I know touchy subject, but was watching another reactor and he didn't stop the videos once, I watched 6 videos, he's fairly new 6k subscribers, does it matter how many viewer's?
Being British I'm not really one to espress pride in many things about my country... but pound for pound We really have excelled in producing amazing musicians.
So true, so very true, and I would include your authors and your actors as well...Brits are second to none in the creative arts, you actually have a lot to be proud of.
I believe most if not all of Floyd's albums should be listened to in one sitting...then, then you will understand the the "hits' much better, but truly Floyd is to be given every chance to experience and understand their incredible talent. Rock On
I had a teacher in high school who used The Wall as a lesson in existentialism. He had about twenty pages of typed notes, iirc. He gave everyone in class a copy and we watched the movie over the course of five days, stopping to go over his notes and discuss. He did this with every class. Thank you, Mr. Rybarczyk.
Must have been an interesting discussion when he paused the movie after the bathroom scene when Geldoff shaved his eyebrows and nipples off... "Ok class, let's hear your thoughts!.. Annie, why don't you start us off??"
I was in Canadian High School when this was released, A friend played it full volume through his high powered car stereo right beside the school. That was the last day you could get a car that close to the school.
Yep, a commentary on the industrial education complex, treating kids as meat and teaching them to be good little humans and think what we want you to. Not teaching them critical thinking. ie look at all points of an argument and think for yourself.
Its starting to go back to that these days, with people telling everyone this is how it should be and if you don't think like that your a bigot or racist. Roger Waters was ahead of his time with his lyrics.👍
Pretty much how it was when I went to school many many years ago, a lifetime away back in the 1960s and the 70s. I'm guessing that now it's less obvious but much more insidious.
There's nobody like David Gilmour, but Joe Satriani makes his guitar sing. That's why he doesn't need vocals. He gets unfairly dismissed as a "soulless shredder" by people who've never listened to any of his albums. But if you like soaring guitar solos full of melody, he is the man.
My Dad told me that this is what teachers were like after WWII. Those that returned and became teachers were like this in his experience. It must be some sort of PTSD. I think Arnold Schwarzenegger recently spoke about his father being like this after the war too.
That and the school system thinks this is how to treat young minds. Maybe back then it fit but now it doesn’t. We need education that lets us express us and being creative
I was born in 1951 in Québec (Canada) and I do not think that the nuns that hit me in 1957 in school had PTSD. I think that they were frustrated for being forced into becoming a nun. I despise all religions because they all have the same goal control our mind.
"Money, get back I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack" "New car, caviar, four star daydream Think I'll buy me a football team" Those are lyrics from Pink Floyd's song Money from The Dark Side Of The Moon album.,
Yes, exactly, and the Dark Side of the Moon album went on to be certified Platinum 14X, with sales over 46 million. It spent 1,716 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart...setting a nearly un-breakable record for longest time on the chart. So when the teacher says to Pink, "Absolute rubbish!" he could not be farther from the truth!!!
it also got a special tag in billboards magizine.. where it said how long the album had been on charts.. you usually see a number of weeks listed.. Dark side of the Moon tag read - Forever
Saying goes that anyone that came up through the English school system and did a stint in the British Army would feel right at home in a third world prison.
Fun Fact: the poem that the teacher reads out loud after catching Pink writing in his journal and calls rubbish are lyrics to the very popular Pink Floyd song "Money"
@@user-dx9ux4rq4e It means you have to eat all of your dinner before you can have your dessert. Kids generally want dessert. The dessert is an incentive to eat their crappy dinner.
@Jangler333 Not sure about that. When it first came out, I overheard some older people talking about how they had dropped acid about an hour before the movie started. That meat grinder scene came up and they were not having a good time by the sound of it...😂
As a 70's & early 80's kid, they are one of the greatest bands from the time, but it does help to understand better if you roll a fat one and just kick back and listen.
Pink Floyd played this live during the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Put the headphones on, close you eyes and listen to the album as it was intended. I love the story telling in albums from the late 60s through the 70s. This is the apex. It's emotional.
@@barrycohen311 ...still have image in my head of my 3rd grade teacher pulling a student through ROWS of desks by his ear to throw him out of class. I can picture it right now.....her name...Sister Bridgette.
