What you have to understand about this album is that "The Wall" is a metaphorical wall around his heart to keep people and things out so he doesn't get hurt. This abum is about building that wall with various things that hurt him over the years like an overbearing mother, a terrible school system, the fear of going to war, etc. You definitely need to listen to this album from start to finish.
Lol you may deserve to watch the court scene. Or the entire movie. Is there any body out there. Pink Floyd has many relaxing songs. Several different species of furry animal's groving in a cave with a pict. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE Eugene is relaxing.
Most of these songs make much more sense if you watch the movie. I have to admit, this wasnt my favorite album by far from Floyd, but the music did serve its purpose with the movie.
This would be the perfect post if the "must" was replaced with something closer to "are doing yourself a disservice if you don't". Although I agree with your sentiment.
I prefer listening to record/disc 2 first. Ending The Wall on “Goodbye Cruel World” seems to fit the story better. And the background music in “Outside the Wall” that flows into “In the Flesh?” is like a hint that the records/discs are in reverse order.
The song is about an overprotective mother and the damage she did to him. She taught him how to start building the Wall to close himself off from anything that might hurt him. The character, Pink, does that over the course of his life and is the theme behind the whole album. The musical tone and the contrast of the lyrics represent his mixed perception of his mother.
This should be a full album reaction from beginning to end. You’ll appreciate it so much more 💜 Oh… Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a sensational song you should hear.
Roger is part of a generation and a victim of WW2 where many fathers were sent off to war and never returned. His father was killed in Italy and his remains were not recovered. The song reflects Rogers view of his relationship with his mother. You get a much better sense of this in a later documentary that Roger did where he travels the route that led to where his father died in battle. Also Roger lost his grandfather as a result of WW1.
I bought this double album masterpiece in 1980 when I was 18 years old. It is basically a story from start to finish. Therefore, when someone not familiair with the content or meaning of The Wall listens to a single song somewhere in the middle it seems totally bizarre. A few of the songs from The Wall became big hits like Comfortably Numb, Hey You, and Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) Since there are actually three versions with the same name in the Albums. I remember back in 1980 when the single Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) was moving up the charts in the US and other countries, I heard on the radio that England (where Pink Floyd is actually from) was trying to ban the song from the radio there because it had improper grammar that 23 school children sang just for the song without permission from the school. The school music teacher on his own brought the 23 school children to the studio and within half an hour Pink Floyd had their rebellious children singing, " We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher leave them kids alone. "
I bought it first in 79 at 12, when it came out, already a religious floyd fan. Never cared much for the lyrics though, just the music and the overall feeling, exp for the fuck you teacher stuff!
pink is the main character in this story. his dad was a pilot who died in world war 2 so mother had to raise him on her own hense the overprotection, of course mothers gonna help build the wall to keep all things bad away from her only child . find the time to sit quietly and listen to this amazing piece of art. you will not be disappointed 😊
Mother not only helps him to build the wall between her beloved child and the horrors of the outside world, she makes ALL of his nightmares come true, and puts ALL her fears into him so that he has no desire to stray far from Mother.
Most relaxed is also tied with most melancholy for me. Pink Floyd was one of my older brother's favorite bands, and definitely my favorite. He passed when he was 25 and I was 18, in 1982. The song is "Wish you were here".
That had to be difficult. Having a bond over Pink Floyd is an excellent consolation IMO. Wish You Were Here was such a great tribute song and album overall.
Sort of a trip -- my older brother passed away in 1982 at the age of 26. We both loved Pink Floyd. He turned me on to "cooler" music around 1970. The music my family and I thought was weird and even scary. But then I heard "Fragile". And "Roundabout." I mean ... I HEARD it. The rest is history. 70's classic rock history.
Mother is part of the story that the the wall album tells. U really need to listen to the whole album with your headphones and enjoy. It is a very dark album
His overprotective mother is just another brick in the metaphoric wall that contributed to have him socially isolated. The songs of the first half of the album are just pointing what contributed to that wall. The second half is his journey trying to get free of it. And one song you I really think you will love musically, feeling and lyrics is High Hopes. Nightwish even covered it :) High hope is part of their last true album, The Division Bell. All the songs have the same theme, communication. Lyrics hit hard.
"Mother" is the part of the story explaining how even his own mother contributed to his emotional damage. "The Wall" is an emotional wall between himself and reality.
