Pink Floyd,The Wall,3.Another Brick In The Wall I - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction

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Waters takes us further on in his journey, tackling one of the most sensitive aspects of his life: the loss of his father. Here, displayed for the first time, is “the wall” concept. Waters is hinting that this childhood period was the time during which the wall began to be built.
Here’s the link to the original song by Pink Floyd:
• Another Brick In The W...
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@VirginRock Жыл бұрын

As usual, please write here your questions only.

@RussellStClair-cy1vu Жыл бұрын

This album really requires the movie in many instances . It has the visual that paint a sonic picture .

@cornstar1253 Жыл бұрын

Will you listen to dark side of the moon? Its much more organic and musical.

@lynby6231 Жыл бұрын

He could’ve said “just another kick in the teeth” If you think back to the end of the first track on this album “In the flesh ” you may remember how it finished with a stuka dive bomber attacking with it’s siren screaming, that’s a clue to where daddy went.

@jitsroller Жыл бұрын

I'm really loving this series. As a musician I love the way you break it down in your other series. Listen close to the very first song and the last song on the album you realize the intro is actually the last part of the last song on the album. It's a circle.

@PowderedToastMan420 Жыл бұрын

Is the Harp your first instrument?

@juliusdavies2005 Жыл бұрын

“daddy’s flown across the ocean, leaving just a memory” probably summarises 90% of Roger Water musical motivation”

@JasonBunting Жыл бұрын

Took him most of his life to work out that trauma, it would seem - but the resulting art is quite the result.

@martinwatts4214 4 ай бұрын

He was aware his whole life along with Sid probably influenced "Wish You Were Here" anyhow his loss has been our gain@@JasonBunting

@LBEnquiries Жыл бұрын

The snapshot in the family album - Daddy what else did you leave for me? is the killer lyric for me. I’ve never seen my father or even a photo. Yet I was named after him. Im sixty years old now. The route to find him went cold. That’s life. That became my first Brick in the Wall.

@mr.nazareth4501 Жыл бұрын

That's gnarly. My condolences? I know you've already mourned, but still.

@davehall8584 Жыл бұрын

I got ONE newspaper photo clipping of my absent father..who died when i was 14 years old....never saw him

@positivelynegative9149 Жыл бұрын

I've never met my father either. I've lived about an hour away from him my entire life (except for my time in army). I always figured he'd come see me if he wanted to and if he didn't, then I didn't want to see him either. I did go through a period of trying to find him when I was about 30; never actually get his number or address. Then, several years later, he called me. Somehow, as soon as he spoke, I knew it was him. When he said who he was, I said, "Yeah, I know." He said he wanted to meet. I told him to go to hell. I'm 45 now and I hate him more than ever.

@LBEnquiries Жыл бұрын

@@positivelynegative9149 Nice to hear that you resolved it to your personal wishes. I have occasionally wondered but as I’ve got older I’m really not that bothered to be honest. Others think it would be amazing if we could meet but I’ve had a good (adult) life and didn’t need his input. My stepfather was a twisted individual who disliked me even from when I was so very young. A nasty man and I only went to his funeral to make the Ba*&#@d was really dead.

@Amasaman Жыл бұрын

I too have never seen my father that I can recollect. He was lost at sea when I was 6 months old. The submarine he was on mysteriously sank. My mother said I would lay on the bed and watch him get dressed, but as an infant, there is no memory of it. All I have is photos and stories of others that knew him. Having never grieved over his loss, but knowing that I somehow should, has been my lifelong pain.

@luxyAAA Жыл бұрын

You are a ray of sunshine.

@CarolH2O Жыл бұрын

Most definitely! I've never heard this kind of sensitive analysis of this album anywhere else! She sheds light here!❤

@jjk8417 Жыл бұрын

Incomprehensible how Roger Waters sums up his childhood-dominating trauma in a couple of beautifully clear sentences. His lyrics are always stunningly on the mark. Pure poetry.

@cjonesufc Жыл бұрын

That echoing is an effect known as a delay. It’s actively part of the guitar/vocal tone and has to be considered by the player/singer in real time. They play this stuff live.

@Bobbias Жыл бұрын

To add to this, usually they will have either presets which can be switched between at will, or multiple pedals chained together which can be turned on and off at will.

