Pink Floyd The Wall

exciting ways of making sounds and performing music. Ways that had never been seen or heard before. Artists who would never have been popularized a decade earlier were finding a following in the free spirited 1960’s culture. Artists like Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin all took and borrowed from their contemporaries. For a through line, The Beatles will be used to highlight the prominent cultural and musical trends that were exhibited by themselves and other artists…

same “tune”. It is either about the struggles of school, and how the environment is shutting them down, or about how to make your life easier by just memorizing information that will help you. In one of the songs called, Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd is about how students are being discourage and oppressed by the higher authority, the teacher. The song gives you a rock and roll theme and the music video show It does not matter what you are going through or who you are as a person,…

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves” said Western philosophe Henry David Thoreau. From this quote and Thoreau’s lecture turned essay entitled “Resistance to Civil Government” or also known as “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau uses his own encounters to relate an inequitable government by disobeying by staying the night in jail and not paying his taxes in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American War. He influenced others like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther…

imagination and learn who you really are as a person. In the beginning of “School of Rock” the students only focused on school and their grades instead of enjoying school and finding out who they were as individuals. In “Another Brick in the Wall- Part Two”, by Pink Floyd, it is about telling the teachers to “leave the kids alone because they do not need an education.” School should not be a prison where students are told how to act and what they need to learn without being able to be free and…

is delivered to the students definitely defines the effectiveness of the education system itself. As demonstrated by the famous rock band Pink Floyd in their music video “Another Brick In The Wall,” a teacher-dominated educational system that practices passive learning destroys the students interest and creates a negative perspective towards education (Pink Floyd). I had the same impact and negative feelings toward education when school was all about listening to the teacher’s outdated ideas and…

Berlin Wall. This was due to the Communist Government of the German Democratic Republic. Their goal was to split East and West Berlin to prevent Westerns from entering Germany. The formation of this wall split families, friends and loves ones. November 9th 1989 is known as the day of the ‘‘Fall of the Berlin Wall.’’ On this day the gates where finally opened. It was not until October 3rd 1990 that the East and West where officially reunited. After the fall of the wall a concert called The Wall…

The Beatles were an extremely popular band in the 60’s whose legacy encompasses more than the 12 studio albums, 13 extended plays, and 22 singles that were conceived from their genius. Innovative in their approaches to style, technique, and experimentation, The Beatles were always ready to push the envelope further than most bands of the time. Even in the band’s earlier stages, they enhanced their artistic experiences by means of musical experimentation. Throughout their journey with said…

”(Joni Mitchell). AKA, stop harming nature for your own personal gain. Personally, I really like this song because it reminds me of the oldies played at one of the many family functions that are always going on in my life. 5. Another Brick in The Wall, Pink Floyd, 1779 I love this song’s message, and I think that transcendentalists…

of people begin their collection because the Beatles take them on a musical journey. The awesome thing about Beatles’ music is you usually come back to it; it’s music that all through your life you will revisit. You also cannot go wrong with some Pink Floyd, maybe some early Elvis, Buddy Holly, and maybe some Kinks. All in all, having a collection is a neat experience. Start because you love music- let your heart guide you. Journalist: Do you love your job? A simple yes or no is fine. Joey: I…

My dad, Leo Giesen, grew up in Union Hill, Minnesota. He was in January of 1965, When he was growing up he remembered that he was always outside, he grew up as the second youngest out of eleven kids, however when he was growing up, three of them were already out of the house, and they were never allowed to play in the house, so they were outside all of the time. One of the earliest memory my dad has was the time when one of his older brothers came home from Vietnam, and how he really wanted to…