'Empty Spaces' | |
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Song by Pink Floyd | |
from the album The Wall | |
Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
Released | 30 November 1979 (UK) 8 December 1979 (US) |
Recorded | 1978–1979 |
Genre | Progressive rock |
Length | 2:10 |
Label | Harvest (UK) Columbia (US) |
Songwriter(s) | Roger Waters |
Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters |
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'Empty Spaces' is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, featured as the eighth track on their 1979 rock operaThe Wall. It is the only known song by Pink Floyd to contain a backmasked message.
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Composition[edit]
The song is in the key of E minor, and is two minutes, eight seconds in length. It features a long introductory section, with solo guitar and a repetitive drumbeat, and an airport announcement, as a reference to Pink heading for a concert tour. The song reaches a climax of tension, at which point Roger Waters plays a descending blues scale over the minor dominant, B minor, cueing the start of the vocals. Roger Waters sings a short verse, ending on the phrase 'How shall I complete the wall?' This track shares a backing track with 'What Shall We Do Now?', sped up from D to E, with new guitar and vocals. The last beat introduces the next song, 'Young Lust'.
Plot[edit]
The Wall tells the story of Pink, an alienated and embittered rock star. At this point in the narrative, Pink is now grown up and married, but he and his wife are having relationship problems because of his physical distance and nearly complete emotional 'wall'. Pink asks himself how he should complete its construction.
Movie and live versions[edit]
On both the film adaptation the song is dropped in favour of 'What Shall We Do Now?', and on the recording of the live performance of this album, this song serves as an intro to 'What Shall We Do Now?'.
Hidden message[edit]
Directly before the lyrical section, there is a hidden message isolated on the left channel of the song. When heard normally, it appears to be nonsense. If played backwards, the following can be heard:
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- –Hello looker... Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...
- –Roger! Carolyne's on the phone!
- –Okay.[1][2]
Roger Waters congratulates the listener for finding this message, and jokes that they can send their answer to 'Old Pink' (being either a comical reference to Syd Barrett, or a foreshadowing of Pink's eventual insanity), who lives somewhere in a funny farm (a term to describe a psychiatric hospital) in Chalfont. Before he can reveal the exact location, however, he gets interrupted by producer James Guthrie in the background who says Carolyne (Waters' then wife) is on the phone.[3]
Personnel[edit]
- David Gilmour – guitars, Prophet-5 and ARP Quadra synthesizers
- Nick Mason – drums (only in the full version of the song, 'What Shall We Do Now?')
- Roger Waters – lead vocals, bass, VCS3 synthesizer
- Richard Wright – piano
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- James Guthrie – ARP Quadra synthesizer[4]
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Further reading[edit]
- Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN1-894959-24-8.
References[edit]
- ^'Jeff Milner's Backmasking site'. Jeff Milner. Archived from the original on 27 March 2005. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^Nemcoff, Mark Yoshimoto (4 April 2013). 'Empty Spaces: Backwards Messages, Stairway to Heaven and a Failure to Communicate'. WordSushi. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^BBC - Culture, The Hidden Messages in Songs
- ^Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, Comfortably Numb - A History of The Wall 1978–1981, 2006, p.82.
External links[edit]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Wall |
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- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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