@@jdog6620 My mother still has (awful) memories of her strict catholic school nuns in the philippines. Salted yardsticks, the whole nine yards. I'm sure she remembers every one of their names. Awful thing to do to children.
@@missbelled6700 wasn't jisthe nuns it was all teachers i saw my friends little brother being lifted off the ground by the ear and thrown across the yard like a ragdoll hewasnomore than 5 and us 7.im 48 now and that's still as clear as day.children were regularly beaten for nothing more than existing.
When I was in first grade, a 6 year old child, I had a teacher hit me with rulers for being hyperactive. Happened a handful of times. Once she even used my belt to strap me to the chair and left me alone in the classroom, still strapped, while my classmates went to recess. That woman should have never been a teacher. Her home life must have been dreadful. If someone does that to my daughter, we are going to have serious problems.
When Roger Waters performed The Wall tour, he hired local high school kids to perform the chorus. It was pretty awesome to see them perform in front of thousands of people.
Laura, please listen to the Roger Waters interview with Marc Maron on WTF podcast.. great interview, and he tells a story about the kids who come up on stage to sing
The Wall's a pretty fascinating and frequently horrifying look at fear, abuse, neglect, and isolation. What gets me is when you look at it from a current perspective it becomes kind of a window on how the disenfranchised and downtrodden can (and have) become radicalized. It's not a pretty view by anybody's measure, but it's poignant as hell.
Good comment. Society has been on a downward path for decades and we’re rapidly approaching the point where the system will be town down and anarchy will prevail followed by a brutal dictator. So sad.
@@SignalCorps1 Sorry Eric, I'll have to respectfully disagree with your stated pessimistic view of life. Nine or so months ago we were firing on all cylinders. The virus has created an opportunity for a lot of bad things to occur. But these things will pass if good folk truly educate themselves, make their voices heard, and act honorably and with respect toward others. We'll get there, just give it time and be righteously vigilant. I wish the best for you and for all here. Be well. 🙂
The whole students falling into a meatgrinder is a metaphor for the over a strict school system that would grind creativity right outta a lot of kids, leaving behind a life as meaningless as ground meat.
And now they're trying to reform it, bring back that creativity... To kids of parents that it was ground out of. It's easier to remove something like that, than to try and get it back
@@RichardX1 I think everything from Dark Side of the Moon to The Final Cut was a self-therapy session for Roger. Still, writers have to get their material from somewhere.
The full movie Pink Floyd's The Wall is a fascinating watch. You see the kids ripping up the system that's grinding them down . . . but then you see what they grow up into.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver That's not true. Thoughts are just there. You are the observer of the thoughts. Thoughts come and go whether we want them to or not. Problems arise when we identify with thoughts.
The tough teacher scolding the kids at school only to come home and be scolded by his wife , just incredible . The fletcher memorial is another floyd song , amazing undertones .
We were 16. This movie came out, and I don't remember how it came to be, but this was my first date with a girl down the road from me, We lived in the sticks outside a small town, our families were very familiar with each other, and she was close in age to me, but just enough to be in different classes. One our parents dropped us off at the theater, and we saw this movie. It was incredibly profound for those our age. But anyhow, we then walked a couple blocks to a local pizza shop and had a late dinner just the two of us. We probably should have married but we went in such opposite directions in life. The original radio version of this didn't have all the extra voices until the very end, so we were very shocked by what the movie had for this song. Then 16 years ago, I was on my last six month deployment in the Navy in the Arabian Gulf. We had a pickup cover band form. The original two did this thing where they played Another Brick in the Wall parts 1, 2 and 3 in sequence with really cool transitions.
@@haroldwhite5761 teacher needs his ass kicked. From 4th grade to 8th grade i got my ass beat about twice a month. After i made high skool i never got touched. Mostly because I was a football player and if you got yer ass beat you couldn't play that week and I became a better liar.
In the town it was well known when they got home at night their fat and psychopath wifes would thrash them within inches of their lifes. They are on about the teacher.
the entire album the Wall is about a descent into madness. This is just one of the reasons the Main character goes insane, or as the album just another Brick in the wall isolating the main character inside himself. The whole album is amazing
Funny story, when my son was young I was trying to get him to finish his dinner and casually said "How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat". He was quite upset to learn we didn't actually have any pudding.
