Teen Reacts To Pink Floyd - The Wall Album Reaction Pt. 6!!!

[@flubblert]

Pink has finally gone completely off the deep end. He imagines himself a fascist dictator, his fans his army. Roger is in no way affirming this type of hate and thought, he is condemning it as an example of total insanity as you'll soon hear. The "worms" have ate into Pink's brain. He must be saved. (It's about to get a whole lot weirder. 😏) BTW, in case there's any confusion. Roger Waters, the lyricist of the band and co-vocalist here, just got remarried recently at the age of 78, to a much younger African-American woman. You would be hard pressed to find a more open-minded, progressive artist than Roger Waters and Pink Floyd as a whole. Let's wrap this up!

[@ginnydominguez5493]

Come on what's the difference who he married. Black a man latino that doesn't change his thoughts or make him more educated. Or make him special. I married a cuban. Still had my on thoughts.

[@faywallace7870]

I'm going to go see Roger live on October 6th and it's more about human rights, gay rights, women's rights to choose rights....etc. He is all about this. Against war and hate! I can't wait to see him live.....as I have seen David Gilmour live.

[@ginnydominguez5493]

@@faywallace7870 hope u have a great time.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Open-minded and progressive? Isn't that an oxymoron?

[@JackieDaytonasBar]

Don't worry Pink Floyd aren't a fascist band. It's all about the context.

[@flubblert]

Far far far from it.

[@direnova6284]

The 2nd In The Flesh is where we came in, after the first track it's all flashback, now they've caught up with the start of the album.

[@ottisennes1715]

You gotta check out the movie... Even if you don't do a reaction to it. It's a wild ride ! The animated sequences are stunning!

[@star06able]

Absolutely! Silas, you should watch the movie for sure!! Either on your channel or on your own time, Maybe with your Dad? The movie is a masterpiece and is a Must watch if you like the album

[@jimangela4589]

"The Show Must Go On", is the last gasp of reason Pink has before his imagination really starts to take hold exercising complete control and authority over him. At one point in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet announces, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and consider myself king of infinite space." And this is what Pink's imagination is doing. He isn't just going to be a famous rock star entertaining people he is going to use the spotlight actually take control of his world. These are the things he has been hiding from. Managing the inner turmoil that has negative influences on his life. But his imagination is completely free of worldly constraints. So the concert turns into a Nuremburg type rally and his mind gets darker and darker in desperation to be in control of something. One has to keep in mind that this whole album is of a recluse, comatose from his fears laying on the floor of a hotel rom or apartment as these 26 songs play through his head over and over. As the bookends indicate we are given the opportunity to see inside Pink's head and see that hiding from one's problems is not the answer it is a nightmare. I really find the contrast between what Roger has done over his life and he will be 80 next January and his band mate from years gone by Syd Barrett. Syd as we know became a recluse and died that way at 60. The message is: all you have is time; make the best use of it. You can overcome the stresses of life as he shows on Echoes, from the Meddle album, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals.

[@johnb2422]

Those In The Flesh lyrics are def not supposed to be taken literally as the beliefs of the band. It's part of the story.

[@AD270479]

Remember bud, the album has a big big reference to World War 2... So 'In The Flesh' was sort of shining a light on the fascist enemy from that time. Was more to highlight the issue rather than promote it... 'On The Run' is the same... Edit: Meant to say so is 'Run Like Hell.' Not 'On The Run' that's a totally diff album :/

[@randyjohnson6960]

@@SuperBobby1956 WWII it's in the movie

[@iainprendergast8311]

Andy not to the fascist regime that we had already in place before they took our place

[@TheNoladrummer]

So THAT’S what I looked like the first time I listened to “The Wall”. Except, I was wearing a pair of Sony Walkman headphones and it was 1983…

[@DaveH111]

Re: In the Flesh. You mentioned that kind of song couldn't be made today, and you might be right. And that's a real shame. By now, you know that they weren't glamorizing bigotry, but rather putting it on display for ridicule. "And another with spots!" Art is a great medium to challenge our social constructs. It sometimes makes us uncomfortable. It can be provocative. But it's honest, and it sparks conversation about things in our society that need to be challenged. The whole album is anti-war and anti-fascism. It's commentary on Roger Waters' own life experience and his descent into depression. It's a look behind the curtains into his past and his views on the world. Nothing nefarious here.

