many new secondary schools and colleges were being set up. These not only provided pupils with a solid education but also strongly encouraged extra-curricular activities. This, incidentally, also allowed new bands to emerge - including Pink Floyd (all members are Cambridge graduates).
I recall a married couple I knew in Virginia which immigrated from England. Their daughter in high school in the 1980s became a cheerleader and was active in band and clubs. Her parentts, products of that same school system edepicted in the video, could not comprehend why she would want to have anything to do with school after the final bell. But the daughter got them to attend some sporting events, concerts and experience school spirit. It was a whole new world to them and they really got into all that they had missed in their emotionless, creatively stifled school experience.
I still remember the strap being used in school in the mid 80s. One of my friends was punished that way when he made fun of the principals name. I can still remember him crying while getting beat. The whole school heard it. His mom (good on her) got the principal fired for child abuse.
Also would like to point out that this video isn’t epically long. It’s six minutes, the average is four (3-5). Shorter than a commercial break these days, which is why I’m beginning to feel that they (Reactors) are receiving these suggestions in a ‘oh that’s a cool superbowl half-time commercial’ type of format with no interest in expanding on their own. Takes them years to hear a full album, one song every few months. But I’ve yet to see them even one time decide on their own to listen to another song until it comes up in the cue to do list. I heard Back In Black as a child and stayed in that room until I’d rocked out with every song on the album multiple times (play it again, play it again, play it again, and Oh if they have more, play me more and more and more until I find my favorites of of this album then I can move on to the next. This generation plans an entire day to sit down and watch a four minute video while they talk instead of listen and then poof out of existence until the following day’s 3 minutes of school with no homework because we’re doing all the heavy lifting for them.
🇺🇸 I vividly remember that I got bent over and ruler swatted on one of my grade school birthdays in front of the class, because I was less than honest to the teacher that day.
@@flubblert I would say a lot of Syd. I was just trying to point out the lyricist. The fever dream of Comfortably Numb, in my mind, has to be Syd inspired to some degree. I think he's all over the album inspirationally.
@@brianroyster7510 yes the whole concept of a rockstar gone insane is inspired by Syd. Roger just uses his own experiences to get us there. But let's face it..... based on their descriptions of him, if there was ever anyone locked behind a wall, it was poor Syd.
I was in 4th grade when this was released. We knew every word to the song. Younger teachers through it was funny. However, older teachers were not amused. Our teachers always reminded them they were kids once, which they forgot. We were 9 or 10 years old. We certainly didn't know the deep meaning of the song for 25 years! We loved singing for our teachers to leave us alone. It was fun being 9 years old and beginning to find music with the inability to go deep.
Not only does the wall represent the psychological barrier that society is placing between the students and the world, but that each person in society is another part of that barrier, another brick.
In the film " The Wall" , Pinky loses his father in a war. The only physical remembrance of his Father is his Father's name engraved on a brick in a remembrance wall for fallen soldiers. Pinky is the kid who was daydreaming in class..
It's actually just the actual scene from the movie. The album is written from start to finish. It tells a complete story. You literally have to listen to the whole album to get the whole story. It's a rock Opera.
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is a rock opera about Pink, a jaded rock star who constructs a psychological "wall" of social isolation. The album was a commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time.
This song came out my senior year in high school…we adopted it as our class song, so this song is sentimental for me….but the creativity was outstanding. It actually made the majority of our classmates feel rebellious and empowered. It was awesome! Thank for the memory.
I'm 63, and i can remember back to either 77 or 78 going to the Vouge theater on Frankfort Ave. in Louisville Kentucky and watching Led Zeppelin, the Song Remains the Same, sitting back smoking pot and "REALLY" enjoying the movie . But that was one of many. Those were good times.
I distinctly remember the first time I heard this song. Appropriately, it was playing on the radio when I was riding the school bus. I must have been a freshman in high school since it had just been released. 😊 I bought the album as soon as I had the money. My youngest daughter now has that album…. along with all my old vinyl.
I'd argue, it's both. The lyrics say both "It's just another brick in the wall," AND "You're just another brick in the wall. The imagery (like the music, I guess!) is multi-layered.
When i was a kid in the late 70’s early eighties. The teachers would hit the children. I’d go home and tell my parents and they’d say ‘we’ll you must of done something to deserve that’
Was a trip how huge this was. They only had 2 Top 40 hits, the first being "Money" which peaked at #13 in 1973. Then this comes out 7 years later and shot to #1 for 4 weeks! I had the 45, it's follow up single "Run Like Hell", and the double album of the The Wall.
