Erik Nicolaysen
Ms. Johnson
English 111
2/10/2015
Another Brick in His Mental Wall
Pink Floyd was an English rock band formed in London in 1965. They were one of the most influential rock bands of all time. The band was named after two American blues musicians named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Rodger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason formed the band when they met at a London architectural school. Sid Barrett soon joined them and became the leader of the band. Unfortunately, he experimented with LSD making him really unstable and was kicked out of the band in 1968. David Gilmore joined the band in 1968 as his replacement. Pink Floyd brought psychedelic music to the London underground scene. Distinguished by their use of deep-thinking
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The video film mocks teachers, students and society. In the video film, Pink is a successful but drugged out musician. He is looking back on his isolated childhood from a Los Angeles hotel room. Pink recalls how lonely he was as a child when he built his wall to the isolated world as he coped with his father’s death, his mother’s overbearing ways and the restrictive school system. “The Wall” is narrated by Pink and is the album’s metaphor for his isolation from the outside world and from “other” people. The video film shows Pink through flashbacks and hallucinations. Pink refers to the others as his schoolmates that contributed to his isolation. For example, his teacher takes away a poem Pink wrote in class. His teacher and his school mates make fun of him by reading it aloud in class. Pink was just trying to be unique and more than just “another brick in the wall”, but his classmates, who he calls the bricks, make fun of him and only make him feel more isolated. This line has a lot of different meanings in the song because walls represent a lot of …show more content…
The lyrics, “we don’t need no education” and “another brick in the wall”, are Pink Floyd’s most famous lyrics of all time. Roger Waters continues to speak out against the cruel teachers of his childhood that break one’s individual ambitions that is the basis for the video film, “The Wall.” He blames the teachers for contributing bricks to his wall and his isolation. Mark Twain said it best: "Don't let school get in the way of your education.” There is right and wrong in the world but no one needs a wall built to set them apart. Fear can only make walls, fear of failure, and fear of a better