The Wall is a metaphor. Many people have these walls. It many have something to do with your race, your weight, a disability or other psychological problems people deal with. Were they put up a wall to cope. The main character of the movie lost his father, raised by a single mother, did poorly in school and later turned to drugs and alcohol. The entire time hiding behind his wall. Some songs aren't necessarily about him but his perspective about life.
You obviously got that The Wall is metaphorical for this dude finding his way in the world, dealing with loss, resentment, an overbearing mother, among other themes all explored in different ways on the album. With that said, there is definitely a political undercurrent running throughout the album. War, Fascism, on a literal sense the Berlin Wall (where Roger Waters performed this live after it came down). So you can’t entirely separate the metaphors with some of the literal symbolism. An amazing album to listen to all the way through, with each song telling a piece of the larger story
There isn't just one Pink Floyd song that puts me in a most relaxed state. There's several, such as Mother, The Great Gig in the Sky, Echoes, Fearless, San Tropez, Us and Them, Goodbye Blue Sky, Comfortably Numb, Don't Leave Me Now, The Thin Ice, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX), Pigs on the Wing (Part One and Part Two) ...
I can listen to Pink Floyd,Eminem,Hank Williams,Pantera,etc….. I love all different kinds of music,people,experiences. There’s so much to appreciate in this existence-grateful for all of it❤
The Wall is a phycological wall, it's the wall we all build. Some just build walls with no windows or doors only to find there is no escape. An overbearing mother is just one of the bricks that makes up the wall here. Movements of our lives make up the bricks that we build our walls with.
The album is a requiem to the post WW2 era. The wall represents barriers between all facets of life. The particular song “Mother” is a microcosm of how everyone can build walls metaphorically or literally. At the end the child asks, [why did it have to be so…high?] Walls a good when used properly
This is at the top of some of my favorite songs. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 11 and n9w I'm 59. They're still my most go to music. Pink Floyd for life
Let's put this "Eminem passes Led Zeppelin" into proper fucking perspective: Zeppelin quit making music 43 years ago. The world's population has increased by 50% and the US population has doubled. So, it's taken Marshall twice as many years of recording, 25 vs 13, and twice the population to pass a group who stopped recording 43 years ago. 🤔🙄
This song is about his very over protective mother raising him after his father died in ww2. The wall builds in his mind driving him kknda crazy over the years. You will see this if you watch the wall movie.
The Floyd song that puts me in the most relaxed state is Marooned, off The Division Bell album. The live version from the Strat Pack concert in 2004 especially.
It’s all in his head. Definitely do the album. It’s stunningly brilliant. This album (and movie) is a landmark in popular music history. Thanks, Lilly 🙂
When I grew up in the sixties we had duck and cover drills in grade school in case Russia dropped a nuke on us.That's the bomb.the wall is the Berlin wall.I relate to this song because I remember coming home from school scared to death Russia was going to drop the bomb.
Like others say, the album tells a story. There are parallels to Mother also being the government. This was released in the post cold war era, so it was very topical with its political commentary at that time. And yes, love Pink Floyd and Eminem. For me the Pulse Concert live recordings are... A must see experience for anyone wanting a feel for what Pink Floyd is. The music, the stage show, Gilmore guitar. I re watch that live show several times a year. It's perfect.
FYI,this wasn't "released in the post cold war era". The Cold War was from 1947 until 1991, and this album was written and released more than a decade prior.
Hi Lily Jane. Cool reaction thanks. Pink Floyd is my favorite band but I have listened and do like many genre's of music. Including many hip hop and rap artists. I always search for something new. The one song of Pink Floyd's that always works for me to unwind is Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Thx again!
You completely got this song all wrong. The wall is the walls we build to protect ourselves from all the fears and paranoia we get from an overbearing parent. It’s even deeper than that when you look at Cyd Barrets life
The Wall album should be treated as one long song. And yes, grew up on LZ, Pink Floyd, and Hendrix as a young child. Also been a fan of rap since it’s inception…
As others have commented, you must listen to The Wall from start to finish. Each song is like a chapter in a book. You wouldn't open a book and read a middle chapter all by it self. You need the earlier chapters to understand the whole story and get context. Just like listening to The Wall and DSOTM albums. Cheers.
I’ve never seen a person respond so viscerally to music before. It’s almost involuntary. It shows me that what you’re listening to is good and you recognize that.
If you want a true relaxing break from your day, you should react to PF’s Echoes off their Meddle album. Warning it’s a 23 minute song. The song is an ode to empathy. You should react to the studio version, not the Live at Pompeii version, which cuts out the last 8 to 9 minutes of the song. Great reaction.
