The Wall is basically a musical, yea? (FIRST LISTEN + Analysis) Pink Floyd 

Fun fact, 'In the Flesh' was written at least somewhat about Eric Clapton, who had an extreme racist meltdown at a show in 76. There was even an organization, 'Rock Against Racism' that formed in response to it.

This is the album I listened to more than any other when I was young. Most people miss all the historical WW2 references such as Vera Lynn (referencing her song, We Will Meet Again) The Battle of Britain, and the actual sound of a German Stuka dive bomber siren (the sound synonymous with terror in all of Europe during the war) and also in the song When The Tigers Broke Free (not on the album but in the movie- referring to the dreaded German Tiger tank) and the Battle of Anzio (where Pink’s father was killed). Excellent and well researched review. The bonus cover at the end was fabulous! BRAVO! 👍

Pink Floyd's album The Wall is a lot of things to a lot of people, is it also a musical? Technically yes.

Awesome! Your reactions topped off by your singing - the icing on the cake!

I'm so happy you chose The Trial! People tend to look over it as too theatre-y, but that's what I love about it. Fantastic cover, and great video!

The joy of The Wall in concert is that during the first half of the gig they slowly build the wall across the front of the stage until the band is completely obscured. I had the joy of seeing Roger Waters perform this in Melbourne a few years ago and it was one of the highlights of my life.

This is one of the best analyses of the album I've ever seen. It is indeed a musical, a rock opera. You capture it so well.

The loop is a brilliant reminder that sometimes history is doomed to repeat unless you intervene. Apparently the idea for the wall came from a concert in Canada (I think?) during the Animals tour. The crowd were particularly boisterous and kept calling out for their favourite songs rather than let the band just perfom. The fractious atmosphere culminated in Roger spitting on a fan and he tore them off a strip because they were setting off fireworks. Hence the idea for putting a wall across the front of the stage. Roger ran with that position of isolation letting his own experience drive the concept and The Wall was born. And afterwards it was basically the end of the band as we knew it, Rick Wright was sacked and the last album Final Cut was pretty much a Waters solo effort, the band basically recorded it separately. Fantastic reaction again, loved it.

Loved your cover in the end of " The Trial" you have a beautiful voice!

If you like the music it might be interesting to see the motion picture too. It's incredible.

The guitar solo's on Comfortably Numb are absolutely breathtaking, and iconic.

My favorite Pink Floyd album, we used to listen to this constantly in high school. Loneliness and isolation, the perfect themes for high school kids. Don't neglect the albums Animals & The Final Cut in your Roger Waters era Pink Floyd journey.

I don't know how many times I've listened to this album. Maybe a thousand times already. And I want to listen further. I can't explain it. You did the right thing - Pink Floyd should be listened to with headphones. There's a lot of background noise. A quiet sigh, the distant barking of a dog, the creaking of door hinges, indistinct muttering and much more that is lost when listening through speaker systems. I take my hat off to the sound engineer and Roger - titanic, hellish, colossal studio work.

I never would have guessed you would have picked that song. Much respect. I love your docu-comentary style of reaction it is truely unique. If you watch reaction videos. I reccomend Virgin Rock. She is doing an in depth musical analysis of this album song by song.

This music always brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat, Pink's pain is so excruciating and I feel so sorry for him. Same happens every time I watch the movie.

I was fortunate enough to see "The Wall" performed on stage. There was a brick wall at either side and in the middle there were a couple of rows of bricks (roughly 3ft high and 5/6ft across and 2/2.5ft wide) and the stage was above that. During the show roadies would come on and place another brick in the wall. The stuka dive bomber was a model that came down on a zip wire from the back of the arena. On one side a panel in the wall flipped down and the set was a room in a hotel and when that part was over it flipped up again to make the wall. By the end of the first half, the wall was complete and we couldn't see anyone. In the second half the doctor is on our side of the wall and when pink replies he was on top of the wall. The surrogate band come out on the stage in front of the wall. When the judge orders the wall to be torn down, all the loose bricks vibrated and came tumbling down. It was a spectacular show.

If you want to try a really nice rock opera, check TOMMY by The Who

Your cover is GREAT! Your performance was convincing, fun, and had complete respect for the material. You killed it. 🙂

Great reaction! And great analysis as well. I love how the album loops by the last words being "isn't this where," then the first words being "we came in." I see it as a way of saying we all build walls in our life, and once we tear them down, we just start building new ones. Life is a never-ending wall building process.

This was great! I love this album so much, and I can't believe you managed to make a 17-minute video that somehow didn't feel rushed or incomplete!

