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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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".
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 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'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.
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.
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.
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 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 was a concept album later made into a movie produced by Bob Geldof from the Irish band the Boontown Rats he put together Band Aid and Live Aid
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.
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
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. 💂💂🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
a little side note Iwas a union stagehand here on Long Island and when they ame to te Nassau Collisium Oon the wall tour I got to wrk with them building and tearing down the Wall every night Hardest concert I ever worked the wall was massive
You really should react to the movie, The Wall. This whole album is the soundtrack and is why so many are stating to do the whole album. By doing individual songs from the Wall, you're only getting fragments of the whole, and the whole is mindblowing. The story taking you on a decent into madness, starting with a father that died in the war, an overprotective mother, a suffocating school system, etc. Everything building and building and causing someone to build "the wall" to protect themselves from the outside world. This song is just a piece of the puzzle. An abusive teacher taking his stifled life out on the kids.
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.
"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.
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.
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 🙈
This is from one of the best and most depressing movies you will probably ever see. Came out back in the early 80s. “The Wall”. I remember people would say don’t watch this movie if you are depressed to begin with. It has great music from Pink Floyd but it also has many dark moments throughout.
Fortunately, the album version of the song doesn't have all of the disruptions of the video. But the video does have some good imagery, like the lines of masked kids heading for the meat grinder.
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.
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 😂.
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.
This is a different version from what was heard on the radio. The pudding line was only at the end and you didn't hear the sound effects from the video. Might want to check out that version to know the song as we know it.
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.
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!!!
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).
I strongly recommend you watch the whole film it’s available on cd, when I did the whole story dropped into place, equally you could watch the live version from the pulse concert.
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!!!
Agree with the comments. Watch the movie. And also Bob Geldof as Pink. Geldof was responsible for putting Love Aid together in 1985 - where the famous Queen performance took place. Also the song - yes UK schools were not great at that time. Many of us lived through those experiences. So this meant a lot to us.
This is not the edit of the album (an opera Rock meant to be listened as a whole), but the movie's edit... And also it's just an extract from the movie.
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.
Great reaction guys. An iconic video of an iconic song from an iconic band. "Hey You" and "Mother" are two of the best songs from The Wall to check out in isolation and of course are deep. Radiohead had a similar theme of the underdog daydreaming of uprising in their video of the classic "Karma Police" which is fire in every sense and hope you check that out soon. There will only ever be one Pink Floyd but Radiohead are worthy successors.
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.
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.
The poems that the kid is writing are the lyrics to the song money from dark side of the Moon
WATCH the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall"! This video clip is from the movie.
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.
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
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!)
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.
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.
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.
The video is from the movie The Wall film version of the album.
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
You cannot possibly know the context without listening to the entire album and watching the movie.
💯💯👍👍
In that order, preferably.
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 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.
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 2 tracks btw, "The Happiest Days of our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2".
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".
The first part of this is another track called "the happiest days of our lives".
First.....An AMAZING song. The history of this album is fascinating.
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 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 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'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.
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.
one of the most creative bands ever
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.
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.
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 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.
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
official version, all 9 parts in one go would be awesome
@@axernot 👍🏼
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.
You are spot on about the way kids are forced to tow the line and no individual thinking.
The wall was a concept album later made into a movie produced by Bob Geldof from the Irish band the Boontown Rats he put together Band Aid and Live Aid
Geldof did not produced it..he is the main actor(playing Pink) in the movie
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.
This footage is from the movie "Pink Floyd-The Wall" so, I recommend you listen the studio version!
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
The entire video is a MUST see at some point!!!
The video is a section from the movie, The Wall. I highly recommend that you watch it.
PINK FLOYD "THE WALL" Muuuuuvveee......one of the greatest!
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. 💂💂🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
For your info the poem is from the lyrics in the song Money off Dark Side of the Moon
This album’s a must listen to from start to finish
I was in high school when this album came out.... we ALL listened to it!
