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Posted: Nov. 21 2024, 23:53 |
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| Quote (Craig Evans @ Nov. 20 2024, 00:25) | | I've always considered Pink Floyd's The Final Cut a very underrated album. An awful lot of critics and Floyd fans hate that record or at best nonplussed by it but I've always loved The Final Cut. Roger Waters's lyrics and the emotional delivery of them is very riveting for me. I've always loved the music on The Final Cut as well as the lyrics. The atmosphere and orchestrations and the changing moods throughout the record is very moving and powerful. For me, The Final Cut record is the ultimate Anti-War Anthem and Record. |
You're absolutely right. The Final Cut is one of the greatest albums of all times. As far as Pink Floyd's body of work is concerned, The Wall is clearly their supreme record, but the next three - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut, are all about equal in my opinion. The Final Cut may well have, all in all, the strongest set of songs of those three. The fact that so many "fans" and critics dismiss is just proves that there is a lot of "cognitive dissonance" , snobbishness, group-think, or insensitivity to true beauty afflicting a great number of people. "The Gunner's Dream" is without doubt one of the most beautiful and powerful rock songs ever written and performed. In a way The Final Cut album makes a good companion to Amarok in that they both feature famous homages to Margaret Thatcher and are both perhaps somewhat unjustly unloved by many, but in reality are among their respective creators' greatest works.
The fact even David Gilmour has spoken contemptuously about The Final Cut tells me everything I need to know about him as a person, and that's without even mentioning his views on Israel and Palestine vs Roger Waters', which I shan't go into here...no point really. Of course on The Final Cut, Waters was brave enough to criticize then-Israel PM Menachem Begin just as much as the more popular or acceptable targets like Thatcher, Reagan, Brezhnev, Alexander Haig, Nixon, Joseph MacCarthy, Pinochet, et. al. It shows that Waters was well ahead of his time, really, and it's very admirable that he has stayed true to his convictions in the face of mindless,ignorant slurs of "anti-Semitism" and such expected nonsense and such bootlicking supplication of the Zionist lobby by the likes of David Gilmour...whose 2024 album by the way is truly awful. (Not that Waters' redux of TDSOTM was any good of course).
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