Left a comment on your previous Pink Floyd video and watching this just solidifies that -the look on your face when you’re listening to Pink Floyd that’s all you need to see. It just makes me so happy.❤ (oh, And your actual classical music trained analysis is also amazing. I don’t mean to leave that out -you catch stuff I would never catch as a ‘civilian’ and I’ve been listening to Floyd since I was 5 in the mid 70’s) Clearly your IQ is off the charts. And on a lighter note, being a Kate Winslet double certainly doesn’t hurt, lol. I hope people appreciate you as much as you should be appreciated. ❤

You should do Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking next. Roger brought The Wall and Pros and Cons to the band and asked which one they wanted to do , they chose the Wall. Roger and Clapton are amazing on Pros and Cons. Roger and the band felt there was a barrier between the audience and the band hence all their mid to late 70s stadium concerts of like 40 thousand plus, Floyd preferred small venues like arenas of 15-18,000. so on their last date in Montreal the crowd got very rowdy and Roger flipped his lid, spit in a persons face, the wall was born,

I have listened to this entire album, and watched the movie, countless times. It is staggering. And perhaps you will notice, as Roger Waters himself points out, the only thing missing from Pink's life is Humour.

Caroline! Just try 'Oktaf Kanis - Starlight' for the next reaction 😍

Pink Floyd made a film of The Wall, and there are a couple of live performances out there by Roger Waters, one of his enormous 1990 Berlin performance and one of his 2009-2011ish world tour. All three are well worth watching.

I was like 9 when this album came out and I struggled at that young age to figure out what this album was about. I loved music and listened to it over and over trying to piece the story together (where was RU-vid back then :). One thing that confused me was I thought Goodbye Cruel World" was a suicide song which is now obvious that he is just saying goodbye to the world as he is now going to disappear behind his wall of isolation.

15:43 - "I think this album would be a really interesting study in how you turn one melody into many different arrangements..." I strongly suggest you look into the channel VIRGIN ROCK. On that channel, a classical musician who has never heard The Wall does an INCREDIBLY DEEP DIVE into the entire Wall album, one song at a time. It's still ongoing! She has two sets of videos, one in which she does a "first listen / reaction" to each song, and the other in which she does the deep dive. Of course, she has other videos as well, covering other pieces of music. Have fun going down the rabbit hole! 🙂

The musical themes repeat all across the album but also on to The Final Cut and The Pros and Coins of Hitchhiking.

A masterpiece. The film is a must watch. It's a perfect visual depiction of the music. And at the same time, I'm sure it will be exactly the same as how you saw it in your mind. Incredible stuff. Listened to it countless. Watched the film countless times. Enjoy...... for years to come.

Love'd your reaction Caroline! Next please do "Starlight" by Oktaf Kanis, thank you Caroline 💕

My favorite album of all time. I know how to play exactly two songs from it all the way through on guitar and they’re the two you mentioned as having lovely guitar parts, “Goodbye Blue Sky” and “Is There Anybody Out There?” Picking up my guitar and playing them now and then makes me feel better, even thought both songs (and much of the album) express a great deal of loss and loneliness. While I don’t think The Wall has ever been adapted into a musical, there is a very bizarre film made of it and the stage show that Pink Floyd put together to tour the album is one I wish I could have seen live.

Caroline does justICE, in a mere 17 min, to the amazing masterwork of RogerWaters, THE WALL!

Loved your reaction! Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride! ❤❤❤

Gotta say I absolutely love your way of 'reacting' to with your condensed analysis. Excellent stuff.

Last night I saw a rare theatrical screening of the film version of this album - which is in my top ten favorite films of all time - and it was so good to see it again with a crowd and a LOUD sound system. If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it (although it's not streaming anywhere as far as I know). There are a few songs included that weren't on the album, and a few are reworked into different versions, plus Bob Geldof's vocals replace Roger Waters during the 'In the Flesh' tracks. There's also a sad reworking of "Stop" that really fits as the lead in to "The Trial", which features all the Gerald Scarfe animation they showed during the live concerts.

Great video, Caroline! I love your cover at the end! You are brilliant!

I love that you chose The Trial. I’ve always thought it among the most beautiful songs on the album.

Love the album review and you happened to pick one of my favorites off of it to cover. 🤘🤘great job.

Loved your analysis and your expressive singing of the trial!

I love it! I really loved your performance at the end. I don’t know why but it reminded me of Cabaret.

Another great review with a bonus at the end! Thank you Caroline.👍

Não sei por que tanta pressa em reagir tão rápido. Eu gosto muito das legendas que você coloca na tela e os comentários que você faz. Acho que você deveria ouvir uma música inteira de cada vez. Seria maravilhoso, ainda mais se tratando do Pink Floyd. Beijos do Brasil ❤❤❤

You squeezed it all in perfectly! Great reaction! Great performance!!!

