themed week // Pink Floyd, Mother

Pink Floyd was a British progressive rock band, created in 1965 and composed by Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett later replaced by David Gilmour.

With fourteen studio albums released, they became one of the most successful progressive rocks bands of all times - for epic songs like Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In The Wall - Part 2 and Comfortably Numb.

Discover the story behind The Wall on previous posts here and here.

Mother is a song taken from Pink Floyd's album The Wall.
According to Waters in an interview for Mojo magazine, he said "The idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be."


The Wall is about Pink's story - an alienated and unfortunate rock star. On the song Mother is explained that part of Pink's alienation comes from being raised by a overprotective single mother, that lost her husband in World War II - just like Waters.
On this song is explained how protective Pink's mother is and how much she wants to help her son to "build the wall" and protect him from the outside and hurtful world.

"Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry
Momma's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
Momma won't let anyone dirty get through
Momma's gonna wait up until you get in"

themed week // Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall - Part II

Pink Floyd, a British Progressive rock band created in 1965 and composed by Roger Waters (vocals, bass guitar, guitars, percussion, programming), Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals, organ, piano, synthesizers, mellotron), Nick Mason (drums, percussion, programming), David Gilmour (vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, special effects). Syd Barrett (vocals and guitars) and Bob Klose also made part of Pink Floyd's formation at the beginning of the band's career.

Known for songs like Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb or Hey You, the band has released 14 studio albums - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), Soundtrack from the Film More (1969), Ummagumma (1969), Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), Obscured by Clouds (1972), The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), The Final Cut (1983), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994) besides 3 live albums and several compilations.

To know a bit more about their album The Wall click here.

Another Brick In The Wall - Part II belongs to one of the best known Pink Floyd albums The Wall and is the second of a three-part song all included on the same album.

On the plot of the movie with the same name that features the artist and activist Bob Geldof - representing the character based on Waters himself "Pink", this song appears "After being insulted by the teacher, Pink dreams that the kids in his school begin to protest against their abusive teachers."

"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall"