@@Zoolar This was a bleak period in British education.I remember all my teachers in the 80's being completely stressed, something I only recognized after suffering from stress myself. Having realised the stresses the teachers were under, lack of funding etc I now feel a great degree of sympathy for them.
Even in the early 80's, when I was about 7 we had a teacher who would stand behind you and ask questions and punch you in the back if you got the answer wrong.
I was at boarding school in England in the late 60's into the 70's. I was caned a number of times. This video brings back memories of the whole experience, most of it pretty miserable. But it did toughen me up for life after schooling.
The boy's poetry, trivialized by the teacher, is actually a snippet of lyrics from Floyd's song "Money" off Dark Side of the Moon album. Prefer the version of this song from the Pulse concert. It's hard to hear the music over all the sound effects in the video
I think OP is saying it's hard to clearly hear "the guitar solo" because of the background noise. The sound effects in the video don't much cover over anything else. IMHO if you isolate yourself to David Gilmore (Pulse Concert for instance) you lose a majority of what Pink Floyd is about, Roger Waters.
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@@norwegianblue2017 Quite true the other extreme, I lived through that era, some very brutal teachers there where back in those days. everything is f###ed up now
The Wall played practically non-stop on FM radio when it came out. One of the great concept albums of all time. Also a great animated, surrealist musical drama film.
Yeah, Stacey, I'm glad (10:11) you're planning to watch the film. It's also worth a listen of the album uninterrupted, without the film (though perhaps with a lyric sheet). And further, there's a channel called Virgin Rock that's going through an analysis of it (and has been, over months -- it's not quite completed yet, but I fully expect it will be in due course), which... has just an amazing analysis, in terms of both music theory and meanings and... yeah, worth checking out, when you're ready.
Gerrard Scarf legendary satirical cartoonist ...and later Spitting image inspiration.. Mrs Thatcher with the beaky nose and Steely eyes the voice dripping with distance.🧐
@@allisterfiend_2112really? Bet your teachers couldn't humiliate you and hit you in front of your peers - you guys are blessed - a teacher today hurts your feelings,a teacher in those days devastated you every single day if they didn't like you emotionally, mentally and physically - you don't know what harsh is!
Technically, there's no rebellion. The entire "rebellion scene" was just a daydream by little "pink". He was humiliated by the teacher and went on a mental journey that showed how the kids are being ground up by the system and put out as unthinking pieces of meat. Then he imagines a violent rebellion where they burn down the school, and the teacher. Then it snaps back to reality in the classroom.
(Apologies for any redundancies) What you saw was an excerpt of the 1982 feature film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 album. So it also has the prior song “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, which helps set up the “education” of Pink. Gerald Scarfe was also the de-facto production designer for the film in addition to providing the animation (a lot of it was already made for the live shows). This included the maze / conveyor belt / students turned into mincemeat. (Gerald Scarfe did do a separate music video of that song specifically and it was made because it became a Christmas #1 and thus would air on Top of the Tops) Yes, this is the one time Pink Floyd flirted with disco. What was originally just going to be a one verse “interlude”. It was due to Bob Ezrin, one of the album’s producers, who could hear it as a disco tune and that’s how you hear it today =] The children’s voices were from kids attending the Islington Green School, London. This was thanks to an adventurous music teacher who offered to use a “field trip” as a way to get them to sing a “subversive” song. And yes, you got it out of the bat and way better than some of the UK press at the time, who even called it “obscene”. In fact, this was adopted as a “protest song” in South Africa.
That was Roger Waters yelling out “You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Rogers Waters was the bass player, and one of the founding members. He also wrote many of the songs. He left the group in the 1980s. That was Richard Wright’s son-in-law playing the bass in the Pulse concert. Richard Wright was the keyboardist. Roger Waters came back for a fundraising concert in 2006. That was a nice reunion. Your reactions are very professional, Stacey. Thank you again.
I graduated high school in June of '79 when this song was huge on the radio. Our graduating senior class voted overwhelmingly to use this as our class song at graduation. The school refused to play it and replaced it with Feelings by Chuck Mangione. Funny thing, I went on to become a middle school science teacher. The best concert I ever saw was Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1988. They played for nearly 4 hours. Flew the giant inflatable pig from the Animals album cover from the stage to a crane outside the stadium.
The record is better than the movie , in my opinion. The poetry the boy is penning are actually lyrics of an earlier song ' Money ' I think it's on Wish you were here, could be wrong those were heady days. The anticipation for the Wall Album was huge ,the photograph next to the phone is Sir Bob Geldoff who played Pink in the movie.
@@StaceyRPGReacts if you want to understand how education really works search for John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt and Antony Sutton (the last book : white cover with a skull, there is a chapter on education, but much much more)
I remember being 12,yrs old taking the train from the Bronx to NYC and waiting on a massive line to buy this album at tower records on Times Square day it was released. Don’t worry to much about understanding the lyrics. Just enjoy the vibe. If you go back later you’ll get the meaning. BTW Great Job With the Channel Miss Stacey
Funny cos I don’t. I hate the movie version. It completely detracts from the song and should not be the first time someone experiences this classic. Unfortunately all YT reactors pull up the one cos it’s the one on YT and they don’t know any better.
The student-teacher dynamic in this video represents the student-teacher dynamic in england all of those decades ago. My friend's dad often refers to this video to describe exactly what school was like over there back then. Cheers! Looking forward to more PF. :-)
Your intelligence shines through your reactions. You are very insightful and you are "well spoken" in your delivery. Your beauty is also a big plus! Pink Floyd is my favorite group and David Gilmour is from another world! Floyd Fans appreciate your "deep dive" into the Floyd experience. I think you will also enjoy Dire Straits. Provocative lyrics, and Mark Dopler is a great guitarist and in a class with Gilmour. Alvin Lee is also a great blues guitarist. I would recommend "Bluest Blues". It is a great Blues song which highlights Alvin's guitar skills and also features George Harrison on the "slide" guitar. Again, thanks for another great reaction.
@paulrollings5291- couldn’t agree more with your recommendations. Dire Straits is a great band and “Telegraph Road” is their best song IMO. And thank you for recommending Alvin Lee also. His guitar solos put him in the class with David Gilmour. Bluest Blues is a great song too! I thought I was the only guy screaming in the wilderness about these two groups!
Back in school ( in Denmark in the early 80's), Pink Floyd's The Wall movie was mandatory education about the misuse of authority and bullying. The Scandinavian countries (as always) were ahead on social topics.
Its worth listening to the whole album. The "The Wall" album by Pink Floyd is a concept album that tells the story of a rock star named Pink who is struggling with fame, drug addiction, and mental illness. Pink is left with feelings of abandonment caused by the death of his father in World War II. He is traumatised by his dealings with authority figures such as an over-protective mother and abusive schoolteachers and in the ultimate act of defiance, becomes a rock star. "The Wall" is a complex and ambitious album that explores themes of isolation, alienation, and the search for meaning in life. It is a powerful and moving work that continues to resonate with listeners today.
