Why do you like/dislike The Final Cut?

The Final Cut:extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Water's pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention. This is more like a novel than a record, requirng total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrmentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall and the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangments, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievementof some kind, there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work [apart from Water's own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core.] Distintive,to be sure, but not easy to love and, depending on your view, not even that easy to admire.

BQ: A Saucerful Of Secrets

BQ2: Don't really have one

BQ3:Good have been better I have been under the weather all day, and If I had not had to get up and say goodnight to a little friend my mind I would still have been in bed and I would not have had time to answer this question. I'm doing this with eyes half open.

take care

dave

Well The final cut was more or less stuff that didnt make it on the Wall Album. Pink Floyd had become Roger Waters solo band. He was a dictator of the music. After he left the band the remaining members said that music had became fun again.

Favorite album: Ummagumma.

Favorite members: Syd Barrett;David Gilmour.

I don't like it because it just sounds like the outtakes from The Wall. Similar subject matter and just all a bit too whiney. I know your Dad was killed in the war Roger but we don't need it on every album. It also seems more like a Roger Waters solo album, there is no Richard Wright on it and in general it doesn't feel like a Floyd album but I still prefer it to 'Momentary Lapse Of Reason' I'd rather listen to Roger whinging than Dave Gilmour falling asleep on the job.

BQ: Atom Heart Mother

BQ2: Roger Waters

BQ3: So far, you too I hope.

personally I love "the final cut" But i think many people think of it as left over "TheWall" material .

and there were definite divisions within the band which show through the album and packaging.

I probably listen to The Final Cut more than TheWall these days but still prefer DSOTM and WYWH.

BQ: hard to pick but prob WYWH (shine on.... just blows me away,still)

BQ2 : having been fortunate enough to see them all live (except syd) i would go with Roger Waters but only because I love his lyrics although it is all together where they are special (never quite got into AMLOR or Division Bell as Floyd albums)

BQ3: HELL YEAH