If this were a Gilmour video, the outpouring of love in the comments would've been universal. Since it's Roger, everyone always wants to take a shot. The man is a genius, first and foremost musically, despite everyone, including Gilmour, dismissing him as a mere lyricist. All of you far right trolls calling him boring simply can't understand his thought process. You're the Stepford Wives he's referring to, ignorant and aloof. Like helpless beasts, you're observing with indifference (or joy) the slaughter of your brethren by the pigs in power, thinking it will never happen to you.
I guess you have some good points, But, you must understand, though not in this video he (Waters) vehemently supports terrorists, such as the PLO. Even The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemns him.
They condemn him on the basis of antisemitism, do they not? Let's see some evidence of that, and we'll stack it up against his half a decade career spent decrying prejudice, and supporting the idea that all lives are created equal.
You, nor Roger, have any special insight into world affairs. Simply put, some countries attack others. Japan attacked the U.S., so the U.S. fought Japan. Some terrorists states attack innocent countries. And those countries must fight back. Example: Palestine attacking Israel. Israel fighting back does not make them terrorists. If you are not directly affected by the terrorist attacks, you can do one of three things. 1) Do nothing. 2) Help the defenders and condemn the attackers. 3) Support the attackers while condemning the defenders. Roger has chosen the third option.
I agree with Ricky Gervais about pop stars and actors shutting the f up when it comes to preaching politics. Unless you are a Roger who lives it and understands the subject from top to bottom. The world needs more like him with a voice and real passion. And one of the best songs ever...
While Ricky isnt totally wrong with that, what he forgets is the enormous amounts of time that rich folks like successful musicians and actors have to research and study these subjects. Tom Morello is just one example. These people can really know a fuckton about these subjects which is specifically why one should adress the argument rather than the person because thats just gonna result in an ad hominem. Not to mention the absurd lose-lose-situation that people outside of the political right are where, when they dont have a masters in political science, they are dismissed as "people who dont know anything about it anyway" and when they DO have a masters in political science they get dismissed as "brainwashed by the leftist universities". So what the fuck are they supposed to do?
Legendary song, an amazing message from him, but it will be nice to hear more facts about the song. I heard the kids on the song were not planned, and they visited the studio that day. Is it true?
First, some background. During Pink Floyd's "Animals" tour during one show, Roger Waters spat at a fan and was completely shocked to his core and appalled by his own behavior. He had the realization that as a professional artist you're living life in a bubble, stripping yourself slowly of all humanity. He said that the idea of building a wall between the band and the audience to protect one from the other began to form in his head after that incident. So when the band got together to record their next album he proposed two concepts: "The Pros and cons of Hitchhiking." and "Bricks in the wall" the band, which went through the same that Waters went through, chose the latter.
@Ca Nadian thepride Last show of the "In the Flesh" tour. David Gilmour was appalled and refused to play in the encore. He wandered out to the mixing desk and watched the encore from there.
See that. EF Waters gave up his life for freedom in Italy with the Royal Fusiliers. My father gave up his life for freedom also in 1944 in Normandy with the 4th Dorsets. Thank you to those two brave men and thousand of other brave men & women who gave up their lives and for all the others that served
I am LOVING your videos, this one is amazing..! Can you please do : Kansas - Dust in the Wind Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune Bruce Dickinson - Tears of the Dragon Rainbow - Temple of the King Beverly Craven - Promise Me Heart - Alone
"The veneer of democracy that we spread thinly over what we call freedom is a very thin veneer indeed." The 2020 election is a crippling blow to democracy. In political science classes, I was bored by the days where we covered elections. I had no idea how important, and vulnerable they are....there are probably uninformed people out there who think this election was a good thing...but in 4 years youll see how the presidency now goes to the highest bidder.
I can strongly remember seeing the Video on TOTP when I was about 4 or 5 and being terrified those mask on this kids faces and that puppet teacher ughh..... haha
I was in 5th grade when this album came out. One day we had a substitute teacher and the whole class broke out singing “We don’t need no education!” The guy looked at us like we were mad. Great memory.
