Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces - What shall we do now?
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- What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
Contract disease?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall! - เพลง
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The Wall is hands down the best visual depiction of the despair and self-hatred that comes with depression
Depression, isolation, hate, loathing, fascism and fear. This album/concept piece shows us the dangers of all of these. The "good" guy can easily become the bad guy given the right circumstances like in Pink's case. He became the very thing have never thought he would.
"If I had my way, I'd have all of ya shot!" Is a clear sign he despises the crowd, not just a select few. To him, everyone is nothing but worms until he realises those same worms will eat from the inside out along with his own insecurities.
The trial is nothing more than pink coming to terms with the pain he has caused on others, the trauma he dealt with as a boy and most importantly, the way he dealt with it himself. Tearing down the wall is a sign of moving forward and showing that he can move on. In the alhum, it's a loop, for the film, it's a climactic break to the cycle of failure. It paints a picture of growth and prosperity after disaster.
@@Exspazament The album is more relevant than it was when it came out. A lot of fascist pundits rise when there is dire times within a country. Depression, both economically and emotionally. And nothing has changed 100 years later. America itself is becoming the thing it swore it'd never become. We separated from the tyrannical world ruler of Britain, only to become the world ruling tyrant in the end.
@@Exspazament
You’re missing it.
The dueling flowers marriage metaphor is one of the most powerful pieces of animation ever.
yeah i like the flower sex too!
How this got left out of the original album is a complete mystery to me. I will never understand how this utterly angry and sublime piece could have been cut.
From what I’ve heard, it was cut out due to the limitations of the Vinyl record or something like that. I’ve also heard it was a very last minute decision.
Some men in a suit won't let it be there
I agree... Makes owning the movie that more special
@@TN1000W There's a vinyl version which includes it.
@@henrykrinkle3 there is? I've only heard that the song is on the tracklist, but I don't think that there ever was a studio recording of the wall that had this song in it
Easily the most underrated The Wall song. Hands down one of the best as well.
Not the song's fault. It's missing from the album, despite the lyrics being in the sleeve.
Right? For me is one of the best, if not the best song from the Wall.
agreed! When I saw the wall tour, the hilight for me was goodbye blue sky-empty spaces and then what shall we do now. such a great concert!
the most underated the wall song is probably nobody home
@@locutus1126 it's incredible. no matter how often i watch this clip, it NEVER seizes to boggle my mind. Also, im really really happy u could see the tour. I wasn't around back then, but I've had the gift of seeing us and them and... jeez Louise
Fun Fact: That is the reaction of a real operator that was recorded by Roger Waters while calling his friend Chris Fitzmorris in London.
“We were in L.A. at Producer’s Workshop so I phoned my neighbour, Chris Fitzmorris in London. He had the keys to my flat and I asked him to go there and said that I would call him through an operator. “No matter how many times I call”, I said, “just pick up the phone, say ‘Hello’, let the operator speak and then hang up”. I placed a telephone in a soundproof area, got on to an extension phone and started recording to 1/4″ tape. It took a couple of operators - the first 2 were a bit abrupt, but the 3rd was perfect. I told her that I wanted to make a collect call to Mrs. Floyd. “Who’s calling?” she asked. “Mr. Floyd”, I replied. Chris’ timing was terrific, over and over he would hang up just at the right moment and she became genuinely concerned. “Is there supposed to be someone there besides your wife?” I was playing her along saying things like “No! I don’t know who that is!” and “What’s going on?” and she would try the call again. Unwittingly, she was helping to tell the story. Afterwards I went through the 1/4″ and edited my voice out, just leaving her and Chris. I sometimes wonder if she ever heard herself on the record.”
Bad ass story. 100%
it's a shame that "what shall we do now?" wasn't in the original album
I'm praying that Roger still may have the studio version lying around. I'd love to hear a version without the excess sound effects and a better outro, without the smashing window.
@@TravisPrybylski I don't believe it would have fit. First off, Empty Spaces is a reprise of What Shall We Do Now?, and this song also includes a lot of musical elements and the four note leitmotif found on The Wall. I believe that if the song were remade with the same lyrics, but different sound, it would most likely fit on The Final Cut, as the song is a critique on consumerism and its greedy use of religion for self gain, as well as how frivolous it is to fill in "empty spaces", or traumas in your life with worthless junk.
@@HaroldThaBarrel Looking it up, I see that the album you are referring to was made by a tribute band, and not the official recording.
@@k0n158 Just saw that tribute album. They did a pretty damn good job with it.
Bro that’s what I think about every day
Gerald Scarfe's work in this movie is stupendous. Potent, nightmarish. There's a brutal cynicism in the song, and the imagery conveys it with grisly power. I love the snouts of expensive cars poking out of the wall. Yep, need more stuff to fill your life, not too many things that can't be helped with an ostentatious and over-priced car.
