The Wall is hands down the best visual depiction of the despair and self-hatred that comes with depression

@Exspazament

Жыл бұрын

Depression, isolation, hate, loathing, fascism and fear. This album/concept piece shows us the dangers of all of these. The "good" guy can easily become the bad guy given the right circumstances like in Pink's case. He became the very thing have never thought he would.

@Exspazament

Жыл бұрын

"If I had my way, I'd have all of ya shot!" Is a clear sign he despises the crowd, not just a select few. To him, everyone is nothing but worms until he realises those same worms will eat from the inside out along with his own insecurities.

@Exspazament

Жыл бұрын

The trial is nothing more than pink coming to terms with the pain he has caused on others, the trauma he dealt with as a boy and most importantly, the way he dealt with it himself. Tearing down the wall is a sign of moving forward and showing that he can move on. In the alhum, it's a loop, for the film, it's a climactic break to the cycle of failure. It paints a picture of growth and prosperity after disaster.

@corntastrophy

Жыл бұрын

@@Exspazament The album is more relevant than it was when it came out. A lot of fascist pundits rise when there is dire times within a country. Depression, both economically and emotionally. And nothing has changed 100 years later. America itself is becoming the thing it swore it'd never become. We separated from the tyrannical world ruler of Britain, only to become the world ruling tyrant in the end.

@truthkitty8198

Жыл бұрын

@@Exspazament You’re missing it.

it's a shame that "what shall we do now?" wasn't in the original album

@k0n158

3 жыл бұрын

I'm praying that Roger still may have the studio version lying around. I'd love to hear a version without the excess sound effects and a better outro, without the smashing window.

@k0n158

3 жыл бұрын

@@TravisPrybylski I don't believe it would have fit. First off, Empty Spaces is a reprise of What Shall We Do Now?, and this song also includes a lot of musical elements and the four note leitmotif found on The Wall. I believe that if the song were remade with the same lyrics, but different sound, it would most likely fit on The Final Cut, as the song is a critique on consumerism and its greedy use of religion for self gain, as well as how frivolous it is to fill in "empty spaces", or traumas in your life with worthless junk.

@k0n158

3 жыл бұрын

@@HaroldThaBarrel Looking it up, I see that the album you are referring to was made by a tribute band, and not the official recording.

@HaroldThaBarrel

2 жыл бұрын

@@k0n158 Just saw that tribute album. They did a pretty damn good job with it.

@Gr8fulBee

2 жыл бұрын

Bro that’s what I think about every day

How this got left out of the original album is a complete mystery to me. I will never understand how this utterly angry and sublime piece could have been cut.

@TheMadcap919

Жыл бұрын

From what I’ve heard, it was cut out due to the limitations of the Vinyl record or something like that. I’ve also heard it was a very last minute decision.

@muscles5714

Жыл бұрын

Some men in a suit won't let it be there

@user-bs6th7vq2p

Жыл бұрын

I agree... Makes owning the movie that more special

@henrykrinkle3

Жыл бұрын

@@user-bs6th7vq2p There's a vinyl version which includes it.

@FireJojoBoy

Жыл бұрын

@@henrykrinkle3 there is? I've only heard that the song is on the tracklist, but I don't think that there ever was a studio recording of the wall that had this song in it

The dueling flowers marriage metaphor is one of the most powerful pieces of animation ever.

@sparkydoggo8691

3 ай бұрын

yeah i like the flower sex too!

Easily the most underrated The Wall song. Hands down one of the best as well.

@bare_bear_hands

2 жыл бұрын

Not the song's fault. It's missing from the album, despite the lyrics being in the sleeve.

@Teleausencia

2 жыл бұрын

Right? For me is one of the best, if not the best song from the Wall.

@locutus1126

2 жыл бұрын

agreed! When I saw the wall tour, the hilight for me was goodbye blue sky-empty spaces and then what shall we do now. such a great concert!

