yes!! even when i haven't heard the songs in a long time i immediately recall every word and keep up. i can take you through every word of the movie. my brother took me to see it when i was 13. it was in the theater. It was a awesome!!
Right?! Remember when the album first got airplay and all you heard were three songs from the whole album? But fortunately, we all knew it was 'Floyd so we all went out and bought the album! and then the freakin' movie comes out and my mind gets blown!!!
Thank you England for giving us David Gilmour. His voice in the live version in 1980 specifically for “ Comfortably Numb” is ethereal. It’s on you tube
Definitely! We need a reaction to that! The video version, from the movie! Such am amazing song! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJUuDoRZpyU.html
that's my favorite from The Wall. I'll be honest, i don't like the Wall Album all that much. I'm more of a fan of Division Bell or Meddle. the wall has some great songs in the album but the album overall i don;t care for. I'm weird, i know.
Myself and 3 friends were extras in The Wall movie when they filmed the segment in Alexandra palace, to see us we purposely wore Union jack T,Shirts so we'd stand out because we were all wearing masks. As payment we got to keep the masks, got a fully signed copy of the album, and free tickets to the premier.
Finished work one night in '79 when I was 19. Went straight to the record store to buy the new Floyd album. Took it to my room when I got home and played it through lying on my bed in the dark (except when I had to turn on the light and get up to flip/change the record). When it ended, I lay there in the dark for 15-20 minutes pretty much mind-blown. Then I got up, put on side 1, and played the whole damn thing again. I'm 60 now and seeing you, Jamel, loving this fine album, is tonic for my old soul. Sometime, put on the whole album and listen to it laying back with your eyes closed. Doesn't have to be vinyl, so you don't even have to get up to change the record. Thanks for this. What a joy to see your enjoyment.
This song perfectly captures that feeing of being alone. That feeling of being misunderstood and reaching out for one other person who gets where you’re coming from.
I've been listening to Pink Floyd for 50 years. The hauntingly beautiful music juxtaposed with those poignant lyrics just sucked me right in and never let me go.
@ted ritola been listening to Floyd since before the 70's. What was better than a bunch of teenagers on a Friday or Saturday night back in 68 - 69 listening to Ummagumma and the Sid Barrett - Be Careful With the Axe Eugene track. Other favorites on those occasions were The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord and Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Ride My Seesaw and The Doors - The End. Yup! Music to make one ponder. Or as we called it back then ..... Head Music.
Recoiling from, and putting blocks up against, different kinds of madness in others, until the defenses turn the isolated one mad, written by one who who leaned into the adage to "Write what you know."
There's still modern albums that play like that. I can even think of a hip-hop album from a couple years ago: Lupe Fiasco's "Tetsuo and Youth." Groups like Haken are still doing awesome concept albums (basically their first three were all concept albums). They're not as common as they used to be, but they're still around.
The entire Wall album is a masterpiece about depression, and the album title is a symbol of the emotional wall being gradually built higher by the main character.
And how Gilmour's loss of his father in WWII on the Italian Anzio line. The film goes into most of it, but the Netflix version goes deeper into it with more feeling.
Imagine being 18 years old and fresh out of high school and going to college full time during the day and working full time in the evenings and living on my own. That was me in December of 1979 when 'The Wall' came out. I listened to that album non stop for the next 4 months into 1980.
I did not end up going to college out of HS. I went to work in the factory in 79 and listening to this until the concert on 27 Feb 80 at Nassau, and long after. Peace. Class of 79
This album was given to me just before it was released, i have a cousin who worked in the music industry and she was given the album, she didn't know, or appreciate Pink Floyd, so she gave it to me...i grew up in foster homes and i had no idea that anyone could describe or even know how I saw the world, until I heard the lyrics...I was blown away, because I didn't even realize that i had the biggest wall around me, and I was just surviving, rather than consciously living...The Album changed my life and sent me on a completely different course in my life...Music is the stuff of life, it moves, soothes, enlivens, invigorates, and touches or souls in such a profound way that, when I hear a song from my childhood...sometimes I am transported back to a specific point in time, I get a visceral response that is so real it is like I went back in time.
Yup I go back in time too with some songs, Bless your cousin for giving you that album. Music can make us all see the world differently and make it better for us.
Dude ..similar but different stories...I recorded this under my friends big ole console record player back in the 70's onto cassette...I was probably 8 years old then. When we moved to florida, my life changed and wound up in and out of foster homes and such after age 11. It was this tape, and Diary of Madman album that got me thru those years. I get ya on your last part there too, where just something triggers something and takes you back to that place.