If you get the time, I cannot say enough how incredible the feature film by the same name is. It's the story of a musician (Pink -- not the one we think of now) sitting in a hotel room, presumbably while on tour and sinking deeper and deeper into madness, as I believe Roger Waters was. This album is a tour de force, and I get it if it's not good content, but you'll honestly be blown away by it. Bob Geldof as Pink is brilliant. This video is from that movie.
This is a scene from the movie adaptation of their album The Wall. Like all Pink Floyd, you need to watch (listen) from start to finish. I personally think the movie is genius. Saw it when it first released. Bought the DVD when it came out. Have watched it over and over and enjoy it every time.
Repressive teachers were a part of the environment at this time. Someone postulated that the schools were producing factory workers. The schools were regimented, the students sat in regular rows and memorized facts. There was no attempt to foster free thinking. I grew up in this era and remember it well. They attempted to fit you into a mold. That is what this song is about. As it relates to "The Wall" it is part of the process of building the emotional wall.
Phil & Sam The Wall is the soundtrack for its movies. Pink Floyd, kid here with the poems became Rock Star when he is older......album is a journey of his life.
This is a scene from the Movie called 'Pink Floyd The Wall" The movie was inspired by the double album "Pink Floyd The Wall". Comfortably Numb is on that album and in the Movie. The album tells a story of the protagonist who builds a metaphorical Wall around himself in the World around him.That's why its best to listen to "'The Wall' in its entirety.
It's not just that the album experience is better, (it is) It's that the albums are each a piece unto themselves. ... With "The Wall" in particular, listening to a random song is like reading a random chapter in a book. You might get the flavor, but not the story or context.
I was lucky to attend a special showing at The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square London back in the day with full concert PA stack and Q&A at the end of the film. It was and amazing immersive experience. I think it was 1982, goodness 42 years ago now!
Watch the whole movie to see how the great songs fit together in Pink's life. His childhood - his marriage - his job. The Who's "Tommy" (Pinball wizard being the biggest hit from that) and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - two great rock movies
As a kid back then, I never heard a disco element to this song! First time hearing that! Still a great song. It brings back good memories for me as a 10 year old back then in the late seventies!!!
This is from "The Wall" movie which I highly recommend you watch. And the poem of the young boy that the teacher so mockingly reads aloud is a fragment of the lyrics to Pink Floyd's "Money".
I am 60 years old and I remember when this song first came out, i was a student at my secondary school here in England and Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall became an anthem for us School Children around the United Kingdom. It became our anti establishment and our feelings against teachers in our day. At Schools here in the UK but as i am English and I come from England I can only talk about how us kids were treated by teachers and the School Authorities. We had canes which were used to discipline a child weather Male or Female on there naked bottoms or across the hand. I had a Female teacher at the age of 6 who hated me as I came from a poor family, where my dad worked very hard to put a roof over our heads, food in our stomach's and warmth in the cold. Ever since then I didn't like women and I had a hatred like many of us against teachers and headmasters. Actually School scared many of us for life due to our experiences, then Pink Floyd came out with this song that not only made a huge mark on us kids but there was actual adults that knew what we were going through. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
I am American, same age as you. It was an anthem for us, too and we would yell with feeling and gusto for the teachers to leave us alone. I always used to think the vaguely threatening tone of the song made our teachers a little bit nervous
@@TinyStar-oz3bo you are right it was an anthem for us school kids, against the system and control of those in authority and the establishment. The good old days unfortunately the world that we now live in is not the world as a teenage schoolboy that I dreamt of. 💂💂🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
Food for thought... The Wall is a concept album where the music and the story flow from one song to the next. To fully understand the meaning you really have to listen to it in its entirety. I know you don't want to do a full album review, but I recommend on your own you listen to the entire album or watch the movie. The video is scenes from the movie. You won't be disappointed! 👍
This made a great impact on me in 1979, as a 16 year old. It was actually the last UK number 1 of the 1970's AND the first number 1 of the 1980's, here in the UK, through December and January.
This Was One Of My Late Dad's Favorite Song Of Pink Floyd,The Other One Was Money,I Thinks Of Him When I Hear Those Song's,Thanks For Doing A Reaction To This Great Classic Song 👍, Guy's
I lived in San Diego County for several years and my home was about 3 miles from an Indian casino; they frequently hosted outdoor concerts. I remember being out in my backyard listening to this song wafting through the air. It sounded like I was in the crowd of concert-goers (without the screaming and yelling). Pink Floyd is amazing - among my favorite bands (maybe even top 10).
You were getting the longform theatrical cut (full version). The radio version had no (or little) dialogue (started off with "we don't need no education") and was mostly the instrumentals and the vocals so you could immerse yourself in the music. It was a classic.
