This maybe either a great fit for the series or entirely too obvious, but I think "Smoke on the Water" should get an episode. It would be totally meta.
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits was just massive in 1985 - would love to see a deep dive in to that, or anything else from the incredible Brothers In Arms album!
Substitute teacher (when I was about 6 or 7) wrote ‘Pink Floyd 1979’ on the blackboard at the start of class. Then he explained who Pink Floyd were and what the Wall was. Then proceeded to teach us this song. After a couple of days rehearsal, he brought the class into the yard to sing it as loud as we could, disrupting all the other classes going on in the school. We all felt so rebellious!
My headmaster gave a school assembly warning us children about how dangerous this song was. I loved it from the moment I heard it and I still listen so many years later. Thanks Warren.
Haha... in 1987 I got a one year studentship in South Africa. On arrival immigration confiscated my CD of the Wall. They also took my Peter Gabriel albums and several copies of VIZ magazine, all deemed as "subversive".
I was at school when it was played as the music after the bell calling the kids to class - until it was banned I didn’t realise the irony at the time, but being called to class by “we don’t need no education” was magic while it lasted
This entire album, and the associated film, had what was probably an oversized impact on my life. Two anecdotes come to the mind. The first was my friends laughing at me for crying by the end of of the film. I just... related to it, and it was a vicarious cathartic release. The second was that it helped me keep my sanity during the basic training. Listened to it every single night once we were allowed personal possessions. It was my own private rebellion in a high pressure system designed to subsume individuality.
@@Producelikeapro Here in Australia, my older brother bought back a first pressing vinyl set (1980?) from WEST GERMANY for me to listen to. I literally wore them out. I still have those records and the sleeves.
Senior in high school in 1979 and we were blown away. I had been playing keys in bands at that point since 1977 and my mom would drive me to gigs with the The Wall playing in her car stereo, best mom ever. What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the 80’s. Thank you Warren.
I love how Warren can't hide his absolute love for this song and album. He gets all hyped up speaking about it! Being my favorite album EVER I can relate to that feel very much. I use to say to my friends "Don't get me started on Pink Floyd The Wall" cause I get all excited analyzing and discussing its music, lyrics and visuals. What a great album it is.
I think the keyboard progression Rick Wright plays during Gilmour's solo is actually the coolest part of the song. It's also the part most covers tend to fail at.
I’ll never forget it either… I was in 7th grade in a wealthy suburb of Long Island, NY and every single kid I knew had the album. So inventive and an instant classic! 🎸🥁👏🏼 Good one, Warren.
Pink Floyd's The Wall is a masterpiece. Certainly "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" is one of their best tracks. "Comfortably Numb" is also a great track. Thanks for sharing Warren.
As a guy who loves guitarists, David Gilmour always seemed underrated. "Another Brick in The Wall, Pt. 2" is a highlight. But my favorite Gilmour stuff is "Wish You Were Here," especially "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V)"
Gilmour was not the guitarist who performed the solo on ptII. That honor belongs to Lee Ritenour who is not credited. Sadly, Gilmour does not vocalize that this amazing solo was not his.
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan and this is one of my all-time favorite albums. I have to tell you that I love this series Warren. I always learn something new musically. I never knew how Pink Floyd got their name, so this one is quite interesting for me. In your classic words, "Thank you ever so much for your 'marvelously wonderful' videos. 🙏Peace ☯
I was in my late teens playing in a cover band when this was a hit . . . I had to learn that cool guitar part, loved playing it! It was a huge hit in South Africa and carried a real protest message, it hit home big time. Classic!
My favorite band! Man, when I learned to play the guitar, I sat next to my casette player and I figured out their songs by listening to them...what a good times!
The Wall changed me. I had never been so introspective before that. In 1984 I would be taking the bus to collage and it was a long boring trip every day. Most days I would sing to myself the entire album, double album, there and back to school. I knew every song, lead, and bit in between. Thank you. (BTW, my Dad saw the album and it's art and had heard things about it and was concerned so he listened to it to better understand what his son was being influenced by. He was instantly as big a fan as I was and to this day drops everything when Gilmour plays on TV.)
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan. Even though this is one of my least favourite of their songs, I can't wait to watch the vid later this evening. I'm sure it will be excellent as all others in the series are! Thanks Warren!
I love when someone can appreciate music this much! I feel like sometimes people think i'm weird when i talk passionately about pink floyd or any other music that just speaks to me
A reminder of just how good the music and bands were in this period. An album like The Wall would never get made today. Great insight into how this fabulous track was created. Thanks.
Hi Paul, it made get made! It just may never be heard by such a huge audience! Ultimately the songs 'Another Brick In The Wall Pt2' and 'Comfortably Numb' are bastions of incredible songwriting and production, I would welcome such incredible songwriting now!
Iconic tune for sure, I too went to that Leicester Square showing, marvellous show,the first time I'd seen a standing ovation at a cinema movie,the whole house was on its feet..
Still got my tour program from Earls Court and yes my school wasn't any different - Ants vs Two Tone stand-offs in the playground not realising in a couple of months the synth revolution in pop music would blow them all away. And change music production forever.
I sang that so much when this came out I had a British accent in preschool…now I’m a teacher. I learned everything about teaching from British rock bands….leave them kids alone and, the kids are all right.
I was also a kid. I also saw them do the wall in Earls court. I ran 3 miles home to get money and then 3 miles back to the record shop that was arranging a coach trip and gig package. I too get goose bumps about the gig. Especially Gilmour on top of the wall playing comfortably numb with a huge shadow stretching across the arena. I'm not the biggest Floyd fan these days but that was a seminal moment in my musical life.
