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The Wall pt. 4 - The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Seagoon

The Wall pt. 4 - The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Seagoon

Another stunning rendition, this time by weremagnus original here.

During his school career, Pink suffers at the hands of certain teachers who seem more interested in "moulding" the kids into conformity through pain and humiliation rather than stimulating young minds. However, Pink takes a bitter pleasure from the knowledge that the teachers themselves suffer abuse at the hands of their overbearing wives.

This is based on both "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall Part Two", debatably the most famous numbers from the album. Both Gerald Scarfe's artwork and the film have a ton of great imagery associated with this song; the wife holding the teacher by puppet strings, the kids with the creepy drone masks and the giant mincer that moulds them into conformity. More than anything I wanted to show what these songs tell; that this vicious cycle is a general theme throughout the course of the album, as the teacher, so deeply entrenched in his own wall as a victim of his wife's abuse, takes his unhappiness out on the innocent, and inadvertently aids in the construction of Pink's wall.

Unfortunately I can't show you the sequence from the film; it's impossible to find a decent version of the sequence on YouTube as it keeps getting taken down (I did find one version, but the song's in the wrong key, and I'm sorry but that just ruins a song for me).

The Wall remains the property of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.

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