[@SuperBobby1956]

Just to let ya know I'm 66 yrs old. I hope you will react to the 1994 pulse concert. If you love the guitar David Gilmour in my book is in the top 5 of the of the best. Comfortably numb maybe the greatest solo ever recorded live. The whole concert is a must see! Love the channel. Silas it's kids like you that gives me hope for America.

[@DJMaul1031]

At this point in the story: "Pink," our protagonist, has gone completely mental, and locked himself (mentally) behind his wall. He's been shot up with drugs and forced to perform on stage. He imagines himself a fascist dictator, hurling insults at his audience and wishing he could "have all of you shot!" This rant continues through Run Like Hell and Waiting For The Worms, until finally, unable to face himself anymore, he puts himself on "trial," with the sentance being to finally tear down the wall of division he's created.

[@gino88]

"I feel weird bobbing my head to that?" so pure. I love it. I figured after all the bricks in the wall of his life, he has gone mad, and the band the fans came to see isn't gonna be what they expect, the fans do not know his journey and that he went nuts and hates all of his fans by now. It is just a story.

[@PhilPastor]

When he says "Pink isn't well", he is referring to the main character "Pink Floyd"... the movie does clear up some of these story lines.

[@johnthompson6374]

I remember sitting with friends going thru the rest of this album line by line figuring out both their meanings and intentions. The movie is going to help answer a lot of questions but a friend may be needed for what's coming. Peace/JT

[@mikefetterman6782]

Gotta watch the MOVIE everything makes sense in the context of the whole movie. The main character is going through several torments through the history of his life through the movie. IN THE FLESH (reprise) is Him returning after a breakdown and is taking it out on the crowd. Also, getting a big ego. There was an incident where Roger Waters apparently ended up spitting at fans in the seats during a show touring for Animals. The end is himself putting himself on trial for all his little guilts through life.

[@mikefetterman6782]

In RUN LIKE HELL, you can hear the disco influence creeping in slightly. It was everywhere gasping for one more breath around 1979-1980

[@JKsWatchables]

"I feel weird nodding my head..." Yeah, it is a complicated story. You just got to remember that Roger Waters was singing from the perspectives of different characters. He's playing the role of a fascist like Hitler, not Pink, when he talks about shooting Jews and others.

[@syzygy21055]

Watching you hear Pink Floyd’s music for the first time is like watching myself 50 years ago when I first discovered them. They made timeless music you can live your life to, and I can vouch for that firsthand.

[@79BlackRose]

You got it Silas, that was a Prophet-5 synthesizer solo on "Run like Hell" and it is fire! It's the only solo Richard Wright does on the album, which is a shame in my opinion. He was criminally underused. 😔 To date, it is the last original composition written by both David Gilmour and Roger Waters, the last of such under the Pink Floyd banner. It is also the last composition ever recorded by all four members of the classic 70s-era Floyd line up together, with their traditional instrumental roles of Waters on bass, Gilmour on guitars, Nick Mason on drums and Richard Wright on keyboards, on the same song.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

I always thought that Richard Wright never got the credit he deserves for the sound and style of Pink Floyd.

[@79BlackRose]

@@SirHilaryManfat Agreed, mostly because of the arrogant Waters.

[@kendalton2115]

I'm impressed. These are facts I was not aware of. Also, your point of Richard Wright not getting more exposure was very true.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

@@79BlackRose Yeah, it's a shame that Roger Waters disappeared up his own arsehole towards the end.

[@joelavcoco]

My interpretation of "In the Flesh." and "Run Like Hell" has always been that the kind of conformist social demands that have made the character 'Pink' retreat from the world behind the protection of The Wall, are exactly the same attitudes that lead to authoritarianism. In this part of the album, Pink is actually still "back at the hotel", at least in spirit. The surrogate (substitute) band is a projection of what he perceives society _wants_ him to be, and the 'Pink' who shows up to the concert is not the real Pink, but rather a version of him who is acting out the scripts handed to him. And if you aren't horrified by the lyrics in "In the Flesh" then you will miss the point. Pink is horrified at the kind of person society requires him to be in order to play the game. The song "Welcome to the Machine" on "Wish You Were Here" hints at how the System crushes and exploits people, and demands dehumanization in order to participate. We see it in "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" -- school as factory. It's this same dehumanization that results in racism and fascism that contributes to Pink's becoming Comfortably Numb. He has to be numbed in order to participate in The Machine and "ride the gravy train". The movie version of "Empty Spaces" has extended lyrics that amplify this sense of alienation: "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 'Vettes fill the attic with cash, bury treasure, store up leisure but never relax at all? With our backs to The Wall." The dehumanization that leaves people unable to empathize with others is what is driving the character Pink around the bend, because he knows that if he gives in to it, it will make him a monster.

