You absolutely need to watch the animated sequence from the film for this song. It takes this song to a whole other level. Some of the most poignant animation set to music I've ever seen.

@warofthebunny

6 ай бұрын

seconded

@kinexkid

6 ай бұрын

I agree, it's so poignant and beautiful and helps to cast the song in such a more complete picture

@JeffReams

6 ай бұрын

I was about to tell Doug this exact think. The movie version of the Wall is superb and I can't believe he hasn't seen it.

@jamesgeckle489

6 ай бұрын

I was 18 when this hit the theater and I went back to see it several times. The only other movies that might compete with it for buying tickets to see it were The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Star Wars during its original release. So yes, Doug MUST see The Wall!

@burttheburger

6 ай бұрын

I agree. The whole movie is excellent. The trial also has some awesome animation!

This song gives me goosebumps every time. It looks so sweet in the first chords, and then, it turns into some darkness... Then the sweet chorus... Then more darkness... The lyrics... It's really creepy and heartbreaking at the same time.

"Flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on", what a great line.

Always good to hear your thoughts on pink Floyd..

Sometimes terrible things happen under beautiful blue skies. But mostly, beautiful blue skies are just that: beautiful blue skies. Never forget that. Always enjoy them. Don't let the bad guys win.

My humble opinion, one of the most under rated Pink Floyd's song.

@classicraceruk1337

6 ай бұрын

Nothing by Pink Floyd is underrated my anyone who knows them. You must not know Pink Floyd nor the buyers of the records and watchers of their shows very well.

@sheilaperri9209

6 ай бұрын

​@@classicraceruk1337Underrated by mainstream media, maybe. There are lots and lots of them.

@classicraceruk1337

6 ай бұрын

@@sheilaperri9209 Mainstream what? There is no such thing. There are only three types of people in this world. Those who have heard of Floyd and like this song.Those who have not heard of Floyd.Those who have heard this song and don’t like it. I know of no Floyd fan that dislikes any song, I have been watching and listening to them since the days of Marquee club gigs circa 1965.This applies to all so called things that are underrated.

@daniellysohirka4258

6 ай бұрын

I know and love this song. And live in a town called Flin Flon, Canada.

This was always one of my favorite songs off of The Wall.

what an unforgettable classic!

I saw the concert tour for the Wall in 1980. The best concert I have ever attended. It was also the begining of the end for the classic floyd lineup. A very troubled Waters created a mirror of his life and morphed it into an unbelievable masterpiece, with the help of three other masterful musicians.

This song is a perfect example of heavy music not being hard or abrasive. This one is definitely very, very heavy. I can enjoy the music but I'll tell you what, every time I've watched the wall this song and it's accompanying animation sequence have literally brought me to tears. It's just too much for me to pretend it's not painful and doesn't effect me. So many bands put so much effort into conveying sadness and pain to the listener but none of them are half as good at it as Pink Floyd were.

Just an amazing album that touches the soul.

The airplane up in the sky the child sees unbeknownst to a young child is a German bomber about ready to obliterate part of London! The song points out the innocence of a child in war with a child in amazement looking at an actual airplane in the early 1940s!! It's the irony that Rodger was shooting for with the child being happy to see an airplane and having no idea what's about to happen!!!!!

@tommack9395

6 ай бұрын

The Blitz 1940 through 1941. London like many other European cities was the front lines. Roger was born two years later but growing up to him and the rest of the band those very scars even physically still remained through the next decades. People do not realize especially here in the states what it's like nor how long it takes for the scars of war to heal and wear away - if ever.

Harry Waters who now plays keyboards for Colonel Les Claypool's (Primus) Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.

Love the Pink Floyd reactions and analysis. Thanks Doug!

Referred to this song some weeks ago. I'm in my forties and this song hits hard. Really grateful I had an upbringing that involved appreciating Pink Floyd.

Good by blue sky speaks of the deep scars left in the UK caused by the air raids during the battle of Britten and the following cold war. This reminds me of another Great song of the 80s by another I believe a greatly under rated band, Mike and the mechanics the song is almost prophetic and is relevant today and was banned from the radio in the UK during the gulf war. The tune is simple and haunting it is called Silent Running or can you hear me running. I think this would be a wonderful song to review it grabs my heart listening to it today just as I did when I was 35 when it originally was released 1985.

The vocals are just lovely, both the studio and live.

Yes, Doug….you need to watch the movie. Pour a cocktail and pack a bowl sit back and enjoy. Gerald Scarfe’s animation is amazing, especially “Goodbye Blue Sky”.

@slappywhite217

6 ай бұрын

The animation during Empty Spaces / What Shall We Do Now? was good too.