Its work here, still holds up big time
"not too many things that can't be helped with an ostentatious and over-priced car."
Yeah, just ask Clarkston.
bought new guitars..driven more powerful cars..worked straight thru nights..just have not filled attic with cash...but will keep trying just like I have since I was 15 in 1988 when I first watched the wall on vcr hahaha..keep pink yall GB
@@nooneinparticular5256 I presume you mean Jeremy Clarkson. His car might have had a few flaws.
nowadays you find cars like those in the junkyard. saw an old mercedes just rusting away in the back of someones barn
Only Floyd could do a movie that's half live-half cartoon with no dialogue, yet still makes complete sense .
Only Roger
@@VioletSkiesX he does have a unique albeit inflated head, to be fair Alan parker the director didn't let him bully him in his vision of how it should be filmed, great movie, and the album won't be beaten EVER.
The genius who did that was Alan Parker. It's the only case a film was made for music. Always is the other way.
But there is dialog in the movie quite a bit
@VioletSkiesX most the film isn't pink floyd singing
Something that dawned on me for the first time really is how everything this song is talking about, is presented as aspirational by our culture today. This non stop hustle and grind culture, the obsession with material things above all else, and extreme isolation it demands from us to do it properly. The wall created by this drive turns everything around it into something hideous and evil. A flower becomes barbed wire, a church is smashed and becomes a glittering casino like monster offering neon trinkets that quickly become more bricks. We all live more atomized lives than ever and this piece may be one of the more universal ones in it.
@h69dy the Floyd obviously thought those were problems of that day. Their songs were not about a dystopian future. They were protesting the trappings of white collar rat race life & perpetual seeking of wealth.
This is 4:26 minutes of pure mental ecstasy.
Fun story:
Years ago I had a friend who had just discovered Pink Floyd through watching The Wall, the movie. He liked this specific song so much he went on and bought the album, he was massively bummed when he realized this masterpiece was not in there. I still remember his nagging about it.
It is hands down one of my favorite songs on the film. It drives home the premise beautifully! I've always been disappointed it wasn't on the soundtrack, but I guess that's what makes the film that much better than the album and that is saying something. I would also add "When the Tigers broke free."
Prove it
Lol i bet he was searching the tracks for days. Ive made the same mistake actually
@timarcella pics or it didn't happen
This song is honestly just amazing and so catchy, by far probably one of Pink Floyd’s best song, it’s such a shame it wasn’t released
yes catchy is the first word that came to mind here lol
How about, "When the Tigers broke Free??? Wonder why that wasn't allowed on the original recording release as well. Hmm see Roger Waters album later in life the powers that be, for the answer to that.
Every decade the message of this song applies more and more to our society. We are desensitizing our younger minds with amplified consumerism to the point where we don’t even know what we want anymore. At this point, a majority of people get their gratification from how many likes they can get on a picture.
You've reached 25 likes on this comment! Nice work! Something to be proud of!
how crushing when it is you peep behind wall and it all means nothing.
Enjoy all wile it works
hay bud have a like
And just like this song, you haven't told us anything new
People have ALWAYS been feckless
There's just so many MORE nowadays
It's easy to attach some kind of 'ism' to it, when it goes much deeper than that. There is a hunger deep in us humans, one that can not be subdued by some new "ism' to cure the ills of the previous 'ism'. It is a deep primal instinct found in all of nature ........ MORE
40+ years on and it still gives me goosebumps.
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across this sea of faces in search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights, leave the lights on, drop bombs, do tours of the East, contract diseases?
Bury bones, break up homes, send flowers by phone?
Teach a trick, go to shrinks, give up meat, rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets, train dogs, race rats, fill the attic with cash, bury treasure, store up leisure?
But never relax at all, with our back to the wall.
Exactly what's happening now in November 2022
@@baxlife334 how?
It’s not teach a trick but “take to drink”
It’s
keep people as pets, train dogs, race rats.
You're a saint
The first 40 seconds of this never fail to give me chills
Despite it's a fast tempo song, its lyrics brought tears to my eyes because it's so true. We never relax at all in the end!
It's around 100 bpm, that's actually fairly slow by music standards.
Don't Fear The Reaper, which I wouldn't consider a fast song either, has a tempo of 140-142 bpm.
@@JeanMarceaux You're right! It really depends on how fast your notes are, not tempo. If you write in 16th notes in 4/4 time signature with 95 tempo, you get a fast song and less bars consumption in the recording software. And vice versa! If you write in quarter or 8th notes in 140 tempo song, you get a slow or medium fast song and more bars consumption.
This song is addictive as hell.
The animation is so great. At age 13 I memorized this song and can still sing it verbatim. God Pink Floyd is amazing.
Is that for me too I was 13 when it came out seen the movie in Irving Mall the first time and watched hundreds of times after at home still do occasionally in love it just as much as I did the first time...
