The entire album is a story. The Movie is good at explaining. It is an emotional wall that people end up building to protect themselves. And each negative thing that happens to us just adds another brick. Once your wall gets to high you will become unreachable until you break down your wall and expose yourself. It is a very deep concept.
It is indeed well worth watching! However, that's sadly easier said then done. It's nearly impossible to find on streaming services. And as far as physical media, it has only ever been officially released on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD. So many mediocre movies have been released on 4K UHD blu-ray but here we are in 2023 and we can't even get "Pink Floyd The Wall" on a HD one. I don't know if it's a rights thing or what but it makes me sad. Hopefully my cherished DVD will continue to work in the future.
I was just about to comment that she should watch "The Wall". I would've suggested watching it with friends on acid like I did watching it for the first time. However in hind sight that's probably not a very good idea...lol...
I was in high school when this came out. This became our anthem back in 70's. I do believe that because of this song a change took place in our generation , and yes, it really changed attitudes towards the same old same old education. We broke out and went our own ways. So Pink Floyd started something big. Your comments were Spot-On !!!!
This album came out in 79 I was fortunate to see this concert in October 1980. They played all 26 songs in order. Nothing from the early catalog. Please check out the Wall movie 🎥 from 1982. Or have a watch party 🥳. Great reaction!!! 👍
Pink Floyd's The Wall is a masterpiece. No matter how many times I've watched it, there was something more than seemingly missed from times before. Layers upon layers of emotions. Sid Barrett was the inspiration behind Pink Floyd's The Wall. Pink Floyd is at the top of my list of favorite bands. Seen them in concert and was awestruck by not only their performance but also their light effects and stage props. Undoubtedly, their message was delivered and received.
@@ThePflcpsa I knew of "wish you were here" but than through word of mouth then, I also related "The Wall" to Syd and never thought to look further as I were around 15 and the information stuck. Thank you for this clarification.
The antagonist “pink” after being eviscerated in front of the class by the teacher, felt so much anger, he fantasized the school being destroyed and the teacher burned alive. Just another brick in the wall.
I’m 65. I grew up with this. Like so many have said, you have to watch The Wall. I loved your review and reaction. You covered everything and showed that you get it. The Wall is simply a brilliant album. Another Pink Floyd album I would recommend is Animals. That album is mind blowing. It’s dark and angry. I think you’ll like it. Best wishes.
YES!!!!! I would like this reaction fifty more times, if youtube would let me. Albums like this are why Pink Floyd has the fandom it does, the irony is that the kids that grew up loving this music became the ones crushing the dreams of the next generation.
The Wall is a journey through madness with fantastic music to soundtrack it all. I urge you to listen to the whole album,in your own time if you want,but after dark side and animals with such pressure to come up to that standard,they did it again. Great album.
Viseral childhood memory of my dad dropping me off at elementary school blaring this. My parents were very much about raising us as free thinkers especially because they had degrees in psychology and history. As an adult my dad my dad told me a story of how he was called into a parent teacher meeting when I was in second grade and was informed how I would just get up and find a different book during reading than what the teacher was reading. When he was asked what if any books I read at home. My dad answered" Gore Videls Lincoln" my teacher didn't believe I was able to comprehend what I was reading and my dad said" if she has questions she asks" hahaha. My teacher was dumbfounded and ended the meeting.
If you are serious about the Pink Floyd experience, you have to listen to complete albums in order. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall. The entire story arc of these albums is the search for love, loss, the rat race, winning the rat race and discovering that just makes you the fastest rat, and what happened to my humanity? After listening to all these albums THEN you watch the movie THE WALL, and you will then have a better understanding of the visual and auditory story presented. (Alan Parsons was involved in the production of most of these, and Alan Parson's Project continues these story arc albums)
Alan Parker directed the movie with Bob Geldorf playing Pink , This was a UK no.1 xmas 1979 into the new decade , and banned in South Africa apparently
You should watch live in Berlin when the Wall came down it's a star-studded concert with a crowd that is one of the largest I've ever seen for one event one band it's spectacular and Sinead O'Connor singing mother... Tremendous
The song harks back to the boarding school archetype that was prevalent in England and the eastern US from the 1800's through the first half of the twentieth century. Individuality and creativity was rigidly suppressed.
