Y’all need to watch the movie!!!!!!! Explains it all. The entire album is made to listen to in its entirety. It’s a story of a man’s breakdown.

@justinatest9456

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the movie tells the story so much more clearly than the album. I recommend it over the album if they're only going to do one of them.

@rychenrollinc.3846

2 жыл бұрын

I watched it on shrooms back in the 80s

@smbonna

2 жыл бұрын

@@rychenrollinc.3846 Watched it on weed, while getting drunk and a little of the purple microdot. Sometimes while doing all of the above. We had several times when we would have group watch parties The 80's were good times

@rychenrollinc.3846

2 жыл бұрын

@@smbonna those were great times. This current generation sucks assss

@saltydeadpool4183

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree 👍 you MUST Watch the movie 🔥🔥🔥🔥

You guys gotta do the whole album. It's a masterpiece

@kennethmardis2132

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites. Got for my birthday.played the shit out of it. Still do

@mickeykmiller

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! In one sitting! EPIC!!

@srenkaarepetersen9034

2 жыл бұрын

They could risk getting a depression, haha.

@tragicdeyz2641

2 жыл бұрын

@@srenkaarepetersen9034 Right? I'm not sure Roger Waters ever had a happy thought.

@disturbedrobot

2 жыл бұрын

@@tragicdeyz2641 Grantchester Meadows or San Tropez. Not sure if he wrote either or both of those, but they're both pretty chill. Other than that, you're right.....he's got a head full of darkness.

He was calling his wife back in England and some guy was answering and hanging up. You have to listen to the entire Wall album. Or watch the crazy movie.

@russcoash6710

2 жыл бұрын

It is told that the recorded a real phone operator. From wikipedia: The end of the song is a segment of dialogue between Pink and a telephone operator, as Pink twice attempts to place a transatlantic collect call to his wife. A man answers, and when the operator asks if he will accept the charges, the man simply hangs up. This is how Pink learns that his wife is cheating on him. ("See, he keeps hanging up," says the operator. "And it's a man answering!") With this betrayal, his mental breakdown accelerates. The dialogue with the operator was the result of an arrangement co-producer James Guthrie made with a neighbour in London, Chris Fitzmorris,[7] while the album was being recorded in Los Angeles. He wanted realism, for the operator to actually believe they had caught his wife having an affair, and so didn't inform her she was being recorded. The operator heard in the recording is the second operator they tried the routine with, after the first operator's reaction was deemed unsatisfactory.[8] Film version In the film, the scene with the attempted phone call, in which Pink learns his wife is cheating on him, occurs at the very beginning of the song "What Shall We Do Now", which is the extended version of "Empty Spaces", before the "Young Lust" song rather than at the end of the "Young Lust" song. The implications of the song are therefore slightly different. On the album, he is already unfaithful to his wife while on tour, making him a hypocrite when he is appalled at her own unfaithfulness. In the film, he is only seen with a groupie after he learns of his wife's affair, which shows the character in a more sympathetic light.

@ArgonTheAware

2 жыл бұрын

it is an extra layer of shame when the international telephone operator knows that your wife is having an affair

@Theutus2

2 жыл бұрын

Are collect calls even a thing anymore? They may not get it due to the generation gap.

@ArgonTheAware

2 жыл бұрын

@@Theutus2 Well payphones are not a thing anymore so they might have trouble with that but they still have collect calls especially to overseas and international operators to handle them

@cartercarter645

2 жыл бұрын

@@russcoash6710 awesome breakdown RC! Very interesting - Preeeesh

Y'all need to listen to the entire album in one sitting. Like you mentioned, its a story. The songs blend into each other. I can't stress enough how much more significant and powerful Pink Floyd's albums are when appreciated in their entirety. Their albums are not just a collection of individual songs at least not the major ones that come to mind. The Wall, Darkside of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals are masterpieces that are best appreciated as the single piece of art each one of them is. It would be great to see y'all react to an entire album of one of the mentioned in a single sitting. Whether you do so for youtube or not I implore you guys to listen to these albums as the concepts they were created to be. Trust me, you will not be dissapointed. My personal favorite is The Wall, but I love all of them.

