The hairs in the back of my neck stand up when the drums and guitar solo kick in. This has happened probably every time i have listened to it over the last 30 years
@@reallymysterious4393 I really like many of the songs but I feel like it's a little too flimsy to work as a true concept album. Love Go Fishing, Every Stranger's Eyes and The Moment of Clarity. I'm not a huge fan of Radio Kaos but I like The Tide is Turning. For me the high water mark is Amused to Death (though perhaps one What God Wants would have been enough).
Well, it is a very much a Roger solo, even more so than Momentary Lapse is mainly due to no Rick Wright at all and very little Nick Mason. Momentary was only missing Roger full time and again Nick on a couple of songs. But the album is really nothing more than "Vera" and "Bring the Boys Back Home" over and over. The thing that saves this song is David's guitar. Other than that, the album is really one of their worst. The best part is the holophonics.
I missed your Pink Floyd reactions, and this one is as always deep and attentive, looking through all the elements of a song, especially with such complex and not easy listening kind of songs (which has got a social-political context quite different from our present days)
That difference between the lyrics and music is deliberately ironic. It kind of reminds me of Monty Python humor only darker. I love this album. I know it sometimes has been accused of having more of a Roger Waters solo album feel, but as such it is brilliant. This album sends so many images flying through my head and I love that.
and how after they are collected into the Fletcher Memorial Home he ends with the quiet line "Now the final solution can be applied." Often wonder how many people get what that means that their fate would be.
You nailed it, its about Roger Waters frustration with world leaders post WW2. "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly, "Hello Maggie!" Mr. Brezhnev and party. "Who's the bald chap?" The ghost of McCarthy, The memories of Nixon.
Roger Waters really hit his "stride" with this album and Radio KAOS a few years later. If this album does not cut you to the bone in your world view then... well only God knows what is wrong...
I do have a soft spot for Radio KAOS, but Amused to Death is a far better album than both that and the Final Cut. Not that they’re not good albums, I just prefer AtD
Don't ever forget thath this album also was recorded in the aftermath of the Falkland Island "war", and as such must be considered as a commet to this, and geopolitics, as a whole. Still my #3 album of PF :)
This album is for me to be seen as Roger Waters first solo album. Gilmore just dropped in to do the guitar part. Wright was sacked already before and the band split thereafter with Waters walking his own way and Wright returning to Gilmore and Mason continuing the journey of Pink Floyd. The album is best to be listened in from start to end. This song make totally sense in it. Some song, three I have heard, are leftovers from The Wall. Again, listen to the album start to end. Very powerful. As a side note, apparently before Pink Floyd recorded The Wall Roger Waters presented two ideas for tue band, The Wall story or the Hitchhiker story that later became Roger Waters first solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.
Well I'm glad they went with the wall. I have The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking on cassette somewhere. I hardly listen to it, and haven't in ages. It's not a very well articulated story, and I'll take Gilmour over Clapton every time.
You kind of can't get a lot of these songs the first listen it'll start to mesh as time goes on and it'll just keep delivering and you'll hear more and more great things revealed
I literally bought this album way back for 1 song. Didn't know any of the other songs on it at first, but had to get it for 'When The Tigers Broke Free' because I loved it in The Wall movie, and was gutted it wasn't actually in The Wall album, so had to but The Final Cut.
@@bschuler6216 It definitely is m8, because as I said, it is literally the only reason I bought that album. If you checked by doing a web search, they must have it wrong. Go to Pink Floyds official UA-cam channel, and then search for it. It tells you in the upload description what album it's from.
@@AD270479 Okay, I just did a little research (because I own the cassette of The Final Cut, and this track is not on it). It was recorded in 1979, in time to be on The Wall, but the other members of Floyd rejected it, deeming it too personal. It was added to a rerelease of The Final Cut in 2004. My copy is from 1983, so it isn't on my copy. I do remember it from the film version of The Wall. It totally fits within the concept and sound of The Final Cut.
@@bschuler6216 Excellent m8, cheers for the info. I checked on Google, seen it wasn't included in the track list & started to get confused a bit myself as to why. Yeah, it's the CD I have it on, & I did buy it early 2000's. Good old cassete tapes eh, I kinda miss them. But I don't miss the operations I had to perform on my hi-fi to remove the tape when it got chewed up, then had to get a felt pen lid to wind it all back in to the cassete.
@@AD270479 Haha. Yeah I still have a few cassettes. I don't have the heart to chuck em. I just have to keep a cassette playing stereo handy on the rare occasions I play them.
Poor beginning to your analysis - I thought you were never going to start - But it got a lot better towards the end - Well Done , you eventually made a lot of great points !