@diamondback2085 Жыл бұрын

Probably one of the saddest scenes in the movie. Showing the loneliness growing up without a dad. Was a punch in the stomach for me the first time I saw the movie.

@garryiglesias4074 Жыл бұрын

When he grabs the hand of an unknown man, it crushes me every time...

@robbiepeterh Жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking 😢

@markhamstra1083 Жыл бұрын

While the scene in the movie is effective and affecting, this piece is also a prime example of why Gilmour has remarked that much of _The Wall_ is musically weak or uninteresting - very little of interest or very little at all happens musically in this song - if it can even properly be called a song. Without the movie it is mostly just a vehicle for Waters to barely sing a few lines of his libretto. With the movie scenes, the music completely recedes into the background as unimportant soundtrack filler. Waters’ libretto lines in this piece are important to the overall story of _The Wall_ , but the musical ramble (barely more than practice room noodling) is not.

@DR.DisInfect Жыл бұрын

What'd you leave behind for may

@garryiglesias4074 Жыл бұрын

@@markhamstra1083 Well this album is a "audio movie" completely... That's why a "music theory" analysis is a bit overkill, although it's interesting, but some piece should have been "glued together" in this analysis... Typically, Part 1 - The happiest days of our lives and Part 2 could have been analyzed as ONE arc. Problem is, she couldn't do the split before knowing the album so it's tricky. Maybe someone else, educated in the album, could have done the splitting (but again different Floyders might split a different places so...)

@peacefulpossum2438 Жыл бұрын

The guitar in this gives me chills. Gilmour is effing brilliant.

@StumpyTales Жыл бұрын

As a 40+ year devotee of this album, and an amateur muso, its great to hear the insights of someone with substantial Classical experience & training (who clearly has analytical skills too). You see/hear aspects I haven't after all these years. Bravo.

@craftiestdude Жыл бұрын

This song is perfect in its purpose. A gut check that puts your listener in a failure position. You know exactly what he's talking about, and what he is feeling, and you can't do anything but accept it. War sucks for the children affected.

@MetalGearyaTV Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2. That's a real banger and the biggest hit.

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

When this album first came out, I think this was the song I listened to the most. I was quite isolated (this started in late childhood) and this song hit home HARD.

@kennybuckman6483 Жыл бұрын

The children could be heard at a distance... as if he , as a child, was watching the other kids from a distance. Not joining in with them. Again, just another brick in his wall.

@CelticSpiritsCoven Жыл бұрын

Well we, who were born over a decade later than you, who weren't born in the drug culture, thought this music was trash from drug-heads. Of course we all grow up and can appreciate older music.

@bobbabai Жыл бұрын

@@CelticSpiritsCoven I think your music, whatever the era, is just fine. The people are kind of bitter though.

@MrGatechfan99 Жыл бұрын

I can see the fascination in your expressions as you get deeper into the album. The best is yet to come. I strongly suggest that you combine your reaction video for the next two tracks into one video as they are very much a larger song even though they are different.

@mistertv9930 Жыл бұрын

Agree, The Happiest Days of Our Lives and Part II should be reviewed concurrently.

@superbanhaman Жыл бұрын

Heard.

@davidfinnell1660 Жыл бұрын

Your understanding of the story as you listen is impressive! I had to watch the movie before I actually "got it".

@barrycharlton6228 Жыл бұрын

"A snapshot in the family album" were all Roger Waters had of his father growing up. He was killed at the battle of Anzio in WW2. I always thought this song was about "Pinky" (the main character/Roger Waters) looking back through his memories, trying to connect and being completely unable to do so. This album is very personal to me and particularly this song. Although my father is still alive, he was absent for most of my childhood and 20 years of my adult life. When I first heard The Wall, it was like listening to the story of my life. At the time, I felt as if my father might as well have been dead, his absence from my life felt like loss. The day my sister told me she had found our father I cried like a baby. Very powerful subject matter that a lot of people can connect with...which is a hallmark of Pink Floyd and specifically Roger Waters lyrics. It's great that you are taking such care to examine and analyse this album. It is a complicated work and I don't know if this has been done quite like this before. Thank you.

@warrenpeterson6065 Жыл бұрын

My childhood was nasty bad! I was 22 yo when this album was released and it spoke to me as if it was written based on my life. Just thinking about the songs today bring back to mind so many unfortunate memories of my father and mother. I was damaged as a child and 40 some years later this album still speaks to me.