I like how he says he hopes children and students are heard more, unfortunately, they aren't. If you really want to be heard you have to fight it all the time
It all depends WHERE you are educated and the resources available. Montessori schools are very much geared toward self expression and guided learning. And in reality, if you think of kids access to technology and the speed of their neural nets compared to adults, it might well be that kids should be telling adults 'shut up, when I want your opinion I'll give it to you'. There is now a huge backlash against 16 years old suing for the vote, mostly by adults who basically vote for one party all the time based on personal ideology rather than issues. It seems that a 16 year old is just as capable of that.
Yeah, depends where you are. I know it's true for Belgium and Germany, but in the Netherlands where I'm from it's more like the opposite. Children express their opinion very clearly, maybe a bit too much as teachers are sometimes bullied away.
In the 70s Pink Floyd stored their equipment a couple of street from where I lived. The kids singing are on the record are from the school in the street where I lived and my sons school. Great song.
To be fair Bob Ezrin deserves a lot of credit as (he says) Roger wasn't interested in using it as a song and wanted no singles. If you notice its only ONE verse and ONE chorus repeated over and over, so Bob added the kids choir, and he said the final product made Roger smile. I'm glad he changed it around because as a story about a narcisstic selfihs prick I never really had much time for The Wall, but in a new incarnation, well, it does need a few changes to make it more universal, at least the best tracks.
Thank you, thank you for making this, recording this. This is a treasure you folks are doing the work that transcends film making. You are allowing artists to expose their soul, their story about creativity in an beautiful way. Thanks for the artist that are willing to share and thank you again for making this. You deserve all the possible praises just from the first 45 seconds of this video, it is insane, let alone the whole video or other amazing ones that you shared with us Thank you!
I watched The Wall movie over 200 times. I listened to the album more than that. I saw Pink Floyd in 1994 play the full Dark side of the Moon. I saw Roger perform The Wall on his last tour. I went back and saw Roger perform from his new album after that. All in all these are all just bricks in The Wall. But what a fucking wall....
I got to see him perform The Wall on tour,too,with a friend in May 2012. That wall of screens and footage formed the backdrop,and on it were many images of things that were and still are wrong with our world,that need righting. I also got to see Floyd play at Wembley Stadium in 1988,but that was without Roger of course.
Here in the US you dont even need to be registered to vote anymore, and you dont need to show up to vote either....I cant imagine who will get elected next under this mess...im just praying its not jeff bezos
@@DiscountDivorcePhotography Demented Biden got elected who can't even put a sentence together without a teleprompter. How America end up in this mess?
The Wall was all my friends and I listened to and watched (it was the late 80's through early 90's) when we hung out and everytime I hear any song off the album it takes me right back to my high school years. Pink Floyd is and was such an important band.
@@katarzynamariamuszynska2811 He quit the band, and was somehow surprised and offended that they continued without him. In his mind, “I quit” should have meant “the band is finished,” but in reality it was “I quit” followed by “okay, we’ll manage.” He didn’t deal well with that, and still has his ranting moments.
I had the very great pleasure of seeing them play live in Florence whilst on vacation one summer just outside the Medici house. Amazing, cause for years I worked in a bakery 3 doors down from their recording studio and had no idea who they were, I didn’t discover them for many years, but when I did wow great music.
It's worse now. Kids are told to express themselves but also told, through government policy, what to think and what not to think. The curriculum is censored in many parts of the world (including parts of the USA) with pages deleted from text books etc.
I disagree when he says people just accept injustice as an inevitability. That's just surface level thinking. People do talk about injustice, and people ARE working to do something about it, every day, in droves. The reason it goes on anyway is that those in power who benefit from it and perpetuate it as a result abuse their authority to shut down anyone who could potentially succeed at disarming them. The wall is penetrable, which is why it's so heavily guarded.
