Songs That Changed Music: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt.2
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Pink Floyd began their career as an experimental, psychedelic rock group of the late sixties, but by the seventies the band had shifted directions to progressive, conceptual art rock under the newly assumed leadership of Roger Waters. In 1979, Waters and Pink Floyd would record and release their most ambitious project - a rock opera called The Wall. From the heart of this album came a revolutionary single, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” bringing together progressive grooves and production alongside iconic rock sounds and provocative themes and lyrics, and topped off with a haunting, unforgettable children’s chorus.
“Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” was released as a single on November 23, 1979, a week ahead of the full album on November 30. Guthrie recalls the the decision to release the song as a single: “As the album took shape, ‘Brick 2’ was clearly the best choice for a first single. We were not trying to make it blatantly commercial, just a good groove. But the commerciality of Roger’s chorus hook was already clear on his demo and the school kids certainly helped”. Ezrin, too, was convinced that the song would be a hit single. He explained: “I pushed it through because I knew that it was an undeniable hit song. The band was not interested in singles but that was the culture I came from and so I was determined to make it into one.”
The song hit number 1 on both the UK singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart as well as in several other countries including: Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Portugal, Norway, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Ireland and Canada. And in the top 5 in Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Australia. The response was powerful and lasting, although there was some pushback to the song’s critical lyrics. Water’s recalled: “People were driven to frenzies of rage by the song. They thought that when I said, ‘We don’t need no education,’ that it was a kind of crass, revolutionary standpoint-[but] if you listen to it in context, it clearly isn’t at all.”
Despite this critique, the song’s legacy has extended for decades, as has that of the album. In 1983, the song won a British Academy Award for the Best Original Song for its appearance in the film version of The Wall. And the album was nominated for two 1980 Grammys: “Album of the Year” and “Best Performance by A Duo or Group With Vocal.” Both the song and the album have cemented the band’s legacy as one of the most creative forces in rock music history. In 1996, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2005 they were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
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What other songs do you think changed music? Let me know by commenting below!
This maybe either a great fit for the series or entirely too obvious, but I think "Smoke on the Water" should get an episode. It would be totally meta.
@@dariomeneses5756 Great idea!!
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits was just massive in 1985 - would love to see a deep dive in to that, or anything else from the incredible Brothers In Arms album!
@@dariomeneses5756 What is " meta? "
@@dariomeneses5756 If only for one of the greatest riffs ever made.
Substitute teacher (when I was about 6 or 7) wrote ‘Pink Floyd 1979’ on the blackboard at the start of class. Then he explained who Pink Floyd were and what the Wall was. Then proceeded to teach us this song. After a couple of days rehearsal, he brought the class into the yard to sing it as loud as we could, disrupting all the other classes going on in the school. We all felt so rebellious!
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Best teacher ever! Not even Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society ;)
My headmaster gave a school assembly warning us children about how dangerous this song was. I loved it from the moment I heard it and I still listen so many years later. Thanks Warren.
Haha best way to get kids to be a fan of something is to tell them not to listen to it! Haha
Sounds like a textbook example of the Streisand Effect.
Haha... in 1987 I got a one year studentship in South Africa. On arrival immigration confiscated my CD of the Wall. They also took my Peter Gabriel albums and several copies of VIZ magazine, all deemed as "subversive".
@@musamusashi that would have the year the single was released or soon after. I only remember that 9ne and one about rabies. Funny how memory works!
I was at school when it was played as the music after the bell calling the kids to class - until it was banned
I didn’t realise the irony at the time, but being called to class by “we don’t need no education” was magic while it lasted
Along with Blondie and Queen,, I think that's at least the 3rd band in this series with a Chic-inflienced hit. Nile and Company really don't get their proper credit.
I'm a HUGE Chic fan! Nile has been in many of my videos and will have his own VERY soon!
Even more than that. David Bowie who has been in this series was more than a "little" inflenced by Nile. Bowie used Nile directly.