That was all part of life as a kid growing up, sometimes you run into teachers that you seemed to not hit it off and would make it tough on you, but in the long run little did they know they were making you mentally stronger and tougher and that's why you don't mess with the older generation they were brought up different than any of the younger generations of the last 30 year's. But now I will also say there we're some outstanding teachers also that gave you what you needed be it a good education or a good paddling when you didn't do what you were supposed to do or be a good kid in class lol, a lot of music like Heart and Pink Floyd, ACDC, or Led Zeppelin, and meny more classic bands like the Eagles and Journey as a teenager I had the pleasure of growing up listening to these iconic bands and the time I had running loose outdoors in the streets of my small town or deep in the woods exploring the trails and creeks and rivers unsupervised sometimes just by myself or with friends those were the days and times ill never forget, im now in my fifty's, but I still remember a lot of things and a lot of songs rock, classic rock, 80tys big hair bands and round it all off with classical and country music i believe I've just about heard every song out there with the exception of probably a few that i wasn't interested in even though im not much into rap I've even heard some of it also.
You should listen to Marooned by Pink Floyd. Ideally find the official music video too, it's spectacular and was only put together in 2014 but hits much harder now with what's happening in Ukraine. In fact they won a GRAMMY for it.
Back in those days In New Zealand we had The leather strap on the hand from 5 yrs in Primary school and graduated to the cane on the arse from 10yrs on when we changed schools. I was a regular recipient.
The "poems" that the teacher read to embarrass this boy were lyrics from a song called "Money" - which is great as well. Song just had its 50th anniversary.
Ah ha! So this song rings true to my own experience growing up in an English-style school system out here in the colonies hehe. We had a few teachers of this fellow's sort, and the general feeling was that teachers were to be feared, and children to be 'seen and not heard', as the saying went. Now, being out in a very different environment than England, many of the teachers were less strict than the one depicted, but still. In fact, my mother was a teacher who came from England to teach here in Bermuda, was extremely well educated and well liked by her students. But yes, I do remember Mrs. D, who we did indeed fear, and would certainly have done exactly what we see here depicted lol.
As a kid in the 80's, i got bullied by a teacher. 1 day he was upset with me not doing my homework, almost ripped my right ear off taking me to the Promcipal's office.
I highly recommend you watch the wall concert with Roger Waters . He was the bass player and main song writer of Pink Floyd before he and the band parted ways. The whole wall album is played while a huge wall is being built in real time between the band and the audience. The whole thing is beyond astonishing to see and hear . I saw it live twice and it was comparable to the pulse concert which I also saw live. It'll blow your mind.
I read an interview with the author of this song - the song was written based on his own memories and his parents' stories about teaching methods in closed "elite" English schools. Harsh, sometimes brutal coercion and physical punishment for the slightest offense. Until recently, it was almost a strict prison regime for prisoners. The demonstrated revolt of schoolchildren is the reform of the school system, the results of which are now being observed in schools.
This album dropped when I was going into high school in the fall of 1979…its depth and its meaning has changed for me several times over the years. Pink Floyd continues to hit me unexpectedly and hold a mirror up to who I think I am.
Look what there teaching kids today in England's schools, like back in the day do your job do not complain. The schools are mind control work until you retire then die quick so they do not have to pay a pension. Unless your rich the rest are screwed. Loved this song when I was at school, sing it all time got the cane for saying I don't need no education to the headmaster.
Starting in 1960 to 1970 with THE BEATLES (all the songs are great hits) And in the next years we have bands like Kc And The Sunshine Band ,10cc, Earth Wind And Fire , Kool And The Gang , Toto , Electric Light Orchestra , Yes , Pink Floyd , Deep Purple , Chicago , Abba , Bee Gees , Kiss , The Who , The Rolling Stones , AC DC , Scorpions , The Police , Inxs , Aha , Dire Straits , The Cars , Journey , Kansas , Eagles , Led Zeppelin, Europe , Alan Parsons , The Doobie Brothers , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Queen , Elton John , Paul Mc Cartney and Wings , Peter Frampton , Boston , Fleetwood Mac , Tom Jones , Duran Duran , Foreigner , Hearth Wind And Fire, Rod Stewart , Michael Jackson , Prince , Emerson Lake and Palmer , and Reo Speedwagon BUT the list is HUGE and mybe i left someone behind by mistake. 1971 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin In 1972 SMOKE ON THE WATER DEEP PURPLE IN 1973 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD IN 1974 DEEP PURPLE Burn and Pilot Magic IN 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen and I'm Not in Love 10cc 1976 MUSIC JOHN MILES and Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry 1977 Player - Baby Come Back , The Load Out / Stay by Jackson Browne and Hotel California by Eagles 1978 to 1979 Last Train To London ELO 1979 Ride like the Wind Christopher Cross and the list goes on and on and on at least till 1990. Wayne Casey from KC and the sunshine band is a white man that have the soul and the music of black people living down deep inside on her BIG heart GOD BLESS YOU WAYNE CASEY. I was born in the golden era of music 1960 and today i am a happy young man on my 64 yrs old. And the only good band we have now is POETS OF THE FALL because they are still playing today.
Hey Stacey 😊 Love your reaction! This video is taken from the movie! I had "the cuts" 4 times in primary school. "The cuts" was a cool slang term for "the cane". There was a certain pride amongst boys about getting "the cuts". The more "cuts" you got without crying the more bragging rights you got. Boys would wait outside the Principle's office waiting to see if you cried. The more "cuts" you got without crying the more prestige you earned. "Wow! Stevo just copped 6 cuts without crying. I don't wanna fight him!" It built your reputation as being tough! Corporal punishment in schools was part of the "rule of thumb". The "rule of thumb law" was that a husband could whip his wife with a cane, as long as that cane wasn't any wider than his thumb and he didn't raise his hand above his shoulder. This is just how things were! I'm stoked to see you see part of the movie! I am REALLY enjoying seeing you go on the PF journey. I get excited about watching it 😮😃😅 Thank you so much Stacey 😊 I would love to see your reaction after watching the entire movie 😮😃 Now for the next vid lol 😊❤
Was fortunate enough to be a member of the London Fire Brigade' standing by' when they filmed some of those scenes, a few miles up the road Full Metal Jacket was filmed. Just for info.
Good to see you ~ jamming out to Floydicus Pinkus! You must be a vision on the dance floor! Thanks for being genuine. This is the same album and life story of the young fictitious musician, Pink, that you heard in “Comfortably Numb”. Here, he’s a youth, trying to cope with the stresses of a young child’s life. The teacher is one of the people that Pink learns to distance himself from, to spare himself pain. He begins to build The Wall. By the point of “Comfortably Numb”, The Wall is complete, and he’s trapped himself in a life he hates. You really nailed your interpretation; well done. When you pointed out that the song could apply to bosses, or other authority figures, I agree with your insight. But one important element of “The Wall” is the passage of time. Over the course of four album sides, Pink grows up. He changes, and grows, and his perspectives change. I’ve rarely seen that happen with authority figures with whom I’ve spent time. You may want to listen to the album cut of this song, off-line. It’s not really different musically, but it’s tighter without the interruptions in the music video. And if you like rocking out, try reacting to PF’s “Run Like Hell” (the PULSE version, naturally!) which was the show’s finale many nights on that tour. (It’s worth reacting to, just to watch that incredible stage and light show in full-throated ROAR.) It’s been such a pleasure to watch you discover and explore this incredible group. You’re right, their songs deal with so many unusual topics. And rarely do they write simplistic, boring love songs, like so many others do. It’s actually hard to explain to folk why they should listen to Pink Floyd, or what their songs are about. They really are an experience, and you have to experience them personally. I’ll suggestion reacting to “Coming Back To Life” next ~ if you close your eyes, David’s ethereal opening solo will lead you through the universe. (“While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words, Dying to believe in what you heard”) Or “Money”, which has been used in so many movies, TV shows, and sporting-event broadcasts over the intervening 50 years that you may already have heard snippets of it. And of course I’m still beating the Two Steps From Hell drum. Their musical genre is called ‘Epic’, and the term very much applies. Try reacting to “Norwegian Pirate” (one of the two composers worked with Hans Zimmer on “Pirates Of The Caribbean”), “Pegasus”, or “Flight Of The Silverbird”.
