THE WALL is a true Rock-Opera. It was designed to be a movie for your mind, Hollywood put it on Film. Watch the MOVIE , it will answer all your questions... and the movie is a masterpiece of ART, Drama, and Music. PS: @ 32:08 in your video is a secret message in the music, recorded backwards. Back when this album came out, if you found the message you got Free Concert Tickets to the NYC show. They only played The Wall in 4 locations after it was released.
This album is Roger Waters creation, almost biography,just remider! For those ppl who love this band,this is greatest band ever or one of at least! Other ppl find Floyd boring & repetetive! They are my favorite band, they were peaking between Medlle & Wall,have been f in with them for almost 3 decades,first 2 baked,now sober! DSOTM is my personal favorite 🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🙌💯
@@alldayadventures5418and only in theatres,for the small audience.For the love of god,I can't belive they didn't make decent recordings of those shows(sound is so/ so ,but picture is awful).Vis a vis film, I've got mixed fellings,neighter Roger nore director(late great Alan Parker) didn't like it.This was end of my favorite band ever! Roger needed Dave & vice versa,more than Lennon needed Macarthney, Jagger/ Richards & so fourth... Sorry if I bored you,have been listening them for almost, 3 decades 🙌🌔🌓🌒🌑🙌
Where I used to hear "Hammer...Hammer" from Waiting for the Worms now I just hear "MAGA...MAGA". You didn't seem to have understood what he was singing about there during the incredible music, but go back and read it and realize history is repeating itself. 😕
@@josiplilic3384 Congratulations, you have found the secret message. Send your reply to Old Pink care/of the Funny Farm. Do I remember it correctly? 45 years ago, I unhooked the belt from the turn-table and played it backwards.
I just saw Gilmour live last week and can confirm. He is by far one of the best guitarists to ever walk the earth. That man can make a guitar bleed. It's pure magic.
Its a shame you people do not aprecieate Waters ,Yes great guitarist but I know from my expiereince in music great instrumentalist counts for little, in creating music of great value ..
You have to bake up, sit back, and watch the entire concert from start to finish in order. One of the best live shows EVER (and I used to work in the live industry, NOTHING can compare to that show)...
I would strongly recommend watching the movie with some friends in a "relaxed" state, the visuals are very much worth it, but I never see anyone doing a movie reaction to The Wall because of copyright. I wish... but nah, UA-cam wouldn't let it pass.
The Wall is the wall we build around ourselves, to shield us from the pain of existence. The worse you have it, the higher the wall must be. Sometimes it takes decades to climb over it or destroy it.
"The Trial" all happens inside Pinks own head, just brilliant. The album ends with the spoken words " isn't this where.." almost in audibly the album started with "... we came in" Making the album an endless loop.
Don't forget "Obscured By Clouds." It's much less grand in scale than other albums, but it's warm and intimate, and features some stellar musicianship. (What else would you expect?)
I was blessed to hear this album in its entirety the night before its release in 1979 at a rock 'n' roll night club in Honolulu, HI. Needless to say, the mood in the room was different going out than it was coming in. We was trippin' balls!
Fantastic! So many reactors react to videos instead of just the straight audio and then get totally distracted away from the music. The Floyd is strong with you!
Another brick in the wall, the song, really means something to those of us old enough to remember when teachers could, and did, treat students however they wanted and corporal punishment was standard in schools. Along with humiliating us or anything else they felt like. Nobody questioned their treatment of us. And talking back would have you in serious trouble with them, the school, AND your parents.
Yes, I was born in 1953 and this is how the schools were back then , I absolutely hated school and yes corporal punished was practiced in my school, teachers were mean as hell
I want to applaud you on your steady and persistent pace in diving down this Magically Mystical Pink Floyd Rabbit Hole .. I’m Hella Proud of you !! & Thankyou .. Comfortably Numb live at Pulse is Must See TV🔥⭐️☑️
Roger’s father was an airplane gunner in WWII and was killed in action before Roger was even a year old. I once heard an interview where Roger explained that so many men had been lost to the war. He also said that many of the mothers in his mother’s age group had lost their fathers in WWI and were now losing husbands, brothers, neighbors. The women became extremely protective of their children-especially sons. Knowing that explains Mother and Good Bye Blue Sky a lot.
Yeah he was killed by a bomb from a German Airplane so that’s why you hear the Stuka horn in the first song that transitions into his birth. Great moment of many on this album
Roger is the singer that sounds harsh and sarcastic. Gilmour is the soothing lighter voice. Edit: “Silver 🥄 on a chain.” Is a cocaheenah reference. Oh yeah, pls watch a solid documentary on this band. They have a killer story.
Yes, so soothing and poppy that it gets boring after a while. His and the broken voice complemented each other brilliantly. Both sing on the most important songs on this album. The live 2005 version Comfortable Numb from Live 8 is fantastic because it's the first time that both of them sing together again ✌✌✌.
when this album came out in 1979 we didn't have any knowledge of what it was about,and,like you,had to figure the story out on our own. i saw the stage version in 1980 which helped clarify a lot of it,but it wasn't until the movie version came out a few years later that everything became clear. the story starts out with the character "pink" locked in a hotel room reflecting on his life. he tells us if we want to know what's behind his pain we'll have to hear his story. the next several songs take place in flashbacks of his life. his father died in WWII when he was an infant (the baby crying is him), in school his teachers were horrible to him,his mother was overprotective,shielding him from the harsh realities of life. fast forward to present day, he becomes a rock star and gets married,but while on tour in the united states his wife cheats on him because he's been so detached from their relationship. he finds this out when he calls home to england, and a strange man answers the phone. feeling betrayed he takes a groupie back to his hotel room,but can't get over what his wife has done and lashes out in a fit of rage,trashing the room and driving the groupie out. all these things cause him to build a wall around himself brick by brick. each instance becomes another brick until he finally shuts himself off from the world in his hotel room where he consumes a lot of drugs to numb the pain. trapped behind his wall, he begins to hallucinate,calling out for someone to help him,but no one answers. his mind switches back and forth from the past to the present,evaluating what he's gone through. suddenly his manager breaks down the door,and brings in a doctor to help him sober up to do a concert. the doctor gives him a shot of something that only contributes to his already confused state of mind. he becomes "comfortably numb". they whisk him off to do the show,but his mind has now becomes even more enraged. in his head the concert has become a fascist rally,and he hurls insulting slurs at the audience. at the peak of his rage he puts himself on trial in his mind with his mother,wife and teacher called as witnesses. he comes to the conclusion that he has been guilty the whole time,and must tear the wall down. he realizes that even though he's had all this terrible stuff happen, building a wall wasn't the answer because those who really love him have it even worse trying to reach him through it.
Gilmour 🔥 Love the line "Together we stand, divided we fall." In the film, main character, Pink, suffers from multiple sources including the war, depression, drug addiction, an oppressive mother, sadistic teachers and violence everywhere. Unfortunately, the end isn't much better for Pink.
YEAH!! 🔥🔥🔥This album is amazing! You're absolutely right about Gilmour's guitar talking 🎸That's one of his special talents, and Gilmour lays down the f**king law in this one. And yeah, now that you mention it, he does get down on that guitar like it's a dirty woman. Good call 😄 Question: do people not use the idiom breaking balls anymore? As in, "Quit breaking my balls!" All the younger people I've seen reacting to this album get stopped up by that line in the song Mother. When someone's giving you a hard time they're breaking your balls. Also, "daisy chain" 🌼🌼🌼in the song Brain Damage from DSOTM makes a lot of the younger people laugh (I know what it means 😄). 👈🏽My profile pic is from the Empty Spaces part of the movie The Wall, which is very cool animation. It's also one of my Pink Floyd tattoos. 😃 Great reaction. It's always fun to see a PF lover hearing them for the first time. They never cease to amaze. You're going to do The Division Bell next , right 🤞🏽🤗🔔 💗✌🏽🤘🏽🖖🏽
On The Run- the “sci-fi technology” sound as you say is Richard Wright on synthesizers using vibros and bend dials. Wright was an amazing keyboard player. He put the psychedelic into Floyd. He was truly an amazing and creative artist
Hey,great reaction you had .You did this the right way. Most others would skip a ton on this album. For floyd fans this is the worst thing you could do.