This is from THE MOVIE.....THE WALL. The entire album is the soundtrack to the movie. Part animation, and mostly live action with Bob Geldof playing the adult character, "Pink", as a star coming to grips with the separation of the crowd from the band, and stories of a domineering mother, harsh school teacher, untrustworthy wife...... It is a great movie.
Every time I hear this song I think of the indoctrination happening on today’s school system. Taught to think and believe a certain way and keep turning them out year after year until its normalcy throughout. Scary future if it isn’t stopped.
Strip away everything that makes this amazing---the film tie-in, set design, the choreography, its audio production, the overdubs---and land in the Pink Floyd primordial ooze of Syd Barrett's "Terrapin." It's like the bloom back to the seed, with all the PF DNA helix-wrapping around an Interstellar-weary Telecaster and a lyrical madcap.
My 10th birthday, 22nd December 1979, coincided with this being at #1 in the UK. A teacher in my middle school assembly got sacked for using this song as part of a class production. It's message wasn't lost on the headteacher!! The hit single component 'Another brick in the wall (part 2) begins at 5:30 of your video
"this seems like a play" Yes!! It's one scene in the brilliant full-album video/story that is the double album "The Wall" This scene is a flashback from the main character "Pink" who also is the main singer in "Comfortably Numb". This song was huge when I was in school - so big that my school did it as a main number in our school musical.
Little embarrassed to say I have been listening and loving this song for over 40 years and this is the 1st time watching this extended version , didn’t even know it existed 🙈
As an added note-a few years ago royalties were awarded to the children in the class that performed student's lyrics in the video. It wasn't much, but I'm sure the participants appreciated the recognition.
The video is basically taken from the film they made, from the album of the same name, The Wall. The film is a trip and a half, consisting live action and animation. A truly fascinating watch.
I was in high school around the time this came out and I remember one little runt kid giving an elderly female teacher a hard time, and he really insulted her, and she turned around and slapped him and made his nose bleed. The kid actually picked up his desk over his head to throw it at her he was so mad. Never threw it, but got suspended anyway. Teachers ruled but they were mostly respected, and respectful.
I’m from the UK but first heard this album when I was 17 in 1979, sat in a tree house in Santa Monica, California, completely stoned. Afterwards, ravenous with the munchies, we went to 31 flovors and gorged on chocolate ice cream. The whole thing was an awesome experience 😂.
This is the title cut from the album "The Wall". Floyd did a full length feature film of the same name with this album playing in the foreground with the acting and plot matching the music.
It's so hard understand the whole story by a single song.... listen to the wall and watch the movie! All in all we are just a brick in the wall! Love you guys! 😍😍😍
hi - i've enjoyed watching you two discovering new things - welcome to Pink Floyd (. i know this isn;t your first track) This was not just a music video - it's a segment from a full length movie. The Wall started out as a project which became a double album - on the day the album was released in the UK the entire album was played with no interruption on BBC Radio One in the evening Two weeks later - i had my own copy of the album, and Another Brick in the Wall was released as a single - with this video for TV stations to play A few years later, the album became a hugely successful stagge production (my girlfriend and I, aged 17, hitch-hiked to London, and slept on the pavement outside the theatre at Earls Court , and we managed to buy tickets at the door, along with 200 other late sales. A few years later, the stage play became a full length film The album is a powerful piece of work about mental health, fame, success, sorrow, and many other subjects - the stage show, and then the film each became an even more intense and immersive way of telling the story of a young lad called pink, who grew up during WW2, with a father who didn't come home I never get tired of listening to or watching this - I'm glad you enjoyed the imagery and the story as well
The Wall was one of my favorite LP’s when it first came out 45 +/- years ago. And this song was one of my favorites. I’ve never seen the music video until now and it certainly gave new meaning of the song to me. Great review!! If you have a chance, please review “More than a Feeling” by Boston. It’s from the same era as Pink Floyd and I know you’ll like it.
LOVE THIS BAND!! NOTHING like them.....such an impactful band, to me. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a gem....but, almost every song the do is a GEM, to ME!! ENJOY!!! HUGS!!!
One of the theme songs of the Summer of Love. This song always takes me back there. I always liked Darkness Darkness by them. Jesse Colin Young went on to release some fine solo work too. ✌️❤️🎶
This is actually an excerpt from the Alan Parker movie made 3 years after the album came out. You can't listen to this actually out of concept. It is part of a whole rock opera called The Wall. The single bricks are the negative experiences the protagonist Pink (played by Sir Bob Geldof in the movie) with which he builds up a wall around his mind to protect and shield himself from reality. The story is part semi-autographic of composer Roger Waters (his childhood) but also memories of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett (the adult Pink) and his psychosis woven in. You reall should listen to the whole album in a row and then watch the movie. The album is much more encryptic and mystic while the movie is more straight forward (well compared to the album, definitely not other movies :D) and psychedelic.
