This my favorite song off The Wall. It has everything you could want. Gilmour's smooth vocals with Wright's backing. Waters' more manic and expressive vocals. Great guitar work. Atmospheric keyboard work and as usual, the drums are perfect. The band was falling apart and yet, they managed to produce this.
Me too. I was so disappointed when I saw the movie and they omitted it..... although, the addition of When the Tigers Broke Free, almost made up for it.
"The Wall" is a concept album. It is about a rockstar, Pink, slowly losing his mind and retreating behind and emotional wall. Must be listened to in full to grasp its full meaning. The fact that this classic track is left out of the movie is one of the prime reasons (among others) you should always listen to the full double album FIRST before watching to the film adaptation. Many believe this is their finest work. Pink, the protagonist of the piece, is a composite of Syd and Roger, both of whom had to deal with emotional and mental challenges for different reasons.
Congratulations on 10,000+ subscribers. I should’ve happened a long time ago. You do a pretty good job at dissecting these songs. And I actually opened up my mind to a different understanding of some of my more favorite songs
Check out the LIVE version of Comfortably Numb from the Pulse Concert (Earls Court - London 1994). The extended guitar solo and spectacular light show combine for an unforgettable performance. You will see 3 members of Pink Floyd from the 1960s (Gilmour, Wright, and Mason) performing at around age 50.
Dave Gilmours solo's He uses some impressive bends. Sometimes up to 5 semi tones. My feeling is that by bending 1 note up to the next, your brain is able to follow the increase in pitch. The alternative is to simply pluck a higher note, but I don't think your brain sees that coming. So even when a bend happens really quickly there isn't such a sudden "step". So I think that's part of why you often feel his solo's "lift you up" like your floating.
May I suggest you listen to Gilmore live in Pompeii in it’s entirety? The awesome on stage is other worldly. It also cures many ailments and most heartbreaks.
Gilmour has always been my fave guitarist though he is not the best or most technical. His style is simple and often just 1 note extended and bent into an ethereal cry. To understand the context of the songs from the Wall, you are going to have to listen to the whole album or watch the film.
So glad you mentioned Gilmours singing ability. Obviously, he is one of the greatest guitarists in rock, but he is seldom mentioned with regards to vocals.
"That effect Pink Floyd likes to use... going through each headphone" You mean it's a stereo mix? Not mixed in mono for someone to listen to on their phone or blutooth speaker?
This song contributed to the breakup of the band. There was a clash between Gilmore & Waters over the bass line. What you hear is Gilmore playing bass.
Love your take on songs and what the lyrics bring out in you personally. For a different take on Pink Floyd try "Biding My Time", although they have such a huge catalogue the rabbit hole seems endless. Cheers Harro 😁🤘
One thing you will begin to notice with Pink Floyd is recurring sounds, however subtle, that pervade within an album and transcend that into other albums many years apart.
Just dropping in to say I agree: Not only is Gilmour one of the best rock vocalists, he's also underrated. People talk about his guitar, about Waters' writing, about the band in general, but I think his pristine vocals often get overlooked.
This album provided the war-cry and emotional support for millions of disgruntled high-school students. The Wall was huge in the US, spending 15 weeks at number one in sales. Literally every high school boy I knew owned this album, which was a rather expensive one, and we made sure to play Another Brick in the Wall II (Pink Floyd's only number one single in the US) at every high school dance.
Interesting how David builds up his solo higher and higher to a summit, and then in the lyrics he could not break free. Like the guitar, his wall had become too high.
The harmonies are actually Gilmour and Gilmour and Gilmour. You weren't far off from your interpretation. It's hard to get the full meaning with this album without listening to it all the way through. The album is a story about a character named Pink. This song addresses Pink's mental health issues. He's isolated himself behind a self made mental "wall". He needs help but can't ask for it from within his prison. The worms are the negative forces that eat away at him. He wants to connect with people but he simply cannot.
