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Album: The Final Cut
# Song Title   Time
1)    The Post War Dream More Info...
2)    Your Possible Pasts More Info...
3)    One of the Few More Info...
4)    When the Tigers Broke Free More Info...
5)    The Hero's Return More Info...
6)    The Gunners Dream More Info...
7)    Paranoid Eyes More Info...
8)    Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert More Info...
9)    The Fletcher Memorial Home More Info...
10)    Southampton Dock More Info...
11)    The Final Cut More Info...
12)    Not Now John More Info...
13)    Two Suns in the Sunset More Info...
 
Album: The Final Cut
# Song Title   Time
1)    The Post War Dream More Info...
2)    Your Possible Pasts More Info...
3)    One of the Few More Info...
4)    When the Tigers Broke Free More Info...
5)    The Hero's Return More Info...
6)    The Gunners Dream More Info...
7)    Paranoid Eyes More Info...
8)    Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert More Info...
9)    The Fletcher Memorial Home More Info...
10)    Southampton Dock More Info...
11)    The Final Cut More Info...
12)    Not Now John More Info...
13)    Two Suns in the Sunset More Info...
 
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  • 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 re-released on LP in 2017.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Professional Reviews
Q (1/95, p.275) - 3 Stars - Good.

Uncut (5/04, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Waters is uncompromisingly, grimly realistic as he rages at the causes and effects of war."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The album] whispers with a sparseness and distance that suggests demo tape material..."
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