It’s a concept record... which you should listen to in its entirety

@AndresFernandezSoftwareLibre

4 жыл бұрын

The will help a lot to understand this huge master piece...

@sobo2001

4 жыл бұрын

or better yet watch the movie.

@basedsalty6970

4 жыл бұрын

The movie does help with a adaptation and it is worth watching. I really enjoyed the movie myself

@basedsalty6970

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndresFernandezSoftwareLibre I thought so to

@alexfrank6534

4 жыл бұрын

Fumanchu1 5150 a lot of people didn’t like it.... i loved ot

Pink Floyd did not write songs, they wrote albums.

@SoCalDan530

4 жыл бұрын

And Pink Floyd did not write this album. Rodger Waters did. Thats why it bombed in 1980 when it first came out.

@johnnyjohnny8636

Жыл бұрын

Albums full of songs. Why are Floyd fans so cringy lol

@revanasywal

6 ай бұрын

​@@johnnyjohnny8636you just dont get it lol, i mean u gen z had 0 music knowledge

you guys have to listen to the whole album, then you'll understand everything better

@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc

4 жыл бұрын

And watch the movie too.

@basedsalty6970

4 жыл бұрын

Plz watch the movie

@alestc_494

4 жыл бұрын

I think they should listen to the album and then watch the movie 'Cause "Hey you" is not even in the movie

@Funktaro5

4 жыл бұрын

The album is one of the best albums by one of the best bands of all time. The movie feels like something done by an amateur art student. Definitely don't let that be your first impression of the album.

@rtwbikerider

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, listen to the album straight through, first. Then, watch Roger Waters’ The Wall - Live in Berlin. Then, his recent The Wall blue ray. Finally, watch the movie with Bob Geldof.

You know, you could just do the whole album and a lot of these questions about the songs are made very clear. It’s every bit the metaphorical wall you guessed at, but there’s a bigger story surrounding it. Let’s do this. The Wall.

@ddcraun

4 жыл бұрын

I'd suggest doing each song on its own. THEN going back and taking the "cliff notes " you have compiled from each track and developing an opinion of the FULL album. It is a MASTERPIECE.

@Hobodeluxe960

4 жыл бұрын

or better yet watch the live concert dvd

@spiral2012

4 жыл бұрын

I never understand, half the time these lyric videos have errors. If you're going to spend the time to make a lyric video, you'd think you'd at least check them...

Wrong lyrics at times. "Don't help them to bury the LIGHT"

@jamesanderson5268

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I noticed that too.

@saraheart2804

4 жыл бұрын

Okay, I thought I had them wrong all these years. HaHa.

@travisgilmartin3569

4 жыл бұрын

The audio is off quite a bit too

@elingrome5853

4 жыл бұрын

I dont think you should read subs first listening anyway - distracts

@davidtester3239

4 жыл бұрын

You’re so right. Most times just look at the next line, and see if it rhymes. And live and fight don’t rhyme. So it has to be wrong.

Listen to the whole album then you will understand

The Wall revolves around a man who built a wall between himself and the rest of the world. In this particular song, there are three different voices. In the first part of the song, he thinks he hears a friendly voice calling him from the other side of the wall. The second voice is a narrator informing us that the voice was an illusion ("But it was only a fantasy, the wall was too high..."). The third voice is him, trying to reach out to people outside his wall ("Hey you! Can you hear me? ...Together we stand, divided we fall")

Hi guys. You really need to listen to the album in its entirety to truly understand what Pink Floyd is trying to say. The Wall is a concept album and a true masterpiece. It was intended as a complete idea not meant to be looked at as individual songs. Once you understand The Wall then you can appreciate the individual songs as pieces of the story. Even better than simply listening to the studio album, try watching a live performance of The Wall or even watch the movie.

@thebigeasye77

4 жыл бұрын

can you imagine if they listened to The Trial without hearing the album first? lol that'd be funny to see their reaction at least. They definitely need to do the entire album on here.