Yep **Gilmour** definitely makes his **Guitar** sound like **Human Outcries** i noticed that 1st thing it is so emotional some times it brings me to tears
I wouldn't say harder, but you definitely need to select your notes better. Playing fast is definitely a skill in and of itself, but it is possible to mask wrong notes in a flurry of better notes. David just had an amazing nack for melody. That doesn't come naturally to many musicians.
Gilmore = Fire God - PF had the combination of unique musicians, to create a sound unmatched. You're fortunate to listen to Big 4 Floyd albums, 6 years length for those us back in the day, and you got to heard all within a month. Recommend entire DIvision Bell album first (I think before listening to before the Pulse Live Concert) Welcome to the Machine!
I loved this reaction! ❤ I watched the entire video. Pink Floyd is just one of many amazing rock bands of the 70's. I recommend you start listening to Led Zeppelin next. And I recommend your first song is "Stairway to Heaven." For any 70's songs, listen to the studio/audio version first before doing any live/concert version. The sound equipment for live performances back then was not yet matured and many nuances of the songs got drowned-out. Hearing the studio/audio version before hearing the concert allows you to know how the actual song sounds and you'll be able to identify the parts that get lost during the live performance.
The first half of the album are memories of the "bricks" Pink uses to justify isolating himself behind his wall. The second half of the album tells how his own imagination and creative mind betrays his isolation and makes a true nightmare for him. One in which he surrenders, but then he just resets and plays it over in his mind hoping for a different ending. Roger Waters is telling us that hiding from life's daily struggles is a fate worse than hell. Meeting life's challenges and overcoming them has been Waters' secret to success and his empathy for the rest of us. All the "bricks" in this album are personal to Waters but with a far different outcome. On another note, the "seagull" sound effect you hear on Echoes and Hey You has a YT video by Gilmourish. Search Gilmour seagull effect. Gilmour definitely is the heavy lifter on this album as well as on the prior albums.
Watching the Wall movie will make all these songs make a ton more sense. BTW the movie has the minimal of dialog, perhaps four or five sentences total. The story is told with lyrics and the "talk" of the instruments.
Hey man, I don't have any problems with you stopping at any time you feel like stopping. Don't mind the haters. If someone wants to listen to the song or the album they can always go listen to the song or the album. I'd rather you react just the way you want to react, WHEN you want to react. I'm loving you getting into Floyd the way you are, and you've done it in a great order: DSOTM, WYWH, Meddle (loved Fearless, totally agree, Echoes Live at Pompeii, now The Wall. You could not have chosen a better order, and it was all by chance. Good stuff.
lol I enjoyed this cos I got a new listening vibe off of this and when comfortable numb came on I got those shivers up and down my spine wonderful. emotional stuff 🥹
I want to applaud you on your steady and persistent pace in diving down this Magically Mystical Pink Floyd Rabbit Hole .. I’m Hella Proud of you !! & Thankyou .. Comfortably Numb live at Pulse is Must See TV🔥⭐️☑️You can watch him do those things with guitar with ur own eyes in this video on The most epic solo ever✨☑️
In the scene where he brings the girl in his band trailer, she starts sucking his fingers but he is on another planet....that scene has bugged my nightmares for 40 years.
This is particularly memorable. This premiered on WEBN - they played the entire 4 sides of the album the same night as The Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati OH. We would get a few minutes of news between album sides. @54:18 you can hear Rick Wright's 'ping' sound occurring but never on the same beat. This keeps the listener slightly off balance. Considering 4 beats per measure, Wright hits the Ping every 5 beats and this makes the sound occur one beat later each time - starting on the 3rd beat and eventually ending on the 4th beat several measures later during this passage. It's the little things.... Looks like this: 1 2 ping 4 1 2 3 ping 1 2 3 4 ping 2 3 4 1 ping 3 4 1 2 ping 4 1 2 3 ping Guy's ahead of the curve.
This voice is ROGER , men . All album produced , imagined and created an sang by ROGER , about war , father death in ww2 etc.... SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH
I saw The Wall live back in the day… they only played three cities, London, New York, and Los Angeles. I saw it in LA.. one of the best shows i’ve seen in my life.
Shout out to Roger Waters, who conceived the whole thing and wrote the lyrics. Gilmour plays great guitar and Wright and Mason are always excellent, but in my opinion, Roger gives the band an edge that they dont have without him.
I agree about the edge provided by Water's lyrics, but they'd have been no use without Gilmour's music. David did more than play guitar, without his melody and inventive interpretation I feel this album would have been like a Lionel Bart film, think Oliver Twist.( By the way I think Bart was genius at what he did)
It’s why they were best as a team/band. They had a hell of a run and left us a lot of incredible music. Too bad fevered egos and bickering over credit & creative control for the best of them.
Waters is a great lyricist and conceptualist. It took Gilmour, Wright and Mason to make his ideas musically palatable. This is the reason waters solo albums are monotone and scattered. He didn't have Gilmour around to help him musically.
@@neillenet291 Correct. Add to that that Roger kicked (or forced to leave) all members one by one. Eg. Rick toured for "the Wall" as a paid musician, not a band member (artistically a success, the tour was financially a failure, PF made no money, the only one to walk out with a check was Rick). When he was alone, Waters thought he owned PF. The other three members reformed the band (they always wanted to play together, Roger was the one bringing negative energy), and Waters got mad, and tried to stop them. He spent every penny trying to destroy them, but ultimately failed. Since then, Waters has tried to erase other member's contributions. His last album is a "reinterpretation" of Dark Side, with a minimalistic approach, but basicly he removed all Gilmour's solos, replacing then with his own spoken lyrics. And he said that it was meant to be like that since the beginning. It pains me to say it but I despise Waters the man as much as I admire Waters the artist... and The Wall is my fav PF album... as a miminum, his ego robbed us of who knows how much incredible music he could have produced with PF. Not that I dislike Gilmour's era, but that's all about high quality... The Wall is about genius. And BTW, my obsessions with The Wall kinda makes me undervalue Animals. I hear too many ideas that will be later developed further in the Wall.
@TheMule71 I could not agree with you more. Waters ego got out of control with the success of PF and he started to believe that he was the sole reason for the success. All anyone needs to do to discover how limited waters was as a songwriter, is listen to the Final Cut. It's essentially a waters solo album with minimal input from Gilmour. In my opinion it is absolutely unlistenable. And i've tried many times. The magic of pink floyd is those FOUR guys working together. although to be fair, I think the division bell is a phenomenal album, so Gilmour was quite capable of creating. I think waters is one of the greatest lyricists we've ever seen, and he had great ideas, but he NEEDED those other guys, just as those other guys needed him.
When Pink Floyd did the Wall tour they only played in New York and Los Angeles, the tickets were sold on a mail-in basis and when I heard about it I sent my request in special delivery and I got floor seats in the middle!! They basically acted out this whole album right in front of us including building a wall across the stage and so many different effects it was just amazing! David gilmour's guitar solo on Comfortably Numb was absolutely a work of art, absolutely stunning. Needless to say by far the best concert I ever went to. In my humble opinion there is no band in the world that comes close to Pink Floyd, never has been never will be!!
