Dammit Carl, I forgot the 'More inside' tag.

Cool - downloaded for my later viewing pleasure.

That reminds me to look for a copy of the short film The Final Cut by Pink Floyd, that I never seem to be able to stream from their site for some reason.

Also reminds me that we have tickets to a Roger Waters Concert next week - yay!

Brilliant. The video itself, though is simply visual puns on the lyrics for most of the video, and don't necessariy follow each other. They have very little to do with the guy letting the balloons out. I was on chat while I listened to it, but it struck me as some of the best Floyd since Dark Side of the moon, both on general musical pallette and the lyrical content. Has the same melancholy wistfulness for past times that the song Time evokes.

I also would like to add that the song very much captures the point in life where my son finds himself. He did well in high school, not so much in college, and things just have not been what he expected. Things were better (the grass was greener, with friends around me....) for him a couple years ago. I think we all go through that disillusionment. Pink Floyed prepped me for it with Dark Side of the Moon (which came out when I was about 10). I'm no "goth" as such, but sometimes it is theraputic to look at the dark side of life. Pink Floyd does that very well sometimes.

But, but... the bust of Syd (apparently), the giant undergraduate gowns, the huge scarves/flags, the big teddy bear - what does it all mean??!!?? /goes to bed, scratching head.

It doesn't mean anything unless you drop a tab first.

If you're gonna drop a tab, then you need to watch this: "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"

Also, I find that the latest Pink Floyd albums are less about having meaning than "hey, let's toss together some cool shit". It lacks the vision and cohesiveness that Roger Waters brought to the group.

Getting back to the video.... what does it all mean? Nothing. The words to the song are pretty good, but the video is, like I said, just visual puns for individual lines. The music is good; the lyrics are good; the video was obviously not put together with the same vision.

I think all the oversized things are supposed to trigger half-remembered visions from a child's point of view. Unfortunately, all the song made me nostalgic for was the days when the band wasn't a hollow shell of its former self.

A dulsatory video. "the oversized things are supposed to trigger half-remembered visions from a child's point of view" or perhaps half-remembered visions from an older Floyd concert.

I laughed at how Alfonso Cuarón equates Floyd's inflatable pigs with Michelangelo's David and Picasso's Guernica in Children of Men. Great movie.

I saw Pink Floyd live in 1994, the first show of their tour for this album, which hadn't been released yet--those of us in the audience were all hearing those songs for the first time. The video for this played on "Mr. Screen", an enormous round canvas hanging above the stage--incredible stuff. (And I don't even like The Division Bell that much.)

The Pink Floyd Pulse DVD has all the videos that were shown on "Mr. Screen" during that concert tour.