The Final Cut [Bonus Track] Pink Floyd

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CD - Bonus Tracks

  • Release Date: 08/31/2004
  • Original Release: 1983
  • Sales Rank: 164,512
  • Label: TOSHIBA EMI JAPAN
  • UPC: 4988006821675

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The Final Cut [Bonus Track]

1LISTENThe Post War Dream 1983 3:00
2LISTENYour Possible Pasts 1983 4:26
3LISTENOne of the Few 1983 1:11
4LISTENWhen the Tigers Broke Free 1983 3:16
5LISTENThe Hero's Return 1983 2:42
6LISTENThe Gunner's Dream 1983 5:18
7LISTENParanoid Eyes 1983 3:41
8LISTENGet Your Filthy Hands off My Desert Roger Waters Music Overseas [1983 1:17
9LISTENThe Fletcher Memorial Home 1983 4:12
10LISTENSouthampton Dock 1983 2:10
11LISTENThe Final Cut 1983 4:45
12LISTENNot Now John 1983 4:56
13LISTENTwo Suns in the Sunset 1983 5:22

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Editorial Reviews

The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' 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, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation 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 arrangements, 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 achievement of 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 Waters' own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core). That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that it's the album that Waters intended it to be. And it's equally clear that Pink Floyd couldn't have continued in this direction -- Waters had no interest in a group setting anymore, as this record, which is hardly a Floyd album in many respects, illustrates. Distinctive, to be sure, but not easy to love and, depending on your view, not even that easy to admire. [The Final Cut was reissued in a remastered edition in 2004. This edition added "When the Tigers Broke Free" -- originally heard in the soundtrack to The Wall, but its moody, war-obsessed soundscape is better suited for The Final Cut -- as the fourth track, inserted between "One of the Few" and "The Hero's Return," where it fits nicely into the album's narrative.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Bought this album when it came outby Anonymous

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May 20, 2008: Love it like the rest of my collection: worth buying if you love the band. A real classic.

This review was written about the CD Remastered edition.

Subtle Masterpeiceby Anonymous

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May 03, 2007: This is not an album, but High Art. The depth of emotion displayed in this composition is only trumped by the intelligence with which it was written. After years and years of dedicated listens, one is constantly uncovering little subtleties in the music, in the lyrics and the concept that is only enriched and filled out as one grows. In that way, the ablum grows with you. The more experiences one accumulates, the more the album means. Could be one of the most depressing albums on the surface, but you won't find anything much deeper in World View and understanding of the Human Condition than the Final Cut "well, that is unless you listen to Amused to Death, Roger's solo project with Jeff Beck". Perfect album, though not for radio Floyd fans.

This review was written about the CD Remastered edition.


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