@PooPooPaGoo

4 жыл бұрын

I agree it should be listened in one sitting, or looked at as a whole. However, art is subjective and the great thing about it is you're allowed to take different interpretations than intended and they still be valid.

Great SONG Great album Great guitar work Love this jam Love me some Pink floyd 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

As I get older this album more and more becomes to me one of the greatest pieces of art in modern times. No music or even literature fan should go without completely immersing themselves in this album and analyzing what "the Wall" is and what life events are the bricks that build the wall. Hell beyond music no person who cares about humanity and social structures should miss the chance to analyze this album. I dated a Psychologist once and told her "I think listening to this album should be a part of curriculum in the PHd or at the very least a student thesis.

@ddcraun

4 жыл бұрын

Very true. The album is both literal and metaphorical. Your mood and individual thought process you are working with at the time you happen to be listening make a huge difference.

@mikemclaughlin3306

4 жыл бұрын

While I agree..... Gilmour hates it, and called it a whiney piece of crap

@thecoogs

4 жыл бұрын

PF will be studied in the future as we do Beethoven, Bach, Mozart et al...

@Jeraumina

Жыл бұрын

Completement d'accord avec cette analyse

One of the greatest songs from one of the greatest albums of all time

David Gilmour on vocals, guitar, and fretless bass. Roger providing the lyrics and concept and David bring his many talents to the musical side...that was the Floyd magic right there.

@basedsalty6970

4 жыл бұрын

The magic never would have happened if it weren't for sid

@KyleS.1987

4 жыл бұрын

@@basedsalty6970 True. I meant no disrespect to Syd Barrett; I just personally prefer the direction the band went after he left.

@JoelBrousseau

4 жыл бұрын

Roger sings the second half of this song though

@gianlucad8003

6 ай бұрын

Watters was the most prolific lyrical writer I have evert known and Gilmour is the most prolific musical writer I have ever known. They were so great together, such a shame they way they ended up.

The album is about a musician that builds a mental wall between himself and his everyone around him including his audience, and slowly goes crazy. I won't tell you how it ends, you'll have to listen.

Sori is bang on! He's built up a wall to protect himself and is now trying to brake that wall down.

@ralphdougherty1844

4 жыл бұрын

Jared Young break

Vin, you mixed up Sisyphus (who had to roll a rock uphill for eternity) and Prometheus (who stole the fire of the gods and gave it to mankind) The latter was chained to the Atlas mountains and had his liver eaten by an eagle each day, only for it to regrow each night.

@TheBlackQueen

4 жыл бұрын

Revyl Okesh Interestingly enough, Pink Floyd have a four part song called Sysyphus.

@KabukiKid

4 жыл бұрын

I had to check the comments to see if someone already corrected this. Nice, brief explanation.

When you realize the “live” concept of what The Wall is, and where this song falls in that concept of the live show, it’ll make so much more sense. Hey You opens the second half of the show after the intermission. The last thing you see as an audience member right before the intermission is the last brick being placed into the wall that is literally being built between the band and the audience during the first half of the show. When the show continues, the audience cannot see the band. They only see The Wall. Once you realize that, the lyrics are quite literally talking to the audience on the other side of the wall.

Love you guys! 💓

You should react to the entire album. The album is divided into two parts, where you can make a separate video for each one. Part 1 tells the story of the protagonist and how he built the psychological/mental wall between himself and the world, to escape from the things that he was not able to handle in life. This part ends with the song "Goodbye Cruel World" as he is entering the wall. Part 2 tells the story of the protagonist after being trapped behind the wall and tries to find a way to get out. This part starts with the song "Hey You" which you've just reacted to. This is an essential listen. Enjoy.

@mikemclaughlin3306

4 жыл бұрын

Ummm.... it's on 2 discs...... it was released in 4 parts. Apart 1 (side 1) waters childhood, sets the mood, and the causes of his codepenency (trauma of father dying and smothering mother) the foundation of the wall. Part 2 (side 2) the self destruction of his marriage and the overarching sense of doom from living through the cold war. Completion of the wall. Part 3 (side 3) wall built. Totally cut of from both other people and his own humanity, pink turns to drugs to feel any normalcy. Part 4 (side 4) total madness. Shows that mental illness, unchecked, will keep repeating.