Great reaction! So happy you are delving into PF!! Their album Animals is great! My favorite track on that one is “Pigs” and “Sheep”. I absolutely love PF, there’s no bad jam by them. Like others here have mentioned , Shine on you crazy Diamond is another great song!! ✌🏼❤️
It is difficult to parse Floyd song by song. It is a band the really requires a whole album analysis, ESPECIALLY "The Wall". Of course, the first time i listened to "The Wall" i was on mescaline with peyote buds. Neither I nor Roger Waters have been quite the same since. :}
This was the music we listened to via cassette in my friend's treehouse. Either skipping or between classes. 40 years later, still not catching the vibe but love the company. Shine on, my friends.
Shine on you is a masterpiece and if you enjoy harmonizing, Gilmour and Wright are brilliant in Echoes live in Pompeii, Waters lyrics are phenomenal as the song is meant as an ode on how to treat people
This is one of the top songs by Pink Floyd. Entire composition musically and lyrically is a masterpiece beyond any scale. The solo is out of this world
Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall. * Probably the best four album stretch by any band. All completely different musical styles, all amazing.
Great Reaction. It’s so hard to understand just one song from the wall. It’s a concept album one song is like walking on a play in the middle and sing one scene and trying to understand what’s happening in In a play. He’s trapped himself in his own metaphorical wall brick by brick pushing the world away. I hope you can listen to this whole album sometime it makes so much more sense. Your reactions to music are wonderful and I wish you the best of luck on your musical journey.❤️✌️🌼
In addition to the excellent comments regarding the themes of the Wall, I think there is also a literal aspect to this song. Water’s and Floyd are unparalleled with their production of their live shows. And an important part of Pink’s perspective is his separation from his audience. When I saw the Wall in 1980 stage hands worked to build a wall in front of the band across about a quarter of the arena- literally separating the band from the audience. The Wall is completed at the end of the first album. And Hey You is performed behind the Wall. I think Waters envisioned this when he was writing and the references to people in the “aisle” and the Hall are also literal. [The band does not stay behind the Wall for the entire second album - they perform in front of, out of, and on top of the Wall. I’ve seen Waters do the Wall in more recent years and while the technology for what is projected on the Wall is vastly improved, the basic structure of the show is the same].
If you delve into some of Pink Floyd’s PULSE CONCERT performances, you will be entering another musical dimension. They are true masters of the live performance, and excellent musicians as well.
Hey Syed enjoying your view of some classic titles. Really like to hear your take on a lesser known group The The. Either "Uncertain Smile" with Jools Holland keyboard version or "Good Morning Beautiful" with Johnny Marr guesting on guitar. Cheers
If you love Dave Gilmour's guitar solos and Roger Water's writing you should check out Dogs. Great tune. A new mix has just been released. Whole Animals album is amazing.
Not sure about the “speaking to his future/past self” interpretation but as always it’s up to each of us to decide what it’s about. I always saw it as just him calling out to anyone/everyone to save him from his isolation and desperation.
He said he’s talking about a personal relationship with his ex wife , not him self in the song.. he’s also talking about the pains he feels can somewhat be fixed by reconnecting with others
'It's really neat that 'Pink Floyd' is both the name of the story's central character and the name of the band, itself. Which is why, of course, Pink's wall parallels the one separating the band from the audience.
I’m not a huge fan of the album, I think it’s a little too full of itself and it’s main creator, but the tracks where they actually play proper songs are great. Hope you get around reacting to Wish You Were Here’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, it features Gilmour’s best playing. For my money, it’s their best album, too.
Don't know why, I always think of Dylan Thomas, nothing overt like "Don't go Gently ...." but something desolate nonetheless. Pink Floyd is my music choice when driving long distances, make the freeway just melt away. Maybe I should pay more attention to the road, lol.
Love your videos mate. Great to see other people discovering the things you love, and seeing em love em too.... Well.... unless it's my girlfriend. That's different! 😁✌🇬🇧
Help me to carry the Stone (a nod to a heavy lyric on Dogs, perhaps Floyds most epic song ever. You need to react to maybe Floyd’s most epic song ever. Teaser:Just another sad old man, Dragged down by the stone.
