Pink Floyd Fan? · 31 January 2026
Dark Side of the Moon album cover by George Hardie
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I am not a Pink Floyd fan. Not really anyway. Even if it seems like it.
I have used a smattering of Pink Floyd lyrics in my blog posts over the years. Which is odd because I am not a Pink Floyd fan. In fact, there was at least a time in my life when I really did not like Pink Floyd at all. I actually liked school (to some degree) when The Wall came out. And I never listened to the whole song to find out why they were singing that they did not need no education. I did like the part about not needing no thought control. But I thought that overall the song was an indictment of all things education, which I was not behind. So I decided that I did not like the song. Or the group that sang the song.
I was also in a phase of my life when I did not like much that was popular. I wanted to be a contrarian. I wanted to hate everything that everybody else loved. But that is impossible to do. After all, everybody does not like the same things. Even if you just think of not liking what is popular. (I did not realize until much later that being a contrarian is really just going along with the crowd, because by being contrary to the norm you recognize it as the norm. And thus give it credence. Who knew?)
At any rate.
To add insult to injury, I had a roommate in college who listened to The Wall every day. Literally. And literally not in the sense people use it today where literally is not literally at all, but merely figuratively. (What is the deal with that?) My roommate would have that album (yes, vinyl) playing every single day when I went back to our room. Every. Single. Day. (I actually ended up moving from that dorm room, not because of my roommate’s singular taste in music but because I wanted to be closer to my younger brother. But that is a different story.)
My roommate had headphones on most of the time, but I couild still hear the words:
We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
I suppose that even if he did not have those headphones on, I would still have heard the words. Over and over and over again.
All we are is just a…
…nother brick in the wall.
I must say that as I think about it now, not liking something because it is popular or because somebody else really likes it is not a good way to judge things. We must be discerning based on other criteria. Or at least we should be. And as I think about it now, I think I should even think about my statement about not being a Pink Floyd fan. After all, I still hear the guitar solos as well as the words of that song. All these years later.
So while I said I am not a Pink Floyd fan at the beginning of this post, I am not sure anymore. I suppose at the very least, I am sympathetic to the song lyrics. After all, I do not want to be… Just another brick in the wall.
© 2026 Michael T. Miyoshi
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