Brilliant take on this song!! Very eloquent and spot on across the board! Was 9 years-old when I heard this song and our 4th grade teacher would call us dummies on occasion. The "dark sarcasm in the classroom" back then was VERY real!! The song almost scared the hell out of me at such a young agen.
This from the 1982 film adaptation. This is not the original 1979 music video although it does a pretty good job of retreating it.I remember the 1979 original music video having animation in it.
Pink Floyd is timeless . Music and lyrics paint a picture in your mind . There albums are like conceptual rock operas to me . Glad to see you get into this as much as I always did . I hope you watched The Wall by now .
Context is important here. Post war Britain was harsh, and the education system was brutal. Teachers could be monstrous bullies, sexually and culturally repressed and the kids were the targets of that frustration. This song is a shout of rebellion against that.
This song is from the movie the Wall came out in the late 70s maybe 1980 you must watch it smoke a joint or have a sip of wine or whatever sit back relax and enjoy the movie the wall
Pink Floyd's music and lyrics always have a story to tell. That is the power and the art of Pink Floyd. Just like the song "us an them" or Eclipse "Where we start" or "The Blue" to name a few.
In 1979, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” knocked Queen's “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” out of the Number One spot on the Hot 100 and stayed there for four weeks until Blondie's “Call Me” unseated it. 1980 It was [Waters's] reflections on his life and how his schooling was part of that." The single, as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa in 1980 after it was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting instituted racial inequities in education under apartheid. When did corporal punishment stop UK? Schools. Corporal punishment was prohibited in all state-supported education in 1986 Personally... there is no doubt, IMO, that this tune was the catalyst to that prohibition. Back then, without such speed of information, yes, it took decades to eradicate nonsense legislation.
I watched the wall movie the first time I ever tripped. Mind blown and pink floyd is the best ever. Also you were right that guy is the main character in the wall movie, and lets just say it gets interesting haha.
Don't know if you recognize the poem but it's the lyrics from Pink Floyd ( MONEY) song. Great Movie 🍿 need to watch. You especially will Definitely like it. Goes right along with the album The Wall.
You are so right that thinking big and following your dreams shouldn't be stifled, but i do also think that everyone should get a good education to fall back on, just not in the way things were back then (even though it's a decade before my time). I also think you're right that it doesn't feel as though things have changed that much and this is ahead of its time, although i do think teaching, here in the UK at least, isn't so strict as it was, and i would hope that kids get encouraged a lot more and not ridiculed (and definitely not given corporal punishment, like the cane, which is illegal now). I'm school was like this for my parents, a lot of memorising and repeating facts from books, and not much thinking taught. I think the US is slightly different in terms of dreaming big, although I'm sure there are many who think learning facts from books that you just regurgitate never did them any wrong and so is necessary. You guys have the American dream at least, which although i think is a bit of a myth, at least gives many hope about following their dreams, which do come true in some cases. I think when this came out the country was struggling economically and there was a thought we needed to tear things down and start again. Great reaction, I'm intrigued as to where you go next with this and other artists.
That song was Christmas number 1 in either 83/84 ithink and there's 2 parts you need to wach the wall movie to completely understand the lyrics to the album awesome
We are trained to be what the government wants us to be us to be. Obedient children teaches to learn how to be obedient adults. Just smart enough to run the machines and shuffle the paper work.
Strangely enough, this song was banned in many other countries because it supposably encouraged rebellion against education. The United States doesn't censor music; it was a huge hit here. I love the song. The message was clear. Don't stifle kids' dreams. We are not all the same and should be allowed to explore our own talents and dreams.
Hi Aileen. Obviously the wall is made of bricks, but the bricks are all the people holding the kids back. Hence the lyrics; Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! All in all you're just another "brick" in the wall. I love these older DEEP songs. Current times can sometimes relate to those lyrics. 😊❤️🤘🤘
This album and queensryche operation mind crime are concept albums. You really need to listen to the whole thing in order to get the concept. The songs individually are great but you need the whole picture first.
Did you know that this song, as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa in 1980 after it was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott, protesting against instituted racial inequities in education under apartheid.
Dating myself but I remember when this album came out 40 plus years ago when i was in junior high. It's as true now as it was then. The video is from the feature movie of the same name.