The words the professor is reading are the actual lyrics of the song "Money" from their previous "Dark Side of the Moon" album!
The Laddie reckons himself a poet everybody! That teacher was such a chud
A minor point, but the guy with the graduate gown and a mortar board wasn't a professor. He was simply a school master. Even in my school days, many school masters and mistresses at senior school wore these.
When my son was a little boy he couldn't watch this video. Terrified him.
The teacher is bullied by his wife and he in turn, bullies the children
All our teachers wore gowns and the headmaster had gown with mortar board headpiece back in the sixties.
This isn't a video, FYI. This was a feature length film, that showed in theaters.
It's such a good movie and by far my favorite rock opera.
MTV/VH1 definitely tried their best to turn this into the official video.
@@davidmhewett44Not Rock Opera, I would say concept album. But this is definitely part from a Movie.
Yes starring Bob Geldof (boomtown rats) in the main role, great movie.
@@yeovil07 You mentioned the only thing. That i didn’t like about that movie.
This is why I implore people to listen to the album "The Wall" first before approaching the film. The Wall is a musical experience *first* and foremost. The film, adapted from the album some years later, in many ways takes you out of that experience and distracts you from the music because there's so much going on. Always always do the studio version of Pink Floyd first.
It's a crimen to no listen Pink Floyd LP's in one from beginning to end (at least from Atom heart mother). And yes, it's mandatory to know the double álbum, before to watch the movie.
I agree, and then I prescribe an unhealthy dose of Syd Barrett. If "Jugband Blues," "Dark Globe" and "Vegetable Man" ain't Wall...well, let's don't kid ourselves.
Best post-Wall decompression is to turn out the lights, fire up the blacklights and glow sticks, and crank "Terrapin." The Pink Floyd DNA is right there, in its primordial ooze of submarine Hawaiian psychedelic pop dripping off Syd's Interstellar-weary Telecaster. It's bloom back to seed, cap back to spore.
IMO, you can't completely appreciate how Roger waits for the worms until your hair's on end about Syd. 😉
Try “ One Of These Days”!
The movie is great but as you said there is so much in it that it distracts from the music. Pink Floyd is the GOAT when it comes to creativity.
@@pangaea90 a prime example would be "Comfortably Numb". So much visual and background sound happening in the film version that that you barely notice one of the greatest guitar solos in rock history. "The Wall" is NOT a soundtrack to anything, it is the primary thing.. a musical journey all its own and must always be treated that way. ESPECIALLY for new arrivals.
I'd just like to clarify a few things and set the record straight: 1/ This is not a music video, but an excerpt from a feature film (with Bob Geldof as Pink) that was made later (1982) than the album (1979). 2/ Waters wrote this song as a not-so-good memory of the 1950s when he was in school. In the UK, 19th century school laws were in force then, so physical beatings of pupils, for example, were not uncommon. On the other hand, in the early 1960s there was a big wave of reorganisation of British education and many new secondary schools and colleges were being set up. These not only provided pupils with a solid education but also strongly encouraged extra-curricular activities. This, incidentally, also allowed new bands to emerge - including Pink Floyd (all members are Cambridge graduates).
Don't forget Gerald Scarfe the Animator
I recall a married couple I knew in Virginia which immigrated from England. Their daughter in high school in the 1980s became a cheerleader and was active in band and clubs. Her parentts, products of that same school system edepicted in the video, could not comprehend why she would want to have anything to do with school after the final bell. But the daughter got them to attend some sporting events, concerts and experience school spirit. It was a whole new world to them and they really got into all that they had missed in their emotionless, creatively stifled school experience.
I still remember the strap being used in school in the mid 80s. One of my friends was punished that way when he made fun of the principals name. I can still remember him crying while getting beat. The whole school heard it. His mom (good on her) got the principal fired for child abuse.
Also would like to point out that this video isn’t epically long. It’s six minutes, the average is four (3-5).
Shorter than a commercial break these days, which is why I’m beginning to feel that they (Reactors) are receiving these suggestions in a ‘oh that’s a cool superbowl half-time commercial’ type of format with no interest in expanding on their own.
Takes them years to hear a full album, one song every few months.
But I’ve yet to see them even one time decide on their own to listen to another song until it comes up in the cue to do list.