Well said that man.

My favourite Floyd song!!! So perfect

Sori, you remember the line "Is there anybody in there?" from their song Comfortably Numb, which is on a different record.

....THE GOAT.... ....THE GREATEST.... ....PAST....PRESENT.... ....FUTURE....PINK FLOYD....

Another amazing song from the greatest acid rock band of all time!!!!!

I can see the emotions on your face. That's love for music.

"Hey you, standing in the isles with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?" is Pink the rock star, spiraling down, but reaching out beyond his "wall" while on stage, playing, he is speaking to the audience.

The depth if this song is incredible

My favorite Pink Floyd song

This song and the entire album is about Isolation. The character Pink Floyd is a rock star who grew up with an over protective mother but without a father (who died in WWII). He begins to grow up feeling alone and seeing the flaws in everyone as he becomes more distanced from society, hence building a metaphorical Wall to separate himself from the world. This song is after he finishes his Wall as he begins to regret it, asking for hope that someone will help him.

this is my favorite, for me its about opening your mid and heart and letting helping the next person

The Wall could have so many different meanings. You guys must to do the whole album. One of the best master pieces of the rock history!

@basedsalty6970

4 жыл бұрын

Probably there most successful work and my favorite

@theawesome1rjc

2 жыл бұрын

It could be interpreted in many ways, but the truth is one. All of Pink Floyd’s music is geared towards uncovering the nature of your existence. We spend all our lives going outwards in search of fulfilment, it’s never occurred to us to seek within - the only place you have ever experienced anything. All the best :)

They use "the stone" in a few of their songs meaning our individual weights of our worlds.

Remember people!Together we stand,divided we fall!

Pink Floyd is not just music it's a journey

Yes!!!! Missed ya two! And a gr8! Song!!!!

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here!!

Listening the the Wall is like reading a book, you can't jump around chapters and understand it, you have to go in order and do the whole thing.

I watched the show in Austria(Wiener Neustadt), on a small airport in the open and that's why we had fireworks to! Keep reacting! Greetings from Austria! Lg from Marco

Im still waiting for the reaction of the 5 big albums(Animals, meddle, DSOTM, Wish you were here, The wall)

@mattimatasch94

4 жыл бұрын

They already did dsotm

@slartybartfast4213

4 жыл бұрын

would love a reaction to Animals, their best imo

@KyleS.1987

4 жыл бұрын

I'd *love* to see them react to "Dogs." Musically brilliant, and soooooo much to dig into lyrics-wise.

@thebigeasye77

4 жыл бұрын

yeah they've done DSOTM already like a year ago. They did 2 songs at a time and broke it down as well as listened to the entire thing in one sitting. I always felt they needed to do The Wall with how the lyrics are as I'm sure they'd enjoy analyzing it all. Animals also a great one to do. Hopefully they'll do another full album from Pink Floyd again.

@robertmcgregor1514

4 жыл бұрын

Meddle is a fave for me that album before they broke all records with DSOTM a pre masterpiece to me

The wall is built through isolation & being raised in a single environment. The hope for connection to the world.

One of the great songs

Greatest band of ALL TIME.

Love this channel and the sight and ear they have for music

more pink floyd please

Everyone has his own favourite songs - like top 5, or top 10, or top so ever - and because I have listened so much music and I am listening so much new and explore old music, I have my top songs without a number (because they are coming every single day) and this one is (even out of the album) shining there on my top! Amazing piece of art, which I’ll not forget!

Great video one of my favorite songs by this band

To me ,the the most powerful line in the song , " Don't help them to bury the light ." Our problem is that there are too many out there who are trying to bury the light . The light of equal rights , equal justice and human dignity . If we stand united , we have a chance of stopping them. We must show them they are their own worst enemy.