@aflordomar

2 жыл бұрын

the most underated the wall song is probably nobody home

@axelsandi

2 жыл бұрын

@@locutus1126 it's incredible. no matter how often i watch this clip, it NEVER seizes to boggle my mind. Also, im really really happy u could see the tour. I wasn't around back then, but I've had the gift of seeing us and them and... jeez Louise

Fun Fact: That is the reaction of a real operator that was recorded by Roger Waters while calling his friend Chris Fitzmorris in London. “We were in L.A. at Producer’s Workshop so I phoned my neighbour, Chris Fitzmorris in London. He had the keys to my flat and I asked him to go there and said that I would call him through an operator. “No matter how many times I call”, I said, “just pick up the phone, say ‘Hello’, let the operator speak and then hang up”. I placed a telephone in a soundproof area, got on to an extension phone and started recording to 1/4″ tape. It took a couple of operators - the first 2 were a bit abrupt, but the 3rd was perfect. I told her that I wanted to make a collect call to Mrs. Floyd. “Who’s calling?” she asked. “Mr. Floyd”, I replied. Chris’ timing was terrific, over and over he would hang up just at the right moment and she became genuinely concerned. “Is there supposed to be someone there besides your wife?” I was playing her along saying things like “No! I don’t know who that is!” and “What’s going on?” and she would try the call again. Unwittingly, she was helping to tell the story. Afterwards I went through the 1/4″ and edited my voice out, just leaving her and Chris. I sometimes wonder if she ever heard herself on the record.”

@yodude9624

9 ай бұрын

Bad ass story. 100%

Something that dawned on me for the first time really is how everything this song is talking about, is presented as aspirational by our culture today. This non stop hustle and grind culture, the obsession with material things above all else, and extreme isolation it demands from us to do it properly. The wall created by this drive turns everything around it into something hideous and evil. A flower becomes barbed wire, a church is smashed and becomes a glittering casino like monster offering neon trinkets that quickly become more bricks. We all live more atomized lives than ever and this piece may be one of the more universal ones in it.

@rebekahtowers7130

Ай бұрын

@h69dy the Floyd obviously thought those were problems of that day. Their songs were not about a dystopian future. They were protesting the trappings of white collar rat race life & perpetual seeking of wealth.

Gerald Scarfe's work in this movie is stupendous. Potent, nightmarish. There's a brutal cynicism in the song, and the imagery conveys it with grisly power. I love the snouts of expensive cars poking out of the wall. Yep, need more stuff to fill your life, not too many things that can't be helped with an ostentatious and over-priced car.

@pulse4503

2 жыл бұрын

Its work here, still holds up big time

@nooneinparticular5256

2 жыл бұрын

"not too many things that can't be helped with an ostentatious and over-priced car." Yeah, just ask Clarkston.

@mikelace9734

2 жыл бұрын

bought new guitars..driven more powerful cars..worked straight thru nights..just have not filled attic with cash...but will keep trying just like I have since I was 15 in 1988 when I first watched the wall on vcr hahaha..keep pink yall GB

@terriquinlan7683

2 жыл бұрын

@@nooneinparticular5256 I presume you mean Jeremy Clarkson. His car might have had a few flaws.

@corntastrophy

2 жыл бұрын

nowadays you find cars like those in the junkyard. saw an old mercedes just rusting away in the back of someones barn

This is 4:26 minutes of pure mental ecstasy. Fun story: Years ago I had a friend who had just discovered Pink Floyd through watching The Wall, the movie. He liked this specific song so much he went on and bought the album, he was massively bummed when he realized this masterpiece was not in there. I still remember his nagging about it.

@CoryAlphin

Жыл бұрын

It is hands down one of my favorite songs on the film. It drives home the premise beautifully! I've always been disappointed it wasn't on the soundtrack, but I guess that's what makes the film that much better than the album and that is saying something. I would also add "When the Tigers broke free."

@timarcella

Жыл бұрын

Prove it

@jakeplumber1373

8 ай бұрын

Lol i bet he was searching the tracks for days. Ive made the same mistake actually

@jakeplumber1373

8 ай бұрын

​@timarcella pics or it didn't happen

Only Floyd could do a movie that's half live-half cartoon with no dialogue, yet still makes complete sense .

@VioletSkiesX

3 ай бұрын

Only Roger

@snelgrave101

3 ай бұрын

@@VioletSkiesX he does have a unique albeit inflated head, to be fair Alan parker the director didn't let him bully him in his vision of how it should be filmed, great movie, and the album won't be beaten EVER.

