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The Wall (Music)

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The Wall (Music)	comment	The Wall is the eleventh studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 through Harvest Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US. It is their last studio album to feature Pink Floyd as a quartet: keyboardist Richard Wright was fired during the making of this album, and while he officially returned by The Division Bell, bassist and de-facto bandleader Roger Waters had left as well in the interim. The theme of this album is similar to the one found in the band's earlier work The Dark Side of the Moon as it involved descent into insanity. The album also marked the start of the band's working relationship with Bob Ezrin, previously known for his work with artists such as Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, KISS, and Peter Gabriel; Ezrin would bring his bombastic sound to this album, building off of the punk-inspired Arena Rock sound that Pink Floyd had already developed on Animals.The Wall tells the story of Pink, a fictional rock star struggling with deep-set childhood trauma and the deliberate self-destruction and self-isolation he escapes into. As his marriage falls apart and his drug abuse escalates, he distances himself further and further from reality and human connection. The character of "Pink" is based on both Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.Waters came up with the idea for the album after the last concert of the 1977 In the Flesh tour for the band's album Animals. During the concert, an unruly fan climbed the fence between the crowd and the band. In reaction, Waters spat in his face - And the fan was overjoyed to be spat on. This event caused Waters to realise that he was starting to distance himself from others and becoming an increasingly cold and destructive person. He even jokingly suggested that the band build a wall between themselves and the fans.The album and movie share the same story, albeit with a few minor differences, and told in an abstract way. The first half of the movie and album introduce us to Pink and his traumatic childhood. Events and circumstances in his childhood lifeâ€”an overbearing/overprotective mum, a father who died in World War II, and abusive teachersâ€”cause him to shun human interaction because he's afraid he'll be hurt, every incident that causes him pain serving as just another brick in the "wall" that he is constructing between himself and the outside world. As an adult, Pink fills the "empty spaces" of his wall with Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.With us so far? Right.After Pink finds out that his wife cheated on him, he trashes his hotel room and scares away a groupie before he finally snaps and completes his wall, shutting himself out entirely, and the album and movie take us inside the mind of Pink for the second half. After being revived from a drug coma and forcefully shot up with even more drugs by his managers to get him on-stage, he imagines that he has become the very same force that started his wallâ€”Fascists (okay, "hammer army")â€”and begins to order the audience to hate on various minority groups. Eventually, he retreats further into his mind during a moment of brief clarity. Wondering if he's "been guilty all this time," Pink puts himself on trial with a literal giant arse as judge and warped visions of his childhood fears as jury, and forces himself to tear down his wall as a result.The very personal, intensely emotional themes of one man's inability to connect with the rest of the world are deeply intertwined with the Real Life social and political circumstances of the Cold War. The pointlessness of war and nationalism, Generational Trauma, institutionalized child abuse in the form of corporal punishment in schoolsnote which at least some members of Pink Floyd must have experienced, as it was legal in British state-supported schools until 1986, the resurgence of fascism in Europenote The undoubtedly fascist British National Party was founded in 1982, the same year the movie came out, the music industry and the relationship between art and commerce, addiction and mental illness are all key themes of the story - "The Wall" is the story of one individual isolating himself over his own unprocessed trauma, and it is the story of a world gearing up for World War III when the deep scars of World War II have barely healed; a world where literal Walls had been built to manifest national interests and imprison populations.As documentarian and film critic Dan Olson summarizes The Wall: "Core to the theme of the piece as a whole, no one specific thing is the load-bearing cause. There is no singular source of the sickness in society that isolates us from one another, that suppresses us, that brutalizes us, that exploits us. They are all just bricks in the wall."The album was a major commercial success for Pink Floyd. It topped the album charts in ten countries; the lead single "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" would also reach number 1 in the UK, the US, and Norway. It would go on to be certified double-diamond in Canada, diamond in France, platinum 23-fold in the US, platinum 14-fold in New Zealand, platinum 11-fold in Austria, quadruple-platinum in Italy and Germany, double-platinum in the UK, and platinum in Argentina, Brazil, Poland, and Spain. To this day, it remains the second-highest-selling album in the band's entire discography, bested only by The Dark Side of the Moon, and ranks among the biggest-selling albums in music history. As of 2018, it is also the highest-selling double-album of all time, with 30 million copies sold worldwide.The band's tour promoting the album featured giant puppets, Deranged Animation by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and most notably, a giant wall of cardboard bricks that was constructed between the musicians and the audience during the course of the first half of the show; a live album of their two performances at Earl's Court, titled Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980â€“81, was released in 2000. While the stage show did manage to attract a quite sizable audience, it was so expensive and cost so much to put together that the tour only had 31 shows in four different cities (London, New York, Dortmund and Los Angeles); a revival tour by Roger Waters in 2010/2011 is still the most expensive concert tour of all time. A special one-off performance was staged in Berlin in 1990, on the no man's land space between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.The Wall was supported by three singles: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", "Run Like Hell", and "Comfortably Numb". The film adaptation, meanwhile, was supported by one single: "When the Tigers Broke Free", later added to The Final Cut in 2004.Preceded by Animals. Proceeded by The Final Cut.Note that this page discusses both the album and the film based on it.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: The movie has several animated scenes where sexual imagery is played for horror. The most prominent example is the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence, in which a shadow of Pink's wife turns into a nightmarish mantis/butterfly/flower/vagina monster.
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The Wall (Music) / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
The Wall (Music) / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-Universe, Pink has an epic one during "Another Brick In The Wall, Part III" after his wife leaves him followed by another one after "Comfortably Numb", where his journey of self-revelation is interrupted with drugs, and finally his Heel Realization during "Stop" coincides with one.
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The Wall (Music) / int_11687fd5	type	Charge-into-Combat Cut
The Wall (Music) / int_11687fd5	comment	Charge-into-Combat Cut: We see the charging soldiers at the Battle of Anzio cut back and forth with a years later young Pink, whose father died in the battle.
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The Wall (Music) / int_11d206ef	type	Subliminal Seduction
The Wall (Music) / int_11d206ef	comment	Subliminal Seduction: The song "Empty Spaces" contains the amusingly self-referential, if kind of hard to make out since it's so buried in the mix, backwards message:
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The Wall (Music) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Wall (Music) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Roger Waters appears as one of the witnesses during the wedding scene in the film version of "Mother".
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The Wall (Music) / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
The Wall (Music) / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: Trope Namer, though Pink doesn't commit suicide. He does threaten to do it in "One Of My Turns" ("Would you like to learn to fly? / Would you like to see me try?"), and suggests he might still do it in "Stop" (I want to go home / Take off this uniform and leave the show")
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The Wall (Music) / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
The Wall (Music) / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: In the film, after the scene for "One of My Turns" and going directly into "Don't Leave Me Now", Pink is in a pool stretched out like this with one of his hands bleeding.
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The Wall (Music) / int_13fc7795	type	Reprise Medley
The Wall (Music) / int_13fc7795	comment	Reprise Medley: During the live shows, the band would play a medley called "The Last Few Bricks" between "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" and "Goodbye Cruel World" in order to give the stage-hands time to construct the titular wall. The recording of this medley found on the live album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980â€“81 includes material based on instrumental sections from "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)", "Don't Leave Me Now", "Young Lust" and "Empty Spaces".
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The Wall (Music) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Wall (Music) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "Is there anybody out there? "Is there anybody out there? "Is there anybody out there? "Is there anybody out there?" "WRONG, do it again! WRONG, do it again! WRONG, do it again! WRONG, do it again ..."
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The Wall (Music) / int_142b2370	type	Vile Vulture
The Wall (Music) / int_142b2370	comment	Possibly unintentional, but the Prosecutor in "The Trial" looks a fair bit like a vulture, especially when he leaps onto the wall, perches on it and briefly stretches out his neck while holding out his arms like wings. This fits with how lawyers are frequently perceived as deceitful opportunists.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Wall (Music) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Especially "Comfortably Numb" and, well, the rest of the album.
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The Wall (Music) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Wall (Music) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Wall is arguably Pink Floyd's overall darkest album (depending on how you score Animals and The Final Cut), with a pervasive feeling of cynicism and despair permeating throughout both the lyrics and the music itself.
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The Wall (Music) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Wall (Music) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The charge of the audience into the concert hall at the beginning of "In the Flesh?" in the movie, at least to one annotator, seemed suggestive of procreative sperm trying to reach their way into the birth canal to unite with the egg cell. The animation of the flowers reproducing with each other during "Empty Spaces" resembles two humans coupling. Often the shapes of the flowers turn into sex organs. Pink's cheating wife, who takes the form of a giant praying mantis (known for killing their mates by biting off their heads) with a Vagina Dentata for a mouth.
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The Wall (Music) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Wall (Music) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Note to groupies: when a rock star indicates he has a headache and does nothing but sit still, get the fuck OUT.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Wall (Music) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: "Comfortably Numb" was partially inspired by an article Waters read about Elvis Presley's personal physician, George C. Nichopoulos, who kept the increasingly decrepit star pumped full of prescription drugs so he could perform. Waters' solo version protested The War on Terror in The New '10s.
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The Wall (Music) / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
The Wall (Music) / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: "Young Lust", and, according to Nicholas Schaffner's 1991 book Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, the passage in "Nobody Home" that ends "I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains", is about keyboardist Richard Wright, who was suffering from a massive cocaine problem at the time.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Wall (Music) / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Pink quite clearly spells out his vision for Britain in "Waiting For The Worms." It involves sending "our colored cousins home again" and implementing the "Final Solution to strengthen the strain" to allow Brittania to rule again, in his words,
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The Wall (Music) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Wall (Music) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Pink. The broad strokes of his life are probably true, but he may be exaggerating some of the details. Waters emphasised this aspect in interviews with Tommy Vance promoting the album, drawing attention to how it's never explicitly stated whether Pink actually did abuse his wife the way he sings in "Don't Leave Me Now" or if he's simply "wallowing in depravity" after his fit of anger in the previous song, or how Pink's mother may not be anywhere near as prissy or cruel as she's depicted in "Mother". (The analysis points out that she always refers to herself in the third person, making it more likely that it's not actually her in the chorus, but Pink.) We can't really know for sure since nearly the entire album is told from his point-of-view anyway (the only character that actually has an independent voice is the groupie in "One Of My Turns").
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The Wall (Music) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Wall (Music) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "When the Tigers Broke Free Part II". All in all it's just Another Brick in the Wall Let's face it, apart from the ones under Non-Appearing Title, every song in the album has its Title Drop (though some of them like "The Thin Ice" or "One of My Turns" make it more subtle).
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The Wall (Music) / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
The Wall (Music) / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: In the 1980-81 live shows, "In The Flesh?" would be introduced by an emcee as the band gradually tuned up and counted in the song in the background. "In The Flesh" has the band interrupt the emcee mid-sentence with no warning whatsoever.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Wall (Music) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The form of the Judge is a literalisation of the saying "the law is an ass".
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The Wall (Music) / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
The Wall (Music) / int_1bf94a24	comment	In the Special Edition DVD of The Movie, Roger Waters' DVD Commentary ends with him casually saying "Isn't this where we came in?"
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The Wall (Music) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Wall (Music) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The album's central theme. One school of thought says it applies literally to the ending.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Wall (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "In the Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting for the Worms" can be seen as this, given they're sung from the point of view of Pink's fascist persona.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Wall (Music) / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Pink is this after the unfortunate phone call home.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Wall (Music) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The album itself isn't clear on whether or not this is the case with the opening song, "In the Flesh?" but the movie seems to use the song as one, having Pink sing to the crowds before showing us his life up to that point looking just like he does after his descent into neo-Nazism.
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The Wall (Music) / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
The Wall (Music) / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Among Bob Hoskins' Angrish during "Comfortably Numb," one can hear "I never had this trouble with Cliff!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_1fe9ccad	type	Puppet Permutation
The Wall (Music) / int_1fe9ccad	comment	Puppet Permutation: The Teacher. His puppet form is always seen being controlled by his wife, who is depicted as a horrifying giant.
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The Wall (Music) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Wall (Music) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The line "How can ya have any PUDDIN' if ya don't eat yer Meat?" is given a darker context in the music video for and film version of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", which depicts Pink imagining students being put through a giant meat grinder.
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The Wall (Music) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Wall (Music) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Several of the lyrics show an understated, deadpan sense of humour that either provides momentary relief from or reinforces the album's depressing atmosphere, such as: "Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?" from "Mother"; Pink gleefully recounting how the abusive teachers are thrashed "within inches of their lives" every night by their "fat and psychopathic wives" in "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"; Pink's pathetic list of possessions in "Nobody Home"; the "little pinprick" (complete with sparkly sound effect) in "Comfortably Numb"; Pink psychotically ranting about shooting his fans in "In the Flesh"; and nearly all of "The Trial" for its over-operatic nature.
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The Wall (Music) / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Wall (Music) / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Yet another layer of fascist imagery in "Waiting for the Worms"
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The Wall (Music) / int_24dd0eef	type	Judicial Wig
The Wall (Music) / int_24dd0eef	comment	Judicial Wig: Pink's trial is presided over by Judge Arse in the film and theatrical versions. He is Exactly What It Says on the Tinâ€”a giant talking human backside wearing a long white judge's wig. On the film version, the Judge first appears as a worm, which then turns into a wig.
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The Wall (Music) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Wall (Music) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A lot of references to songs and concepts from Floyd's career are scattered throughout the album... The scream from "Run Like Hell" and the beginning of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" was used in "Pow R. Toc H." and "Careful with That Axe, Eugene". Pink's "favorite axe" brings to mind "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days", although "axe" is a traditional rock slang term for guitar. Floyd's use of war as a subject matter goes back as early as "Corporal Clegg" from A Saucerful of Secrets in 1968, a man scarred from his experiences in World War II. Wonder if he was the one who brought the bad news about Pink's dad... "Waiting for the Worms" also uses similar vocal techniques to "Corporal Clegg" (clear words, followed by words that sound like they're coming through a megaphoneâ€”literally in the case of the latter song), as well as sharing certain structural similarities (aggressive verses driven by heavy guitar riffs, followed by more melodic choruses employing vocal harmonies). Roger Waters mentioned in an interview that the main riff for "Another Brick In The Wall" was based on the first half of the main riff from "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", which, coincidentally, contains the line "Witness the man who raves at the wall". Similarly, he mentioned that the Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll parody "Young Lust" is partly pastiched from "The Nile Song". "Hey you, won't you help me to carry the stone?". "The stone" was also mentioned in "Crying Song" (from More) and "Dogs" (from Animals). The voice of the rambling Scotsman from "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (from Ummagumma) was probably the inspiration for the teacher, as well as the equally exaggerated accents shown by the characters in "The Trial". Pink deliriously whines "Remember the flowers I sent" in "Don't Leave Me Now". "What Shall We Do Now?" mentions "sending flowers by phone", emphasising Pink's obliviousness and social disconnection. One of Pink's wife's complaints in "The Trial" is "You should have talked to me more often than you did, but no! You had to go your own way!". One of the lyrics of "If" (from Atom Heart Mother) is "And if I were a good man/I'd talk with you more often than I do", thus reinforcing the fact that Pink is not a good man. (The slight change in words adds to the effect, as "If" mentions "talking with you more often" but Pink's wife is furious that Pink doesn't "talk to her more often", making Pink look even more of a jerkass.) She also sings "I hope they throw away the key", a reference to one of the more famous lines from "Brain Damage". ("You lock the door/And throw away the key/There's someone in my head/But it's not me".) She also mocks him by asking "Broken up any homes lately?", "break up homes?" being one of the suggestions in "What Shall We Do Now?". Sound effects from "Echoes", such as the piano "ping" and the whale calls, were used in "Hey You" and "Is There Anybody Out There?" respectively. Waters' son Harry saying the line "Look mummy! There's an aeroplane up in the sky!" at the start of "Goodbye Blue Sky". Sometime after the release of The Dark Side of the Moon, the band incorporated an exploding spitfire plane into their stage show, as the climax of "On The Run". Harry also plays keyboards in the new touring band. From the film: The "poems" that little Pink gets taken from him and read condescendingly to the class in school are from the lyrics to "Money". Also from the film: The poems Bob Geldof mumbles in the "Stop" sequence include lyrics from "Your Possible Pasts", from The Final Cut, and "5:11 AM (The Moment Of Clarity)" from Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking (which, as detailed in the What Could Have Been section, was originally offered to the band as a possible concept along with The Wall). The biggest one of all comes from Wish You Were Here (1975), and has connections in reality: the song "Have a Cigar" asks, "Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?" Which, naturally, came up in a radio interview. Roy Harper, the guest vocalist on "Have A Cigar", trashed his trailer in July 1975. Roger Waters witnessed this as Pink Floyd were preparing for their epic opening of Knebworth Festival '75 which inspired Waters to write Pink's rage song, "One Of My Turns". Similarly, Pink shaving his eyebrows in the movie is based on an incident from the Wish You Were Here (1975) sessions, where the band was recording "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", their tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, when they were randomly visited by a fat, bald, middle-aged man with shaved eyebrows; after several uncomfortable minutes, they realised it was Syd. The movie's Body Horror sequence in "Comfortably Numb" as Pink is carried down the hall is believed to be also a reference to Barrett's alleged habit of crushing Quaaludes and mixing them with his hair cream before going on-stage, so that they would melt as the concert progressed, making him look like what Roger Waters described as "a guttered candle." In the Special Edition DVD of The Movie, Roger Waters' DVD Commentary ends with him casually saying "Isn't this where we came in?" The opening song and the song where Pink has descended into the depths of his insanity are both called "In the Flesh". An incident on the In the Flesh Tour, which was to promote their last album, Animals, inspired this album. On The Wall Analysis' Facebook page, someone pointed out that the stadium-like building depicted on the album looks like a fantasia of the Montreal Olympic stadium, where the spitting incident took place. The two note bass-line in "Goodbye Cruel World" sounds similar to the one at the end of "See Emily Play". The eponymous wall is a reference to the last verse of "Echoes" from Meddle: "And through the window in the wall comes streaming in on sunlight wings / a million bright ambassadors of morning". The full version of "Echoes" carries a number of themes that seem to link in to the same patterns: disconnection, loss of communication, and after a long (instrumental) struggle, re-connection, when the singer at the end of the song can "throw the windows wide and call to you across the skies". This wall, at least, has a window.
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The Wall (Music) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Wall (Music) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In "The Trial", someone in the audience yells "Go judge, shit on him!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Wall (Music) / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: When Pink transforms into his Fascist Pink persona, he shaves off all of his hair, including his eyebrows.
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The Wall (Music) / int_28836bbd	type	Saving the World With Art
The Wall (Music) / int_28836bbd	comment	Saving the World With Art: The ultimate moral of the story, as told in "Outside the Wall".
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The Wall (Music) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Wall (Music) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Pink's father was killed in World War II"When the Tigers Broke Free" specifies that it was the Battle of Anzio, when Pink was just a child, and, thus, is absent from his life.*
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The Wall (Music) / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Wall (Music) / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Title: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" doesn't refer to particularly happy days in Pink's life, though considering how bad his life has been, they may very well be the happiest days of his life.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
The Wall (Music) / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", which provides the page quote for that page, and "Another Brick in the Wall Part II", is about the cruel and authoritarian teachers of Pink's day, who were out to hurt the kids they were in charge of any way they could. In the movie, it's made clear that the teacher featured is one of just these people, when he grabs Pink's book of poems, reads one of them aloud to the class note Which is "Money", by the way, then calls it absolute rubbish.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
The Wall (Music) / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: In the film version, whenever a group has masks on their faces, this is essentially what happened to them. The life masks of each band member were used by the appropriate members of the touring group (e.g. guitarist Snowy White when subbing for David Gilmour) while on stage, up to the point that during during the very first song, and at other certain points of the performance, none of the actual Floyd members are on stage. The Wall was born partly from Waters's Artist Disillusionment and the realization that nobody actually knew or cared who the band members were, just that there was some spectacle on stage (though this certainly wasn't helped by the band's stage shows being almost entirely spectacle for a full decade, and their pictures rarely ever appearing in their album artwork.)
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The Wall (Music) / int_2bd2b7b8	type	List Song
The Wall (Music) / int_2bd2b7b8	comment	List Song: "What Shall We Do Now?" where Pink lists all the things he can do with his new-found fame and fortune, and "Nobody Home", where he lists all of his worldly possessions.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
The Wall (Music) / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: Pink's old math teacher. Somewhat sympathetic in that his hatred of his students is part of the Vicious Cycle theme of the movie/album. In fact, Waters went on to write several songs on The Final Cut from the teacher's POV, blaming his treatment of his students on his own trauma stemming fromâ€”surprise, surpriseâ€”WWII. "When you're one of the few/To land on your feet/What do you do to make ends meet?/Teach!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Wall (Music) / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Subverted— Pink's Wife is sometimes given a French accent in her part of "The Trial" and is visually presented in a very unflattering light, but she's also one of the few who has a valid complaint against him, as opposed to just whining that she couldn't keep him under her control like his Teacher and Mother.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2e22f7d4	type	Minimalistic Cover Art
The Wall (Music) / int_2e22f7d4	comment	Minimalistic Cover Art: Just a featureless white brick wall, with the band name and title written on it in black graffiti (sometimes red, depending on the release); original LP pressings made the name and title a sticker that could be removed to leave the wall entirely blank. Still, don't judge an album by its outside cover; it's what's inside that counts.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2e70a1db	type	Miniscule Rocking
The Wall (Music) / int_2e70a1db	comment	Miniscule Rocking: "Stop" clocks in at only 30 seconds, making it the shortest song in Pink Floyd's entire library, beating out "A New Machine, Pt. 2" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason by 8 seconds. Still, it's also one of the most important songs on the album as it signals when Pink has his Heel Realization.