Nile also produced the SRV-Jimmie Vaughan album "Family Style", a must have for blues fans.
This entire album, and the associated film, had what was probably an oversized impact on my life. Two anecdotes come to the mind. The first was my friends laughing at me for crying by the end of of the film. I just... related to it, and it was a vicarious cathartic release.
The second was that it helped me keep my sanity during the basic training. Listened to it every single night once we were allowed personal possessions. It was my own private rebellion in a high pressure system designed to subsume individuality.
It had the same oversized impact on my life! Thanks for your great comment
@@Producelikeapro Here in Australia, my older brother bought back a first pressing vinyl set (1980?) from WEST GERMANY for me to listen to. I literally wore them out. I still have those records and the sleeves.
Still relevant even now. Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
Agreed 100%!
I sang that so much when this came out I had a British accent in preschool…now I’m a teacher. I learned everything about teaching from British rock bands….leave them kids alone and, the kids are all right.
@@louderthangod thanks for sharing
I love this series SO MUCH!!
its go to be big becose off its qualiti. for sur.
@@guttormurthorfinnsson8758 thanks ever so much!
Thanks Colteastwood!
I agree! Great series. Very educational, informative, and inspirational!
@@johncox2552 thanks ever so much!
You and Rick Beato make these tunes so interesting by dissecting the songs.
Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much
As a guy who loves guitarists, David Gilmour always seemed underrated. "Another Brick in The Wall, Pt. 2" is a highlight. But my favorite Gilmour stuff is "Wish You Were Here," especially "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V)"
David Gilmour is very high on my list!
For me Gilmour is one of the best out there, second only to Gary Moore.
@@philmccracken6134 David Gilmour is phenomenal
Dave does his best soloing on Dogs off the Animals album.
Distinctly different solos all 3.
Gilmour was not the guitarist who performed the solo on ptII. That honor belongs to Lee Ritenour who is not credited.
Sadly, Gilmour does not vocalize that this amazing solo was not his.
Yeah Warren, right there with you, man. As a child of the 70s and 80s The Wall was transformative!
Thanks ever so much Wes! I really appreciate it!
Warren your fire for this song shows and I dig it!
Thanks Johannes!
In The Flesh still gets me - what a powerful opening song!
Masterpiece
I was also a kid. I also saw them do the wall in Earls court. I ran 3 miles home to get money and then 3 miles back to the record shop that was arranging a coach trip and gig package. I too get goose bumps about the gig. Especially Gilmour on top of the wall playing comfortably numb with a huge shadow stretching across the arena. I'm not the biggest Floyd fan these days but that was a seminal moment in my musical life.
the wall cost £5.99 when it came out-i remember because my brother and i clubbed together and bought it for my dad that christmas!(he loved pink floyd)
Nice! Yes, several weeks pocket money for me!
This was the song that hooked me onto pink floyd in 79, I'm still hooked.
I hear you!!
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan. Even though this is one of my least favourite of their songs, I can't wait to watch the vid later this evening. I'm sure it will be excellent as all others in the series are! Thanks Warren!
Thanks Jorgos for sharing!
I was in my late teens playing in a cover band when this was a hit . . . I had to learn that cool guitar part, loved playing it! It was a huge hit in South Africa and carried a real protest message, it hit home big time. Classic!
I'm a fan too! I put Pink Floyd with the Beatles as standard bearers of creativity and quality of production. I'm a little older than you but I remember playing Floyd on my Granpa's tube HiFi with 15" speakers. WOW! To me, it was the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Yes, Queen, Bowie, Alice Cooper and Lou Reed soon followed. I saw the Wall concert at the time and it was a mind blower. The album was so successful for so long that I burned out and pivoted to punk and it's offshoots. It's been fun to reconnect. I envy youngsters of today who get to discover this music for the first time with fresh ears. Thanks, Mr. Huart for sharing this music (and context) with a broader audience.
