Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell/Waiting For The Worms (REACTION)
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Since nobody's really explained what "Waiting for the Worms" is about yet: After "Comfortably Numb", the rest of the album is mostly a drug induced hallucination/dream of the main character, Pink. Pink is a disillusioned rock star going through a mental breakdown. After being found nearly comatose in his hotel room, he is given drugs to "keep him going through the show". While being hauled to the concert, he hallucinates himself becoming a fascist dictator and taking out his anger on his fans ("In the Flesh"/"Run Like Hell"). "Waiting for the Worms" is when his hallucination reaches its peak and he's imagining leading a Hitler-esque march through the city. Hence the references to showers and ovens and rounding up minorities ("the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews"). Colored cousins means what it sounds like: colored people. He's literally imagining being a genocidal tyrant at that point.
One of the things the album is commenting upon is how self isolation and "walling" up your feelings can lead you take them out on others irrationally.
on point with this. Funny how it is still relevant in todays society of (a) certain isolated big figures.
Very well said. Great way of explaining it.❤️✌️🌼
Your explanation is on point.
Well said it also takes us full circle because it was this type of person that started World War two. which was the cause of the loss of his father and kicked of the downward spiral to isolation.
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When Roger refers to the worms in the second song he is not referring to literal worms. The reference is metaphorical (as he often does) and it's his term for the smaller-minded and more base ideas that infect our society like racism, hate, the singular desire for power and greed: the Nazis in particular, but the basic ideas more broadly. The term "colored cousins" means just what you think it does, and exemplifies racism and bigotry against anyone non-white.
Yes, you're right. Syd Barrett was the inspiration that Roger zoomed back and took the big picture view of how all the nonsense of bad human behavior impacts otherwise innocent beings, not just people, but everything. Stealing the harmony that is a choice but rarely chosen didn't make just Syd Barrett go bonkers. Roger Waters himself went a bit nuts but reeled himself in. That helped him understand Syd. Roger's mom must have been very stern coping as a widow while Syd's mom was permissive and delusional. Both were results of AVOIDABLE UNFORCED ERROR of Hitler's fascism and England's Royal Monarchy allowing it to get out of control (As you know, it was Prince Wilhelm acting on King George's orders to create a ruling class of German peasants because Queen Elizabeth's father didn't like Jewish community having the wealth, so Wilhelm enabled Hitler until Hitler no longer needed Wilhelm. Roger in conflict internally understanding, carefully disguising it in the lyrics. Because England's Royal Monarchy is a crime syndicate underneath, the same one Our Founding Fathers fought Our Revolution to be rid of in our government and schools).
Anyway, there are endless layers to most Pink Floyd albums indeed.
Not The House of Worms?
The worms may be a metaphor for base ideas like racism of Nazis, but it seems it’s the hammers that are metaphorical of the Nazi foot soldier’s strong arming the commoners.
The best double pairing on the album, imo. Run Like Hell needs no explanation and Roger is top notch with the bullhorn and voices on Waiting for the Worms. Actually, his voice on this whole album is off the hook great. He could have been a great voice actor. His verses in Run Like Hell are top notch as well.
Roger and Peter Gabriel are great for using their voices for dramatic effects
Roger's voice is perfect for this mental breakdown.
Waters sings the entirety of Run Like Hell on the studio version - just through two different channels.
I remember being in grade 10 when this came out, and this was a very different sound from the music of that time. Kids were freaking out over this album.
Pinks turned Fascist. Emotionally numb. All humanity has left him. The Wall is complete. A shield around his broken self. Hate and racism is all thats left.
My understanding is that watters is channeling those images
One word, MASTERPIECE!!!
Waiting for the Worms deals with such horrifying ideology that has played out in our past and even still, in our present. It fills me with dread. What a powerful reminder to never let the past repeat itself.
That's right, and it's amazing to me how many people don't get it.
It’s so frighteningly relevent today.