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The Wall (Music) / int_2f7f6351	type	Rock-Star Song
The Wall (Music) / int_2f7f6351	comment	Rock-Star Song: More like a Rock Star Album. The whole thing is about the disillusionment and isolation fame brings, intermingled with emotional wounds from a tough childhood, post WWII, and its overall message is that isolation is immensely destructive to a person.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Wall (Music) / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In the movie, the teacher ridicules young Pink's lyrics to "Money", one of Pink Floyd's signature songs, as "absolute rubbish". A bit of Reality Subtext can be found here, as "Money" was one of Pink Floyd's most requested songs at concerts, to the point where it became one of the band's biggest points of contention with their fans. The success of Dark Side of the Moon had brought them a whole new audience who didn't know anything about their previous work.
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The Wall (Music) / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Wall (Music) / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Some listeners have claimed they can understand Pink when he starts ranting and raving in a high pitched voice during "Waiting for the Worms". Nope. It's deliberately unintelligible nonsense.
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The Wall (Music) / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Wall (Music) / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: In "One of My Turns", Pink "offers" to do this to the groupie, then himself, causing the groupie to run in terror.
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The Wall (Music) / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
The Wall (Music) / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: "Don't Leave Me Now" takes a dark spin on this: Pink sees the last meaningful connection he had to outside society slip away when his marriage with his wife finally collapses in on itself, and begs her to stay with him... because he's dependent on abusing her. Her departure ends up being what sends Pink over the edge.
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The Wall (Music) / int_34f6774c	type	Concept Album
The Wall (Music) / int_34f6774c	comment	Concept Album: One of the most famous and influential examples in all of music. While most Pink Floyd albums revolve around central musical and lyrical themes, The Wall was their only fully fledged Rock Opera, and to this day is one of the most extravagent examples of the genre.
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The Wall (Music) / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Wall (Music) / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Waters can be heard calling out "Eins, zwei, drei, alle!" at the beginning of "Waiting For The Worms".
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The Wall (Music) / int_38da8916	type	Uncommon Time
The Wall (Music) / int_38da8916	comment	Uncommon Time: "Mother": the song is written in eighths, but the number of eighths per bar constantly shifts throughout the song. Nick Mason couldn't handle the different time signatures, and due to the tight schedule, had to be replaced by session drummer Jeff Porcaro.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3a03b27c	type	Looped Lyrics
The Wall (Music) / int_3a03b27c	comment	Looped Lyrics: "Is There Anybody Out There?" simply repeats its title four times, before going into its lonely guitar piece.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3ad27180	type	The Chain of Harm
The Wall (Music) / int_3ad27180	comment	The Chain of Harm: The teacher, being a Henpecked Husband, takes out his frustration on his pupils. Made all the more literal in the movie version of "The Trial", where when the teacher is shown whipping Pink, while his wife is shown whipping him.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3bbf3fef	type	Recurring Riff
The Wall (Music) / int_3bbf3fef	comment	Recurring Riff: A four-note riff is prevalent throughout the album, appearing on each of its fours sides at least once. It forms the backbone of all three parts of "Another Brick in the Wall" and prominently appears in "Hey You", "Waiting for the Worms", and "The Trial".
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The Wall (Music) / int_3ccaf3ac	type	No Swastikas
The Wall (Music) / int_3ccaf3ac	comment	No Swastikas: The Double Hammer sign.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3e7df515	type	British Rockstar
The Wall (Music) / int_3e7df515	comment	British Rock Star: Pink, who is an amalgam of Roger Waters and Syd Barrett, and later ends up adopting a fascist alter ego reminiscent of David Bowie's Thin White Duke persona (right down to the slicked-back hair in the film).
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The Wall (Music) / int_3f1f6c04	type	The Cover Changes the Meaning
The Wall (Music) / int_3f1f6c04	comment	The Cover Changes the Meaning: Scissor Sisters' controversial disco version of "Comfortably Numb" changes the perspective from a man who can't get numb enough to a man who's enthralled to be numb beyond repair.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Wall (Music) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: The film version of Pink is depicted as only being emotionally distant from his wife, rather than actively cheating on her and abusing her, which makes him more sympathetic when he gets cheated on.
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The Wall (Music) / int_3fb5ab75	type	The Eleven O'Clock Number
The Wall (Music) / int_3fb5ab75	comment	The Eleven O'Clock Number: "Stop" is Pink's brief, reflective, sung soliloquy immediately preceding his climatic "trial". Not as prominent in the film, as it is sung quietly in a bathroom stall with added phase-shifting effects, but it appears at the same moment and performs the same function.
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The Wall (Music) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Wall (Music) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: From the newer live tours of the album, we have what seems to be the Hammers' slogan: "Everything will be okayâ€”you can trust us."
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The Wall (Music) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Wall (Music) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Pink gets rid of the mental wall he put up that was utterly destroying him after he puts himself on trial, but that doesn't change what happened for the rest of the album. He's still suffering from issues about his past, his wife left him, he destroyed a hotel room, and (if we take his word at face value) he started a Neo-Nazi revolution in Britain. It doesn't help that "Outside The Wall" doesn't explain what happened to Pink after the wall came down, and the very last lines suggest that his descent into isolation and madness might happen again. In the film, a group of children can be seen picking up bricks in the street and running off with them, suggesting that they're starting to build their own walls.
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The Wall (Music) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Wall (Music) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: "Young Lust", "In the Flesh", and "Run Like Hell". They're all songs that Pink himself is performing at concerts.
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The Wall (Music) / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Wall (Music) / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: "Outside the Wall" leaves Pink's fate open to interpretation. While he's had a major epiphany about how his self-isolation has been destroying his life and hurting everybody around him, what he's going to do after this point is up to personal interpretation, with the reprise of the intro to "In the Flesh?" leaving open the possibility that he might just spiral back into his old ways if he isn't careful.
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The Wall (Music) / int_435a960f	type	Limey Goes to Hollywood
The Wall (Music) / int_435a960f	comment	Limey Goes to Hollywood: In-Universe, Pink himselfâ€”the movie makes it fairly clear that this part of the tour is in L.A.
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The Wall (Music) / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
The Wall (Music) / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: the animation sequence the accompanies "[[Thr Villain Sucks Song The Trial]".
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The Wall (Music) / int_4517f2a2	type	Symbolic Serene Submersion
The Wall (Music) / int_4517f2a2	comment	Symbolic Serene Submersion: During "The Thin Ice," Pink has a nightmare that involves floating in his pool, surrounded by dark clouds of blood. At first he thrashes and claws at his skin, but by the end of the song he has surrendered, and floats still in a Crucified Hero Shot, as though accepting his own drowning.
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The Wall (Music) / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
The Wall (Music) / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Done in the film and concert versions of "In The Flesh", where Pink points out people who have qualities he doesn't like.
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The Wall (Music) / int_47b97b31	type	Album Closure
The Wall (Music) / int_47b97b31	comment	Album Closure: The final song is "Outside the Wall," a brief track that, while still leaving Pink's fate ambiguous, wraps up the album with a message about how it's not all that great to isolate yourself.note along with "Isn't this where—" which leads into the intro track
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The Wall (Music) / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Wall (Music) / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: In a dream sequence during the film, Pink, represented by his younger self, comes across a version of his adult self in this state. It freaks him the fuck out.
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The Wall (Music) / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Wall (Music) / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: After Roger Waters did this to a fan on the In the Flesh tour, he immediately had a "My God, What Have I Done?" moment that led to the creation this album.
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The Wall (Music) / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
The Wall (Music) / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: Arena, acoustic, hard, and of course, progressive rock. With some shades of disco. Plus flirtations with bar-band balladry ("Nobody Home"), electronic (the first half of "Don't Leave Me Now"), and quasi-opera ("The Trial").
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The Wall (Music) / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
The Wall (Music) / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Pink experiences a self-inflicted version of this after constructing the wall around himself, discovering that alienating everyone and everything is much worse than having to deal with them like before.
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The Wall (Music) / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
The Wall (Music) / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: "In the Flesh?"
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The Wall (Music) / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Wall (Music) / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Pink's rampage through his hotel room in "One Of My Turns".
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The Wall (Music) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Wall (Music) / int_504a1991	comment	The movie's Body Horror sequence in "Comfortably Numb" as Pink is carried down the hall is believed to be also a reference to Barrett's alleged habit of crushing Quaaludes and mixing them with his hair cream before going on-stage, so that they would melt as the concert progressed, making him look like what Roger Waters described as "a guttered candle."
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The Wall (Music) / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
The Wall (Music) / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" where Pink completely loses it after his wife leaves him is a pretty angry example of this, while "Stop!" is more of a guilt ridden example of such.
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The Wall (Music) / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Wall (Music) / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The first song starts with quiet music and someone saying "—we came in?", the last song ends with the same quiet music and someone saying "Isn't this where—". The second side of the first album starts with "Goodbye Blue Sky" and ends with "Goodbye Cruel World". A near case of this can be found in the third quarter of the album. It was originally supposed to start with "Is There Anybody Out There?", but this was moved to the second song because "Hey You" made more musical sense at the beginning. However "Bring The Boys Back Home" still ends with Pink asking "Is there anybody out there?"
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The Wall (Music) / int_553aaabe	type	Safety in Indifference
The Wall (Music) / int_553aaabe	comment	Safety in Indifference: Pink comes to the conclusion that there is safety in indifference during "Another Brick In The Wall Part III", angrily declaring what the world has shown him:
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The Wall (Music) / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
The Wall (Music) / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Pink realises this after he seals himself off from the world, and yells the trope name word for word at the end of "Hey You".
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The Wall (Music) / int_586589bc	type	Journey to the Center of the Mind
The Wall (Music) / int_586589bc	comment	Journey to the Center of the Mind: The second half of the album and movie takes place well inside a very disturbed mind with brief glimpses to the outside on "Comfortably Numb", and with the sound effects heard throughout that half.