Listening to one song from Pink Floyd's the Wall album is tough, because the album tells one long narrative story. It's like picking up a book and reading one random chapter. Basically at this point in the story the main character has built up a figurative wall, isolating himself from anyone else. The "worms ate into his brain" line refers to mental decay.
The effect of the music moving from side to side in the headphones, is called, "panning". Great technique with a skilled engineer at the knobs... Great example of amazing panning is The Moody Blues song, "Thinking is the Best Way to Travel". Highly recommend checking out some Moody Blues, they're very multi-faceted..
Are we certain (I am not) that the harmonies in the verses are not David Gilmore x2? You mention him and Roger halfway through the vid, and it gave me that question. Great analysis!
Watch the movie, "The Wall". You'll understand the entirety of this album much, much better. I've been a loyal Pink Floyd fan since I was 11. In 1971. The movie is a trip. A very good trip.
Actually, I think it's Richard Wright, (keyboards, synth), doing the harmony here with Gilmour. He and David Gilmour do the majority of the harmonies and sharing lead vocals as they do famously in "Echoes" from 1971. Pink Floyd always does Production, whether it be in the studio or live, with Perfection, capital P's for both words. They always sound Great!
One of the best songs on that album and started off the 2nd disc in fine fashion. Also on it try In the Flesh as Pink goes fascist, quite the Song and scene in the movie The Wall. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Nice analysis-- I do wish you'd turn the music up a little louder- I can't hear the detail unless the volume has you really loud. "Listen to that bass line" left me thinking, I wish I could hear it!
The Wall would make a great live stream as plucking single songs can cause confusion..... At this point, "pink" has completed his wall of isolation from the outside world. On side 1 we get a narrator, and we find he is using the death of his father, a serious sickness when he was youn, his smothering mother as "bricks" to build a wall of isolation. Side 2 deals with the death of his marriage and the cold war as the final "bricks". Now, he, on side 3 of the album deals with his self medication with drugs, and calling out for help...... ending the side with comfortably numb where he ends in madness..... side 4 is, in my opinion, all in his head, as he rebels against the legacy of his father, and puts himself on trial.
It looks like you might want or need to watch the movie "THE WALL" . The most interesting aspect of this movie/album/project is that "The Movie" is been told by music and images. There is very little dialogue in this movie. Sad, Dramatic, very realistic lifestyle for a successful musician in a rock band in the 60s' and '70s: It is basically the message of this project. 👍👍 KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK!!!!!
You have to remember that for most progressive rock, especially then, the album was the dominant art form, not the single. You can't really understand any of their music by listening to tracks, it just doesn't work that way. The entire album is a cycle and message: the cover, the artwork, the lyrics, and liner notes, the whole kit and kabootle is the piece of art, not any song alone. There are a few exceptions, but prog rock in general is contextual in nature, so you need to know the album -- for some groups, you even need to know their past catalogue -- before the song itself fits into its context. For Pink Floyd, you need to ask yourself who Pink is for each album. The Wall is a rock opera, so it's pretty clearly laid out who Pink is in this iteration. On Wish You Were Here, Pink is a recording artist lost in the grind of the industry, contrasting himself with his past lives. On Dark Side, Pink is the Everyman, representing all of us in our modern cycle of life. It isn't a strict rule about how to interpret them, but it's a good rule of thumb.
Could it be that the "would you help me to carry the stone"-line is a reference to the resurrection of Jesus? His tomb was blocked with a large stone so that no one could get to it.
You really need to see where 'Animals" fits in the Pink Floyd picture. Incendiary guitar work, loads of bitterness and paranoia. It is the ugliest Floyd album, but really cool.