This song had a part 2 that hit number one in March 1980 I turned 18 then. I think of this song as an anthem for a generation of late Boomers. It’s a Timeless song for me.
The first song was The Happiest Days Of Our Lives leading into ABITW. You are watching the versions from The Wall feature film. There was another less brutal promo music video for the song
Back in the 70s teachers like that weren't uncommon. It was still the hangover of kids should be seen and not heard from the 50s. They banned corporal punishment when I started 2 year primary (6yrs old)....thank goodness or I'd have been regularly beaten. I still remember the teachers that were bullies, as I grew up I started to symapthise with them a little more, looking back I was a little shite at school sometimes 😆 I remember the beatings, beatings from bullies at school, beatings from the teachers for being involved in a beating (even as a victim) and then beatings from my Dad for being in trouble at school. It's why I don't lay hands on my kids and have discussed frustrations with them rather than take the physical route. Anyway back on topic of this video, this was from the movie, The Wall. It was brilliant but surreal with one of the best movie soundtracks ever! It's more of a feature length music video rather than a movie as it's a bit disjointed as a movie. Worth a watch though as the animations from Gerald Scarfe were stunning!
You are quite right that it was a protest and that it was a response to feeling like education was like being put through a meat grinder and although just before my time you are so right that it was just about teaching facts to be repeated rather than about teaching kids to think for themselves but just because clones to follow those in power, the upper class at the time (and although things have changed in terms of many of our leaders, not so much). The late 70s/early 80s were a time of massive change, industrial decline in countries like the US and the UK. It was a time when industries were on the decline and workers rights were taken away (change was needed but it went way too far and is why we are in the position we are today). It's a very unique song, they are a very unique band. I wish more artists and bands these days would be putting out songs that are commentating on cultural, social, political issues in our worlds today. I guess record labels don't want that as it will alienate part of their customer base and so it's discouraged.
Just for your listening pleasure,you should check out Poles Apart”,Lost for Words,and 2 instrumentals,marooned”, and 5am”.These are some that are truly hidden nuggets!Your Welcome!
When you're finished with Pink Floyd (and I know, no one is ever finished with Pink Floyd) you should check out Jethro Tull. Start with "My God (Nothing Is Easy - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)." Enjoy.
"We don't need no education..." Maurice Moss (from "The IT Crowd"): "Yes, you do. You just used a double negative". 😂 In Spanish it is correct, though. 😊
The Wall is somehow an tribute to the human struggle with what seems an infinity of obstacles of a common life.Each obstacle we overrun, is a brick in the wall we raise around our self, thinking that it will protect us .....
I remember the headlines : "Pink Floyd Turned Disco!". Published on 45RPM.... I think you would like the movie The Wall. Pink Floyd was really multi media even before the name was coined. From Canada, Peace Out!
The Album "The Wall" was meant to be listened to in its entirety, it's one of the reasons when it first came out people were confused by some of the individual songs, it is one of the best "concept albums", or "Rock Operas" of all time. Remember to put the song in its historical context, as it was released in 1979. As I type this, as an old man who has seen Pink Floyd multiple times, and worked two of their shows, and was able to watch a Minneapolis show from the side of the stage as a guest of their tour manger, the great Jake Berry. A few nights before at the concert at Iowa State University, I was driving a golf cart past the backstage "compound" (it was just several double wide mobile homes we'd brought in for dressing rooms), and Jake step in front of me like a school crossing guard. Apparently, they couldn't get David Gilmore's golf cart started to go to the stage, so Gilmore says to me "scoot over, I'll drive. It was a nice ride; he was quite friendly and very polite. something I haven't thought about in a very long time.
Now you understand how we grew up in private schools.I was the youngest the teachers had it in for me because of my brothers. Nun tried to make me well you know. Had to fight to prove yourself. This movie explained the album a whole lot.
I feel this is the first song most people hear by Pink Floyd and it should be because it was my first Pink Floyd song back in Junior High School and I loved it. And Pink Floyd has been and will always be my favorite band. ❤
All reactors react to this video, which as others have pointed out is from The Wall movie. But it's not 'the' actual video and audio version that was released in 1979 and went to no.1 in the UK. The correct audio is the album version, not the movie version. Not that it matters hugely - but you get an extra song at the start of this video, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, plus bits of video/story that don't make a lot of sense - if you don't know the album! I went on a Pink Floyd tour of Cambridge, UK, and saw the school that inspired this classic song.
You ask what kind of teacher is that . This is a true representation of schooling in Australia and England back in my day , beautiful woman please do yourself a big favour and watch the movie the wall you'll be mesmerised . Love what your doing here . Oz"s biggest fan ❤❤❤
This is actually Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, because there are 3 parts, which make up pieces of the narrators psyche in the whole The Wall album concept. I do not believe you can do a The Wall Movie reaction due to copyright, but if you can see it on your own anyway, I STRONGLY recommend.
this album came out when I was in high school, and has been relatable since then. while my own son was growing up and going through school, he made a lot of observations about the education system, and as I listened to him speaking, he pretty much echoed this song and I wanted him to listen to it.
Great choice and reaction Stacey! Pink Floyd one of the all time great bands - composition and performance. You mentioned broadening horizons, travel, new music, sensei.... new great rock music coming out of Japan. (Pink Floyd toured there c1971) . I'd love when you're ready to start with some Band Maid "Don't You Tell Me" (live). Arigatou.
Somebody may already have said this. But to answer your question "What kind of teacher is that?", this was in the 40-50s. Also, the video you are watching is from a movie they made for the album, which also is called The Wall, just as the album.
Part 2. Hear Part one? I got blasted for playing this on a "ghetto-blaster" at school. So, I went into the music room and played the drums for it while others played guitars and sang! Damn, so many memories brought back by Pink Floyd. The end of this video leads into the beginning of "Mother" - which you have seen. The whole movie, The Wall, is a must see!..... ;) The teacher just helped "Pink" place another brick in his wall between himself and other people - self-isolation and insulation.
The funkiness of the song stems from competition with the Disco craze throughout the english speaking world. Waters and Gilmour funked up a couple of songs to help ensure they'd get some Top 40 airplay. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 is the result.
This is our generations school brake up song. As Alice Coopers "Schools out" was to the early 70s This was the late 70s & 80's screw you school 🚸 song, its especially relevant to UK private schools of the 50s & 60s trading kids for the corporate & governmental ladder echelons. The kids going wild & rebelling is reminiscent of the 70s youth rebellion in the UK.
In Australia where i am this song is played on the radio all the time, so personally it's hard for me to reconcile somebody having never heard this. This is actually a scene from Roger Waters' movie The Wall. Brace yourself if you ever watch it as it is dark and very confronting. He actually lost his father to the war as a child, so it's at least somewhat autobiographical.
The album this song comes from, The Wall, was basically the life story of bassist and songwriter Roger Waters. He is the boy, who grows up to be the Rock Star Pink Floyd. And yes, watch the movie The Wall!