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The Wall (Music) / int_59f47557	type	Vicious Cycle
The Wall (Music) / int_59f47557	comment	Vicious Cycle: The album's main theme is how the cycle of lack of communication perpetuates itself. A secondary theme seen in "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" is about the cycle of violence and unhappiness: the teacher is domestically abused at home by his wife, and reacts by lashing out in turn at the students and picking on them.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Wall (Music) / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: The 1980â€“81 tours involved the "Surrogate Band," four session musicians who wore life-masks of Pink Floyd's members during "In the Flesh?" and the "fascist rally" set. During those three songs, you realise that the "old" Pink Floyd is being forced to play at the "new" Pink Floyd's concert, and they're playing their instruments rather stiffly and unwillingly, as if they've got guns pointed at them.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Wall (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The most obvious one is isolation and self-destruction, with the album as a whole exploring in extensive detail the sorts of things that might cause a person to shut themself off from the world. The closing track is a heartfelt plea from Roger Waters directly to the audience to be open and honest with the people who care about you. Dehumanization, whether from war, authoritarian schooling, overbearing parents, or simply being an incredibly famous person surrounded by people who either idolize you or just see you as a source of profit. Over the course of the album, Pink stops seeing himself as a human being with needs and emotions, which in turn causes him to start dehumanizing others. The album keeps repeating Pink's desire to just go home.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The Wall (Music) / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: "The Trial", where Pink puts himself on trial, with only one possible conclusion (the judge doesn't even need the jury's input). However it ultimately proves useful as the judge orders him to tear down the wall that had divided him from everyone else.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Wall (Music) / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Particularly after Pink's revival.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
The Wall (Music) / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: On Waters' 2012 The Wall tour, "Mother" features visuals such as a surveillance camera and the message "Big Brother Is Watching", with the BR in "Brother" crossed out and an M painted over it to say "Big Mother Is Watching".
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The Wall (Music) / int_5e835a41	type	Gratuitous Panning
The Wall (Music) / int_5e835a41	comment	Gratuitous Panning: "Run Like Hell". Every new line Roger sings switches to the opposite channel. (This also occurs in the live version on Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980â€“81, except Roger and David are trading lines.) "Run Like Hell" also begins with a crowd chanting "Pink! Floyd! Pink! Floyd!" solely in the left channel, which is pointed out by a commenter in the above-mentioned analysis as a symbolic reference to the band's own left-wing beliefs, Waters being a vocal socialist. The chant is also heard in the end, but another crowd yelling "HAMMER! HAMMER!" appears in the right channel and becomes loud enough to drown out the other crowd. Considering the song that is transitioned to is "Waiting For The Worms", the panning isn't a coincidence.
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The Wall (Music) / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Wall (Music) / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: A non-lethal example: in the film, Pink spends part of his depressive episode in his hotel room floating in the outdoor pool, which becomes enveloped in a cloud of blood from the gash in his palm (which he got after clutching onto a window frame covered in broken glass).
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The Wall (Music) / int_5fe1360d	type	Audience Participation Song
The Wall (Music) / int_5fe1360d	comment	Audience Participation Song: Invoked in live performances during the "Pink's concert turns into a fascist rally" portion, to go with Roger Waters' opinion of concerts as mass hysteria. One early idea was to have Pink literally bomb his audience, who'd still cheer as they were ripped apart. And in case you miss the point, the intro to "Waiting For The Worms" immediately afterwards... "Mother should I trust the government?" Live audiences invariably answer with a resounding "NO!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_5ff126b7	type	Troubled Fetal Position
The Wall (Music) / int_5ff126b7	comment	Troubled Fetal Position: Pink assumes this position a few times throughout the movie.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6053dc28	type	Record Producer
The Wall (Music) / int_6053dc28	comment	Record Producer: Bob Ezrin had a heavy influence over the album, making Roger Waters change the lyrics to make them more universal and less autobiographic and converting his concept into a 40-page script during the preliminary sessions, allowing the band to work on the album better. Co-producer James Guthrie was similarly praised by Gilmour and others for playing a key part in crafting the album's overall sound.
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The Wall (Music) / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
The Wall (Music) / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: "Nobody Home", a piano-driven piece where Pink is forced to contemplate his self-imposed isolation. And previously, a Lonely Guitar Piece with "Is There Anybody Out There?", where Pink is faced with the seemingly irreversible nature of the wall's completion.
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The Wall (Music) / int_61f452ca	type	Sinister Shades
The Wall (Music) / int_61f452ca	comment	Sinister Shades: In live performances of the album (or at least the material from side four), Roger Waters dons a set of aviator shades when playing the part of Fascist Pink, invoking the sunglasses' association with dictators to tie into the character's ruthless nature.
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The Wall (Music) / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Wall (Music) / int_62434fe2	comment	Pink's childhood is based on Roger Waters' early life, including his father dying in the war and horrible experience in school. Pink's Sanity Slippage as an adult is based on Syd Barrett's own Creator Breakdown. He really did shave his eyebrows.
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The Wall (Music) / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
The Wall (Music) / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": One can be heard during "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", just after the first verse if one listens closely.
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The Wall (Music) / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
The Wall (Music) / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: The buzzing synthesizer drone in "Hey You" and "Is There Anybody Out There?", representing the worms.
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The Wall (Music) / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Wall (Music) / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: In the movie, we see Pink's Hammer army attack a black man making out with a white woman in the back of his car, while one of their numbers rapes the woman.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Wall (Music) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The movie shows more of Waters' left-wing politics. Pink's wife meets the man she has an affair with at a CND rally, for example.
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The Wall (Music) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Wall (Music) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Pink is primarily based on Roger Waters, with elements of Syd Barrett and Gerald Scarfe tossed in as well.
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The Wall (Music) / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
The Wall (Music) / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: In the "Goodbye Blue Sky" clip from the movie, a massive fighter plane-like eagle makes an appearance. In "What Shall We Do Now?", the girl flower turns into a large pterodactyl-like...thing.
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The Wall (Music) / int_67784113	type	Non-Appearing Title
The Wall (Music) / int_67784113	comment	Let's face it, apart from the ones under Non-Appearing Title, every song in the album has its Title Drop (though some of them like "The Thin Ice" or "One of My Turns" make it more subtle).
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The Wall (Music) / int_67a70f33	type	Creepy Circus Music
The Wall (Music) / int_67a70f33	comment	Creepy Circus Music: "The Trial" opens with an orchestrated dark cabaret jaunt that continues until the judge shows up, to show just how twisted Pink's own psyche has become and how strange and creepy the trial itself is.
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The Wall (Music) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Wall (Music) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: David Gilmour lets out a very sinister chuckle in the middle of "Waiting for the Worms".
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The Wall (Music) / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Wall (Music) / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Fascist Pink and his minions are obviously based on the Nazis.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6b6edbda	type	The Cover Changes the Gender
The Wall (Music) / int_6b6edbda	comment	The Cover Changes the Gender: Averted when Sinead O'Connor left the lyrics to "Mother" intact during Roger Waters's 1990 The Wall concert in Berlin.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Wall (Music) / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: At the end of the song "In the Flesh?" we hear an aeroplane coming down for a bombing dive, implying on the album (and showing in the movie) the death of Pink's father, and just right after, the sound of Pink crying, announcing his birth to the world at the beginning of "The Thin Ice".
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The Wall (Music) / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
The Wall (Music) / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout: Just after the chanting of the word "Hammer" drowns out Pink's megaphone amplified voice in "Waiting For The Worms" he yells out the word Stop! signalling the beginning of the song of the same name.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6d2afccf	type	Audible Gleam
The Wall (Music) / int_6d2afccf	comment	Audible Gleam: Appears in "Comfortably Numb", right after the line "Okay, it's just a little pinprick."
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The Wall (Music) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Wall (Music) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Depends on how one wants to read the line, "I want to go home / Take off this uniform and leave the show," in "Stop". Regardless, he decides not to do so, with the events that follow.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Wall (Music) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Pink's mental problems are cyclical. Every time he goes into one of his "turns" (and "One of My Turns" makes it quite clear this is a habitual occurrence), his friends have to deal with an unreasonable, abusive Pink. Some of them "stumble and fall" (i.e. his wife), but they still try to help. The album itself takes the final 18 seconds of closing track "Outside the Wall" and places them at the very start of the album, splitting the sentence "Isn't this where we came in?" right down the center.
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The Wall (Music) / int_6f77ef8e	type	Anti-Love Song
The Wall (Music) / int_6f77ef8e	comment	Anti-Love Song: "Don't Leave Me Now".
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The Wall (Music) / int_6f979a42	type	Parent-Induced Extended Childhood
The Wall (Music) / int_6f979a42	comment	Parent-Induced Extended Childhood: Occurs symbolically in the film, where, during "The Trial", Pink imagines himself confronted by his notoriously controlling mother, who literally connects herself to Pink via an umbilical cord and spends most of her time in the spotlight holding Pink's shrunken, doll-like form in her arms like an infant as she begs for the judge to let her take her condemned son home.
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The Wall (Music) / int_718c561	type	Performance Anxiety
The Wall (Music) / int_718c561	comment	Performance Anxiety: Pink suffers from this during "The Show Must Go On". Made most clear in the extended version they played in concert:
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The Wall (Music) / int_71a3a3c0	type	Fully Absorbed Finale
The Wall (Music) / int_71a3a3c0	comment	Fully Absorbed Finale: The titular song on The Final Cut features Pink discussing his mental issues in therapy, while the album has No Ending.
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The Wall (Music) / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Wall (Music) / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: In "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", Pink gleefully recounts how "in the town it was well known, when [his teachers] got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives." The film version accompanies this with a scene where one of said teachers is pressured into finishing his meal by his scowling wife, and in the animated sequence for "The Trial", a distorted version of him is shown being smacked around by her. Subverted with Pink himself. His wife wants normal human interaction, but Pink ignores her desires.
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The Wall (Music) / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Wall (Music) / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked in live performances during the "Pink's concert turns into a fascist rally" portion, to go with Roger Waters' opinion of concerts as mass hysteria. One early idea was to have Pink literally bomb his audience, who'd still cheer as they were ripped apart.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Wall (Music) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: On the "Wall Live 1980-1981" tour CD, emcee Gary Yudman introduces the band before "In the Flesh?" He's the typical, peppy emcee, delivering his lines with verve. He reappears before "In the Flesh," and he introduces the Surrogate Band with all the peppy verve of a zombie. Nothing, not even the emcee, is safe from the shadow of the wall.
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The Wall (Music) / int_74149c93	type	Epic Rocking
The Wall (Music) / int_74149c93	comment	Epic Rocking: Downplayed compared to past Floyd albums. Only "Comfortably Numb" (6:23) qualifies.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Wall (Music) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Of course, the words 'bricks' and 'wall' are repeated through songs as Pink isolates himself more and more. The motif of 'oh babe' is also repeated, most famously in 'Mother', 'Nobody Home' and 'Don't Leave Me Now', symbolising not only Pink's mother and relationship issues, but also his desperate call and desire for physical and emotional affection.
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The Wall (Music) / int_77a19ddf	type	Strange Salute
The Wall (Music) / int_77a19ddf	comment	Strange Salute: The hammer sign, done by holding both clenched fists overhead with their wrists crossed.
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The Wall (Music) / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
The Wall (Music) / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Pink, at around age 10, is smoking in his bedroom while spying on an adult woman getting undressed.