You will never see another album like this one. Masterpiece written all over it
What an epic album, all killer,no filler!!! The great old days when a new album release was an event,a happening. All word of mouth, no social media to spread the word. Like you guys said, you have to hear the entire album in sequence. Not an album of hit songs stuck together but rather individual chapters , which tell the full story bit by bit..I can still recall the day of release when I went to Korvettes department store!! Korvettes had one of the best record departments around. Many imports and the best quality vinyl made by Toshiba. It was called Virgin vinyl imported from Japan, more pricey than domestically produced records but the sound quality was the best available. Pressed from the original master tapes. 40 + years and I can still recall the day of the press release by Pink Floyd along with announcing show dates for The Wall Tour!!! Many kids cut class that day to get the album and tickets from ticket master!! Like I said ,it was an event, a happening, Nothing quite like it when a huge band would hold a press conference in NY City!! The stones did it all the time!! Great times! I love your channel and think you guys are the best out there!!
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Plenty of filler But it is a great album even so
They loved Run like hell at the Disco's !
In 1988 I got the first Lincoln Town Car off the line with a factory installed CD player. This is the first thing I played. Loud 😂
this 'run like hell' was almost the best song on the night in the famous pulse concert in 94' it was the last song performed I think.
There's videos of it, saw it and I wish I was alive to see it in person
My daddy bought this double LP in 1980 when it came out and we wore it out listening to it!
"Run like hell" is a MASTERPIECE!!
Largest selling double album in history.
This is the world Pink created in his mind.
That verse that says “ to turn on the showers, to fire the ovens” referring to the Holocaust, is just mind blowing!
People don't buy an album from
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Genesis, Yes or Black Sabbath just to hear their latest, people who buy those albums do it to experience the journey that music will take you on.
Once you see the movie "The Wall" you will have greater understanding of the roll the actual music plays in the story being unfolded in front of you.
Please post your reactions.
With Rock music, instrumentation is as crucial as any lyric, even more so in cases like the above mentioned artists.
The music tells this story, you will see, when you see.
We used to get a bit of snubbing back in the day. Junk like KISS was covering up the child trafficking activities of their tours. Premeditated objective. Van Halen type groups were definitely hookups, but not looking for minors environments. Then you had serious bands who definitely don't mind groupies, but they had adult thoughts and aspirations. Seems the more talented and more adult the musicians were back then, the more they tried to put on real concerts playing the instruments, preparing their sets etc. I know the list of those real musicians making honest music and not messing around too far. Because they were the best live acts. Neil Young was an outcast among many circles for having some adult minded professionalism and using his music to make important points like Pink Floyd. They didn't have to. They could do the pop music and cash out. Sometimes songs turned pop because they had meaning and were also great music. I remember O'Jays Money Money Money and Edwin Starr War when they came out when I was in grade school. I heard them enough to know they were more than just great songs.
Their still way ahead of everybody!!
You NAILED IT! It is a masterpiece! I have said that countless times you half to listen to the album in its entirety! 26 chapters of a story! Now, Mother, Hey You, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall you can listen as stand alones. Now you MUST WATCH THE MOVIE!!! At least twice to fully get it. Took me and my buddy three nights in a row to fully understand the story! Now being all stoned out all 3 nights might have played a little into watching it three times in a row
This Album was released on my 21st birthday November 30th 1979. So it was on the cusp of the 1980's
After the breakup from Roger waters in the early 80's, Gilmore, Mason and Wright got together and continued as Pink Floyd, They always ended their concerts with this song "Run Like Hell". They ended the concerts with this song for years, even after new album tours in late 80's and 90's they finished with this song.
oh man, such a great pair of songs.........I can't NOT think about the film, or about all of the times we drove around in the mid-80s playing this tape.
You'll dig the live Pulse version of RLH, if you check that out, just for grins, not even a reaction.
I've loved pink floyd since I grew up remembering my dad listening to them with all of us. I've tried to explain it to people over the years their music type. And the best I've heard how to describe it was as they are "Musical Story Tellers". Which I believe is 💯 true
Correct. Every album is a story. That’s why it’s best to listen from beginning to end.
Actually not all albums did tell stories. Junk like KISS and bands just looking for $$$ and nothing else put out many albums just to put them out to get money turning over for agents and studios. Endless stories from bands who put out bad albums under time restraints and limited studio budgets to turn over dollars. That's why a great album like The Wall is even greater. Pink Floyd was popular enough to just flop out some noises and cash in before retirement. Roger Waters decided something important was better.
@@s.mcpherson6354 , maybe the motion picture will help.
@@Greg-io1ip , I was referring only to Pink Floyd. And if you think they just made noises, you haven’t really HEARD their music.