Another Brick in the Wall pt 2 starts at “We don’t need no education”. The part before that is “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”. You really should listen to the whole album with the lyrics and then check out the movie. ❤❤
All of the footage is out of the movie. An absolute must-see for every human alive. The teacher bullies, because he's bullied. You know the story. The Wall is an awesome psychological study. Roger Waters is brilliant. As are all the other members.
Hey there , love your pink floyd videos . I was wondering how you were going to react to the meT grinder. , loved it and hope you do all pink floyd videos . 🙏🙏🙏 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 🙏🙏🙏 Thankyou ⚘
To answer your question of which emotions to feel. First buy a copy of Pink Floyd The Wall, listen to it a couple of time and get your jam on, then buy a copy of the film The Wall by Pink Floyd and then feel the emotions of the combine visuals and music. You are welcome.
All will be revealed when you listen to the entire The Wall album, and watch the film...one inside joke in this scene is the "poem" the teacher is mocking about the boy is actually lyrics from the song "Money" from The Dark Side Of The Moom album! Pink Floyd rules😅
For a better understanding, The Wall was in reality a Movie as well as a best selling album. Another Brick in the wall, Is the best selling song they have in their entire body of work.
“The wall” album really needs to be heard/seen start to finish in order to truly appreciate it. The journey of a man’s self imposed isolation for the world. Just another brick in the wall is speaking of just another part of his journey into solitude/isolation/depression.
I was doing my post grad teaching year when this came out. The deputy principal in the school I was assigned to called a special assembly of the whole school and, basically, gave a lecture as to why this song was 'a very bad thing' and that the students shouldn't pay any attention to some long haired, so called musicians and that they should do as they were told and not ask any questions. And, what's more, anybody heard singing the words would be 'dealt with'. A measure of the fear that this put in the minds of some. How did the kids react? They loved it! The deputy's reaction to the song simply confirmed what they were seeing and hearing in the video. How did I react? Amazement at the guy's stupidity and embarrassment to be was associated with such a ludicrous attempt to put down what he feared would be rebellion in the ranks. As for the beginning of the video, it reminded me vividly of my own experience in a boys' grammar school, where humiliation and violence was an everyday occurrence. It really was that grim! PS I might suggest you watch the 1968 film 'If', which deals with the same themes and ideas, but in a different context.
It definitely captures the feeling that a lot of kids have or have had that you are promised education and optimism on the surface, and the you find out underneath it all is that you are being processed, managed, diluted into being obedient little taxpayers that know their place.
This is straight from the movie The Wall. Check it out, this is more or less part of the bigger picture and part of the movie. And the "poems" were lyrics to Money, from Dark Side of the Moon.
The song isn't about students angst. It's about the current (at that time) educational system in schools of most of the world where students are educated to be exactly the same, behaving all the same way, thinking the same way (or better not thinking at all) so in the future they will be like lambs in a herd or as it's said in the song: another brick in the wall. Bricks don't talk, bricks don't think, bricks only serve to be a part of the wall with no other use intended. This song became relevant again with another meaning when Berlin's Wall went down in 1989.
Stacey, you always get it. My personal recommendation would be for you to listen/react to the album version before doing the movie to receive it in the same way as it came to the world. Millions of us young people in the early 80s experienced 'The Wall' on vinyl, in our bedrooms, reading along with the song written on the album sleeve in teeny-tiny cursive writing. We didn't have Wikipedia to tell us what it was about and the lyrics are so brilliantly vague that every individual can interpret it in his/her own way. If we're splitting hairs, that is two songs. The "intro", as you acutely noticed is "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" on the album. WOW! I remember when this channel was 200 and now it's pushing 30,000! Keep it going!
This song is off the concept album The Wall, which also became a movie. The concept was a rock star having a mental breakdown. The education was just another brick in his wall.
It is worth the difference in experience to hear the studio album version, the Pulse concert version, as well as see the movie version. Interesting for you to check out the one people would have experienced last and more rarely. Abusers in positions of authority? Yes, as well as systems of authority that are inherently abusive. We keep thinking we can 'fix' the former without addressing the reality of the later. Love your Pink Floyd journey.
The Wall is my all time favorite movie. there is some symbolism in the film, the hammers represent any type of authority or oppression, the children are fed into the machine as individuals and come out as one of a group. What looks like ground meat coming out the bottom of the grinder, if you look closely, they look like worms. Worms, in the movie represent knowledge. I've seen it dozens of times and every time I see something i missed before.
You should do the song "Dogs" from the "Animals" album. It's one of their most underrated albums, but also one of their best.. This song off the Pulse concert album has probably one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard.
I went to school in Scotland in the 1960's and believe me, this was NOT out of the ordinary. Teachers were brutal.
Evil nasty bastards. I'm sorry you went through that, its very bad.
@@Zoolar This was a bleak period in British education.I remember all my teachers in the 80's being completely stressed, something I only recognized after suffering from stress myself. Having realised the stresses the teachers were under, lack of funding etc I now feel a great degree of sympathy for them.
Even in the early 80's, when I was about 7 we had a teacher who would stand behind you and ask questions and punch you in the back if you got the answer wrong.
I was at boarding school in England in the late 60's into the 70's. I was caned a number of times. This video brings back memories of the whole experience, most of it pretty miserable. But it did toughen me up for life after schooling.
Oh no they wernt. They teachers were perfect and you know it.
Pink Floyd are a British national treasure legendary band. 🇬🇧
Pink Floyd is not a British national treasure, it is an incalculable treasure for the whole world, for all countries.
Yes but 🇫🇷is their second country 😀
They are Earth’s national treasure.
It is not a matter of national treasure, it is an individual emotions which everyone on earth could relate to.
Britain produced the best bands during the 60,70,80! As an Italian I am sure about it
The boy's poetry, trivialized by the teacher, is actually a snippet of lyrics from Floyd's song "Money" off Dark Side of the Moon album. Prefer the version of this song from the Pulse concert. It's hard to hear the music over all the sound effects in the video
I’ll need to check that song out!
I think OP is saying it's hard to clearly hear "the guitar solo" because of the background noise. The sound effects in the video don't much cover over anything else. IMHO if you isolate yourself to David Gilmore (Pulse Concert for instance) you lose a majority of what Pink Floyd is about, Roger Waters.
@@lords8n Right! Roger Waters wrote the song and sings it. He'd already left the band by the time they did Pulse.
So very true. The full experience would be the studio (or when we were there) concerts with the full band. Excellent point!!
@@StaceyRPGReacts You'd do well to listen to the longer studio version of Money rather than the shortened radio version. It's got the sax. Peace/JT
When I was a kid, my friends and I marched around the playground chanting "We don't need no education!" 😂
lol - We might have done that, too, but I was in college when this one came out.
@MrDDiRusso ... 😁I think we all need education! ... It may be the meaning of life, and why we are here!
... 🤔we are now living in the "information age", and I LOVE it! ... Access to SO MUCH information, so, at
74 yo, I'm finally enjoying "self education"! ... AND I'm in control!! 🤪👍🤣
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So did we.
Yea we did!! 😎😎
Nick Mason stated in an interview that it was not education but the corporal punishment that was the protest.
Because free speech isn't as free now as it was back then.
Doesn't matter what he " stated." The message became school, thank goodness we " got" the message which applies today.
Now we're at the other extreme.