In the end its mostly about Roger really ,, The band was just about finished when Sid was side-lined ,Some really pathetic single efforts, Then Roger came forward with his ideas and the band said yes OK we are finished if we do not find a direction soon, And so it went ,,
It's pretty pointless trying to grasp the meaning of any track from The Wall, without listening to the entire album. It's a concept album that tells the story of the character 'Pink'. Of course you can have your own personal interpretation/meaning and such meanings are never 'wrong' but if you're trying to discern the original meaning/s, you really need to listen to the track in the context of the whole album. :)
The song doesn't quite fit its placement on the album. In the last days of production, Bob Ezrin convinced Roger to move this song from the end of side three to the beginning of side three. Conceptually, and through the lyrics, it belongs after Comfortably Numb. It is difficult for your interpretation to have any credibility given your lack of experience with the album and The Floyd in general. In Comfortably Numb Pink is "awakened" from his stupor to prepare for a concert that he doesn't want to perform. Pink, with his mind now actively processing, he realizes that it is working against him. In his head he is looking for human contact which is the antithesis of the purpose of building his wall in the first place. The lyrics are referring to the prospective audience, "standing in the aisle" and "breaking bottles in the hall" at the concert to come. He is also commiserating with others who have gotten phone calls of abandonment ( one of the themes in the albums is telephones based on Roger's experience with his first wife Trudy). The worms link two concepts. One is that tinglely brain feeling as the effects of the drugs begin to wear off or decay, i.e., from Comfortably Numb. And it represents the general decay of his mind with regard to keeping up the psychological wall Pink spent the first half of the album building up. From here (assuming one places this song at the end of side three) Pink's mind becomes more and more bizarre. It begins to search for confrontation with others whereas before he was trying to hide from any contact all. His mind takes him through The Show Must Go On, In The Flesh, Waiting For The Worms, Run Like Hell, Stop, and finally The Trial. Then there is the reference to carrying the stone. It is a reference back to "Dogs" on the Animals album. Dogs who when their usefulness to their masters is done have a stone tied around their neck and are drowned. One's burdens in life eventually kill you when you can no longer carry them.
Man you seem to always assume someone is talking about themselves, an older version of themselves. Are you maybe seeing a version of your self in these songs ?
gilmour is a great guitar hero, but the letters and pink floyd classics = roger, gilmour have soul , dont try put him in the team greats vocals , never ok, never
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Have we covered Shine on you crazy Diamond yet? If not, it’s a must listen, best Pink Floyd song ever
Arguably most beautiful song ever created. Definitely up there.
Shine on is overrated the final cut is way deeper
Paint box is good too
You must listen to the full 22+ minutes
@@jlaw442 it's well rated as everyone knows it's beauty that has heard it and the final cut isn't as popular so not many people mention it
This my favorite song off The Wall. It has everything you could want. Gilmour's smooth vocals with Wright's backing. Waters' more manic and expressive vocals. Great guitar work. Atmospheric keyboard work and as usual, the drums are perfect. The band was falling apart and yet, they managed to produce this.
Me too. I was so disappointed when I saw the movie and they omitted it..... although, the addition of When the Tigers Broke Free, almost made up for it.
Gilmour squeezes more emotion out of one note than most guitarists can get out of a hundred notes. 🎸🔥
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"The Wall" is a concept album. It is about a rockstar, Pink, slowly losing his mind and retreating behind and emotional wall. Must be listened to in full to grasp its full meaning. The fact that this classic track is left out of the movie is one of the prime reasons (among others) you should always listen to the full double album FIRST before watching to the film adaptation. Many believe this is their finest work.
Pink, the protagonist of the piece, is a composite of Syd and Roger, both of whom had to deal with emotional and mental challenges for different reasons.
You should probably react and analyse the whole album to understand it. Like you did with Dark Side of the Moon. I would watch it for sure
It's on the way my friend
i think doing a full wish you were here reaction should come before the wall for some more context
@@SyedRewinds watch the movie!
Congratulations on 10,000+ subscribers. I should’ve happened a long time ago. You do a pretty good job at dissecting these songs. And I actually opened up my mind to a different understanding of some of my more favorite songs
Gilmour is not only the greatest guitarist ever he can sing so calmly and beautifully!! Check Mother or Good Bye Blue Sky on this same record.
Check out the LIVE version of Comfortably Numb from the Pulse Concert (Earls Court - London 1994). The extended guitar solo and spectacular light show combine for an unforgettable performance. You will see 3 members of Pink Floyd from the 1960s (Gilmour, Wright, and Mason) performing at around age 50.