The Thrawn Scotsman it’s up to the parents in my opinion. Do you actually watch after your kid and teach them ways? Or do you give them the phone or tablet and let them watch RU-vid videos? Lots of parents nowadays don’t seem to realize when you have a baby that you must raise it.
@@mattdrones4665 I don't have kids and if i did, they would be brought up with respect and knowledge. That's why when I dated single women with kids it didn't go well. They let their kids run the house.
@@thethrawnscotsman5260 Well, the verdict is out on that. Most of the spoiled kids I know were definitely more spoiled by parents. In the school system a LOT of what we thought was 'normal education' was just cruelty, neglect, and really shitty curriculae. But its true that in places where education is 'managed' by government, it tends to be fairly shittily run. Mostly because teachers don't have much say and government is catering to the whims of the day. I know a lot of really good teachers, but they just don't get the resources to educate in the way that new research is showing kids should be educated. ANd on the flip side, whenever I see shitty teachers, for some reason governments really seem to seek them out to give them more authority. But education is still far better than when I was a kid, which was only one step removed from what The Wall portrays. I had teachers at a young age who belittled me, granted it was a lot more subtley than screaming at a kid and calling them stupid, but kids pick up on that stuff prettily readily and don't really have the context to deal with it.
how in the heck did you guys put this together??? every moment I am reinforced with my life but actually seeing the statement of fact of how the poetry of life is translated into music.
In the last lecture of our 4 year teaching degree all of our lecturers walked into the hall with dark glasses on and put a tape player on the podium, hit play and this song came on. They walked out of the hall leaving this song playing. I sat there with a massive grin crying silently. What a way to leave us, with their final 'ray of hope'. We all had different motivations as teachers. Different biases. Some still thought children were blank slates or vessels to be filled. Others that children were almost like a different species. Most of us thankfully saw them as young humans with families, backgrounds, different abilities, interests, challenges. We knew that if we didn't do our best then it wouldn't be a successful career. But schools are run by politicians. And they're full of people who have never lived outside of the school system. No one should make a decision about schools without teaching first just as a manager should run a shop without first working on the floor. And no one should tell children who they are and what they should do with their lives. Too many career politicians who have never 'served the public' telling the public what to do, and too many teachers who haven't known a life without school bells, curricula and sadly too many fall into 'teaching to the test' rather than helping humans learn for whatever reason that human has a need to learn 'a thing'. This song played when I was a kid at school, played while I was training to be a teacher, played when I worked as a teacher. When I had my own children they had free choice to choose how they wanted to be educated. One tried school out but decided to opt for home ed. The other never wanted to go at all. We were privileged to be able to have the choice. Both are off to uni next year doing what they want to do. I'm so grateful that we have so much education available on RU-vid and the like. It's a great time to be a learner. No teacher can pretend to 'know it all' and no teacher needs to either. Great time to be a teacher too, if you want. You just got to stop seeing children as people to have power over. Control is not how humans learn. They need freedom to learn.
Let the rich lead the world's armies into battle and face the same risks as the common Soldier, such as Roman consuls did in ancient Rome.. and see how much Warfare we need..
Roger it's called 'intelligence' No matter if the conveyance is manned or not there is still a person making a decision based on info. The ordinance is released regardless if the pilot is in the cockpit or a control center in the USA. If anything a person who is not in fear of their lives can make better decisions. Troops on the ground also contribute to 'collateral damage'
glad he pointed out Obama and not Trump. everybody's hitting on Trump but it's not about whose bum is sitting in the oval office, it just won't make any difference
This track resonated even more back then because teachers definitely still had the whip hand in school because corporal punishment was still allowed, and some teachers could be vicious. Now pupils do what they want, when they want, if they want.
Great album and song. I agree with your assessments. When everything else fails, start a war, arms trading is big business. According to my History of Economics book, that's how the US got out of the Great Depression.
While I LOVE Dark Side of the Moon and the Brick albums, my deepest appreciation is for his "Amused to Death". I have to agree also that Roger Waters was the soul of Pink Floyd. Danke!!!