@@norwegianblue2017 Quite true the other extreme, I lived through that era, some very brutal teachers there where back in those days. everything is f###ed up now
The Wall played practically non-stop on FM radio when it came out. One of the great concept albums of all time. Also a great animated, surrealist musical drama film.
Well said!
Yeah, Stacey, I'm glad (10:11) you're planning to watch the film. It's also worth a listen of the album uninterrupted, without the film (though perhaps with a lyric sheet). And further, there's a channel called Virgin Rock that's going through an analysis of it (and has been, over months -- it's not quite completed yet, but I fully expect it will be in due course), which... has just an amazing analysis, in terms of both music theory and meanings and... yeah, worth checking out, when you're ready.
Gerrard Scarf legendary satirical cartoonist ...and later Spitting image inspiration.. Mrs Thatcher with the beaky nose and Steely eyes the voice dripping with distance.🧐
It's about teenage rebellion against authority, that stifles creativity. In favor of uniformity. That's the rebellion.
It¨s about educatión in Europe at 50s and v60s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@jamesbondbond8388it’s not just the 50’s and 60’s, it’s still happening now, it’s even worse
The album came out when I was a teenager in high school. I must have not have listened to anything else for weeks if not months after that.
@@allisterfiend_2112really?
Bet your teachers couldn't humiliate you and hit you in front of your peers - you guys are blessed - a teacher today hurts your feelings,a teacher in those days devastated you every single day if they didn't like you emotionally, mentally and physically - you don't know what harsh is!
Technically, there's no rebellion. The entire "rebellion scene" was just a daydream by little "pink". He was humiliated by the teacher and went on a mental journey that showed how the kids are being ground up by the system and put out as unthinking pieces of meat. Then he imagines a violent rebellion where they burn down the school, and the teacher. Then it snaps back to reality in the classroom.
(Apologies for any redundancies)
What you saw was an excerpt of the 1982 feature film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 album. So it also has the prior song “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, which helps set up the “education” of Pink.
Gerald Scarfe was also the de-facto production designer for the film in addition to providing the animation (a lot of it was already made for the live shows). This included the maze / conveyor belt / students turned into mincemeat. (Gerald Scarfe did do a separate music video of that song specifically and it was made because it became a Christmas #1 and thus would air on Top of the Tops)
Yes, this is the one time Pink Floyd flirted with disco. What was originally just going to be a one verse “interlude”. It was due to Bob Ezrin, one of the album’s producers, who could hear it as a disco tune and that’s how you hear it today =]
The children’s voices were from kids attending the Islington Green School, London. This was thanks to an adventurous music teacher who offered to use a “field trip” as a way to get them to sing a “subversive” song.
And yes, you got it out of the bat and way better than some of the UK press at the time, who even called it “obscene”. In fact, this was adopted as a “protest song” in South Africa.
" Sorrow " from the pulse. Another great guitar solo.
Time, the best solo of David Gilmour
Can you believe this is a disco song, even Pink Floyd had to embark on that train. The song played every where there was a dance floor.
That was Roger Waters yelling out “You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Rogers Waters was the bass player, and one of the founding members. He also wrote many of the songs. He left the group in the 1980s. That was Richard Wright’s son-in-law playing the bass in the Pulse concert. Richard Wright was the keyboardist. Roger Waters came back for a fundraising concert in 2006. That was a nice reunion. Your reactions are very professional, Stacey. Thank you again.
We always said you cant get any P___y if you dont beat your meat, when we were kids.
Yes bassist Guy Pratt was Richards son in law
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I graduated high school in June of '79 when this song was huge on the radio. Our graduating senior class voted overwhelmingly to use this as our class song at graduation. The school refused to play it and replaced it with Feelings by Chuck Mangione. Funny thing, I went on to become a middle school science teacher. The best concert I ever saw was Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1988. They played for nearly 4 hours. Flew the giant inflatable pig from the Animals album cover from the stage to a crane outside the stadium.
what could be better than seeing how someone else, in this case Stacey, enjoys Pink Floyd
Thank you for supporting ❤️
@@StaceyRPGReacts no thanks, have a nice weekend!
The record is better than the movie , in my opinion.
The poetry the boy is penning are actually lyrics of an earlier song ' Money ' I think it's on Wish you were here, could be wrong those were heady days. The anticipation for the Wall Album was huge ,the photograph next to the phone is Sir Bob Geldoff who played Pink in the movie.
@@StaceyRPGReacts if you want to understand how education really works search for John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt and Antony Sutton (the last book : white cover with a skull, there is a chapter on education, but much much more)
@Lukeyboy125. Money was a track on dark side of the moon.
School was a LOT more strict back then. Great reaction, you did a good job grasping the underlying meaning. Intelligence is refreshing, thank you.
I remember being 12,yrs old taking the train from the Bronx to NYC and waiting on a massive line to buy this album at tower records on Times Square day it was released. Don’t worry to much about understanding the lyrics. Just enjoy the vibe. If you go back later you’ll get the meaning. BTW Great Job With the Channel Miss Stacey
Cannot wait to see your reaction to Shine On You Crazy Diamond
And Great Gig In The Sky - has she done that yet? Also Wish You Were Here. (Oh! Just saw she has done that one. 🙂 )
Sorrow (the pulse version) is another great song to react to.
Yes we need that reaction asap!
I love that you picked the movie version of this song.
Funny cos I don’t. I hate the movie version. It completely detracts from the song and should not be the first time someone experiences this classic. Unfortunately all YT reactors pull up the one cos it’s the one on YT and they don’t know any better.
I love the Pink Floyd path that you are following Stacey! Your reactions are heartwarming! :)
Thank you so much! ❤️
I remember leaving school in 1979 and I also remember getting the cane. This was how the UK WAS.
The student-teacher dynamic in this video represents the student-teacher dynamic in england all of those decades ago. My friend's dad often refers to this video to describe exactly what school was like over there back then. Cheers! Looking forward to more PF. :-)
Your intelligence shines through your reactions. You are very insightful and you are "well spoken" in your delivery. Your beauty is also a big plus! Pink Floyd is my favorite group and David Gilmour is from another world! Floyd Fans appreciate your "deep dive" into the Floyd experience.
I think you will also enjoy Dire Straits. Provocative lyrics, and Mark Dopler is a great guitarist and in a class with Gilmour.
Alvin Lee is also a great blues guitarist. I would recommend "Bluest Blues". It is a great Blues song which highlights Alvin's guitar skills and also features George Harrison on the "slide" guitar.
Again, thanks for another great reaction.
Mark Knopfler mate…..
@paulrollings5291- couldn’t agree more with your recommendations. Dire Straits is a great band and “Telegraph Road” is their best song IMO. And thank you for recommending Alvin Lee also. His guitar solos put him in the class with David Gilmour. Bluest Blues is a great song too! I thought I was the only guy screaming in the wilderness about these two groups!
Back in school ( in Denmark in the early 80's), Pink Floyd's The Wall movie was mandatory education about the misuse of authority and bullying. The Scandinavian countries (as always) were ahead on social topics.
Its worth listening to the whole album. The "The Wall" album by Pink Floyd is a concept album that tells the story of a rock star named Pink who is struggling with fame, drug addiction, and mental illness. Pink is left with feelings of abandonment caused by the death of his father in World War II. He is traumatised by his dealings with authority figures such as an over-protective mother and abusive schoolteachers and in the ultimate act of defiance, becomes a rock star. "The Wall" is a complex and ambitious album that explores themes of isolation, alienation, and the search for meaning in life. It is a powerful and moving work that continues to resonate with listeners today.
