re: Pink Floyd - Final Cut

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Just putting on Two suns in the sunset now

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The sad part about the Final Cut is this potential - Waters still had a shite ton of relevant things to say. Two Suns in the Sunset is a powerful closing track. I tend to listen to this as a complete album, and it works very well in this respect.

Lyrically the album is pretty strong throughout, but Gilmour could have strengthened the music of just about every single one. Waters just wanted to go his own way at that point. Collaboration (Waters is extremely introverted) was just too much trouble, particularly with folks he couldn't control/pull all the oxygen out of the room. Kamen was no pushover, musically, but he wasn't going to impose any of his vision on Roger's works. Guthrie was still in his 20s and awestruck by Roger - and, to be fair, Guthrie should get a lot of credit for the Wall's (and Final Cut's, for that matter) sound from a technical standpoint. One of the pioneers (good and bad) for that clean, 80s "overproduced" sound for a lot of artists.