@rodney2942

6 ай бұрын

The use of the marching hammers in “Waiting for worms” a segue into “The Trial”

My all time favorite Pink Floyd song!

Your mention of 9/11 is painfully apt and something I've never thought about. I'm pretty sure I'll be thinking about that when I listen to the song from now on. That's the same feeling, you are so right.

Great animation for this in The Wall film. Almost haunting.

@slappywhite217

6 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine the film without the animation.

The Wall live performances were played in order just as it appears on the album from beginning to end.

David's voice is so beautiful...

Always tear up when i here this. Dam this song touches the soul.

I loved The Wall movie, it came out the year I graduated high school. The movie poster hangs in my bedroom, I wake up to that screaming face every morning. :)

Such a beautiful song with that melancholy vibe. Great breakdown, Doug!

You should check out The Wall Live in Berlin 1990. Quite good orchestration from Michael Kamen and a host of guest artists.

@jimwilcox2964

6 ай бұрын

Roger Waters and so many special guests. The Band, Rick Danko, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Tim Curry as the prosecutor to name a few

that was harry waters at the beginning. coincidentally i saw a pink floyd tribute band called "brit floyd" last night in los angeles,and harry waters was one of many guest performers, playing keyboards. video of the show is on my channel (shameless plug). harry is of course 44 years older than he was on the wall album,and seeing him playing his father's music was very special.

Man I love this song!!! I can't begin to calculate how many times I've listened to this album and watched the movie!

Great review Doug,.. how sweet are those descending 'ooh-ooh's' from Gilmour and the back up vocalists..and that little bass lick that ends in a drop D and that Bm suspended chord ( not sure what its technically called haha) is just gorgeous, Metallica also used it at the start of Fade to Black . Such a beautiful song lyrically and musically. Dave, Roger, Nick and Rick,. man they made some magic together. love your show dude.

Brilliant. My favorite album ever. Even beats CTTE, The Lamb, and so on. I need to find your full review ❤

Upon hearing this song so long ago, my memory's of my Grandmothers friend from the UK she describes her experiences during the war. Hiding in the tunnels in London and the Spitefire dog fights above her village. Why there are to this day huge divots in those farmers fields across the country side still. Craters long ago plowed over where the bombs fell. And the fields had to be replanted. The Final Cut album describes all of this more in depth, if ya listen close.

Thanks Doug. Need to get my original LP out. An Xmas present from my departed parents when I was a teenager

G.O.A.T. love Pink and especially David Gilmour! You need to watch "The Wall".

Thanks for this very interesting analysis. Wish I could name chords just by listening!

For me this little diamond is one of the most beautiful tracks on the album. And shows how deceptive a beautiful sky can be. Thanks for the reaction and analys Doug!!

This is actually my favourite PF song. Most people I tell go blank. The guitar just takes me away and is so sad. The live version was filmed on my 8th birthday. When I hear this I always want to learn guitar. I'm 50 now but have yet to take a lesson.

@Lleanlleawrg

4 ай бұрын

This is way up there. For me it's probably Time, When the Tigers Broke Free, or this one.

Hey Doug, this song is pretty apropos of what's going on in Gaza right now [1Dec2023]

An instant tearjerker every time it comes on...

Hey You, Nobody Home and Thin Ice are also decent tracks from The Wall. Greetings from Manchester UK.

I lived in NJ too. I was driving over the GWB. It was a perfect morning. Just spectacular. Then life changed forever.

One of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar, it’s haunting yet beautiful, simple but complicated. The song is masterful in its construction and how it pulls at your heartstrings.

That WAS such a beautiful day! In Miramichi New Brunswick,also!❤😥

One of the things that I love about this piece is just how much milage it gets out of these progressions. It certainly lives in more than one mode and considers the transition between modes equally important. It just shows how vital these concepts can be, you have all these complex clusters and what not that often are used in a similar way to an effect pedal yet here with only a handful of basic chords we get extremely rich musical landscapes that are different and are complimentary. It really is just expertly crafted.

One of the things that I love about this piece is just how much milage it gets out of these progressions. It certainly lives in more than one mode and considers the transition between modes equally important. It just shows how vital these concepts can be, you have all these complex clusters and what not that often are used in a similar way to an effect pedal yet here with only a handful of basic chords we get extremely rich musical landscapes that are different and are complimentary. It really is just expertly crafted. What an incredible quartet Pink Floyd was. I'm glad they had so many sonic travels, I mean Animals, Wish you were here, The Wall, Darkside, Meedle... That's a lot of extremely high quality music. Of course more would have been better but it really is an incredible body of work and I am quite grateful they didn't fizzle out quickly like say the Jimi Hendrix Experience, or Cream, or Nirvana... They lasted quite some time at the peak of their powers and even below peak they were incredible. Sad they don't get along as well, but at least they still live the great treasures they crafted.