@@s.mcpherson6354 I'm positive Airplay Beats Brothers know the meaning of The Wall better than most of us commenting.
@@flogg8635 Pink Floyd are on Mt Olympus in meaning and musical ear and instrumental talent. I was referring to bubblegum music like KISS and boy bands type albums making songs about getting wet finger and dreaming about getting laid teen themes. Not Pink Floyd.
The worms represent hate and negative ideas that burrow “into your brain”.
It's not accusing one's self of creating those worms. It's commentary about the nonsense of Trump-Putin wars and gun panty obsession etc ... Things that are AVOIDABLE UNFORCED ERRORS, like forcing rape and Incest victims to honor sex offenders by forcing births of their criminal acts. "Worms" from the insanity of abandoning common sense in the name of greed, yet being taught we must be greedy to survive. It's not saying we choose them necessarily, but that the insanity and criminal greed of others is getting beyond our control by NORMALIZING that type of bad Trump-Putin behavior.
Hammer them Today...!
Very well said.
Perfectly said
The worms are the fascists, coming to aid a rotten society, with the final solution.
Roger's hateful lyrics on the latter half of the album are rather brilliant I think, as they show what we all know. That racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and bigotry of any kind is really rooted in self loathing. The more our main character hates himself and allows his mental health to deteriorate, the more bigoted he becomes until he is blaming everything wrong with the world on other people. When in reality he needs to look inward.
Wait till you see Run Like Hell live..... you be left open mouthed in awe
Great reaction again
Very contemporary. I believe the worms are still on the 2024 ticket.
Song one side four,current republican manifesto as is waiting for the worms.
Sadly, there are always "worms." It just that they seem to have emerged from beneath the rocks from where they usually abide.
Awesome stuff as always, guys - this is one of the great rockers of the album for sure. Even more impactful when you're watching the movie, it makes for a great riot scene. Making my Sunday morning - peace and love from the north ☮️
I've been waiting.... Waiting for the worms 🐛🐛🐛🐛 too come 😜 One of my favorite tracks!
The Best track....!
Watch this live from Pompei…..it’s magical ❤️🎶❤️
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Love it
Epic.
This Album The Wall came out in December, 1979
I always thought Run Like Hell has an old-school hip hop feel to it, with the two voices yelling over each other.
It sounds like a soundtrack
Its all studio guys.
More great songs as we head to the Trial. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
if you are behind your wall, it is equivalent to being dead - the worms devour the dead when buried. hence in the second half the wall is finally destroyed
James Gang. Funk 49 .. bad ass song. Peace ✌️
Pink (the character in the album) joins Britain's fascist/anti-immigrant movement of the late 70's here. Isolated and morally lost.
1979. Run Like Hell was written originally as a spoof of disco. The lads were made to go to a nightclub which happened to be playing disco and they naturally hated it. Another Brick In The Wall part 2 also stemmed from this visit. The album was released just before Christmas in 1979. As for WFTW, that's his total descent into drug induced madness. Stop and The Trial is where he realises this and decides "fuck this", wants out and puts himself on trial in his head
When you see the movie.... it will all become clear.
They only did two cities, L.A, and New York,in the U.S. Saw it in L.A., 1980. Well, there is no way to,a well explain or describe it. Then again, seeing them 4,maybe 5 times.. OUCH ,
Epic.
These guys get it 🤘🏽
If you see the movie it will make even more sense with the visuals.
I can't wait for you guys to watch the movie.
The Wall was underrated and accused of being 'too commercial' when it came out. Hilarious now but back then a few tracks got on the radio. What was not understood in mainstream media was the whole album is important as warning where society is heading if we just keep making babies without attention to MENTAL HEALTH. Adding unwanted children fills our prisons. Mom has to want their children. Only she can know. This album is not only about that, but largely about dynamics of war manifesting from repeated cycles of UNTREATED mental health disorders. Every shooting, war, drug and alcohol abuse etc loops back around to same old problems of making babies without love and care matched by ability to raise them. Distant mother = Didn't want to become a mother that time, yet. Sometimes never. And the child grows up an object to manipulate for funds or attention. Kids are supposed to become better than us or don't have them. Which is fine too.
Hammer! Hammer! Hammer! I can tell you what the hammer represents later. 😮
You should check this song out Live. It's the bomb. 🔥
Do some of the backup vocals sound familiar? They were done by the Beach Boys!