@Adam-ub9nu

9 ай бұрын

It's an absolute f*cking epic. Gilmour can absolutely paint a picture with a guitar like any other artist would do with a brush. Listening to this whole album while taking any kind of hallucinogenic is an experience I recommend to everyone.

It doesn’t make sense until you see it in context. Watch the movie and the storyline matches the music. It’s genius level stuff.

@Rebel-cd6gc

2 жыл бұрын

Never once saw the movie but you don't really need to. Still a hell of a song.

@wadsworthaaron

2 жыл бұрын

Alan Parker definitely let go of convention when directing "The Wall" (surrealism was an interesting/brilliant choice for the album).

@keensoundguy6637

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of people understood the album during the years between the album's release and the release of the movie. The movie didn't really bring new insight, but it did give us another version of a song that didn't make it on the album (When the Tigers Broke Free). If you rejoin the two halves of Roger Waters' spoken line "Isn't this where we came in?" the album effectively becomes a continuous loop.

The Wall is a must watch for any music fan. It's still a standout movie after all this time. Young Lust was my favorite Floyd song for a long time.

Love this song! Watch the movie to put it into context! He is trying to call his woman but her lover answers and hangs up.

Floyd flew a recording assistant from England to the United States, to make that phone call to the studio, so they could record it. The operator not only was real, she had no idea what was really happening, nor that her voice would be immortalized for all time on FM radio, and one of the greatest albums ever

@brushstroke3733

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you for sharing the backstory. I never knew that. The operator's reactions are perfect.

@flubblert

2 жыл бұрын

Roger thought it was hilarious that the operator was getting so nosy about it all. "...and there's a man answering."

@emptypromises2962

2 жыл бұрын

I really didn't know that, but since it's the Floyd, I would expect nothing less.

@jamescarletta802

2 жыл бұрын

I never knew that

@sinanserpen1940

Жыл бұрын

Pink Floyd.

"The guitar's nasty...NASTY!" Love me some Lex! Always spot on! Please disect the whole album...you're both in for a treat! 👍

In the olden days, we sometimes had something called an operator, an actual person from "the phone company" who you could call for help putting your call through. For instance, you could ask the operator to make it a collect call, charging the call to the receiver instead of your phone...I know, ancient.

@JuandeFucaU

2 жыл бұрын

that was after people learned how to send messages by birds and smoke signals and stuff, right?

@lindakessler8768

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuandeFucaU 😜😂😂😂

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuandeFucaU Yeah, just after..😏

“Day after day, love turns grey. Like the skin of a dying man. And night after night, We pretend it’s alright. But I have grown older, And you have grown colder. And nothing is Very much fun anymore”. Please, please, please listen to PF albums in their entirety. They’re stories. 😊

@PhasersAndArrows

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t emphasize this sentiment anymore! Also the song quoted here is my favorite on the album: “Into the bedroom, In the suitcase on the left, You’ll find my favorite axe.”

@Boatzilla2

2 жыл бұрын

....cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet, dry as a funeral drum....

@P-heff

2 жыл бұрын

“Don’t bed so frightened this is just a passing phase ! One of my bad days!”

@aldobaglio205

2 жыл бұрын

Would you like to learn to fly? Would you like to see me try? 🤪

@manna6618

2 жыл бұрын

Would you like to call the cops...do you think it's time I stopped...why are you running away?

My personal favorite Pink Floyd song. Great cruising music.

It’s really best to listen to Empty Spaces and Young Lust as one song. They merge together and flow beautifully as one. My band covered them both. Magic to play❤️

@snigie

Жыл бұрын

It’s almost criminal not to play the two songs together

In the movie this song plays while Pink's groupies sneak in backstage (as one of them services the security guard) LOL, great movie!