You are a smart man Doug and obviously, a good man Take care

Yes, Harry is Roger's son, who he fired from a tour a few years back. He is a monster in so many ways.

@flyinpigmusic331

6 ай бұрын

I just read about that. Didn't even bother to give him a reason. Just "you're fired" out of the blue. Not cool.

I heard and loved this album so much as a young teen... just insanely powerful from start to finish. Then, eventually, in college I saw the movie. Completely changed how I view and feel this album. I "get" the music in a way I couldn't have imagined without doing so. It's such an impactful story. You absolutely MUST see the movie. I advise a dark room, and either an insane surround sound system, or your best headphones.

Doug, if you're going to watch the film, might as well do it as a reaction video! We're here for it.

Love the Grados!

Gives me chills.

This is one of my top favorite songs by them.

I hope he does an extended play lounge for the the live version

I was at the Saturday show at Earl's Court in 1981 (13 June) - it still remains as one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. You asked about what they did with the piece - to all intents and purposes they played the album almost verse for verse and note for note as the LP - probably because of the sequenced video / effects being timed to the playing. The only difference I can recall was the inclusion of the "What Shall We Do Now" piece that is listed in the LP lyrics but not on the album

For bomber planes of any era prior to modern navigation systems, blue skies (or at least not heavily cloudy) were necessary to be able to bomb effectively. Therefore, people on the ground feared blue skies. Some still do. The song is about the ominous nature of seemingly the most lovely thing, a blue sky.

I went to that concert at Earls Court. They did build the wall and gradually disappeared behind it. Totally awesome experience

Was fortunate enough to see the Wall concert. The song is near the beginning. The concert was truly over the top. Throughout the whole concert they built a very large wall between the stage and the audience only the tear it down in the end. Besides that large construction crew there was a very large mixed choir and equally large boys chorus and what looked like an equally large 100? piece Orchestra. One of those concerts after it was over you sit there with feeling profound. Only concert that could compare was the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. that concert covered much of the wall but also much of all other albums. It was the longest concert with just a single band performing I've ever attended. And loudest as well. Been a fan of Pink Floyd since 1968. Seen the Animals and Dark Side of the Moon The Wall and Momentary Lapse of Reason twice. Yeah twice. The second was a Encore concert which also sold out within a few hours. If you have not watched the movie you're missing out. The music is the same and the visuals are as good as the music. 🤠🏞️🐂

I was teaching my daughter guitar when she was 10. This was her favorite song to play along with me

Major it’s a very nostalgic tonality

My favorite recording of the wall is the earls court performance. It has so much more nuance and variation that works throughout the entire album.

Make sure you're in a good place when you watch 'The Wall', Doug.

Hey Doug, I am really supported to see that Sleep Token hasn't made it onto your radar yet, so here you go. They are an anonymous band from the UK that blend genres with the most amazing musical composition I've ever heard and I thought that you would absolutely enjoy them

This is my favorite Floyd song of all time!

Tiger Broke Free - I wish this song would have been on the album just like in the animation. It would have made one of the greatest album. Just that much more amazing. It did finally get release later.

Not alone there. When I walking through campus (William & Mary) that day, that song was in my head.

I always grew up as this track being one of those famous tracks.

Really like your thoughts & your personal recollection of 9/11, memories from long ago can still bring poignant thoughts into perspective, in this case The Blitz & other German bombing to Britain, very relevant to present day conflicts, our triune brain memory remembers

I like your little piano accompaniment Doug. Yes watch the movie. I say it adds perspective, some say orherwise, but no matter there until you experience it for yourself.

I was 8 years old when this album came out. This song reinforced the paranoia of nukes that people my age grew up with.

I would sing this while puttering around the house and my kids were always intrigued by the descending vocal line.

love your vids! how can we see your full reaction to the wall??

Joni Mitchell sings this at rogers live in Berlin concert, probably my favourite version of this great song

Excellent! Thanks! Doug, please do your thing with The Aristocrats song Jack's Back. You'll love it!!!