Nice observation. Things were definitely changing musically.
I'm glad somebody finally realize you got to hear it all there's a meaning here it is like a book and we haven't got to the end yet, it's a story about suppression of thought. Kind of like get in line, standstill you yes you standstill laddie
You have to see the film ,will understand a lot of things
Some of my absolute favorite lyrics, such a clever way of saying you’re trying to get laid…
“And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight
You'd better park the car well out of sight
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box“
Worms I would say has 2 definitions in this case which both equally apply...
1.) Dark thoughts of a negative & malignant origin.
2.) The type of individuals who invites, covers & spreads these negative thoughts and ideals. Example: He was a "worm like" individual of low, racist calibire.
Congratulations on being the 1st reaction who is listening to the original. Good you two. Im serious
I kind of loathe that the record label who made fhe remasterd versions of the albums wound up censoring Waiting for The Worms and basically removing over half the song
The worm is in your ear. The siren call, the media propaganda of a return to greatness, in this case for the UK.
👍 the album was released in late 79 we attended the concert in 80.
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You really have to see the movie. This song is interspersed with animation when Pink (in his mind) has become a dictator and is marching his blackshirts into the streets raving into a megaphone like Hitler used to do, then you see the animation; hammers marching like a company of Nazis with the lead hammer that looks and sounds like a megaphone raving... fantastic!
OH SH!T.... it's all happening...!
A lot of acid back then🎉bruh
U dudes gotta see The Wall movie
This is where, for a moment, I feared Olivia Newton-John would make an appearance. I got "The Wall" from a small basement record store in the army barracks I was stationed at in late 1979 with no record player in sight. Had to wait two weeks before I had my next leave and could get back home to listen to the damn thing. It was a bit of a disppointment at first. I mean, we had gotten "The Dark Side Of The Moon" in 1973, "Wish You Were Here" in 1975 and the often disregarded but grandiose "Animals" in 1977 and now we were handed this small circus called "The Wall". It took a few listens to get used to it, but it turned out nicely in the end. Not my favourite Floyd album, by far, but as a whole it sticks with you. I was eighteen at the time and still vulnerable to social influences and as such I felt the pain the album held. I still do, but being much older now, I see (and hear) the album in a different light. "The Wall" should be included in the teaching program for many schools. So that kids can learn how to tackle some of the difficulties in life. There's no real difficulties, it's all in the mind. We build mental walls constantly because of how we're (mis)treated by society. And we listen to albums like this and can only nod in agreement, without having done anything to better the cause.
love the 1980 live version when Roger asks if there are any wela people in the audience...then says ...pathetic
You need to watch the live performance of run like hell from the pulse concert from 1994 👍🏻
Need to watch the actual video to comment
I recommend watching the original movie (The Wall 1979) when you have some time. There is a good remaster on TH-cam - Pink Floyd - The Wall - 4K Remastered. Excellent video and audio quality. Then watch the Roger Water's Movie (The Wall 2015) and see how he put this into a concert. Brilliant, pure genius and one of the top 5 concerts I've seen in my life and I've seen hundreds.
In the movie,Pink is Hitler & this song is about Kystalnacht.
Watch the movie, too
You guys need see the movie that this is the soundtrack of, it'll explain so much and confuse at the same time
did y'all watch the movie? i feel like it really would have cleared some things up, because i also had those alarms go off in my head as a teen. *tf would he like to send me!?*
Again, it'll all make sense once you watch the movie. I don't want to give it away but the worms are his workers.
Watch the movie “The Wall”. Life is a wall.
"At this point in the album, protagonist Pink has lost hope ("You cannot reach me now") and his thinking has decayed, bringing to mind the "worms". In his hallucination, he is a fascist dictator, fomenting racist outrage and violence, as begun in the preceding song, "Run Like Hell". The count-in is Eins, zwei, drei, alle -German for "one, two, three, all". In the beginning and end the crowd chants, "Hammer", a recurring representation of fascism and violence in The Wall."
"The song is a slow, leaden march in G Major, begun with David Gilmour and Roger Waters alternating calm and strident voices, respectively. Waters takes over with an extended vamp on A minor, musically similar to the album's earlier "The Happiest Days of Our Lives". Through a megaphone, he barks forceful invectives ("Waiting to put on a black shirt ... for the queens and the coons and the Reds and the Jews"). After an extended rant, Gilmour's calmer voice returns, with the promise that his followers will "see Britannia rule again" and "send our coloured cousins home again," with Waters concluding "All you need to do is follow the worms!"