@AlbertoHernandez-ij1ik

2 ай бұрын

The genius who did that was Alan Parker. It's the only case a film was made for music. Always is the other way.

@skyyy710

Ай бұрын

But there is dialog in the movie quite a bit

@skyyy710

Ай бұрын

​@VioletSkiesX most the film isn't pink floyd singing

This song is honestly just amazing and so catchy, by far probably one of Pink Floyd’s best song, it’s such a shame it wasn’t released

@nyahhbinghi

2 жыл бұрын

yes catchy is the first word that came to mind here lol

@markcoutts7750

5 ай бұрын

How about, "When the Tigers broke Free??? Wonder why that wasn't allowed on the original recording release as well. Hmm see Roger Waters album later in life the powers that be, for the answer to that.

Every decade the message of this song applies more and more to our society. We are desensitizing our younger minds with amplified consumerism to the point where we don’t even know what we want anymore. At this point, a majority of people get their gratification from how many likes they can get on a picture.

@Justin_Leone

Жыл бұрын

You've reached 25 likes on this comment! Nice work! Something to be proud of!

@settlece

Жыл бұрын

how crushing when it is you peep behind wall and it all means nothing. Enjoy all wile it works hay bud have a like

@mr.nazareth4501

Жыл бұрын

And just like this song, you haven't told us anything new

@sexobscura

Жыл бұрын

People have ALWAYS been feckless There's just so many MORE nowadays

@peterbelanger4094

Жыл бұрын

It's easy to attach some kind of 'ism' to it, when it goes much deeper than that. There is a hunger deep in us humans, one that can not be subdued by some new "ism' to cure the ills of the previous 'ism'. It is a deep primal instinct found in all of nature ........ MORE

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where waves of hunger roar? Shall we set out across this sea of faces in search of more and more applause? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights, leave the lights on, drop bombs, do tours of the East, contract diseases? Bury bones, break up homes, send flowers by phone? Teach a trick, go to shrinks, give up meat, rarely sleep? Keep people as pets, train dogs, race rats, fill the attic with cash, bury treasure, store up leisure? But never relax at all, with our back to the wall.

@baxlife334

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what's happening now in November 2022

@guccifruit9516

Жыл бұрын

@@baxlife334 how?

@humphreybumblecuck5151

Жыл бұрын

It’s not teach a trick but “take to drink”

@humphreybumblecuck5151

Жыл бұрын

It’s keep people as pets, train dogs, race rats.

@liorcohen1221

Жыл бұрын

You're a saint

This song is addictive as hell.

The first 40 seconds of this never fail to give me chills

40+ years on and it still gives me goosebumps.

Who just love s pink floyd?

This movie was my anthem. I have gone through so much shit from my childhood up to adulthood and never git over it just built a wall around it never showing my hurts and pains. This was my go to therapy. I couldnt trust anyone. FML. Pink Floyd is the best. 51 yrs old and still listen to them passing their music down to my children and grandchildren. This band will not be forgotten as i most likely will.😢

Despite it's a fast tempo song, its lyrics brought tears to my eyes because it's so true. We never relax at all in the end!

@JeanMarceaux

Жыл бұрын

It's around 100 bpm, that's actually fairly slow by music standards. Don't Fear The Reaper, which I wouldn't consider a fast song either, has a tempo of 140-142 bpm.

@Ahmad-Mounir44

Жыл бұрын

@@JeanMarceaux You're right! It really depends on how fast your notes are, not tempo. If you write in 16th notes in 4/4 time signature with 95 tempo, you get a fast song and less bars consumption in the recording software. And vice versa! If you write in quarter or 8th notes in 140 tempo song, you get a slow or medium fast song and more bars consumption.

The animation is so great. At age 13 I memorized this song and can still sing it verbatim. God Pink Floyd is amazing.

@jerrydonquixote5927

Жыл бұрын

Is that for me too I was 13 when it came out seen the movie in Irving Mall the first time and watched hundreds of times after at home still do occasionally in love it just as much as I did the first time...

