What’s happening at end of Young Lust is that while Pink is having his indiscretions Stateside, Mrs Pink is entertaining a new flame at home as well…largely as a result of The Wall that is being built.

Young Lust may be their most pure rock and roll song and along with The Nile Song, one of their hardest.

Mr. Floyd, the musician, is on tour in the US, living the R&R lifestyle w/the groupies. He calls home, only to find out that his wife is also cheating on him.

The animation used through good by blue sky and empty spaces is jaw dropping in the movie... seriously left an inpression with me my entire life.

If you get a chance listen to When the Tigers Broke free, it was cut from the original album and put on a b side cut yet it was in the movie. The song was in the beginning and it really showed you the true aspect of the movie.

In the film, Goodbye Blue Sky and Empty Spaces are set to the first of several incredible animation sequences. Also, the film has an extended version of Empty Spaces, that has more lyrics and doesn't lead directly into Young Lust like it does on the album.

That was an actual Bell telephone operator, one member called his house and had the script setup. The genius of it, and the real response from the operator, IT'S A MAN ANSWERING.... That should have been your first clue... Dude....

you should hear empty spaces + what should i do now , who was cut from the album , but they actually played live , and its very interest transition and powerful . love goodbye blue sky , before both

The first side isn't really chronological. It's the increasing forcefulness of the emotional and psychological stresses or "bricks" that justify the psychological wall being built. Empty Spaces is really about Pink's wife. Empty spaces refers to two things; the holes in the brick wall yet to be filled and the empty spaces of a once loving relationship. There is a contrast explored in this song that is one of the running themes through the album first heard at the end of Another Brick pt.2 with the ringing phone. In Empty Spaces the backwards recording is Roger congratulating a listener who has deciphered this message. The key though is near the end of Roger's statement. He is interrupted by James Guthrie, one of the engineers and producers. Guthrie interrupts Roger telling him his new wife, Carolyne, is on the phone and Roger says OK, presumably taking the call from "a man answering". The emphasis is that when Roger's spouse calls he will come to the phone. Later at the end of Young Lust, one of Roger's most painful events is played out for Mr. Floyd. The back story is that Roger called his wife, Judy, at home in England while he was touring in the US. Of course a man answered the phone and promptly hung up. Judy never came to the phone. Roger and Judy divorced soon after. Young Lust jumps back in time where Pink is a fresh young musician out on his own living the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. What is to come is a double standard that either argues as justification or perhaps as an expression of regret. Right after Young Lust a little skit plays out where a groupie gets into Pink's hotel room and wants to party. She ends up running out because of the emotional out burst from Pink. What it says though is that this is a common occurrence particularly on tour and the groupie runs away not because Pink is a faithful husband who rejects these encounters but because he has gotten sick of these people taking pieces of him. Cleary it's OK to fool around for the star of the show but not for the lonely wife back home. Either way these add the final bricks to Pink's wall as the first half of the album closes.

The Wall's movie version of Empty Spaces is longer with more lyrics. I'm glad you're listening to the album without the videos. The videos for each song are from the movie, some are quite grainy on KZfaq because they're homemade by fans from the movie, the only clear videos are from the albums single releases. The movie The Wall, like the album, is best experienced all at once.

Genius of Floyd

On the double live CD of the Wall, in between Goodbye Blue Sky and Young Lust is the missing tune What Shall We Do Now, a cool cut they added to the Live show and was cut from the album because of vinyl space limitations. You should hunt for it on You Tube, worth a listen. Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

Continued excellent analysis.

Got this album in 79 on vinyl

I loved your analysis of this my brother

Some trivia. Check out the secret message in Empty Spaces before the singing starts. You have to listen to the music backwards to translate it....or you can simply look it up online, as some youtube videos play it backwards for you. But it's cool they put a little easter egg on the record.

Ok,bro, this is important. Later on in the album in the last few songs some of the lyrics may sound a bit “controversial” but they aren’t. They are both a social commentary, and a way to show how strange Pink had become ( trying not to spoil anything) but yeah great review 👍

Young Lust what a great song!

Before this even starts, I am excited Syed is getting to Young Lust. A short song, but one that is a subtle rocker for me.

When I grew up you heard Young Lust a lot on the radio, even more than ABITW part II. It was the closest to being a pure single. You don't hear it so much anymore, even on classic stations. I think they fear the subject matter.

You need to check out the animated video for Empty Spaces. It's short but incredible.

It's not the grandchild. The child who looks up to the sky in the film is supposed to be the main character as a child during WW2.