Dave Gilmours solo's
He uses some impressive bends. Sometimes up to 5 semi tones. My feeling is that by bending 1 note up to the next, your brain is able to follow the increase in pitch. The alternative is to simply pluck a higher note, but I don't think your brain sees that coming.
So even when a bend happens really quickly there isn't such a sudden "step".
So I think that's part of why you often feel his solo's "lift you up" like your floating.
Another cool trick you can do with bends is bend the note (but don't pick, so it's silent so far) THEN pick and slowly release the bend
Gilmour doesn’t just play guitar on this song. He also played Bass instead of Waters.
Another iconic track from Floyd. Not much to add here, you already know it's a masterpiece.
May I suggest you listen to Gilmore live in Pompeii in it’s entirety? The awesome on stage is other worldly. It also cures many ailments and most heartbreaks.
Gilmour has always been my fave guitarist though he is not the best or most technical.
His style is simple and often just 1 note extended and bent into an ethereal cry.
To understand the context of the songs from the Wall, you are going to have to listen to the whole album or watch the film.
So glad you mentioned Gilmours singing ability. Obviously, he is one of the greatest guitarists in rock, but he is seldom mentioned with regards to vocals.
"That effect Pink Floyd likes to use... going through each headphone" You mean it's a stereo mix? Not mixed in mono for someone to listen to on their phone or blutooth speaker?
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This song contributed to the breakup of the band. There was a clash between Gilmore & Waters over the bass line. What you hear is Gilmore playing bass.
Love your take on songs and what the lyrics bring out in you personally. For a different take on Pink Floyd try "Biding My Time", although they have such a huge catalogue the rabbit hole seems endless.
Cheers
Harro 😁🤘
One thing you will begin to notice with Pink Floyd is recurring sounds, however subtle, that pervade within an album and transcend that into other albums many years apart.
That high note on the piano TING....then again, TING...is a prime example. Listen for it. It's been there since about 1971.
Just dropping in to say I agree: Not only is Gilmour one of the best rock vocalists, he's also underrated. People talk about his guitar, about Waters' writing, about the band in general, but I think his pristine vocals often get overlooked.
This album provided the war-cry and emotional support for millions of disgruntled high-school students. The Wall was huge in the US, spending 15 weeks at number one in sales. Literally every high school boy I knew owned this album, which was a rather expensive one, and we made sure to play Another Brick in the Wall II (Pink Floyd's only number one single in the US) at every high school dance.
Which amounted to nothing. War-cry; it was more like a whine.
David Gilmour is one of those singers whos voice just gets better as he gets older. His voice in the later albums gets richer and fuller.
Interesting how David builds up his solo higher and higher to a summit, and then in the lyrics he could not break free. Like the guitar, his wall had become too high.
The harmonies are actually Gilmour and Gilmour and Gilmour.
You weren't far off from your interpretation. It's hard to get the full meaning with this album without listening to it all the way through. The album is a story about a character named Pink. This song addresses Pink's mental health issues. He's isolated himself behind a self made mental "wall". He needs help but can't ask for it from within his prison. The worms are the negative forces that eat away at him. He wants to connect with people but he simply cannot.
I was just going to say that. It is Gilmour harmonizing with himself. Which I could listen to all day long
After the guitar solo, the final vocals are provided by Roger waters. They sometimes alternated between the "normal" voice and the "psychopath" voice.
...and the lyrics and more lyrics are from the genius of pink floyd...Roger Waters!!
Great reaction! So happy you are delving into PF!! Their album Animals is great! My favorite track on that one is “Pigs” and “Sheep”. I absolutely love PF, there’s no bad jam by them. Like others here have mentioned , Shine on you crazy Diamond is another great song!! ✌🏼❤️
It is difficult to parse Floyd song by song. It is a band the really requires a whole album analysis, ESPECIALLY "The Wall". Of course, the first time i listened to "The Wall" i was on mescaline with peyote buds. Neither I nor Roger Waters have been quite the same since. :}
This was the music we listened to via cassette in my friend's treehouse. Either skipping or between classes. 40 years later, still not catching the vibe but love the company. Shine on, my friends.
