The Wall is a concept album. This song has a place in the whole story of the album. At this stage in the album, the protagonist has been destroyed and is starting to pick up the pieces of the person he really is. Not a Rock star, not controlled by all sorts of people from his past, but just raw emotions of who he he is outside of The Wall.
I remember when this Album came out... It was sold out everywhere for weeks. Younger people today don't know what it was like... to have a 2 vinyl record album... it was like 16" square and opened up, usually with pictures inside, some had the lyrics to all the songs inside, some had a booklet inside. This one had a sticker just like the writing on the front cover. You weren't just buying the music... I miss that.
When this came out I had recently gotten out of the military, and I was in a deep depression. This album seemed to speak for me. It is still among my favorite albums.
Watching her react to this for the first time reminds me of when I put the headphones on back in 1983 and dropped the needle on this vinyl. I could not stop listening to it. Both records over and over again while looking over the album sleeves and gatefold art....What an experience...
girl... I would love listening with YOU my favorite band of all time songs... you got it! It takes a great ear and appreciation for music to recognize pure talent.
The Wall is a concept album, The wall being talked about is a psycological/spiritual wall, that Pink, the protagonist, builds around himself. The album tells a story of a mans personal journey. Really @Scribe do listen to the entire thing even if you dont do a reaction to it all. For example, Another brick in the wall pt deals with the protagonist losing his father in WW2, pt two deals with his school years, part 3 deals with his growing mental illness as he tries to cope with life. The album itself is one of the greatest rock albums ever done. That said PLEASE do another reaction to comfortably Numb LIVE..I suggest the Pulse concert or Live in Pompeii. Gilmour the guitarist really is outstanding and Pink Floyd is one of those rare bands who sound better live than they do in studio.
It is actually based on Roger Waters and Syd Barrett, Syd built a wall around himself with drugs and couldn't perform anymore, the little kid losing his father in WW2 was about Roger Waters father being killed in the war, the school as Roger said in a interview, that is exactly how teachers in England was when he was in school, hey you was left out of the movie, but it was replaced by a song not on the double album, when the tigers broke free, you could say that the album was a bio of 2 of the founding members, not to mention the fact that the rest of the band had no say in the making of the album, and at that time Richard Wright wasn't even a member of Pink Floyd because Roger Waters fired him, but he kept him on as a session musician and he was a hired musician for the very limited amount of concerts that was done to promote this album, it would also be the album that broke the camels back. The final cut which has the song, when the tigers broke free on it, was a album of songs that didn't make the cut for the wall album, after all the lawsuits were finished, Pink Floyd proved they didn't need Roger to make a number 1 hit album, every album without Roger also hit number one on the billboard's charts. Which Pink Floyd will always be remembered as the greatest one hit wonder in music history, with only one song going to number one.
Wow could you really give a more clinical , anal explaination of a seminal piece of art put out by 4 of the most talented wordsmiths of our time, you jerk, just like Monty Phythons comedy is of it's own genre , hence the phrase Pythonesk, so the Wall is Floydesk, it transends explanation , ''Fuck me" seriously , jeeze i bet your great fun up the pub.
@@johnhouse9983 I'm glad it's not just me. A very clinical observation of one of the greatest albums ever by Thomas there. Some people just like knowing 'facts' which in no way means one can actually feel what's going on. The last one hit wonder sentence is one I have never heard considering they will apparently always be 'remembered' for it.
The phone company used to say, “reach out and touch somebody” meaning to call a loved one. I think sitting naked by the phone meant “see me for who I am.”
Like other people said that you have to research the whole album. many of Pink Floyd's albums are concept albums where every song flows into the next for a reason.
Love your videos.... Love seeing someone discovering Floyd for the 1st time. Someone so beautiful. Your as beautiful as Pink Floyd. HMU 🤣jk.... No not, very serious. Back to song; he is imprisoned.... He's put up a wall separating himself from reality. Hey You, is about his cries for help. The album is called The Wall. It is one of man's greatest creations.... 1 thing about Floyd, you have to be a lil patient, but they never disappoint. Truly were on a different level. Keep listening and HMU. 😏
wow, this album came out 40 years ago! still sounds amazing. The Great Gig In The Sky (studio version), Welcome To The Machine. you'll thank me later :)
Good reaction to a great song! From the concept album "The Wall." There is a story behind it. Glad you like Pink Floyd! They weren't all on drugs, just very creative!