The Wall is all about isolation. The story is about a fictional character named Pink. Several events in Pink's life are "bricks in the wall". The wall is made up of several things; losing his father to war (based on Roger Water's real life) an overbearing mother, abusive teachers, a cheating wife, greedy record companies, fame, and finally drugs and insanity (largely based on Syd Barrett, thier original singer/guitarist, who committed himself for LSD induced psychosis and then became a recluse).

YES VERY HELPFUL !!!!! Your channel changes life in a positive way...

This song explicitly encourages people to be autonomous!

Did you listen to the same music that was playing in the background of this video? The quality is TERRIBLE, and The Wall is one of the finest audio recordings in the history of music, so it is a shame listening to such a bad version. Anyways, great song and you should absolutely react to the whole double album. Much love from Israel 🇮🇱

@billoverson2263

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't stand the awful clipping/compression, so I opened up my copy on the media player and synced it. Thanks to Vin & Sori for calling "go!"

@jwalldal

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! The sound on that version was crap! 🙀

@rachidbenkada4060

4 жыл бұрын

The audio is terrible...sorry guys

This is part of a story. Consider watching the movie. Pink Floyd is total immersion. It’s a mind bending wild ride.

The Wall was like a rite of passage for us in the 90's.

You have to listen to the whole album. It's a story of a character's life, and each song tells another part. It won't make sense hearing the isolated songs. In fact, do a little research on the story line. It will make listening to the album more enjoyable I think.

@paulwalsh2344

4 жыл бұрын

NO don't do any spoilers... experience it ! You can listen to some of the songs beforehand... it was practically how most people were exposed to it, but don't listen and dissect EACH song first before listening to the whole album because then too many of your preconceived notions will bother you when watching or listening to it. Best to get to the complete album in it's entirety before that happens. Still songs like "Comfortably Numb" and "Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2" will only gain more meaning in their proper context.

Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain, and the walls we all build internally

boy, pink Floyd always brings back memories; mostly of being high as a kyte on acid. Drugs are bad, but they sure do go great with Floyd

Wow! She's pretty!

Listening to a single song off of the wall and trying to discern anything from it is like reading a single page of a book and trying to understand it or even grasp at its concept.

Hi Vin and Sori. I love your fresh perspective on Pink Floyd. I wanted to tell you, as a guy who has been married for 25 years, that I love the dynamics of the communication between you two. You have obvious respect for each other, and it is enjoyable to watch. You guys are great at discussing the lyrics-- I would appreciate a little more discussion on the music itself. gio

as others have said you should watch the movie the wall . it will explain so much of this album and other early floyd albums

The wall is 26 chapters of a life. Every single song fits so well together. Some songs are connecting words, some are paragraphs, and some just cant be described.

SORI, I LOVE YOUR HAIR!! I want to copy that. Love Pink Floyd!!

Summer of 91. I was 16. I was given a dub of this from LP to tape by my US History teacher, Amy Burke. I took this album on vacation with my walkman as my family drove to Florida that summer and WORE IT OUT. So many memories. Ms.Burke was hugely influential on my life in many ways, still to this day. I hope she is well and life is good, because through her lessons in US History, World History, and Applied Law classes from 10th grade through my senior year are still applied to this day. Rambling, I know, but that is partly due to our mutual love of music and a turn of phrase.

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

@dinahhaile2503

4 жыл бұрын

Year after year

@May2320101

3 жыл бұрын

Running over the same old ground

@abner0920

3 жыл бұрын

What have we found?

@panosmilios3451

3 жыл бұрын

The same old fears!

Awesome song

This makes a lot more sense after you watch the movie . Lots of sad stuffs on this album to make you look inward. Prob why I Love it so. Glad you did this.

i remember when i first listened to this song when i was kid, I felt like this song is about person lives in some kind of comformist society and wall is something that separates him and them. and his trying to reach people on some kind of psychological level and he does not give up the hope.