FYI to put this song into better perspective you need to listen to it / play it with 'Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert' before it (just like you should also play 'Southampton Dock' before 'The Final Cut')
Unfortunately I understand too little English spoken, and I often misinterpret it, so I don't go into the specifics of your questions. However, I notice that among your videos there is, if I am not mistaken, none of Roger's solo work. Perhaps some clarification you could find by listening and reflecting on it. Of course it is later, and evolutionary, compared to Final Cut, but without David's instrumental contributions the lyrics become increasingly explicit, if possible, and the more essential music in a style that in Italian we define "recitar-cantando" which translated should sound: “reciting-singing”. An example, for me very remarkable, is “It 'a Miracle” in the version from "In The Flesh Tour 2000" that you find at 1:47:34 of this full video: m.ua-cam.com/video/NDTWsuyDYRM/v-deo.html ... or with lyrics here: m.ua-cam.com/video/Jj_OlTelGhI/v-deo.html You won't need it, but what Roger did in the 35 years after the PF is this: 1984 The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking 1986 When the Wind Blows 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. 1992 Amused to Death 2000 Lost Boys Calling (We All Love Ennio Morricone) 2005 Ça ira 2017 Is This The Life We Really Want? 2018 The Soldier's Tale Nice set, congratulations!
@@dccooksterreacts6320 well my apologies. I feel you tried too hard to analyse the song as your first reaction...I feel better for your videos if you just immediately go with your gut of "love it" or "hate it"...then analyse more after...that way we get a reaction. I felt in this it was almost a calculated reaction of no reaction (if that makes sense)....however, so glad you discovered this song!🤝🤝 An absolute gem. 😃
Well, upon your background you are a horror fan. This song is horrific in the humanistic way. After devastating war these old people never truly recovered from that during their lives and now they’re old and at the mercy of yet another institution called old age.
It is actually. The original title was "Spare Bricks". Roger just updated/changed the lyrics to address his feelings of the Falklands war. But all the songs were Wall rejects.
The hairs in the back of my neck stand up when the drums and guitar solo kick in. This has happened probably every time i have listened to it over the last 30 years
Very, very underrated album.
Very underrated album. One of my favorites.
I always loved this album. Critics downgrade it because they say it feels like a Roger Waters solo album. It does. So what? Great lyrics and guitar.
@@reallymysterious4393 I really like many of the songs but I feel like it's a little too flimsy to work as a true concept album. Love Go Fishing, Every Stranger's Eyes and The Moment of Clarity. I'm not a huge fan of Radio Kaos but I like The Tide is Turning. For me the high water mark is Amused to Death (though perhaps one What God Wants would have been enough).
Well, it is a very much a Roger solo, even more so than Momentary Lapse is mainly due to no Rick Wright at all and very little Nick Mason. Momentary was only missing Roger full time and again Nick on a couple of songs.
But the album is really nothing more than "Vera" and "Bring the Boys Back Home" over and over.
The thing that saves this song is David's guitar. Other than that, the album is really one of their worst.
The best part is the holophonics.
Agreed, this album freaking wails!!!
This is a masterpiece of an album
Only David Gilmour can play a guitar solo as emotional as this
He really knows how to make a guitar cry.
The Final Cut is a deep and great album, but it should be heard from start to end.
It's like writing terrifying lyrics for a nice happy sounding song. Really good album, have to listen to it again.
I missed your Pink Floyd reactions, and this one is as always deep and attentive, looking through all the elements of a song, especially with such complex and not easy listening kind of songs (which has got a social-political context quite different from our present days)
That difference between the lyrics and music is deliberately ironic. It kind of reminds me of Monty Python humor only darker. I love this album. I know it sometimes has been accused of having more of a Roger Waters solo album feel, but as such it is brilliant. This album sends so many images flying through my head and I love that.
and how after they are collected into the Fletcher Memorial Home he ends with the quiet line "Now the final solution can be applied." Often wonder how many people get what that means that their fate would be.
Lemon curry?
You nailed it, its about Roger Waters frustration with world leaders post WW2.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Who's the bald chap?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
Roger Waters really hit his "stride" with this album and Radio KAOS a few years later. If this album does not cut you to the bone in your world view then... well only God knows what is wrong...
I do have a soft spot for Radio KAOS, but Amused to Death is a far better album than both that and the Final Cut. Not that they’re not good albums, I just prefer AtD
Don't ever forget thath this album also was recorded in the aftermath of the Falkland Island "war", and as such must be considered as a commet to this, and geopolitics, as a whole. Still my #3 album of PF :)
The word is disingenuous. The music is completely disingenuous to the vocals, and lyrics. This song is a powerhouse.
This album is for me to be seen as Roger Waters first solo album. Gilmore just dropped in to do the guitar part. Wright was sacked already before and the band split thereafter with Waters walking his own way and Wright returning to Gilmore and Mason continuing the journey of Pink Floyd. The album is best to be listened in from start to end. This song make totally sense in it. Some song, three I have heard, are leftovers from The Wall. Again, listen to the album start to end. Very powerful.
As a side note, apparently before Pink Floyd recorded The Wall Roger Waters presented two ideas for tue band, The Wall story or the Hitchhiker story that later became Roger Waters first solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.
Well I'm glad they went with the wall.
I have The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking on cassette somewhere. I hardly listen to it, and haven't in ages. It's not a very well articulated story, and I'll take Gilmour over Clapton every time.