Hands down you are the best reactor on youtube ,The only suggestion I would give you is when reacting to Floyd you could do an entire album if only a song at a time ,it may give you a better grasp on the story Roger Waters is telling ,actually any classic rock album released between Creams 1967 Disraeli Gears and AC/DC 1980 Back In Black should be listened to in full . Classic rock is its own genre of rock and roll and was played on AOR radio [usually FM] meaning Album Oriented Rock where they played an entire half side of a record .Also just for curiosity sake Zeppelin never released a single Another thing most classic rock bands had a phenomenal bass player and drummer it was almost a prerequisite to be considered classic rock . Sorry to take up so much space but you woke up my rock and roll mind .Cheers from Canada and keep on rockin sister
The run of the mill how many albums it was knocked out by the Doors is fantastic i know , but dig aound and there's an almost equal amount of material laid down by Morrison that never made it to vynl , man you gotta check out some of that , Jim says and sings stuff in some of blues sessions thats darker & weirder than ever, dude he just wanted the whole trip to end and 'go home' from almost day one.
Love your reaction to Hey You. Took me back too many years to when I first heard it and reacted pretty much the same way. I love most songs by Supertramp. You could try Fools Overture or crime of the century.
Most of PF songs are about their original singer , Syd Barrett . Mellow rocking tunes with GREAT guitar solos You wanna "space out" & feel good ? Try their ditty , "Shine on you crazy diamond " it's a 9 minute song But So Good
I can tell you would be fun to party with. Your taste in music is extraordinary!🤘Rock on girl!! You are awesome! Floyd's music on the wall albums is mostly about the Berlin wall during the cold war and the hardships in Europe during those times. But you're right that's what is so amazing about that era of rock you ride that ride and interpret the music into whatever you want. I have another great song for you, it's Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs one of my all time favorites!! It's another day another dollar keep um going I always enjoy watching your channel
The look on your face and your body language kinda said exactly how you "got it" right from the start. Really hearing the sounds for the first time, and despite not having heard them before... you find them more and more pleasing - to the point where the moods the music creates as backdrops for the lyrics can make the interpretation of those lyrics as valid for you as the listener, as they are for anyone else who listens to the best Floyd material and truly "connects" to their creation/s. Perhaps that's part of their collective genius? To be able to craft something that is as fresh today and into tomorrow as it was for those of us who took exactly the same voyage when listening to Pink Floyd's music for the very first time. It's a pleasure to see anyone when they go through that kind of experience, come out the other side, with a response that shows just how universal it felt for us back then listening to this stuff, and knowing it didn't matter who or what you were or what others may have thought of you, because this music was for those who truly dug modern creativity and geniuses at work creating works of art that could rival those by the greatest composers. Thank you for taking me back on that journey once again. I might be much older, but being taken back to that time - what with everything that has occurred in my life in between; was like being put into a time machine... It felt good. 👍👍 Ooooh... I'd better subscribe, then hadn't I?..
One thing about Floyd, Much of their music had elements that were telling of the story about an early member named Syd Barrett. As the stories go he was very much in to a plethora of experiences and contributed a great deal to the Psychedelic roots of the Band. He got to the point where he had to be institutionalized and never really came back to us. So I've always thought much of what they wrote was about him, or at least similar in scope and skew.
The wall is the one that we build around our heart to keep us from suffering ("I'll stop caring, so I won't get hurt" type of thinking, that often take place in the teenage years). And one day we find ourself prisoners of that thing, being harder and harder to revive the old relationships. And, if everyone is behind its own wall, bad things will happen in the society (street violence, racism etc)
With Pink Floyd you really have to listen to their entire albums. Each are concept albums and should be heard in their entirety to enjoy the experience. Love your reactions keep searching. I have found in all types of music the appreciation of these artist music is a unifier it all comes from the same place the heart and mind enjoy it all
As you know that The Wall is a concept album, there is a movie about main character named Pink, Rock Musician going through his ordeal according to the album. All the songs from The Wall is the soundtrack for the movie. I think either parts or full movie is RU-vid.