@tyrancarter9684

Жыл бұрын

At 13 I was singing In The Flesh and Waiting For The Worms

@Peter_Muskrats_void

10 ай бұрын

Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall I buy a new powerful car? Can drive straight through the night?

@VioletSkiesX

3 ай бұрын

I saw The Wall live at earls court 1980. I was 7. I still remember people saying, look at that kid, she knows the words! 😂 When we just had videos, every day B4 my parents wd wake up I'd watch The Wall or Flash Gordon, that's all we had. The album is the album of my life, I don't mean I've lived the life of Pink but the music has always been there.

Christ... This was one hell of a movie. Nothing else quite like it.

That is one of the finest marriages of music and animation I've ever seen - absolutely brilliant! Scarfe and Waters deserved at least a BAFTA award for that alone!

@PabloPerez-ed9gp

6 ай бұрын

May b🙂

I was so high on liquid acid when I first sat in a dark room and watched this. I’ll never forget it. Beautiful and absolutely disturbing all at the same time.

@RandomNPCS

Жыл бұрын

Damn

@a.c.c.entertainment7230

Жыл бұрын

Are you ok? @gydyup

@GaiaOversoul

Жыл бұрын

Sick. I took 3 tabs of acid and watched this. The acid really turns this movie on its head, making you question your sanity in some instances.

I wonder when this studio version of “What Shall We Do Now” will be released officially on an album. When pigs fly?🐷

@k0n158

3 жыл бұрын

Vinyl record limitations

@nectarinedreams7208

2 жыл бұрын

@@k0n158 Not sure if you've noticed, but it's not 1979 anymore.

@k0n158

2 жыл бұрын

@@nectarinedreams7208 I know that the original comment wasn't edited, but I remember it saying something else like "I wonder why this wasn't on the original album". My bad.

@nectarinedreams7208

2 жыл бұрын

@@k0n158 Ah, fair enough

@bradleydailey9641

2 жыл бұрын

When three different pigs fly

This one, rather short, song completely encapsulates The Wall. Criticism of society, governments, people's shallow desires, criticism of oneself. It has everything and I dare to say it's the best song from the album, possibly the whole discography, although I have very strong feelings for Sorrow.

Today's art can never compare to this masterpiece

Ty,for taking us on a journey through your phenomenal music 🎶 🎵. You take us places that is authentic and real and even hard to imagine or comprehend. But,you open our minds to things that are going on and have been going on for years.Ty,for your contribution to the music world 🌎. You did it with amazing lyrics and melody and sound.

The most trippy part of the movie imo, you're missing out if you haven't seen this movie high

I remember watching this while frying on acid when I was 20---pretty intense!

@trevortayler6258

Жыл бұрын

First time I saw the wall I was tripping on mushrooms and i peaked pretty hard at this point

I’d absolutely love it if this song was incorporated into a potential remaster for the 50th anniversary. To have it mixed in on a studio level would be a sight to behold, cause it’s truly a banger

@kmanthecoolest9304

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely needs a remaster

@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245

11 күн бұрын

Roger: ah you want a remaster again? *The Wall: in the style of William Shatner covering Rocket Man*

@elricofmelnibone425

11 күн бұрын

@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245I spit out my coffee, thanks lol

Love the little ol' ladies helping themselves! What shall we use to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger roar? Shall we set out across the sea of faces In search of more and more applause? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights? Leave the lights on? Drop bombs? Do tours of the east? contract diseases? Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone? Take to drink? Go to shrinks? Give up meat? Rarely sleep? Keep people as pets? Train dogs? Race rats? Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all With our backs to the wall

Gerald Scarfe animation is f***King amazing. Roger's cynical lyrics are also a joy and so realistic of a person in a downward spiral, to full on depression and ultimately lunacy.

Art, music, induces us to a thousand interpretations, so it is art. This song I don't know why it makes me imagine anything related to Stalingrad and its dead

I know all the words. I love this tune.

This song gives me chills

This movie was my introduction to Pink Floyd and The Wall and this was my favourite song in the entire film. I was pretty disappointed that the song wasn't on the album when I bought it.

amazing sound and video quality, exactly what i was looking for!

