The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd: The Wall Upscaled to HD using Topaz Video Enhance AI, and re-mixed using Ableton Live.
I served in the US Navy with an officer who was one of the kids. He attended a school in London for American kids of Businessmen, Diplomats etc, and somebody at the school knew the band. They didn’t sing, and had no idea what the video was about, they were just happy to get a day off from school. He told me this before YT came around, so I don’t know which one he is.
@@giannisfragos722 it’s been 20 years, but I do remember him saying that they had no idea on the magnitude of what they were doing. But it beat going to school.
In isolation, the solo of Another Brick 2 is so grand and epic that it alone is capable of moving people. But when added to the scenes of anarchy and revolution of the students finally rebelling against the system that imprisons and disempowers them, there really is no way to hold back the lump in your throat. Absolutely fantastic.
A work of Art right up there with Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart. I was 10 when I listened to the Album for the first time. Now I am 55, the Cassette changed to CD, to DVD to USB to the Phone. The music grew on me.
@@matt8399well, the magic behind Pink Floyd is that even though he’s clearly singing about his experiences with school in the 1950s, the lyrics are still a universal story that we can all relate to no matter what time you grew up in. The message is still relevant today.
@@matt8399learning that gay people exist in school today is not the same as having your creative mind beat out of you by an oppressive school system. It really is not that difficult.
I went to high school in America, and in 1978/79 was my freshman year. All through high school I suffered from manic depression. WAS never treated for it. This song represents exactly how I felt all through high school. Thanks. I am now 60, no longer depressed. I got help AFTER I graduated and went to college and got my first job AFTER college. I did start working when I was 13 years old and paying taxes. Which was a good thing, since I wound up disabled by the time I was 36. Very bad thing happened to me. But I have outlived my diagnosis, should have died years ago, but by God's mercy I am still alive! I was depressed for more than 40 years, finally cured of depression. IF I would have gotten married and had children, I would have home schooled them, or put them in private church school which is much more friendly and safer. I would not subject them to public school. Public school was the cause of my depression and the beginning of my sexual abuse and introduced me to a pedhophile who attempted to murder me. It took me decades to get over what that person did to me.
Words can not describe how much legendary is this music, lyrics and the video. The idea of this song is now shaping the world in 21st century. Respect.
Saw this at 11 years old. It shocked me. Became a fan just like that. I'm seeing it now, again, with 30 years old, can't help but tear up when that solo comes out of nowhere. Its like all the rage repressed by the kids is finally free when that solo comes. When I saw Roger for the first time, there were kids on stage in this song, and when the solo comes they took off their jackets and they had a t shirt that said "fear builds walls". Couldn't stop crying til the end of the song.
1979. I was a freshman in high school. You know, that extremely vulnerable part of an adolescent's upbringing at 15 years of age? I had developed an appreciation for Floyd back at DSOTM, but it hadn't fully developed yet. We had an English teacher (private school) who was from Ireland and spoke in a VERY thick brogue. To my untrained American ears, this broke me. It didn't help that Craig S. behind me used to chant this under his breath during class when he would go ripping off on the football players. :) First time I saw the movie, it moved me in directions I still haven't recovered from. I have seen Floyd live (in one form or another) four times, including Roger's latest worldwide effort. I hope i get to see a few more before I pass. Fantastic music that time will not forget.
Exactly! Simplicity done perfectly. Less is more in this case. Great bass-lines can be simple like this (and Another one bites the Dust) or can be extreme (YYZ- Rush, Teen Town - Jaco etc.) Awesome song.
Love the part where the children break a wall with their axes and crowbars. Shows the message early on that kids naturally won't live in isolation, and it's adults who corrupt themselves.
I really do not like using this quality of language, but I feel compelled to: This album is a work of genius, and every household needs this as much as they need a fridge, stove, and dishwasher. This is how important it is to a national culture and a national understanding. This is the British Upper, Middle, and Working Class culture in one album.
I remember reading somewhere that “Another Brick in the Wall” was banned in South Africa during the racist apartheid regime (which was still going in 1979 when the song came out) because they were worried it might cause rebellions and civil disobedience. By the way, great job on the video. Thank you!