"So different" is the ONLY way to describe Pink Floyd

Brilliant album, brilliant band, brilliant Gilmour nastiness. Yes Lex

I've seen the movie so many times that the corresponding scenes play in my head while hearing the songs! Same with the Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz thing 🥴

@jeffreyaverett1800

2 жыл бұрын

Dark Side Of The Rainbow ✌️

@manna6618

2 жыл бұрын

As a teen growing up in the 80's...we'd play this movie on VHS every Fri and Sat night while partying with friends...discovering dope and trips, ecstacy and acid...different girls every weekend...what a time to grow up in the world. I now realize just how lucky we were back then. :)

Context is everything. This is one chapter in a story and only really makes sense with the before and after. You know that prog albums in the 70s were more often than not intended to be listened to all the way through from start to finish in one sitting. The Wall more than ever, I'd say. It's like watching just one scene of a movie.

One of my favorites Pink Floyd's song.

Thanks for choosing this track. Gratitude!

Dude never seems to have a reaction or looks completely confused. I watch for the lady's reaction. Always seems real.👍

Hell yeah, more Floyd!

Pink Floyd's The Wall is best listened to from front to back, starting with In the Flesh all the way through to Outside the Wall.

@IIIXIII

2 жыл бұрын

Very true, almost unfair to hear these out of order/context. Brad and Lex, reaction or not, listen to this album one day straight through... but also film it for everyone...

@Jason-wt2yv

2 жыл бұрын

Every bit of this.

@BobbyGeneric145

2 жыл бұрын

Outside the Wall from the live album with the masks on the cover is my absolute favorite floyd recording ever.

@BobbyGeneric145

2 жыл бұрын

Once you've absorbed yourself, at this point you are unconsciously beginning to really worry about Pink and his mental state.

@nathanpapp432

2 жыл бұрын

I like starting with Hey You and finishing with Goodbye Cruel World. That actually makes the whole album feel more complete.

Important to note The Wall was a 26 track double LP and a pure concept album. Many songs flowed into the other. Lots here are suggesting watching the movie The Wall, but to really absorb the story all you need to do is listen to the entire thing from start to finish (which would be difficult to do in one go as reactors). Good on you for listening to more Pink Floyd.

As others have said, just watch the movie The Wall - you’ll get to experience the songs and also some wild visuals that tell the story more completely than just listening to the album.

Nasty guitar for sure lol. Got this one on a current run playlist. Gilmour's voice less smooth and more growling on this one. The lyrics are in context with the movie; at the end of the track he realizes his wife is having an affair, when the dude keeps picking up.

@BlackHatCinephile

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's Waters in the verses and Gilmour in the choruses, like it is in Comfortably Numb.

@benshafer5198

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackHatCinephile pretty sure Gilmour sings lead and Waters sings back up on the chorus. Wasn't there though lol

@mikemclaughlin3306

2 жыл бұрын

The alternate version is actually better

The Wall is an album that sucks you in and holds it's grip on you until the final note. I remember sitting at home alone one night listening to this album, lights out with the volume at "11". Hey You was playing and Richard Wright was emulating the worms eating into Pink's brain with his masterful key work. The room was pitch black, but somehow I saw a shadow in the form of a person, move towards the stereo. In my mind, I thought the person or persona was going to turn the volume down, and I shouted out NO!! After realizing I was still alone in the dark and no one was messing with my private listening party, I couldn't help but laugh aloud at myself. I then melted back into the couch and finished grooving on one of the greatest albums of all time. ✌️

This is a great freaking song. Pink Floyd; head down, rocking. No magic tricks.

Brad & Lex, you’ve done 16 Pink Floyd songs, all the biggies. You're on your own!! 😁

@robhansen6370

2 жыл бұрын

Strangely, they haven't reacted to "On the Turning Away."

@surlechapeau

2 жыл бұрын

@@robhansen6370 wow. important song in their catalog.

@terr1402

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly still no echoes

@surlechapeau

2 жыл бұрын

@@robhansen6370 reacted to that tonight in live stream! so its in the queue!