I remember as a kid being in the PX(Post Exchange), I lived on an Army Base., being in the record section and seeing all the "new releases" shelves. I remember seeing The Wall, Back in Black, Glass Houses, Double Fantasy, Hi Infidelity, The Game, and Crimes of Passion. I remember trying to save my paper route money so I could by an album a month. I always tried to save up enough to buy the Wall but because it was a double album it was more expensive. This was one of the first albums that turned me into a Prog Rock fan. Thanks so much
Warren - it was this album that put the guitar into my hands and pulled me from the darkest period in my life: the loss of my 14 yr old sister, when I was 16. I mean, it was 1992 and this album had already been out for several years but inexplicably off my radar until after her death. At the time, I had no idea that the record was 'autobiographical' for any one of the members of the band and, at the time, I don't think I even knew any of their names. All I knew is that the song "Is There Anybody Out There?" would 'speak to me' (no pun) in a way that music really hadn't previously. When I got my hands on an acoustic guitar, I tried (not very successfully) to emulate that tune and through that effort - it managed to shelve the turmoil I was dealing with temporarily. I really am truly and personally grateful for this record. Thank you so much for making this video. How cool it must have been to meet THE Bob Ezrin. Cheers! -p
OMG! I saw The Wall concert.....at Earls' Court..and saw the film at Leicester Square too!...and I was sharing the exact same excitement as you!...thanks Warren for this excellent breakdown/analysis...just SUPER!..your passion and enthusiasm..with your knowledge....and your SHARING of this ....is wonderful...thanks so much..Tear down the Wall!
I'm 34. My first memories I remember having are with my dad in his woodworking shop as a really young kid, maybe a baby. My mom worked late nights so Dad watched me while woodworking at the same time. Dad made my brother and I these tiny wooden fake guitars to play air guitar along with is Pink Floyd collection while he played air guitar with his tape measure. I couldn't even talk at the time, but I knew I wanted to play music even if I didn't fully understand what it was.
I was 15 when this came out and me and my father couldn’t talk about anything without fighting except Pink Floyd. When I got the album we poured over every detail and I worked on my keyboard to learn the licks. It’s ironic Roger Waters brought me and my father together with an album about a missing father. I saw the show with him at Madison Square Garden it’s one of the greatest memories of my youth !!!!!!!!!
I was 16 when The Wall was released. To say it was huge would be an understatement. My favorites from the album are Hey You, Just One of My Turns, and of course the amazing Comfortably Numb.
Warren, your reaction is similar to mine in the US. I was 15, bought The Wall with my newspaper money in December 1979. For you youngsters out there, you have no idea just how big Brick Pt. 2 was. In the midst of 1979 albums (Highway to Hell, A Night in the Ruts, Desolation Angels, Dream Police, London Calling, Tusk, Unleashed in the East, Van Halen II and In Through the Out Door), The Wall was everywhere. It was blaring at parties, car stereos, radios, boomboxes and even the first Sony Walkmans, if you could afford one. Today, I proudly display my The Wall album on my music room Wall. For other "Songs that Changed Music", please consider Jeremy, Fast Car and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.
I bought the album as soon as it came out and I was blown away, like everyone I knew. One of my classmates was at their first The Wall show at Earls Court and I wasn't in the UK, I was so jealous!! In retrospective, The Wall the album is not by far my fav Pink Floyd album but Another Brick and Comfortably Numb I couldn't do without, definitely. Thx Warren !
I'm a fan too! I put Pink Floyd with the Beatles as standard bearers of creativity and quality of production. I'm a little older than you but I remember playing Floyd on my Granpa's tube HiFi with 15" speakers. WOW! To me, it was the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Yes, Queen, Bowie, Alice Cooper and Lou Reed soon followed. I saw the Wall concert at the time and it was a mind blower. The album was so successful for so long that I burned out and pivoted to punk and it's offshoots. It's been fun to reconnect. I envy youngsters of today who get to discover this music for the first time with fresh ears. Thanks, Mr. Huart for sharing this music (and context) with a broader audience.
I remember going to day camp in the summer of 1980; the summer I turned 11. Every single day that whole summer, all of us on the camp bus would sing together at the top of our collective lungs, "We don't need no education…!" It was our anthem that entire summer. A few years later, when I was in high school, I had a very obnoxious and opinionated teacher who I wasn't too fond of and who often would go on rants about how much he hated the song. That made me love the song even more and inspired me to finally go out and buy the album as a big F-U to him. (I probably would have bought it anyway, as I had become a big Floyd fan by then.)
So glad that Pink Floyd and their management gave you permission to review the song. Amazingly, some artists (e.g. The Eagles) fail to understand how it can make their music known to another generation.
I pine for these songs that drove us on in life. I fear it will never be again, because creativity has changed so drastically. At least we have these songs to remind us.
Pink Floyd ! GREAT !!! There would be no music for me without their fabulous albums .... we would be missing something and we wouldn't don't know what ...The Wall , of course , the album and the film ...no comment ...HUGE ....Great Song ...
I was nine, hearing mostly Neil Diamond, the Bee Gees and Abba (with all due respect, love em)on popular radio... this unique song hit me hard, the powerful drive, lyrics, guitars, visuals. Fantastic to learn about the huge project behind it. Thank you!
Warren... The busiest man on UA-cam. I went to the toilet, came back and three new videos! FLOYD, my favourite band and architects of my favourite album. DOSOM. Nice work Mr. Huart!
I'm glad we will always have songs and albums like this. Quite an experience to have actually lived through 6 decades of music, seeing it go from eternally memorable to, now, instantly forgettable...nothing to do with taste differences, everything to do with the almost total absence of quality and - the 'human touch'..!
I remember hearing that song EVERY DAY for a couple of months on the top 40 AM radio station in conservative Calgary, Alberta. It was inescapable, and it was my introduction to Pink Floyd. At the time, I was mostly listening to Devo, The Boomtown Rats, XTC… But that song (and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio”) were exceptions that year. Such a great song!