It’s true, my mum said they were banned from singing the song at school- I’d always assumed it was just at that school had no idea it was a nationwide thing
I had a Latin teacher in the 1960s here in Australia. It was a strict private boys school . He was a tough Yorkshireman. He read passages from Caesars Invasion of Britain and had us enthralled by reading the description of the Legionnaires piling up enemy bodies in a river to a height enough for the chariots and wagons to be driven across. We loved up.
This sort of comment is always funny to me because music videos like this are still made. The original "mein herz Brennt" video (not the acoustic one). "Beaten in lips". "Falling away from me" Like pink Floyd, it's not pop musicians making this kind of commentary on the treatment of kids & trauma, or intrusive thoughts about rebellion. In reference to "couldn't be shot today," that is. Another brick in the wall part 2 is definitely a classic and sad that it's commentary is still relevant
Criticism and accusation were subjects of talk , reflection and self reflection. People knew to accept they could be wrong and that not everything is necessarily evil intended. Nowaday each word, each action is seen as a mortal offense.
The repression and conséquent explosion of feelings, the sence of liberation so accurately described in this video, was a reality of many who grew up and had to attend primary schools in the British Isles in the 1950s and 1960s. Not only where this schools extreamely strict, the level of education was high. English education has allways been considered very good, which is why wealthy parents often send their children to english schools. All great British rock musicians who became famous in the late 1960s and 1970s went to these repressive schools, this includes all members of Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and many dozens of other brilliant rock bands of the era that we all rever and admire as truly brilliant. It is my feeling, having myself assisted a boarding school in England at that time, that the success of these bands is to a great extent due to the repressive and yet thorough education they received in childhood. Contemporary rock groups in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe did not receive this particcular primary education so they had neither the deep rooted strong need to express their liberation and rebellion against the establishment nor did they have the higher level of education to express this liberation and rebellion with. These performers with their very sincere, authentic, unique revelius erreveren revolutionary and yet sofisticated and inteligent music, atire, and attitudes charmed audiences all over the world and drove young girls crazy with delight. Because history never repeats and in particular this unique unusual historical sequence of events will never happen again. Groups as fenomelaly great as these will never again exist, although young people of every following generation have and will continue in vain to try to emulate and surpass them.
انتى فنانه انا متأكد لانكى تفهمين فى الفن ..انا بكل تواظع من كتب كلمات هذه الاغنيه وكذالك لحنتها واعطيتها لصديقى الفنان الذى غناها لان صوتى غير جميل لذالك قلت له غنيها واهديكى هذه الاغنيه عربون محبه وصداقه وشكرا..فتاح
In 1978 there were kids locking arms in large groups singing this song coming in from recess, so they banned the song at the school. Humewood Public School in Toronto nr St Clair and Christie This song, album and movie cut through the lies and abuse that we are seeing come to fruition all around us today.
@@cobblestoone It was playing in rotation on Q107 and other rock stations, I think even 104 CHUM FM, and all over my high school, but they banned it at my brother's gr 1-8 school, my brother's 11 yr old friends knew all the lyrics, totally blew my mind at the time. I gotta wonder now, how much impact those lyrics really had. Not enough, in my opinion, especially relative to how much the album is celebrated. I felt very abused by school my entire life, and found great hope in how many others seemed to absorb the ideas on the record. I know now that all living things are kinesthetic learners, movement being integral to the learning process. Thus forcing kids to sit at a desk half the day is sever psychological and physical abuse. So I feel vindicated - and that much more disappointed that the people who knew all the lyrics back then seemed to dismiss out of hand the idea of actually changing it, or even discussing and trying to articulate what the real flaws and issues are ? Since that album, it has been worse than ever - kids being forcibly medicated for 'Opposition Defiance Disorder' for not wanting to be pushed around all day, now we're at the point where the most important issue of the day is apparently what you do with your weenie in your free time for no reason. But I digress. Such an awesome record and movie. A brutal indictment of our world, without much hope of a happy ending. Roger Waters is a quintessential mad, tortured genius.
Hence why critical and analytical thinking skills are necessary rather than anti- Acedemia, Science, intellectualism, empirical data and evidence verses say religious grooming, indoctrination, prideful willful ignorance etc.....