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The Wall (Music) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Wall (Music) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: As mentioned previously, the spitting incident on the In the Flesh Tour was the genesis for this album. It's telling that the Fascist Pink concert, as well as the How We Got Here moment that starts the album, are both named "In the Flesh". The gigantic stadium seen in the album's gatefold artwork looks like the Montreal Olympic Stadium on steroids. Pink's childhood is based on Roger Waters' early life, including his father dying in the war and horrible experience in school. Pink's Sanity Slippage as an adult is based on Syd Barrett's own Creator Breakdown. He really did shave his eyebrows. Waters said that "Comfortably Numb" was inspired by when he was suffering from hepatitis before a Philadelphia show on the In the Flesh tour, but was misdiagnosed by a doctor as having stomach cramps and injected with powerful tranquilisers, describing the experience of "trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm" as "the longest two hours of my life". The phone operator at the end of "Young Lust" is based on an incident on the In The Flesh tour when Waters tried to call his ex-wife Judy Trim, only to have the phone answered by a man. "One of My Turns" is based on a backstage incident at the band's 1975 Knebworth concert. Roy Harper, who did the vocal on "Have a Cigar", flew into a rage upon discovering his stage costume was missing, smashing up one of the band's vans. He also coincidentally cut his hand, as Pink does during the movie. The heavy police presence at the beginning of the film is based on a real Pink Floyd show in Los Angeles from the In the Flesh tour.
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The Wall (Music) / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
The Wall (Music) / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: During "Run Like Hell", Pink warns that even lovers in cars are not safe from the wrath of the Hammers, and in the part of the movie that features the song, an interracial couple engaging in this trope are set upon by the Hammers in question, with the man being dragged out of the car and beaten up and the woman being raped.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Wall (Music) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Several tracks on The Final Cut reveal the teacher to be one.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7d276626	type	Siamese Twin Songs
The Wall (Music) / int_7d276626	comment	Siamese Twin Songs: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" â†’ "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" "Empty Spaces" â†’ "Young Lust" on the studio versionâ€”when played live, "What Shall We Do Now?" follows "Empty Spaces", and "Young Lust" has its own extended intro.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Wall (Music) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "The Trial", where the victim is persecuted in front of a jury.
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The Wall (Music) / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Wall (Music) / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: Invoked by Roger himself. During the tour, Roger would sometimes introduce "Run Like Hell" by saying it was for "all the paranoids in the audience."
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The Wall (Music) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Wall (Music) / int_80251be3	comment	As mentioned previously, the spitting incident on the In the Flesh Tour was the genesis for this album. It's telling that the Fascist Pink concert, as well as the How We Got Here moment that starts the album, are both named "In the Flesh". The gigantic stadium seen in the album's gatefold artwork looks like the Montreal Olympic Stadium on steroids.
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The Wall (Music) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Wall (Music) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Pink starts advocating violence against the following that he finds in the audience: Jews, homosexuals, black people, stoners, and ... people with pimples on their faces.
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The Wall (Music) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
The Wall (Music) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: "Young Lust" takes a temporary detour from the story of Pink's fucked up personality, and "Is There Anybody Out There?" is a mainly instrumental, melancholy piece that musically depicts Pink's isolation after he's completed his wall.
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The Wall (Music) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Wall (Music) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Bob Geldof's portrayal of Pink. Roger himself delivers some songs with extreme bombast (best example being "The Trial", where he delves into 5 different characters, each hammier than the previous).
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The Wall (Music) / int_825d1062	type	Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy
The Wall (Music) / int_825d1062	comment	Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy: Pink yells into a megaphone about where they're going to meet and what they're waiting for in the middle of "Waiting For The Worms," and at the end, as he gets drowned out the crowd chanting "Hammer!" the things he says into it become more and more unintelligible.
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The Wall (Music) / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Wall (Music) / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Pink puts himself through a hallucinatory "trial" where the most important people from his past life berate him for causing them so much pain, the monsters from within his mind condemn him for showing human emotions, and he has his mental wall torn down as a "final sentence". In the movie, we cut to a clip of a brick wall exploding, and see a strangely tranquil scene of children playing in some rubble and pouring out (what appears to be) a Molotov cocktail as "Outside the Wall" plays. Roll credits.
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The Wall (Music) / int_82ed901	type	Balcony Speech
The Wall (Music) / int_82ed901	comment	Balcony Speech: Pink gives one in his Nazi uniform early on, serving as a metaphor about the band's relationship with their fans who saw them as godlike beings above and separated from them. At least one commentator has compared the scene to how gods are portrayed in theatre, where they sit and watch, observant of yet detached from humanity.
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The Wall (Music) / int_85b3a814	type	Stuka Scream
The Wall (Music) / int_85b3a814	comment	Stuka Scream: "In The Flesh?" ends with one symbolising the death of Pink's father in World War II. The film actually depicts the moment of his death as a Stuka dives on his position, complete with Bomb Whistle.
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The Wall (Music) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Wall (Music) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know what becomes of Pink after the Wall comes down in "The Trial", as the next song (and the final track off the album) is "Outside the Wall", being a secondary-perspective of one invoking You Are Not Alone. While it is agreed that he tears down his mental wall and there will be a long journey for him to go on a road to recovery, it's just speculation after "The Trial". It's at least debated that the title track from The Final Cut could serve as an epilogue, but it's unknown for sure.
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The Wall (Music) / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
The Wall (Music) / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: "The Trial". Waters plays five different characters, each one hammier than the last. This is amplified in the Live In Berlin version, where each character is played by a different actor, but no less hammier. Standouts include Tim Curry as The Prosecutor, Ute Lemper as The Wife, and Albert Finney as The Judge.
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The Wall (Music) / int_87ae7730	type	Dramatic Choir Number
The Wall (Music) / int_87ae7730	comment	Dramatic Choir Number: In "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", the second iteration of the verse and chorus is performed by a choir of children from Islington Green School, representing students rebelling against abusive teachers like the ones that torment Pink in the album's narrative. The choir was inserted by producer Bob Ezrin to extend what was originally an interlude into a potential single; Ezrin had them record their parts in secret to avoid drawing suspicion from their teachers.
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The Wall (Music) / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Wall (Music) / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: After Pink's Freak Out when his wife leaves him, he is forced back on stage to performâ€”but emerges as a neo-Nazi, and announces his change in "In the Flesh" by claiming to be a new person. In live shows, it'll literally be another band.
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The Wall (Music) / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
The Wall (Music) / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: "Don't Leave Me Now" sees Pink reflect on his collapsing marriage by portraying it as this, with him as the destructive party. Pink notes how he would "put [his wife] through the shredder in front of [his] friends" and "beat [her] to a pulp on a Saturday night," though the film adaptation clarifies that he was simply exaggerating his faults out of anger and self-pity. In actuality, he was emotionally distant from his wife rather than aggressive. This contradiction is consolidated in "The Trial", where Pink envisions his now-ex-wife giving him a tremendous "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how much pain his lack of warmth and commitment caused.
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The Wall (Music) / int_8fb11f42	type	You Answered Your Own Question
The Wall (Music) / int_8fb11f42	comment	You Answered Your Own Question: At the end of "One Of My Turns", having trashed his hotel room and had a huge temper tantrum, part of it including more or less threatening to defenestrate the groupie he'd just brought along, Pink ends by asking:
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The Wall (Music) / int_90a1fbd4	type	Split-Personality Takeover
The Wall (Music) / int_90a1fbd4	comment	Split-Personality Takeover: Implied in "In the Flesh".
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The Wall (Music) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Wall (Music) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The teachers in "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" that hurt the children receive their comeuppance every night when their wives beat them "within inches of their lives".
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The Wall (Music) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Wall (Music) / int_9591377d	comment	Later on, Pink has a second moment like this at the end of "Waiting for the Worms", leading directly to his Heel Realization in "Stop!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_962badd5	type	Repression Never Ends Well
The Wall (Music) / int_962badd5	comment	Repression Never Ends Well: The entire theme behind the album. Because Pink has been trying to isolate himself ever since he was born without a father, he's never been able to express his problems naturally. He's only ever repressed them, which strains his relationships with his wife and his adoring fans, until it reaches a boiling point and explodes following the doctor's injection in "Comfortably Numb".
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The Wall (Music) / int_963e36bd	type	Boarding School of Horrors
The Wall (Music) / int_963e36bd	comment	Boarding School of Horrors: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" details Pink's formative years under the instruction of draconian, sadistic teachers who direct their personal hardships onto the students through both physical and verbal abuse.
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The Wall (Music) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Wall (Music) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: This underlies a lot of Pink's relationship with his wife. On an objective level, he knows that she had good reasons to want to cheat on him—depending on how you view it, those reasons can include severe emotional distance and apathy, infidelity on his part, or physical abuse—but whenever he thinks of her in the film's animated sequences, he views her as a horrifying, predatory monster that savages his tiny helpless body. He may recognize it's his fault, but that doesn't remove the feelings of betrayal that cause him to view her as attacking him for no reason.
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The Wall (Music) / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Wall (Music) / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: A rare example that has a halfway decent Freudian Excuseâ€”Pink has let his experiences with his mother and his wife color his view on women on the whole, viewing them all as being either promiscuous liars and deceivers or oppressive, controlling matriarchs. This is best illustrated in "The Trial", wherein his wife is portrayed first as a giant man-eating bug and then as a hideous, Freudian temptress with handle bars on her waist, while his mother is a borderline literal Knight Templar Parent who tries to drag him back into her womb just to keep him safe.
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The Wall (Music) / int_98a150f3	type	Excrement Statement
The Wall (Music) / int_98a150f3	comment	Excrement Statement: From "The Trial"
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The Wall (Music) / int_99699561	type	Questioning Title?
The Wall (Music) / int_99699561	comment	Questioning Title?: "In the Flesh?", "What Shall We Do Now?", and "Is There Anybody Out There?"
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The Wall (Music) / int_99bbf2a3	type	Appliance Defenestration
The Wall (Music) / int_99bbf2a3	comment	Appliance Defenestration: One of Pink's televisions suffers this fate during his rampage through his hotel room in "One of My Turns", highlighted on the album version by the sounds of breaking glass and the highway outside. The film version makes it explicit that it's the TV that got chucked out.
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The Wall (Music) / int_9da3227a	type	Careful with That Axe
The Wall (Music) / int_9da3227a	comment	Careful with That Axe: A distinctive, sudden, high-pitched shriek similar to a tire squeal appears during the transition between "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", as well as after the keyboard solo in "Run Like Hell". In both cases, the scream is directly lifted from the Trope Namer, "Careful With That Axe, Eugene".
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The Wall (Music) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Wall (Music) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	She also mocks him by asking "Broken up any homes lately?", "break up homes?" being one of the suggestions in "What Shall We Do Now?".
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The Wall (Music) / int_9e335555	type	Single-Issue Psychology
The Wall (Music) / int_9e335555	comment	Single-Issue Psychology: Completely and utterly averted. The work explores how Pink's mental state is influenced by a myriad of factors stemming from his childhood, societal ills, treatment by exploitative music industry, substance abuse and many, many more.
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The Wall (Music) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Wall (Music) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Neo-Nazis take Pink's transformation seriously and not as satire. Didn't help that actual skinheads were used for the film.