You kind of can't get a lot of these songs the first listen it'll start to mesh as time goes on and it'll just keep delivering and you'll hear more and more great things revealed
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold, glass eye. - WW2 Vet's children can resonate with that lyric, Holy crap
I literally bought this album way back for 1 song. Didn't know any of the other songs on it at first, but had to get it for 'When The Tigers Broke Free' because I loved it in The Wall movie, and was gutted it wasn't actually in The Wall album, so had to but The Final Cut.
That's not on The Final Cut either. Unless it's under a different title. I can't remember the lyrics or melody at the moment.
@@bschuler6216 It definitely is m8, because as I said, it is literally the only reason I bought that album. If you checked by doing a web search, they must have it wrong. Go to Pink Floyds official UA-cam channel, and then search for it. It tells you in the upload description what album it's from.
@@AD270479 Okay, I just did a little research (because I own the cassette of The Final Cut, and this track is not on it). It was recorded in 1979, in time to be on The Wall, but the other members of Floyd rejected it, deeming it too personal. It was added to a rerelease of The Final Cut in 2004. My copy is from 1983, so it isn't on my copy.
I do remember it from the film version of The Wall. It totally fits within the concept and sound of The Final Cut.
@@bschuler6216 Excellent m8, cheers for the info. I checked on Google, seen it wasn't included in the track list & started to get confused a bit myself as to why. Yeah, it's the CD I have it on, & I did buy it early 2000's. Good old cassete tapes eh, I kinda miss them. But I don't miss the operations I had to perform on my hi-fi to remove the tape when it got chewed up, then had to get a felt pen lid to wind it all back in to the cassete.
@@AD270479 Haha. Yeah I still have a few cassettes. I don't have the heart to chuck em. I just have to keep a cassette playing stereo handy on the rare occasions I play them.
INSANITY IS HARD TO SING ABOUT UNLESS YOU'RE PINK FLOYD
Boom Boom , bang bang
lie down you're dead.
Fu...... what an amazing capability to hit us badly. Roger is simply the best.
Poor beginning to your analysis - I thought you were never going to start - But it got a lot better towards the end - Well Done , you eventually made a lot of great points !
FYI to put this song into better perspective you need to listen to it / play it with 'Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert' before it (just like you should also play 'Southampton Dock' before 'The Final Cut')
Love how the Fletcher Home is basically an Auschwitz for politicians. I'm with ya Rog
I'm so disappointed that he won't be playing this in Miami. Or Final Cut or Possible Pasts.
Unfortunately I understand too little English spoken, and I often misinterpret it, so I don't go into the specifics of your questions. However, I notice that among your videos there is, if I am not mistaken, none of Roger's solo work. Perhaps some clarification you could find by listening and reflecting on it. Of course it is later, and evolutionary, compared to Final Cut, but without David's instrumental contributions the lyrics become increasingly explicit, if possible, and the more essential music in a style that in Italian we define "recitar-cantando" which translated should sound: “reciting-singing”.
An example, for me very remarkable, is “It 'a Miracle” in the version from "In The Flesh Tour 2000" that you find at 1:47:34 of this full video:
m.ua-cam.com/video/NDTWsuyDYRM/v-deo.html
... or with lyrics here:
m.ua-cam.com/video/Jj_OlTelGhI/v-deo.html
You won't need it, but what Roger did in the 35 years after the PF is this:
1984
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
1986
When the Wind Blows
1987
Radio K.A.O.S.
1992
Amused to Death
2000
Lost Boys Calling
(We All Love Ennio Morricone)
2005
Ça ira
2017
Is This The Life We Really Want?
2018
The Soldier's Tale
Nice set, congratulations!
Radio K.A.O.S & Amused To Death are 2 of my favourite albums.
the song is about how the CROWN let waters father die, and its roger calling out the leaders...
Not just the Crown but a scathing criticism of many of the world leaders who have an appetite for war.
❤❤❤
Have you done When the Tigers broke free yet?
Now that's an emotional song..
Have a seat bro 😊
SEE THE VIDEO - DID YOU ?
Sorry. I don't believe this was the first time you heard this.
It was the first time
@@dccooksterreacts6320 well my apologies. I feel you tried too hard to analyse the song as your first reaction...I feel better for your videos if you just immediately go with your gut of "love it" or "hate it"...then analyse more after...that way we get a reaction. I felt in this it was almost a calculated reaction of no reaction (if that makes sense)....however, so glad you discovered this song!🤝🤝 An absolute gem. 😃
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Well, upon your background you are a horror fan. This song is horrific in the humanistic way. After devastating war these old people never truly recovered from that during their lives and now they’re old and at the mercy of yet another institution called old age.
Love it cuz it's real music not pop or Rock b*******
I love very much all Pink Floyd 's production.
My favorite band all time ...
but " The final cut " album ...that's what i like least.
Sorry
Roger's nihilism aside, I rather enjoy this track, I've always thought this album was just stuff they couldn't fit on The Wall though.
It is actually. The original title was "Spare Bricks". Roger just updated/changed the lyrics to address his feelings of the Falklands war. But all the songs were Wall rejects.