Probably the best music video that exists to this day. I must say that the visuals and practical effects are excellent. Kinda morbid with the grinder one though.
This isn't the original music video, this video is a clip from the movie "The Wall", which came out 3 years after the eponymous album did, and this is the part of the movie that accompanied this song. The original music video was actually half animated in fact. But your point still stands, as a music video it slaps super hard.
@tsunamis82 a nice proprietary blend that came out to be shaped and put into a mold called society with no outlet. (Grow, pay taxes and die) thing is this thing couldn't be more relevant today.
It's the story of indoctrination into a society that sees individuals as part of a machine, the individual characteristics minced to become part of the whole. The meat grinder is just a pictorial analogy of that. Unfortunately that was the case in 1970's Britain just as it is in 2023 Britain for the vast majority.
1:06 That part of the poem is the lyrics of the song "MONEY" (Money get back I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack, New car, caviar, four star, daydream, Think I'll buy me a football team) from the album "THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON". "
This specific music video brings back a lot of memories from my childhood, right now I'm 14 years old but it still brings back memories of when I was like 5 or 6 years old and I'm very happy that my dad taught me what Pink Floyd was, I always played it on the car and I fell very asleep, honestly it is a great band that was a big part of my childhood, this song always made me think about how they teach us to be employees, I quote the song "just another brick in the wall", and it is a great representation of everything that is happening currently, I hope this comment has helped someone, love from Mexico.
Funny story about this song from my country, Ukraine. We have radio station here, that plays only rock. And every first day of the semester, or the quarter (half of the semester), they'd put this song on air, straight up in the morning, right before studies, when parents were driving theirs children to school. I still have no idea if that's coincidence or not, but that's just hilarious to hear "We don't need no education" on your way to school
that wasn't coincidence, just attempt to verify absence of thoughts of the state cattle on a State farm. Everyone was going to get education certificate to have access to State's feeding trough what ever the words.
@@achatcueilleur5746 of course. This is the philosophy of this song. But it was really nice to understand that people on the radio station were getting this song right, and it was super funny to listen to it when you're driving to school. I was always laughing to guts from this everlasting joke
The schoolmaster is played by Alex McAvoy, who died on 16th June 2005 aged 77. His wife is played by Margery Mason, who died on 26th January 2014 aged 100. She also played the Honeydukes Express lady in Harry Potter Goblet of Fire.
Such a good video. Im 66 now and when I watch this it reminds me of how I felt in high school. I was so lucky I didn't blow my lid, as depicted in this video, but sometimes it felt like I was almost there.
@@bennym1956 So, what do you think makes the kids of today the way they are compared to the kids of 60's/70's? I recall the parents of the kids of the 60's/70's saying that when the kids were much better behaved in their day. They grew up in the 2nd world war erra.
An amazing song that will never be out of style! Screaming in the school by the teachers was the norm and not the exception. Yet we the students adapted to it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I loved this song back in the day. I was at school at the time. Looking back it captures the 70's Britain so well. I had a teacher just like this. I used to lookj on this as a dystopian future. But I now look back with fondness.
1:39 "You speak after me: An acre is the area of a rectangle, who's lenght is one furlong and who's width is one chain" Man findet das nicht unter "lyrics" wenn man danach sucht ... furlong = 10 chains
In 1981-82 my dad went to Australia and met someone that was in this music video as a “silly kid”. Since RU-vid didn’t exist then and really the only way for this guy to show people where he was in this video was if he recorded a segment of MTV on a VHS that had this song, he doesn’t know where this guy was in the video.
In elementary school tens of years ago, our teacher was being strict and some of us responded by humming this tune in low volume. The teacher didn't like this and sent us all to detention after school for three hours. Good times.
First heard this song when I was 9years old when my dad played it religiously every weekend now my son at the age of 8years knows the song word for word🎉 still legendary PINK FLOYD 🎉
The Bricks in the wall represent the people who just go along with the systems awful rules, and say “Well, there’s nothing we can do about it”, and refuse to make a change. No group of people understand this feeling more than kids.