Nice reaction! Check out the version that Roger Waters put out three years ago. It's great and the harmony of the vocalists he brought in (Jess and Holly of Lucius) is fantastic.
best band ever lived lilly,all the way through this album it's ying and yang with the vocals.roger the paranoid,isolated etc voice and dave the sweet relief or "mother".it really is something else the brains behind it lilly,in this song it's the touches,the 2 note bassline,the ride cymbal work,rick's tinkerings and dave melodic break.then if you've lost a mother like me that ending "you'll always be baby to me" is the most beautiful audible hug you'll ever hear.keep it coming and have a good day
well in frank,i've seen roger live a few times and the aussie pink about 8 times(as close as it gets) but never saw floyd in their prime as was a tad young haha.gutted i didn't get to see them,have a good day mate@@frankk8018
i know that mate it's just a jawdropping album,the way my mother passed though(she went bad)and the relationship we had,that line always hits me in a nice albeilt heartbreaking way.just one beautiful song,have a good day mate@@Scumdrops420
the only M&M' s I like they melt in your mouth but not in your hands. Pink Floyd is one of the top selling groups outside of the Beatles. DSOTM has been in the top 200 for well over 900 wks.
The Wall is a Concept Album. One song leads into the next while telling a story. It makes the songs easier to comprehend if you listen from the beginning to the end
There many gems from this album including this one for sure! The wall is intended to hear from start to finish. Everything makes sense when listened to in full.
I totally relate, it was a nightmare living with my mother and I’ve spent the last 30 years trying to undo the damage by letting down the wall that was absolutely necessary at the time to keep me alive.
Basically what the song is saying is that Mothers going to show you life. Mother will be there. He's talking to his mother about all of his fears and doubts.
I listened to a lot of different music all the way from classical rock heavy metal rap country i have just love music since i was a kid & im now 49 some songs got me through a lot of bad times just thankful that music in general helpped me
You need to hear the whole album to get the full context of this song. After losing his father, dealing with abusive teachers, and an over-protective mother the main character isolates himself (the wall) The rest of the album follows his isolation and mental breakdown.
One more thing about Mother is that it's probably the first song I played for her after she bought me a new Fender because of another Pink Floyd song back in 1986.
Oh and the most relaxed state from Pink Floyd is experiencing the song Sorrow. I think my Mother would agree. She said it sounds like a plumber communicating with whales.
My advice to everyone is you have to listen to the music several times over. You just might never get the meaning expressed but you might experience something personal.
Yes to your question. That’s the beauty of music. It’s like a different blanket to put on for whatever life’s weather is hitting you with. Eminem when I’m looking for music to get me amped, or Pink Floyd if I want to think or reminisce. At 47 I have a ton of strong memories - both good and bad - tied to this band who, at least for me, has the most unique sound of any band before or since. But my point before rambling about irrelevant things is most people (at least in my small circle) have a very eclectic taste in music. I’m trying to pass the torch to my daughters everyday.
the entire concept for The Wall was about closing yourself off from being hurt..it came from The Animals tour montreal show July 7 1977..when he spit on a fans face and freaked out...i was there, the 86000 people made him realize the loss of intimacy between the band and the audience,he got the idea for The Wall after that show
The wall is a fluid metaphor but mostly about the construct between people and society, being taught"how to act" to go along to get along. ..in the movie the punishment for not doing so is "I sentence u to be exposed before your peers" and then "tear down the wall" that basically imprisons and protects us
My father Chucky, just passed last June..... As me n my brother's grew up in Atlantic City, he n my Mom "said" they hated hip hop.... When my little brother turned 18, they admitted. They love good rap! One of my best Dad stories is a 2pac one..... I miss ya Pops! Rest well Buddy!
We watched The Wall movie my freshman year of college.....watched it over and over at least a half dozen times or so over 2-3 days if I recall. So powerful. Highly recommend.....especially if you have a little assistance from your garden.
What you have done is akin to reading a random chapter from a book. With Pink Floyd in general and The Wall in particular, you can enjoy the aural majesty, but the lyrics really are contextual. This is one small part of a much larger story. The Wall was intended to be experienced as a whole. Its is, essentially, a single piece of music with many movements.
I'm 48 and my music taste, well, is all over the spectrum. The nineties is probably the best era for music in the sense that bands like Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones were still touring and recording while Grunge and Hip Hop were newborns. So, yeah. Smoked a lot of concert joints in my time.😶😜😂
This album does need to be listened in it's entirety. I love listening to the "Live in Berlin 1990" version with the all star cast. Sinead O'Connor RIP singing this song with The Band is just mesmerizing.. If you can find it, Pink Floyd tends to block most videos on TH-cam.