In the song Mother. She saids she won’t let anyone dirty get thru. He is rebelling.

Congratulations Syed you have found the secret message send your regards to Old Pink funny farm California

You’re a very astute listener. You’ve nailed it all in one go so far 🎉

Epic reaction and analysis!!! 👍✌

Full version of "Empty Spaces" is in the movie and is accompanied by the best animation sequence....🇨🇦🇨🇦❤

We used to listen to the wall in junior high it came out when I was in fifth grade I still think you need to react to Quadrophenia my all time favorite album

So Nice 💯🔥

The lyrics "Ooh, I need a DIRTY woman. Ooh I need a DIRTY girl" directly connects to the lyrics "Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you, Mama won't let anyone DIRTY get through" from the song Mother. It clearly shows how the character's up brining is in big part responsible for his actions as a young man. He's been hurt by "clean" women...so he thinks the solution is to rebel by going to the opposite extreme.

The song transitions into different parts of a Brits post WW2 child into adulthood

Enjoying your work, and not criticising, but as a future reference, @ 3:11 you mention the blitzkrieg. The blitzkrieg was never used against Britain, it means Lightning War and was the assault method the Nazi's used to invade Poland, Belgium, France, Norway, etc. The bombing of Britain is just referred to as 'the blitz'. Keep up the good work. 🙂

Blue Skies is Pink's {our protagonist} memory of childhood, in empty spaces Pink's marriage is failing and he could talk to his wife through these empty spaces in the wall but now he need to fill them in, and well young lust is what any rock star would do if their marriage was failing ( and for some it would not take a failing marriage just opportunity)

Great interplay between Gilmour and Wright on the solo to "Young Lust!"

Really like your content. You’re pretty much on target with everything thus far. When you’re done, you should check out the movie.

Yeah, basically on this album there’s a range of dark to super dark.

They should have put the movie version of "Empty Spaces" on the album.

The intro of "Goodbye Blue Sky" refers to London being bombarded during WWII when Roger Waters was a young kid. So that might be his memories of seeing airplanes on the sky and innocently not knowing what they mean! I mean the whole song alludes to that.

I've heard the lore, and I'm not sure if it's true, that it was reportedly said that a child in Japan remarked to her mother just prior to the Atom bomb going off..."Look mummy, there's a small plane in the sky". Obviously it was translated. I don't know if it was true. But you could see how easily it could have happened in 1945 during wartime, as it was apparently a calm clear spring day that the first atomic bomb was released by a high flying Superfortress bomber - Enola Gay. Interestingly, and I think that Waters was SUBLIMELY again referring to the interfering mother (in this song) by that quote which reflected the account of the events of the day: "On 5 August 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, Tibbets assumed command of the aircraft and named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who, in turn, had been named for the heroine of a novel.[N 3] When it came to selecting a name for the plane, Tibbets later recalled that: '... my thoughts turned at this point to my courageous red-haired mother, whose quiet confidence had been a source of strength to me since boyhood, and particularly during the soul-searching period when I decided to give up a medical career to become a military pilot. At a time when Dad had thought I had lost my marbles, she had taken my side and said, "I know you will be all right, son." ' Wikipeadia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay#Hiroshima_mission This is confirmed by the line: "Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky"... The brave new world being the Atomic area...running for shelter: away from the fallout. SO POETIC and majestic writing by Waters.

Love Dave`s solo on Young Lust. Remmebr it note for note which is surprising as to how many songs you pick up over the years.

Great reaction! Goodbye Blue Sky is about the London bombings during WWII. The blue skies Londoners said goodbye to as the German's conducted their air raids. Empty Spaces actually refers to his deteriorating relationship with his wife while he's home. They're both in the room but not communicating or connecting. Hence empty spaces of time that need to be filled, alluding to his failing marriage contributing to The Wall. Young Lust is about the main character's trysts with a groupie in each town, with the phone call being how Pink finds put his wife is having an affair of her own. It's about to get really dark from here on for a bit.

I don’t know if you have this information, but what you are hearing on this album; it is the soundtrack of the movie “THE WALL”. I highly recommended for you to watch it!! It will all come together after you watch it!! Very painful true!!! The animation is fenomenal!!! In my opinion a MASTERPIECES!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻🥰👋🏻😉🤗

I can't wait until you get to his "breakdown". Nobody home is my favorite song.

I recommend the live version of this album to anyone who likes the original. It's even darker, with extended musical bits, a few extra songs and ... solos! It's called 'Is there anybody out there? '

imho the empty spaces are Pink’s missing bricks for his wall he’s building. He needs to find and fill in his brick wall so as to complete his rather frightening transformation.

