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! Teachers! Leave them 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! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

“Wrong, Do it again!”
“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?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”

Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) was released as a single in the US in late December 1979 during my Freshman year of High School. I have loved this song from the time I first heard it on the radio. It was real popular in school, probably because of the ever-popular “We don’t need no education”…. and…”Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!” choruses from the song that had every kid in school humming the song under his/her breath for the rest of the school year.

Pink Floyd was one of the most popular groups in the world during much of the 1970′s and 1980′s.

I tried Pink Floyd, I honestly did……but I just don’t get it.

I have listened to their music on the radio….. I have bought a few albums……

I have tried listening to their music while relaxed in a darkened room while completely hammered out of my skull drunk….

But….nothing……..What is/was the fuss all about?

I went to a Pink Floyd Concert in London in the mid 1980′s because a ton of people told me “Oh Dude! You have GOT to see Pink Floyd! They will blow your mind!!!”

So, I went with a group of friends, with Another Brick in the Wall being really the only song of theirs that I even knew more than 2 words of.

I endured the 3 1/2 hour-long concert and afterwards, I still didn’t get what the big deal was. I might have been alone, but I was bored silly. Each Pink Floyd song seemed to have a central theme……3 minutes of lyrics…followed by 15 minutes of instrumental solos. They did have cool lights and large screens showing images….but musically….they were very talented but boring as all get out.

I think I would have had a better time at a funeral. At least the music would have been shorter.

Of course, I am an idiot, and was in the minority, as everyone else who attended equated the concert to an earth-shattering, life-altering, religious experience.

Am I alone? Has anyone else out there seen Pink Floyd in concert and left…..”Comfortably Numb” with boredom?