I think you might find Eminem fans that are also Pink Floyd fans, but not so much the other way around. Music started to change in the late 90's... the industry really... and it, at least for the time being, killed any chances of a bank like Pink Floyd ever happening again. Those of us old enough to live through the good days look at music from say 2000 on with a side eye. Seriously listen to The Wall from start to finish, listen to the story being told, the layers and double meanings, triple meanings to the lyrics, all the different instrumentation, the different levels of recording, how spacious everything feels from utter silence to tremendous bursts of power, from simple harmony lines, to some of the greatest guitar work ever recorded anywhere... then listen to any Eminem album you like with the same discerning ear. Eminem understands music, he's a great rapper, and he's been widely popular, so I'm not taking away from his abilities, but if you compare him as a song writer and musician to Roger Waters or David Gilmour... he's just not even in the same league. Record sales... sure... same level. Musicianship and creativity... nope, not even close. Sorry.
I absolutely listen to both. I’m a fan of powerful poignant lyrics. I like Ems songs when he is being goofy because they make me laugh, when he is being serious, each bar isn’t a double entendres, it’s maybe a triple and sometimes quadruple. And Floyd’s lyrics , while not containing as many double meanings, they don’t have to, because they know what buttons to push to make you feel sad, hopeful, depressed and joyful all at the same time. Both are artists that make you feel something
I was kinda lucky with music as I heard a lot of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin thanks to my dad but also my brother was a massive rap fan so that Influenced me too. The range of music I like is ridiculous
shine on u crazy diamond appears on the album 'wish you were here' another floyd album to experience in it entirety. dedicated to sid barret a founding member of pink floyd who took a way too large dose of LSD and never came back. he was found in the commun where he lived trapped in his own mind. 2 very telling lines on the album -" now theres a look in your eye, like black holes in the sky" "nobody knows where you are, how near or how far"
Heart react this comment if I should react to the whole "The Wall" album
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What you have to understand about this album is that "The Wall" is a metaphorical wall around his heart to keep people and things out so he doesn't get hurt. This abum is about building that wall with various things that hurt him over the years like an overbearing mother, a terrible school system, the fear of going to war, etc. You definitely need to listen to this album from start to finish.
Start to finish. This is the way.
And see the movie "THE WALL"
Yes - Many reactors do not do this and miss out on an amazing experience.
Lol you may deserve to watch the court scene. Or the entire movie. Is there any body out there. Pink Floyd has many relaxing songs. Several different species of furry animal's groving in a cave with a pict. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE Eugene is relaxing.
Most of these songs make much more sense if you watch the movie. I have to admit, this wasnt my favorite album by far from Floyd, but the music did serve its purpose with the movie.
The Wall is a ROCK OPERA. They even turned it into a MOVIE. You must listen to The Wall in track order. ✌️
This would be the perfect post if the "must" was replaced with something closer to "are doing yourself a disservice if you don't".
Although I agree with your sentiment.
I prefer listening to record/disc 2 first. Ending The Wall on “Goodbye Cruel World” seems to fit the story better. And the background music in “Outside the Wall” that flows into “In the Flesh?” is like a hint that the records/discs are in reverse order.
You mean theatre not opera
I prefer to be back to '90 in berlin. Listening, chilling on & at the wall !
Now! That was a concert !
@ronaldhorsley1600 I must conccur. You say "rock opera", my brain thinks of Tommy. Or something from Queen.
The Wall is not that.
ONE DOESN'T MERELY LISTEN TO PINK FLOYD, ONE EXPERIENCES THEM.
The song is about an overprotective mother and the damage she did to him. She taught him how to start building the Wall to close himself off from anything that might hurt him. The character, Pink, does that over the course of his life and is the theme behind the whole album.
The musical tone and the contrast of the lyrics represent his mixed perception of his mother.
Nailed it friend
Hearing a single song does THE WALL, no justice. WATCH THE MOVIE!!!! You will have no questions... only thoughts
This should be a full album reaction from beginning to end. You’ll appreciate it so much more 💜 Oh… Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a sensational song you should hear.
Should do the entire Wish You Were Here album
Ive always held that David Gilmour does more with one note than most other guitarist can do with a fleet of guitars.
Every new guitar hopes it gets David Gilmore for Christmas.