[@gypsysteve3576]

Hey Silas your reaction to Floyd is awesome. I feel guitar the way you do, and the guitarist David Gilmour is who inspired me to learn guitar in the 80s, at about your age. Please do DIVISION BELL album next. Its an awesome time of Pink Floyd, in a style you've not yet heard. You are gonna love it! 😎👍

[@MrMike4017]

Part of the “ in the flesh” was roger waters depicting in the song that he could do or say anything in a live show and the fans would still cheer!

[@tonycasey3183]

This isn't just an album of personal songs. It is the story of a screwed up, drugged up, pent up rockstar called Pink. He is trying to come to terms with his childhood in which his pilot father was killed and his repressive mother tried to control every aspect of his life. In The Flesh comes after Comfortably Numb (where Pink is in a drug stupor which his manager brings him out of with an injection of uppers) and The Show Must Go On (in which Pink goes on stage with that weird cocktail of drugs keeping him just about upright) and the crowd at the concert reminds him of a fascist rally, causing him to hallucinate that he is a Nazi dictator - hence the song lyrics. Watch the movie with Bob Geldof as Pink for a clearer insight.

[@scottlaughlin9897]

You are killing me with all the pauses today!

[@jimj9729]

You will understand Pink Floyd music more through repeated listening rather than by constant pausing. I understand the need to pause for the video, but if you just listen without breaking the flow it will fall into place better.

[@Gekokujo76]

I think a lot of people get this part of The Wall wrong. As many have stated, this is a semi-autobiographical-but-fictional take on Roger's own life using Pink as the character study. What is the stereotypical result of a fatherless child growing up with a smothering mother and an absent father? Now add an unfaithful wife and a rock star with a wall between himself and the audience. You get a paranoid control freak, full of bitterness and resentment, who is ready to fix the evils of the world because he cant even fix his relationship with his wife (calling back to the stereotype of the disciplinarian school teacher who goes home to his henpecking wife and is dominated). It is great art (some of the greatest ever), but it is also realistic and psychologically believable.

[@jaquestraw1]

Very well put

[@davidpeters44]

Great analysis and well-written. I think this section of The Wall, more specifically, warns listeners of the ongoing dangers of Fascism, generally.

[@showmoke]

Those harmonies - I mean WOW!!

[@hammerecords]

They have all explained it so well. I just like his reaction to the music. Especially with this release which can trigger many different emotions. Keep It up, Silas.

[@kpmcdonnell3633]

Roger Waters tried to get the Beach Boys to do some of the backing harmonies on this album but for one reason or another they didn't want to do it but he did manage to convince one of them to come on board and help with the vocal arrangements.

[@ianfortier6796]

The simplest way to explain this is during the last solo for Comfortably Numb, the main character of the story (named Pink), goes through a transformation. He starts off as himself, goes through a grotesque version of a chrysalis state and emerges as an imagined fascist dictator similar to Hitler or Mussolini while on his way to perform his next concert. As said dictator, he turns his concert into a rally in which he preaches homophobia, intolerance, and violent aggression against all those who are different. This takes place during the songs In The Flesh, Run Like Hell, and Waiting For the Worms. I'd continue on but I don't want to spoil the climax of the album/story for you. Once done with the album, you really should watch the film. The visuals will fill in any gaps where you don't understand what's happening. I think those gaps, or at the very least, misinterpretations, were there for all of us until having seen the movie. Great set of reactions, man!

[@sigmundfreud8976]

If you liked Run Like Hell then you should react to the Pulse live version, there’s not Roger Water on vocals but is guitarist David Gilmour. The song really gains a lot of value played live.

[@davidseanor4595]

In a nut shell, this whole album is a story of Pink and how his over bearing mother, abusive teachers and MIA father during the 2nd world war shaped himself and provided the mortar to build the wall.

[@marke8323]

Saw Pink Floyd at the Hoosier Dome in '94...Saw you were wearing a lot of IU shirts (Greetings from Logansport, IN)

[@waynejones1054]

Hi Silas, please, along with Comfortably Numb, watch Run Like Hell from the 1994 PULSE tour. These two songs ended the show.