The song that follows this song, One Of My Turns, is my absolut favorite on the album. It is the mental break that the main character, Pink< suffers and it is phenomenal!

@manna6618

2 жыл бұрын

I adore the artwork he makes on the hotel room floor...beer cans, razor blades, LSD, cigarette packets etc etc...really expresses the creativity of a tortured mind.

Young Lust is a real banger, and funky blues soulful too. The one following, (One Of My Turns) begins with the dial tone blending into some mind-bending synth chords, and then goes from there!...

Absolutely love this song

This song is so fantastic in every way - Gilmour's guitar tone is especially hypnotic!

I Saw Pink Floyd..." The Wall" concert back in 1979 at Nassau Colesium NY. Sadly "The Wall "Concert ...was not professionally recorded onto film. "Comfortabley Numb " and "Run Like Hell" are a few hits off this Album. During the concert a Plane dove into the audience where it crashed into the wall( which was being built throughout the concert ) then blew up in flames when suddenly it went dark! ... It was at this point I realized I was now on a journey!! An experience I'll never forget!

Saw this movie when it came out at the midnight Avon. Quite an experience. The peak of concept records.

Love Pink Floyd! Everything they do is FIRE!

I absolutely love watching you two discover the music I grew up with. You guys are great and Lex is absolutely beautiful. What a great smile! You really should consider doing some full albums. Especially Pink Floyd. Concept albums like these need to be listened to from start to finish to really appreciate. But I really appreciate you guys. Peace and love. I love you guys.

it's like picking a book off a shelf, reading a random chapter, and putting it back.......

the album the wall tells a story with the lyrics. each song is like a chapter in a book. if you listen to the songs out of order it doesn't make sense. you have to listen to the record from front to back in order to understand.

@jeffreyaverett1800

2 жыл бұрын

You're dating yourself, "record" & "front to back". Oh I can smell the vinyl just reading your comment. 😁✌️

it's pink calling home and finds out another man is answering

Yes, in the movie The Wall he says, "I need something to complete The Wall" right before this song comes on. By this point, he's already built it pretty high. This is kind of shown as the last piece needed to complete it. Once ya'll watch The Wall, it'll all make sense.

The dude "Pink" is calling his wife, or partner, from the United States where is presumably on tour. And some other dude is answering the phone instead of his partner. Like a lot of the concepts on this album, it's always hard to tell what is actually happening and what is in his head.

I only like a handful of songs from The Wall as standalone tracks, but listening to the whole album from start to finish is really enjoyable. The sum of its parts. You really immerse yourself in it.

Listening to songs in isolation on The Wall is a bit like opening a book at random and reading a chapter and wondering why you don't know what's happening. Needs to be done as an album...

Love this song so much! You should really watch the movie “Pink Floyd’s The Wall.” It’s an experience. The music makes absolute sense in that context. You’re right, it’s nasty!

The phone call is important but you don't have to watch the movie to understand. The album is a one-piece and you guys are listening to bits of that one-piece. At this point in the composition, Pink is in the US calling his wife in the UK in the middle of the night and back in the old days, if you wanted to make an international call, you'd have to get an operator involved and she would dial the number. And the operator would tell the person who it was that was calling and introduce you before connecting you to the other end. And that's especially true if the call was a "collect" call. Well, you can hear the operator (who wasn't an actress, she was a legit US phone operator) trying to connect the call and each time she says "This is the US, I have a call from 'MR FLOYD' to 'MRS FLOYD', do you accept the charges?" but before she can get the whole thing out, the person answering hangs up. And she innocently asks MR FLOYD, "he keeps hanging up. IS THERE SUPPOSED TO BE A MAN ANSWERING?!?" And the songs before and the songs after (like Empty Spaces, Don't Leave Me Now and Nobody Home) all reinforce this dread of watching your marriage crumble from the other end of a phone line while being walled off, emotionally detached from any sort of human connection...

YES! Listen to the whole album and do a recap video! It’s the ONLY WAY to appreciate this masterpiece.