You two need to do the movie. Each song on the album is a chapter in a larger story. And the movie tells the story with live action and animation along with the music. The story of how we build a wall around ourselves to protect our inner self. And how we have to break down the wall to reconnect with others.

Very interesting reaction and thoughts! Keep it up

The wall is a concept album where all the songs are connected. Sitting naked by the phone is about Pink, who is so strung out and desperately lonely that he is waiting in his hotel suite for someone to reach out and help him

All the album is about the story of a guy who suffered traumas and built himself a wall to protect himself from the world. Til he understands that he is now trapped, out of reach from every one and incapable of reachung to the others.

@Penddraig7

4 жыл бұрын

It’s Roger Waters’ autobiography, the character Pink, is Roger

Can you guys please listen to the entire "The Wall" album? You won't be disappointed. Enjoyed your reaction.

@inkoinfinity2

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah when someone recommended me to listen to the album they made sure to say "listen to the whole thing or don't listen at all". This is common for pf fans.

Another record by Floyd you should do a live listen, Animals. It's another masterpiece.

No no no the wall can only be understood by listening to the whole album from start to finish!

Hahaha this is a couple!!! So funny how similar they are in vibe

This song loses a lot out of the context of The Wall.

@paulwalsh2344

4 жыл бұрын

I was on the fence about whether to agree that the song loses something out of it's context with the rest of "The Wall", I can't completely agree. I'll say that the context of each song is perfectly, almost unambiguously fleshed out when listening to the entire album at once.

yes!

Fantástica Banda Pink Floyd ---- Hey you Vin And Sori .. QUESTIONAR O INQUESTIONAVEL JAMAIS OK

Why is the audio so incredibly compressed? What it like this when you heard it?

@stampolaoc

4 жыл бұрын

you can find it on youtube if you search hey you lyrics. Its bad.

@19ThreeLions97

4 жыл бұрын

pink floyd - hey you [BASS BOOSTED] skrrrt

@skornthesnake6935

4 жыл бұрын

RIGHT!!! It's not a fukin Tupac song. Turn that bass down

@Tuning_Spork

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sounds like crap.

@bninem1397

4 жыл бұрын

@@19ThreeLions97 lol I had my sub at mid and BRRRRUUUUUUMMMMMM

You cant explain any one song on this double album of brilliance. It is a whole movie with songs included in every scene. Every song works together

Live in gnask nobody does reviews on this awesome concert David and Rogers voice totally complement each other

I have a tape 2 hours long with a DJ Jim Ladd, in 1979 interviewing Roger & Dave. This in the middle of the album he has HIS wall built. She was exactly right " the thing that separate us". That's what the Wall about ' Things that people do to build their walls as individuals, countries, religions. They both did an Excellent job figuring this out. Very close.

12:40 Sori hits home about the metaphorical wall this album is describing. The person desperately tries to escape the walls he's built around himself throughout his life experiences. Pink Floyd albums were meant to be listened to in their entirety.

It's a metaphorical wall , through childhood lose , trauma , marital and depression issues the character built this wall to shield himself from society , if I remember write this song is his inner thoughts wanting to break free and want someone to help break out of this own head

Great Song!!! 👍

One of the best Floyd songs - In case no one else mentioned this: listen to the entire album front to finish! :-)

You guys need to take the whole trip.

You must listen "the wall" entirely if you want to understand this. Who can understand a book, reading only one page? ........ same thing for "Dark side of the moon", "animals" or "the final cut" ....... love you reaction...

There's also a really great full length feature movie that helps to understand the meaning of this album.

Yes listen to the whole album it’s a story from beginning to end

The greatest deal with Pink Floyd's songs is that it's so metaphorical it fills all the space. Even though the album has its meaning, I could create my own when I listened it in my dark room struggling against myself. When I hear this lyrics, I see my inner self trying to connect with my outer self. It's like there's two universes separated by an invisible wall. At that time, I learned that I've always been in the concrate world that we see with our eyes, but there's an abstract universe deep inside of us. This helped me so much that I even have a tattoo around the top of my left arm with this personal meaning.