@warrenpeterson6065 Жыл бұрын

@@tutdvd9533 Very well stated @tutdvd and I wish you well on your life journey. And thanks for the reply. I read a book long ago ... something like ... everything I know today I learned in my first 6 years of life. For me I am the product of my first 15 years of life. I believe reflecting on bitter sweet nostalgia teaches us who we are, how we have been molded to think and act, and sets a benchmark for us to do better. Once again, thank you for the reply.

@warrenpeterson6065 Жыл бұрын

@@tutdvd9533 Or in a sexual way ... lol. Have a great life!

@speedoflight9005 Жыл бұрын

Great analysis! Waters is deep, dark, sad and Gilmour follows him with his guitar compositions, as a master. The back sounds of Wright and the drums of Mason are the columns to support al that.

@TheSpanishInquisition87 Жыл бұрын

I am loving this. What an epic endeavor to listen to the Wall in it's entirety! Here we are still in the early childhood of the protagonist. Even at an early age his father is only a memory growing more faint every day. His longing for his father is everpresent compared to his father's absence. This experience, the half-remembrance if his father and his desperate need for a father figure, are the foundation upon which the wall shall be built. We are all the sum of our experiences, and each moment in time is a piece of who we are and who we become.

@CoolCoyote Жыл бұрын

also take note of the parallels in the music, mirroring for later on in the album 'on the thin ice!

@dondoan1937 Жыл бұрын

The Roger Walters The Wall Live tour 2010-2013 was the best experience I had of a concert! I saw it at the United Center in Chicago on September 21st 2010. It was immersive and captivating. My best friend and I we on the floor about 20 rows back. Watching the wall being built was mind numbing. As they say one for the books. This is after listing to the original release and not really getting all the nuances until I was in my 30s. I was 23 when the Wall came out.

@stuffyouotterlistento1461 Жыл бұрын

This might be my favorite section of the album-it's so evocative and haunting-but it feels weird standing alone, because it's so incomplete. Sure, other songs flow into each other, but they mostly still feel like separate pieces. Maybe it's partly down to how I first heard them on the radio, but "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1", "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" very much seem like different stages of a single song to me. And sure, the radio would often play Part 2 by itself, but then it's just sort of like a radio edit or short single of a longer album track. Anyway, you might want to consider doing "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" together, as the former is less than two minutes long, and it's more of a transition or interlude between Parts 1 and 2 than it is a legitimate song on its own. It's definitely the least of the three in that sense, and I feel like you lose the sense of progression and momentum if you don't do them together.

@florisPH Жыл бұрын

I believe she's already listened to the whole album in one go, she just split the song reactions and initial impressions up in different videos.

@michaelrobbins9679 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure if she listened to the entire as presented she would have a whole different reaction... She's breaking it up for copyright strikes. Which sucks so bad!

@HollowGolem Жыл бұрын

Our local radio station actually played "Happiest Days/Another Brick Part 2" together.

@jeremeywelling2245 Жыл бұрын

There is a copyright clause that you can’t play even one song all the way through without permission or you can be sued for copyright infringement

@ludlowworthington697 Жыл бұрын

I had a good-natured chuckle when Amy said she wouldn’t interrupt unless she felt an urgent need and stopped a few seconds later. I’m actually finding the interruptions more enjoyable now, as a chance to hear her immediate reactions. I’m eager for the next song. The build up at the end then that scream before the song after always gets me on an emotional level. I’m curious to learn what’s happening musically.

@joeb4142 Жыл бұрын

I’ve listened to the album so many bazillions of times that the interruptions don’t bother me at all. The music keeps playing in my head lol

@codyjohnson9752 Жыл бұрын

Love hearing your interpretation of this album. This is not an easy listen, and I appreciate your ability and willingness to sit with it and reflect on it.

@JBonzo12 8 ай бұрын

Reliving this journey with you is such a delight -- I feel like I'm hearing some of my favorite music for the first time again. Your earnestness is a true joy -- thanks so much!!!

@nobody8328 7 ай бұрын

The emotions rippling across her face are an absolute study! If I could have three wishes, the very first one would be to be able to hear all of Floyd's works again for the first time

@HollowGolem Жыл бұрын

An interesting note is that there's a companion piece to this that was put on their next album, _The Final Cut_ and on the movie version of the Wall called "When the Tigers Broke Free." It's a little heavier on detail (and semiautobiographical on Waters' part).