[@mikeevans1625]

This last section really digs into Pink's detachment from reality. He doesn't want to do what he's doing any more and feels so disconnected from his fans and believes they'll swallow anything they're given, even a constructed right-wing persona. He leans heavily into the fascism of the day. THE TRIAL is one of my favourite tracks, Pink's internal reckoning of his life.

[@BrettLesPaul]

In The Flesh is the point at which the wall in his mind and life itself has driven him to extremes. He’s angry at the world. So he sings mean things. He’s not himself anymore which is why he says it’s a surrogate band (even though it is not). His inner Hitler comes out on stage. You have to see it like a story. Lots of music is a story being told that teaches you lessons in life. This is a perfect example of that. Anybody who gets offended by this doesn’t understand there is a story being told.

[@brianaumali6591]

In WW2 this is how germany was!!

[@njWordsmith]

A lot of Roger Waters' lyrics in wall fall back to the "spitting" incident in the Montreal Animals concert. Rogers was already building the wall between himself and the fans. This song illustrates how toxic that can become. No spoiler, finish the album to see if Pink ever gets free from the self imposed isolation of his wall of feelings.

[@ursgeiser6570]

Comfortably Numb is the good feel song, the good feel friend, in some situations you need him, Run Like Hell is the challenge, the hard discussion partner. Both is important in a fulfilled life. And what is with the other good songs. Everything together is what makes THE WALL.

[@richnorcal]

"You Better Run" is the closing number at the 1994 Pulse Concert..the production, the bands performance...you must see it sometime

[@grahamokeefe9406]

Regarding "In the Flesh": Back in the 70s there was concern among some musicians that the fans were a little too much into blindly following their favorite bands. Stadium concerts were starting to become the norm for big bands, and I think some musicians looked out over the audience and saw the potential for ugly mobs to form. David Bowie said, "Europe is ready for another Hitler." He was dragged pretty hard for it in some quarters, but those people misunderstood what he was saying. He wasn't saying he wanted another Hitler; he was saying the potential was there if someone were to fill that role.. So that's part of the background for that. The other part is that at this point in the story, Pink has become exactly what he hated. The Nazis killed his father, and yet here he is, repeating the cycle.

[@BrettLesPaul]

It would be awesome to see a reaction to the movie. It’s pretty sick even by today’s standards. Very trippy but makes the album much more understandable. However, I prefer the album music. Some of the songs in the film are altered versions.

[@glasswood2369]

Your discovery of this album is timely, and the story it tells is just as relevant today as it was in WWII, when the album was released (1979?) and today. The purity test "Not Pink" threatens the audience with is eerily similar to how expressing wrongthink can get you cancelled, recently

[@scott-ct4xz]

Siles l agree with Otto's definitely watch the movie just to give this amazing music context. I think l was probably 13- 14yrs old when l first sat in awe & amazement at what l was hearing and seeing. Not until l watched the movie probably 4 or 5 times too partially understand. Plus there were some herbs involved also. Keep on doing what you do. Old doods like me get a kick out of the emergence of these grouse artists.

[@danieltate6092]

You really need to watch the movie. It puts everything into context, and makes the entire album make sense.

[@JWhiskey71]

Remember this is a fictional story based partially on Roger's life. Pink is a man, sitting in a room, trapped behind his self-constructed emotional Wall, losing his mind. In this part of the album he's feeling so isolated he imagines becoming a dictator against the world he feels has abandoned him. In the end he puts himself on trail and decides to tear down the wall and rejoin the world.

[@direnova6284]

He's playing a character, if someone was playing Hitler in a movie no-one for a second would think the actor was a Nazi.