I’m 54 and my experience of the song as a kid was the same. Everybody sang it in school.
Yes, so amazing!
We were just as excited about this song across the pond here in the United States. Your enthusiasm is well placed.
Great to hear!
Great to hear!
I play in a Chic and Nile Rodgers tribute band, I didn’t realise that pink floyd had been influenced by Chic and Nile. Amazing 🤩 keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing!
The Wall changed me. I had never been so introspective before that. In 1984 I would be taking the bus to collage and it was a long boring trip every day. Most days I would sing to myself the entire album, double album, there and back to school. I knew every song, lead, and bit in between.
Thank you. (BTW, my Dad saw the album and it's art and had heard things about it and was concerned so he listened to it to better understand what his son was being influenced by. He was instantly as big a fan as I was and to this day drops everything when Gilmour plays on TV.)
Agreed Loren, such an important album!! Thanks for your great comment
A true story.
A couple of years back I was riding a bus home from somewhere...and the driver had his Playlist of songs on loud. Loud enough to entertain all the folks riding on his line.
Another Brick Pt 2 came on, and I was determined. I started singing along with the lyrics, people started looking around like what the heck? And sure enough. When the kids choir part started up, I had the whole bus load of passengers singing... "WE DON'T NEED NO EDKCATION..." and they actually SHOUTED "HEY TEACHER...LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!!"" I laughed my ass off about it as wall as a bunch of other folks who "GOT IT."
the driver decided he needed to turn down the music after that. LOL!
Haha amazing! Thanks for sharing!
So much insane history behind this, I love it!
Yes! Love this song and album!
I'm 34. My first memories I remember having are with my dad in his woodworking shop as a really young kid, maybe a baby. My mom worked late nights so Dad watched me while woodworking at the same time. Dad made my brother and I these tiny wooden fake guitars to play air guitar along with is Pink Floyd collection while he played air guitar with his tape measure. I couldn't even talk at the time, but I knew I wanted to play music even if I didn't fully understand what it was.
One of the first rock songs that changed my life.. in Argentina this song and the movie were banned by the military goverment. I knew the song in 1984, after dictatorship was over, I heard The Wall album all day long in high school (recorded in a cheap cassette tape), in the 80s..thanks for this great video!! you did it again!
This is such a tasty snack about one of the most influential LP in history, thank you Warren!
Thanks Ady! You Rock!
Also for me The Wall had a huge impact on me. So many themes were relatable and helped me realise what was going on in my youthful mind and life. It was the first album that had me scrutinise the lyrics and made me aware that they could be as important as the music. Deciphering the bad handwriting on the sleeves was quite difficult and as a kind of zen exercise I meticulously copied the lyrics by typing them out and restart every time I made a mistake (on a mechanical typewriter, no word processors in those days). I went to see the original Wall tour in Dortmund, Germany. When the movie came out I went to see it three times in a week. There was so much going on in it that I could not grasp all of it in one time. This video brought back a lot of memories after all those years and thank you for that.
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan and this is one of my all-time favorite albums. I have to tell you that I love this series Warren.
I always learn something new musically.
I never knew how Pink Floyd got their name, so this one is quite interesting for me. In your classic words, "Thank you ever so much for your 'marvelously wonderful' videos. 🙏Peace ☯
Thanks ever so much for your kind words!
Loved seeing you getting excited and going off script at the end there
Thanks, yes, this album means a lot to me!
This is a great snapshot into the key people and influences behind album and how it captured the imagination of a generation.
Thanks ever so much
Amazing, was just listening again to The Wall and thought to myself how great it'd be if Warren would do a Video about one of their Songs.
You're the best.
Thanks ever so much
Yes, amazing album
LOL! Warren..I just remembered..the alternative lyric! "Christmas Turkey...You can stuff it!" ..scan perfectly doesn't it!?...LOLOL
Just brilliant, Warren...as always. Cheers.