Great reaction, one more time. Hugs from Italy
That was all part of life as a kid growing up, sometimes you run into teachers that you seemed to not hit it off and would make it tough on you, but in the long run little did they know they were making you mentally stronger and tougher and that's why you don't mess with the older generation they were brought up different than any of the younger generations of the last 30 year's. But now I will also say there we're some outstanding teachers also that gave you what you needed be it a good education or a good paddling when you didn't do what you were supposed to do or be a good kid in class lol, a lot of music like Heart and Pink Floyd, ACDC, or Led Zeppelin, and meny more classic bands like the Eagles and Journey as a teenager I had the pleasure of growing up listening to these iconic bands and the time I had running loose outdoors in the streets of my small town or deep in the woods exploring the trails and creeks and rivers unsupervised sometimes just by myself or with friends those were the days and times ill never forget, im now in my fifty's, but I still remember a lot of things and a lot of songs rock, classic rock, 80tys big hair bands and round it all off with classical and country music i believe I've just about heard every song out there with the exception of probably a few that i wasn't interested in even though im not much into rap I've even heard some of it also.
You should listen to Marooned by Pink Floyd. Ideally find the official music video too, it's spectacular and was only put together in 2014 but hits much harder now with what's happening in Ukraine. In fact they won a GRAMMY for it.
Back in those days In New Zealand we had The leather strap on the hand from 5 yrs in Primary school and graduated to the cane on the arse from 10yrs on when we changed schools. I was a regular recipient.
This video is from the film The Wall starring Bob Geldof as Pink
I like the bit when he organised everything on the floor on drugs
This song is pure legendary... Love it !
The "poems" that the teacher read to embarrass this boy were lyrics from a song called "Money" - which is great as well. Song just had its 50th anniversary.
Ah ha! So this song rings true to my own experience growing up in an English-style school system out here in the colonies hehe. We had a few teachers of this fellow's sort, and the general feeling was that teachers were to be feared, and children to be 'seen and not heard', as the saying went. Now, being out in a very different environment than England, many of the teachers were less strict than the one depicted, but still. In fact, my mother was a teacher who came from England to teach here in Bermuda, was extremely well educated and well liked by her students.
But yes, I do remember Mrs. D, who we did indeed fear, and would certainly have done exactly what we see here depicted lol.
As a kid in the 80's, i got bullied by a teacher. 1 day he was upset with me not doing my homework, almost ripped my right ear off taking me to the Promcipal's office.
I highly recommend you watch the wall concert with Roger Waters . He was the bass player and main song writer of Pink Floyd before he and the band parted ways.
The whole wall album is played while a huge wall is being built in real time between the band and the audience. The whole thing is beyond astonishing to see and hear .
I saw it live twice and it was comparable to the pulse concert which I also saw live.
It'll blow your mind.
We were a lucky generation to have such socially aware bands popping up everywhere with unique and unforgettable music,nice reaction 👍🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️
"Stand still laddie!!!" will forever haunt me.
Bob Geldolf, of the Boomtown Rats, played Pink in The Wall. Amazing movie.
I read an interview with the author of this song - the song was written based on his own memories and his parents' stories about teaching methods in closed "elite" English schools. Harsh, sometimes brutal coercion and physical punishment for the slightest offense.
Until recently, it was almost a strict prison regime for prisoners. The demonstrated revolt of schoolchildren is the reform of the school system, the results of which are now being observed in schools.
This album dropped when I was going into high school in the fall of 1979…its depth and its meaning has changed for me several times over the years. Pink Floyd continues to hit me unexpectedly and hold a mirror up to who I think I am.
LOVE watching you react to Pink Floyd Stacey! BTW, GREAT chair dancing!!!
Look what there teaching kids today in England's schools, like back in the day do your job do not complain. The schools are mind control work until you retire then die quick so they do not have to pay a pension. Unless your rich the rest are screwed. Loved this song when I was at school, sing it all time got the cane for saying I don't need no education to the headmaster.
This would be your gateway to the movie The Wall. It is an essential Pink Floyd experience.
Starting in 1960 to 1970 with THE BEATLES (all the songs are great hits)
And in the next years we have bands like Kc And The Sunshine Band ,10cc,
Earth Wind And Fire , Kool And The Gang , Toto , Electric Light Orchestra ,
Yes , Pink Floyd , Deep Purple , Chicago , Abba , Bee Gees , Kiss , The Who ,
The Rolling Stones , AC DC , Scorpions , The Police , Inxs , Aha , Dire Straits ,
The Cars , Journey , Kansas , Eagles , Led Zeppelin, Europe , Alan Parsons ,
The Doobie Brothers , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Queen , Elton John ,
Paul Mc Cartney and Wings , Peter Frampton , Boston , Fleetwood Mac ,
Tom Jones , Duran Duran , Foreigner , Hearth Wind And Fire, Rod Stewart ,
Michael Jackson , Prince , Emerson Lake and Palmer , and Reo Speedwagon
BUT the list is HUGE and mybe i left someone behind by mistake.
1971 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin
In 1972 SMOKE ON THE WATER DEEP PURPLE
IN 1973 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD
IN 1974 DEEP PURPLE Burn and Pilot Magic
IN 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen and I'm Not in Love 10cc
1976 MUSIC JOHN MILES and Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry
1977 Player - Baby Come Back , The Load Out / Stay by Jackson Browne
and Hotel California by Eagles
1978 to 1979 Last Train To London ELO
1979 Ride like the Wind Christopher Cross
and the list goes on and on and on at least till 1990.
Wayne Casey from KC and the sunshine band is a white man that have the soul
and the music of black people living down deep inside on her BIG heart
GOD BLESS YOU WAYNE CASEY.
I was born in the golden era of music 1960 and today i am a happy young man on my 64 yrs old.
And the only good band we have now is POETS OF THE FALL because they are still playing today.
Hey Stacey 😊
Love your reaction!
This video is taken from the movie! I had "the cuts" 4 times in primary school. "The cuts" was a cool slang term for "the cane". There was a certain pride amongst boys about getting "the cuts". The more "cuts" you got without crying the more bragging rights you got. Boys would wait outside the Principle's office waiting to see if you cried. The more "cuts" you got without crying the more prestige you earned. "Wow! Stevo just copped 6 cuts without crying. I don't wanna fight him!" It built your reputation as being tough!
Corporal punishment in schools was part of the "rule of thumb". The "rule of thumb law" was that a husband could whip his wife with a cane, as long as that cane wasn't any wider than his thumb and he didn't raise his hand above his shoulder.
This is just how things were!
I'm stoked to see you see part of the movie! I am REALLY enjoying seeing you go on the PF journey. I get excited about watching it 😮😃😅
Thank you so much Stacey 😊
I would love to see your reaction after watching the entire movie 😮😃
Now for the next vid lol
😊❤
Was fortunate enough to be a member of the London Fire Brigade' standing by' when they filmed some of those scenes, a few miles up the road Full Metal Jacket was filmed. Just for info.
This movie 🍿 never gets dusty in my home.
The story is DEEP.
Please do a live reaction of it.
Your life will never be the same.
Good to see you ~ jamming out to Floydicus Pinkus! You must be a vision on the dance floor! Thanks for being genuine.