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The Wall (Music) / int_9ebee577	type	Anaphora
The Wall (Music) / int_9ebee577	comment	Anaphora: In "Goodbye Blue Sky", the verses begin almost every line with the words "did-did-did-did you," tying in with how the lyrics reminisce on the scars of World War II, which Pink's father died fighting in. Almost every line in "Mother" begins with either "mother" (in Pink's verses) or "mama" (in the titular mother's choruses). Usually they form part of the larger phrases "mother, do you think" or "mama's gonna." In "Hey You", almost every set of lines in the verses begins with a Title Drop. "Waiting for the Worms" begins each line of the hook with the word "waiting," tying in with its nature as a List Song about all the things Pink wants to see happen while envisioning himself as a neofascist dictator.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a10d8339	type	The Show Must Go On
The Wall (Music) / int_a10d8339	comment	The Show Must Go On: There's an actual song on the album with this exact title. To be more specific, Pink's trip through his past is interrupted by drugs injected at the request of his stage manager and driven to the concert, while wondering where the feeling has gone and whether he would remember the songs.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
The Wall (Music) / int_a119b588	comment	Hey, You!: A song is titled that way:
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The Wall (Music) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Wall (Music) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Roger had this reaction to his spitting on a fan at the last concert of the In the Flesh tour, which helped to inspire this album. Pink has one about his decision to go behind the wall, leading to him crying out for meaningful human contact in "Hey You". Later on, Pink has a second moment like this at the end of "Waiting for the Worms", leading directly to his Heel Realization in "Stop!" Alan Parker had this reaction after the extras (real skinheads, by the way) really got into the rape scene in "Run Like Hell". That didn't stop him from using the footage, though.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Wall (Music) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: "Empty Spaces", a song that was written to replace "What Shall We Do Now?" due to space constraints on vinyl, was only heard on the album. "What Shall We Do Now?" was played live and included in the movie and "Empty Spaces" dropped, so it's safe to consider the former "canon."
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The Wall (Music) / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
The Wall (Music) / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: One of the many aspects of fascist imagery used in "Waiting For The Worms."
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The Wall (Music) / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
The Wall (Music) / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: Pink suddenly regains lucidity right in the middle of his plunge into Neo-Nazism and realizes he's got serious problems. He plaintively expresses a desire to just go home, "take off this uniform and leave the show", but quickly realizes that he's in too deep — eventually segueing into "The Trial."
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The Wall (Music) / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
The Wall (Music) / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Pink imagines his wife as a praying mantis/dragon hybrid with flaming hair. Some fans have also noted her resemblance to Rokurokubi from Japanese mythology.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a737743c	type	Caged Bird Metaphor
The Wall (Music) / int_a737743c	comment	Caged Bird Metaphor: From "Mother":
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The Wall (Music) / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
The Wall (Music) / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: In the film, during "Mother", young Pink spies on a neighbor girl undressing with a pair of binoculars.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a8277276	type	The Invisible Band
The Wall (Music) / int_a8277276	comment	The Invisible Band: The original tour had the backup musicians dressed as Pink Floyd (including the masks seen on the Is There Anybody Out There? cover) during both parts of The Wall.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a861dac7	type	Arena Rock
The Wall (Music) / int_a861dac7	comment	"Young Lust" is a pastiche of Arena Rock bands like Foreigner and Bad Company. There's also a little bit of Self-Deprecation here, too: in the 1979 interview with Tommy Vance, Roger said that it was inspired by the earlier Floyd tune "The Nile Song".
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The Wall (Music) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Wall (Music) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The Wall emphasizes how Pink is essentially inflicting this trope upon himself, using the Wall as a means to distance himself from reality and human interaction, completely relinquishing control of his life and circumstances after everything he's gone through.
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The Wall (Music) / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
The Wall (Music) / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: As if to drive home the Nazi comparisons, "Waiting For The Worms" has Pink singing about waiting for "The Final Solution to strengthen the strain", which would involve "turning on the showers and firing the ovens", and singling out "the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews". Not many realise that when Pink sings, "If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot", he's not talking about just the minorities. He means all of his fans.
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The Wall (Music) / int_aa4a4c57	type	Kids Rock
The Wall (Music) / int_aa4a4c57	comment	Kids Rock: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" is sung by a children's choir in its second half, a technique lifted from Alice Cooper's "School's Out" (another Bob Ezrin-produced song). Roger Waters' son, Harry, delivers the line, "Look Mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky!" in "Goodbye Blue Sky". A more eerie children's choir echoes the choruses in "The Trial".
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The Wall (Music) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Wall (Music) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Pink sings "I have seen the writing on the wall", in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)", right before breaking off all contact with the world. A huge Analogy Backfire ensues since it does not occur to him that the writing on the wall involved the imminent destruction of the Babylonian kingdom and death of its king, who was defenceless against the onslaught. The analysis summarises the irony as Pink attempting to make himself look like the prophet Daniel, but instead casting himself as the doomed Belshazzar. Furthermore, his complete isolation actually leaves him defenseless against the worms and later transformation into Fascist Pink, more or less hastening the wall's destruction.
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The Wall (Music) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Wall (Music) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Worm, Your Honour punishes Pink for "showing feelings of an almost human nature" by ordering the wall torn down, but of course Pink is better off without it.
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The Wall (Music) / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
The Wall (Music) / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: While the first pieces of Pink's wall were the result of childhood trauma, the movie, album, and Waters himself make it very clear that it's his fault for maintaining his Wall instead of coming to terms with his world and that his unhappy marriage and cheating wife were implied to have been at least partially his fault.
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The Wall (Music) / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
The Wall (Music) / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: The image of Pink bleeding out in his swimming pool.
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The Wall (Music) / int_aee8ec77	type	Creepy Children Singing
The Wall (Music) / int_aee8ec77	comment	Creepy Children Singing: Heard on "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", "Outside the Wall" and featured in the "Craaazy" refrain from "The Trial."
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The Wall (Music) / int_afe698ea	type	Plot-Inciting Infidelity
The Wall (Music) / int_afe698ea	comment	Plot-Inciting Infidelity: In a roundabout way, when Pink finds out during a collect call about his wife's infidelity, it spurs him to trace back all the steps that led to this point.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
The Wall (Music) / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The original US CD release by Columbia Records notoriously contains a prominent click at the start of "Comfortably Numb" due to a mastering error. Subsequent remasters fix the mistake.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b24ce4b2	type	Rearrange the Song
The Wall (Music) / int_b24ce4b2	comment	Rearrange the Song: Much of the album's material is remixed and re-recorded in the film adaptation; some portions are redone by the film's actors (e.g., Bob Geldof performing both parts of "In the Flesh", Alex McAvoy giving his version of the teacher's shouts during "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", and Jenny Wright performing Trudy Young's part as the groupie in "One of My Turns"). The only songs left untouched are "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Vera".
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The Wall (Music) / int_b2595417	type	Nightmarish Factory
The Wall (Music) / int_b2595417	comment	Nightmarish Factory: The "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" scene depicts post-WW2 British school system as an ominously lit and labyrinthine factory in which children are marched through machines and conveyor belts of doom that morph them into freaks with the same Facial Horror before making them walk down into a meat-grinder.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Wall (Music) / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The massive fighter plane-like Reichsadler eagle that appears in the film's "Goodbye Blue Sky" animation.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b5064699	type	Red and Black Totalitarianism
The Wall (Music) / int_b5064699	comment	Red and Black Totalitarianism: A red and black "crossed hammers" logo is associated with the unnamed fascist regime that Pink imagines himself as the leader of during the album's fourth side; the gatefold interior additionally depicts these hammers marching in goose-step. The film adaptation accentuates this further, showing the regime's members donning and flying red and black colors everywhere they go, punctuated by animated renditions of the marching hammers.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Wall (Music) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The lyrics "I've got nicotine stains on my fingers/Got a silver spoon on a chain/Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains" are thought to refer to band member Richard Wright, who was allegedly struggling with an addiction to cocaine and was viewed as not pulling his weight by Waters during the recording of The Wall. He ended up being kicked out of the band during the recording sessions for The Wall, but was listed as a member on copies of the album, contributed to most of the songs and played keyboards on tour with the band as a session musician, being later reinstated as a full member after Waters' departure. The "up against the wall" verse in "In the Flesh" is a scathing riff on Eric Clapton's infamous and then-recent "keep Britain white" rant, sharing the structure of asking if there are any minorities in the audience before ranting about how they all ought to be purged from British society. Waters' commentary on the DVD is pretty much him insulting everyone involved with the film.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Wall (Music) / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Deconstructed, like a lot of tropes that appear in the story. Pink's mother lost her husband and so she's obviously more than a little overprotective of her son, as he's all she has left. But this overprotection only makes everything worse, contributing to a lot of Pink's problems and willingly blocking him out from the outside world in a misguided effort to keep him safe. "The Trial" implies either that she would be fully willing to strip him of his freedom and free will just to protect him or that Pink perceives her as being willing to do so ("Why'd he ever have to leave me? Worm, your honor, let me take him home!"). It's telling that in the film version of "The Trial", while the other two "witnesses" (Pink's teacher and Pink's wife) appear from either behind or within the wall, Pink's mother becomes the wall.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b61b7b5c	type	This Is My Story
The Wall (Music) / int_b61b7b5c	comment	This Is My Story: If you subscribe to the theory that "In the Flesh?" is a framing device for the rest of the story note The album as a whole is mind-screwy enough that it's hard to say whether or not it is a framing device, then it's an example of this.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b66200cc	type	Dad's Off Fighting in the War
The Wall (Music) / int_b66200cc	comment	Dad's Off Fighting in the War: Pink's earliest years were spent without a father due to him fighting in World War II. Pink's father would be killed in action and would not return home, leaving Pink with an overbearing mother and the first brick in his wall.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Wall (Music) / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: By a character, not the producers. Pink seriously considers cheating on his wife before going briefly Ax-Crazy and scaring the groupie off instead, and it's at least suggested that he has done so (and gone through with it) many times in the past. But as soon as he even suspects his wife of cheating on him, his cheese slips off his cracker completely. The movie attempts to portray Pink as more sympathetic in this regard, by having him cheat on her after he finds out she cheated on him. However, the film states explicitly that Pink showed no sexual interest in his wife at all, pushing her away when she wanted sex.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b7d773ab	type	Smash Cut
The Wall (Music) / int_b7d773ab	comment	Smash Cut: "Waiting For The Worms" / "Stop". In the live shows, the March of the Hammers would suddenly cut to black. In the movie, it smash-cuts to Bob Geldof's screaming face.