Bruvman yea right there man when Gilmour comes in with that **Guitar** makes me cry every time his **Mother** is smothering him & putting all her fears int him & helping building that Wall around himself going deeper & deeper into isolation tis not good
Great content, thanks for doing this! The lyrics are really important in this, it tells a story. It doesn't have the most flashy songs, but they're an inspiration and great life advice!
It was probably the most successful album in the first few years of release, but Animals, WYWH, DSOTM, were ground breaking with the eclectic and psychedelic sounds Gilmore and Wright came up with.
Floyd were always at the forefront, since piper. Maybe overshadowed in the 60's by the Beatles,stones and the who, but they were definitely there and notable.
Listened to the whole reaction with you. The Wall was the last album with band members all together. It was 1979. I was 19. It was smokin' Ganga and listening to The Wall.
The song Vera is referring to the war time classic , "We'll Meet Again " by Dame Vera Lynn released in 1939. We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Have not yet got into, Bring the Boys Back Home yet, but had to comment, as I have tears rolling down my cheeks, joyfully laughing with your comment on Voh Damn, please keep this energy through the next song,,,,, CANT WAIT To See your Expression!!! Love Ya Man!
Hi. Shout out from Australia. Hooked on your Floyd reactions. I'm 62 so I was a teenager when I discovered the Floyd. Haven't stopped loving them. Favourite band GOAT!!!! And that is saying something!!! 70' music fark we were in heaven Ziggy stardust holy sh.t Nway I started playing drums when I was 11. Still rocking it in a working rockabilly punk band. Still hot 😎 Anyway.. a little history. When the Wall came out most of my Muso friends went wtf is this???!!! Roger Waters bass player lyricist had gotten so dark!!! And still is. Twisted genius! Anyway he eventually lost his band after this album. He also sang most of this which was unusual. He did speed things up a bit. Anyway time to go back to the mists of time. You think some o this shit is freaky. Ummagumma is the bomb. Furry creatures grooving in a forest with a pict woohhhhh. LOL Not a favourite but really still wkd is one of their earliest which you should explore. The Piper at the gates of dawn ! Glad you've heard Meddle. Still after dark side near top of my Floyd album list. Anyway I'm half way through your Wall reaction . Played w band all weekend so I'm lying on my bed enjoying the trip with you. Fried!! Some of your comments pre Floyd wisdom are cracking me up. Thanks heaps. Ok back toit.
i love watching rock and metal guys discover they are hip hop fans, and vice versa. its nice to see people finding anything later in life than i ever could have---AND appreciating it. i only started really listening to rap like 4-5 years ago. i dont know how i made it this far without it. but ill always have my roots. DREAM THEATER RULES!!! labrie is tolerable.
So there is a movie which is pretty good and pretty trippy. If you want to go further you can rent/buy Roger Waters The Wall. You can see The Wall performed in concert. The stage and props are so cool.
You can always tell the difference between Gilmour and water's vocals, because roger waters has that nasally voice and Gilmour has the very clean, beautiful voice
This album impacts me on many levels. Being a teacher, I never forgot the example it set of the public school system in post-war England, a topic relatable to students across the globe. The WW2 imagery, post-war stoicism, personal references to the life of Roger Waters and even allusions to Syd Barrett, all combine into a narrative that is the foundation for this musical "trip".
Definitely check out some live Pink Floyd so you can see David Gilmour playing. He does some {{{chef's kiss}}}🎸🎸🎸 playing on the song Sorrow from the Pulse concert. One of These Days, also from Pulse is a banger. And just because no one ever reacts to this one - Dogs of War from the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert. It has a sax solo that'll melt your face off. 💗
There is a live album of the Wall from 79/80, It’s called ‘Is There Anybody Out There’ which blows the studio recording away in my opinion, hearing it performed live in all its aggression is something else, and it has the extended parts on some parts which were edited out of the studio album for LP length reasons. On the live one there is a tune called ‘The Last Few Bricks’ which fires through a medley of the first half of the album and it’s Pink Floyd live at their absolute peak.
Just wait until you get to experience David Gilmore's solo career, his Album On an Island is absolute FIRE 🔥 enjoy!!! Much love and respect from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
RIP Richard "JR" Dixon, my guitar teacher who taught me how to play the solos in this song. (Well, he did his best with the student he had.) Miss ya, JR.
Vera Lynn was an amazing singer and amazing woman who sang songs for the troops during the world wars. Remembering her is remembering hope... a hope for a world without war.
"Mother" - He's actually asking all the right questions, which he already knows the answers to. Mother is going to do what mothers are supposed to do. She's going to protect him as best she can... Don't trust the Government or anyone! "Run for President" is a symbolism for "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself". And of course, "Mother didn't mean to be so high". Is the simplest and profoundly shocking way of saying that Mother isn't always right. And yes... Pink Floyd has that phenomenal ability to just suck you right on into his little universe. Only the best artists are able to do that to such a professional level with ease. Pink Floyd is in a league of his own and set the bar phenomenally high with THE WALL. The Dark Side Of The Moon is good, but The Wall puts it to shame in a very good way.
The Wall is a theme album (it is actually a two record album set), similar to the Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here albums (which were only one record album each) All the songs tell a chronological story of an individual from birth to their grave, and how they are able to cope with the dystopian world around them.
So I'm 60 and watching you fall in love with Pink Floyd has been a fantastic ride. You clearly get it. From Meedle to the Wall and then to the post Roger Waters years but you have skipped over The Final Cut. Its the last album with Roger Waters, technically the album says written by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd. Roger and David were at odds with each other and many fans love it and many hate it. I am in the love it group. I highly recommend you listen to it. You may find that not every song on the album lives up to that super peak that most every song on every Floyd album does. But you don't want to miss out on songs like The Post War Dream, The Gunners Dream, The Final Cut. Southampton Dock and Two Suns in the Sunset are all musts for any and every Pink Floyd fan. Been loving all your reactions, keep them coming.
This project also rewards real immersion. The movie, the lyrics, the Roger Waters 2014 video, a little background on Roger's life and neuroses, the 1977 In the Flesh Tour, World War II, all can reveal different ways to enjoy this stuff. Time, even years, reveals more and more of The Wall. Or it can just be some cool tunes with sound effects and guitar solos. It's all that really.
I was at a performance of Pink Floyds "The Wall" in 1980, it was the most incredible, astounding performance of any kind,, that I have ever seen in all my 68 years on this planet! Just Phenomenal!
The album was first, 1979. The movie, directed by Alan Parker (see his brilliant "Mississippi Burning"), was released in 1982 I think both the movie and especially the album are top notch. Cheers from canada.
This is the best way to experience this album particularly if you follow the lyrics like we did when this album came out. It had lyric sheet included with the album. It is better imagining the story in your head than seeing the movie.
Now that you've heard the album, do yourself a favor and see "The Wall" movie. Came out in 1982, and puts images to the music...will blow your mind. What a movie!
"Hey you out there beyond the WALL"... Has gone over alot of people's heads for far too long, but people are starting to become hip to what's really going on... Sending out great high vibrations & LOVE TO ALL... pass it forward bcuz there is too much hate in this world.