Thanks for your enthusiasm here Warren, as I share it. I was 7 or 8 [83-84] when I heard this on the radio and got my 18 year old brother to get me a cassette tape. I probably listened to that tape 500+ times until I bought a different cassette and a cd. For the first time I wasnt just hearing music through my speakers but experiencing the songwriters emotion.. it was so powerful it made me obsessed with music, and creating music and I've been chasing that feeling my whole life.. the alienation experienced is something that was so relatable to me then (and still is). Single coil guitars with 8th note triplet delays, and how the snare sounds on the wall is still the sweet spot to me.
Pink had such an impact on my life, coming to the USA from Latin America right in 1979, here was this incredible sound, unique, compelling, insightful in every way... But the record that first blew my mind, was dark side of the moon, which first made a profound mark in my mind. I remember everybody at the school also, singing the wall.
In 1979 when the LP came out, I was working in audio post in midtown Manhattan. A few years later when the film debuted, I was in London on my honeymoon and we went to a showing at a cinema on Fulham Road in West London. Years later, my son (who must have been about 10 years old) and I watched the film on television and it absolutely blew the hair off the top of his head. Great stuff... and yeah, the Nile Rodgers-style lick was an inspired suggestion by Ezrin.
This REVOLUTIONARY song spoke to me as a ten year old boy. Thank you for this video! There is another revolutionary song from 1979 that in retrospect made history as the first Lovers Reggae Hit song: Silly Games by Janet Kay. Deserves a video as songs that changed music! Peace.
I even got goosebumps when you were talking about your experience during watching the movie and listening to the album. I also remember that time period very well. Great memories, great album!
Thanks for that vid. Pink Floyd is one of the goat bands if not the one. debatably. The wall is timeless masterpiece album that each generation can connect to, but its only one of many timeless albums of the band. As child I ear my father listening to them as teenager i listening to them and now my kids listening to them. its extremely rear that a band is crossed generational loved like that ,and its a strong sign of their greatness
the wall cost £5.99 when it came out-i remember because my brother and i clubbed together and bought it for my dad that christmas!(he loved pink floyd)
Here's another fan. I must have played that album a thousand times. I can dream the movie. That huge film poster on my bedroom wall. Concerts..., Pink Floyd meant a lot for me. Still does actually. ❤️
Thank you for sharing your personal stories around this amazing music! I discovered it about 10 years later and experienced the massive 1990 the wall concert in Berlin. Those were the days. I still love Pink Floyd.
Compliments on another great one Warren. I was only a couple months shy of seven years old when this song was released, but I remember it felt like it became the undisputed youth anthem of our generation within a few hours of its first broadcast over the radio. I didn’t get to see the film until the early nineties at a midnight showing in a cinema full of stoners in Rapid City, South Dakota… That said, from my point of view as a musician, “Goodbye Blue Sky”, “Young Lust and “Run Like Hell” are the best songs on the record. Cheers!
Fine, Warren, thank you ever so much! For me the best part is your ‚outbreak‘ of admiration at the end of the video. Just brounght me back straight into those days in 1979. In a small, boring town in Germany that song suddenly opened up a whole new world for the 11 year old boy I was back then.
I loved hearing your personal stories about that album. I was about the same age too and I befriended a girl just because her daddy owned the local theater so we went to watch The Wall every weekend. I don’t remember her name but I remember that feeling of watching that movie for the first time.
I was 4 years old. I remember the video on Top of the Pops. A defining moment in my childhood. I wasn't old enough to buy records yet but my uncle had the gatefold album, which just fascinated me. One of my favourite albums, that isn't a Queen album.
Brilliant tear-down, as always. Just wanted to point out that Roger tuned the 4th string of the bass down so it’s a drop-D. It’s a brilliant move that gives some gorgeous richness to the bottom-end. When he played the octave in the riff it really shook, and his Fender Precison has such great sustain - leaves some wonderful well-judged spaces (I’m a bass player btw!)
We in the GDR had nothing. But we had great music. However, that didn't matter to my parents. We listened to the radio from the FRG. And me? I was like Freddy Mercury singing years later in "Radio Ga-Ga": "I'd sit alone and watch your light / My only friend through teenage nights / And everything I had to know / I heard it on my radio" But there was this one song that I once heard secretly in the dark. It was already late, only the lighted scale on the radio was on. After that I had restless nights for ages. I had no idea what the song was called. But it was dark, dangerous, evil. My goodness! "Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" has such a special magic for me to this day. I know of few songs that had such a strong impact on me. I think I was almost most shocked by the deep, rumbling bass in the background. I was even more shocked at the age of 6 or 7 by the fact that there were children singing such an evil melody. At an age when you know children's songs, such an experience is formative. I think it's fair to say that I was afraid of the song for a while. And it touches me enormously deeply to this day. At that time, of course, I had no idea what the song was about. That has changed. What remains is this very special magic of one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
Thanks ever so much for your great comment! Yes, I have alto of East German friends and they tell me similar stories! One says he would tape songs off of West German Radio and trade them at School with friends. Thanks for sharing Henning!
Coincidentally, the week the film was released, I was in London one day and I was able to see and enjoy it in all its glory. I was amazed, in addition to how good the film seemed to me, the sound of English cinemas was light years away from that of Spanish cinemas. Thanks for the video, I loved it.
Bob Ezrin is all over the album. The ultimate producer. Schools Out, Another brick in the Wall. Without Ezrin, the album would never have happened. ✌️🤘🏴☠️🇦🇺
Amazing, was just listening again to The Wall and thought to myself how great it'd be if Warren would do a Video about one of their Songs. You're the best.
I have been listening to this tune all week! Love how big the kick and snare are! Tried to replicate it! A good dose of 100hz on kick and 200hz on snare!