I heard Back In Black as a child and stayed in that room until I’d rocked out with every song on the album multiple times (play it again, play it again, play it again, and Oh if they have more, play me more and more and more until I find my favorites of of this album then I can move on to the next.
This generation plans an entire day to sit down and watch a four minute video while they talk instead of listen and then poof out of existence until the following day’s 3 minutes of school with no homework because we’re doing all the heavy lifting for them.
🇺🇸 I vividly remember that I got bent over and ruler swatted on one of my grade school birthdays in front of the class, because I was less than honest to the teacher that day.
The poems that the kid is writing are the lyrics to the song money from dark side of the Moon
Thank you both for reacting to my all-time favorite rock band. There will never be another band like Pink Floyd. I've been rocking to them since 1971.
This footage is from their movie "Pink Floyd-The Wall"....I think you would love it
ICONIC ....may be the most ? as a play as a sound album , as a moive ... all of it Pink Floyd )))
Everyone will say the same thing. Listen to the whole album, it's just a fact.
This is about the story of the band member. His life growing up. His dad died in the war. Everything built a wall around his heart.
Roger Waters
@@brianroyster7510 Indeed.
@@brianroyster7510with a bit of Syd Barrett thrown in. (The madness).
@@flubblert I would say a lot of Syd.
I was just trying to point out the lyricist.
The fever dream of Comfortably Numb, in my mind, has to be Syd inspired to some degree.
I think he's all over the album inspirationally.
@@brianroyster7510 yes the whole concept of a rockstar gone insane is inspired by Syd. Roger just uses his own experiences to get us there. But let's face it..... based on their descriptions of him, if there was ever anyone locked behind a wall, it was poor Syd.
I was in 4th grade when this was released. We knew every word to the song. Younger teachers through it was funny. However, older teachers were not amused. Our teachers always reminded them they were kids once, which they forgot.
We were 9 or 10 years old. We certainly didn't know the deep meaning of the song for 25 years! We loved singing for our teachers to leave us alone. It was fun being 9 years old and beginning to find music with the inability to go deep.
WATCH the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall"! This video clip is from the movie.
In my opinion, Floyd are the greatest band ever!🏴
It's not an opinion, it's a fact.
@@garryiglesias4074 No band rivals Led Zeppelin, nobody.
@@thorfinsky1427 Led Zeppelin is a great band, but before them, there's The Kinks and The Who... 😁
It’s hard to argue against that, though there’s others I appreciate equally.
My favourite bands are all punk. (I did say the greatest however. Zep stole a lot of music!)
Not only does the wall represent the psychological barrier that society is placing between the students and the world, but that each person in society is another part of that barrier, another brick.
In the film " The Wall" , Pinky loses his father in a war. The only physical remembrance of his Father is his Father's name engraved on a brick in a remembrance wall for fallen soldiers. Pinky is the kid who was daydreaming in class..
It's actually just the actual scene from the movie.
The album is written from start to finish.
It tells a complete story.
You literally have to listen to the whole album to get the whole story.
It's a rock Opera.
Totally. How people can’t grasp the concept is weird
You cannot possibly know the context without listening to the entire album and watching the movie.
💯💯👍👍
In that order, preferably.
This was Christmas number one in the UK , 1979 , Pink Floyd’s only number one single, mostly an Album band
When i was a teenager, The Wall resonated with me and my depression, for i knew their were others out there who struggled with their feelings.
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is a rock opera about Pink, a jaded rock star who constructs a psychological "wall" of social isolation. The album was a commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Same year i was born.
@shspurs - me as well.
Critics, are talentless hacks who work for the same system Pink Floyd were singing about.
The video is a section from the movie, The Wall. I highly recommend that you watch it.
This song came out my senior year in high school…we adopted it as our class song, so this song is sentimental for me….but the creativity was outstanding. It actually made the majority of our classmates feel rebellious and empowered. It was awesome! Thank for the memory.
There is no comparison to Pink Floyd it’s like they have there own genre of music, one of the greatest band of all times
I'm 63, and i can remember back to either 77 or 78 going to the Vouge theater on Frankfort Ave. in Louisville Kentucky and watching Led Zeppelin, the Song Remains the Same, sitting back smoking pot and "REALLY" enjoying the movie .
But that was one of many.
Those were good times.
The video is from the movie The Wall film version of the album.
I distinctly remember the first time I heard this song. Appropriately, it was playing on the radio when I was riding the school bus. I must have been a freshman in high school since it had just been released. 😊 I bought the album as soon as I had the money. My youngest daughter now has that album…. along with all my old vinyl.