Jamal, you are one of the most important individuals doing this 'reacting to' stuff on on the internet. I'm a British musician, and you are coming across as such a decent human being that it's a privilege reacting to you reactions. Thank you my man for making it so real. P & L to you brother. Mike
Good song although I prefer the Pulse version (which is the same as the one on Delicate Sound of Thunder). Another great choice track is On the Turning Away which you will love.
"The Wall" Should be experienced in it's entirety. It would probably be a bit much to react to as a whole; But it's something every music lover should watch. It's a masterpiece.
I watched it one time when I was tripping with a friend and both of us didn't say a single word during the movie. The moment it was over I said, "that was the greatest thing that I ever watched in my life". It was an experience.
@@scorpiusbalthazar4327 watch it repeatedly on psychedelics and it’s never the same each time you watch it. I used to trip fairly regularly in my early to mid 20s and The Wall, Fight Club, Go, Vanilla Sky, Butterfly Effect, Mr. Show, South Park, Chappelle Show, Natural Born Killers, A Clockwork Orange, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, and The Yellow Submarine were staple trip entertainment. Get a trip toy, these movies, and some orange juice and hall’s vitamins c drops to keep your mouth moist and you’re good to go.
I won’t date anyone that doesn’t love Pink Floyd. I’ve logged so many hours listening to them. I am pretty sure my hippy dad and mom conceived me them and other prog rock bands in the early 70s. Notable mention. Led Zeppelin. They gotta love the Led too.
Roger Waters lost his father in WWII when he was an infant, the entire Wall album is a story about his personal experience from losing his father WWII.
You are correct but that is only one layer of the multi-layer cake that is The Wall. It's really about the social/psychological barriers, or walls, we all build to protect our emotions, sanity, and lives.
@@MsPrincesspaulina It's deep for sure, the common thread was his emotional void from the fallout of WWII that was systemically prevalent, then the cold war following. The rest is his emotional mess explained in music.
@@MsPrincesspaulina Indeed. The lynchpin of Roger's creation was the night he spat in a fan's face for getting too close to him. It ate him up inside, and he felt the wall within him growing.
the song can be read on many levels, many focus on physical abuse or the conformism of the school system. in reality the video denounces the daily indirect abuses that we suffer without being able to react by someone who has a dominant position or who has the monopoly to say what is true and what is right, in our life we meet many authorities that we cannot contest and that they take advantage of their position to impose their own vision of politics, moral, social, economic or whatever ..., we see it every day from teachers to newspapers or media, youtube, twitter, facebook, how many opinions and facts are censored? (even here in Italy) how many times we would like to say: this is not true, this is just your opinion ... you say this because you want it to be so ...
You described today's world in a nutshell. Pretty soon we will all be walking zombies, unable to think or act of our own accord. Disturbed's "The Vengeful One" encapsulates your words. I can just imagine what The Almighty, on high, must be thinking about what HIS children have become. Sometimes you have to put everything on the line to stand strong for what is RIGHT.
This is a clip from the film of Pink Floyd's album, "The Wall". It's their big rock opera, about the life of rock star Pink Floyd, who goes through some shit. This part of the film takes place in the 50's, when Britain was struggling after WW2. (The shot of the train with the hands reaching was a nightmare image from the war, of people being transported to concentration camps.) LOTS of kids lost their fathers in that war; a whole generation was scarred for decades by it. And those schools were brutal, yeah. (A lot of this album was autobiographical, from Roger Waters's life.) I recommend you sit down and watch the whole film sometime. It really is very good, starring Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats, with some surreal animation work by Gerald Scarfe.
@Seral3 Very much this. Comment was spot on. The animation is superb, and very different. From one point of view some parts of the film are quite dark, but at the same point in time I almost always feel better after watching it. Im not a Pink Floyd fan, I respect them, but generally its not my kind of music, except this album & film.
It also parallels the life of Adolf Hitler. He lost his father at a young age and was raised by a controlling mother. As an aside, watch the movie "The Boys from Brazil". If you watch, you'll see why.
The movie had its problems, especially an overly indulgent Alan Parker (see Tommy: The Movie for similar failure by a director). It is interesting if you enjoy dark, nightmarish imagery; and is largely faithful to the original album, which tells the story much better, but this film seems to this observer as more an extra-long music video than a movie.