[@bryancooke1192]

So it's been a few decades since I saw the movie .. and let's not forget it had a movie to go with this album .. this album was about mentality.. how life can cuase you to put up walls to certain situations and feelings . And how that in its self can be damaging to the mind. .. at this point in the film he is so closed off from everyone and full of anger from his childhood that in his mind he becomes a Hitler type tyrant believing himself to be in control .while simultaneously loosing all sense of it this part depicts how his mind is at war with himself . That's my take looking back on a memory of seeing it when I was 6 . Iam now 45 and I think I've a better understanding of the context now then when I was six lol

[@robertholte958]

"Pink" is a fictional character that Water's made use of for this album, based off years and years of people in the industry wanting to know "which one's Pink?" (see "Have a Cigar" on Wish You Were Here"). Many people have already said that this is the point where the character her "gone insane" and this is the fascist fantasy that plays out in his mind. But it is more than that, this is Water's commentary on a world that pushes people towards conformity and control, and the "place" where Pink goes in his mind is the fascist final outcome of letting a world push you into such conformity. "In the Flesh" is where the character throws away his humanity, blaming that part of himself for all of the pain that has been inflicted upon him over the years, and he dives headlong into the madness that he feels will save him after years of caring and hurting, an endless stream of wounds...

[@lightsideofthemoon13]

Pink is a fictional character based partly on Rogers experience. The album builds up to in the flesh finishing up with outside the wall. I believe that in the flesh "pink" goes through a metamorphosis of types with the worms have eaten his brain. And the society cleansing is 100% legit as far as the album goes. Not to bed confused with Rogers life or thoughts.

[@capetowntrikeman]

Now watch the movie, The Wall and it will all fall into place for you.

[@PhilPastor]

Yes, that was a synthesizer that you heard. I am not sure if that was actually Richard Wrght (maybe someone else can comment on that), I have heard that Wright was not really involved with much of The Wall recording.

[@79BlackRose]

Yes, that was Wright.

[@flubblert]

Wright makes magical otherworldly sounds with that keyboard. He was such an important part of Floyd.

[@anita3018]

Yes and David Gilmore does incredible things with the guitar, thats why watching and listening to Pulse is so fantastic

[@gregrambo606]

Roger fired him during the making of the album. Waters threatened that if Wright wasn't gotten rid of, he would withhold the mater tapes (used to press the records) and just release the album later as a Roger Waters solo album.

[@angelagraves865]

I really hope you're going to watch the movie or at least read a synopsis. It'll clear up a lot of confusion and answer most of your questions.

[@extracaliber432]

The movie will help to answer your questions.

[@Bjy001]

You simply must watch the movie. Pink is the main character of the Wall. Pink is an alter ego of Roger Waters. The character singing In the Flesh is an alter ego of Pink after he snapped.

[@angelrdiaz4755]

The difference is that this one is alot more darker and the lyrics are more different and more menacing vulgar and more intense because of the character that is playing out in this song (: Keep in mind this whole album is one whole dark opera or play 😀 Pink Floyd created characters like Pink, The School master, The Judge who will hear later and I think you will like and more etc all of which play very important parts in this album in describing a sort world war 2 sort environment or atmosphere and also as well what was going on during the 70s with culture and the racial stigma or racial and social injustice that was occurring back in the 1940s and 60s that would often plague culture throughout history 😀 Pink Floyd was just SOOOOOOOO super creative ahead of there time too tell a story through a album that would not just grab you from the start but take you on such a journey of emotion and feelings moods and soul that like I said you just would never recuperate or be the same again after listening too it 😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀 They are and forever will be The Masters of The Concept Albums 😀😃🙂🙃😊 Nobody makes Albums like these guys The truest Art Period 😞😓😩😤 They were SOOOOOOOO create enough too use old ideas from previous albums and make them different and fit the context of this album as well as even part of there name as a character 😀 LIKE I said GENIUS 😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀

[@pete975]

'In the flesh' in context of the story is drugged up madman Pink abuses the power he thinks he has over his audience. The following song 'Run like Hell' is performed by drug-crazed Pink and the band for that audience. That is good place to break that side as all the last songs flow into each other naturally.

[@LordEagle]

When you get to Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd,,,,,there will be NO PAUSING. 💥💥💥🤪👍

[@kellyd3364]

I say again, you ought to see the movie: "Pink Floyd - The Wall"

[@dgator3599]

Watch the movie and you'll understand.

[@todvball]

... yeah. Ummm The Wall... ... it's heavy. Pretty heavy to take... (In certain areas of the album.) Creative as heck though!!!

[@diverdown631]

By this point in the story pink is lashing out at the audience and during the late 70's Roger waters was feeling anger towards the audience much like the infamous incident when Roger spit on someone at a a show.

[@wittml]

Just a suggestion: You should consider doing the Roger Waters solo album "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking". Roger pitched both album concepts to the band and they picked "The Wall" and so Roger did pros and cons solo.

[@kk-jk3oo]

You need to see the movie. It explains a lot.