People look at these lyrics too literally. The lines are simply images of loneliness, despair, and hopelessness; of not being able to conform and social isolation. The song is written from the perspective of someone who wants to connect with people but cannot because they simply do not know how as if there is an impenetrable wall between them and the rest of the world.
YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THE MOVIE. PINK FLOYD THE WALL. IT PUTS EVERYTHING INTO CONTEXT. ALSO OUTRAGEOUS VISUALS. TRUST ME. I SAW THE WALL CONCERT TWICE. ALSO THE ANIMALS TOUR AND THE WISH YOU WERE HERE TOUR. ALSO ALBUMS TO EXPLORE AT YOUR LEISURE.
My request! Most excellent. Your reaction is so good. The song is about loneliness, more or less. "The Wall" is essentially the defenses the main character has built up against other people.
He's imprisoned by the social establishment, the music industry, his childhood experience and the other things talked about in The Wall album, which is actually one story.
One of PF's best tunes, glad you are enjoying the best band ever. Amazing to think this was recorded over 40 years ago, and it was one of their later albums. OK Scribe: I believe most of us 'old timers' and others agree - here's the preferred way to fully experience Pink Floyd: in chronological order. Their earlier albums are an acquired taste, so start with the song "Echoes" off of the Meddle album (studio version); that will get you off on the right track. Then react to "Dark Side of the Moon" album in its entirety (start to finish); then "Wish You Were Here" album, then "Animals" album, then "The Wall". We all want you to do this, and you will be better off for it :-) thx!!
Ironically Because Of What Happened To Their Original Band Leader, Sid Barrett, The Pink Floyd Pretty Much Stayed Away From Heavy Drug Use Especially LSD.
Another great reaction Scribe. The Wall is snother great Pink Floyd album. I love your selections. Please review Shine on you crazy diamond from the Wish you were here album. You should cover a rock song, I think you would be great. Rock on....
Great reaction to an epic song. Would LOVE to hear you sample it but you'd end up living in a refrigerator box under an overpass probably. Really cool to hear your take on the lyrics because Floyd songs are just as much about the words as the music, nothing is ever just a throwaway rhyme. Do some Floyd tunes from "Animals" when you can. Subbed.
The whole double album is a single story. In this song, the main character (Pink) has cut himself off from society by building a “wall” but he is trying to reconnect. Without going straight through the album, the story can be tough to understand.
That singer, not with the band any more but sure solo albums, Roger Waters, went through a difficult time dealing with fame, loss of his father in WW2 and marriage breakdown. He had issues with bangs members and even fans and on tour with that album let's just say he lost it with a fan and they cancelled the tour. I'm sure years later upon reflection he realizes and it certainly sounded as much. It was just the times as they were, so to speak. Much of what he wrote in the seventies was to deal with dealing with issues, madness, absent friends like original singer and childhood friend Syd Barrett who lost his mind over drugs but turned up while recording the Wish You Were Here album. Were crazy times only really surpassed by what is going on today.
If you haven't, watch "The Wall", you'll understand. LOL! Love your take on that particular song! That unique bass sound is because it's fretless, like a cello.
Pink Floyd is an experience, their albums and songs have recurring themes and amazing transitions. For any one track to make sense you need to listen to their albums cover to cover. The Wall, in one sense symbolizes the separation between the artist and the audience (listener), the artist and loved ones and the artist and society. "Hey you" the song, is placed about midway through the album, the whole album follows the artist through his life, at which point he's an established musician who has no one to reach out and connect to. Roger Waters (band member) felt this 'disconnect' when the band played at concerts for rowdy crowds between the albums 'The Dark Side of the Moon' - 'The Wall'.
"The worms" were a synthesizer tone through a LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator), basically, an effect. The "big emotional" tone, you described, over that, was Roger Waters playing a Fender Precision fretless bass. They didn't do drugs much. Certainly not L.S.D.