Mans voice answers the phone, "Hello". Operator "Collect call from Mr. Floyd to Mrs. Floyd will you accept". Hangs up. Operator says "sounds like a man answering, must be someone there besides your wife". The whole scene is just another brick in the wall, just another life event that sends him closer to a break down where he builds a metaphoric wall to keep everyone out. As everyone said before me, watch the movie, it's a masterpiece.

Even though it's different it still has the Pink Floyd sound.

"This the United States calling. Are we reaching?" this was back in the days when you needed an operator to call internationally.

Yes, you MUST listen to the ENTIRE double album from start to finish - it's one cohesive story. That is why you likely do not get the whole experience and get confused! Do it - you'll be entranced.

My favorite Foyd song, dope AF. Been loving it since the mid 80's.

As everyone else has said you need to listen to the Whole of “The Wall” album ( no breaks ) to get the full context of the song.

This a banger from Pink Floyd!!! The album is a masterpiece.

The woman found everything the man was looking for and has the house to bring it into...yours very truly Alfonso Cantu USMC

At the end is the main character Pink calling overseas to reach his wife but another man keeps answering and hanging up.

A lot of big Pink Floyd fans will tell you their favorite song is "Echoes" off of the album Meddle (the studio version). It's like 25 minutes long, so you'd probably have to settle for editing out some of the trippy middle part. But it captures the end of their early psychedelic vibe before they started producing themed albums -- which are great, but more "serious" (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall). Echoes is their most enjoyable song, according to many. More of a sonic experience than a song.

He was on tour in the US and calling home to his wife. A man answered and kept hanging up.

Last song for my band every gig. We use the outtro to introduce the band and thank the patrons. Never fails.

Yeah, this is one album that should be listened to in it's entirety your first time. The songs all connect, in the most incredible rock opera ever... It's so different from everything, even other Floyd albums. There's four "record sides" from the original vinyl. Find a vinyl track listing, and do four reactions... one record side per reaction. Trust me. 👍😎

This is the song that leads right into mother.

When I was a teen there was a time I would listen to this album every night when I went to bed.

gotta do the full album guys and movie ❤🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌

Pink is a British rock star, off in the US on tour while his marriage is falling apart and his wife is having an affair back at home. That phone call is him calling home, and his wife’s lover keeps answering and hanging up on him.

@justinatest9456

2 жыл бұрын

The sound of that phone is haunting, a heartbreaking part of the movie, and of course the album.

@flubblert

2 жыл бұрын

according to Roger Waters, while the call itself was set up, the operator you hear and her reaction was totally real. He thought it hilarious that she was getting so nosy about it all... ” I wonder why he hung up, is there supposed to be somebody besides your wife there to answer"? "... and there's a man answering" LOL

Pink Floyd is British - in the wall the song is about a guy in a band and he is on the road with all these groupies and parties and stuff, and he is calling like his wife or something back in the US during that part where you hear the operator

For some clarity regarding the phone call at the end...the song is being sung by Pink, the main character in the album/movie. Pink is a superstar musician and is currently out on the road touring in the US. In the song/movie, Pink hooks up with a "groupie" type lady after a show. The irony is that some time later Pink calls home to speak to his wife...but she is there with another man, who keeps hanging up on the operator. Not sure if you have a subscription to HBO Max or not but The Wall is available to watch there.

Yall listening to awesome Pink Floyd.God Bless U2

You have to listen to “Empty Spaces” before “Young Lust,” the transition is just orgasmic.

I am blessed that I was able to trip on acid and sequence Pink Floyd to the Wizard of Oz in Alice in Wonderland and stuff before I got shot, and became blind. Lol!

The way to listen to this is to include these "Goodbye blue sky & Empty spaces & Young lust"

The very first thing heard on side one is ".....we came in ?" The very last thing heard on side four is "Isn't this where..." Taken from a voice on the talkback track, suggesting the album is in fact a permanent loop.