[@imnotac0p]

In the flesh? Nope. Not on that one. On the second, NOW you really see what's up.

[@kiarashalipoor3715]

Listen to live at Pompeii nextttt

[@mrme123ee]

Fascism is what they are addressing in the "bad word" song; ie. WWII Germany. Love your channel.

[@justsayin3000]

10:01 It was at that very moment...

[@PanarchyInTheUK]

I've always read the 'interesting bit' as a satire on fascism. These scenes in the movie are full of fascistic imagery. Pink loses his mind, and his alter ego is a Hitler-esque character.

[@PanarchyInTheUK]

You gotta bear in mind that the Wall is drawing on biographical details of Waters' life. His father dying in WW2, so lots of war imagery.

[@philshorten3221]

Yeh fictional character Pink is seduced by the fascist "worms" those frightened weak people who surround themselves with others to outnumber those who would oppose them, like every bully they suddenly become brave with others to fight for them. Pink has that moment of realisation he is lost and finally he holds himself accountable and puts himself on trial inside his own insanity.

[@johng.8517]

At some point you have to watch "The Wall Live in Berlin". No one has reacted to that ever but someone has to. Totally awesome. It was performed in Berlin in 1990 eight months after the Berlin wall fell to celebrate the falling of the wall. A giant wall is built on stage 500 feet wide and 82 feet high which becomes a movie screen. There were over 450,000 people watching. Many from former communist countries who had never heard western music before. There were different groups performing different parts of the music. Here's the link to Wikipedia about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin . Greatest concert of all time. Here is the link to the whole concert: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKXWf5Zol9R7b5I At least watch the opening song by The Scorpions. Check it out before they take it down. Better yet download it so you have a copy.

[@davideccles6498]

U need to watch THE 🧱 WALL the DVD 📀 it will become clearer I've had the good fortune to watch them live at the old MANCHESTER CITY GROUND MAINE ROAD WOW 👌 what a night UK 🇬🇧 PATRIOT

[@Jhofy]

Please you should react to "A Saucerful of Secrets Pompeii" the one that is 4 minutes long, its amazing

[@scozz6139]

No,..... Pink, in The Wall album, is the name of the Rock Star whose tortured soul is the story of The Wall! Pink builds this imaginary wall between him and his fans and reality really. The racist lyrics are a kind of parody of real people who were the supreme racists at the time, Nazi's, and the time is 1940s WWII era. Pink Floyd is playing the part of the haters, calling them out in this part of The Wall. The final part is the Trial, the Conviction, and the Nazi Death March!

[@glennsmusicchannel]

This was the big LP when I was in 8th grade. Your initial reaction to the 2nd In The Flesh is not surprising. A surrogate band is a stand-in for the real band. When he gets into 'queers' etc putting them up against the wall - it's a statement against hating people for who they are.

[@danielmcclure4947]

In the Flesh isn't a parody of racist stereotypes or attitudes it's just a part of the story of the album. Pink specifically becomes that which killed his father, a fascist, but it's also general warning about how isolation can lead to viewing people as different than you. It's really well done. This whole section is. It's the most rah rah arena rock Pink Floyd ever gets and they do it singing about fascism because fascism unfortunately is very rah, rah arena rock.

[@geekexmachina]

In the Flesh can be interpreted this way on the surface The real band isnt at the gig and they have sent a substitute (surrogate) band and they are the ones with the opinions in the song. Interesting the use of the word Surrogate refers also to surrogate pregnancy and late test tube techniques which became big in the late 1970s so there is the idea of churning out eugenically perfect people (or bands in this case). It also is a nod to the Motherland controlling all her children. This echos the words "Brave new World"and references to Orwell 1984, and A clockwork orange

[@Eraser18574]

Watch the movie. All questions will get answered there.

[@YourLoyalDeserter]

Pink is imagining himself as a fascist dictator. The album, and the movie especially, were very political and were explicit commentary on fascism and how echoes of it were still present in British society at the time. (Thatcher years)

[@davidgermano5480]

Please promise your loyal subscribers that you will see the movie. We want you to understand some of the things you are missing and the movie will do that for you. As someone else said you don't have to react to the movie for us just tell us that you saw it.