@@stantheman9072 I think you nailed it. It is like a long music video, but I think that's what it's supposed to be. I think the film matches the album, though, in dark, nightmarish imagery. It's a dark album. Examples: "Don't be surpised when a crack in the ice appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth, and out of your mind, with your fear flowing out behind you, as you claw the thin ice." The album starts with this (I know - 2nd song, but close enough). "Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true. Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you." "Hey you! Out there beyond the wall ,breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me?!"
@@alrivers2297 Church of England was the religion at the school I attended, and we had mandatory services every day of the week, Sunday through Saturday. Basically Catholic "light" - most of the same ceremony, just no confession or Pope. Thanks Henry VIII.
My mum went to a couple of convents in Ireland in the 60s/70s. She one said "there was one sister that was nice". One. All the rest sound like sadistic characters out of a Roald Dahl book. Seriously, why even be near kids if you hate them?
I did! Thank god I only came out if it with only a few bruises & a deep motivation to rebel & question every single attempt at "thought control" & "dark sarcasm" and attempt to be institutionalized ever since!! This song just pops into my head & I remember that I'm not another brick in the wall.
Nerdy chef here. To take it even further, in England, pudding was made from meat renderings, and not always a sweet dish. My, uh, accomplices in the kitchen world and I always associated the line with, you can't have pudding without meat. 👍👍
In the1970’s, in my part of northern England, school lunches were referred to as ‘school dinners’ and pudding was a generic term for dessert, although not all puddings were actually ’puddings’. The threat of denial of pudding as an incentive to finish the main course was not uncommon, however in the case of Tapioca pudding it was not really a punishment, more an act of mercy.🤮
@@stevewhite9308 I'm with you 100% on the definition, plus the time frame and the locale. Personally (perhaps perversely) I didn't mind the Tapioca pudding (that's the one we referred to as Frog Spawn, right?)
Jamel, there were lots of couples like this in the 50s, so spiteful to kids as their own lives were unhappy, and kids thought I am not going to be like that and so came the swinging 60s. The kids who sang on the record were from Islington green school, which was in the street were I lived, and where my son went to school. He was so disappointed he was too young to be involved. Pink Floyd stored their equipment 2 streets away from were I lived and I never met them. I do remember we got fed up with their stuff blocking the road. Lol. Happy days.
When the movie "The Wall" was being released I was in the theatre with my mother. The trailer for The Wall came on and EVERYONE but my mother started singing. She swiveled in her seat in awe. Plus, she was a teacher!
Yeah, there’s a lot to unpack here. Nonetheless, The Wall is a masterpiece, IMO, worth the effort to look into more than just the music. BTW, the entire album is a story. One song, taken alone, won’t likely mean much.
I saw them live in concert @77 or 78 at the Long Beach Arena. One of the most exciting ever. Throughout concert they started with one layer of the wall and bye the end of the concert finale, they put the last brick in to finish the show. It was totally awesome. One the best bands of the era !
This is from the movie Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”....The song is from their album “The Wall” but this particular excerpt is from their movie. Which happens to be amazing.
Remember people, these were hits back in the day. Everybody thinks entertainment gets edgier with time. Yeah, it doesn’t. It’s gotten far more stupid and boring,
Hidden message, "We don't need no education" is a double negative and actually means we do need education, just not the type seen in the video. As a teacher, this is one of those songs that I keep in the back of my mind to keep me on the right path.
I had a teacher that had “how can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat” to remind us no rewards unless we did the work. He also showed us Monty Python and the holy grail
The underlying message is meant to explain how academia strips our individuality, encourages mental conformity and that radical ideas such as free thought are viewed as a threat. Hence The Chorus lines: "We Don't Need Education/ We Don't Need Thought Control (referencing mental conformity)...We're All Just Another Brick In The Wall (as in lacking individuality)...Hey Teachers, Leave Those Kids Alone."