Thanks Scott!
I love Foyd, I love this series, I love this channel.
Thank you very much Warren!
Thanks ever so much George!!
My all time favorite guitar solo.
Indeed masterpiece of a solo!
What a year! Thanks Warren. Still sounds awesome. 'Money' had that funky character too.
Thanks Arthur! Yes, amazing year!
Another great job Warren. Thanks for posting.
Thanks ever so much
I think the keyboard progression Rick Wright plays during Gilmour's solo is actually the coolest part of the song. It's also the part most covers tend to fail at.
It's fantastic! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
I recall the time well, including the Melody Maker review that pointed out the line "there were Certain teachers..." The song that opened my ears to the huge possibilities in modern music when I was a teen was "Hocus Pocus" and the album "Moving Waves" from Focus. (Also the 1st of many records I bought on the Sire label.)
In Brazil people would sing the song without knowing the lyrics, just the feeling of screaming "hey teacher" was great
Thanks for sharing!
Great song with some great rifts/rhythm, also great band as well.
Agreed 100%!
Before I ever heard the actual song, I remember my mum singing it as a kid (my parents tastes were surprising at times...), so this song always makes me think of her. :)
Other than that, this is another great video and one that's been sitting in my 'Watch Later' list for a couple of weeks now, so I'm glad I finally got round to watching it!
Aside from that, I've to say that one of my favourite things about your videos (aside from the considered continuity between the song choices) is when you "freestyle" at the end and give your personal thoughts on the song itself. Seeing you enthuse so passionately about the songs in question rounds the video off nicely!
Absolutely fantastic presentation and history best wishes Warren on a brilliant channel Phil. UK England 👍🎸
Thank you kindly!
Good stuff as always! Didn't realize Adam and the Ants were a thing so early in England. Here in the states they didn't hit till much later.
Hi Bill it came early/mid 1980 while the Wall was huge in the UK. Every kid was playing their pencils on their desk at my School! Haha
Great video of this classic school kid song 🎶
Thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro Most Welcome 😊
Honestly, the majority of The Wall is great
I love the whole album! It's a masterpiece!
Omg...I am loving your discussion...this is how I pay attention...ta...appreciated...✌💜😀
Thanks very much
I have been listening to this tune all week! Love how big the kick and snare are! Tried to replicate it! A good dose of 100hz on kick and 200hz on snare!
Hi Josh! Great to hear! Yes, amazing tones
It’s hard to think how long ago this was, it still sounds fresh and exciting today
Absolutely!
Pink Floyd will always have my respect.
Thank you for giving this story about the group and their great music.
Thanks ever so much!
I was 4 years old. I remember the video on Top of the Pops.
A defining moment in my childhood.
I wasn't old enough to buy records yet but my uncle had the gatefold album, which just fascinated me.
One of my favourite albums, that isn't a Queen album.
Me too! It was so powerful to us as kids!
Senior in high school in 1979 and we were blown away. I had been playing keys in bands at that point since 1977 and my mom would drive me to gigs with the The Wall playing in her car stereo, best mom ever. What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the 80’s. Thank you Warren.
Very well said Benjamin! 'What an album to launch us into the greatest music decade in history, the '80s' agreed 100%!
A interesting postscript this album; Alun Renshaw came to my school as part of his composer-in-residence gig in 1979/1980 and we performed his Requiem for a Sinking Block of Flats at a large church in Brisbane that year. That album was absolutely massive for me, coming as it did in my impressionable teens, it took me quite a few years to get out of my system, and the movie didn't help! One of those albums I can quite easily listen to in my head, such is it's power.
Thanks ever so much for sharing
The first single i ever owned. Well, my sister bought me this and Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush at the same time.
Thanks, Sis.
Your sister rules!
Love this Series, please do Dire Straits!
Marvellous idea!
The video scared the sh1t out of me when I was a kid. That teacher putting kids into a mincing machine.