You have to remember that 'the belt' was a punishment teachers could administer to pupils up to the eighties in the UK.
The boy is writing the song we are hearing, in class. He still hasn't begun paying attention, and is back to writing his poems.
The students aren't the bricks. The education system, or rather oppressive teachers, is A brick in the wall of isolation.
I think the kids are the bricks. Similar to being cogs in the machine.
I'd argue, it's both. The lyrics say both "It's just another brick in the wall," AND "You're just another brick in the wall. The imagery (like the music, I guess!) is multi-layered.
I agree, I think it's both. It just depends whether you're looking at it through the context of the story or as an isolated piece.
I'm sure it's the pupils
Right, the wall becomes a metaphor for the alienation and isolation that the fictional protagonist builds up to the point of mental illness.
You are spot on about the way kids are forced to tow the line and no individual thinking.
When i was a kid in the late 70’s early eighties. The teachers would hit the children. I’d go home and tell my parents and they’d say ‘we’ll you must of done something to deserve that’
First.....An AMAZING song. The history of this album is fascinating.
Was a trip how huge this was. They only had 2 Top 40 hits, the first being "Money" which peaked at #13 in 1973. Then this comes out 7 years later and shot to #1 for 4 weeks! I had the 45, it's follow up single "Run Like Hell", and the double album of the The Wall.
This is 2 tracks btw, "The Happiest Days of our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2".
If you get the time, I cannot say enough how incredible the feature film by the same name is. It's the story of a musician (Pink -- not the one we think of now) sitting in a hotel room, presumbably while on tour and sinking deeper and deeper into madness, as I believe Roger Waters was. This album is a tour de force, and I get it if it's not good content, but you'll honestly be blown away by it. Bob Geldof as Pink is brilliant. This video is from that movie.
one of the most creative bands ever
The entire video is a MUST see at some point!!!
This is a scene from the movie adaptation of their album The Wall. Like all Pink Floyd, you need to watch (listen) from start to finish. I personally think the movie is genius. Saw it when it first released. Bought the DVD when it came out. Have watched it over and over and enjoy it every time.
I was in high school when this album came out.... we ALL listened to it!
Repressive teachers were a part of the environment at this time. Someone postulated that the schools were producing factory workers. The schools were regimented, the students sat in regular rows and memorized facts. There was no attempt to foster free thinking. I grew up in this era and remember it well. They attempted to fit you into a mold. That is what this song is about. As it relates to "The Wall" it is part of the process of building the emotional wall.
This song is so subtly funky and I absolutely love it
Incredible movie. But the song can be enjoyed best and at its purest with the album cut. Great reaction guys.
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
official version, all 9 parts in one go would be awesome
@@axernot 👍🏼
Floyd was a fantastic band! Loved them for ever my 2nd favorite band ever!
Phil & Sam
The Wall is the soundtrack for its movies. Pink Floyd, kid here with the poems became Rock Star when he is older......album is a journey of his life.
The first part of this is another track called "the happiest days of our lives".
This is a scene from the Movie called 'Pink Floyd The Wall" The movie was inspired by the double album "Pink Floyd The Wall". Comfortably Numb is on that album and in the Movie. The album tells a story of the protagonist who builds a metaphorical Wall around himself in the World around him.That's why its best to listen to "'The Wall' in its entirety.
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Hey Phil and Sam, the poem that the teacher was reading out loud to the class was the lyrics to the Pink Floyd song "Money"
It's not just that the album experience is better, (it is)
It's that the albums are each a piece unto themselves.
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With "The Wall" in particular, listening to a random song is like reading a random chapter in a book.
You might get the flavor, but not the story or context.
I was lucky to attend a special showing at The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square London back in the day with full concert PA stack and Q&A at the end of the film. It was and amazing immersive experience. I think it was 1982, goodness 42 years ago now!
Watch the whole movie to see how the great songs fit together in Pink's life. His childhood - his marriage - his job. The Who's "Tommy" (Pinball wizard being the biggest hit from that) and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - two great rock movies
Hi.... I have always loved "The Wall" right from 1979. It has been my favourite. PF are so good and for me it is their best work.
As a kid back then, I never heard a disco element to this song! First time hearing that! Still a great song. It brings back good memories for me as a 10 year old back then in the late seventies!!!
The Wall is one of my favorite movies and this video is taken from the movie. It's a must see for all Floyd fans.
This is from "The Wall" movie which I highly recommend you watch. And the poem of the young boy that the teacher so mockingly reads aloud is a fragment of the lyrics to Pink Floyd's "Money".