The track “Hej you” sounds familiar because there’s some parts intermixed from “Dogs” on Animals and “Brain Damage” from Dark Side. Don’t overlook “The Final Cut” In your Floyd album reaction journey 👍Some of Roger’s best effort
Just in case you didn't look it up, or no one else cared to go over it yet, "The Wall" tells a story (which is why you have to listen to it in order and often one song bleeds into the next). Here is a rough outline of the story: It's based around the life of a fictional character named "Pink" (which is loosely based on Roger Waters life and feelings growing up). In the Flesh and Thin Ice is about "birth" (thus the baby crying you hear) and the second song talks about "Mama loves her baby, and Daddy loved you too". Starting with Track 3 you delve into Pinks early childhood and his longing for his father who was "flown across the ocean leaving just a memory" when he was sent off to fight at the beginning of World War 2. "Happiest Days" and "Brick Pt. 2" focus on Pink's childhood school-life and abuse / neglect by his teachers who had a rough and unhappy home life who would then take it out of the children they taught in school. "Mother" is obviously a song about Pink's mother. A single mom, whose kid is having a rough school life and childhood during war times becomes overprotective and becomes an overbearing existence in Pinks life which further starts to give Pink a sense of social isolation. "goodbye blue sky" you hear the child (Pink) say, "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky", which is about the German Planes flying over Britain and beginning to bomb Britain as WW2 continues (turning the beautiful childhood blue skies Grey and black from smoke). Starting with "Empty Spaces" and "Young Lust" we move into Pink's adolescent years. Pink is now a late teen (maybe early 20's) and is gaining some fame as a musician. Due to his already difficult upbringing, the "fast life" and drugs drive a socially closed person to develop a mental "Wall" from the pains of the outside world in order to protect themselves from "One of the turns coming on" (a lapse into unstable mental state). You hear him in a hotel room with a Groupie who experiences one of his violent "turns" and as she flees from the situation (like women before her) he begs "Don't leave me now".... During Tracks 12 and 13 Pink has become so mentally driven into a corner he finished "building the wall" to completely shut himself off from the pains of the outside world. In Track 14, aware of the struggles of being isolated he calls out "Hey You!!" to anyone who may be "outside the wall" pleading for rescue or attention unable to break away from this state alone and suffering. He pleads "Is there anybody out there?" and realizes that after isolating for so long and avoiding painful interactions, now there is "Nobody home". Now accepting his isolation, Pink becomes "Comfortably Numb" to the outside world. Still a famous musician at the peak of his career, he dives so far into drugs he becomes nearly catatonic and doctors are giving him drugs to perk him up and get him to perform (as made obvious by the lyrics) because "the show must go on". The 2nd rendition of "In the Flesh" is fully in the depths of madness where Pink starts to envision himself (while performing on stage) as a Hitler-esque type figure leading a crowd of followers (thus why from there on the songs have obvious notes of Racism and hatred of Jews and homosexuals). He tells them to "Run like hell" or they'll be sent back to mother in a cardboard box... "Waiting for the worms" you actually hear him leading a song that as it continues sounds more and more hate filled until nearing the end where you hear him shouting into a bull-horn in a very Hitler like manner... At the end, he realizes he's becoming what he always hated and shouts "STOP!!!! I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show". He places himself in a mental "Trial" (in his own head) and relives the damage and harm his isolationist lifestyle caused the world around him. His Teacher testifies he should have been harder on him and stopped him from showing "human feelings" (which led to his state) to "Flay him into shape", His wife after years of neglect and cheating (as he was sleeping with groupies on the tours his band did) asks if he's "broken any homes up lately?" His Mother (who always coddled and protected him, begs the Judge Worm, "Why did he ever have to leave me, Let me take him home..." At the end of his "Trial" His Judge (himself) relays a sentence for his Crimes. "TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!" (the one thing that's always made him feel safe and protected but was harming him mentally). The final song "Outside the Wall" is about what others who also "Build a wall" likely have waiting for them outside of it. Family, loved ones, those who will "walk up and down, outside the wall" hoping and praying you'll come out or let them in. The REAL mindjob that comes out of this, is the album has a line at the end that loops right back to the beginning of track one. Symbolizing that ALL of this, is a cycle that just repeats itself. A GREAT and well written story disguised as a Rock Album. You have to see a youtube video of the concert being performed live. It's a hell of a show.
I agree with your ranking. There are still more albums to go. The Final Cut and The Division Bell are both interesting. But both of them are different from what you have heard so far.
So, that "screaming noise" that you heard during "Is There Anybody Out There" and in "Echoes - Live" is a Gilmour staple. Once, a roadie hooked up one of David's pedals backwards, and caused the guitar to make that sound. David liked it... experimented with it... and the seagull was born.
Great reaction to a somewhat difficult album to get into imho. BTW, a lot of what you are hearing are synthesizers. So when some really interesting sound is occurring that sounds crazy it’s probably not Gilmour’s guitar work you are hearing.
The Wall, takes you in, shakes you around for a long time, its some ride... I was a 17 year old crazy learning guitar (4 hours or more a day), when all this was new to us. I know every word, every note of every song, listened to this hundreds of time.
I've had to recently come to terms with the extreme toxic relationship between my mom and I and I totally understand this record from a different perspective now. The people that influence you when you're younger are people that you're supposed to look up to and trust, and you're too young to realize that these people are actually terrible for you to be around. Your teachers, your parents, and even love interests, if you've been groomed and conditioned to just accept authority without questioning it, you're going to be set up for failure every time.
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THE WALL is a true Rock-Opera. It was designed to be a movie for your mind, Hollywood put it on Film.
Watch the MOVIE , it will answer all your questions... and the movie is a masterpiece of ART, Drama, and Music.
PS: @ 32:08 in your video is a secret message in the music, recorded backwards. Back when this album came out, if you found the message you got Free Concert Tickets to the NYC show. They only played The Wall in 4 locations after it was released.
This album is Roger Waters creation, almost biography,just remider! For those ppl who love this band,this is greatest band ever or one of at least! Other ppl find Floyd boring & repetetive! They are my favorite band, they were peaking between Medlle & Wall,have been f in with them for almost 3 decades,first 2 baked,now sober! DSOTM is my personal favorite 🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🙌💯
@@alldayadventures5418and only in theatres,for the small audience.For the love of god,I can't belive they didn't make decent recordings of those shows(sound is so/ so ,but picture is awful).Vis a vis film, I've got mixed fellings,neighter Roger nore director(late great Alan Parker) didn't like it.This was end of my favorite band ever! Roger needed Dave & vice versa,more than Lennon needed Macarthney, Jagger/ Richards & so fourth... Sorry if I bored you,have been listening them for almost, 3 decades 🙌🌔🌓🌒🌑🙌
Where I used to hear "Hammer...Hammer" from Waiting for the Worms now I just hear "MAGA...MAGA". You didn't seem to have understood what he was singing about there during the incredible music, but go back and read it and realize history is repeating itself. 😕
@@josiplilic3384 Congratulations, you have found the secret message. Send your reply to Old Pink care/of the Funny Farm. Do I remember it correctly? 45 years ago, I unhooked the belt from the turn-table and played it backwards.
I just saw Gilmour live last week and can confirm. He is by far one of the best guitarists to ever walk the earth. That man can make a guitar bleed. It's pure magic.
David is on a whole other level. There’s S-tier guitarist and there’s David Gilmour tier guitarists (he’s the only one in that tier)
Saw the pulse concert in Tampa it changed my life
Its a shame you people do not aprecieate Waters ,Yes great guitarist but I know from my expiereince in music great instrumentalist counts for little, in creating music of great value ..
Saaaame! I guess you’re broke now, too (worth it)
His Black Stratocaster that he squeezed “ Dark Side of the Moon “ out of , sold at auction for over4 million dollars
You have to listen to the Pulse concert!! Load up, sit back and have an experience like never before!! Can't wait.
Not just listen: listen and watch! Biggest and most impressive Live-band ever.