It’s great the way u research the album and songs I’m glad I found ur channel

Fantastic job, and I love that you picked the Trial. It is so well done with the various voices and influences and pressures coming down on him. I personally am so attracted to "Nobodys Home" -the combination of the beautiful melody, the piano work, the vocals, the reference of drugs ("silver spoon") and the use of the audio clips....(one is a 60's sit com "Gomer Pyle" which was so obscure in 1979) Very powerful and emotional at the same time.

Ok. This is my second video from you, and it's a follow. Excellent production, insight, and narration. In addition, i really loved your knowledge, and informative analysis. You're working hard and it shows. Glad i find ya. Thank you.

That little performance of yours was a joy!

You have amazing powers of observation. Brilliant. I'm enjoying binging your channel a lot.

Love this review Caroline! Great to hear the story behind it too. One of my favourite albums.

That was awesome and I loved your song at the end

Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us. I'm pretty sure *The Wall* was the first 'rock' album that I bought with my own money. (My record collection had already been fattened by contributions from my older brothers.) It still ranks up there among my favorite albums.

Loved this reaction! One of my favorite Floyd albums! As someone who loved watching your Beatles discography journey, I'm very glad you've started listening to Pink Floyd. I recommend listening to 'Animals' (1977) next.

It was several years after the LP was released before the movie came out. They had to wait until "little Pink" grew a little. The actress in the hotel was never informed of the chaos that was about to happen in order to get the best reaction.

Compliments on the editing of this video!

When it comes to Album play, this has to be my favorite of all time (age 69). I can't count the number of times I laid back on the sofa in the dark with my headphones on and just absorbed the brilliant song writing and musical production of The Wall. It is a masterpiece. And Caroline, I appreciate the effort you went to produce this video. Tell me you have the uncut video of your complete album reaction on your Patreon and I will join today.

An extremely entertaining reaction. Loved it. Hadn't listened to the Wall in 25 years probably.

Great surprise choice. Love your singing voice.

Such a brilliant album. I simply love your reactions Caroline, and miss them. Absolutely love your cover! '79. 20 years old at university. Bought the album the day it was released. Went back to the dorm, smoked a doobie, and put on the headphones. Yea.

Reaction request: Oktaf Kanis - Starlight, thank you :)

Good reaction. Good cover. You are a wholly enjoyable person. Keep up the good work.

Thank you!!! The Trial is my favorite song and thank you for that fantastic rendition!!! You'd enjoy the The Wall The Movie, it IS a musical... Can we say movie reaction, lol!!!

Another wonderful job with another classic album.

Hi, I've watched all your vids since the Beatles. This is by far my favorite one. :)

Eres increíble! Tus análisis de álbumes clásicos me los veo completos! Sigue con esa serie, saludos!

This is an incredible reaction in being to condense a double album into a coherent 15 minutes. Most reactors make a pigs ear in whittling it down to 30 minutes. As for your song interpretation at the end, I wouldn't have expected that choice, but you made it work - you may have a vocal affinity with Walters' register as well as adding your own values. I need to explore more of your long form / condensed reactions. Highly rated from this one example.

Wonderful reaction and analysis! You grasped way more in your fist listen than I did in mine many moons ago. I suggest you check out the movie sometime, I think you'll enjoy it. In many ways the stage show was a musical theater performance as well. I also highly recommend you do a first listen and reaction to "The Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking" by Roger Wagers as this album was his alternative idea to The Wall. The band voted and chose The Wall and Waters decided to keep "Pros and Cons" for a solo project after his departure from Pink Floyd. Again, great reaction! I enjoyed greatly!

You should check out the live show of The Wall in the 80's , And the film too , But Roger Waters has been touring the show since then so there's also footage of his shows on here.

Hope you're still creating. And this was fun. Nice cover!

It is an incredible album. I first got it in 1980 when I was 13. An amazing journey. You did a great job at the end and your accent fits in with theirs lending a little more synergy with the music. Nice job.

My definitive version of this album is the Is There Anybody Out There? concert album that has all songs, including the cut ones, all performed with the bands great live energy. Speaking of cut songs, check out Gerald's Scarfe animations for the movie on youtube, What Shall We Do Now? is an absolute banger both as a song an an animated short.

Love your videos so refreshing. Grettings from Chile

Oh wow this is a fantastic video! This is definitely a musical and I can see it adapted for the stage easily.

I'm so glad you liked this on your Floyd journey. I used to listen to this one all the time - it truly is amazing. BUT. It's so depressing I don't always have the stomach for it these days.

Wow! That was an outstanding performance, Caroline!!! BRAVA!! BRAVA!!!! YAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! ENCORE! ENCORE!!!!!