I am 60 years old and I remember when this song first came out, i was a student at my secondary school here in England and Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall became an anthem for us School Children around the United Kingdom. It became our anti establishment and our feelings against teachers in our day. At Schools here in the UK but as i am English and I come from England I can only talk about how us kids were treated by teachers and the School Authorities. We had canes which were used to discipline a child weather Male or Female on there naked bottoms or across the hand. I had a Female teacher at the age of 6 who hated me as I came from a poor family, where my dad worked very hard to put a roof over our heads, food in our stomach's and warmth in the cold. Ever since then I didn't like women and I had a hatred like many of us against teachers and headmasters. Actually School scared many of us for life due to our experiences, then Pink Floyd came out with this song that not only made a huge mark on us kids but there was actual adults that knew what we were going through. 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
I am American, same age as you. It was an anthem for us, too and we would yell with feeling and gusto for the teachers to leave us alone. I always used to think the vaguely threatening tone of the song made our teachers a little bit nervous
@@TinyStar-oz3bo you are right it was an anthem for us school kids, against the system and control of those in authority and the establishment. The good old days unfortunately the world that we now live in is not the world as a teenage schoolboy that I dreamt of. 💂💂🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
On The Turning Away, live 1988. another amazing guitar lead!!
Food for thought...
The Wall is a concept album where the music and the story flow from one song to the next. To fully understand the meaning you really have to listen to it in its entirety. I know you don't want to do a full album review, but I recommend on your own you listen to the entire album or watch the movie. The video is scenes from the movie. You won't be disappointed! 👍
Was fortunate enough to watch a lot of the filming of this in London's derelict Docks.
This made a great impact on me in 1979, as a 16 year old. It was actually the last UK number 1 of the 1970's AND the first number 1 of the 1980's, here in the UK, through December and January.
This Was One Of My Late Dad's Favorite Song Of Pink Floyd,The Other One Was Money,I Thinks Of Him When I Hear Those Song's,Thanks For Doing A Reaction To This Great Classic Song 👍, Guy's
This album’s a must listen to from start to finish
I lived in San Diego County for several years and my home was about 3 miles from an Indian casino; they frequently hosted outdoor concerts. I remember being out in my backyard listening to this song wafting through the air. It sounded like I was in the crowd of concert-goers (without the screaming and yelling). Pink Floyd is amazing - among my favorite bands (maybe even top 10).
BTW, next of Pink Floyd's songs should be "Great Gig in the Sky."
You were getting the longform theatrical cut (full version). The radio version had no (or little) dialogue (started off with "we don't need no education") and was mostly the instrumentals and the vocals so you could immerse yourself in the music. It was a classic.
This is from THE MOVIE.....THE WALL. The entire album is the soundtrack to the movie. Part animation, and mostly live action with Bob Geldof playing the adult character, "Pink", as a star coming to grips with the separation of the crowd from the band, and stories of a domineering mother, harsh school teacher, untrustworthy wife...... It is a great movie.
" The Wall" is sheer genius and the pinnacle of pink floyd!❤😊
PINK FLOYD "THE WALL" Muuuuuvveee......one of the greatest!
Every time I hear this song I think of the indoctrination happening on today’s school system. Taught to think and believe a certain way and keep turning them out year after year until its normalcy throughout. Scary future if it isn’t stopped.
Strip away everything that makes this amazing---the film tie-in, set design, the choreography, its audio production, the overdubs---and land in the Pink Floyd primordial ooze of Syd Barrett's "Terrapin." It's like the bloom back to the seed, with all the PF DNA helix-wrapping around an Interstellar-weary Telecaster and a lyrical madcap.
Love this song and reaction! More Bob Seger soon? "Roll me Away" is a great choice!! 🙂
Glad you've picked up on the message
It sounds AMAZING, incredible!!
For your info the poem is from the lyrics in the song Money off Dark Side of the Moon
My 10th birthday, 22nd December 1979, coincided with this being at #1 in the UK. A teacher in my middle school assembly got sacked for using this song as part of a class production. It's message wasn't lost on the headteacher!!
The hit single component 'Another brick in the wall (part 2) begins at 5:30 of your video
"this seems like a play"
Yes!!
It's one scene in the brilliant full-album video/story that is the double album "The Wall"
This scene is a flashback from the main character "Pink" who also is the main singer in "Comfortably Numb".
This song was huge when I was in school - so big that my school did it as a main number in our school musical.
Loved them in concert......so damn good!!!!
The poem was the song Money from the album Dark Side of the Moon! From Pink Floyd's first album after Sid Barret and earliest creativity.
This is not a music video - it is an excerpt from the film " The Wall " . Well worth watching the entire film.
