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Leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy, what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, whatcha leave behind for me?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could
By pouring their derision upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave the kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
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The double negative "we don't need no education" translates into "we need education".
Double negatives do not always work like that. Sometimes, a double negative is used for emphasis.
Language is weird. English doubly so.
The album is 40 years old. The "kids" have got to be in their 50s and beyond.
Where are the grammar police when one needs them?
She was right. It was pretty great. Still is.
Diet pills?
Biotch please... "Wish You Were Here"

The double negative "we don't need no education" translates into "we need education".

You are more amazing today then the day I bought you.
In the late 90s, picking up my dad as he was released from prison, he graciously offered (on my behalf) to give a ride to 4 also-being-released-thugs (and I mean THUGS with affection) to Tacoma, about a 30 minute drive, in my little car with the badass car stereo, and as we pulled out of the DOC lot we absolutely BLASTED this track for all to hear. It was classic, what with 4 active PIRU members, all making my 6ft 200lb self look small, bumping to Pink Floyd. Of course we switched to Rap (NWA's Fuck the Police of course!) before long, and that was one of the best rides I've ever given to 1-too-many in my compact car (outside of the time when it wasn't all dudes.)
Long Live RP and kilowatt powered subwoofers!!
Wow bro that's crazy! Sending peace to all of you
After googling it I found out I was not the only one.
http://www.kissthisguy.com/no-dogs-are-handsome-in-the-classroom-pi-misheard-52106.htm
That's what I like about Google. No matter how stupid your ideas, beliefs or assumptions, Google will assure you you're not alone out there.
In the late 90s, picking up my dad as he was released from prison, he graciously offered (on my behalf) to give a ride to 4 also-being-released-thugs (and I mean THUGS with affection) to Tacoma, about a 30 minute drive, in my little car with the badass car stereo, and as we pulled out of the DOC lot we absolutely BLASTED this track for all to hear. It was classic, what with 4 active PIRU members, all making my 6ft 200lb self look small, bumping to Pink Floyd. Of course we switched to Rap (NWA's Fuck the Police of course!) before long, and that was one of the best rides I've ever given to 1-too-many in my compact car (outside of the time when it wasn't all dudes.)
Long Live RP and kilowatt powered subwoofers!!
Wow.
He isn't railing against education, he's railing against abuse.
Yes. He is also a railing against a system that permits that kind of abuse.
I was born in 1960 and have been blessed with a son later in life - he's now 13 and right in the middle of it all. What creeps me out is that this song still stands up today. When will the education authorities in the UK weed out the sadists? Or do they think they are still needed?
This is my era too. I went to public school. The cane was phased out, there were no psychopathic wive that I met. This is from the highly productive, imaginative mind of Roger Waters shaped by his own experiences. We greeted this song with a wry smile seeing playful half truths.
Down to three and then Skip
Entire school assemblies devoted to explaining to us how we shouldn't be influenced by the evil lyrics, music teachers doing hour long sympathetic break downs of the song.
The thing is, it was basically just the truth and everyone knew it.
I was born in 1960 and have been blessed with a son later in life - he's now 13 and right in the middle of it all. What creeps me out is that this song still stands up today. When will the education authorities in the UK weed out the sadists? Or do they think they are still needed?
The lyrical highlight will always be:
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives
The sense morale of the song remains true today as back then in many areas unfortunately.
"When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could"
He isn't railing against education, he's railing against abuse.
Entire school assemblies devoted to explaining to us how we shouldn't be influenced by the evil lyrics, music teachers doing hour long sympathetic break downs of the song.
The thing is, it was basically just the truth and everyone knew it.
The Wall in its entirety certainly - as was the original live show/performance that went with it!
Couldn't agree more. I saw Roger Waters doing the Wall tour about two years ago, and it was an amazing experience. We were in the 5th row, and all I could think was "Wow, that is the guy who wrote The Wall standing right there."
The Wall in its entirety certainly - as was the original live show/performance that went with it!
Eye A Greee
BillG would for sure do that IF big brother (aka the FCC) didn't have their say (no more than 3 album tracks in a row in an hour...did I get that right BillG?) Long Live RP!!
I'm so sorry


Halt ! Hammerzeit !
When I went to Philly and saw the metal sculpture below, all I could think of was the animation above:

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You are in the 3 percentile on this one.