Watch the movie " Pink Floyd THE WALL " the entire album is in the movie and it helps you understand what the album is about. They're brilliant

Watching the movie is the best way to understand the album.

Great song glad you two played it. You guys are the best

Before my time too…love this song …the wall is crazy..watched it too young..need to rewatch

You _really_ need to watch the movie all the way through - that phone call is part of the plot.

Best band of all time. Hands down.

Y'all really do need to do the entire album. It is amazing!

It's one chapter from a whole story, and to understand it all you have tp listen to the album, or watch the film from start to finish. The film is a masterpiece, as is the album, but the film will take you on an amazing journey.

The wall album is one big story and every song is a piece of the story and they run into eachother So the only way to understand is listening to the whole album it will all make sense the pieces will all fit together

You not ONLY have to listen to the Entire Album from 1st song to last in order....... You need to WATCH THE ENTIRE MOVIE - The Wall (not just the Album). Unless you watch the movie, you only get about 1/3rd of the meanings of the songs from this Masterpiece Album.

One of Pink Floyd's Best!

All of the songs from "The Wall" have to be heard in sequence, as they tell a story of a person experiencing a Dystopian conversion similar to George Orwell's '1984'.

You gotta watch it lotta good songs and artwork its just pure Genius

You never can go wrong with Pink Floyd. 🤘

Love you guys, you always bring a smile to my face! Keep it up

When I was a kid and this came out we would listen to both albums back to back just lying about staring at the ceiling. You can listen to it straight through, we had to get up and turn the albums.

This is my anthem when I'm on the Rd working

Lex knows a "nasty!" guitar when she hears it.

Regarding that bit at the end, that is the voice of the telephone company operator assisting with an overseas call -- from the US to the UK -- "a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mister Floyd. Will you accept the charges from United States?" The telephone system was completely different back when this album was released. Long distance calls could be a pain to make, especially overseas calls made collect, that is, where the receiver must accept the charges for the call to go through in contrast to the sender paying for them up front or on the bill later. Long distance calls could also get very expensive very quickly. The takeaway is that Mister Floyd is in the US and lacks enough money to call home to Mrs. Floyd in England, but she ain't picking up...

@br0nzepen

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not that she isn’t picking up but like the operator says, “it’s a man answering” giving the impression that Mrs. Floyd is having an affair.

LOL! The concept of an international switchboard operator completely threw them! WHASSAT???

Yes just as everyone else has said. You must listen or watch the whole album to know and see what everything means in the songs. Another awesome album to listen to all of is The Final Cut!!

The Wall needs to be experienced in one sitting to fully comprehend it.

Yup the whole album is a must listen.

A killer, killer song

Think of Floyd as Cosmic Blues. This is my favorite song of theirs. I grew up on Floyd.

Brad and Lex, I will echo many others here who have already recommended: you should watch "The Wall" as a movie. Listen to it all the way through as an album if you want to, but definitely watch it as a movie. This album was made in 1979 (IIRC) and was intended from the beginning to be a soundtrack to a film, but the band didn't get around to making the movie until 1982. Both the album and the movie tell the story of the artist (drawn from autobiographical elements and influences by other musicians). I have always felt like "The Wall" is at least in part a love letter of sorts to their former bandmate Syd Barrett, who was forced to quit the band as a result of his uncontrolled abuse of LSD and other powerful mind-altering drugs. I don't know that Roger Waters has ever mentioned that Syd was specifically an influence on the album, but it seems like he haunts many of the songs and lyrical passages.

sounded to me like he called home from the US and a man answered and hung up.

The clip is from The Wall movie, and the character Pink Floyd is calling home to the UK from a US tour, and clearly there is a man at his house late at night when he is calling, and this is the way he finds out his marriage is over. Pink Floyd sadness and melancholy ensues, etc, etc.

The end of this song is the main character calling home to talk to his wife and a man answers the phone and immediately hangs up. They actually called the UK and that is a real operator. Her part was not scripted, she was not in on anything. Made for an interesting ending to be sure.