Roger is part of a generation and a victim of WW2 where many fathers were sent off to war and never returned. His father was killed in Italy and his remains were not recovered. The song reflects Rogers view of his relationship with his mother. You get a much better sense of this in a later documentary that Roger did where he travels the route that led to where his father died in battle. Also Roger lost his grandfather as a result of WW1.
Doing a first react to this song is like doing a book report on chapter 6 of a novel. You need to listen to the entire album.
what this song talks about is the "smothering Mother complex"
I bought this double album masterpiece in 1980 when I was 18 years old. It is basically a story from start to finish. Therefore, when someone not familiair with the content or meaning of The Wall listens to a single song somewhere in the middle it seems totally bizarre. A few of the songs from The Wall became big hits like Comfortably Numb, Hey You, and Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) Since there are actually three versions with the same name in the Albums. I remember back in 1980 when the single Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) was moving up the charts in the US and other countries, I heard on the radio that England (where Pink Floyd is actually from) was trying to ban the song from the radio there because it had improper grammar that 23 school children sang just for the song without permission from the school. The school music teacher on his own brought the 23 school children to the studio and within half an hour Pink Floyd had their rebellious children singing, " We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher leave them kids alone. "
I bought it first in 79 at 12, when it came out, already a religious floyd fan. Never cared much for the lyrics though, just the music and the overall feeling, exp for the fuck you teacher stuff!
Right on the money my friend
pink is the main character in this story. his dad was a pilot who died in world war 2 so mother had to raise him on her own hense the overprotection, of course mothers gonna help build the wall to keep all things bad away from her only child . find the time to sit quietly and listen to this amazing piece of art. you will not be disappointed 😊
Mother not only helps him to build the wall between her beloved child and the horrors of the outside world, she makes ALL of his nightmares come true, and puts ALL her fears into him so that he has no desire to stray far from Mother.
Listen to When The Tigers Broke Through, his dad was in the Army
His Dad was not a pilot
Most relaxed is also tied with most melancholy for me. Pink Floyd was one of my older brother's favorite bands, and definitely my favorite. He passed when he was 25 and I was 18, in 1982. The song is "Wish you were here".
That had to be difficult. Having a bond over Pink Floyd is an excellent consolation IMO. Wish You Were Here was such a great tribute song and album overall.
Shine on you, crazy diamond...
Sort of a trip -- my older brother passed away in 1982 at the age of 26. We both loved Pink Floyd. He turned me on to "cooler" music around 1970. The music my family and I thought was weird and even scary. But then I heard "Fragile". And "Roundabout." I mean ... I HEARD it. The rest is history. 70's classic rock history.
Mother is part of the story that the the wall album tells. U really need to listen to the whole album with your headphones and enjoy. It is a very dark album
His overprotective mother is just another brick in the metaphoric wall that contributed to have him socially isolated. The songs of the first half of the album are just pointing what contributed to that wall. The second half is his journey trying to get free of it. And one song you I really think you will love musically, feeling and lyrics is High Hopes. Nightwish even covered it :) High hope is part of their last true album, The Division Bell. All the songs have the same theme, communication. Lyrics hit hard.
"Mother" is the part of the story explaining how even his own mother contributed to his emotional damage. "The Wall" is an emotional wall between himself and reality.
The Wall is a metaphor. Many people have these walls. It many have something to do with your race, your weight, a disability or other psychological problems people deal with. Were they put up a wall to cope.
The main character of the movie lost his father, raised by a single mother, did poorly in school and later turned to drugs and alcohol. The entire time hiding behind his wall. Some songs aren't necessarily about him but his perspective about life.
You obviously got that The Wall is metaphorical for this dude finding his way in the world, dealing with loss, resentment, an overbearing mother, among other themes all explored in different ways on the album. With that said, there is definitely a political undercurrent running throughout the album. War, Fascism, on a literal sense the Berlin Wall (where Roger Waters performed this live after it came down). So you can’t entirely separate the metaphors with some of the literal symbolism. An amazing album to listen to all the way through, with each song telling a piece of the larger story
There isn't just one Pink Floyd song that puts me in a most relaxed state. There's several, such as Mother, The Great Gig in the Sky, Echoes, Fearless, San Tropez, Us and Them, Goodbye Blue Sky, Comfortably Numb, Don't Leave Me Now, The Thin Ice, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX), Pigs on the Wing (Part One and Part Two) ...