Halt ! Hammerzeit !
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Brilliant transition as always, BillG, if not an obvious one.
And for me two 10 ratings in a row!
Nice
Reminds me of taking my 14-year-old daughter to the Australian Pink Floyd show last time they were in town. She thoroughly enjoyed the show, although she thought the crowd looked like a checkout line at Costco. She was definitely one of the youngest there. Before the show began she remarked to me, “Looks like you’re the only parent that brought their kid”. The 30-year-old next to us must have overheard her and laughed, and then pointed at the guy with the grey pony tail next to him “That’s my dad!”.
Reminds me of taking my 14-year-old daughter to the Australian Pink Floyd show last time they were in town. She thoroughly enjoyed the show, although she thought the crowd looked like a checkout line at Costco. She was definitely one of the youngest there. Before the show began she remarked to me, “Looks like you’re the only parent that brought their kid”. The 30-year-old next to us must have overheard her and laughed, and then pointed at the guy with the grey pony tail next to him “That’s my dad!”.
A rating of 8.7 confirms that I’m one of the few people who doesn’t care for this album. It may have been partly due to the line “we don't need no education”. Like many others my route out of poverty was education and, to me, saying kids don't need it is thought disordered.
However each to their own, I’m glad so many people get pleasure from this song, but its ‘not my cup of tea’.
I'm shocked that you're only a few years younger than me, in Scotland, and you don't get it. They were critiquing how education was delivered to the working class. I was born in Glasgow 1955 and by the time I was 11 had been streamed by my social class to a lesser education. No exceptions allowed. The delivery of education not the quality was complete crap. Most teachers and headmasters were borderline sadists and excessive physical and emotional punishment was the norm. Fortunately for me we escaped to Canada in 1966. While not perfect, I was actually tested and given the opportunity to try. I was allowed to choose an advanced high school course which in turn led to post secondary education. The first in my family to do so.
I firmly believe that had I stayed in Scotland, I'd be dead or in jail. If not I would have continued the generational dance of under employment and unemployment as the system was designed to do. I'm not suggesting people can't beat the system but the deck was stacked and I had no role model. Maybe you were lucky or just very good.
You completely miss the point of these songs and the theme of the album IMO.

Edit; BTW this dopey stoner got an education while having a lot of fun. Some severely uptight folks here.
I would never judge any genre by the fan base. To do so would preclude my enjoyment of outlaw country, metal and Mozart. However, Pink Floyd themselves throughout their career have denigrated a certain subset who just happen to be their fan base!. They float a giant Pig yet they are a huge commercial enterprise. They excoriate the mindless hedonist yet their fans are the ones screaming "Fuclin Aye!" and swigging brewskis at their shows. Their catalogue is indeed artless, bombastic and yet extremely pretentious. The endless overplay of their stuff was a real annoyance and it continued way beyond the period when they might have once been relevant. It continues today.
All fair points and I won't argue them with you (though I don't agree with them all). But I was addressing the statement that The Wall is an album for dopey stoners. It's not. It may be an album for self-righteous armchair psychiatrists, I won't get into it with you on that one either though I think you could make a better argument for that if you wanted to.
I just wanted to point out that there was a lot going on in The Wall, a lot that the dopey stoners missed (and that some of us have been pondering for decades). You don't have to like it, I am not so arrogant as all that, I'm just sayin', if you hate it, hate it for the right reasons.
The dopey stoners are always with us, and their tastes are whatever they are. Why should we judge The Wall by the quality of their fans? Do we judge Jimi Hendrix that way? Late Beatles? Cypress Hill? (okay maybe Cypress Hill) Did the stoners listen to Another Brick In The Wall Part 3? (which you really should do, by the way, if you haven't, it puts the whole thing in context). Any album (and its component songs) stands alone and means what it means (mostly what the artist intended, but great art is often smarter than the artist).
Edit: I chased down the lyrics to Part 3 (which is basically one verse and the chorus of the song as a whole)
"I don't need no arms around me
And I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I'll need anything at all
No, don't think I'll need anything at all..."
I would never judge any genre by the fan base. To do so would preclude my enjoyment of outlaw country, metal and Mozart. However, Pink Floyd themselves throughout their career have denigrated a certain subset who just happen to be their fan base!. They float a giant Pig yet they are a huge commercial enterprise. They excoriate the mindless hedonist yet their fans are the ones screaming "Fuclin Aye!" and swigging brewskis at their shows. Their catalogue is indeed artless, bombastic and yet extremely pretentious. The endless overplay of their stuff was a real annoyance and it continued way beyond the period when they might have once been relevant. It continues today.
Interesting insight. Did you live through these times? Where I grew up, Suburban New York City, this stuff really struck a chord with the dopey stoners who hung out in the 7 Eleven parking lot and never amounted to much.
The dopey stoners are always with us, and their tastes are whatever they are. Why should we judge The Wall by the quality of their fans? Do we judge Jimi Hendrix that way? Late Beatles? Cypress Hill? (okay maybe Cypress Hill) Did the stoners listen to Another Brick In The Wall Part 3? (which you really should do, by the way, if you haven't, it puts the whole thing in context). Any album (and its component songs) stands alone and means what it means (mostly what the artist intended, but great art is often smarter than the artist).
Edit: I chased down the lyrics to Part 3 (which is basically one verse and the chorus of the song as a whole)
"I don't need no arms around me
And I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I'll need anything at all
No, don't think I'll need anything at all..."
and a great big American F YOU to trump the dump
just say NO to orange facists
A rating of 8.7 confirms that I’m one of the few people who doesn’t care for this album. It may have been partly due to the line “we don't need no education”. Like many others my route out of poverty was education and, to me, saying kids don't need it is thought disordered.
However each to their own, I’m glad so many people get pleasure from this song, but its ‘not my cup of tea’.
Here in the States the imbecile stoner drop outs loved this shite although I doubt they derived any pleasure from it.
A rating of 8.7 confirms that I’m one of the few people who doesn’t care for this album. It may have been partly due to the line “we don't need no education”. Like many others my route out of poverty was education and, to me, saying kids don't need it is thought disordered.
However each to their own, I’m glad so many people get pleasure from this song, but its ‘not my cup of tea’.
Really? I hear a musical case history of one man's Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Chronic Depression, a case history given by the sufferer himself. You can decide for yourself if that's your cup of tea, but like it or not it's not exactly "geared towards the ignorami" now, is it?
Interesting insight. Did you live through these times? Where I grew up, Suburban New York City, this stuff really struck a chord with the dopey stoners who hung out in the 7 Eleven parking lot and never amounted to much.
Really? I hear a musical case history of one man's Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Chronic Depression, a case history given by the sufferer himself. You can decide for yourself if that's your cup of tea, but like it or not it's not exactly "geared towards the ignorami" now, is it?