[@sophiapangloss2149]

This is one of the hardest albums ever made, and it's hard to listen to as well. It's difficult to describe how I felt when I first heard that line "Are there any q... in the theatre tonight?", as a young gay guy in the 80s, when gangs of men were actually going around beating and killing gay men, and using their word, the q-word. It's why it upsets me hearing so-called 'progressive' people echoing those same thugs 40 years later. This album was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual... (great reaction btw, really enjoying it, it is an awful lot to take in at first listen)

[@malcolmrayner6674]

Silas just sit down with Olivia and watch the movie from start to finish after that you will have a much better grasp of the story line as it flows through the album

[@JoeandAngie]

After Pink Floyd, how about you doing a little reading and research about the early 70s best lps and their influence/popularity and make your own decision? So many great albums from which to choose. Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", Spirit's "The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus", Lou Reed "Rock and Roll Animal ", Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath ", AC/DC "Let There Be Rock", The Kinks "Misfits", LZ "Presence", Queen II, Rush "2112", Steppenwolf "7", Yes "Fragile", ZZ Top "Tres Hombres" to name a few. *,*dont get wigged out about the non-PC language...all dictators think in this way, eg, Biden. Censorship is poison and political correctness stifles a thinking mind. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” -John F. Kennedy Dont fall prey to the herd mentality of the uneducated and the unawake/woke haters of freedom. Christ is the answer to everything. Everything. Love to you. You still need to do the Song Remains the Same for us 😁 edited for misspellings only

[@johnthompson6374]

WoW, how's your wall coming along?

[@JoeandAngie]

@@johnthompson6374 tore it down after 40+ yrs. Abused my evil pedo Mason at 7, both older bros dead. O.D. '74 and hanging in '83. Lost career 6 yrs ago due to bilateral retina disease, was PharmD/infectious disease/pharmacokinetics. 2 guns 1 knife held on me...credible life threats, divorce, daughter estranged and dant see only grandkuds, and, and , and, and...lifelong traumas...began plaguing us/me me after we moved back to USA from Congo in the 60s; parents were missionaries. Have been a Christian since youth, but never released fully my anguish and trauma. I fought a different war...a psychic battle with evil for decades Score 17 extrapolated on PTSD scale of 1-10. Have/had severe cPTSD diagnosed 6/22. Quit weed after 47 of my 60 yrs of use. No alcohol anymore. No mind-alteration anymore, no self-medicating anymore. Clean blood and mind clear. Minimal meds...actually sub-therapeutic doses per population averages. Retired on disability...can't discern numbers consistently. Can't drive at night. No money to spare. Live in Shangri-la. No mask, not even once.. No vax. No kowtowing to "the science". Ain't dumb and didn't take Gullible 101 when attaining my Doctorate. I am physiologically young. Mesomorph, stronger than 2 men, look 45. Been laughing all my life, which helped me survive. Love all people (except pedos who must die).Yardwork, botany, landscaping, hard work is my medicine/therapy. In june, 95% of my mental anguish was healed by Jesus Christ . He's why I didn't off myself decades ago. Still have old habits which try to bring me down. I believed the Liar for too long...that I was born to suffer and that I was OK.. Wrong. God wants that no man should die. Chrst already suffered and died for us. please don't mock me. I have overcome. I am A.L.I.V.E. and life is now IN COLOR !! I had no idea people lived like this! Darkness has been replaced with light. Joyful tears flow regularly. God's strength is revealed in our weakness(es). Mocking backfires on the mocker. Love you, john. My name, too. But it's not John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.

[@wolfeflambe]

You were doing so well until the political bias.

[@hays9008]

Pink the whole character in the album has lost his mind...he is a Fascist Dictator well he thinks he is....he is about to implode.

[@DonHaka]

The second In The Flesh that appears here with all the "questionable" lyrics is part of the story. After hate has completely consumed the main character "Pink" he becomes/imagines himself as a fascist leader and is going to take over the world. I think that this "surrugate band" is actually Pink, but he has detached himself from reality and makes us think that it's somebody else.

[@kanomorrow7622]

If you watch the movie it will show that he has become a dictator and usually in any situation when a dictator takes over is too kill all the people he don’t like. They also go after the political opponents and kill them and their family members so they can’t come back and cause a uprising of the people! Weird song but if you see the movie it will explain the complicated journey of him and his fall into madness.

[@dylanvanwijk9223]

Watch the movie!!!

[@kazemkohnechi3812]

Pink is comfortably numb .. remember!?

[@rollotomassi6232]

Watch the movie!