This is the same album and life story of the young fictitious musician, Pink, that you heard in “Comfortably Numb”. Here, he’s a youth, trying to cope with the stresses of a young child’s life. The teacher is one of the people that Pink learns to distance himself from, to spare himself pain. He begins to build The Wall. By the point of “Comfortably Numb”, The Wall is complete, and he’s trapped himself in a life he hates.
You really nailed your interpretation; well done. When you pointed out that the song could apply to bosses, or other authority figures, I agree with your insight. But one important element of “The Wall” is the passage of time. Over the course of four album sides, Pink grows up. He changes, and grows, and his perspectives change. I’ve rarely seen that happen with authority figures with whom I’ve spent time.
You may want to listen to the album cut of this song, off-line. It’s not really different musically, but it’s tighter without the interruptions in the music video. And if you like rocking out, try reacting to PF’s “Run Like Hell” (the PULSE version, naturally!) which was the show’s finale many nights on that tour. (It’s worth reacting to, just to watch that incredible stage and light show in full-throated ROAR.)
It’s been such a pleasure to watch you discover and explore this incredible group. You’re right, their songs deal with so many unusual topics. And rarely do they write simplistic, boring love songs, like so many others do. It’s actually hard to explain to folk why they should listen to Pink Floyd, or what their songs are about. They really are an experience, and you have to experience them personally.
I’ll suggestion reacting to “Coming Back To Life” next ~ if you close your eyes, David’s ethereal opening solo will lead you through the universe. (“While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words, Dying to believe in what you heard”) Or “Money”, which has been used in so many movies, TV shows, and sporting-event broadcasts over the intervening 50 years that you may already have heard snippets of it. And of course I’m still beating the Two Steps From Hell drum. Their musical genre is called ‘Epic’, and the term very much applies. Try reacting to “Norwegian Pirate” (one of the two composers worked with Hans Zimmer on “Pirates Of The Caribbean”), “Pegasus”, or “Flight Of The Silverbird”.
This song had a part 2 that hit number one in March 1980 I turned 18 then. I think of this song as an anthem for a generation of late Boomers. It’s a Timeless song for me.
The first song was The Happiest Days Of Our Lives leading into ABITW. You are watching the versions from The Wall feature film. There was another less brutal promo music video for the song
Back in the 70s teachers like that weren't uncommon.
It was still the hangover of kids should be seen and not heard from the 50s.
They banned corporal punishment when I started 2 year primary (6yrs old)....thank goodness or I'd have been regularly beaten.
I still remember the teachers that were bullies, as I grew up I started to symapthise with them a little more, looking back I was a little shite at school sometimes 😆
I remember the beatings, beatings from bullies at school, beatings from the teachers for being involved in a beating (even as a victim) and then beatings from my Dad for being in trouble at school.
It's why I don't lay hands on my kids and have discussed frustrations with them rather than take the physical route.
Anyway back on topic of this video, this was from the movie, The Wall.
It was brilliant but surreal with one of the best movie soundtracks ever!
It's more of a feature length music video rather than a movie as it's a bit disjointed as a movie.
Worth a watch though as the animations from Gerald Scarfe were stunning!
You are quite right that it was a protest and that it was a response to feeling like education was like being put through a meat grinder and although just before my time you are so right that it was just about teaching facts to be repeated rather than about teaching kids to think for themselves but just because clones to follow those in power, the upper class at the time (and although things have changed in terms of many of our leaders, not so much).
The late 70s/early 80s were a time of massive change, industrial decline in countries like the US and the UK. It was a time when industries were on the decline and workers rights were taken away (change was needed but it went way too far and is why we are in the position we are today).
It's a very unique song, they are a very unique band. I wish more artists and bands these days would be putting out songs that are commentating on cultural, social, political issues in our worlds today. I guess record labels don't want that as it will alienate part of their customer base and so it's discouraged.
Just for your listening pleasure,you should check out Poles Apart”,Lost for Words,and 2 instrumentals,marooned”, and 5am”.These are some that are truly hidden nuggets!Your Welcome!
When you're finished with Pink Floyd (and I know, no one is ever finished with Pink Floyd) you should check out Jethro Tull. Start with "My God (Nothing Is Easy - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)." Enjoy.
"We don't need no education..."
Maurice Moss (from "The IT Crowd"):
"Yes, you do. You just used a double negative". 😂
In Spanish it is correct, though. 😊
An actor names Alex McAvoy played the teacher in this video, born in March of 1928, died June 2005.
The Wall is somehow an tribute to the human struggle with what seems an infinity of obstacles of a common life.Each obstacle we overrun, is a brick in the wall we raise around our self, thinking that it will protect us .....
I remember the headlines : "Pink Floyd Turned Disco!". Published on 45RPM.... I think you would like the movie The Wall. Pink Floyd was really multi media even before the name was coined. From Canada, Peace Out!
The Album "The Wall" was meant to be listened to in its entirety, it's one of the reasons when it first came out people were confused by some of the individual songs, it is one of the best "concept albums", or "Rock Operas" of all time. Remember to put the song in its historical context, as it was released in 1979. As I type this, as an old man who has seen Pink Floyd multiple times, and worked two of their shows, and was able to watch a Minneapolis show from the side of the stage as a guest of their tour manger, the great Jake Berry. A few nights before at the concert at Iowa State University, I was driving a golf cart past the backstage "compound" (it was just several double wide mobile homes we'd brought in for dressing rooms), and Jake step in front of me like a school crossing guard. Apparently, they couldn't get David Gilmore's golf cart started to go to the stage, so Gilmore says to me "scoot over, I'll drive. It was a nice ride; he was quite friendly and very polite.
something I haven't thought about in a very long time.
Now you understand how we grew up in private schools.I was the youngest the teachers had it in for me because of my brothers. Nun tried to make me well you know. Had to fight to prove yourself. This movie explained the album a whole lot.
I feel this is the first song most people hear by Pink Floyd and it should be because it was my first Pink Floyd song back in Junior High School and I loved it. And Pink Floyd has been and will always be my favorite band. ❤
All reactors react to this video, which as others have pointed out is from The Wall movie. But it's not 'the' actual video and audio version that was released in 1979 and went to no.1 in the UK.
The correct audio is the album version, not the movie version. Not that it matters hugely - but you get an extra song at the start of this video, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, plus bits of video/story that don't make a lot of sense - if you don't know the album!
I went on a Pink Floyd tour of Cambridge, UK, and saw the school that inspired this classic song.
You ask what kind of teacher is that . This is a true representation of schooling in Australia and England back in my day , beautiful woman please do yourself a big favour and watch the movie the wall you'll be mesmerised . Love what your doing here . Oz"s biggest fan ❤❤❤
This is actually Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, because there are 3 parts, which make up pieces of the narrators psyche in the whole The Wall album concept. I do not believe you can do a The Wall Movie reaction due to copyright, but if you can see it on your own anyway, I STRONGLY recommend.
this album came out when I was in high school, and has been relatable since then. while my own son was growing up and going through school, he made a lot of observations about the education system, and as I listened to him speaking, he pretty much echoed this song and I wanted him to listen to it.
Thank You my early years was in a Catholic School until 5th grade in Puerto Rico then we moved to Va and were enrolled in Public School BIG Shock.
Great choice and reaction Stacey! Pink Floyd one of the all time great bands - composition and performance.