One of the first rock songs that changed my life.. in Argentina this song and the movie were banned by the military goverment. I knew the song in 1984, after dictatorship was over, I heard The Wall album all day long in high school (recorded in a cheap cassette tape), in the 80s..thanks for this great video!! you did it again!
Another great analysis, Warren. The relentless disco stomp underpinned by the so effective menace of the bass creates the feeling of a seemingly unstoppable force. Then the children's voices coupled with the soaring guitar solo is the perfect counter argument. A song of hope and the gold standard for musicians and producers.
Another excellent episode! Have to say tho' - that isn't Roger's bassline! He dropped his E string down to a D for that first note, then up to the octave via the min7. The rest of what you say is right, but that first note is right down there :-)
Loved this, love your enthusiasm for it. It certainly did hit a whole generation. Never saw the original show, too busy at the disco, but saw Roger Waters perform it in the old Olympic stadium in Berlin a few years ago. Unforgettable, even without the rest of the Floyd. Cheers Warren.
Yup, I was 10 and was similarly blown away - Pink Floyd have gone punk-mad-opera!!!! And I'm so proud that my kids know all the words too (that's the whole album, btw). However I think that taking your first girlfriend to see it at the movies was probably not the romantic winner you were hoping for. Excellent review as per usual - we're all fans!!
I play in a Chic and Nile Rodgers tribute band, I didn’t realise that pink floyd had been influenced by Chic and Nile. Amazing 🤩 keep up the good work 👍🏻
So many amazing songs and albums by this incredible band, but Wish You Were Here (both the album and the song) are and always will be my favorites. From Meddle to The Wall, I don't know if any artist or band has ever or will ever have a better stretch of phenomenal records.
Also for me The Wall had a huge impact on me. So many themes were relatable and helped me realise what was going on in my youthful mind and life. It was the first album that had me scrutinise the lyrics and made me aware that they could be as important as the music. Deciphering the bad handwriting on the sleeves was quite difficult and as a kind of zen exercise I meticulously copied the lyrics by typing them out and restart every time I made a mistake (on a mechanical typewriter, no word processors in those days). I went to see the original Wall tour in Dortmund, Germany. When the movie came out I went to see it three times in a week. There was so much going on in it that I could not grasp all of it in one time. This video brought back a lot of memories after all those years and thank you for that.
A interesting postscript this album; Alun Renshaw came to my school as part of his composer-in-residence gig in 1979/1980 and we performed his Requiem for a Sinking Block of Flats at a large church in Brisbane that year. That album was absolutely massive for me, coming as it did in my impressionable teens, it took me quite a few years to get out of my system, and the movie didn't help! One of those albums I can quite easily listen to in my head, such is it's power.
What other songs do you think changed music? Let me know by commenting below!
This maybe either a great fit for the series or entirely too obvious, but I think "Smoke on the Water" should get an episode. It would be totally meta.
@@dariomeneses5756 Great idea!!
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits was just massive in 1985 - would love to see a deep dive in to that, or anything else from the incredible Brothers In Arms album!
@@dariomeneses5756 What is " meta? "
@@dariomeneses5756 If only for one of the greatest riffs ever made.
Substitute teacher (when I was about 6 or 7) wrote ‘Pink Floyd 1979’ on the blackboard at the start of class. Then he explained who Pink Floyd were and what the Wall was. Then proceeded to teach us this song. After a couple of days rehearsal, he brought the class into the yard to sing it as loud as we could, disrupting all the other classes going on in the school. We all felt so rebellious!
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Best teacher ever! Not even Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society ;)
My headmaster gave a school assembly warning us children about how dangerous this song was. I loved it from the moment I heard it and I still listen so many years later. Thanks Warren.
Haha best way to get kids to be a fan of something is to tell them not to listen to it! Haha
Sounds like a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.
Haha... in 1987 I got a one year studentship in South Africa. On arrival immigration confiscated my CD of the Wall. They also took my Peter Gabriel albums and several copies of VIZ magazine, all deemed as "subversive".
@@musamusashi that would have the year the single was released or soon after. I only remember that 9ne and one about rabies. Funny how memory works!
I was at school when it was played as the music after the bell calling the kids to class - until it was banned
I didn’t realise the irony at the time, but being called to class by “we don’t need no education” was magic while it lasted
This entire album, and the associated film, had what was probably an oversized impact on my life. Two anecdotes come to the mind. The first was my friends laughing at me for crying by the end of of the film. I just... related to it, and it was a vicarious cathartic release.
The second was that it helped me keep my sanity during the basic training. Listened to it every single night once we were allowed personal possessions. It was my own private rebellion in a high pressure system designed to subsume individuality.
It had the same oversized impact on my life! Thanks for your great comment
@@Producelikeapro Here in Australia, my older brother bought back a first pressing vinyl set (1980?) from WEST GERMANY for me to listen to. I literally wore them out. I still have those records and the sleeves.
I love this series SO MUCH!!
its go to be big becose off its qualiti. for sur.
@@guttormurthorfinnsson8758 thanks ever so much!
Thanks Colteastwood!
I agree! Great series. Very educational, informative, and inspirational!
@@johncox2552 thanks ever so much!
Senior in high school in 1979 and we were blown away. I had been playing keys in bands at that point since 1977 and my mom would drive me to gigs with the The Wall playing in her car stereo, best mom ever. What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the 80’s. Thank you Warren.
Very well said Benjamin! 'What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the '80s' agreed 100%!
I love how Warren can't hide his absolute love for this song and album. He gets all hyped up speaking about it! Being my favorite album EVER I can relate to that feel very much. I use to say to my friends "Don't get me started on Pink Floyd The Wall" cause I get all excited analyzing and discussing its music, lyrics and visuals. What a great album it is.
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
I think the keyboard progression Rick Wright plays during Gilmour's solo is actually the coolest part of the song. It's also the part most covers tend to fail at.
