Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
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Free Music Review: CD for son
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this cd for my son because he loves The Wall so much. I just knew he would like it and I was right he plays it ALL the time.Free Music Review: Like all great works of art.....
Hit: 5 Stars
...you don't always get it at first. In 1983 when THE CUT was released, I was as excited as I imagine most Floyd fans were and ran right out and bought the record. Well, I was 15 years old, and the whole thing was lost on me! I hated it, excepting "Not Now John", the albums only faster-paced rocker-and put it away for years.
Then one day, I ran into an old friend and we started talking about the Floyd-The Cut came up and after telling him my feelings on the album, he strongly suggested I give it another chance-and I'm very glad I did! This record is teeming with beauty and feeling-And although the contributions from the other band members are more as studio musicians than writers, the performances are unbelievable-Mason's drumming is at it's most powerful and precise-and Gilmour's solos and lead vocal on "Not Now John" are among the most emotionally charged of anything Floyd ever did. Of course, it took two keyboard players and an orchestra to replace Rick Wright...This album bleeds with feeling, quite possibly a projection of the musicians realization that the end was here. But they performed their parts like consumate professionals, and with tons of heart and soul.
This album is an emotional roller-coaster, conceived brilliantly and concisely. Like all the great Floyd albums from "Meddle" through The Cut, it has a life and personality all it's own-You can't compare "Dark Side Of The Moon" to "Animals", and you can't compare The Cut to any other Floyd creation. I will tell you one thing, though-If you don't run the gamut of emotion that Roger Waters intends, from sadness to anger to humor and back, maybe you should just walk away, and come back later when, well, you've grown up a little more.
Free Music Review: absolutely epic
Hit: 5 Stars
I love albums. I think the artistry behind how an album is produced and assembled and how it flows can be almost as impactive as the songs themselves. Green Day's 'American Idiot' is a recent example of this, as are albums like 'The Wall' and many others. (Naming others might lead you to judge my other tastes, rather than this album.) With that being said, this is the most anthemic album of them all. Each song--powerful in its own right--fits tightly and seamlessly with the next. The overall imagery is remarkably powerful. It's true that this is a Roger Waters album. It's also a gift with a powerful and coherent message about the psychological ravages of war as well as the senselessness of the pursuits used to justify it. This is a beautiful album.
Free Music Review: A Pink Floyd album with little Pink Floyd music
Hit: 2 Stars
One of the great things about the Floyd is that as a rule, the music came first and lyrics second. The Floyd made excellent music full of mood, atmosphere and ear numbing guitar solos. Lyrics and political agenda were sometimes prevelient in Floyd albums, but never took a front seat to the music. These are the reasons that this album is such a disappointment. You could tell starting with the album "animals" that lyrics were becoming more important to Roger Waters (Bassist and main lyrcist) than the music. Even with "the wall" the lyrics were playing a major role, buy there was still some great music: Comfortably numb, Hey you, Mother, etc. This album is where the lyrics and the political agenda of Rogers Waters took over and the music became minimalized. No mood music. No great guitar solos. Just Roger Waters ranting about post war Englad and Margret Thatcher. There are a few songs I do enjoy: the Heroes return and the gunner's dream. Not Now John added some much needed rock and roll to this depressing album and some singing by David Gilmour (lead guitarist). It should be noted that by this time, the rest of the band had been relagated to session mucicians. And this album is considered by many to be a Waters solo album in all but name. Judging by his other solo album, I would have to agree. I couldn't help but feel like was being hit over the head with political ravings and no Pink Floyd music to cushion the blows. Free Music Review: The Final Cut: Truth, Not Theory, Nor Hypothesis
Hit: 4 Stars
"Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend;
We were all equal in the end."
'...and now the weather. Tomorrow will be cloudy with scattered showers
spreading from the east ... with an expected high of 4000 degrees
Celsius'
---Ummm, My name is Tomfucius and I'm a Floyd addict. I always like hearing Floyd on the radio and watching The Wall once every 15 years is just not enough for me. I thought I would grow out of it, but then I decided that it's not something you can just put down after you pick it up. It's also something that you can't just like one of and some could say that when you have one kind, you gotta have all of em at least once.
---Yep, Floyd's hard to quit and honestly, I don't think I will get it out of my blood or brain. As a matter o' fact, I quite like being hooked on Floydics, sure beats Ebonics and some of that other stuff that needs to be scraped of of some of the younger crowds' shoes. My last Floyd purchase was The Wall's 25th (B0006ZE7G2) and Guitar Tabs (ISBN 0825612675) about 2 years ago and made an attempt to dissect it and add "the Final Cut" to it, but the DVD was just too complex for me to Reauthor.
---My first Floydeptic episode occured when Johnny Cole asked me for my sister's brand new, 1st release, brick-on-white album and then drew PINK FLOYD THE WALL on it for her as a small birthday gift. Heh heh heh, I had no idea, I was 10... she got me back when she recorded over my copy of the 1st release (cassette) of the Dark Side of the Moon and I won when I let him read her diary (which contained tidbits about their date that past weekend), but that's unimportant here.
---Though it is true to most that The Wall will never be topped, being a long-time fan of all the Pink Floyd works, I have to say because of what I know, that this is just as good as The Wall. I have done my best to relay this information everywhere I hear this topic, and have dropped a few lines on a couple message boards and the likes.
---This album wasn't a "solo" and it didn't grow from a new idea. Call this a blogview if you will, my review will be different. While explaining and applauding a Floydian Creation, between the momentary lapses of synergy, I'll throw in some hints of character in hopes that you will connect, by learning a little about the author. When you are able to take the pebble from my hand, you will be ready to leave.