Yeah, Amused to Death was really somethinge else. He made no money off it, but imagine how much cash it would have made if it had been a Pink Floyd album. It would have been like 'the wall part 2' but as it didn't have Pink Floyds name, people were like "who?"
@ 2:02 " When you hit puberty and start getting snotty... it's good to have an adult around who will say: "Hang on, let's talk about that", rather than: "Be Quiet !" "... I experienced it as "Be Quiet !... Nobody's interested in what you think ! Shut Up !..." ... "I think kids these days, hopefully have more of a voice..." ... except I'm afraid that kids no longer have angst... they have entitlement. Two very different manifestations of anger. Which is stronger, more impressive ?
I continued to contemplate on that and I just worry. I was a kid of the 70s and that punk angst and the sexuality of the disco and metal era were motivating. We were GenX and the world needed to change. On the other hand, kids nowadays are way more informed and connected by the internet and social media, BUT it's just that, social media... they have their opiate of iPhones and game systems and RU-vid and more importantly, I think, PornHub so they aren't really connecting and too used to instant gratification ! I fear what will happen when the powers-that-be realize the trouble they're in and shut off the pipe and if these millennials will suffocate if they lose everything they depend on nowadays...
Paul Walsh Totally agree. However, I’m sure *you* will agree that having access to so much “information” - which is all too often tainted by uninformed opinions - is a real minefield, especially for those with no critical thinking skills.
its the ONLY reason i never went through with my dream of joining the marines. when i was 16-17, i realized that my dream was a fallacy, and that the american dream is for those of less fortune. the only reason i would ever join the armed forces would be if we somehow were able to liberate north korea. i feel super bad for those who lose their lives and limbs in war, but i know from experience, that they are fed, and mayn SHOWN, MAAAAAJOR propaganda videos of foreigners n muslims doin suuuuper fucked up things. but i asked myself at the time, is that because they are who they are, or is it that they are being bombarded by fuck asses like ourselves? theres nothing but questions in the world, an its only those who raise the question, n bring them down with solutions that get silenced. ........ Lifes a bitch , n then u die, said the confromist
When I watch video of people choosing to fall headlong out of the Twin Towers on 9/11 I don't feel sorry for terrorists getting whacked by a drone operator in the USA at the behest of the President and other foreign intel agencies. And those targets must pass a ton of legal hurdles that include NO COLLATERAL damage to civilians. Many of those targets set up shop in schools and hospitals making it impossible for them to be killed without losing our guys on the ground in a more surgical strike. Water's choice: a soldier dies at Anzio like his relative or call in a drone strike.
Too deep for me, I am but a simple working class chap from poor but proud streets...I wasn't educated at university no do I have a degree in psychology... great music though,
Kids still don't have voice especially in public schools here in Massachusetts I've worked now for ten years in youth leadership and it sickens Me how badly these kids are treated and all because the school board needs to look good. If you are someone who cares about and the kids take too and trust 90% of the time the school tells you what you're doing is wrong. Adding to it allot of these programs are corporate run companies that like everything corporate run these powers at be don't know what they are doing.
I am a teacher and I think we should let our students express their opinions but we need some discipline in the classroom to creat a learning friendly environment. If we just let kids do and say whatever they want, we punish the kids who actually want to listen and learn. I always tell children to come and talk to me after a class but no one does. Sometimes they talk during the class about issues that are not related to the class and I don't find this behavior accaptable. The salaries are low, the classrooms are overcrowded, teachers live under pressure. We need discipline and rules and a certain degree of quietness to function or groups of 10 students.
This is all about the writing and Roger Waters was the writer. His shows are so fucking uber relevant today it's untrue. Name me another artist who regularly sells out big stadium's with a show with such a political punch that you get, whether you like it or not? Kanye West? Naaah!
RW is remarkably quiet about how the US is inching it's way to a full on war with Russia. It seems his antiwar sentiment was purely political posturing.
4:09 well then give me some of your shit then. I would like some amplifiers and recording equipment. if you don't give me free shit I will say you are racist