Pink Floyd makes you think, while having an eargasm...😄
Kids, kids, kids. Buy a copy of THE WALL on dvd or Blu ray and watch it start to finish. You will be glad you did.
It's free on youtube. Peace/JT
@@johnthompson6374 still buy a copy if you like it - why not?
Little embarrassed to say I have been listening and loving this song for over 40 years and this is the 1st time watching this extended version , didn’t even know it existed 🙈
Me too!
This footage is from the movie "Pink Floyd-The Wall" so, I recommend you listen the studio version!
As an added note-a few years ago royalties were awarded to the children in the class that performed student's lyrics in the video. It wasn't much, but I'm sure the participants appreciated the recognition.
The video is basically taken from the film they made, from the album of the same name, The Wall. The film is a trip and a half, consisting live action and animation. A truly fascinating watch.
I was in high school around the time this came out and I remember one little runt kid giving an elderly female teacher a hard time, and he really insulted her, and she turned around and slapped him and made his nose bleed. The kid actually picked up his desk over his head to throw it at her he was so mad. Never threw it, but got suspended anyway. Teachers ruled but they were mostly respected, and respectful.
I’m from the UK but first heard this album when I was 17 in 1979, sat in a tree house in Santa Monica, California, completely stoned. Afterwards, ravenous with the munchies, we went to 31 flovors and gorged on chocolate ice cream. The whole thing was an awesome experience 😂.
This a mindful. There is a lot like what is going on in schools here. Scary. Love your reactions!
I recommend watching PF performing this track live at the PULSE concert in 1994.
It is truly majestic.
Pink Floyd was very innovative in the use of everyday items as part of their music. They led the way in that regard
I love this video! It's like a musical acid trip! 😂
This is the title cut from the album "The Wall". Floyd did a full length feature film of the same name with this album playing in the foreground with the acting and plot matching the music.
It's so hard understand the whole story by a single song.... listen to the wall and watch the movie! All in all we are just a brick in the wall! Love you guys! 😍😍😍
hi - i've enjoyed watching you two discovering new things - welcome to Pink Floyd (. i know this isn;t your first track)
This was not just a music video - it's a segment from a full length movie.
The Wall started out as a project which became a double album - on the day the album was released in the UK the entire album was played with no interruption on BBC Radio One in the evening
Two weeks later - i had my own copy of the album, and Another Brick in the Wall was released as a single - with this video for TV stations to play
A few years later, the album became a hugely successful stagge production (my girlfriend and I, aged 17, hitch-hiked to London, and slept on the pavement outside the theatre at Earls Court , and we managed to buy tickets at the door, along with 200 other late sales.
A few years later, the stage play became a full length film
The album is a powerful piece of work about mental health, fame, success, sorrow, and many other subjects - the stage show, and then the film each became an even more intense and immersive way of telling the story of a young lad called pink, who grew up during WW2, with a father who didn't come home
I never get tired of listening to or watching this - I'm glad you enjoyed the imagery and the story as well
I really do enjoy your channel guys! Love and Peace from Phoenix.
The Wall was one of my favorite LP’s when it first came out 45 +/- years ago. And this song was one of my favorites. I’ve never seen the music video until now and it certainly gave new meaning of the song to me. Great review!!
If you have a chance, please review “More than a Feeling” by Boston. It’s from the same era as Pink Floyd and I know you’ll like it.
We were going through a very similar time in the 70s as we are today.
LOVE THIS BAND!! NOTHING like them.....such an impactful band, to me. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a gem....but, almost every song the do is a GEM, to ME!! ENJOY!!! HUGS!!!
As far as I’m concerned, Shine On Me, Crazy Diamond, is one of their best pieces. Great reaction.
One of the theme songs of the Summer of Love. This song always takes me back there. I always liked Darkness Darkness by them. Jesse Colin Young went on to release some fine solo work too. ✌️❤️🎶
Mott The Hoople did a remake of Darkness.
It was pretty good.
New subscriber, Scottish highlander on a Greek island. Good work guys.
This is actually an excerpt from the Alan Parker movie made 3 years after the album came out. You can't listen to this actually out of concept. It is part of a whole rock opera called The Wall. The single bricks are the negative experiences the protagonist Pink (played by Sir Bob Geldof in the movie) with which he builds up a wall around his mind to protect and shield himself from reality. The story is part semi-autographic of composer Roger Waters (his childhood) but also memories of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett (the adult Pink) and his psychosis woven in.
You reall should listen to the whole album in a row and then watch the movie. The album is much more encryptic and mystic while the movie is more straight forward (well compared to the album, definitely not other movies :D) and psychedelic.
Pink Floyd created some gold