Floyd was a fantastic band! Loved them for ever my 2nd favorite band ever!
a little side note Iwas a union stagehand here on Long Island and when they ame to te Nassau Collisium Oon the wall tour I got to wrk with them building and tearing down the Wall every night Hardest concert I ever worked the wall was massive
And the clip ends with the legendary phone ringing. What comes next is epic.
This is not a music video - it is an excerpt from the film " The Wall " . Well worth watching the entire film.
You really should react to the movie, The Wall. This whole album is the soundtrack and is why so many are stating to do the whole album. By doing individual songs from the Wall, you're only getting fragments of the whole, and the whole is mindblowing. The story taking you on a decent into madness, starting with a father that died in the war, an overprotective mother, a suffocating school system, etc. Everything building and building and causing someone to build "the wall" to protect themselves from the outside world. This song is just a piece of the puzzle. An abusive teacher taking his stifled life out on the kids.
Was fortunate enough to watch a lot of the filming of this in London's derelict Docks.
" The Wall" is sheer genius and the pinnacle of pink floyd!❤😊
It’s a movie, guys.
On The Turning Away, live 1988. another amazing guitar lead!!
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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"
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.
British schools could be scary in those days 😢
I got a ruler over the hand when I was at school in the early 80's.
They were. Especially the catholic ones
"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.
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.
The Wall double-album and The Wall movie is some of the best Albums/VHS ever released in Human history!
Now that you've watched the video, maybe actually listen to the song. Happiest Days of Our Lives ---> into ---> Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2.
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.
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 is from one of the best and most depressing movies you will probably ever see. Came out back in the early 80s. “The Wall”. I remember people would say don’t watch this movie if you are depressed to begin with. It has great music from Pink Floyd but it also has many dark moments throughout.
Fortunately, the album version of the song doesn't have all of the disruptions of the video. But the video does have some good imagery, like the lines of masked kids heading for the meat grinder.
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.
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 😂.
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?
Another song with the same "theme" is The Logical Song by Supertramp.
Incredible movie. But the song can be enjoyed best and at its purest with the album cut. Great reaction guys.
Pink Floyd was very innovative in the use of everyday items as part of their music. They led the way in that regard
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.
Are you aware of concept albums? That’s what The Wall is and what you are watching was from the movie The Wall
Pink Floyd created some gold
Loved them in concert......so damn good!!!!
Pink Floyd makes you think, while having an eargasm...😄
The poem the boy wrote is part of the lyrics of the song "Money" from the album The Dark side of the Moon...
We were going through a very similar time in the 70s as we are today.
As far as I’m concerned, Shine On Me, Crazy Diamond, is one of their best pieces. Great reaction.
This is a different version from what was heard on the radio. The pudding line was only at the end and you didn't hear the sound effects from the video. Might want to check out that version to know the song as we know it.
This is from the movie the version youre referring to is from the album
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.
Glad you've picked up on the message
The Wall (1982) directed by Alan Parker (Birdy, Angel Heart, Evita etc.)
I recommend watching PF performing this track live at the PULSE concert in 1994.
It is truly majestic.
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!!!
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."
I strongly recommend you watch the whole film it’s available on cd, when I did the whole story dropped into place, equally you could watch the live version from the pulse concert.
You're watching an extract from the Pink Floyd film called The Wall. Well worth a watch.
Play you say... The Wall ended up being a full-length rock opera movie. It's definitely a must watch.
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!!!
Agree with the comments. Watch the movie. And also Bob Geldof as Pink. Geldof was responsible for putting Love Aid together in 1985 - where the famous Queen performance took place.
Also the song - yes UK schools were not great at that time. Many of us lived through those experiences. So this meant a lot to us.
This is not the edit of the album (an opera Rock meant to be listened as a whole), but the movie's edit... And also it's just an extract from the movie.
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.
Great reaction guys. An iconic video of an iconic song from an iconic band. "Hey You" and "Mother" are two of the best songs from The Wall to check out in isolation and of course are deep. Radiohead had a similar theme of the underdog daydreaming of uprising in their video of the classic "Karma Police" which is fire in every sense and hope you check that out soon. There will only ever be one Pink Floyd but Radiohead are worthy successors.