I can listen to Pink Floyd,Eminem,Hank Williams,Pantera,etc….. I love all different kinds of music,people,experiences. There’s so much to appreciate in this existence-grateful for all of it❤
Same here
The Wall is a phycological wall, it's the wall we all build. Some just build walls with no windows or doors only to find there is no escape. An overbearing mother is just one of the bricks that makes up the wall here. Movements of our lives make up the bricks that we build our walls with.
The album is a requiem to the post WW2 era. The wall represents barriers between all facets of life. The particular song “Mother” is a microcosm of how everyone can build walls metaphorically or literally. At the end the child asks, [why did it have to be so…high?]
Walls a good when used properly
This is at the top of some of my favorite songs. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 11 and n9w I'm 59. They're still my most go to music. Pink Floyd for life
Let's put this "Eminem passes Led Zeppelin" into proper fucking perspective: Zeppelin quit making music 43 years ago. The world's population has increased by 50% and the US population has doubled. So, it's taken Marshall twice as many years of recording, 25 vs 13, and twice the population to pass a group who stopped recording 43 years ago. 🤔🙄
This album is considered as one of the best concept albums ever made!! its a full album expreience, linking it all gives the best experience..
This song is about his very over protective mother raising him after his father died in ww2. The wall builds in his mind driving him kknda crazy over the years. You will see this if you watch the wall movie.
The Floyd song that puts me in the most relaxed state is Marooned, off The Division Bell album. The live version from the Strat Pack concert in 2004 especially.
Speaks so much to the fears mother has that she wants to protect, yet force upon her son.
It’s all in his head. Definitely do the album. It’s stunningly brilliant. This album (and movie) is a landmark in popular music history. Thanks, Lilly 🙂
When I grew up in the sixties we had duck and cover drills in grade school in case Russia dropped a nuke on us.That's the bomb.the wall is the Berlin wall.I relate to this song because I remember coming home from school scared to death Russia was going to drop the bomb.
Like others say, the album tells a story. There are parallels to Mother also being the government. This was released in the post cold war era, so it was very topical with its political commentary at that time.
And yes, love Pink Floyd and Eminem.
For me the Pulse Concert live recordings are... A must see experience for anyone wanting a feel for what Pink Floyd is. The music, the stage show, Gilmore guitar. I re watch that live show several times a year. It's perfect.
FYI,this wasn't "released in the post cold war era". The Cold War was from 1947 until 1991, and this album was written and released more than a decade prior.
I love the look Lily gave when the line "Mother should I trust the Government?" -Priceless AND Accurate!
Take some dabs and listen to the whole album with lyrics and headphones.
Mind blown.
that's a waste of time. Just listen to the album. It's all there.
I prefer to be back to '90 live in berlin. Listening, chilling on & at the wall !
Now! That was a concert !
Hi Lily Jane. Cool reaction thanks. Pink Floyd is my favorite band but I have listened and do like many genre's of music. Including many hip hop and rap artists. I always search for something new. The one song of Pink Floyd's that always works for me to unwind is Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Thx again!
You completely got this song all wrong. The wall is the walls we build to protect ourselves from all the fears and paranoia we get from an overbearing parent. It’s even deeper than that when you look at Cyd Barrets life
Pink Foyds most relaxing? "Grandchester Meadows" is a beautiful piece of art.... pure peace.
Careful With That Axe Eugene also. Up to a point :D
The Wall album should be treated as one long song.
And yes, grew up on LZ, Pink Floyd, and Hendrix as a young child. Also been a fan of rap since it’s inception…
When this first came out, had to have it, still have it ,,, and listen to it a lot,, the windows rattle, love,love it. From a 78 year old veteran ❤
As others have commented, you must listen to The Wall from start to finish. Each song is like a chapter in a book. You wouldn't open a book and read a middle chapter all by it self. You need the earlier chapters to understand the whole story and get context. Just like listening to The Wall and DSOTM albums. Cheers.
I’ve never seen a person respond so viscerally to music before. It’s almost involuntary. It shows me that what you’re listening to is good and you recognize that.
If you want a true relaxing break from your day, you should react to PF’s Echoes off their Meddle album. Warning it’s a 23 minute song. The song is an ode to empathy. You should react to the studio version, not the Live at Pompeii version, which cuts out the last 8 to 9 minutes of the song. Great reaction.
