Music Appreciation (A Retrospect)
Released in the United States 31 years ago on December 8, 1979, Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall
received several recognition and named one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Times
. However, the song and music video was and still is controversial.
The song and music video is a protest to the authoritative management of Pink's (the boy in the video) private school. Of course, after watching this video, many kids saw this as a protest to education in general.
I heard this song when I was about four or five years old. I recall my dad obtaining the album somehow and playing it during a party hosted at our home. My guess is that one of his students or friends brought the album to the house or something.
I remember waking up scared and crying to my dad begging to turn it off. He did and I returned to sleep. I think the kid's chorus creeped me out. In fact, I had the same reaction when I first saw the music video. I think I watched it one late night on MTV and quickly turning it off. As a matter of fact, I had nightmares of being on a conveyor belt and falling before waking up in a cold sweat.
It was probably not until I was in my late teens when I was able to watch and understand Pink Floyd's The Wall
.
via mongchilde
Source: Wikipedia.
To view the video, please visit my blog at http://photographywritingandmore.blogspot.com/.
Released in the United States 31 years ago on December 8, 1979, Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall
received several recognition and named one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Times. However, the song and music video was and still is controversial. The song and music video is a protest to the authoritative management of Pink's (the boy in the video) private school. Of course, after watching this video, many kids saw this as a protest to education in general.
I heard this song when I was about four or five years old. I recall my dad obtaining the album somehow and playing it during a party hosted at our home. My guess is that one of his students or friends brought the album to the house or something.
I remember waking up scared and crying to my dad begging to turn it off. He did and I returned to sleep. I think the kid's chorus creeped me out. In fact, I had the same reaction when I first saw the music video. I think I watched it one late night on MTV and quickly turning it off. As a matter of fact, I had nightmares of being on a conveyor belt and falling before waking up in a cold sweat.
It was probably not until I was in my late teens when I was able to watch and understand Pink Floyd's The Wall
. via mongchilde
Source: Wikipedia.
To view the video, please visit my blog at http://photographywritingandmore.blogspot.com/.
album, UK artist and musician Dean Omori's 
touches on politics, religion, and society with strong lyrics such as "Where's the love of a good man, What were the crimes you saw, Shoot em in the back if they don't follow orders, Shoot em in the front if they obey your law."
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, is a traditional Jamaican folk song about dock workers working at night loading bananas onto ships before daylight. The song was made popular by 
in the 1950s.
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came out in 1980. Like many other kids my age at the time, I liked the beat. I didn't think much of their attire; although their 
was pretty cool. Nor did I care what they were portraying in the video; although, I read that people had issues with its portrayal of women.
writings. The lyrics tell of a persons struggle to overcome hardtimes.