- Chicago (well, Burbank), some time around 3pm, on some given day between the 16th and 19th of March in the year of our Lord 1983 -
---While hanging out at at Zaied's shed,
---Listening to the albums back to front you can see the similarities, but remember, eight of the twelve songs were added to make a new album. Yes the Final Cut is seriously missing something, but maybe this 'review' will add that something and bring a new vision to your minds eye. Even after watching the video(s) and trying to put it together with The Wall, it sort of looks, well... pulp. Unless the one whom motioned it be cut from the movie, decided to reunite it again with The Wall, it probably won't ever be appreciated for what it's worth. I don't think that would be likely to happen, since it seems Gilmour may have adopted the footage. I myself appreciate it and had the opportunity to share some history with four of my step-son's friends.
About me (continued):
---I've always drawn on my desk at school and after getting reprimanded, I started the trend of taking the screws out of the desk, flipping it over and drawing on the underside and putting the screws back in. One might still find some of my class' works at Harry E. Fry. We were good. I feel no band should remake a song from the Who (yeah it sucks, `cause no one knows what it's like to be jaded) and I feel that if a band defaces a Floyd song... they should die a slow and painful death of eternal booing if not deep gouges to their eye sockets with spikes made from rock salt.
---Back in 1985 I drew Iron Maiden's the Number of the Beast, on a 27" x 40" piece of poster board, for our art fair. I was told three hours before the deadline that I couldn't enter it because it had to do with "religion". Against all my arguments, like asking "whose religion?" and the extra, necessary criticism impaled upon me, I chose to create a new entry. When asked what it was going to be, I said it would be about war, regression and oppression. I spent about 20 minutes carefully taping three pieces of white poster board together so no seams could be seen, to create a canvas 81" x 40". It started with dusty lines of light blue pencil and HB2 smudged over the blue, creating bricks about 9" x 5". In about two hours I had the drawing near completion. I was finishing up the airplane flying toward the viewer, when again my art teacher entered the room. After a minute or so, I was told as she started walking toward the door, that I would not finish in time and that she couldn't wait. As a rebel, after replying "I'm done!", drawing the last few lines and finishing a little shading, I carefully folded it up, tucked it under my arm, said "but I won't finish it in time" and walked out of the room. "The Wall" was more appreciated by my friends than it would have been by her anyway... the snooty !@#$%. About twenty "special" people signed it during three separate, small New Years Eve parties I held, it was handed around Burbank after I dedicated it to a dearly departed friend and another 10x? people had signed it over the years as a memorial to Scott Webster.
---Back in 1990, I jammed to the live concert held at the wall, while partying with 80+ other car-loads of listeners who were also jamming to the stereos in 60+ parked vehicles. That night was the grandest of all parties at Maple Lake. A place where amplified music was not allowed, no service issued-s kicked in any doors... we were left alone to hang out and get as loud as we wanted for as long as we were there, and 95th and Archer Ave. will never again, rock as loud as it did that night. For the duration of the broadcast and a few hours after, not a single fight broke out. You just can't beat Floyd.
---Just the night before last, we held my step-son's 21st birthday party here at the house. I had a request for The Wall and first, respectfully played "The Final Cut", of which I have recorded. I was shocked at how intelligent these young men were and how understanding, how deep their minds could go. Sorry, but I have noticed a shortage of tough ones with "smarts" as of late. They (all musicians) sat in full focus, locked to the TV throughout the length of the video and when it was over, were... flabbergasted. This nearly brought a tear to my eye, knowing that there is still some* youth that not have an appreciation of true classics, but have enough of a brain to understand the minds behind Pink Floyd. Definitely not the baggy-panted, street racing, cocked sideways hat wearin' whippersnappers that we called punks in my day. The Wall played in repeat mode and was still playing the next morning when all woke... #1 rule, if you drink here you sleep here cause I watch the news.
---Now, what could be so traumatic that American viewers couldn't see? In the video it shows, as I see it, the main character assassinating who he blames, for the countless deaths including "the children". A highly decorated and political partisan of the US. It will always be that we see ourselves as the big Brother, but nevertheless, during the war, we are blamed for sitting by and watching until we saw fit to help. It is said that it would have ended sooner if it weren't for "US". Maybe that is why it was cut from The Wall... the actual videocassette is in PAL format and can still be found overseas, but is way out of print. It would be nice to add to the library, but without the necessary equipment, here it can't be watched and heard in sync. Maybe if even I, were to see the uncut version of the "Postwar Dream" and such, I would have a better understanding. Heck, you might too if I didn't lose you through all the synergy.
---As an album, this is loaded with Floydian talent, as much as any other. As a piece of The Wall, it is better understood. One could even say it is almost prophetic as to where we are heading.
the Post War Dream
Your Possible Pasts
One of the Few
the Hero's Return
the Gunners Dream
Paranoid Eyes
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
the Fletcher Memorial Home
Southampton Dock
the Final Cut
Not Now John
Two Suns in the Sunset
---I suppose a nuclear holocaust would sort of look line two suns in the sunset. Could it be where we're heading, with a fight over the desert a little more than halfway between it and the post-war era. Could that be what was so traumatic? I have written quite a few posts on message boards and such, which aren't quite so similar to this blogview. It would be nice if one was found and Waters would one day explain.
"If you negotiate, the minefield in the drive,
and beat the dogs and cheat the cold, electronic eyes.
And if you make it past, the shotgun in the hall,
dial the combination, open the priesthole,
and if I'm in, I'll tell you what's behind the wall."