One does not "listen" to Pink Floyd, one "Experiences" Pink Floyd
Nice reaction! Check out the version that Roger Waters put out three years ago. It's great and the harmony of the vocalists he brought in (Jess and Holly of Lucius) is fantastic.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a very relaxing song.
best band ever lived lilly,all the way through this album it's ying and yang with the vocals.roger the paranoid,isolated etc voice and dave the sweet relief or "mother".it really is something else the brains behind it lilly,in this song it's the touches,the 2 note bassline,the ride cymbal work,rick's tinkerings and dave melodic break.then if you've lost a mother like me that ending "you'll always be baby to me" is the most beautiful audible hug you'll ever hear.keep it coming and have a good day
Floyd is in a genre all its own. I was lucky enough to have seen them live. Cheers
well in frank,i've seen roger live a few times and the aussie pink about 8 times(as close as it gets) but never saw floyd in their prime as was a tad young haha.gutted i didn't get to see them,have a good day mate@@frankk8018
The sad thing is "You'll always be baby to me" is referring to mother's inability to let the kid grow up in a normal way.
i know that mate it's just a jawdropping album,the way my mother passed though(she went bad)and the relationship we had,that line always hits me in a nice albeilt heartbreaking way.just one beautiful song,have a good day mate@@Scumdrops420
the only M&M' s I like they melt in your mouth but not in your hands. Pink Floyd is one of the top selling groups outside of the Beatles. DSOTM has been in the top 200 for well over 900 wks.
Donald Trump's "Mother," was daddy. 😢
You tds suffering twat waffles are everywhere
also do the 1980 live' version david does a double solo in the song epic
'Mother did it need to be so high?!'
Mother kept him close and at the same time used his nightmares to keep him close.
The Wall is a Concept Album. One song leads into the next while telling a story. It makes the songs easier to comprehend if you listen from the beginning to the end
There many gems from this album including this one for sure! The wall is intended to hear from start to finish. Everything makes sense when listened to in full.
I totally relate, it was a nightmare living with my mother and I’ve spent the last 30 years trying to undo the damage by letting down the wall that was absolutely necessary at the time to keep me alive.
As I've heard one person describe it, the first time you listen to Pink Floyd it rewrites your DNA and you are never the same
This is such a great one... one of my all time favorites...
Basically what the song is saying is that Mothers going to show you life. Mother will be there. He's talking to his mother about all of his fears and doubts.
Pink Floyd songs always tell a story. Each album tells a story.
The wall is a concept album, the context of the song makes more sense when you listen the album in full
Comfortable numb always got me relaxing when playing it. I could lay there and space out a few minutes.
Over protective mother is just another brick in the wall he built between him and the world.
I listened to a lot of different music all the way from classical rock heavy metal rap country i have just love music since i was a kid & im now 49 some songs got me through a lot of bad times just thankful that music in general helpped me
A song that boils down how our family passes down dysfunction so that we build a wall that we think protects us but really just isolates us.
Glad to see you're back onto Floyd
Yes.. i would and do.. i listen to all kinds of music from metal to classical
Fat Old Sun may be my favourite Pink Floyd song of them all.
You need to hear the whole album to get the full context of this song.
After losing his father, dealing with abusive teachers, and an over-protective mother the main character isolates himself (the wall) The rest of the album follows his isolation and mental breakdown.
I love pink floyd and eminem
Yes, I loved Pink Floyd since almost birth and I have loved EM since his first day.
One more thing about Mother is that it's probably the first song I played for her after she bought me a new Fender because of another Pink Floyd song back in 1986.
Oh and the most relaxed state from Pink Floyd is experiencing the song Sorrow. I think my Mother would agree. She said it sounds like a plumber communicating with whales.
My advice to everyone is you have to listen to the music several times over. You just might never get the meaning expressed but you might experience something personal.
Yes to your question. That’s the beauty of music. It’s like a different blanket to put on for whatever life’s weather is hitting you with. Eminem when I’m looking for music to get me amped, or Pink Floyd if I want to think or reminisce. At 47 I have a ton of strong memories - both good and bad - tied to this band who, at least for me, has the most unique sound of any band before or since. But my point before rambling about irrelevant things is most people (at least in my small circle) have a very eclectic taste in music. I’m trying to pass the torch to my daughters everyday.
the entire concept for The Wall was about closing yourself off from being hurt..it came from The Animals tour montreal show July 7 1977..when he spit on a fans face and freaked out...i was there, the 86000 people made him realize the loss of intimacy between the band and the audience,he got the idea for The Wall after that show
The wall is a fluid metaphor but mostly about the construct between people and society, being taught"how to act" to go along to get along. ..in the movie the punishment for not doing so is "I sentence u to be exposed before your peers" and then "tear down the wall" that basically imprisons and protects us
It's an over protective mother who helps the boy build a wall around him. The final phrase at the end "Mother Did It Need to be So High" says it all
I used to listen to em before he told me he doesn't want me to. But I listen metal, rock, pop, old country, lyrical rappers, folk, classical.
