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Posted on 10/28/20 at 7:25 pm
Posted by GAAtty70
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 10/28/20 at 7:25 pm
Roger Waters was never better lyrically than he was on " The Final Cut ".

Change my mind.
Posted by Marciano1
Marksville, LA
Member since Jun 2009
18469 posts
Posted on 10/28/20 at 9:38 pm to
Snoozer of an album, IMO. The only track I like just so happens to be the only one with Gilmour on vocals.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
11005 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 8:16 am to
Music "art" if you will is subjective and no one can really say what the best is, but I have to say they really seems to mail it in on the Final Cut album. To me it seemed like a trial run for Waters solo album Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking which was released the following year and IMO an better album. But again what's good and not good is a matter of opinion.
This post was edited on 10/29/20 at 2:15 pm
Posted by SUB
Member since Jan 2001
Member since Jan 2009
20955 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 9:50 am to
It's possible, but it doesn't mean anything to me if the music sucks. It's a low point for Waters...maybe his lowest. I enjoy just about everything else he's done.
This post was edited on 10/29/20 at 9:52 am
Posted by randybobandy
NOLA
Member since Mar 2015
1911 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 10:56 am to
After the great run of Dark side, wish you were here, animals and the wall...the final cut's music was a HUGE letdown. Lyrics about Maggie,Brezhnev, tyrants and kings ect were a prelude to the end of Floyd. The Wall should have been the end of Rog crying about his dead daddy. They went from "the shite" to shite IMHO. Once Wright and Gilmour took a backseat to Rog, the magic was gone.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89621 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 12:39 pm to
quote:

Roger Waters was never better lyrically than he was on " The Final Cut ".


Lyrically, it was very strong, but stronger than Animals? WYWH? I think it was the logical evolution from the delayed teen angst displayed on The Wall - which was also very powerful, lyrically - The Wall was classic Waters' excess but also had Mother, Young Lust, Run Like Hell, ABITW Part 2 and, of course, Comfortably Numb (which is a GOAT candidate).

The problem with The Final Cut was that it was supposed to be a solo Waters album and the music wasn't up to Floyd standards (meaning took a back seat to the lyrics), The Gunner's Dream and Not Now John, notwithstanding.
Posted by Milov
West Coast
Member since Oct 2020
42 posts
Posted on 10/30/20 at 9:38 am to
I think it's an odd question considering the credits for many of the lyrics were shared with Floyd. "Breathe" on DSM for example, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright are credited for the lyrics.

They were certainly influenced, and perhaps haunted, by Syd's rise and subsequent check out. But, I couldn't say Waters was better or worse on a time line. I do think DSM was their pinnacle. I think some would say WYWH was that, but those two are a toss up with me.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 10/30/20 at 7:25 pm to
Thought the thread was going to be about the floyd rose
Posted by Tiger in Texas
Houston, Texas
Member since Sep 2004
20897 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 9:30 pm to
Don't care about lyrics- 'The Final Cut' was a boring album that offered nothing musically. It was the only RW Floyd album I never purchased...
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