I hope u still hav it, although you've probably worn it out!😅 it wouldve been a 1st edition pressing from th master tapes, & audiophiles 2day would pay an arm & leg 4 it, even in good condition! Mint, & it'd b both arms& legs!🎸🎶🍻
Pink floyd is in a class of their own. Gilmour's soothing voice and heart felt solos could make the bloody devil cry. Waters lyrics, haunting voice, and writing capabilities clearly makes him a visionary artist. Mason, and Wright, well I can go on forever. They definitely touched something special for a while, and last but not least Syd Barret, original vocalist and guitarist was a brilliant and talented musician who was the topic in many of Floyds works made the band what they are. The world will never see the likes of this group again. Carry on with their catalog, you won't be disappointed. 🐖
Jamel, when Pink Floyd played the Wall live they built a Wall across the stage brick by brick... You can find the live concert from 1981 or 82 i think on RU-vid. But first listen to the whole album it is a complete story that will take you on a journey... Same goes for most of Rush's 1970's albums.
The concerts actually represent a truer version of the entire work than does the album, as the latter had to have songs removed to fit onto a "double".
It is a MUST that you listen to the whole album on your own. It is Roger Waters masterpiece, in my opinion. Saw him do the The Wall live in it's entirety years ago, and it rated as one of the best shows I've ever seen. Seeing the movie first might be a good idea, then the album will make more sense. Either way, you'll enjoy it. ✌🏼
Meyzen76 one of my first 10 concerts was Floyd the division bell tour. I had a few hits of acid and it was a crazy experience they put on one hell of a light show. The visual effects were just amazing.
@@trentbresler3179 my first concert ever was Pink Floyd, Division Bell tour, Oakland Colliseum... but I kinda-sorta-accidentally-whatever took a quarter sheet, so was pretty nonfunctional the entire time... still had a blast... had to sit down for the spinning orb thingie, making the entire colliseum look like it was spinning in circles...
One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. It reminds me of my brother who was in an accident and then a coma for almost a year..... Still brings tears to my eye over 35 years later....
This album was epic to a 16 year old boy. It still speaks volumes to a 53 year old man. This is one of those "moments" in music that are as relevant now as they were 35 years ago. A true classic.
You really need to listen to this entire album from beginning to end, not skipping any songs you may already have heard. This album is a single storyline from start to finish. After you're done, search the story itself so you can see how much of it you got on your own. And once you have the story, go back and listen a second time. It'll blow you mind ♥
@@robertlongwill8856 Sad to say, I don't know..don't have the album. If so, it's not the same one. If you haven't seen the video, certainly worth taking a look. It's on my playlist if you don't feel like searching for it. Loved seeing them perform. Shoot, now I gotta go listen to it, LOL!
When you hear this in the context of the whole album, you'll notice that the first instrumental break is a callback to a theme that recurs at various points, "Another Brick in the Wall" ("We don't need no education") which gets darker every time it appears...
There are very few songs that can bring me right back into the headspace of being stoned as hell just space cruising and pondering reality from a dream-like, elevated, yet somehow simplistic contradictory state.
Yeah, you really do have to listen to The Wall in one sitting to understand it. And like all Pink Floyd you really need to listen to it on a really good sound system to truly appreciate it.
That just took me back. I was 14 when I discovered Pink Floyd, and boy how important it was in shaping my perception in those years and eventually up to this point in life.
I feel like most 12 year olds wouldn't appreciate it. I've played music like this around my younger family members and they'd call it boring, while playing with the most vapid and soulless sounding modern music.
I am soooo glad to see that you have been turned on the the greatest musicians ever... PINK FLOYD!!!!! PLay every album 1000 times and they will always keep growing on you!!!
Bro... 10000%. Greateat ever and #2 band is soooooo far behind.every Gilmour solo, singing, Richard, Roger, Nick,.... perfection and such therapy to my soul.
Pink Floyd were such a groundbreaking band, from their conception right up to the end of their time together. "The Wall" is not an "easy" album, lots of emotional torment and deeply seated trauma. I've heard it so many times but, honestly, I got goosebumps today watching your reaction. Thanks, Jamel, carry on... you're doing a mighty fine job! Stay safe, everyone!
There is a live recording from an event at Potsdammer Platz, Berlin 1990. I went there and it was the biggest event I've ever attended. It was the summer after the fall of the wall separating "the west" and USSR and the eastern block, so it attracted an audience from all of Europe. I heard all kinds of languages spoken, as people were bussed in from all over. I had bought a ticket including bus from Copenhagen, when we arrived the ticket-controllers did not even control my ticket as so many people came ... many more than had bought tickets. We just flooded in. And the whole setup was prepared for us! The best sound ever! (That was what you'd come to expect from Pink Floyd) All the tech and stage-show was over the top, including "speakers" and screens amongst the audience. From where I stood the people on stage was only 1-2 cm tall, And we were crowded! The performance itself included guest-stars, not only pink floyd. I still get goosebumps just thinking of Van Morrison singing "Comfortably Numb". I really really wish, that as you explore more of Pink Floyd you will lend an ear to the live album from Berlin and that version of "Comfortably numb" featuring Van Morrison.