To watch Pulse, make sure it’s the Restored versions for better sound and footage of the band. The greatest concert 🎸
You have to bake up, sit back, and watch the entire concert from start to finish in order. One of the best live shows EVER (and I used to work in the live industry, NOTHING can compare to that show)...
I would strongly recommend watching the movie with some friends in a "relaxed" state, the visuals are very much worth it, but I never see anyone doing a movie reaction to The Wall because of copyright. I wish... but nah, UA-cam wouldn't let it pass.
Airplay Movies has it in segments.
He could just release his full reaction sans music with a time stamp sync
If you do it in parts it works
Various types of 🍄 and 🚬 for that.
+1, I uploaded the full movie on my channel several years ago
The Wall is the wall we build around ourselves, to shield us from the pain of existence. The worse you have it, the higher the wall must be. Sometimes it takes decades to climb over it or destroy it.
I'm 50 and still tearing my wall down bro
"The Trial" all happens inside Pinks own head, just brilliant.
The album ends with the spoken words " isn't this where.."
almost in audibly the album started with "... we came in"
Making the album an endless loop.
The whole album plays inside Pink's head, over and over.
Don't forget "Obscured By Clouds."
It's much less grand in scale than other albums, but it's warm and intimate, and features some stellar musicianship. (What else would you expect?)
Why start there? How about The Final Cut.
@@anthonyv6962 I really like The Final Cut
I was blessed to hear this album in its entirety the night before its release in 1979 at a rock 'n' roll night club in Honolulu, HI. Needless to say, the mood in the room was different going out than it was coming in. We was trippin' balls!
Fantastic! So many reactors react to videos instead of just the straight audio and then get totally distracted away from the music. The Floyd is strong with you!
This album brings me to tears, Basically describes my whole life.
1:37:24 Just wait till you listen to these albums a thousand times each
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Keeezy! This legit my favorite album! There is also a movie connected to it that's a trip!
Glad you do full albums bro. 🎉
Another brick in the wall, the song, really means something to those of us old enough to remember when teachers could, and did, treat students however they wanted and corporal punishment was standard in schools. Along with humiliating us or anything else they felt like. Nobody questioned their treatment of us. And talking back would have you in serious trouble with them, the school, AND your parents.
Yes, I was born in 1953 and this is how the schools were back then , I absolutely hated school and yes corporal punished was practiced in my school, teachers were mean as hell
@@EileenParise I was born in '72 and received the cane and leather strap many times. Swines the were.
I want to applaud you on your steady and persistent pace in diving down this Magically Mystical Pink Floyd Rabbit Hole .. I’m Hella Proud of you !! & Thankyou .. Comfortably Numb live at Pulse is Must See TV🔥⭐️☑️
Roger’s father was an airplane gunner in WWII and was killed in action before Roger was even a year old. I once heard an interview where Roger explained that so many men had been lost to the war. He also said that many of the mothers in his mother’s age group had lost their fathers in WWI and were now losing husbands, brothers, neighbors. The women became extremely protective of their children-especially sons. Knowing that explains Mother and Good Bye Blue Sky a lot.
Roger's father was a 2nd Lieutenant in the infantry.
Where did you hear he was a airplane gunner
@@mufflersponge8969poster probably assumed that from “The Gunners Dream” on The Final Cut.
I may have remembered his father’s MOS incorrectly and conflated it with The Gunner’s Dream.
Yeah he was killed by a bomb from a German Airplane so that’s why you hear the Stuka horn in the first song that transitions into his birth. Great moment of many on this album
You want to be blown away, watch comfortably numb live pulse concert.
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Roger is the singer that sounds harsh and sarcastic. Gilmour is the soothing lighter voice.
Edit: “Silver 🥄 on a chain.” Is a cocaheenah reference. Oh yeah, pls watch a solid documentary on this band. They have a killer story.
Yes, so soothing and poppy that it gets boring after a while. His and the broken voice complemented each other brilliantly. Both sing on the most important songs on this album. The live 2005 version Comfortable Numb from Live 8 is fantastic because it's the first time that both of them sing together again ✌✌✌.
It’s a psychological wall.
With Pink Floyd, my favorite song is always the last one I listened too. I have been a fan since late 70's.
when this album came out in 1979 we didn't have any knowledge of what it was about,and,like you,had to figure the story out on our own. i saw the stage version in 1980 which helped clarify a lot of it,but it wasn't until the movie version came out a few years later that everything became clear.
the story starts out with the character "pink" locked in a hotel room reflecting on his life. he tells us if we want to know what's behind his pain we'll have to hear his story. the next several songs take place in flashbacks of his life. his father died in WWII when he was an infant (the baby crying is him), in school his teachers were horrible to him,his mother was overprotective,shielding him from the harsh realities of life. fast forward to present day, he becomes a rock star and gets married,but while on tour in the united states his wife cheats on him because he's been so detached from their relationship. he finds this out when he calls home to england, and a strange man answers the phone. feeling betrayed he takes a groupie back to his hotel room,but can't get over what his wife has done and lashes out in a fit of rage,trashing the room and driving the groupie out. all these things cause him to build a wall around himself brick by brick. each instance becomes another brick until he finally shuts himself off from the world in his hotel room where he consumes a lot of drugs to numb the pain. trapped behind his wall, he begins to hallucinate,calling out for someone to help him,but no one answers. his mind switches back and forth from the past to the present,evaluating what he's gone through. suddenly his manager breaks down the door,and brings in a doctor to help him sober up to do a concert. the doctor gives him a shot of something that only contributes to his already confused state of mind. he becomes "comfortably numb". they whisk him off to do the show,but his mind has now becomes even more enraged. in his head the concert has become a fascist rally,and he hurls insulting slurs at the audience. at the peak of his rage he puts himself on trial in his mind with his mother,wife and teacher called as witnesses. he comes to the conclusion that he has been guilty the whole time,and must tear the wall down. he realizes that even though he's had all this terrible stuff happen, building a wall wasn't the answer because those who really love him have it even worse trying to reach him through it.
Nope. The cool sci-fi sounds are Richard Wright on keyboards! He also provides a lot of the vocal harmonies on many of the albums.
Gilmour 🔥 Love the line "Together we stand, divided we fall." In the film, main character, Pink, suffers from multiple sources including the war, depression, drug addiction, an oppressive mother, sadistic teachers and violence everywhere. Unfortunately, the end isn't much better for Pink.
YEAH!! 🔥🔥🔥This album is amazing! You're absolutely right about Gilmour's guitar talking 🎸That's one of his special talents, and Gilmour lays down the f**king law in this one. And yeah, now that you mention it, he does get down on that guitar like it's a dirty woman. Good call 😄
Question: do people not use the idiom breaking balls anymore? As in, "Quit breaking my balls!" All the younger people I've seen reacting to this album get stopped up by that line in the song Mother. When someone's giving you a hard time they're breaking your balls. Also, "daisy chain" 🌼🌼🌼in the song Brain Damage from DSOTM makes a lot of the younger people laugh (I know what it means 😄).
👈🏽My profile pic is from the Empty Spaces part of the movie The Wall, which is very cool animation. It's also one of my Pink Floyd tattoos. 😃 Great reaction. It's always fun to see a PF lover hearing them for the first time. They never cease to amaze. You're going to do The Division Bell next , right 🤞🏽🤗🔔 💗✌🏽🤘🏽🖖🏽
The Film WILL help explain the story. It’s about a musician who builds a wall around himself because, of his circumstances. Don’t miss it.