At 13 I was singing In The Flesh and Waiting For The Worms
Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall I buy a new powerful car? Can drive straight through the night?
I saw The Wall live at earls court 1980. I was 7. I still remember people saying, look at that kid, she knows the words! 😂 When we just had videos, every day B4 my parents wd wake up I'd watch The Wall or Flash Gordon, that's all we had. The album is the album of my life, I don't mean I've lived the life of Pink but the music has always been there.
Who just love s pink floyd?
That is one of the finest marriages of music and animation I've ever seen - absolutely brilliant! Scarfe and Waters deserved at least a BAFTA award for that alone!
May b🙂
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I was so high on liquid acid when I first sat in a dark room and watched this. I’ll never forget it. Beautiful and absolutely disturbing all at the same time.
Damn
Are you ok? @gydyup
Sick. I took 3 tabs of acid and watched this. The acid really turns this movie on its head, making you question your sanity in some instances.
Today's art can never compare to this masterpiece
The most trippy part of the movie imo, you're missing out if you haven't seen this movie high
I wonder when this studio version of “What Shall We Do Now” will be released officially on an album. When pigs fly?🐷
Vinyl record limitations
@@k0n158 Not sure if you've noticed, but it's not 1979 anymore.
@@nectarinedreams7208 I know that the original comment wasn't edited, but I remember it saying something else like "I wonder why this wasn't on the original album". My bad.
@@k0n158 Ah, fair enough
When three different pigs fly
I remember watching this while frying on acid when I was 20---pretty intense!
First time I saw the wall I was tripping on mushrooms and i peaked pretty hard at this point
Even today the lyrics fit so perfectly well in our society….
Christ... This was one hell of a movie. Nothing else quite like it.
imagine seeing this as a toddler and then finding it again 40 years later with no context on what it was or where you saw it.
This movie was my anthem. I have gone through so much shit from my childhood up to adulthood and never git over it just built a wall around it never showing my hurts and pains. This was my go to therapy. I couldnt trust anyone. FML. Pink Floyd is the best. 51 yrs old and still listen to them passing their music down to my children and grandchildren. This band will not be forgotten as i most likely will.😢
amazing sound and video quality, exactly what i was looking for!
I’d absolutely love it if this song was incorporated into a potential remaster for the 50th anniversary. To have it mixed in on a studio level would be a sight to behold, cause it’s truly a banger
Absolutely needs a remaster
Roger: ah you want a remaster again? *The Wall: in the style of William Shatner covering Rocket Man*
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245I spit out my coffee, thanks lol
Gerald Scarfe animation is f***King amazing. Roger's cynical lyrics are also a joy and so realistic of a person in a downward spiral, to full on depression and ultimately lunacy.
My parent told me pink floyd would just be a phase.
HAUSHAU MINE TOO
That has lasted for 50+ years
Love the little ol' ladies helping themselves!
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall
Pink floyd played themselves for not putting this on the album. Damn, waters is a genius
This movie was my introduction to Pink Floyd and The Wall and this was my favourite song in the entire film.
I was pretty disappointed that the song wasn't on the album when I bought it.
This is a crime to not be on the album
Pink Floyd really dropped the ball when they released the box set of the album and didn't include this track as well as other tracks in their original studio recorded form (In The Flesh? and The Show Must Go On to name just a couple which both had edits to them prior to the original albums release). Thankfully we have Is There Anybody Out There? to give us the album in it's full form as intended, but a 50th Anniversary full cut of the original album would be nice in 2029.
Wouldn't it be 2029?
not sure they'd notice the earnings difference due to this track over their career
They unfortunately ran out of space and had to throw it out.
Stawwwwwwpppp!!! I was born in 1979. I am still trying to just cope with turning 45. 😂
This is the best Quality I have ever seen. Graphics and sound! Great Job!
I know all the words. I love this tune.
The fact that this movie isn't on Blu-ray or 4k yet is a crime
its been released on bluray, but only in Spain for some reason lol
Wow! This is the best quality upload of this scene I've seen!
Timeless masterpiece.
No one is better at singing lists than Roger Waters
This one, rather short, song completely encapsulates The Wall. Criticism of society, governments, people's shallow desires, criticism of oneself. It has everything and I dare to say it's the best song from the album, possibly the whole discography, although I have very strong feelings for Sorrow.
This is a timeless lesson.
The Beauty is in not knowing but in the " keep going and going and going!?!😂❤👍😘😭❤️🙏
I am not a brick in their wall, I am a brick through their window.
it really got me with the "keep people as pets?" lyric..
The animation, along with the music (obviously), of this part of the movie always stood out to me. I love the movie, in its entirety, but the visual aspects of this part... the "sea of face", the wall just moving through the landscape, the screaming face coming from the brick, the violence, the screaming head that foams at the mouth, the transition of one for into another while heads are being bashed... It perfectly coveys what this scene was all about.