The wall is referring to emotional protection from fear and harm from various external sources
The whole wall album is a masterpiece.
My father Chucky, just passed last June..... As me n my brother's grew up in Atlantic City, he n my Mom "said" they hated hip hop....
When my little brother turned 18, they admitted. They love good rap!
One of my best Dad stories is a 2pac one.....
I miss ya Pops! Rest well Buddy!
The wall saved my life as a child, it protected me during my most vulnerable part of my life.
We watched The Wall movie my freshman year of college.....watched it over and over at least a half dozen times or so over 2-3 days if I recall.
So powerful.
Highly recommend.....especially if you have a little assistance from your garden.
Long time Pink Floyd fan and a fan of Eminem since the, "Slim Shady", album.
"The Wall" is an album about emotional walls. ✌️
What you have done is akin to reading a random chapter from a book.
With Pink Floyd in general and The Wall in particular, you can enjoy the aural majesty, but the lyrics really are contextual.
This is one small part of a much larger story.
The Wall was intended to be experienced as a whole.
Its is, essentially, a single piece of music with many movements.
I'm 48 and my music taste, well, is all over the spectrum. The nineties is probably the best era for music in the sense that bands like Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones were still touring and recording while Grunge and Hip Hop were newborns. So, yeah. Smoked a lot of concert joints in my time.😶😜😂
This album does need to be listened in it's entirety. I love listening to the "Live in Berlin 1990" version with the all star cast. Sinead O'Connor RIP singing this song with The Band is just mesmerizing.. If you can find it, Pink Floyd tends to block most videos on TH-cam.
I think you might find Eminem fans that are also Pink Floyd fans, but not so much the other way around. Music started to change in the late 90's... the industry really... and it, at least for the time being, killed any chances of a bank like Pink Floyd ever happening again. Those of us old enough to live through the good days look at music from say 2000 on with a side eye. Seriously listen to The Wall from start to finish, listen to the story being told, the layers and double meanings, triple meanings to the lyrics, all the different instrumentation, the different levels of recording, how spacious everything feels from utter silence to tremendous bursts of power, from simple harmony lines, to some of the greatest guitar work ever recorded anywhere... then listen to any Eminem album you like with the same discerning ear. Eminem understands music, he's a great rapper, and he's been widely popular, so I'm not taking away from his abilities, but if you compare him as a song writer and musician to Roger Waters or David Gilmour... he's just not even in the same league. Record sales... sure... same level. Musicianship and creativity... nope, not even close. Sorry.
Listen the song High Hopes live version.
I absolutely listen to both. I’m a fan of powerful poignant lyrics. I like Ems songs when he is being goofy because they make me laugh, when he is being serious, each bar isn’t a double entendres, it’s maybe a triple and sometimes quadruple. And Floyd’s lyrics , while not containing as many double meanings, they don’t have to, because they know what buttons to push to make you feel sad, hopeful, depressed and joyful all at the same time. Both are artists that make you feel something
Hi Lily Jane, Am 70 and listened to Pink Floyd in the '70's. Great.
Also like some M&Ms, e.g. 'Lose yourself'.
Pink Floyd is a Journey to experience! Enjoy!
the most soothing and relaxing Pink Floyd songs got to be Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1 through 9
I’m a dies hard Floyd fan but was 19 when Em came out and have listen ritually since
Pink Floyd is my absolute favorite,no one compares
The song by Pink Floyd that puts me in the most relaxed state is either "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Echoes".
PINK FLOYD=GOAT!
Was into Pink Floyd first, but have both in my catalog
Yes. I listen to both. Artist who are versatile seem to have multiple genre influences. Thanks for reacting.
I was kinda lucky with music as I heard a lot of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin thanks to my dad but also my brother was a massive rap fan so that Influenced me too. The range of music I like is ridiculous
They are both in my top 5 favorites
Relaxing state from a Pink Floyd song is "Poles Apart" from "The Division Bell" album.
shine on u crazy diamond appears on the album 'wish you were here' another floyd album to experience in it entirety. dedicated to sid barret a founding member of pink floyd who took a way too large dose of LSD and never came back. he was found in the commun where he lived trapped in his own mind. 2 very telling lines on the album -" now theres a look in your eye, like black holes in the sky" "nobody knows where you are, how near or how far"