On The Run- the “sci-fi technology” sound as you say is Richard Wright on synthesizers using vibros and bend dials. Wright was an amazing keyboard player. He put the psychedelic into Floyd. He was truly an amazing and creative artist
Hey,great reaction you had .You did this the right way. Most others would skip a ton on this album. For floyd fans this is the worst thing you could do.
Yep **Gilmour** definitely makes his **Guitar** sound like **Human Outcries** i noticed that 1st thing it is so emotional some times it brings me to tears
This is why guitars want David Gilmour for Christmas. Cheers....
@@bazzer124 Awww **Luv** THAT! indeed
This is what i've heard. It's harder to play guitar slower than it is faster. You have to make the notes and chords count, which David is a MASTER!
I wouldn't say harder, but you definitely need to select your notes better. Playing fast is definitely a skill in and of itself, but it is possible to mask wrong notes in a flurry of better notes. David just had an amazing nack for melody. That doesn't come naturally to many musicians.
David said in a interview that he cannot play fast he gets his fingers on the fret messed up so he has to play slow
Gilmore = Fire God - PF had the combination of unique musicians, to create a sound unmatched. You're fortunate to listen to Big 4 Floyd albums, 6 years length for those us back in the day, and you got to heard all within a month. Recommend entire DIvision Bell album first (I think before listening to before the Pulse Live Concert) Welcome to the Machine!
I loved this reaction! ❤ I watched the entire video.
Pink Floyd is just one of many amazing rock bands of the 70's. I recommend you start listening to Led Zeppelin next. And I recommend your first song is "Stairway to Heaven."
For any 70's songs, listen to the studio/audio version first before doing any live/concert version. The sound equipment for live performances back then was not yet matured and many nuances of the songs got drowned-out. Hearing the studio/audio version before hearing the concert allows you to know how the actual song sounds and you'll be able to identify the parts that get lost during the live performance.
The first half of the album are memories of the "bricks" Pink uses to justify isolating himself behind his wall. The second half of the album tells how his own imagination and creative mind betrays his isolation and makes a true nightmare for him. One in which he surrenders, but then he just resets and plays it over in his mind hoping for a different ending.
Roger Waters is telling us that hiding from life's daily struggles is a fate worse than hell. Meeting life's challenges and overcoming them has been Waters' secret to success and his empathy for the rest of us. All the "bricks" in this album are personal to Waters but with a far different outcome.
On another note, the "seagull" sound effect you hear on Echoes and Hey You has a YT video by Gilmourish. Search Gilmour seagull effect. Gilmour definitely is the heavy lifter on this album as well as on the prior albums.
Watching the Wall movie will make all these songs make a ton more sense. BTW the movie has the minimal of dialog, perhaps four or five sentences total. The story is told with lyrics and the "talk" of the instruments.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (ALBUM) was on the Top 200 Billboards charts for 942 straight weeks, over 14 years.
My brother, you have undertaken your Pink Floyd journey in the most profound and beautiful way.
Kudos and respect.
Hey man, I don't have any problems with you stopping at any time you feel like stopping. Don't mind the haters. If someone wants to listen to the song or the album they can always go listen to the song or the album. I'd rather you react just the way you want to react, WHEN you want to react. I'm loving you getting into Floyd the way you are, and you've done it in a great order: DSOTM, WYWH, Meddle (loved Fearless, totally agree, Echoes Live at Pompeii, now The Wall. You could not have chosen a better order, and it was all by chance. Good stuff.
lol I enjoyed this cos I got a new listening vibe off of this and when comfortable numb came on I got those shivers up and down my spine wonderful. emotional stuff 🥹
I want to applaud you on your steady and persistent pace in diving down this Magically Mystical Pink Floyd Rabbit Hole .. I’m Hella Proud of you !! & Thankyou .. Comfortably Numb live at Pulse is Must See TV🔥⭐️☑️You can watch him do those things with guitar with ur own eyes in this video on The most epic solo ever✨☑️
In the scene where he brings the girl in his band trailer, she starts sucking his fingers but he is on another planet....that scene has bugged my nightmares for 40 years.
Goodbye Blue Sky refers to World War II when Britain was being bombed mercilessly by Germany.
The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on!
This is particularly memorable. This premiered on WEBN - they played the entire 4 sides of the album the same night as The Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati OH. We would get a few minutes of news between album sides.
@54:18 you can hear Rick Wright's 'ping' sound occurring but never on the same beat. This keeps the listener slightly off balance. Considering 4 beats per measure, Wright hits the Ping every 5 beats and this makes the sound occur one beat later each time - starting on the 3rd beat and eventually ending on the 4th beat several measures later during this passage. It's the little things....
Looks like this:
1 2 ping 4
1 2 3 ping
1 2 3 4
ping 2 3 4
1 ping 3 4
1 2 ping 4
1 2 3 ping
Guy's ahead of the curve.
This voice is ROGER , men . All album produced , imagined and created an sang by ROGER , about war , father death in ww2 etc.... SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH
Roger and Dave share vocals almost equally throughout the album. The Wall is produced by Roger Waters David Gilmour and Bob Ezrin.
I saw The Wall live back in the day… they only played three cities, London, New York, and Los Angeles. I saw it in LA.. one of the best shows i’ve seen in my life.
These guys deserve their own category and yes there is a pink floyd the wall music video for the whole album you should do it Visually fun !
Once you're done with Pink Floyds back catalogue, you should check out some of Gimours solo stuff too!
Shout out to Roger Waters, who conceived the whole thing and wrote the lyrics. Gilmour plays great guitar and Wright and Mason are always excellent, but in my opinion, Roger gives the band an edge that they dont have without him.
I agree about the edge provided by Water's lyrics, but they'd have been no use without Gilmour's music. David did more than play guitar, without his melody and inventive interpretation I feel this album would have been like a Lionel Bart film, think Oliver Twist.( By the way I think Bart was genius at what he did)
It’s why they were best as a team/band. They had a hell of a run and left us a lot of incredible music. Too bad fevered egos and bickering over credit & creative control for the best of them.
Waters is a great lyricist and conceptualist. It took Gilmour, Wright and Mason to make his ideas musically palatable. This is the reason waters solo albums are monotone and scattered. He didn't have Gilmour around to help him musically.
@@neillenet291 Correct. Add to that that Roger kicked (or forced to leave) all members one by one. Eg. Rick toured for "the Wall" as a paid musician, not a band member (artistically a success, the tour was financially a failure, PF made no money, the only one to walk out with a check was Rick). When he was alone, Waters thought he owned PF. The other three members reformed the band (they always wanted to play together, Roger was the one bringing negative energy), and Waters got mad, and tried to stop them. He spent every penny trying to destroy them, but ultimately failed.
Since then, Waters has tried to erase other member's contributions. His last album is a "reinterpretation" of Dark Side, with a minimalistic approach, but basicly he removed all Gilmour's solos, replacing then with his own spoken lyrics. And he said that it was meant to be like that since the beginning.
It pains me to say it but I despise Waters the man as much as I admire Waters the artist... and The Wall is my fav PF album... as a miminum, his ego robbed us of who knows how much incredible music he could have produced with PF. Not that I dislike Gilmour's era, but that's all about high quality... The Wall is about genius.
And BTW, my obsessions with The Wall kinda makes me undervalue Animals. I hear too many ideas that will be later developed further in the Wall.
@TheMule71 I could not agree with you more. Waters ego got out of control with the success of PF and he started to believe that he was the sole reason for the success. All anyone needs to do to discover how limited waters was as a songwriter, is listen to the Final Cut. It's essentially a waters solo album with minimal input from Gilmour. In my opinion it is absolutely unlistenable. And i've tried many times. The magic of pink floyd is those FOUR guys working together. although to be fair, I think the division bell is a phenomenal album, so Gilmour was quite capable of creating. I think waters is one of the greatest lyricists we've ever seen, and he had great ideas, but he NEEDED those other guys, just as those other guys needed him.