No one is better at singing lists than Roger Waters

The animation, along with the music (obviously), of this part of the movie always stood out to me. I love the movie, in its entirety, but the visual aspects of this part... the "sea of face", the wall just moving through the landscape, the screaming face coming from the brick, the violence, the screaming head that foams at the mouth, the transition of one for into another while heads are being bashed... It perfectly coveys what this scene was all about.

Pink Floyd really dropped the ball when they released the box set of the album and didn't include this track as well as other tracks in their original studio recorded form (In The Flesh? and The Show Must Go On to name just a couple which both had edits to them prior to the original albums release). Thankfully we have Is There Anybody Out There? to give us the album in it's full form as intended, but a 50th Anniversary full cut of the original album would be nice in 2029.

@stephgarcia7967

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be 2029?

@bennoakes2477

Жыл бұрын

not sure they'd notice the earnings difference due to this track over their career

@reginaldcampos5762

Жыл бұрын

They unfortunately ran out of space and had to throw it out.

@micks336

5 ай бұрын

Stawwwwwwpppp!!! I was born in 1979. I am still trying to just cope with turning 45. 😂

This is a timeless lesson.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie I just love this part!

My parent told me pink floyd would just be a phase.

@Dani-zg6qg

3 ай бұрын

HAUSHAU MINE TOO

@rockyford3

2 ай бұрын

That has lasted for 50+ years

I like how What Shall We Do Now visualizes what will happen next with Pink (the main character) when he completes his wall. Some of my favorite parts are where many appliances and cars show up is personally one of my favorites, as it shows a criticism on consumerism and materialism, and also the part where Pink's ragdoll form gags, and then morphs into various things that will happen next, such as a MP-40, an IV needle, and a hammer (suggesting what Pink will slowly become. The MP-40 is his violent nature, the IV needle represents the plot of Comfortably Numb, and the hammer represents songs like In the Flesh 1 and 2, Run Like Hell, and Waiting for the Worms). They have such good animations, all animated by my personal favorite animator, Gerald Scarfe. Thanks to The Wall Analysis for these representations

As relevant today as it was then...another great song that never was heard by so many. Reminds me of "When the Tigers Broke Free" in its empathetic ability

The animation is everything on this track.

Pink floyd played themselves for not putting this on the album. Damn, waters is a genius

Oh so good. Sooooooo good. So many years later. Eternal

This album and movie is a masterpiece. Top 5 of all time.

This is the best Quality I have ever seen. Graphics and sound! Great Job!

Wow! This is the best quality upload of this scene I've seen!

Just amazing, I was a Sophomore in High School when I first saw this; changed my life forever; 25 years later Pink Floyd will always be my favorite band.

The Beauty is in not knowing but in the " keep going and going and going!?!😂❤👍😘😭❤️🙏

it really got me with the "keep people as pets?" lyric..

imagine seeing this as a toddler and then finding it again 40 years later with no context on what it was or where you saw it.

This video is enough to explain life on Earth.

Breaking down the stronghold and walls exposing them all

So sad that this song has never been released, except in live versions that don’t carry the same punch.

Bro the music just flows

When I was like younger I loved Pink Floyd but then when I saw the animations I was scared I’ve got nightmares but now I came back and became a fan again and the music and animations are strong af and 2:42 is my favorite and 2:49

@ChromeDestiny

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wish the whole Wall film had been animated.

@74tripler

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya. This movies animation scenes scared me as a kid as well. Especially the face coming out of the wall 🫣

@andychandler1737

Жыл бұрын

40 years later after seeing it as a kid I still have nightmares of being in Pink Floyd Land where people are all melty and deformed.

This piece spoke to me in ways language hadn’t. Damn I wish it had more.

This and Stay from Obscured By Clouds are my Pink Floyd favourites

Thanks for the quality upload.

40 years later and look at us now...

This song Always pulls it together

Prophetic

I get literal goosebumps when listening to this damn song every fucking time holy shit

Videos on this channel are of the best quality.

Still one of my favourite tracks from The Wall, I just love the sheer intensity and drama of it, and I agree, this absolutely should have been on the album version.

This is one of the best animations I ever seen

@ChromeDestiny

Жыл бұрын

I often wish the whole Wall film had been animated.

Awesome 💯😎

Remember my dad watching this when I was a babe. I'm still listening 40yrs later.