And then there's Gilmour.
Had some Jack Link's jerky recently. It had a big blank sticker on the back of the bag. Looking through from the inside of the bag, it was apparent that the blank sticker was covering up writing that had originally been printed on the bag. "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" Don't know why they printed that on the bags and then decided to cover it up. Did they not have permission from Pink Floyd?


Ah, but does the double negative truly not exist in English, or is it just cleverly hidden?

Example: "We don't need any education." Correct. "We need any education." Incorrect. "Any" plays the same grammatical role as "no" in the double negative. Nearly all other quantifiers (e.g., some, much/many, little/few, etc.) can be used in both the affirmative and negative.
All of that said, my answer may be the very type of thing Roger and the guys were complaining about in this song since I'm a teacher

Please, play something different.
Thank you.
That's what we have PSD for. It's right there next to Stop & Play



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Bill just murdered a great set with Pi Flo

And very well produced at that.
It's certainly relevant to me as I went to a school just like the one portrayed in the song, where teachers would do everything to make your life hell (although I don't know if their wives beat them to within an inch of their lives, though it's a nice thought to have) and were, frankly, sadists who'd beat you at a moment's notice, with a few notable and praiseworthy exceptions. My high school was a violent and brutal boys-only institution, which made Lord of the Flies look like the Teddy Bears Picnic.
So I identified with the song when it came out, and laughed when all the pompous pedants slagged off "we don't need no education" as ungrammatical which showed that they missed the point by a country mile. It was No.1 in the charts for yonks, seemingly forever, so after a while I got a bit fed up with it, but even these days hearing it takes me back to the penal institution that was my 'school', the laughable motto of which was "Cheerfulness and Industry". Hah!
What, the one with the "Hitler tree"?
Hey! Black Hawk Unthought Known
Seen And Not Seen.
It's certainly relevant to me as I went to a school just like the one portrayed in the song, where teachers would do everything to make your life hell (although I don't know if their wives beat them to within an inch of their lives, though it's a nice thought to have) and were, frankly, sadists who'd beat you at a moment's notice, with a few notable and praiseworthy exceptions. My high school was a violent and brutal boys-only institution, which made Lord of the Flies look like the Teddy Bears Picnic.
So I identified with the song when it came out, and laughed when all the pompous pedants slagged off "we don't need no education" as ungrammatical which showed that they missed the point by a country mile. It was No.1 in the charts for yonks, seemingly forever, so after a while I got a bit fed up with it, but even these days hearing it takes me back to the penal institution that was my 'school', the laughable motto of which was "Cheerfulness and Industry". Hah!

Please, play something different.
Thank you.
Just be thankful he doesn't play Dave Mathews...much
Please, play something different.
Thank you.
Ponderous? Hmmm. As I understand it, ponderous means dull, clumsy or unwieldy. This piece, IMO, is none of those things. Have you even listened to the guitar work herein? Try headphones of at least middling quality, a darkened room and some focus. Just because you heard it ad nauseum on a crappy FM radio back in the day doesn't mean a fresh listen is unwarranted. This thing has legs, but it fails as background — it was written to be listened to.
Just some thoughts...
Well put!
Like!
Dazzerb wrote:
ditto, some is to much though, but I did like "Meddle"