When Pink Floyd did the Wall tour they only played in New York and Los Angeles, the tickets were sold on a mail-in basis and when I heard about it I sent my request in special delivery and I got floor seats in the middle!! They basically acted out this whole album right in front of us including building a wall across the stage and so many different effects it was just amazing! David gilmour's guitar solo on Comfortably Numb was absolutely a work of art, absolutely stunning. Needless to say by far the best concert I ever went to. In my humble opinion there is no band in the world that comes close to Pink Floyd, never has been never will be!!
**Glimour** 🔥🔥🔥
Bruvman yea right there man when Gilmour comes in with that **Guitar** makes me cry every time his **Mother** is smothering him & putting all her fears int him & helping building that Wall around himself going deeper & deeper into isolation tis not good
A lot of the sounds crazy sounds you're hearing are coming from, the late GREAT, Richard Wright (RIP) on the keyboards.
Bass 🐟 LOL.
😉 loving the album reactions.
Great content, thanks for doing this! The lyrics are really important in this, it tells a story. It doesn't have the most flashy songs, but they're an inspiration and great life advice!
this album brought Floyd to the forefront...........MAJOR ALBUM
It was probably the most successful album in the first few years of release, but Animals, WYWH, DSOTM, were ground breaking with the eclectic and psychedelic sounds Gilmore and Wright came up with.
Dark side of the moon came first
Floyd were always at the forefront, since piper.
Maybe overshadowed in the 60's by the Beatles,stones and the who, but they were definitely there and notable.
And Hendrix,
I believe that was Dark Side of the Moon, 1973. This was actually pretty late in their career.
Listened to the whole reaction with you. The Wall was the last album with band members all together. It was 1979. I was 19. It was smokin' Ganga and listening to The Wall.
I was 16 in 1979, and bought this album on vinyl and still have it.
I was 18 when this came out in 79. Played the hell out of this album!
This is hands down the greatest concept album in the history of music! Astonishing.
The song Vera is referring to the war time classic , "We'll Meet Again " by Dame Vera Lynn released in 1939.
We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Gilmore is not the only member of Pink Floyd. The other members, in particular, Waters should be acknowledged.
Have not yet got into, Bring the Boys Back Home yet, but had to comment, as I have tears rolling down my cheeks, joyfully laughing with your comment on Voh Damn, please keep this energy through the next song,,,,, CANT WAIT To See your Expression!!! Love Ya Man!
Hi. Shout out from Australia. Hooked on your Floyd reactions. I'm 62 so I was a teenager when I discovered the Floyd. Haven't stopped loving them. Favourite band GOAT!!!! And that is saying something!!! 70' music fark we were in heaven Ziggy stardust holy sh.t Nway
I started playing drums when I was 11. Still rocking it in a working rockabilly punk band. Still hot 😎 Anyway.. a little history. When the Wall came out most of my Muso friends went wtf is this???!!! Roger Waters bass player lyricist had gotten so dark!!! And still is. Twisted genius! Anyway he eventually lost his band after this album. He also sang most of this which was unusual. He did speed things up a bit. Anyway time to go back to the mists of time. You think some o this shit is freaky. Ummagumma is the bomb. Furry creatures grooving in a forest with a pict woohhhhh. LOL
Not a favourite but really still wkd is one of their earliest which you should explore.
The Piper at the gates of dawn ! Glad you've heard Meddle. Still after dark side near top of my Floyd album list. Anyway I'm half way through your Wall reaction . Played w band all weekend so I'm lying on my bed enjoying the trip with you. Fried!! Some of your comments pre Floyd wisdom are cracking me up.
Thanks heaps. Ok back toit.
i love watching rock and metal guys discover they are hip hop fans, and vice versa. its nice to see people finding anything later in life than i ever could have---AND appreciating it. i only started really listening to rap like 4-5 years ago. i dont know how i made it this far without it. but ill always have my roots. DREAM THEATER RULES!!! labrie is tolerable.
So there is a movie which is pretty good and pretty trippy. If you want to go further you can rent/buy Roger Waters The Wall. You can see The Wall performed in concert. The stage and props are so cool.
the wall movie is free on youtube
Gilmore 🔥 my favorite guitar player ever!
You can always tell the difference between Gilmour and water's vocals, because roger waters has that nasally voice and Gilmour has the very clean, beautiful voice
I've been waiting for this one brother. It's a whole movie in your head.
This album impacts me on many levels. Being a teacher, I never forgot the example it set of the public school system in post-war England, a topic relatable to students across the globe. The WW2 imagery, post-war stoicism, personal references to the life of Roger Waters and even allusions to Syd Barrett, all combine into a narrative that is the foundation for this musical "trip".
Wall Movie (1982) Starring Bob Geldof. It explains the album's story great, half with real acting and half with great, trippy animation.
Definitely check out some live Pink Floyd so you can see David Gilmour playing. He does some {{{chef's kiss}}}🎸🎸🎸 playing on the song Sorrow from the Pulse concert. One of These Days, also from Pulse is a banger. And just because no one ever reacts to this one - Dogs of War from the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert. It has a sax solo that'll melt your face off. 💗
Enjoying your reactions, bruh. What I would like to know is: "Will you tell me if you are gonna lie to me?" 😉
😂😂 never that
There is a live album of the Wall from 79/80, It’s called ‘Is There Anybody Out There’ which blows the studio recording away in my opinion, hearing it performed live in all its aggression is something else, and it has the extended parts on some parts which were edited out of the studio album for LP length reasons. On the live one there is a tune called ‘The Last Few Bricks’ which fires through a medley of the first half of the album and it’s Pink Floyd live at their absolute peak.
Just wait until you get to experience David Gilmore's solo career, his Album On an Island is absolute FIRE 🔥 enjoy!!! Much love and respect from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
This is the one I was waiting for! I’m so excited to watch it!!! Thank you for reacting to it🙏🏻🙏🏻
RIP Richard "JR" Dixon, my guitar teacher who taught me how to play the solos in this song. (Well, he did his best with the student he had.) Miss ya, JR.
Vera Lynn was an amazing singer and amazing woman who sang songs for the troops during the world wars. Remembering her is remembering hope... a hope for a world without war.
Pulse concert should be next please . I was there in 94 in Tampa
"Mother" - He's actually asking all the right questions, which he already knows the answers to. Mother is going to do what mothers are supposed to do. She's going to protect him as best she can... Don't trust the Government or anyone! "Run for President" is a symbolism for "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself". And of course, "Mother didn't mean to be so high". Is the simplest and profoundly shocking way of saying that Mother isn't always right. And yes... Pink Floyd has that phenomenal ability to just suck you right on into his little universe. Only the best artists are able to do that to such a professional level with ease. Pink Floyd is in a league of his own and set the bar phenomenally high with THE WALL. The Dark Side Of The Moon is good, but The Wall puts it to shame in a very good way.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
GILMORE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 he really found his sound on this album. The tones, the effects. THE SOUL he puts into it!!
Well done!! ❤️✌️
The Wall is a theme album (it is actually a two record album set), similar to the Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here albums (which were only one record album each) All the songs tell a chronological story of an individual from birth to their grave, and how they are able to cope with the dystopian world around them.