@Geekman333 Жыл бұрын

"Heartbeat" and "Time" marching on. Two call backs to a previous album. How astute you are. This music has great significance in my life. What a pleasure to witness your discovery of it. Thank you.

@willo294 Жыл бұрын

I love how you mention pulse at the end. Their last tour was called 'The Pulse Tour'. I remember buying the cassette of the concert music, which had a small red light in the corner of the box that pulsed until the power source died.

@arshadamin2956 Жыл бұрын

Love the way you are analysing the songs. Suggest you to watch the movie of this masterpiece. Probably you will understand the genius of Waters.

@lemonicity4834 Жыл бұрын

Please pleaaase do Happiest Days of Our Lives straight into Another Brick in The Wall II, its the best way to experience it haha

@billyjames6472 Жыл бұрын

i am a big PF fan, and you are quite spot on in your thoughts It is a great story

@andrescurls29 Жыл бұрын

These have been great so far. I'm really exciting knowing how much more there is to come, and how good the album gets from here.

@BigSurJay Жыл бұрын

Since their first album, Pink Floyd were masters of using ambient noises to help tell a story. The children in the background help to subtly move the story along.

@GoNavy2024 Жыл бұрын

Love your content! And your in depth analysis of Pink Floyd’s work! Very difficult at times lol

@twisted2291 Жыл бұрын

Taking on The Wall song, by song is such a huge undertaking. There is a lot to process. Watch the Movie of it. The visuals the movie puts out will help so much in understanding it more clearly.

@mr.nazareth4501 Жыл бұрын

Roger always intended for the three mediums (concert, movie, album) to stand on their own. Ask a movie channel!

@daleclark2376 Жыл бұрын

It's nice to watch a reaction and see someone get the song, thank you. Great job!✌❤

@CraftAero Жыл бұрын

When you're done with the album, you should review the movie. It will fill in any gaps and bring clarity of what Waters intended. It also includes "When the Tigers Broke Free", which is integral to the story but missing from the album.

@bradwags Жыл бұрын

awesome breakdown. I've listened to this album countless times. It is neat seeing it from a new perspective. I know the story of this album by heart.

@assaultpioneer8414 Жыл бұрын

Saw you’re commentary video first. As always, thank you, ma’am.

@mcachr Жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying your videos, subscriber for some time and really love your perspective. It's really fun to watch. It just amazes me that a musician, does not matter the genre, listens the the wall album for the first time, that's just bonkers. I'll give everything to hear Pink Floyd for the first time again.

@WatchfulHunter Жыл бұрын

Pure heaven into my mind. My fav album ever. I was a teen in high school when the Wall came out. How perfect was that.

@bartstarr100 Жыл бұрын

Listening to this album piecemeal is like looking at the corner of a Da Vinci Painting for an hour.😊😢

@eirintowne Жыл бұрын

I had not actually heard this intro to the song before, so I am pleasantly surprised at the complexity, skill and sheer interest there can be in what is actually not the song itself!

@ioanabutnarus6497 Жыл бұрын

This is so powerful! Your show should be on TV. It will. You’re on the right path. Soon!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

@philippebelhumeur7484 Жыл бұрын

Great piece choice from an equally legendary album by a rock progressive visionary’s band. Thank you, miss. Fantastic commentaries. Respect.

@jurgenkloppshead8373 Жыл бұрын

Loving this so far

@kenwelch198 11 ай бұрын

Never thought of it that way...a book that just goes into the next chapter. What a unique way to describe the transition to the song that follows.

@ciaopete Жыл бұрын

I would love to see you do an end of year review in which you place the music you have listened to on your channel ranking the music you’ve mentioned so far.

@nobody8328 7 ай бұрын

Im very glad that someone filled you in on the basics before you started this album! Not just the theme of the album, the concept of a concept album, but also the tip about not interrupting the guitar solos lest your audience loose our tiny little minds! 😂 Im having a ridiculous amount of fun watching this series, and im only 3 songs in! 🥳

@davidstanton1261 3 ай бұрын

You have Amazing insights esp. for your first listening... it is very complex...well done! :))

@ILDomer17 Жыл бұрын

I just subscribed because I'm really enjoying your very thoughtful insights, without making huge declarations. This entire album is best when appreciated in the same manner as a work of classical music. I think your commentary is wonderful, and I'm so excited to see the rest of the videos. If I could be so bold to make a request, I've been longing for someone to react to the entire Untitled album [released as "( )"] by Sigur Ros. I think someone with your background would really appreciate it and those of us who love it would gain valuable insights from hearing your commentary.