TheOriginalFILIBUSTA Wrong. The original member Syd Barrett was permanently changed mentally, due to too much LSD use. Hence, Wish you were here. Obviously the other members of the band didn't do a whole week straight of LSD. But they all experimented a little here & there.
TheOriginalFILIBUSTA you don’t play a synthesizer through an LFO. Rather, an LFO is a common component of an analog synthesizer. The voltage oscillation that the LFO produces is typically at a frequency below human hearing (hence low frequency oscillator instead of audio frequency), so you can’t hear the LFO waveform itself. Instead, the LFO output is used as a control voltage that can be used as a way to modify or modulate other parts of the amplifier. Effectively, you can use the LFO control voltage to automatically twist some of the other knobs on the synthesizer back and forth - for example, you could modulate the output volume with the LFO control voltage to produce a tremolo effect.
This is not my interpretation. This is actually what the song means: the trap is the island of being an individual having to deal with one's own problems. He no longer has a mother to do it all for him. (From the song Mother.) She built the wall too high, now he doesn't know how to cope. The worms eating his brain (from the song Waiting for the Worms) is his giving up control to the ear worms that others put in his ear as he looks for anyone to tell him what to do and how to think. The feeling and touching has to do with his wanting their love that he can no longer receive from his mother. He'll do anything just to be back safe in his mother's care. Since she's dead, he needs a substitute.
The album as a whole is about building up walls because of emotional drama to feel safe, only to find themself in isolation and unable to breakout. Or to be more specific, about Roger Waters doing so because his Dad died in WW2.
In this case the lyrics are fairly specific. The album, "The Wall" is a rock "opera" . The tale of a misfortuned rock-and-roller who cuts himself off from life's difficulties by building a wall. This song on side two of the CD, is after his total isolation and he realizes its true impact. This song was originally constructed to follow "Comfortably Numb" and right before "The Show Must Go On." The references to "aisles", "halls", "bottles" as well as the "worms" makes more sense. The phone is a recurring element in the album. It is taken from Roger Water's experience in 1975 while on tour, he called home to his wife Judy and a man answered the phone. On the song "Empty Spaces" there is some backward messaging where Roger is spoofing the backward messaging (it was a thing in the 70s, check out Fire On High by ELO) with a quip about "Old Pink's" address being the "funny farm" when he is interrupted by someone telling him his (then current) wife, Carolyne, was on the phone and Roger says, "OK" as in he will answer it. The funny farm is key in this album as is the phone. The buzzing noise in the middle is a drill, of some type "played" by James Guthrie. The Floyd is known for there use of non-musical instrumentation in their songs.
Please listen to "Echoes" off the 'Meddle' album. HUGE song in so many ways !!! Then please react to the live version of "SORROW" off the "Pulse" tour in 1994. Just fantastic everything in that song. You'll LOVE the guitar!!!
This is a soundtrack to a movie (Pink Floyd - The Wall), so you really should see the movie! I saw it in a theater on 42nd st. about 1982. I stayed in the theater and watch it twice. You can rent? (not at r*db*x) or buy it on DVD now.
This is one of the reasons you should drop the needle on track one. The Whole album is a 4 sided auto biography of Roger Waters mind set. I covered the death of his father in WWII, his over protective mother, losing a band mates and friend to drugs. Add his mistrust of the bands management, and the heads of the record label. Add a cheating girl friend and a feeling of detachment from the adiance.
You need to do a full react to The Wall......you'd freak the fuck out in so many places!! And to explain this song in full, would be to spoil the album a little, as it can be treated very much like an unseen movie. The wall is a metaphor, part of a larger theme that builds throughout the album. It's one of the finest albums in existence, you deserve a full listen........everybody does.
You should auction for the chance to go to a live show with you. I think that would be a blast. I could just imagine you at a live rock show with a few drinks in you. Epic.
It's the existentialist blues, these dudes are blues boys. Their blues is england 1943, and SIDs freak out. Add it up and you get Pink Floyd, thank God...