So I'm 60 and watching you fall in love with Pink Floyd has been a fantastic ride. You clearly get it. From Meedle to the Wall and then to the post Roger Waters years but you have skipped over The Final Cut. Its the last album with Roger Waters, technically the album says written by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd. Roger and David were at odds with each other and many fans love it and many hate it. I am in the love it group. I highly recommend you listen to it. You may find that not every song on the album lives up to that super peak that most every song on every Floyd album does. But you don't want to miss out on songs like The Post War Dream, The Gunners Dream, The Final Cut. Southampton Dock and Two Suns in the Sunset are all musts for any and every Pink Floyd fan. Been loving all your reactions, keep them coming.
This project also rewards real immersion. The movie, the lyrics, the Roger Waters 2014 video, a little background on Roger's life and neuroses, the 1977 In the Flesh Tour, World War II, all can reveal different ways to enjoy this stuff. Time, even years, reveals more and more of The Wall. Or it can just be some cool tunes with sound effects and guitar solos. It's all that really.
Gilmour the Legend 💥💥🔥🔥
Nice reaction. Some day you need to get cooked and react to Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994, on a big screen if possible.
I was at a performance of Pink Floyds "The Wall" in 1980, it was the most incredible, astounding performance of any kind,, that I have ever seen in all my 68 years on this planet!
Just Phenomenal!
The album was first, 1979. The movie, directed by Alan Parker (see his brilliant "Mississippi Burning"), was released in 1982 I think both the movie and especially the album are top notch. Cheers from canada.
This is the best way to experience this album particularly if you follow the lyrics like we did when this album came out. It had lyric sheet included with the album. It is better imagining the story in your head than seeing the movie.
Good bye blue sky refers to having to take shelter as a child during the war. You have to remember these guys are a lot older and are from England.
Now that you've heard the album, do yourself a favor and see "The Wall" movie.
Came out in 1982, and puts images to the music...will blow your mind.
What a movie!
"Hey you out there beyond the WALL"... Has gone over alot of people's heads for far too long, but people are starting to become hip to what's really going on... Sending out great high vibrations & LOVE TO ALL... pass it forward bcuz there is too much hate in this world.
The track “Hej you” sounds familiar because there’s some parts intermixed from “Dogs” on Animals and “Brain Damage” from Dark Side. Don’t overlook “The Final Cut” In your Floyd album reaction journey 👍Some of Roger’s best effort
Just in case you didn't look it up, or no one else cared to go over it yet, "The Wall" tells a story (which is why you have to listen to it in order and often one song bleeds into the next). Here is a rough outline of the story:
It's based around the life of a fictional character named "Pink" (which is loosely based on Roger Waters life and feelings growing up).
In the Flesh and Thin Ice is about "birth" (thus the baby crying you hear) and the second song talks about "Mama loves her baby, and Daddy loved you too".
Starting with Track 3 you delve into Pinks early childhood and his longing for his father who was "flown across the ocean leaving just a memory" when he was sent off to fight at the beginning of World War 2. "Happiest Days" and "Brick Pt. 2" focus on Pink's childhood school-life and abuse / neglect by his teachers who had a rough and unhappy home life who would then take it out of the children they taught in school.
"Mother" is obviously a song about Pink's mother. A single mom, whose kid is having a rough school life and childhood during war times becomes overprotective and becomes an overbearing existence in Pinks life which further starts to give Pink a sense of social isolation. "goodbye blue sky" you hear the child (Pink) say, "Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky", which is about the German Planes flying over Britain and beginning to bomb Britain as WW2 continues (turning the beautiful childhood blue skies Grey and black from smoke).
Starting with "Empty Spaces" and "Young Lust" we move into Pink's adolescent years. Pink is now a late teen (maybe early 20's) and is gaining some fame as a musician. Due to his already difficult upbringing, the "fast life" and drugs drive a socially closed person to develop a mental "Wall" from the pains of the outside world in order to protect themselves from "One of the turns coming on" (a lapse into unstable mental state). You hear him in a hotel room with a Groupie who experiences one of his violent "turns" and as she flees from the situation (like women before her) he begs "Don't leave me now".... During Tracks 12 and 13 Pink has become so mentally driven into a corner he finished "building the wall" to completely shut himself off from the pains of the outside world. In Track 14, aware of the struggles of being isolated he calls out "Hey You!!" to anyone who may be "outside the wall" pleading for rescue or attention unable to break away from this state alone and suffering. He pleads "Is there anybody out there?" and realizes that after isolating for so long and avoiding painful interactions, now there is "Nobody home". Now accepting his isolation, Pink becomes "Comfortably Numb" to the outside world. Still a famous musician at the peak of his career, he dives so far into drugs he becomes nearly catatonic and doctors are giving him drugs to perk him up and get him to perform (as made obvious by the lyrics) because "the show must go on". The 2nd rendition of "In the Flesh" is fully in the depths of madness where Pink starts to envision himself (while performing on stage) as a Hitler-esque type figure leading a crowd of followers (thus why from there on the songs have obvious notes of Racism and hatred of Jews and homosexuals). He tells them to "Run like hell" or they'll be sent back to mother in a cardboard box... "Waiting for the worms" you actually hear him leading a song that as it continues sounds more and more hate filled until nearing the end where you hear him shouting into a bull-horn in a very Hitler like manner... At the end, he realizes he's becoming what he always hated and shouts "STOP!!!! I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show". He places himself in a mental "Trial" (in his own head) and relives the damage and harm his isolationist lifestyle caused the world around him. His Teacher testifies he should have been harder on him and stopped him from showing "human feelings" (which led to his state) to "Flay him into shape", His wife after years of neglect and cheating (as he was sleeping with groupies on the tours his band did) asks if he's "broken any homes up lately?" His Mother (who always coddled and protected him, begs the Judge Worm, "Why did he ever have to leave me, Let me take him home..."
At the end of his "Trial" His Judge (himself) relays a sentence for his Crimes. "TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!" (the one thing that's always made him feel safe and protected but was harming him mentally). The final song "Outside the Wall" is about what others who also "Build a wall" likely have waiting for them outside of it. Family, loved ones, those who will "walk up and down, outside the wall" hoping and praying you'll come out or let them in.
The REAL mindjob that comes out of this, is the album has a line at the end that loops right back to the beginning of track one. Symbolizing that ALL of this, is a cycle that just repeats itself.
A GREAT and well written story disguised as a Rock Album. You have to see a youtube video of the concert being performed live. It's a hell of a show.
One of my all time fave albums .
The mighty Pink Floyd . Epic lyrics , artwork and playing by all musicians .
I agree with your ranking. There are still more albums to go. The Final Cut and The Division Bell are both interesting. But both of them are different from what you have heard so far.
So, that "screaming noise" that you heard during "Is There Anybody Out There" and in "Echoes - Live" is a Gilmour staple. Once, a roadie hooked up one of David's pedals backwards, and caused the guitar to make that sound. David liked it... experimented with it... and the seagull was born.
Great reaction to a somewhat difficult album to get into imho. BTW, a lot of what you are hearing are synthesizers. So when some really interesting sound is occurring that sounds crazy it’s probably not Gilmour’s guitar work you are hearing.
Watch the Wall movie!
Gilmou❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
That's keyboardist Richard Wright playing the synth solo in "Run Like Hell".
The Wall, takes you in, shakes you around for a long time, its some ride...
I was a 17 year old crazy learning guitar (4 hours or more a day), when all this was new to us. I know every word, every note of every song, listened to this hundreds of time.
I've had to recently come to terms with the extreme toxic relationship between my mom and I and I totally understand this record from a different perspective now. The people that influence you when you're younger are people that you're supposed to look up to and trust, and you're too young to realize that these people are actually terrible for you to be around. Your teachers, your parents, and even love interests, if you've been groomed and conditioned to just accept authority without questioning it, you're going to be set up for failure every time.