Yes! Me too!!
"Wow that's tough" -David Gilmour playing a David Gilmour solo
A bit like struggling to read your own handwriting. x)
It is a tough one to get the right expression!
Indeed Phil!
I really loved this one, because, oh man, Pink Floyd - The Wall, that album is No1 on my deserted island list, it's dark, but powerful in the way that it can help you trough dark times, and it has and still does for me.
Thanks ever so much
They played this album at every party for 10 years after it came out.
And so they should…still! I listen all the time! Absolute masterpiece
When I’m at the grocery store in the pudding isle I ask myself “how can I have any pudding if I don’t eat my meat”.
Hahaha
Thanks for that Video! This Song haunted me as a kid... I think it was a Tape my Mom had in her Car and a Video Tape... i was 5 or so... i always felt strange when hearing the Kids.
Whats ironic: It is played often in Government founded Radio Stations in Germany.
(but they also play Zappas Bobby Brown when you drive to work 😆)
Thanks for sharing Jester!
Ah yes, Bobby Brown from Sheik Yerbouti! I love that album
A few candidates for the "STCM" or "SYNTK" terrific series: "Land: Horses " by Patti Smith, "I wanna be your dog" by the Stooges, "The night" by Morphine, Sweet dreams" by Eurythmics, "the wind cries Mary" ,"Voodoo Chile" or "all along the watchtower " by Hendrix. "Paranoid android" or "Karma Police" by Radiohead, "Birdland" by weather report, "Change" by Tears for fears, "London calling" or "Should I stay or should I go" by the Clash, "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "tainted love" by Soft cell, "Smoke on the water" by Deep Purple, "Enjoy the silence" by Depeche mode, It's all right ma" or "Like a rolling stone" or "Visions of Johana" by Dylan, "Common people" by pulp, "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, "almost blue" by Elvis Costello, "Vienna" by Ultravox, "Blue Monday" by New Order, "Highway to hell" by ac/dc, "Immigrant song" by Led Zeppelin, "Wonderwall" by Oasis, "The Trooer" by Iron Maiden, "poptones" by PIL, "one hundred years" or "Lullaby" by the Cure, "Bigmouth Strikes Again" by the Smiths...
I’ll never forget it either… I was in 7th grade in a wealthy suburb of Long Island, NY and every single kid I knew had the album. So inventive and an instant classic! 🎸🥁👏🏼 Good one, Warren.
Thanks ever so much Elise!
Excellent video as always Warren. Now are we sure that's Roger on bass? Lots of studio musos on this LP.
Yes, confirmed by Bob Ezrin
Well he was there...guess it was Gilmour with the fretless bass sounds on the album...thats what I meant...my bad...thank you sir!
23 kids singing, it just had to be that specific number for this particular song.
Haha indeed
Bob Erin did an excellent job producing the last three deep purple albums.
I'm a HUGE Bob Ezrin fan! Wonderful guy! As Jack Douglas said 'Brilliant Man'
@@Producelikeapro He would do things like doubling bass parts with an oboe, a master at getting mixes to sound good on small speakers.No Max bass back then.
Oh wow! I'll never forget how I first heard this song: kids chanting "We don't need no education!" in the locker room in 1979!
I remember that first time I heard it as well!
You brought the story to life
Thanks ever so much!!
OMG! I saw The Wall concert.....at Earls' Court..and saw the film at Leicester Square too!...and I was sharing the exact same excitement as you!...thanks Warren for this excellent breakdown/analysis...just SUPER!..your passion and enthusiasm..with your knowledge....and your SHARING of this ....is wonderful...thanks so much..Tear down the Wall!
Thanks for sharing!! Wow! That’s amazing! Both incredible experiences
I saw that movie as a kid on a VCD and it changed errthang
I hear 100%!
I was 6 when this came out, but I remember the video well. It gave me nightmares about school life, that & Grange Hill madness :) Kids getting minced, urgh! Freaky.
