And this point is one of the first things you have to realize about The Final Cut. It’s more than clear that the improvisational talents of the percussion section were not needed- the ability to realize Waters’ vision was. Few drums are used, the ones that are seem to be canned into this militaristic beat or forced into submission by the tone of the song. Waters holed up in the studio constructing tracks built around his own personal experiences with his father and his absence during childhood.
Gilmour came in and laid down guitar tracks for the album, some of which were used, some that were not. And after this record the group broke up because they wouldn’t follow Waters farther into his genius/asshole. Nick Mason and Richard Wright sat in the back and tried to stay out the way, but Waters eventually kicked out Mason during the recording sessions. It was under the pretense of going into the studio to record the follow up record that brought the frequently at odds Waters and Gilmour together again. Ostensibly one of the finer meldings of Waters political/personal paranoia and Gilmour’s bombastic guitar work, The Wall found the group at a creative peak and, as rock mythology dictates, completely sick of each other. Here’s why.Ĭoming off the blockbuster smash of The Wall and the extraordinary live show that accompanied it (David Gilmour playing the solo from “Comfortably Numb” atop a large scale wall that was built between the audience and performer over the course of the show being only one of the highlights- another, of course, being that no one had to see Roger Waters ugly mug for much of the show), expectations ran high for the follow up. Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut is a five star album. But listen, all of this preamble doesn’t matter. This, of course, was before we all found him to be the rockist that he is (in 2002 he hyped the Hives as the big new thing! And gave Bruce Springsteen’s new album five stars), perhaps he almost equals Jann Wenner in his embarrassing out of touch attitude towards current pop trends. But when you have to choose between him and John Norris’ new hairdo each year- each looking shockingly worse than the last- and Matt Pinfield, who came in with Carson Daly but was quickly ushered out of the studio after that incredibly long summer when MTV reinvented itself, we’ll say, for the sake of argument, that Kurt Loder is the most respected music journalist/talking head at MTV. OK, so maybe he isn’t a hardened journalist. Now we all know Kurt Loder- the hardened journalist among all the fresh faced pre-pubescent panty wetting VJ’s that usually populate MTV’s ranks. The Final Cut came out and Kurt Loder gave it five stars in Rolling Stone Magazine. Whether it has been unjustly ignored, unfairly lauded, or misunderstood in some fundamental way, we aim with On Second Thought to provide a fresh look at albums that need it. That's why each week at Stylus, one writer takes a look at an album with the benefit of time. A record over six months old is often discarded, deemed too old for publication, a relic in the internet age.
and Britain.Or better or worse, we here at Stylus, in all of our autocratic consumer-crit greed, are slaves to timeliness. The album went to number 3 on the Albums chart in both the U.S.
The album also saw the return of graphic artist Storm Thorgerson who designed this now iconic cover. and went to number 6 in America.Ī Momentary Lapse of Reason, Pink Floyd’s thirteenth studio album, was released in 1987 and demonstrated a significant change in style for the band with more experimental use of drum machines and samples. The Final Cut topped the Albums chart in the U.K. During the Falklands War and the era of Thatcherism, this anti-war concept album explored the themes of fallen servicemen, the loss of loved ones and political betrayal. Released originally in 1983, The Final Cut was another global chart-topper for Pink Floyd.
THE FINAL CUT PINK FLOYD SERIES
All of the albums in the series have been remastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed in 180g vinyl. Pink Floyd will finish their vinyl reissue program for their studio albums with the release of The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse of Reason on January 20 via Pink Floyd Records.įor both albums, this is the first time they have been available on vinyl in over two decades.
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