You!! You behind the bike sheds. Stand still laddie!! Such an intelligent album. I left school in 1981 so experienced the tail end of brutality schooling. I was slippered and caned. One particular caning stood out because the teacher told me at the beginning of the lesson that I would be caned at the end of it. So an hour to anticipate the humiliation.
Great analysis. The video is a clip from the movie, and the brick in the wall, I think, has 2 meanings here. The kids are made all the same like bricks, but also the entire movie is about different hard times (bricks) that he uses to build a wall between himself and others. The first meaning I didn't get until you talked about it here. Bravo.
I guess at the time the school was strict and teachers were not for openning minds but for creating the cogs of society machine. I don't remember any "dream big" from my school in the 80's/90's. And indeed it's pictured on video.
You Really need to watch the film of the wall. Before you do read about how the concept of the album came to be and please either review it for us. I would love to see your reaction to it all. I am so happy that you get Pink Floyd and how incredible they are. Please, please, please watch the film and you will feel so much.
Aileen, education is different from indoctrination. Teach a student how to fish, and they’ll catch a fish a lifetime. Indoctrinate a student, and they are just another brick in the wall. Thank you for your reaction.
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the poem the teacher read out are the lyrics to see hydrograd57's comments, lyricist Rogers Waters the bassist as well, writes from his experiences I always felt like this was one of his experiences. very British experience before the 1960's Roger was born in 1943 he still tours at 80 so he grew up in the time after WWII different time. the one song you need to hear is the vocals and music of "the great gig in the sky" amazing original vocals this is live but just as wonderful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vWZ6hmHj2MA.html. Even if you don't react but because you sing I think you'll enjoy this. Amazing story behind the original recording with vocals by Clare Torry,. they had no lyrics for her to sing she sung what she felt from hearing the piano piece for the song once. sang one take I believe.
I would love to see you do a movie reaction to the Pink Floyd's the wall, I sure you would get it and enjoy it. But I think it would be copy right nightmare.
yes i think you followed your dream well done. Its from the wall the film. It overlays the concept of industrial age UK factories and mass production. The meatgrinder still holds true.
follow the path of the children... entering on foot, lining up single file to enter "The Machine"... next they're at desk, just running along the conveyor belt, then dropping them into the grinder.. only to emerge from the education system as a bland, homogenous duplicate, of the hundreds of thousands of children being processed through the same system. (the phone bit was beginning of, or transition into the next song.. should have clipped off by the editor who clipped this out of the official movie.)
A rock opera...... much like Pinball Wizard. The set of albums that make up the wall are a story ,.... most from the head of Roger who went off the deep end and pretty much this started the end of his relationship with the rest of the band. He thought he was Pink Floyd and wanted to take the name and rights with him..... He lost of course... Sad man with some issues but a master of lyrics... Pink Floyd is more than just lyrics though. Just my humble opinion and I have only watched this band since 1972, Only saw 3 of the concerts.
I would love that u react to something with the same concept. It comes from WASP . and the vocalist Blackie Lawless right a hell of a story of a child that also dreams and sees all of his dreams crushed down by the family and society, ao he gone alone to life and had to learn everything on his own... Don't wanna to say the plot twist, buts something similar to this ... Being what u have born to be, with support or without it, is a fucking big difference 😔😔 Love ur reactions btw ❤️
You should do a few reactions to Dream Theater. Voices .....is a great song about someone in the middle of a psychotic break Glass Prison ...is about the life of an alcoholic . The Spirit Carries On ...life after death. Great band, great musicians, songs are deep.
As a concept album, it's worth watching or listening to it in its entirety. It's vulnerable and demonstrates some of the best internalization of life experiences some people go through. It's not an easy watch, but it is cathartic. Edit: This video is from the whole feature film, The Wall.
@Jeff Fredenburg Going through the stages of his life; the constant doubt and belittling that became his wall, then bringing it all down, after he recognizes that this incredible pressure was put upon him... Oh man, I connected hard with this album in the late 90's when I was in high school. It was pretty much therapy, and a lesson in what not to do.
I agree with that, I still have the vinyl album, if you look at it, it's fully played, almost deteriorated by playing it over and over again. Good I have also the album on CD.