This music video is a perfect mirror of not only in the state of the mall in the world but of the mall in the internet and particularly fandoms and one of a well animal variety if you know what I mean because it never started out like this.

Vraiment une superbe pièce... C'est à partir de ce morceau que le film bascule. J'ai peut-être vu ce film une centaine de fois et j'écoutais déjà Pink floyd avant C'est un des plus grands groupes de tous les temps et je suis fan de musique symphonique de punk, de rock, ska, reggae, oï, chanson française ou irlandaise il faut écouter de ( presque ) tout c'est une nourriture spirituel la musique

The drums rock awesome 👍😎-.

Big respect for this song.From Russia.

I watched "The Wall" more than 50 times and to this day everything in this work is new to me. Love it too much!

Can not stop looping this Pink Floyd track.

I am not a brick in their wall, I am a brick through their window.

Top notch video, and WAY more importantly, good sound quality.

This segment means so much to me thank you.

Absolutely love pink Floyd.❤️❤️

This is included in my VHS tape of the wall,shall we buy a new guitar……fcking legend

@andrewphillips3827

10 ай бұрын

Shall we buy a new guitar,shall we drive a more powerful car……learnt these lyrics…legendary

Extraordinary I mean PERFECT !!

This is the best sequence in the movie. I recall my brother saying that music videos were the worst thing ever because they contradict the image that you already had in your head when you were listening to the song... Um, NO. Just as often, the visuals elevate the song, especially when they're animated like this.

Remembering my innocent 11 year old self watching this.

I love the grannies at the end

Waters voice was at its peak

Absolutely perfect

This album was my favourite when I was 12, on the cusp of adolescence. Listening to it now as an adult who has spent most of my postadolescent life trying and failing to fill the empty spaces in my life with applause, this resonates intensely. This movie is perhaps the greatest depiction of trauma and borderline personality disorder ever put to celluloid. Try as you might, you won't ever heal by building a wall. The only way to heal is to TEAR DOWN your wall, and that takes a lot of hard mental work and introspection, which is what happens to Pink at the end of the story. To all those currently stuck on this road with me, I hope you tear down your wall someday. But until then, know that I love you, and I hope you're doing well.

@timarcella

Жыл бұрын

Sending oodles of attention your way. Hope your ego is tingling.

@snelgrave101

8 ай бұрын

First full album I listened to when I was about 6-8 my brother was heavily into Floyd (mid 80s) now at 44 I still tell everyone this album is more than a masterpiece, there's no describing it really, everytime I hear it I get transported back to a different time, every time I see the movie I spot something in it I've never seen before, BEST ALBUM EVER, NO CONTEST.

@K1ng1995

8 ай бұрын

The problem is no one wants to tear down those walls because it takes effort and people are scared to fail so they won't try

Watched this all the time on an old VHS. Scared the hell out of me. Ended up getting The Wall on my 15th birthday, and the rest is history as they say

Абсолютно потрясающий видеоклип, с богатым воображением, фантазией, браво исполнителям. А Флойд, как всегда 👍света из Франции

This must have been written in 1978/79 - very prescient actually with some of the lyirics. Waters is a top class songwriter whether you agree with his politics or not, a first-class chronicler of world events.

& more & More & MORE !

We all got empty holes in our life. Hope we all find good paths to have better fate

~~Ah, psychedelic memories&easily one of the more intense/favorites scenes too. Even though, those in the know know what I mean when I say, no matter how many times you truly experience The Wall. It's never the same/different each time.

Splendido video. Complimenti.

@antoniogiangregorio7101

3 жыл бұрын

Fa parte del film The Wall . È da pelle d'oca . Meravigliosi .

if you can let yourself go, this the most powerful meaning album, of all times! This album has torn me apart, Yet brought back!

Gerald Scarfe ❤️

The beauty of Nicam stereo VCRs were that it was possible to make stereo cassette copies of bits of soundtracks missing off albums. In the case of The Wall, it was this track and the full version of Outside The Wall from the closing credits - I think there was a longer track at the start as well, portraying Pink’s dad during the war?…….I still have the cassette - even made an album artwork replica for the inlay card. Ah, youths eh?