Yes! It gave me nightmares too!
That's probably the best electric bass line ever (sound wise too), the real foundation of the song
Agreed 100%!
I love when someone can appreciate music this much! I feel like sometimes people think i'm weird when i talk passionately about pink floyd or any other music that just speaks to me
I completely understand!!
That song used to scare the living piss out of me. I loved it and I could not understand why...
Haha thanks for sharing!
Was this song rereleased as a single in 82/83 for the movie release? That's when I remember it most as a kid. Stumbling upon the video on MTV. Myself and all my elementary school friends were terrified of the kids on the conveyer belt wearing those masks.
Funny to think we heard this song on the pop radio stations.
I love how Warren can't hide his absolute love for this song and album. He gets all hyped up speaking about it! Being my favorite album EVER I can relate to that feel very much. I use to say to my friends "Don't get me started on Pink Floyd The Wall" cause I get all excited analyzing and discussing its music, lyrics and visuals. What a great album it is.
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
Warren, your reaction is similar to mine in the US. I was 15, bought The Wall with my newspaper money in December 1979. For you youngsters out there, you have no idea just how big Brick Pt. 2 was. In the midst of 1979 albums (Highway to Hell, A Night in the Ruts, Desolation Angels, Dream Police, London Calling, Tusk, Unleashed in the East, Van Halen II and In Through the Out Door), The Wall was everywhere. It was blaring at parties, car stereos, radios, boomboxes and even the first Sony Walkmans, if you could afford one. Today, I proudly display my The Wall album on my music room Wall.
For other "Songs that Changed Music", please consider Jeremy, Fast Car and Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.
Thanks ever so much Craig! I really appreciate it!
Couldn't believe it. When one day i woke up and i've got a reply from Nile Rodgers himself (or at least i believe so, on IG). Ha ha, my only music hero that is still alive, pretty much. I just hope he's seen the short clips of my music on my IG page, i had a short guitar solo of a funny song i did, and ofc my EVH tribute song. Chic is always in my playlist, period. So that begs the question dear Warren Huart. When are you gonna go to Chic freak party land? I can't wait. One of the best songwriter duo's Nile and Bernard. So jealous of that type of musical partner. R.I.P Bernard. AAAAAHhh, Freak out
Chis is VERY high on my list!!
Come on Huart, tell us how you really feel 😏
Yes!, like many gen X'ers, this was a real gavel drop moment.
It was my last year of Jr high when this came out. And then the movie, which was another huge moment!.
One of my biggest life regrets, was when a family member who was friends with Nick Mason, invited me to the Wall tour when it came to the LA Sports Arena, and I turned it down!!!!.....to this day I can't remember why, but I kick myself all the time! 🤦🤦😖😭
To this day I don't think Ezrin gets quite enough credit, for being a pivotal force that made that record happen.
Thanks ever so much for your great comment! Yes, hugely important album
What? "Dark Side kicking off the band's classic period"?? Talking about underselling it. It's the second best-selling album of all time. Now that's what I call 'kicking off'. Too bad Waters has lost it. Love the show.
I was 16 when The Wall was released. To say it was huge would be an understatement. My favorites from the album are Hey You, Just One of My Turns, and of course the amazing Comfortably Numb.
All great songs indeed!
Pink Floyd's success relied heavily on legendary producers. Alan Parsons ("Dark Side Of The Moon") and Bob Ezrin ("The Wall"). People don't understand the importance of a producer and how that can be a make or break difference in the success of a recording.
Still got my tour program from Earls Court and yes my school wasn't any different - Ants vs Two Tone stand-offs in the playground not realising in a couple of months the synth revolution in pop music would blow them all away. And change music production forever.
Amazing! Every kid learned how to tap out Antmusic with their pencils on the desk! Haha
@@Producelikeapro And unison beating out Kings of the Wild Frontier on crash mats in the gym.