It is so hard to do without the concept of the Album. Todays tunes are so 'pick and mix' that it is almost impossible to hear a piece of music like Pink Floyd... Jean Micheal Jarre does the same thing where one track merges into another but not as part of a story like Pink Floyd.
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It’s a reflection of hate…if you think that way..follow the worms ?!
Pretty sure the worms are the inJustice system
Not now John from The Final Cut should have been included here on side 4 but there was not enough room. The heroes return should have been on side 2.
Watch the movie THE WALL , and all your questions will be answered.
9:00 é por isso que eu digo, álbuns do PF devem ser reagidos e escutados inteiros, para melhor aproveitamento, imersão, e entendimento de toda história contada pelos álbuns, existem os singles do PF que podem ser ouvidos separadamente, que foi os "hits". Em geral, os álbuns são complexos e cada música introduz a outra, com transições fantásticas que a maioria perdem ou por que falam no meio, ou por que simplesmente não sabem. Mas é isso, PF é um mundo novo, que deve ser desbravado com calma.
How do you feel about your (former) co-worker now? The one that gave you this album? He's been on _my_ mind throughout this entire exploration.
The Who were first.
i am saving a giant gagger for the movie, when , when, it will all become crystal clear
The Worms are Fascists.... I'm sure you can think of people in the USA who twist "love of country" etc, mixed with calls to violence to attack democracy.
Are you guys going to do a reaction of the movie online or offline?
The Pulse version of Run Like Hell is off the chain.
Think thats where Metallica got “Die!” at the end of Creeping death?
I believe that "following the worms" is a metaphor for giving in to his growing general hatred/racism/hyper-nationalist fascism etc... Essentially all his negative, destructive thoughts.
I always thought he was comparing the rock star life and cult following and almost hypnotizing concerts as comparable to fascism
Watch the movie
They are making a Metaphor of a Hitler Like "Show" of words, comparison, like Rock Stars Singing a Message. When at The Trial, His Wife says "Have You Broken any homes up lately"
meaning that PF as a band, were exercising Mind Control on their audience, like Hitler, and Roger is saying that humans trying to control the thoughts of the public, even as a musical
artist, can still create "fanatics", and so in this story "The Show" is portrayed as a Theatrical Radical Dictatorial Movement with adoring fans, who will follow a cause blindly.
Not just Hitler. Any form of Trump-Putin fascists who imagine laws don't apply to them, but are just fine with people arrested for expressing opinions in political protests. Good leaders want to hear grievances and try to compassionately solve them. But most of this album is more specific to mental health issues, rooted in aftermath of WW2 specifically how it destroyed Syd Barrett. Roger was raised by his mother, who probably had to become strong and masculine, perhaps distant. Meanwhile, Syd's mom was doting and permissive coping with the destruction all around England after WW2. Physically and culturally. Imagine if here in USA today, EVERYONE you knew lost family members to war on our own soil. So that was what was going on in England. It probably didn't fully recover physically until 1965 but those mental scars of families ripped apart from WW 2 death, injuries and property losses was the 'angst' that fueled much of the British rock roots.
"breaking homes up" is a common phrase that refers to committing adultery, not mind control lol She's asking if he's been having affairs with married fans.
a guitar tone in this track reminded me of King Crimson - Elephant Talk ( th-cam.com/video/18ehShFXRb0/w-d-xo.html )
This is reference to Nazi Germany and an anology to the Berlin Wall toward building a wall around your own emotions.
"So ya, thought cha, might like to go to the show
To feel that warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow
Tell me is something confusing you Sunshine?
Is this not what you had hoped you would find?"
Welcome to the club, haha.
As I see it, Run like hell shows Pink turn into the sort of hate filled bully that frightened him, and Waiting For The Worms has all these emotional cripples joining together to be fascists. I see "the worms" as the those who would turn the world into a fascist hell, and Pink is joining them. But that's just a guess.
Thanks for your bravery and good nature.
worms is french slang for the nazis, the colored cousins is exactly what you think it is. The nazis wouldn't have stopped with the jewish people , they would have continued with any race they felt was inferior. The whole album is about ww2.