@LordEagle Жыл бұрын

Floyd gets really deep,,,, really fast. They are just FANTASTIC. 💥💥💥👍😎

@txalex Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel. Loving your analysis.

@donaldbush1182 Жыл бұрын

I thought she was going to cry at times. On another note, she and her background look straight out of the movie.

@rogerlewis6488 Жыл бұрын

The voices of the children in the background represents his isolation from the normal childhood of others, and the base beat and the echoing music is more likely to represent this seemingly never ending feature of his childhood timeline. A memory that is forever the background of his life. I feel that is etched on Roger's face and I see it every time I see a picture of him. This is great music coming from a place of internal and extreme pain and shows his courage in sharing it so openly. You seemed to be caught out and saddened by how he felt about his father at that age.

@henstradesign4802 Жыл бұрын

For me, it's the subtle note changes at 5:55 (in this video), where the mood gets more serious, and the ubiquitous adult whistle that every child recognizes..."1,2,3 (whistle) HEY!" is a dominating yell to control the din in the school yard perhaps. We all live near an adult neighbor that always yells, HEY!!! to command authority...to be yelled at... like a dog.

@LordEriolTolkien Жыл бұрын

I still remember the day as a young teen boy that I bought this album (on vinyl) and listened to it in its entirety with the liner notes on my lap. Music and memories of a lost world

@godbeIess Жыл бұрын

The echoing in a distance it's the vibrations of the memory of his father disappearing to a place never to be seen or heard from again..

@campbeld63 Жыл бұрын

I think this is possibly "Pink's" first true childhood memory. (The first two tracks were more setting the scene - events he knew must have happened, even though he had no recollection of them. Like much of the album, this actually draws on Roger Waters' own experiences. His father, - previously a conscientious objector - joined the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 11th September 1943, just five days after Roger's birth. He was killed in action five months later.

@obiwanbenobi4943 Жыл бұрын

The sonic landscape of this song is amazing. :)

@surferles589 Жыл бұрын

My favourite Brick In The Wall version. The solo marks a passage of time as he moves to him as a boy, hence the kids voices.

@jonathanleitch6176 6 ай бұрын

This whole series is really great. I’ve been listening to this album for 30 years and you are greatly enhancing my enjoyment of this music. I don’t know if you’ll even see this comment considering the age of the video, but if you you do I highly recommend you fit Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead into your schedule. I think you’ll enjoy it and there will be tons to talk about.

@mr.nazareth4501 Жыл бұрын

I like that the "marching" bass, guitar riff and sfx elicit imagery of placing bricks in the wall. It's a steady rhythm to work to.

@Aeronaut1975 Жыл бұрын

This has always been my favourite Floys album.

@robertcostagliola3741 2 ай бұрын

Gilmour was masterful on this song. The echo he uses creates a great mood. You have to listen to "In the flesh" and "Run like hell".

@Agent-kb3zb Жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed the music so much, I never cared what the words were about.

@patmcgroin6916 Жыл бұрын

I hope that when you finish this "rock opera" you combine it all together somehow... I keep wanting to hear the next analysis, lol... It DOES all fit together very nicely and I always feel like, OK, now comes... Oh no! LOL Great work, my dear, as always! Actually, this song and the two that follow it impress me as more like one song with three different parts, movements...

@jemmett50 Жыл бұрын

Its the fact we are All bricks bricks In a wall of our lives and this music is us

@gastonkawitzke3272 Жыл бұрын

Being in Berlin, the biggest concert after the wall really got down Was a piece to cry for so many people. We had a Party, but we all started cryin. Together.

@traog Жыл бұрын

When most people think of the song "Another Brick in The Wall", part 2 is what will come to mind, same for me, however I do find Part 1 has a special draw to it. The pulse / heartbeat, you picked up on, is a thing that runs through the album, sometimes more forward in the music sometimes lost in the back ground, it is a thing I notice in several of Pink Floyd's albums, not the same pulse in each album, but the presence of a certain pulse connected to that album. They also did a tour called the Pulse Tour, which contain the songs from their catalogue, but many with added elements, generally extended guitar solos.