You guys will have a field day with this album.

You guys were spot on. I live this song every day. I've built up walls around myself for years now because of my growing depression and anxiety and generally being fed up with other people. It's only now within the last few years that I feel the need for a real human connection, but I've been isolated for so long that I am unable to even do it anymore. On the one hand, there is a desire to connect, but on the other hand I have become physically, mentally, and emotionally unable to. That's what the bridge in the song between verse two and three is talking about. "But it was only fantasy, the wall was too high as you can see, no matter how he tried he could not break free, and the worms ate into his brain." The worms, in my interpretation, represent him slowly going mad from the sardonic irony he feels over this issue, knowing he did this to himself, but now wanting desperately to escape it and being unable to. Of course, I could just be projecting that last bit...

Yes! The Wall in its entirety......

As originally conceived this song followed Comfortably Numb. At the last minute it was moved to its current location at the beginning of side 2 on the CD (side 3 on the album). This makes the song appear more abstract. The worms specifically refer to the feeling of the effects of drugs wearing off that were given at the beginning of Comfortably Numb (It also refers to decay generally ). "Standing in the aisles" and "breaking bottles in the hall" refer to the disconnected audience for the concert that is about to begin (the next song "The Show Must Go On"). We remember "the Stone" from the song "Dogs" from the "Animals" album. The phone is an interesting element. It also appears in "Dogs". We must remember though that in 1975 there was the incident where Roger while on tour called his then wife Judy and a man answered the phone. That call is recreated at the end of "Young Lust". In the song, "Empty Spaces" there is a backwards tracked bit of dialog where Roger is congratulating the listener for finding the backwards message. A voice interrupts him telling him his (then current) wife, Carolyne is on the phone. Presumably he answers her call. This song is unique in that there is the sound of a drill in the background.

Anathema- Internal Landscapes live in Universal Concert Bulgaria Pink Floyd major influence to this band.

PINK FLOYD ON THE TURNING AWAY

The wall is the wall we build around us to protect ourselves. Depending on our life experiences, some people's wall are very hard to penetrate. In this album, he recounts events that happened to him that were "Just another brick in the wall".

Your hair and makeup look great Sori

Love at 5:39 just after and the worms ate into his brain with the fly sounds...a white speck flew towards the good ladys head...or is it just a fault on my phone...played it back several times but its still there. Best first time reaction that ive seen yet because it really did seem like a first time reaction...some people you can just tell they have listened to it before the reaction.👍👋🇬🇧

Loved your discussion. Sori nailed it. So many bad things happen to the concept album's character since childhood, that he builds a wall around himself.

@pietrayday9915

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely. It seems the musicians, used to more intimate crowds earlier in their career, were adjusting badly to their fame and the larger and larger and more impersonal crowds they performed for, with the need for security to separate the band from violent crowds with a fairly literal wall of fences in an age when rock concerts had taken a rather dark turn with crowds rioting and fans attacking musicians, which set the band thinking about that uncomfortable change as a metaphor for the changes in British culture since the war in which people seemed to be building higher and higher metaphorical walls between each other while treating each other less and less like human beings. Hence the weird imagery from the album and the movie in which rock concerts blurred into fascist rallies while the fictional musician "Pink", reflecting on his terrible childhood, desperately walled himself away from his audience in every way he could, while a hallucinatory surrogate band of jack-booted thugs played to the audience's worst instincts toward each other. I seem to recall that, during live performances, the band even originally planned to have a very literal wall of foam blocks built on the stage around themselves with cranes through the concert to help drive home the point about the loss of connection between everyone involved....

@robertmcgregor1514

4 жыл бұрын

She really did didn't she. Gotta love Sori and vin as well lol

@robertmcgregor1514

4 жыл бұрын

@@pietrayday9915 they did do the wall of blocks but only did about 20 shows as it was expensive. But Roger took it on tour a few years ago and I made sure I saw that show when it came to my neck of the woods