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The Wall (Music) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Wall (Music) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Roger Waters fired Richard Wright during the recording of the album, but Wright still played on the subsequent concerts. Ironically, since the tour was a financial flop, this meant the salaried Wright was the only member of the band to not lose money on it.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bb3224b3	type	Best Years of Your Life
The Wall (Music) / int_bb3224b3	comment	Best Years of Your Life: Cruelly subverted in "The Happiest Days of Our Lives," thanks to him having more than one Sadist Teacher during his school life.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bbb150a8	type	Celebrity Is Overrated
The Wall (Music) / int_bbb150a8	comment	Celebrity Is Overrated: The overall theme of the album.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
The Wall (Music) / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: A recurring theme. Pink becomes a fascist, the very thing his father had died fighting against, as noted in the later songs "In the Flesh", "Run Like Hell", and "Waiting for the Worms". And he tries to rebel against the conformity of his school by becoming a rock star, only to realize that his teenage fans are so mindlessly devoted to him that they've forgotten how to think for themselvesâ€”making him, in his own way, just as oppressive as his teachers once were.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Wall (Music) / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The uniform Pink dons in "In the Flesh" is blatantly based off of Nazi uniforms, right down the the symbol on the armband, as well as taking cues from Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. This goes well with his descent into fascism.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Wall (Music) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The film is pretty surreal at moments.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Wall (Music) / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Pink's envisioning of his wife during "The Trial" is... not kind, portraying her as a Gold Digger with handles on her waist with an exposed vagina. While she gets the most justified and acerbic lines criticising his behaviour. Pink's own willingness to sleep around with groupies on the road and his hypocrisy at being angry at his wife for being (or seeming to be) unfaithful at home is well-implied.
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The Wall (Music) / int_bfb0f737	type	Poorly Lit Pareidolia
The Wall (Music) / int_bfb0f737	comment	Poorly Lit Pareidolia: "Mother" portrays Pink being scared of shadows resembling faces on his bedroom ceiling.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Wall (Music) / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted. The abuse the schoolmaster suffers at his wife's hands is shown to have some serious negative effects on him — and by extension, his students.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
The Wall (Music) / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: "The Trial" in which Pink puts himself on trial, for "showing feelings of a almost human nature".
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The Wall (Music) / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
The Wall (Music) / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Pink's Hammers take cues from Benito Mussolini's black shirts, SS troopers, and the KKK/skinheads. "Waiting for the Worms" doesn't really bother to try to disguise the fact that they are neo-Nazis, as the lyrics reference the Holocaust with "the final solution to strengthen the strain" and "waiting to turn on the showers and fire the ovens". The Hammers, in turn, inspired one of the more prominent real-life Neo-Nazi Skinhead groups to name themselves "Hammerskins" and to appropriate the marching hammers symbol as their own.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Wall (Music) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In the song, Another Brick in the Wall, the lyric sings about how they do not need an education while using terrible grammar.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Wall (Music) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A very unusual one. "One of My Turns" is probably the first genuine emotion he's allowed himself to feel in quite some time, and one can argue that it's the moment where he realizes that the wall is a problem.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c4b74656	type	One-Woman Song
The Wall (Music) / int_c4b74656	comment	One-Woman Song: "Vera".
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The Wall (Music) / int_c4ee877a	type	Assimilation Academy
The Wall (Music) / int_c4ee877a	comment	Assimilation Academy: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
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The Wall (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Wall (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Vera" is named after and centers around Vera Lynn, a musician who was very popular during World War II, quoting her song "We'll Meet Again". Lynn's song "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" was additionally used as an introductory song for live shows during the album's supporting tour, being featured at the start of the film adaptation for this reason. The "Another Brick in the Wall" sequence is a shout out to Metropolis, with schoolchildren playing the part of the workers from said movie. "I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm," in "Nobody Home" (NB: Syd Barrett had one, too). The album begins and ends in the middle of the same sentence, just like Finnegans Wake. The male backing vocals are inspired by The Beach Boys. As noted on the Trivia tab, they were originally going to be The Beach Boys, but didn't turn up for the sessions, except for Bruce Johnston. Pink apparently spends his time in the hotel watching Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and Gunsmoke. In the movie, The Dam Busters seems to be perpetually on the TV. (NB: It's a movie that's all about blowing up walls.) A subtle one both visually and thematically are Pink's skeletal hands reaching out during "Is Anybody Out There" to Greed. Among Bob Hoskins' Angrish during "Comfortably Numb," one can hear "I never had this trouble with Cliff!"
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The Wall (Music) / int_c7950d47	type	Never Be Hurt Again
The Wall (Music) / int_c7950d47	comment	Never Be Hurt Again: This is Pink's motivation for building the Wall. It turns out to not be such a good idea when completed, as it basically isolates him from everything.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c7bfe92b	type	iProduct
The Wall (Music) / int_c7bfe92b	comment	iProduct: Mercilessly mocked during the 2012 "The Wall" tour, where they flash people with pig heads and white headphone cords going to their ears doing various activities with phrases like iResist and iLose.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
The Wall (Music) / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: Pink, although some think the line was metaphorical. He was certainly neglectful and emotionally abusive.
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The Wall (Music) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
The Wall (Music) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Pink acknowledges he's fully responsible for everything he does. The Trial is him putting himself on Trial. "Empty Spaces" has a backmasked message that pokes fun at the "subliminal messaging" urban legend, asking listeners to send their answer to Old Pink "care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont-" before someone else interrupts to let Roger know his wife has called.
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The Wall (Music) / int_cbf05a02	type	Vagina Dentata
The Wall (Music) / int_cbf05a02	comment	Vagina Dentata: Pink's cheating wife, who takes the form of a giant praying mantis (a species known for biting the head off its mate) with this for a mouth.
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The Wall (Music) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Wall (Music) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The original Textless Album Cover, a featureless wall of white bricks.
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The Wall (Music) / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Wall (Music) / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: At the first live performance, part of the set caught fire from the pyrotechnics. The audience cheered, thinking it was yet another one of the band's special effects, before the fire department arrived. Fortunately, the fire was put out and the show continued without incident.
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The Wall (Music) / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
The Wall (Music) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: "Stop", "Vera", and "Mother".
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The Wall (Music) / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
The Wall (Music) / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: A heartbeat is used as percussion in "In the Flesh?"
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The Wall (Music) / int_d162969e	type	Rescue Equipment Attack
The Wall (Music) / int_d162969e	comment	Rescue Equipment Attack: In the movie, the kids smash up the school during "Another Brick in the Wall, (Part 2)" with fire axes.
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The Wall (Music) / int_d40b9465	type	Title-Only Chorus
The Wall (Music) / int_d40b9465	comment	Title-Only Chorus: "Is There Anybody Out There?" simply consists of the title being repeated four times, before transitioning into a lonely guitar piece.
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The Wall (Music) / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
The Wall (Music) / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: "Outside the Wall" is all about this trope.
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The Wall (Music) / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Wall (Music) / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Run Like Hell" has "pick her locks" for getting into a girl's pants/Auto Erotica.
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The Wall (Music) / int_dbc664dd	type	Album Title Drop
The Wall (Music) / int_dbc664dd	comment	Album Title Drop: The wall is mentioned with that exact wording in all three parts of "Another Brick in the Wall", "Mother", "Empty Spaces"/"What Shall We Do Now?", "Hey You", "In the Flesh", "The Trial", and "Outside the Wall". There is also a mention of the wall without using the wording "the wall" in "Waiting for the Worms".
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The Wall (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
The Wall (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "Mother", "In the Flesh". "Run Like Hell" wins the prize, howeverâ€”dance the night away to lyrics discussing racial violence and rape.
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The Wall (Music) / int_dc1c7647	type	Voice of the Legion
The Wall (Music) / int_dc1c7647	comment	Voice of the Legion: The Judge, to some degree. In the film, his lyrics are subtly layered with two different voices fading in and out of each other among the main voice.
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The Wall (Music) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Wall (Music) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The first half of the album ends with Pink crossing it, with "Goodbye Cruel World", right after his Heroic BSoD in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" where he declares why he wants to go behind the wall. The rest of the album is about what happens while he's beyond the horizon.
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The Wall (Music) / int_de56f2bf	type	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
The Wall (Music) / int_de56f2bf	comment	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Fascist Pink asks his followers "Would you like to send our coloured cousins home again?" as a euphemism for starting a race war. This is quite similar to how the Nazis originally claimed they wanted to relocate the Jews to Madagascar to cover up the Holocaust.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Wall (Music) / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The album is really about Pink's inner demons, how they got there and how they may have been overcome. There's no real antagonist for Pink, as he is his own worst enemy.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e17843dd	type	Contemplating Your Hands
The Wall (Music) / int_e17843dd	comment	Contemplating Your Hands: Appears in "Comfortably Numb" when Pink is on drugs.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Wall (Music) / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The worms. Starting in "Hey You", they are, according to Waters, "symbols of negative forces within ourselves, [of] decay. The worms can only get at us because there isn't any light or whatever in our lives". The judge is a worm named Worm before he turns into a buttocks. Pink's wife is often associated with predatory insects, especially ones that eat their mates when they're done mating with them (i.e. mantises and scorpions). The "Goodbye Blue Sky" animation features a dove morphing into a predatory eagle (specifically the kind prevalent in some Nazi iconography) morphing into a bomber plane. Possibly unintentional, but the Prosecutor in "The Trial" looks a fair bit like a vulture, especially when he leaps onto the wall, perches on it and briefly stretches out his neck while holding out his arms like wings. This fits with how lawyers are frequently perceived as deceitful opportunists.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e2f1ae4b	type	You Won't Feel a Thing!
The Wall (Music) / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!: The doctor from "Comfortably Numb" says as much, followed by a scream from poor Pink.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e328dde8	type	Alone Among Families
The Wall (Music) / int_e328dde8	comment	Alone Among Families: In the movie, young Pink goes to a playground and sees the other children with their fathers. He tries to get the attention of one father, but is brushed off.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Wall (Music) / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: The Troubled Production of the film drove Alan Parker to chain-smoking for the first time in his life.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e42e91b4	type	Godwin's Law
The Wall (Music) / int_e42e91b4	comment	Godwin's Law: The album explicitly compares arena concerts to Nazi rallies.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Wall (Music) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Pink is based on Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. There's also a good amount of illustrator/animator Gerald Scarfe in there, too, particularly on "Another Brick in the Wall", "Goodbye Blue Sky", and "Comfortably Numb".
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The Wall (Music) / int_e57198a4	type	Advancing Wall of Doom
The Wall (Music) / int_e57198a4	comment	Advancing Wall of Doom: Played horrifically straight in the movie during the animated sequence for "Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?" In the sequence, a wall of personal possessions (cars, stereos, TVs, etc.) turns into a wall of buildings, which turns into the titular white brick wall. The Wall moves across the land at frightening speed, turning flowers into barbed wire, and babies into skinhead goons. It even plows its way through a church, transforming it into a neon-lit casino that spews neon bricks.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
The Wall (Music) / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The film's opening sequence of the camera moving down the hotel hallway.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e8804a1d	type	Bishōnen Line
The Wall (Music) / int_e8804a1d	comment	Bishōnen Line: The Wife in the Trial starts off as being visualized as a normal snake before becoming briefly a cobra mid-change before solidifying in the second form, a frilled-winged serpent with a vaguely distorted humanoid face, transfiguring into a monstrous insect hybrid with a more monstrous humanoid head, mantis arms as legs and a scorpion tail before ending as a naked woman with fire for hair though still being monstrous due to her proportions leaving her with an exaggerated arch back that leaves her bent behind with elongated arms and the bulbous heart shaped head.