On The Turning Away, by Pink Floyd is exactly the song which give that feeling of soaring.
Shine on you is a masterpiece and if you enjoy harmonizing, Gilmour and Wright are brilliant in Echoes live in Pompeii, Waters lyrics are phenomenal as the song is meant as an ode on how to treat people
You need to do the entire album in order...superior to "Dark Side of the Moon". CHEERS 🇨🇦🇨🇦❤
This is one of the top songs by Pink Floyd. Entire composition musically and lyrically is a masterpiece beyond any scale. The solo is out of this world
Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall.
* Probably the best four album stretch by any band. All completely different musical styles, all amazing.
Great Reaction. It’s so hard to understand just one song from the wall. It’s a concept album one song is like walking on a play in the middle and sing one scene and trying to understand what’s happening in In a play. He’s trapped himself in his own metaphorical wall brick by brick pushing the world away. I hope you can listen to this whole album sometime it makes so much more sense. Your reactions to music are wonderful and I wish you the best of luck on your musical journey.❤️✌️🌼
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In addition to the excellent comments regarding the themes of the Wall, I think there is also a literal aspect to this song. Water’s and Floyd are unparalleled with their production of their live shows. And an important part of Pink’s perspective is his separation from his audience. When I saw the Wall in 1980 stage hands worked to build a wall in front of the band across about a quarter of the arena- literally separating the band from the audience. The Wall is completed at the end of the first album. And Hey You is performed behind the Wall. I think Waters envisioned this when he was writing and the references to people in the “aisle” and the Hall are also literal. [The band does not stay behind the Wall for the entire second album - they perform in front of, out of, and on top of the Wall. I’ve seen Waters do the Wall in more recent years and while the technology for what is projected on the Wall is vastly improved, the basic structure of the show is the same].
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I love that Pink Floyd just disarms you. No one is ready for what happens next. It sweeps one up and is relentless in its enworldmemt.
Can’t wait to see you react to Echoes
check the channel mate, already done!
@@SyedRewinds Will do! Found the video :)
They have to b the GOAT.
If you delve into some of Pink Floyd’s PULSE CONCERT performances, you will be entering another musical dimension. They are true masters of the live performance, and excellent musicians as well.
He should listen to Floyd on psychedelics …. Those solos are next level then
Hey Syed enjoying your view of some classic titles. Really like to hear your take on a lesser known group The The. Either "Uncertain Smile" with Jools Holland keyboard version or "Good Morning Beautiful" with Johnny Marr guesting on guitar. Cheers
If you love Dave Gilmour's guitar solos and Roger Water's writing you should check out Dogs. Great tune. A new mix has just been released. Whole Animals album is amazing.
Not sure about the “speaking to his future/past self” interpretation but as always it’s up to each of us to decide what it’s about. I always saw it as just him calling out to anyone/everyone to save him from his isolation and desperation.
He said he’s talking about a personal relationship with his ex wife , not him self in the song.. he’s also talking about the pains he feels can somewhat be fixed by reconnecting with others
Brilliant of course, nothing the Floyd ever did falls short of it.
'It's really neat that 'Pink Floyd' is both the name of the story's central character and the name of the band, itself. Which is why, of course, Pink's wall parallels the one separating the band from the audience.
I’m not a huge fan of the album, I think it’s a little too full of itself and it’s main creator, but the tracks where they actually play proper songs are great.
Hope you get around reacting to Wish You Were Here’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, it features Gilmour’s best playing. For my money, it’s their best album, too.
@Penderyn You mean “Meddle”?
Don't know why, I always think of Dylan Thomas, nothing overt like "Don't go Gently ...." but something desolate nonetheless. Pink Floyd is my music choice when driving long distances, make the freeway just melt away. Maybe I should pay more attention to the road, lol.
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Love your videos mate.
Great to see other people discovering the things you love, and seeing em love em too....
Well.... unless it's my girlfriend.
That's different!
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Help me to carry the Stone (a nod to a heavy lyric on Dogs, perhaps Floyds most epic song ever. You need to react to maybe Floyd’s most epic song ever. Teaser:Just another sad old man, Dragged down by the stone.
Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer.
The whole album The Wall is about 'isolation' - hence the wall metaphor.
Listening to one song from Pink Floyd's the Wall album is tough, because the album tells one long narrative story. It's like picking up a book and reading one random chapter.
Basically at this point in the story the main character has built up a figurative wall, isolating himself from anyone else. The "worms ate into his brain" line refers to mental decay.
In the context if the story this is about his last cry out for help. The next song flows from it amd only has one lyric..."is there anybody out there"
If you watch the movie, the division is between him and society, the world, that connection to everything else in life.
The effect of the music moving from side to side in the headphones, is called, "panning".
Great technique with a skilled engineer at the knobs...
Great example of amazing panning is The Moody Blues song, "Thinking is the Best Way to Travel".
Highly recommend checking out some Moody Blues, they're very multi-faceted..
Are we certain (I am not) that the harmonies in the verses are not David Gilmore x2? You mention him and Roger halfway through the vid, and it gave me that question. Great analysis!
You have to check out Momentary Lapse of reason and Learning to fly great songs saw them in concert in 86 they were amazing even without Waters
Watch the movie, "The Wall". You'll understand the entirety of this album much, much better.
I've been a loyal Pink Floyd fan since I was 11. In 1971.
The movie is a trip. A very good trip.
Waters lost his father in WW2 and his grandfather in WW1. There is a interesting documentary about his life.
Actually, I think it's Richard Wright, (keyboards, synth), doing the harmony here with Gilmour. He and David Gilmour do the majority of the harmonies and sharing lead vocals as they do famously in "Echoes" from 1971.
Pink Floyd always does Production, whether it be in the studio or live, with Perfection, capital P's for both words.
They always sound Great!
Richard Wright doesn't sing on The Wall album. That's Gilmour over-dubbing his own voice.
One of the best songs on that album and started off the 2nd disc in fine fashion. Also on it try In the Flesh as Pink goes fascist, quite the Song and scene in the movie The Wall. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
One of these days you're going to have react to react to One of These Days Live at Pompeii. One of Nick Mason's best.
Nice analysis-- I do wish you'd turn the music up a little louder- I can't hear the detail unless the volume has you really loud. "Listen to that bass line" left me thinking, I wish I could hear it!
You are pretty much correct about the whole wall of emotions thing but you should watch The wall movie as it explains what the "worms" are
The Wall would make a great live stream as plucking single songs can cause confusion.....
At this point, "pink" has completed his wall of isolation from the outside world. On side 1 we get a narrator, and we find he is using the death of his father, a serious sickness when he was youn, his smothering mother as "bricks" to build a wall of isolation. Side 2 deals with the death of his marriage and the cold war as the final "bricks". Now, he, on side 3 of the album deals with his self medication with drugs, and calling out for help...... ending the side with comfortably numb where he ends in madness..... side 4 is, in my opinion, all in his head, as he rebels against the legacy of his father, and puts himself on trial.
It looks like you might want or need to watch the movie "THE WALL" . The most interesting aspect of this movie/album/project is that "The Movie" is been told by music and images. There is very little dialogue in this movie. Sad, Dramatic, very realistic lifestyle for a successful musician in a rock band in the 60s' and '70s: It is basically the message of this project. 👍👍 KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK!!!!!
Strangely enough, Gilmour plays Bass as well on this song.
It’s not an acoustic guitar, but an electric with a clean tone ;
You have to remember that for most progressive rock, especially then, the album was the dominant art form, not the single. You can't really understand any of their music by listening to tracks, it just doesn't work that way. The entire album is a cycle and message: the cover, the artwork, the lyrics, and liner notes, the whole kit and kabootle is the piece of art, not any song alone. There are a few exceptions, but prog rock in general is contextual in nature, so you need to know the album -- for some groups, you even need to know their past catalogue -- before the song itself fits into its context. For Pink Floyd, you need to ask yourself who Pink is for each album. The Wall is a rock opera, so it's pretty clearly laid out who Pink is in this iteration. On Wish You Were Here, Pink is a recording artist lost in the grind of the industry, contrasting himself with his past lives. On Dark Side, Pink is the Everyman, representing all of us in our modern cycle of life. It isn't a strict rule about how to interpret them, but it's a good rule of thumb.