@shanemccormick2336 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in this era so relatable

@SirDaffyD Жыл бұрын

The snapshot in the family album - Daddy what else did you leave for me? I believe this line is refering to Rogers Waters dead father, who was killed during WWII when Roger was only 5 months old, and never got to know his father.

@jeffreytaylor6257 Жыл бұрын

You will have to go back to "Dark Side of the Moon" to find the heartbeat. Love your work. JT

@ManWithoutThePants Жыл бұрын

@Virgin Rock Main echo you hear at the beginning is the guitar with delay effect and reverb. That is one of those effect pedal that you were told about the short introduction to guitar. Guitar player can activate these live by stomping the pedal with their foot live. The delay effect is set here to repeat the played note by dotted quarter note after the actually played note and you can adjust how many times it repeats and how loudly it repeat and how loud the repeated notes are and how they fade after original note etc. Here David Gilmour is playing for example the bottom single note line only by playing quarter notes, but the delayed notes fill the riff and make it have a galloping feel since they fall in between the actual played notes.

@duncansmith69 Жыл бұрын

This is going to be one of the longest album reviews I've ever watched. I'm totally ok with that, love the album and the channel!

@TWD66 Жыл бұрын

This is a great project, thank you for doing it. I haven't always been the greatest fan of the songs you've reacted to (Locomotive), but I'm all in for this. If you wanna look a little outside of prog rock, but still complex compositions, please let me recommend you Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans From Venus Stands somewhere in between complex blues and complex pop. And is a treat. Regards.

@PowderedToastMan420 Жыл бұрын

Love the Channel. Pink Floyd is the GREATEST ALBUM ORIENTED BAND. There is only one other band that has Albums with SEGUES, INTERLUDES, BACKWARD MESSAGES, HIDDEN TRACKS, ODD TIME SIGNATURES, INCREDIBLE ALBUM ART, and INCREDIBLE ENGINEERING. That band is my GENERATIONS Pink Floyd. It's TOOL. Please keep these incredible reaction coming. 🙏 🤞✌️

@BobbyGeneric145 Жыл бұрын

Im really excited for her to get to Pink shutting down, especially the musal motifs in Goodbye Cruel World

@leftundersun Жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward for the next brick on the wall

@BILLYMORGAN1971 Жыл бұрын

To understand more about David Gilmour's guitar sound you should watch some videos on the Binson Echorec Box. He used one of these to achieve the delay part of his sound. It's his signature sound. He played a guitar solo on Paul McCartney's No More Lonely Nights and there it is. There were other echo boxes around and delay boxes but he chose that one.

@briansellden6115 Жыл бұрын

Amy - I think it's impressive that you can parse and pick up on even the nuances of the lyrics on your first hearing. And though I've loved the music over the years, I've never really analyzed it in the direct context of the story being told as you do. This material is dark - It takes a little courage to stare unblinking at Roger's pain. It's a little painful for me, too. Thank you and well done.

@GeoffPowell65 Жыл бұрын

I think the children’s voices in this track is a type of foreshadowing for what’s to come. This song is deeply connected to the next two songs, which are all about childhood and school and the terrors within.

@edwarddawson7849 Жыл бұрын

You are awesome.

@Molix1981 Жыл бұрын

Back to when music, was indeed music...

@KOLLIS1969 Жыл бұрын

The combination of the children's voices and the music reminds me of the last vestiges of childlike freedom of mind and spirit before the machine of the world and life that is droning on and stalking them swallows them up and destroys their innocence.

@paulcooper8929 Жыл бұрын

The reflective soul. It appears Pink is having an introspective moment whereby he is trying to reason out the life path he is on. Within it is the bitterness of his fathers absence brought to sharp realisation whenever he sees paternal influence and interaction in the external reality. Here lies rejection and through a child's mind the profound sadness that even most adults find difficult to navigate. He must internalise and contain anguish in one of many mental and social bricks.

@harlanmonk569 Жыл бұрын

And you've added another brick in the wall of your breakdown of this masterpiece.

@phojoemcplayer2908 Жыл бұрын

The children's voices, my opinion on that is they are setting the time frame. Having no father in grade school (P-9/10) would be tuff, thats when you need one for influence. About the time he lost his farther. Enjoying the videos. keep it up!