It's fantastic! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
I’ll never forget it either… I was in 7th grade in a wealthy suburb of Long Island, NY and every single kid I knew had the album. So inventive and an instant classic! 🎸🥁👏🏼 Good one, Warren.
Thanks ever so much Elise!
Pink Floyd's The Wall is a masterpiece. Certainly "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" is one of their best tracks. "Comfortably Numb" is also a great track. Thanks for sharing Warren.
Pink Floyd will always have my respect.
Thank you for giving this story about the group and their great music.
Thanks ever so much!
As a guy who loves guitarists, David Gilmour always seemed underrated. "Another Brick in The Wall, Pt. 2" is a highlight. But my favorite Gilmour stuff is "Wish You Were Here," especially "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V)"
David Gilmour is very high on my list!
For me Gilmour is one of the best out there, second only to Gary Moore.
@@philmccracken6134 David Gilmour is phenomenal
Dave does his best soloing on Dogs off the Animals album.
Distinctly different solos all 3.
Gilmour was not the guitarist who performed the solo on ptII. That honor belongs to Lee Ritenour who is not credited.
Sadly, Gilmour does not vocalize that this amazing solo was not his.
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan and this is one of my all-time favorite albums. I have to tell you that I love this series Warren.
I always learn something new musically.
I never knew how Pink Floyd got their name, so this one is quite interesting for me. In your classic words, "Thank you ever so much for your 'marvelously wonderful' videos. 🙏Peace ☯
Thanks ever so much for your kind words!
I was in my late teens playing in a cover band when this was a hit . . . I had to learn that cool guitar part, loved playing it! It was a huge hit in South Africa and carried a real protest message, it hit home big time. Classic!
This was the song that hooked me onto pink floyd in 79, I'm still hooked.
I hear you!!
My favorite band! Man, when I learned to play the guitar, I sat next to my casette player and I figured out their songs by listening to them...what a good times!
Great times indeed!
The Wall changed me. I had never been so introspective before that. In 1984 I would be taking the bus to collage and it was a long boring trip every day. Most days I would sing to myself the entire album, double album, there and back to school. I knew every song, lead, and bit in between.
Thank you. (BTW, my Dad saw the album and it's art and had heard things about it and was concerned so he listened to it to better understand what his son was being influenced by. He was instantly as big a fan as I was and to this day drops everything when Gilmour plays on TV.)
Agreed Loren, such an important album!! Thanks for your great comment
I’m 51 and right there with you about this incredible song, brother.
Yes! Thanks! We had a great time!
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan. Even though this is one of my least favourite of their songs, I can't wait to watch the vid later this evening. I'm sure it will be excellent as all others in the series are! Thanks Warren!
Thanks Jorgos for sharing!
I love when someone can appreciate music this much! I feel like sometimes people think i'm weird when i talk passionately about pink floyd or any other music that just speaks to me
I completely understand!!
A reminder of just how good the music and bands were in this period. An album like The Wall would never get made today. Great insight into how this fabulous track was created. Thanks.
Hi Paul, it made get made! It just may never be heard by such a huge audience! Ultimately the songs 'Another Brick In The Wall Pt2' and 'Comfortably Numb' are bastions of incredible songwriting and production, I would welcome such incredible songwriting now!
Iconic tune for sure, I too went to that Leicester Square showing, marvellous show,the first time I'd seen a standing ovation at a cinema movie,the whole house was on its feet..
Fantastic! Yes, it was so amazing wasn’t it?
@@Producelikeapro absolutely ⭐
Still got my tour program from Earls Court and yes my school wasn't any different - Ants vs Two Tone stand-offs in the playground not realising in a couple of months the synth revolution in pop music would blow them all away. And change music production forever.
Amazing! Every kid learned how to tap out Antmusic with their pencils on the desk! Haha
@@Producelikeapro And unison beating out Kings of the Wild Frontier on crash mats in the gym.
Still relevant even now. Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
Agreed 100%!
I sang that so much when this came out I had a British accent in preschool…now I’m a teacher. I learned everything about teaching from British rock bands….leave them kids alone and, the kids are all right.
@@louderthangod thanks for sharing
I was also a kid. I also saw them do the wall in Earls court. I ran 3 miles home to get money and then 3 miles back to the record shop that was arranging a coach trip and gig package. I too get goose bumps about the gig. Especially Gilmour on top of the wall playing comfortably numb with a huge shadow stretching across the arena. I'm not the biggest Floyd fan these days but that was a seminal moment in my musical life.
I remember as a kid being in the PX(Post Exchange), I lived on an Army Base., being in the record section and seeing all the "new releases" shelves. I remember seeing The Wall, Back in Black, Glass Houses, Double Fantasy, Hi Infidelity, The Game, and Crimes of Passion. I remember trying to save my paper route money so I could by an album a month. I always tried to save up enough to buy the Wall but because it was a double album it was more expensive. This was one of the first albums that turned me into a Prog Rock fan. Thanks so much
Warren your fire for this song shows and I dig it!
Thanks Johannes!
You brought the story to life
Thanks ever so much!!
I love Foyd, I love this series, I love this channel.
Thank you very much Warren!
Thanks ever so much George!!
Warren - it was this album that put the guitar into my hands and pulled me from the darkest period in my life: the loss of my 14 yr old sister, when I was 16. I mean, it was 1992 and this album had already been out for several years but inexplicably off my radar until after her death. At the time, I had no idea that the record was 'autobiographical' for any one of the members of the band and, at the time, I don't think I even knew any of their names. All I knew is that the song "Is There Anybody Out There?" would 'speak to me' (no pun) in a way that music really hadn't previously. When I got my hands on an acoustic guitar, I tried (not very successfully) to emulate that tune and through that effort - it managed to shelve the turmoil I was dealing with temporarily. I really am truly and personally grateful for this record.
Thank you so much for making this video. How cool it must have been to meet THE Bob Ezrin.