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The Wall (Music) / int_e91cc721	type	In the Style of
The Wall (Music) / int_e91cc721	comment	In the Style of: "Young Lust" is a pastiche of Arena Rock bands like Foreigner and Bad Company. There's also a little bit of Self-Deprecation here, too: in the 1979 interview with Tommy Vance, Roger said that it was inspired by the earlier Floyd tune "The Nile Song". The male backing vocals throughout the album are meant to evoke The Beach Boys, right down to featuring Bruce Johnston as one of the backing singers. The album version of "Outside the Wall" is meant to sound like it's being played by a kitschy troupe of street performers, to the point where its working title was "The Buskers". The film version, meanwhile, uses a more opulent brass-backed choir.
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The Wall (Music) / int_ea454c4a	type	Surprisingly Gentle Song
The Wall (Music) / int_ea454c4a	comment	Surprisingly Gentle Song: For being a famously depressing film/album, it's easy to forget both end with "Outside the Wall". But then...
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The Wall (Music) / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Wall (Music) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In the movie version of "The Trial", Pink's wife grabs his limp, rag-doll body and holds him by his...well, you get the idea. This is Foreshadowed in "Mother", where one of Pink's worries is precisely this.
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The Wall (Music) / int_ecefd269	type	Kayfabe Music
The Wall (Music) / int_ecefd269	comment	Kayfabe Music: Invoked and Lampshaded "In the Flesh". Ironically, it's a Bookend to the song "In the Flesh?" where backup or guest musicians usually take the place of Pink Floyd wearing Pink Floyd masks.
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The Wall (Music) / int_ee9bf817	type	Sanity Slippage Song
The Wall (Music) / int_ee9bf817	comment	Sanity Slippage Song. It's practically a Sanity Slippage Album. "One of My Turns" is where Pink first snaps. "The Trial" may be where it's most overt though. A list of the sanity slippage songs in order: "Empty Spaces" (kinda), "One of My Turns", "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)", "In the Flesh", and "The Trial".
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The Wall (Music) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Wall (Music) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Several in the film adaptation. At the beginning of "Stop" in the film, Pink mutters the words "Do you remember me? How we used to be?" to himself. These are lines from the then-unreleased song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" that would later be interpolated by "Your Possible Pasts" on The Final Cut a year later. He also recites lines which would later appear in "5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)" from Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. During "Outside the Wall", one can briefly hear a melody that appears in the song "Southampton Dock" from The Final Cut. "When the Tigers Broke Free", the first Floyd song heard in the movie, was released as a single, with the intention of it appearing on The Final Cut, but that didn't happen. It was first officially released on the 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd before finally being included on reissues of The Final Cut from 2004 onward.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f0f4b47	type	Vocal Tag Team
The Wall (Music) / int_f0f4b47	comment	Vocal Tag Team: "Run Like Hell" is performed live with two vocalists. In the original Pink Floyd shows, the alternating lines were sung by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. Subsequent live performances with the Waters-less Floyd had Gilmour singing with touring bassist Guy Pratt as well as bassist Mickey Feat on his 1984 tour supporting his solo About Face album. Roger Waters, for his part, also trades lines with another vocalist in live solo versions.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
The Wall (Music) / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: "Bring The Boys Back Home".
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The Wall (Music) / int_f3cf057b	type	Fading into the Next Song
The Wall (Music) / int_f3cf057b	comment	Fading into the Next Song: Most tracks. The best known is "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" â†’ "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", with the second place probably going to "Empty Spaces" â†’ "Young Lust". The few tracks that don't do this are the ones at the beginning and end of the original LP sides, but some of them have symbolic value: the sudden silence at the end of "Goodbye Cruel World" represents Pink's completion of his isolation from the world, and the fade-out during the guitar solo of "Comfortably Numb" symbolises the continued war between the various parts of Pink's personality.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
The Wall (Music) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" receives two Dark Reprises in the forms of Parts 2 and 3; whereas Part 1 is merely sad, Part 2 is angry; Part 3 marks the point where Pink snaps and enters Heroic BSoD. The second "In the Flesh" is darker than the first (titled "In the Flesh?"), in that Pink has gone fascist (or is hiding behind a fascist persona, as hinted by the singer) and is now ready to wage war against the world that made him that way. Also, in the first one, after the line, "So you thought you might like to go to the show," there is the sound of someone singing, "Do do do do." The second version replaces the vocal with an instrumental part, suggesting a lack of humanity. The use of sound effects in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" is quite notable to show just how far-gone Pink is. He takes out the remainder of his pent-up rage and frustration on the TV, and the crashing noises get louder and more intense.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Wall (Music) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Outside the concert at the beginning, there is a "Feeling 7UP" soda billboard featuring Philadelphia Phillies baseball great Mike Schmidt. The fact he's grinning down at fans having the crap beaten out of them by cops makes it one that 7UP probably didn't want in the film. Knowing Roger Waters, that was probably the point.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
The Wall (Music) / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" begins with one from the teacher, screaming at Pink from a helicopter (a train track in the film). Another similar exclamation is present at the end of the album version of "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", specifically singling out "you behind the bike sheds."
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The Wall (Music) / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Wall (Music) / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Pink's envisioning of his wife during "The Trial" is... not kind, portraying her as a Gold Digger with handles on her waist with an exposed vagina. While she gets the most justified and acerbic lines criticising his behaviour.
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The Wall (Music) / int_f8cbda13	type	Textless Album Cover
The Wall (Music) / int_f8cbda13	comment	Textless Album Cover: The original LP cover was simply a featureless white brick wall, with the band and album title printed on a removable transparent sticker in a graffiti-like font. Later releases (particularly CD and digital reissues) incorporate the writing on the sticker into the artwork itself, averting this trope; nowadays, the version of the cover art with text is considered the de-facto canonical one.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fa77309d	type	Alternate Album Cover
The Wall (Music) / int_fa77309d	comment	Alternate Album Cover: CD releases of the 2011 remaster (both the Discovery and Pink Floyd Records editions) change the text on the front cover from black to red.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Wall (Music) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Pink's wife's segment in "The Trial". Her verbal beatdown of Pink is the most cheer-worthy moment of the song's first half, since Pink's teacher simply whines about his failure to properly "flay him into shape", and Pink's mother rehashes her smothering tendencies.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fbd1aeb	type	Living Emotional Crutch
The Wall (Music) / int_fbd1aeb	comment	Living Emotional Crutch: Pink, to his mother. Has terrible consequences for his marriage. Everyone, to Pink. You know, the bleeding hearts and the artists.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fca3518f	type	Gun Stripping
The Wall (Music) / int_fca3518f	comment	Gun Stripping: In an early scene, Pink's father removes the bullets from his revolver and cleans the barrel.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fcb75a9	type	Movie Bonus Song
The Wall (Music) / int_fcb75a9	comment	Movie Bonus Song: "When the Tigers Broke Free" Parts I and II. The concerts also had an instrumental jam titled "The Last Few Bricks", played as the band waited on the stage crew to finish the stage wall, before "Goodbye Cruel World" started.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
The Wall (Music) / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: "Empty Spaces" sees Pink ask himself how to continue to fill the gaps in his ever-growing wall; the song hard-cuts into "Young Lust", implying that as an adult, his main way of closing those holes is through casual sex.
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The Wall (Music) / int_fd5f23a7	type	Skyward Scream
The Wall (Music) / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: Pink lets one out during the second verse of "Comfortably Numb" (with the film's scene depciting him screaming upward), right after the doctor assures him that a drug injection will be "just a little pinprick."
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The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	The Wall (Music) / int_fd5f23a7
The Wall (Music) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Wall (Music) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Well, a rock band talking about the life of a rock star is a given, but musicians will nod their hands at lyrics such as "my hands felt like two balloons", and especially the lyrics from "Nobody Home" when Waters sings about "the inevitable pinhole burns all down the front of my favourite satin shirt / I've got nicotine stains on my fingers / I've got a silver spoon on a chain."
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CallTheSchoolmaster	seeAlso	The Wall (Music)
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Addiction Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Advancing Wall of Doom / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Album Closure / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Album Title Drop / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Anaphora / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Anger Montage / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Anti-Escapism Aesop / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Anything but That! / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Appliance Defenestration / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Ax-Crazy / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Bald of Evil / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Bath Suicide / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Big Word Shout / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Birth-Death Juxtaposition / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	British Music / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Careful with That Axe / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Coat Cape / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Concept Album / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Dad's Off Fighting in the War / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Dark and Troubled Past / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Demoted to Extra / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Desk Sweep of Rage / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Distinct Double Album / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Domestic-Only Cartoon / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Epiphanic Prison / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Evil Costume Switch / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Excrement Statement / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Final Solution / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Flaming Hair / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Graffiti of the Resistance / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Disco Sequence / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Panning / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Hates Baths / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Helicopter Parents / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Hero vs. Villain Duet / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Hey, You! / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	His Own Worst Enemy / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Hostile Show Takeover / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	House of Broken Mirrors / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	I Am Spartacus / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	iProduct / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	In-Universe Catharsis / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Incoming Ham / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Judicial Wig / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Limited Lyrics Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	List Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Live Album / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Loss of Identity / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Maligned Mixed Marriage / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Medium Blending / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Medley Overture / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Miniscule Rocking / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Movie Bonus Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Multi-Disc Work / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Musical World Hypotheses / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Nameless Narrative / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Never Be Hurt Again / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	No Medication for Me / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Ode to Apathy / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Oh, Crap! / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Ominous Music Box Tune / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Paying for the Action Scene / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Plot-Inciting Infidelity / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Politicians Kiss Babies / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Poorly Lit Pareidolia / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Production Nickname / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Progressive Rock / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Protest Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Psychosexual Horror / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Puppet Permutation / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Putting on the Reich / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Red and Black Totalitarianism / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Refrain from Assuming / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Rock Opera / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Rock-Star Song / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Sadist Teacher / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Saving the World With Art / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Scary Scorpions / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Sigil Spam / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Spoken Word in Music / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Surprise Witness / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Sympathetic Adulterer / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Thanking the Viewer / int_c01df100
The Dark Age of Animation	seeAlso	The Wall (Music)
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	The Judge / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	The Runner-Up Takes It All / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	The Show Must Go On / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Those Wacky Nazis / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Tuneless Song of Madness / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Uncommon Time / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Villainous BSoD / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Viral Marketing / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Word Salad Title / int_c01df100
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	"You!" Exclamation / int_c01df100
Absolutely (Music)	seeAlso	The Wall (Music)
The Wall (Music)	hasFeature	Separated by the Wall / int_c01df100

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