[@guitar-arvidojoar560]

The rasistic lyrics in The Flesh is related to Hitler and Nazis what they done prior and during the ww2, remember Roger Water was very affected by ww2 and the death of his father in this war,

[@christopherberger7263]

Watch the movie, It will all make sense. You might have to watch it twice.

[@retiredfirelt586]

It was 1979 and we were much less "woke" back then so this language wasn't really objected to like it is today... good times. 😎

[@mikewatts867]

Your facial reaction to In The Flesh says it all. In 1979/1980, it worked well as social commentary. But you cringing to those lyrics now in 2022 says a lot about where we are now. We are actually in a much worse place now than we were when this was recorded. Not meaning to be political here. But to the point…. The lyrics of In The Flesh speak to the main character’s journey. He’s a rock star. But also in a weird way a fascist. You need to see the movie, it will connect the dots

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Pink is voicing the repressive / fascist memes out there is the 70's, showing how nuts they are. It's not supposed to be received (by the listener) as sane, acceptable or promoted.

[@jackgilchrist]

You should watch the movie some time after you're done with the album.

[@1luarluar1]

the wall by Alan Parker

[@justinatest9456]

Side 4 is where this album goes totally off the rails for me. Sides 1 through 3 are great, and once you know the story they all make perfect sense. But basically everything on this side is a blur to me. I have only the vaguest understanding of it really. I would be curious if anyone can post an explanation for In The Flesh from Roger himself. Surely by now he has offered up a succinct explanation of these lyrics beyond "It's like, rock stars are like fascists, you know." Because that really means nothing.

[@Lance_Langlois]

This may help. A very good analysis of the entire album. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oovSn4Cuo86mg8k

[@oneeyedrichmond]

The drugs used to pep him up in the hotel room ("just a little pin prick") in Comfortably Numb to get him to perform in The Show Must Go On induce a raging psychosis which unleashes his dark and paranoid side where he blames minorities etc for all the ills in and during his life. In his delusion he imagines himself as a dictator with absolute power to get rid of these minorities and with them all his life's problems. Effectively, the character Pink is suffering from schizophrenia (a reference to the condition Roger has said Syd Barrett suffered some form of). So Pink's personality has split in two: the raging New Pink leading the surrogate band while the Old Pink "isn't well and has stayed back in the hotel". Eventually the drugs wear off at the end of Waiting For The Worms and Pink back to his oneself, cries "Stop!", and he subconsciously puts himself on Trial where he questions if he has "been guilty all this time" for holding onto his own pain. The only way to free himself is to "tear down the wall" built as a faux protection but ultimately has become a prison cell cutting himself off from reality. In the end the wall crashes down and he is Outside The Wall. However, the album is designed to loop - "is there where ..... we came in" - so the question is does he ever truly free himself or is he just in a vicious cycle of wall building and demolishing? The final part alludes to all of us throughout our lives not wanting to expose our vulnerabilities and eccentricities to others out of fear of ridicule and rejection. So we are continually building walls to hide behind and they only come down when we choose and feel confident in ourselves to face reality.

[@79BlackRose]

Yeah, side four is noticeably weaker. I couldn't find any direct quotations from Roger on In The Flesh. However, there is a comprehensive explanation that seems entirely plausible to me at thewallanalysis

[@direnova6284]

Roger said the wall that Pink builds locks him out of feeling empathy and thus he becomes a fascist .

[@marcelotto6825]

The best suggestion I have for you is to watch the movie version of The Wall.

[@66.6FMRadio]

Roger is getting shit this very day (Twitter nonsense) after performing some of the stuff from the FICTIONAL movie "The Wall", after 40 fucking years!! He has an alter-ego in the movie after he "breaks", this character is performing this song as well as "Waiting For The Worms" & "Run Like Hell"....although the alter ego in the movie is racist and homophobic, Waters' intent was to point out how ridiculous that behavior is.

[@bartroberts3634]

In The Flesh is using sarcasm to mock our world and to stand opposite of of where the band Pink Floyd was coming from.Showing us the authoritatian way of life that rules our world that keeps us all including Pink not feeling so well about the truth of our current world.

[@dfrancefort]

Just watch the movie "The Wall" and you will understand what most of this album is about....

[@terrykemp1876]

You have to remember that in this case, Pink Floyd is a character, based loosely on Waters, and it maps out his mental decline and journey into paranoia and grand delusions.