Cheers!
-p
I saw that movie as a kid on a VCD and it changed errthang
I hear 100%!
OMG! I saw The Wall concert.....at Earls' Court..and saw the film at Leicester Square too!...and I was sharing the exact same excitement as you!...thanks Warren for this excellent breakdown/analysis...just SUPER!..your passion and enthusiasm..with your knowledge....and your SHARING of this ....is wonderful...thanks so much..Tear down the Wall!
Thanks for sharing!! Wow! That’s amazing! Both incredible experiences
I'm 34. My first memories I remember having are with my dad in his woodworking shop as a really young kid, maybe a baby. My mom worked late nights so Dad watched me while woodworking at the same time. Dad made my brother and I these tiny wooden fake guitars to play air guitar along with is Pink Floyd collection while he played air guitar with his tape measure. I couldn't even talk at the time, but I knew I wanted to play music even if I didn't fully understand what it was.
I was 15 when this came out and me and my father couldn’t talk about anything without fighting except Pink Floyd. When I got the album we poured over every detail and I worked on my keyboard to learn the licks. It’s ironic Roger Waters brought me and my father together with an album about a missing father. I saw the show with him at Madison Square Garden it’s one of the greatest memories of my youth !!!!!!!!!
Wow! Thanks ever so much Gilbert for sharing!! I really appreciate it!
I was 16 when The Wall was released. To say it was huge would be an understatement. My favorites from the album are Hey You, Just One of My Turns, and of course the amazing Comfortably Numb.
All great songs indeed!
Warren, your reaction is similar to mine in the US. I was 15, bought The Wall with my newspaper money in December 1979. For you youngsters out there, you have no idea just how big Brick Pt. 2 was. In the midst of 1979 albums (Highway to Hell, A Night in the Ruts, Desolation Angels, Dream Police, London Calling, Tusk, Unleashed in the East, Van Halen II and In Through the Out Door), The Wall was everywhere. It was blaring at parties, car stereos, radios, boomboxes and even the first Sony Walkmans, if you could afford one. Today, I proudly display my The Wall album on my music room Wall.
For other "Songs that Changed Music", please consider Jeremy, Fast Car and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.
Thanks ever so much Craig! I really appreciate it!
I bought the album as soon as it came out and I was blown away, like everyone I knew. One of my classmates was at their first The Wall show at Earls Court and I wasn't in the UK, I was so jealous!! In retrospective, The Wall the album is not by far my fav Pink Floyd album but Another Brick and Comfortably Numb I couldn't do without, definitely. Thx Warren !
Yes, absolutely wonderful comment! Huge fan of the album, the show, the movie haha all of it
@@Producelikeapro The movie was extraordinary, still is even by today's standards imho... cheers Warren, a Pink Floyd fan salutes you from Geneva
@@Steedonline thanks ever so much!
I'm a fan too! I put Pink Floyd with the Beatles as standard bearers of creativity and quality of production. I'm a little older than you but I remember playing Floyd on my Granpa's tube HiFi with 15" speakers. WOW! To me, it was the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Yes, Queen, Bowie, Alice Cooper and Lou Reed soon followed. I saw the Wall concert at the time and it was a mind blower. The album was so successful for so long that I burned out and pivoted to punk and it's offshoots. It's been fun to reconnect. I envy youngsters of today who get to discover this music for the first time with fresh ears. Thanks, Mr. Huart for sharing this music (and context) with a broader audience.
I remember going to day camp in the summer of 1980; the summer I turned 11. Every single day that whole summer, all of us on the camp bus would sing together at the top of our collective lungs, "We don't need no education…!" It was our anthem that entire summer.
A few years later, when I was in high school, I had a very obnoxious and opinionated teacher who I wasn't too fond of and who often would go on rants about how much he hated the song. That made me love the song even more and inspired me to finally go out and buy the album as a big F-U to him. (I probably would have bought it anyway, as I had become a big Floyd fan by then.)
Haha I hear you with the obnoxious teacher!!
A long interview of Bob Ezrin would be awesome. He's produced so many of the records I love.
Ab-so-bleeding-loot-lee!
That's probably the best electric bass line ever (sound wise too), the real foundation of the song
Agreed 100%!
I remember the school band with some teachers in it playing this at my sons spring ceremony. It was wonderful!!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
My all time favorite guitar solo.
Indeed masterpiece of a solo!
So glad that Pink Floyd and their management gave you permission to review the song. Amazingly, some artists (e.g. The Eagles) fail to understand how it can make their music known to another generation.
This album is an absolute masterpiece! Thanks Donald!
Yeah Warren, right there with you, man. As a child of the 70s and 80s The Wall was transformative!
Thanks ever so much Wes! I really appreciate it!
I still remember hearing Mother and Another Brick pt2 for the first time… close to life changing moments… just an amazing band and amazing music.
Thanks Paul! Agreed 100%!
Love it! Born in ‘73… this is the first song I remember falling in love with. Great video, Warren!
Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed it
I pine for these songs that drove us on in life. I fear it will never be again, because creativity has changed so drastically. At least we have these songs to remind us.
Thanks for the great comment! I hear you loud and clear!
Pink Floyd ! GREAT !!! There would be no music for me without their fabulous albums .... we would be missing something and we wouldn't don't know what ...The Wall , of course , the album and the film ...no comment ...HUGE ....Great Song ...
And , of course ,a great video !...like we are used to get from you . Thank you !
thank you for posting this one too! You are so spot on!
Thanks ever so much Jeff!
I was at the Los Angeles performance of the Wall, most amazing live performance I had seen at the time for sure!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
I was nine, hearing mostly Neil Diamond, the Bee Gees and Abba (with all due respect, love em)on popular radio... this unique song hit me hard, the powerful drive, lyrics, guitars, visuals. Fantastic to learn about the huge project behind it. Thank you!