You mentioned broadening horizons, travel, new music, sensei.... new great rock music coming out of Japan. (Pink Floyd toured there c1971) . I'd love when you're ready to start with some Band Maid "Don't You Tell Me" (live). Arigatou.
Somebody may already have said this. But to answer your question "What kind of teacher is that?", this was in the 40-50s. Also, the video you are watching is from a movie they made for the album, which also is called The Wall, just as the album.
Part 2. Hear Part one? I got blasted for playing this on a "ghetto-blaster" at school. So, I went into the music room and played the drums for it while others played guitars and sang! Damn, so many memories brought back by Pink Floyd. The end of this video leads into the beginning of "Mother" - which you have seen. The whole movie, The Wall, is a must see!..... ;) The teacher just helped "Pink" place another brick in his wall between himself and other people - self-isolation and insulation.
I love the way your head bops when David Gilmore does his solos, he has the same effect on most Floyd fans. ❤
The funkiness of the song stems from competition with the Disco craze throughout the english speaking world. Waters and Gilmour funked up a couple of songs to help ensure they'd get some Top 40 airplay. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 is the result.
Give yourself a favour and try " Echoes " live in Pompeii from 71! It shows the Floyd experience nearly from the beginning!
This is our generations school brake up song. As Alice Coopers "Schools out" was to the early 70s
This was the late 70s & 80's screw you school 🚸 song, its especially relevant to UK private schools of the 50s & 60s trading kids for the corporate & governmental ladder echelons. The kids going wild & rebelling is reminiscent of the 70s youth rebellion in the UK.
Keep in mind, these songs are part of the Wall movie which was released in 1982
If you love the funky groove, listen to Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
In Australia where i am this song is played on the radio all the time, so personally it's hard for me to reconcile somebody having never heard this. This is actually a scene from Roger Waters' movie The Wall. Brace yourself if you ever watch it as it is dark and very confronting. He actually lost his father to the war as a child, so it's at least somewhat autobiographical.
The album this song comes from, The Wall, was basically the life story of bassist and songwriter Roger Waters. He is the boy, who grows up to be the Rock Star Pink Floyd. And yes, watch the movie The Wall!
Another Brick in the Wall pt 2 starts at “We don’t need no education”. The part before that is “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”. You really should listen to the whole album with the lyrics and then check out the movie. ❤❤
I'd really like to see you reacting to Santana 'Black Magie Woman' or Quenn 'Bohemian Rhapsody'... Both are true Masterpieces!
All of the footage is out of the movie. An absolute must-see for every human alive. The teacher bullies, because he's bullied. You know the story. The Wall is an awesome psychological study. Roger Waters is brilliant. As are all the other members.
Hey there , love your pink floyd videos . I was wondering how you were going to react to the meT grinder. , loved it and hope you do all pink floyd videos .
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Thankyou ⚘
To answer your question of which emotions to feel. First buy a copy of Pink Floyd The Wall, listen to it a couple of time and get your jam on, then buy a copy of the film The Wall by Pink Floyd and then feel the emotions of the combine visuals and music. You are welcome.
All will be revealed when you listen to the entire The Wall album, and watch the film...one inside joke in this scene is the "poem" the teacher is mocking about the boy is actually lyrics from the song "Money" from The Dark Side Of The Moom album! Pink Floyd rules😅
Went to a British boarding school in an Asian country in 70’s and 80’s so I can completely relate to it.
For a better understanding, The Wall was in reality a Movie as well as a best selling album. Another Brick in the wall, Is the best selling song they have in their entire body of work.
“The wall” album really needs to be heard/seen start to finish in order to truly appreciate it. The journey of a man’s self imposed isolation for the world. Just another brick in the wall is speaking of just another part of his journey into solitude/isolation/depression.
I was doing my post grad teaching year when this came out. The deputy principal in the school I was assigned to called a special assembly of the whole school and, basically, gave a lecture as to why this song was 'a very bad thing' and that the students shouldn't pay any attention to some long haired, so called musicians and that they should do as they were told and not ask any questions. And, what's more, anybody heard singing the words would be 'dealt with'. A measure of the fear that this put in the minds of some. How did the kids react? They loved it! The deputy's reaction to the song simply confirmed what they were seeing and hearing in the video. How did I react? Amazement at the guy's stupidity and embarrassment to be was associated with such a ludicrous attempt to put down what he feared would be rebellion in the ranks.
As for the beginning of the video, it reminded me vividly of my own experience in a boys' grammar school, where humiliation and violence was an everyday occurrence. It really was that grim!
PS I might suggest you watch the 1968 film 'If', which deals with the same themes and ideas, but in a different context.
It definitely captures the feeling that a lot of kids have or have had that you are promised education and optimism on the surface, and the you find out underneath it all is that you are being processed, managed, diluted into being obedient little taxpayers that know their place.
This is straight from the movie The Wall. Check it out, this is more or less part of the bigger picture and part of the movie.
And the "poems" were lyrics to Money, from Dark Side of the Moon.
The song isn't about students angst. It's about the current (at that time) educational system in schools of most of the world where students are educated to be exactly the same, behaving all the same way, thinking the same way (or better not thinking at all) so in the future they will be like lambs in a herd or as it's said in the song: another brick in the wall. Bricks don't talk, bricks don't think, bricks only serve to be a part of the wall with no other use intended.
This song became relevant again with another meaning when Berlin's Wall went down in 1989.
You've hit the treasure trove with Floyd. Try Yes - Close to the Edge, Genesis -Supper's Ready . Led Zeppelin- Kashmir.
Stacey, you always get it. My personal recommendation would be for you to listen/react to the album version before doing the movie to receive it in the same way as it came to the world. Millions of us young people in the early 80s experienced 'The Wall' on vinyl, in our bedrooms, reading along with the song written on the album sleeve in teeny-tiny cursive writing. We didn't have Wikipedia to tell us what it was about and the lyrics are so brilliantly vague that every individual can interpret it in his/her own way. If we're splitting hairs, that is two songs. The "intro", as you acutely noticed is "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" on the album. WOW! I remember when this channel was 200 and now it's pushing 30,000! Keep it going!
100% agree. Listen to the album before seeing the movie. The movie actually ruined some songs on The Wall for me back in the early 80s
love the Pink Floyd
This song is off the concept album The Wall, which also became a movie. The concept was a rock star having a mental breakdown. The education was just another brick in his wall.
It is worth the difference in experience to hear the studio album version, the Pulse concert version, as well as see the movie version. Interesting for you to check out the one people would have experienced last and more rarely.
Abusers in positions of authority? Yes, as well as systems of authority that are inherently abusive. We keep thinking we can 'fix' the former without addressing the reality of the later.
Love your Pink Floyd journey.
The teacher isn't the biggest bully, his wife is the biggest bully and he takes it out on the students.
The Wall is my all time favorite movie. there is some symbolism in the film, the hammers represent any type of authority or oppression, the children are fed into the machine as individuals and come out as one of a group. What looks like ground meat coming out the bottom of the grinder, if you look closely, they look like worms. Worms, in the movie represent knowledge. I've seen it dozens of times and every time I see something i missed before.
You should do the song "Dogs" from the "Animals" album. It's one of their most underrated albums, but also one of their best.. This song off the Pulse concert album has probably one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard.
British culture can be very very dark indeed………….😎🎸🎹🥁
The movie "the wall" was about the decent of a rock star's (pink) into madness because of the insane world around him.
Live pulse concert version is epic!!!