I like how What Shall We Do Now visualizes what will happen next with Pink (the main character) when he completes his wall. Some of my favorite parts are where many appliances and cars show up is personally one of my favorites, as it shows a criticism on consumerism and materialism, and also the part where Pink's ragdoll form gags, and then morphs into various things that will happen next, such as a MP-40, an IV needle, and a hammer (suggesting what Pink will slowly become. The MP-40 is his violent nature, the IV needle represents the plot of Comfortably Numb, and the hammer represents songs like In the Flesh 1 and 2, Run Like Hell, and Waiting for the Worms). They have such good animations, all animated by my personal favorite animator, Gerald Scarfe.
Thanks to The Wall Analysis for these representations
Mon passage préféré dans le film.
Introuvable dans les albums audio
Art, music, induces us to a thousand interpretations, so it is art. This song I don't know why it makes me imagine anything related to Stalingrad and its dead
One of my favorite scenes in the movie I just love this part!
Pure anger. But pure musical perfection. Lyrically genius.
The animation is everything on this track.
So sad that this song has never been released, except in live versions that don’t carry the same punch.
Just amazing, I was a Sophomore in High School when I first saw this; changed my life forever; 25 years later Pink Floyd will always be my favorite band.
Ty,for taking us on a journey through your phenomenal music 🎶 🎵. You take us places that is authentic and real and even hard to imagine or comprehend. But,you open our minds to things that are going on and have been going on for years.Ty,for your contribution to the music world 🌎. You did it with amazing lyrics and melody and sound.
Videos on this channel are of the best quality.
40 years later and look at us now...
This album and movie is a masterpiece. Top 5 of all time.
We love you carry on
Breaking down the stronghold and walls exposing them all
Thanks for the quality upload.
Bro the music just flows
As relevant today as it was then...another great song that never was heard by so many. Reminds me of "When the Tigers Broke Free" in its empathetic ability
Oh so good. Sooooooo good. So many years later. Eternal
This video is enough to explain life on Earth.
Remembering my innocent 11 year old self watching this.
wtf what a good song
Prophetic
Sounds like the Terminator ost at the beginning.. Chilling
Top notch video, and WAY more importantly, good sound quality.
Remember my dad watching this when I was a babe. I'm still listening 40yrs later.
Yes Roger, we shall do all of these things. We’re a sad lot.
This and Stay from Obscured By Clouds are my Pink Floyd favourites
Fantastic riffs from Gilmour
We all got empty holes in our life.
Hope we all find good paths to have better fate
This is the best sequence in the movie.
I recall my brother saying that music videos were the worst thing ever because they contradict the image that you already had in your head when you were listening to the song... Um, NO. Just as often, the visuals elevate the song, especially when they're animated like this.
This is one of the best animations I ever seen
I often wish the whole Wall film had been animated.
This is included in my VHS tape of the wall,shall we buy a new guitar……fcking legend
Shall we buy a new guitar,shall we drive a more powerful car……learnt these lyrics…legendary
This piece spoke to me in ways language hadn’t. Damn I wish it had more.
Feel the power...
When I was like younger I loved Pink Floyd but then when I saw the animations I was scared I’ve got nightmares but now I came back and became a fan again and the music and animations are strong af and 2:42 is my favorite and 2:49
Sometimes I wish the whole Wall film had been animated.
I hear ya. This movies animation scenes scared me as a kid as well. Especially the face coming out of the wall 🫣
40 years later after seeing it as a kid I still have nightmares of being in Pink Floyd Land where people are all melty and deformed.
Абсолютно потрясающий видеоклип, с богатым воображением, фантазией, браво исполнителям. А Флойд, как всегда 👍света из Франции
Awesome 💯😎
Big respect for this song.From Russia.
I get literal goosebumps when listening to this damn song every fucking time holy shit
This song Always pulls it together
This music video is a perfect mirror of not only in the state of the mall in the world but of the mall in the internet and particularly fandoms and one of a well animal variety if you know what I mean because it never started out like this.
My friends, let us not forget the master, Alan Parker who directed this masterpiece.
Or Gerald scarfe who animated it
The drums rock awesome 👍😎-.
Splendido video. Complimenti.
Fa parte del film The Wall . È da pelle d'oca . Meravigliosi .
Still one of my favourite tracks from The Wall, I just love the sheer intensity and drama of it, and I agree, this absolutely should have been on the album version.
Coming here because when i was like 4-6 years old ish i used to whatch the movie all the time and i just remembered it again
This must have been written in 1978/79 - very prescient actually with some of the lyirics. Waters is a top class songwriter whether you agree with his politics or not, a first-class chronicler of world events.
Absolutely love pink Floyd.❤️❤️
This segment means so much to me thank you.