@peterhughes8699 Жыл бұрын

Another Brick pt 1 is one of my fav tracks. PF were masters of producing unique soundscapes that set moods and develop themes. Yes the bass line is both a heart beat and indicator of the passing of time. I particularly love D Gilmore's multi layed guitar work on Pt 1 using 2 delay pedals. Gilmour was a sublime maestro, technician and innovator of guitar effects. Gilmour's playing on Pt 1 is melodic, beautiful, eerie and prophetic all at same time imo. Much of the guitar effects you hear on The Wall had never been done before. The playing children sets the theme for the next few tracks about Pink's childhood and the guitar delays represent the repetitive nature of laying brick upon brick :)

@Ryan-ff2db Жыл бұрын

Most Pink Floyd albums have a theme running through them almost like an Opera and are meant to be listened to in their entirety, they tell a story. The music will also progresses in a similar fashion, while the music of the album changes, there's always an underline theme holding the album together, quiet often the bass or keyboard will fall back into a repeated or at least a similar pattern. The songs blend together making the album almost feel as one continuous piece. Also, the very first notes in the background in the first song "In the Flesh" is a continuation and ending to the last notes being played on the last song "Outside the Wall" which is actually the beginning of sequence, forming sort of a loop. It reminds me of the book "The Outsiders" where the first sentence in the book is also the last sentence at the end of the book.

@gastonkawitzke3272 Жыл бұрын

One of the biggest concerts ever happened on this Planet.

@michaelvallee1263 Жыл бұрын

keep up the good work ammy

@mimikurtz2162 Жыл бұрын

I have never seen the film or heard much of the album so I only have this music as a reference, but this song seems to me to be empty passing time. His father could have taught him so much and promoted/enabled the child's emotional growth and social skills, but he passed nothing on to the child. Instead there is stagnation and isolation from his peers.

@riphopfer5816 Жыл бұрын

I have never interpreted the delay effect on the guitar as ‘memory of [something/someone] no longer present. This is brilliant. That interpretation makes perfect sense, and if they actually thought of that whilst recording/mixing the track, they were even more ingenious than i already thought, which is-shall we say-an almost inconceivably vast amount.

@hansemannluchter643 Жыл бұрын

Delays used to be called Echo-machines, Gilmour used a Binson Echorec, basically a fancy tape-recorder with 4 playback-heads..

@riphopfer5816 Жыл бұрын

@@hansemannluchter643 I know. Syd used the Echorec before him. My professional training is in audio engineering, in fact, and I’ve a pedal that does a pretty good simulation of an Echorec. Nothing quite like a tape delay… Of course, the one on The Wall is a bucket-brigade type unit.

@BILLYMORGAN1971 Жыл бұрын

Near the end you will hear what will sound like a brass instrument. That is a keyboard synthesizer. As best as I can tell on a quick search it was a Prophet V. When one hears this track the guitar part actually sounds like an arpeggiator.

@curiousman1672 Жыл бұрын

Are you going thru the whole album??? Please do. The greatest of all theme albums deserves your discerning ear.

@gradypatterson1948 Жыл бұрын

I see the heavy use of echo to be illustrative of the echoes of early experiences throughout the remainder of our lives - those experiences shape and mold us in ways that drive us (like the pulsing bass drives the song). We will tend to repeat - to recapitulate, perhaps? - our reaction to the earliest traumas, and to break out of that cycle is a Herculean task well described as "breaking through the wall" ...

@philippalmer7686 Жыл бұрын

You're correct, the children sounds are important.

@innosanto Жыл бұрын

A snapshot in the family album , daddy what else did you leave for me ... This is the strongest sentence in the album for me. It is like a nuclear bullet - Roger Waters is huge.

@gregorybrown3272 Жыл бұрын

The children's voices are important because of their distance, life and childhood are carrying on all around our main character, but he is alone in his isolation. Note : this is the first song on the record where we meet Pink, and we do so from inside his head, this is the common ground where we will be meeting him throughout the album, and he may be sad, but he is relatable. On the few occasions where we meet him outside of his head, in the real world, he comes across as horribly distorted and unlikeable.

@liquidfrost1499 Жыл бұрын

May I recommend to maybe find out where the end of side one is on the album and listen to each album side as one song. Amazing analysis for a first time listen