Final Cut, The [Remastered] - Pink Floyd

Incredible Album by pink floyd

Advantages: Warm soothing solos and really great lyrics.
Disadvantages: None

Was it for this that daddy died?

Advantages: Griping emotional lyrics,very unique,it feels as if the songs are full of anger and sadness that hold so much raw powere the songs feel as if theyre forced upon you!
Disadvantages: Solely a Roger Waters album,no atmosphere nor warmth,a very dark and cold set of songs full of rage and anger!

,emoted with beutiful acoustic melodies and strumming,the voice gets doubled by another Waters screaming voice ontop of the soft voice adding a complete contrast to the mood! The final cut is the BEST TRACK on the album by far,the song builds up with slow drumming and acoustics with piano untill the song gets obltterated and explodes relaesing clouds of magic into the atmosphere,Floyd return with a vengeance the screaming and pleas of Waters coupled by crashing drums intensifies dramatically,the rythm is repeated the same way as if a message is needed to be told but is it too late,never the intense screams erupt into one of Gilmour most beutiful Guitar solos ,sob weep it's beutiful,then Waters drives his voice on and screams to such possesive intensity how could anyone say this isnt the best album track lo! Not now jon is a bit of a corny joke ...

darkangelwing 03.08.2005 (05.08.2005) · Read full review
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Review of Final Cut, The [Remastered] - Pink Floyd

The Wall part 2

Advantages: A classic album. Great Tracks
Disadvantages: A little depressing

Written at the time of the Falklands war, The Final Cut is written along the same lines as The Wall and is in fact dedicated to Roger Waters father, Eric Fletcher Waters who died in the first world war. While concentrating on digs at the government of the time, mostly Margret Thatcher, but also on society of the 80's. Tracks such as "Not Now John" is about the consumer, money obsessed feeling of the time. For those who are old enough to remember the 80's your will recognise it. My personal favourite tracks are The Final Cut and the Gunners Dream but there honestly isn't a bad track on the album. The album is very well put together and there is a definate intro, middle and end. The links between the tracks are sometimes poor but this is due to the age of the album. As a rule, if you liked The Wall and want a darker album then ...

joncr 29.10.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Final Cut, The [Remastered] - Pink Floyd

Smiling Roger's Darkest hour

Advantages: Well written
Disadvantages: self indulgent

The Final Cut is not the best introduction to Pink Floyd as it is essentially a Roger Waters solo album. Having parted company with Nick Mason and Richard Wright after the Wall album and tour, there was only David Gilmour left to stop the total control of Pink Floyd was complete. However it backfired sensationally as the future would attest. The songs on this album are very dark and introspective. A topic ranging from what happens to our war heroes (The Fletcher Memorial Home) nuclear holocaust (Two Suns in The Sunset) and personal neurosis (The Final Cut) not exactly a laugh a minute. David Gilmour’s contributions are very slight apart from the rocky Not Now John (British workers apathy), which is so at odds with the rest of the album apart from the lyrics, it has Gilmours stamp of class throughout. Elsewhere he only has ...

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Review of Final Cut, The [Remastered] - Pink Floyd