I love all off those Artists too! Thanks for sharing!
So much insane history behind this, I love it!
Yes! Love this song and album!
Warren... The busiest man on UA-cam. I went to the toilet, came back and three new videos! FLOYD, my favourite band and architects of my favourite album. DOSOM. Nice work Mr. Huart!
Haha thanks ever so much!
I'm glad we will always have songs and albums like this. Quite an experience to have actually lived through 6 decades of music, seeing it go from eternally memorable to, now, instantly forgettable...nothing to do with taste differences, everything to do with the almost total absence of quality and - the 'human touch'..!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
You and Rick Beato make these tunes so interesting by dissecting the songs.
Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much
I remember hearing that song EVERY DAY for a couple of months on the top 40 AM radio station in conservative Calgary, Alberta. It was inescapable, and it was my introduction to Pink Floyd. At the time, I was mostly listening to Devo, The Boomtown Rats, XTC… But that song (and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio”) were exceptions that year. Such a great song!
Thanks for your enthusiasm here Warren, as I share it. I was 7 or 8 [83-84] when I heard this on the radio and got my 18 year old brother to get me a cassette tape. I probably listened to that tape 500+ times until I bought a different cassette and a cd. For the first time I wasnt just hearing music through my speakers but experiencing the songwriters emotion.. it was so powerful it made me obsessed with music, and creating music and I've been chasing that feeling my whole life.. the alienation experienced is something that was so relatable to me then (and still is). Single coil guitars with 8th note triplet delays, and how the snare sounds on the wall is still the sweet spot to me.
Pink had such an impact on my life, coming to the USA from Latin America right in 1979, here was this incredible sound, unique, compelling, insightful in every way... But the record that first blew my mind, was dark side of the moon, which first made a profound mark in my mind. I remember everybody at the school also, singing the wall.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
What a great albom and songs!!!
And not forgeting Comfortably Numb.
What a great song, and imortal guitar solo.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks ever so much! Agreed, the album is a masterpiece!
We were just as excited about this song across the pond here in the United States. Your enthusiasm is well placed.
Great to hear!
Great to hear!
In 1979 when the LP came out, I was working in audio post in midtown Manhattan. A few years later when the film debuted, I was in London on my honeymoon and we went to a showing at a cinema on Fulham Road in West London. Years later, my son (who must have been about 10 years old) and I watched the film on television and it absolutely blew the hair off the top of his head. Great stuff... and yeah, the Nile Rodgers-style lick was an inspired suggestion by Ezrin.
This REVOLUTIONARY song spoke to me as a ten year old boy. Thank you for this video!
There is another revolutionary song from 1979 that in retrospect made history as the first Lovers Reggae Hit song: Silly Games by Janet Kay. Deserves a video as songs that changed music!
Peace.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
In Brazil people would sing the song without knowing the lyrics, just the feeling of screaming "hey teacher" was great
Thanks for sharing!
I even got goosebumps when you were talking about your experience during watching the movie and listening to the album. I also remember that time period very well. Great memories, great album!
Thanks! Yes, amazing memories
Thanks for that vid. Pink Floyd is one of the goat bands if not the one. debatably. The wall is timeless masterpiece album that each generation can connect to, but its only one of many timeless albums of the band. As child I ear my father listening to them as teenager i listening to them and now my kids listening to them. its extremely rear that a band is crossed generational loved like that ,and its a strong sign of their greatness
the wall cost £5.99 when it came out-i remember because my brother and i clubbed together and bought it for my dad that christmas!(he loved pink floyd)
Nice! Yes, several weeks pocket money for me!
Here's another fan. I must have played that album a thousand times. I can dream the movie. That huge film poster on my bedroom wall. Concerts..., Pink Floyd meant a lot for me. Still does actually. ❤️
Thank you for sharing your personal stories around this amazing music! I discovered it about 10 years later and experienced the massive 1990 the wall concert in Berlin. Those were the days. I still love Pink Floyd.
It was also regularly played on r&b stations in the Chicago area as well. Well done!
That's great to hear!
Compliments on another great one Warren. I was only a couple months shy of seven years old when this song was released, but I remember it felt like it became the undisputed youth anthem of our generation within a few hours of its first broadcast over the radio. I didn’t get to see the film until the early nineties at a midnight showing in a cinema full of stoners in Rapid City, South Dakota… That said, from my point of view as a musician, “Goodbye Blue Sky”, “Young Lust and “Run Like Hell” are the best songs on the record. Cheers!
I agree with everything you said James! Thanks ever so much
Fine, Warren, thank you ever so much! For me the best part is your ‚outbreak‘ of admiration at the end of the video. Just brounght me back straight into those days in 1979. In a small, boring town in Germany that song suddenly opened up a whole new world for the 11 year old boy I was back then.
I was a small town boy, actually a Village in England around the same age. I remember it very well. Thanks ever so much for sharing
I loved hearing your personal stories about that album. I was about the same age too and I befriended a girl just because her daddy owned the local theater so we went to watch The Wall every weekend. I don’t remember her name but I remember that feeling of watching that movie for the first time.
Thanks ever so much Chazz! I really appreciate it!
I was 4 years old. I remember the video on Top of the Pops.
A defining moment in my childhood.
I wasn't old enough to buy records yet but my uncle had the gatefold album, which just fascinated me.
One of my favourite albums, that isn't a Queen album.
Me too! It was so powerful to us as kids!
Just brilliant, Warren...as always. Cheers.
Thanks Scott!
In The Flesh still gets me - what a powerful opening song!
Masterpiece
Brilliant tear-down, as always. Just wanted to point out that Roger tuned the 4th string of the bass down so it’s a drop-D. It’s a brilliant move that gives some gorgeous richness to the bottom-end. When he played the octave in the riff it really shook, and his Fender Precison has such great sustain - leaves some wonderful well-judged spaces (I’m a bass player btw!)