It's sad that "The Wall" was released in 1979, over FORTY YEARS AGO and yet, what has changed? IMHO, the world is worse as far as conformity goes. The internet and social media has driven each person to be cog in the machine; another brick in the wall. I remember buying "Wish You Were Here" as a new 8 track tape in 1975, and hearing "Welcome to the Machine" for the first time. Pink Floyd (and many other rock bands and artists) warned against getting caught up in the madness that is governmental control. We were all prepared for what was to come in 1984 (read George Orwell's book of the same name). Instead, the powers that be waited for a generation to begin the assimilation of the young. Look at what's happening now. How many people can let go of their smartphones for an entire day? "All in all we're just another brick in the wall." And it's only going to get worse.... 😪😞
You're right about the message being deep - so deep a lot of authoritative countries - and others - banned the song. It got a lot of air play in the west, though, though when it was released.
The moral is "school sucks but British schools suck extra because if the teacher's angry about their home life they can literally take it out on you by whipping you with a belt" pretty much. And I mean you were saying "what the hell" before the factory scenes... so yeah, The Wall is really about his extremely personal/specific hang-ups about not having a dad, school days, hating being a famous rock star. So... basically this was Drake before Drake.
eu tenho 54 anos ,lembro quando essa canção saiu ,foi guerra nas escolas em toda parte, a canção foi proibida na Inglaterra e vários países ,ate a rainha de Inglaterra interveio para não passar mais na radio, todos alunos que cantam foram expulsos da escola.
UK schools, especially back during Roger's day, were all about proper spoken, uniformed, cookie cutter children that had very strict and often cruel teachers (headmasters).
Omg I could not stop laughing to this reaction lol thank you for that. I can't believe you've never seen this LOL but I'm glad to see you watching it for this first time
"The Wall" is about all the barriers you put up to keep anyone from learning the real you and maybe hurting you. The conformity from teachers and school is just another brick in the wall.
As I understand it: traditionally the British private boarding school system was very harsh, with physical punishment and shaming rampant. It was an extreme system designed to beat and shame kids out of all sense of individuality and creativity. I believe that most education is designed to create drones, an industrial society needs worker bees. There are a lot of wonderful teachers, but they can only teach what's in the curriculum, which is rarely personal growth and awareness and creativity and deductive thinking.
also State Schools, punishment and conformity wasn't confined to Boarding Schools. In this video it looks like a State School. I went through the State School system in the UK 1974-86 and corporal punishment was prevalent.
@@dcanmore Same here. The cane (rear and hand), the slipper, the ruler, the projectile blackboard cleaner, the 100 laps of the school field, all practiced into the 80s... and all preferable to detention.
You should check out Alice Cooper. Also I looked to see if you have ever reveiwed Pat Benatar Hell is for children. ? The Pretenders. 😉 Oh ya I'm older.
That blew your mind! Hey, we had so much mind blowing music, no wonder we are all so far out! LOL I saw Pink Floyd sing that live in concert when I was about 16 back in Pittsburgh, PA, in concert at Three Rivers Stadium in the late '1970's. Very cool, man. Pink Floyd sold out and they packed that stadium and we all had a real good time! They even had their laser show going on. I never saw that crazy video before. So weird! LOL!! Hey, man, not every kid got a trophy back then, to say the least. We were expected to behave or we got the paddle in school. Yep, they beat us. Hey, now you understand why your elders are so cool. We have seen it all, man. Thanks for your reaction and for showing that old fashioned video of the old days. I LOVED how you said " IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN"! Yes is was, which is why we all rebelled. Pink Floyd were about 20 years older than me or more, but it rang true, man.
Listening to one song from The Wall is like picking up a novel and randomly reading just one chapter, leaving you with questions that won't get answered until you've read the whole thing from front to end.
@Mitchell Beston I also went to school in the 80s where teachers used mild physical violence for our edification (England). Thimbles on the head in elementary school if you were daydreaming, ruler strikes on the knuckles for minor infractions. In high school you could choose between 1000 written lines or a punch to the ear with a couple of my teachers. I also had some great teachers who counteracted these nasty sadists and actually taught and inspired us. I don't share your nostalgia for S&M between adults and children in school.
@Mitchell Beston I also always took the corporal route for the reasons you described. Maybe you are right. Teachers were never as dangerous as some classmates. My main issue with corporal punishment in schools is the creepy zeal that certain teachers had; as I said, the S&M dynamic that I saw several times.
I saw " The Wall" live at the Forum in LA. I was stoned cold sober, but after, I felt like I'd been on LSD. The solo from Comfortably Numb from atop a 60ft wall was incredible! One of the greatest shows I've ever seen, and I've seen alot!