Togerher we stand, dividing we fall - it's just like 2 playing Varga - no ??? ,❤❤❤
Fun fact. David Gilmour played bass on this song. Roger Waters only wrote the lyrics and sang half of them on this song.
There are other existential themes involved in their music!!
Could it be that the "would you help me to carry the stone"-line is a reference to the resurrection of Jesus?
His tomb was blocked with a large stone so that no one could get to it.
The Wall is different. It's more like a symphony best listened to end to end. There are 'tracks' but it's just a better listen start to finish.
You really need to see where 'Animals" fits in the Pink Floyd picture. Incendiary guitar work, loads of bitterness and paranoia. It is the ugliest Floyd album, but really cool.
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great vid but it was waters who lost his father that partly inspired his music not wright
Anything from animals would be great
It was Waters who lost his father.
In the end its mostly about Roger really ,, The band was just about finished when Sid was side-lined ,Some really pathetic single efforts, Then Roger came forward with his ideas and the band said yes OK we are finished if we do not find a direction soon, And so it went ,,
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It's pretty pointless trying to grasp the meaning of any track from The Wall, without listening to the entire album. It's a concept album that tells the story of the character 'Pink'. Of course you can have your own personal interpretation/meaning and such meanings are never 'wrong' but if you're trying to discern the original meaning/s, you really need to listen to the track in the context of the whole album. :)
The song doesn't quite fit its placement on the album. In the last days of production, Bob Ezrin convinced Roger to move this song from the end of side three to the beginning of side three. Conceptually, and through the lyrics, it belongs after Comfortably Numb.
It is difficult for your interpretation to have any credibility given your lack of experience with the album and The Floyd in general. In Comfortably Numb Pink is "awakened" from his stupor to prepare for a concert that he doesn't want to perform. Pink, with his mind now actively processing, he realizes that it is working against him. In his head he is looking for human contact which is the antithesis of the purpose of building his wall in the first place. The lyrics are referring to the prospective audience, "standing in the aisle" and "breaking bottles in the hall" at the concert to come. He is also commiserating with others who have gotten phone calls of abandonment ( one of the themes in the albums is telephones based on Roger's experience with his first wife Trudy).
The worms link two concepts. One is that tinglely brain feeling as the effects of the drugs begin to wear off or decay, i.e., from Comfortably Numb. And it represents the general decay of his mind with regard to keeping up the psychological wall Pink spent the first half of the album building up. From here (assuming one places this song at the end of side three) Pink's mind becomes more and more bizarre. It begins to search for confrontation with others whereas before he was trying to hide from any contact all. His mind takes him through The Show Must Go On, In The Flesh, Waiting For The Worms, Run Like Hell, Stop, and finally The Trial.
Then there is the reference to carrying the stone. It is a reference back to "Dogs" on the Animals album. Dogs who when their usefulness to their masters is done have a stone tied around their neck and are drowned. One's burdens in life eventually kill you when you can no longer carry them.
Thank you for your knowledge and insight. 👍🏻🤨
Again, the wall should be played or better yet the movie watched in it's entirety to enjoy the story best.
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You cannot understand the individual songs. The whole 26 songs provide the meaning.
You should take the wall as a whole , trying to analyse individual songs doesn't really cut it..just my humble opinion
Incorrect. After the guitar solo, the final vocals are provided by Roger waters.
Roger Waters the Genius behind The Wall.
Your mic is way too high brother.
Thanks I'll turn it down a notch on the next one
it's a longing....
Man you seem to always assume someone is talking about themselves, an older version of themselves. Are you maybe seeing a version of your self in these songs ?
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gilmour is a great guitar hero, but the letters and pink floyd classics = roger, gilmour have soul , dont try put him in the team greats vocals , never ok, never
Wtf ?
You are way off base dude!
Stop talking do much , you spoil the flow, listen to the song first then say .