I cant believe you got floyd clips I had never seen!! The goldtop Gilmour clip is epic!
Thanks ever so much
This is such a tasty snack about one of the most influential LP in history, thank you Warren!
Thanks Ady! You Rock!
That guitar solo is just fantastic
Another great job Warren. Thanks for posting.
Thanks ever so much
We in the GDR had nothing. But we had great music. However, that didn't matter to my parents. We listened to the radio from the FRG.
And me? I was like Freddy Mercury singing years later in "Radio Ga-Ga": "I'd sit alone and watch your light / My only friend through teenage nights / And everything I had to know / I heard it on my radio"
But there was this one song that I once heard secretly in the dark. It was already late, only the lighted scale on the radio was on. After that I had restless nights for ages. I had no idea what the song was called. But it was dark, dangerous, evil. My goodness!
"Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" has such a special magic for me to this day. I know of few songs that had such a strong impact on me. I think I was almost most shocked by the deep, rumbling bass in the background. I was even more shocked at the age of 6 or 7 by the fact that there were children singing such an evil melody.
At an age when you know children's songs, such an experience is formative. I think it's fair to say that I was afraid of the song for a while. And it touches me enormously deeply to this day. At that time, of course, I had no idea what the song was about. That has changed. What remains is this very special magic of one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
Thanks ever so much for your great comment! Yes, I have alto of East German friends and they tell me similar stories! One says he would tape songs off of West German Radio and trade them at School with friends. Thanks for sharing Henning!
Coincidentally, the week the film was released, I was in London one day and I was able to see and enjoy it in all its glory. I was amazed, in addition to how good the film seemed to me, the sound of English cinemas was light years away from that of Spanish cinemas.
Thanks for the video, I loved it.
Thanks ever so much Jaime! I really appreciate it!
Bob Ezrin is all over the album. The ultimate producer. Schools Out, Another brick in the Wall. Without Ezrin, the album would never have happened. ✌️🤘🏴☠️🇦🇺
Amazing, was just listening again to The Wall and thought to myself how great it'd be if Warren would do a Video about one of their Songs.
You're the best.
Thanks ever so much
Yes, amazing album
I was in 1st grade in Tennessee, and WSKZ played almost every morning as we got off the bus as school.
What a year! Thanks Warren. Still sounds awesome. 'Money' had that funky character too.
Thanks Arthur! Yes, amazing year!
I have been listening to this tune all week! Love how big the kick and snare are! Tried to replicate it! A good dose of 100hz on kick and 200hz on snare!
Hi Josh! Great to hear! Yes, amazing tones
One of the first rock songs that changed my life.. in Argentina this song and the movie were banned by the military goverment. I knew the song in 1984, after dictatorship was over, I heard The Wall album all day long in high school (recorded in a cheap cassette tape), in the 80s..thanks for this great video!! you did it again!
Another great analysis, Warren. The relentless disco stomp underpinned by the so effective menace of the bass creates the feeling of a seemingly unstoppable force. Then the children's voices coupled with the soaring guitar solo is the perfect counter argument. A song of hope and the gold standard for musicians and producers.
Another excellent episode!
Have to say tho' - that isn't Roger's bassline! He dropped his E string down to a D for that first note, then up to the octave via the min7. The rest of what you say is right, but that first note is right down there :-)
Indeed! However, as you know I played it on guitar, which I was using to play the rhythm guitar part.
Loved this, love your enthusiasm for it. It certainly did hit a whole generation. Never saw the original show, too busy at the disco, but saw Roger Waters perform it in the old Olympic stadium in Berlin a few years ago. Unforgettable, even without the rest of the Floyd. Cheers Warren.
Yup, I was 10 and was similarly blown away - Pink Floyd have gone punk-mad-opera!!!! And I'm so proud that my kids know all the words too (that's the whole album, btw).
However I think that taking your first girlfriend to see it at the movies was probably not the romantic winner you were hoping for. Excellent review as per usual - we're all fans!!
Haha she took me! She was older!
I play in a Chic and Nile Rodgers tribute band, I didn’t realise that pink floyd had been influenced by Chic and Nile. Amazing 🤩 keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing!
So many amazing songs and albums by this incredible band, but Wish You Were Here (both the album and the song) are and always will be my favorites. From Meddle to The Wall, I don't know if any artist or band has ever or will ever have a better stretch of phenomenal records.
Absolutely Alexander! Thanks very much
First record I bought…. From The Record Warehouse in Durham Lane…. I still have it…
Fantastic! Thanks ever so much for sharing
been waiting for pink floyd, this is genuinely my favourite series on youtube
Wow! Thanks ever so much
Also for me The Wall had a huge impact on me. So many themes were relatable and helped me realise what was going on in my youthful mind and life. It was the first album that had me scrutinise the lyrics and made me aware that they could be as important as the music. Deciphering the bad handwriting on the sleeves was quite difficult and as a kind of zen exercise I meticulously copied the lyrics by typing them out and restart every time I made a mistake (on a mechanical typewriter, no word processors in those days). I went to see the original Wall tour in Dortmund, Germany. When the movie came out I went to see it three times in a week. There was so much going on in it that I could not grasp all of it in one time. This video brought back a lot of memories after all those years and thank you for that.
Thank you, great tribute. Joe Cocker has a great many songs that are worthy of attention.
Agreed 100%!
A interesting postscript this album; Alun Renshaw came to my school as part of his composer-in-residence gig in 1979/1980 and we performed his Requiem for a Sinking Block of Flats at a large church in Brisbane that year. That album was absolutely massive for me, coming as it did in my impressionable teens, it took me quite a few years to get out of my system, and the movie didn't help! One of those albums I can quite easily listen to in my head, such is it's power.
Thanks ever so much for sharing