David Gilmour is playing fretless bass here. Roger Waters had minimal functioning knowledge of the bass he played, so on a lot of their studio output, it was actually David Gilmour playing bass. David won Roger many polls for best bass player, and Roger used to thank David for making him look good again, and Roger got credited for David's playing.
It starts with David singing, then "Well it was only fantasy" Roger. They used to switch up alot. Very apparent in "Comfortably Numb" and "Dogs." Also from The Wall, please react to "Mother"
Big J, I can tell it's important to you to know that you're bringing enjoyment to the masses. Well, speaking for myself, you 100% are. When I first discovered your channel I thought the fun was in watching a young buck discover the music that I grew up with and love (I'm 50). Also, honestly, it is interesting to see what a young black man who comes from a totally different culture than me (or so I thought) would think listening to "white music". All those are positive things and I applaud you doing this. But now, your channel now feels like hanging out with a friend. Your looks when certain parts of songs hit, your humor with certain things, and learning more about you...it's just been a great joy. As for the "so I thought" comment, I've learned from watching you that we really are not very different at all. Honestly, I grew up in the country in the south and there were only like 5 black people in my school...all of them country as hell! Usually what we are presented on the news of the more urban black folk is less than positive. But watching your channel routinely I've been enlightened to the fact that we are not very different at all. You're a good guy, man. We can all tell that. Music unites. THAT is the shirt you need to sell. Music unites.
It was such a blessing and honor to watch you be turned on by the World's greatest music. So glad you are appreciating and what's really cool, is they stay with you thru decades of your life. Enjoy my Brother...much Love to you and yours ☮️
Pink Floyd is great because as you said, the lyrics touch you and the delivery is spot on. The inflection, the feelings in the words are incredible. But the thing about the music is, nothing is there because they were trying to fill some space. Every sound, every note, even the moments of silence are crafted to perfection, without being over done. I have always enjoyed to listen to music and be able to pick it apart, listen to the bass listen to the lead guitar, try to hear each instrument on it's own, and this music is so easy to do that with. Also I enjoy how the bass and the lead guitars share the front time.
Jamel, when you are ready to hear The Wall all the way through, I suggest watching the movie. The album tells a story, but if you watch the movie it will be easier to understand first time through. It's very deep. The movie is like one giant music video that takes you through the story song by song. Here is the trailer to the movie. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TPTLIVPqThY.html
I just had a thought while listening to your reaction video. I fell in love with Pink Floyd when I first heard Dark Side of the Moon. Their sound was so fresh, but deep...really deep. It made me think, made me question. That was just over 50!!! years ago. I'm 62 now, and my musical instincts have evolved over the years, but I am hearing things in their music I missed before, or wasn't ready to receive in my youth. Musically, philosophically, spiritually, I have grown and am rediscovering them all over again. What's more, because of the internet, I'm watching OTHERS discovering them, and it's so affirming, and rewarding to see the awe that Pink Floyd inspires in us all. I am out of words...😅
This is arguably my favorite "classic era" Floyd song. It just feels like everyone was in perfect form and it's the perfect encapsulation of their sound...to me. :-) Great reaction!
I was thinking that "the Stone" is a recurring theme on Pink Floyd's music, like some metaphor for a burden or difficult obstacle to overcome. You can ser it on Dogs, Pigs on the wing, Hey you, On the turning away (pls react to this one), and Learning to fly, for exemple.
Rick Wright's solo contribution to an early Floyd effort Ummagumma, was a tone poem using the myth of Sisyphis. So yes, the stone represents the ultimate burden. Nicely observed!
"Together we stand, Divided we fall." now more than ever, taking the night off and trying to not get political.. buuut I'm a few beers deep and can't help myself. >XD Love the vids brotha Jamel I know RU-vids a struggle, but you have me wanting to start about 3 channels
The best way to experience The Wall is to watch it. I've always owned a copy of it, first on VHS, now on DVD. Everytime you watch it there's something new, which is amazing.
This is actually the turning point in the story that is "The Wall". It's when he turns from asking for help, into anger and lashing out. I recommend listening to the whole thing, but not if you're depressed.
I disagree only with one thing, that you shouldn't listen if you're depressed. I've many times found it incredibly therapeutic when depressed, helping me to let the feelings out, than find my way back into equanimity :)
Your right man Pink Floyd was a well oiled machine. (high performance)Blending feelings and lyrics like no other Artists had done. You and i have the same type of connection with Pink Floyd. To sum it up WE GET IT