I was going to say The Wall is the last best album of the 70s (November 30th, 1979). However, The Clash's "London Calling" was released on December 14th of '79. And Christopher Cross's debut album came out on 12-20-79. Regatta de Blanc on October 2nd. Prince's debut on October 19th. Eagles: "The Long Run" September 24. "In Through the Out Door" 8-20-79 is another contender.

There are numerous tracks on here that were played as singles, but the album, as you said, is not set up for that. It's a concept album, and has to be played as such. It's also a theatrical piece, as the stage performance and movie show. This is not my favorite Floyd album, but it is ceratinly one of their best, up there with Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. Floyd, brilliant and singular.

U should watch the film of the wall, extended tracks.

"Gilmour's notes hit different" This is what Waters never fully understood. Yes he is the principle songwriter and producer but him without Gilmour was not the same. Floyd's sound needed Gilmour's guitar and voice

Asks, "How shall I complete the wall?" ...becomes the archetype instead of the actual person, a rocker who doesn't care, needs "a dirty woman."... Reject genuine connection (and the pain that comes with it) for empty interactions with people who don't know you and whom you don't care about.

The movie will answer the plot of the story. I enjoyed your musical analysis but, the film will tell the story.

Keep in mind that Pink is not the hero. Indeed, he continues to blame everything wrong in his life on someone else and never takes accountability.

Empty spaces - there is no secret message. That is the real irony and emptyness. The backward words are: "Congratulations, you have just discovered the secret message"

Backward masking at the start of Empty Spaces.

Empty spaces was cut out of the album you need to watch the film

In Good By Blue Skies I don’t believe that’s his grandson (the kids voice) … I felt that it is still the main character (Pink) just the story telling isn’t as linear as it appears. Kinda vacillates between his childhood and his adolescence a bit.

I just had a light bulb moment about goodbye blue sky, which I love but always thought was a little out of place chronologically. I think this is older Pink, probably mid or late teen, reminiscing an airplane scene from his youth. This transitions into him thinking about the war and his father and the remaining destruction present when he was a boy. Then things leap forward dramatically. By empty spaces he is already in a failing adult relationship and, as the next song reveals, already an international rock star. It was thinking about the huge leap forward in time that gave me the idea about Goodby Blue Sky. It bridges some of that gap.

Great reaction like usual bro. Didn’t Roger do most of this album, The Wall? Or was out mostly David, or they both did???

watch the film and it all falls into place

The movie was so sad

12:23 The main character in the film is overseas in America on tour and is using the phone operator to place a call to his wife in England. A strange man keeps answering. His wife is cheating on him.

Ah now you'll hear Young Lust. Some of David Gilmour's best guitar work. Listen to the 1980 live version!!!

The movie version of Empty Spaces is longer and vastly better

Just wondering if you have watched the movie from this album?? To be sure it's a dark story and you'll find it takes place in the beginning during WW2. You'll walk away with a new appreciation for the songs.

It's a rock opera in my opinion

When you're done listening to the entire album. Watch the movie. Not videos.👍

Look it up Gilmour hates young lust

Empty Spaces is more of an inside joke about many rock acts being accused of backwards masking Satanic / drug messages into songs and fade outs. This was Floyd flipping the bird to paranoid parents and pollyannas by literally putting in a backward message into a "song" while burning up a minute or two under the guise of setting atmosphere. To me, it is more of a sign of how cynical the band had become of "making a PF album" -- "Okay boys, we need some out of context voices, some atmospheric sounds and totally jaded lyrics. High concept, man." Actually by this point, Waters despised everyone in the band, he had pushed Rick Wright into a contractor role rather than full band member ( they paid Wright session rates to tour the album) and Waters wasn't working directly very much with Gilmour and Mason. The Wall always sounded pre-fab and cynical to me -- not about the supposed subject but the record buyer -- and it is my least favorite as a result.

hello I would like you to react to The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

Harry Waters the Roger's son. He' s the child's voice in Goodbye blue sky

so at the end of Young Lust that is waters calling his wife and another man is answering the phone and hanging up. She is in bed with another man.

I think "Empty Spaces" refers to gaps in conversation with his mom as he becomes a man

It's Mrs. Floyd that's cheating. He's calling her, but a man keeps answering and hanging up.

His wife cheated on him on that phone call. His wife dumped him for being to high and inactive

He is calling his wife and a man answers the phone. A little hanky panky perhaps?

Her cheating on him!