As a younger individual, I originally did not understand the meaning of this video nor the song. Now I do. “All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.” The kids going into the meat grinder after walking the same stride, the kids repeating what the teacher says, “you can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” The children are eating the “meat” and repeating the COGs. The system doesn’t want you to be different, they want you to be another cog in the wheel, another brick in the wall and to do what you’re told 24/7 despite their lies. Rodger Waters, lyrical genius. Syd Barrett, helping to create that genius with his vocals. Incredible song.
quando começa o solo me dá um nó na garganta nao sei se é por ser tão lindo o solo com as cenas, nao sei se é por ser tão sutil e real, mas amo demais o pink floyd, minha banda preferida.
Provavelmente são as 2 coisas, migs. O solo isoladamente já é incrivelmente grandioso e épico, mas, de fato, quando se soma às cenas de anarquia e revolução dos alunos finalmente se rebelando contra o sistema que os aprisiona e desempodera, aí de fato não tem como segurar o nó na garganta. Absolutamente fantástico.
My dad thought it was a good idea to show me this video when I was 8, late at night in a motel in France. I still have Vietnam flashbacks from that. The song is still a banger, though
Actually I heard somewhere that the song and video alerted the public to the rigidity of schools and the mistreatment of pupils. It started a conversation that caused the uk government to change school systems for the better
I love this music video, I love the solo and I love the idea of the idea of the children finally breaking free. But in the end when it cuts back to the child in the classroom, it’s very eerie, almost showing that things will never really change in schools.
I was about 7 years old when my older brother showed me this song. That was the beginning of my anarchist thoughts, I think. Anyway, that guitar solo and the children's rebellion makes me cry
Haha I'm in this and looking into camera at 5:30 (tut tut). Wonderful experience for me and my school friends being in this movie. Introduced me to Pink Floyd (obvs) and very thankful for that :)
надеюсь, вы понимаете, как англо-американская система делает уже более 2 веков болванчиков для укрепления своей системы. и Пинки не смогли преодолеть данную систему, она продолжает выпускать этих болванчиков до сих пор. инсайд из 2023 года.
@@alexsas7575 Ты это сейчас серьёзно?Альбом создан в те времена,когда советскому человеку думать самостоятельно запрещалось вообще.Но система-у англосаксов.Притче о соломинке и бревне в глазу больше двух тысяч лет,но русскому человеку хоть кол на голове теши.
@@alexsas7575 В клипе поднимается проблема.Заведомо преувеличено.Это называется «гипербола».В клипе и альбоме описаны послевоенные годы,малыш Пинки вспоминает отца,погибшего на WWII,значит описаны максимум 50тые.В 70тые всё изменилось и радикально.Но русский человек хочет видеть только то,что он хочет видеть.И если сравнить 50сятые в Совке и те же 50сятые в Британии,то по уровню свобод и мнений Совок был где-то между тюрьмой и психбольницей. Про «оттепель» и «ездили туда-сюда» не неси бред.Получить визу для поездки за кордон в 70сятые,это был ещё тот квест.Ты,ЛИЧНО ТЫ,получал тогда визу?Ездил «туда-сюда»? Я получал.По работе.Это был ещё тот маразм.
I grew up on MTV in the 80s… dad was a HUGE Pink Floyd fan, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath and the like - he’d put records on and crank it up on the weekends and we jammed out while he taught me how to fold towels and run the vacuum - stuff like that (mom was out of the picture). Well, I was like 6 when I first saw this video on MTV. Could t look away even though I was horrific. After, I said to my dad, very seriously, “daddy, I don’t want to go to that school”. He says, “well, you better eat your meat and dinner then” (you know, because the song says how can you get your pudding if you don’t eat your meat). Never complained about dinner again!
I was in the 10th grade when The Wall came out. I got sent home because I wore the Pink Floyd t-shirt. The principle told my Mom that I was trying to start anarchy in the school. I was just a teenager liking a popular band. The next day half the students in my school, including myself, wore our The Wall t-shirts to school. Not a word was said to us by any of the teachers. At the time, I just thought we were being cool. Of course, years later I would get that we were making a stand for our freedom of expression.