I remember going to day camp in the summer of 1980; the summer I turned 11. Every single day that whole summer, all of us on the camp bus would sing together at the top of our collective lungs, "We don't need no education…!" It was our anthem that entire summer.
A few years later, when I was in high school, I had a very obnoxious and opinionated teacher who I wasn't too fond of and who often would go on rants about how much he hated the song. That made me love the song even more and inspired me to finally go out and buy the album as a big F-U to him. (I probably would have bought it anyway, as I had become a big Floyd fan by then.)
Haha I hear you with the obnoxious teacher!!
Hey guitarists: ABITW pt.2 is the best D minor blues backing track of all time. Your welcome.
It is a great track for practicing solos over
Great reviews and details - v interesting! Have you covered Squeeze? Cool for Cats
awesome video!
BUT!
you didnt spoke about richard's wright parts :(
I was an English schoolboy punk when this: came out. I thought it was naff and didn't take it seriously. All these years later Pink Floyd are one of favourite bands.
Fantastic!!
Please do an episode on the Electric Light Orchestra!
Definitely coming soon!
I had always thought The Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive was a big influence on this song, they're remarkably similar sounding songs.
For more contemporary context and how this song almost didn’t get onto radio at all due to a power struggle with label executives and radio pluggers, read the beginning of an awesome book called Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business. Fascinating stuff.
I know that Pink Floyd had to change drastically because of Syd Barrett's mental breakdown. But the idea that a band that created one of the ultimate jams in "Interstellar Overdrive" morphed into a rock band that had a #1 single in any context is almost beyond comprehension. I just can't grasp it.
Indeed, such incredible talents!
A classic masterpiece. Your enthusiasm wasn't showing at all... :))))
It was massive here in Italy as well. The uninevitable "Teacher leave them kids alone" on the blackboard before English lessons ;)
I still remember someone wrote "Pink Floyd - The Wall" with a marker or spray-paint on a little, white marble brick wall here in the street one block away from where I live, and I loved it! every time I saw it when visiting my grandparents or going to basketball training, etc. Also, in the same street but on the opposite side, there's this long, red brickwall surrounding the police station quarters, and there's only one little yellow brick standing out. Always struck me. Not Elton John's yellow brick road but cool nonetheless, given it's Puccini street. Yep, this neighbourhood is full of streets dedicated to musicians and historians. I guess it's fate :))
Fun fact: I've just realised, after years of following you both, that you Warren, have a strikingly similar tone, accent and cadence to the guy of @explainingcomputers
Have a marvellous week!
Thanks ever so much! Great comment! I really appreciate it!
@@Producelikeapro You're welcome. Have a great Sunday.
While I like "Comfortably Numb" more, this song's always been great. The whole Album is the Apex of PF.
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Another excellent episode!
Have to say tho' - that isn't Roger's bassline! He dropped his E string down to a D for that first note, then up to the octave via the min7. The rest of what you say is right, but that first note is right down there :-)
Indeed! However, as you know I played it on guitar, which I was using to play the rhythm guitar part.
This series really needs to be a once a day release please and thanks. EXCELLENT ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
If I could I would! I love doing them!!
I was about 11 years old when this came out and I remember how cool and anti-establishment this track seemed to me at the time. Probably my fav Gilmour guitar solo, on my least favourite Floyd album! I agree. Rogers and Edwards influence is huge. Big fan of Chic too.
Later on,. I went to see Walters perform The Wall in Berlin on the eve of the Berlin wall take down back in 1990.
thank you for posting this one too! You are so spot on!
Thanks ever so much Jeff!
Yes, this is Gen X stuff. I was also impressed by the song and the album. I was tagging the cover art wherever I could. I was so impressed by the font and the background with bricks. When I look back the link to Chic and the funky guitar playing is what made the song so important to me, like Good Times/Rapper’s Delight, Le Freak or Sex Machine did it when my parents had their discotheques in Germany in the 70s.