Excellent analysis. Just wish it was longer. It deserved that.

i love you❤ you are doing a great job and the wall is a masterpiece🙂

Nicely done video. Picking The Trial was a surprise - well done.

As a 5th grader when the album came out, Another Brick in the Wall was epic. It took a few years for me to appreciate the greatness of the full album. In high school, my mom who didn’t liked rock n roll, loved relaxing on the couch as we played Comfortably Numb.

YESSS IM SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS, THE WALL IS MY FAVORITE PF ALBUM :)

Brilliant breakdown of a classic album. And you're correct. It's definitely theater

Wonderful analysis Caroline. I was just starting high school when this album came out and the deeper cleverness was well over my head but the angsty aggro was perfect for my age - especially when accompanied by Gilmore guitar solos! You mentioned in another vid you wondered how their concerts work. I beg you to watch the 1994 Pulse concert! Comfortably Numb on that concert is truly transcendental! But im really loving your actual musical analyses not just reactions so Id love to see your response to Live in Pompeii 1972. You'll never listen to Phantom of the Opera in the same way again!

Me and my gf used to sing the karoke versins. She sang Guilmores parts and I did the Waters

Your Beatles reviews are a wonder to listen to over and over again, I miss those surprises you enjoyed and how so many songs were beautiful and "Sooo Pretty!!" I look forward to your review of their individual albums and later two more Beatles releases "Free As A Bird " and "Real Love" both with John Lennon.

Outstanding analysis of pne of the best concept albums ever conceived. Also, great job covering arguably the most difficult part of the album😄👍👍

Really love your cover ❤

Another brilliant music study!

Your video makes it fresh again for me, thank you. I’m sure someone’s mentioned, but the Live in Berlin version is the fantasy league musical theatre version. The Trial is performed by Tim Curry, Albert Finney with the exquisite Ute Lemper and Marianne Faithful as the exquisite Wife and Mother. It’s bonkers in the best possible way. Also Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Sinéad O’Conner, Paul Carrack, Van Morrison, Scorpions, The Band, etc.

Nice breakdown, it makes a lot more sense when you understand the concept behind it.

I like in the song Stop the delay. How he Said have to know and then in the 2nd verse time. So it makes: time to know. And the fact that next song is the trial. Just wow

I see you like musical theatre. You MUST search for "The Last Few Bricks." Its a musical overture of the albums themes, cut from the album due to length, but EXTENDED for the stage show to allow them to finish building the wall. Btw, did I mention the stage show? Watch the concert, but you probably want to do that offline. Roger's management can be cranky about copywrite,

Can you please evaluate the album "Tommy" by the Who as I have not seen anyone react to that. The film is worth a watch too (with Elton John and Tina Turner amongst others). I will not say anything more (spoilers). Also The Moody Blues album "Days Of Future Passed" which goes through a complete day accompamied by an orchestra.

The "loop" effect of the album was designed for 8-track players, which would always cycle back to the beginning... and we've come full circle now with digital replay mode. When the two ends are joined together, you hear Roger Waters asking, "Isn't this where we came in?"

Beautiful Trial rendition, and fantastic analisys of course.

There is nothing even close to what Pink Floyd did in this album. But my favorite Pink floyd album is still "The final cult." I had the tape, and I used to listen to this album in the way to the school many times. Maybe that is why it became my favorite.

About that movie, version, I don't recommend you watch it TOO soon. The movie stars Bob Geldof (of the Boomtown Rats, who went on to Band Aid and Live Aid fame) and film is pretty great. Still, the movie's imagery is so, SO striking - so overwhelming, really - that it can take the place of your listening experience. In other words, you risk one director's vision overtaking your own personal experience of the music. The film is that strong, visually. Better to watch the movie after you've thoroughly ingrained the album as your own. By the way, Pink Floyd DOES like their leitmotifs on a lot of their albums, but no doubt this is most fully realized on "The Wall." And thank you for singing one of the songs for us! You always have such a Caroline way of doing reactions! Love it!

Is There Anybody Out There, was one of the first PF tracks I learned on the guitar when I did lessons in primary school, it’s one of the only ones I remember too, along with Wish You Were Here, I gotta start playing again but it’s been so long, this album made quite an impact on me as a kid back in the mid 00’s, I was introduced to PF via their debut around that time from my uncle, it was a strange place to start but tracks like The Gnome and Bike were so hilarious and captivating in a whimsical way, so getting into their biggest records was quite a bizarre experience as they were so different.

This is a brill reaction to a brill album, so impressed! Well done, love X

Currently watching you through a small hole I chipped through my wall. You sing beautifully.

The fact that you chose the Trial definitely makes me kinda love you 😁🥰😘

Loved the reaction and the cover!