The movie version is cool , "Mother" is another great track. Doug you would like the movie. My grandfather told me it was a perfectly blue sky the morning 😮 of the attack on pearl harbor. I would love to see your reaction to Nazareth's "Hair of the dog". I think you'll be surprised. With the passing of Dan McCaffery I think it's worth a listen.Thanks.

thx or this one! Pink Floyd is always a gift=)

Very beautiful and dark song, Say still relevant to this day

My Dad used to work in the film industry, a company that supplied cameras & equipment to film makers. He was looking after The Wall film. I was about 12, and he brought me to Pinewood Studios to watch the special effects shot of the Wall being blown up for the film. Just my luck the shot failed and I went home dissapointed. I did goto Pinewood another time, they were filming an episode of Magnum, met Tom Selleck (as a kid he looked massive), also saw the guy who played higgins, he was busy sitting in one of those tall ACTOR chairs smoking a cigarette through a tube, like The Penguin had on 60,s Batman. It was a good day out, but still a bit sad did not see Zeus and Apollo 😢

The childhood memory songs are all in a major key. Look it up.

Pink Floyd became more than a band or group to a musical work of art.

Reminds me of something Sara Bareilles said. I’m paraphrasing.”If you have a good or up beat melody you can get away with sad or tragic lyrics”. Thanks Doug I haven’t heard this on in decades

I was there all those years ago. I didn't have a ticket but I went up to Earls Court in the hope of getting myself one. I payed an absolute fortune to a tout. In excess of £100 which at the time was ridiculous, but I just had to see them. Worth every penny. Regarding Goodbye Blue Sky, as mentioned elsewhere, you have to watch the animated sequence in the movie. A bit of background as for why if you're not already familiar with this. On The Wall, Goodbye Blue Sky segues into Empty Spaces, another short but immensely powerful piece. The thing is, due to limited space on the LP, the Empty Spaces piece was cut in half, the second unused part being What Shall We Do Now. In the film it is restored to all it's full glory and forms part of one of the most amazing and powerful pieces of animation set to music you will ever see, namely Goodbye Blue Sky-Empty Spaces-What Shall We Do. It was always performed live in this 3 piece version, with the animation from the film projected on to the erected wall in front of the band. Both Scarfe's animation and Floyds music are magnificent.

@Enrico.Sbardolini

5 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/iY13zq2hgcnelZM.html Amateur video but that's exactly what "the audience" manages to live …

this is my favorite song off the single greatest achievement in rock music history... pink floyd's the wall stands alone and above all other albums. these are memories of the german bombardment of the british isles in the second world war, when pink would have been a child. you should really watch the movie. it helps to understand the album, if you don't know pink floyd well.

Cool Grado dude..

I like your channel very much. the thing i like the most about music is harmonic tensions. I suggest you reffer to them more often if you feel like it. for example, in this song the Bm has a G in it (#5). you can go further down the rabbit hole and find it's not a Bm at all, but the haunting feeling is caused by this half-step tension (G, F#). same goes for the Am, which is actually a C/A (A is a peddal point over two chords that non of them has A in it). thanx!

You gotta see the animations used in the Alan Parker movie, made by Gerald Scarfe. Awesome!

I saw "The Machine" the other night

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!! WE NEED

There’s a tune called What Shall We Do Now? that was left off the album. Check that one out.

maybe what I am about to say is a very sacrilege... but the melody of the phrase in the chorus 'good bye blue sky'.... reminds me so much to the one of 'good bye ruby tuesday' of The Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd and Hawkwind are the 2 most important bands ever (lyrically and musically). Can't believe Doug has not done any Hawkwind tracks after doing almost 700 hundred of these shows. Is he not aware of the band yet ?

There were another "hit" from The Wall, which was played sometimes on radio: "Run Like Hell"...

Rick & Morty have an episode from season 6 where this song is used overlaying scenes of a planetary war of devastating destruction. So well suited I almost cried.

Yes that is Harry Waters, Roger’s son. He is now an accomplished musician in his own right.

I never looked into it. did they not tour for the final cut?

@seamus2112ophelan

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely not

Just now noticed something. I know where Metallica got the musical inspiration for the intro to "Fade To Black". Exact same "B" chord with the same progression.

They play the entire album in that show.

Hello Doug, i was asking to myself, do you have planned listening stuff like gorguts or king crimson some day?

@stevea3149

6 ай бұрын

I think I heard him mention he’s covered some King Crimson on one of his other channels/platforms; one to yet I am not currently a subscriber. Would love to hear an analysis of “The Court of the Crimson King”! (Sorry to be a butt-in-ski lol)

@trapitogamer999pro4

6 ай бұрын

@@stevea3149 thx for the info Man, and a i understand, you know Fripp Is very strict about His music

Should do Is there Anybody Out There? Next!!!

the movie makes a lot more sense of the album, it's a must watch

Please watch "The WALL" and definitely record it as a reaction!! I would love to see that. The Wall was a huge impact for me during college years.