THE FINAL CUT

Probably one of the 5 best Pink Floyd albums (with A Saucerful Of Secrets, Ummagumma, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and Wish You Were Here). I don't know why this album is so underrated, not only on this site, but everywhere on the Web. As far as I can say, this isn't a real Pink Floyd album, but more precisely a virtual Roger Waters solo album. He wrote all of the tracks, performs all of them (except Not Now John, on which he sang with Gilmour). Gilmour's guitar can be heard on some tracks like the one I quote, or The Gunner' Dream, but in its entirety, this album is lo-fi.

It's a very political album. Waters criticized Margaret Thatcher, the Malouines war between UK and Argentina Waters criticized also the big political leaders of these times and of ancient times (Brezhnev, Galtieri, Nixon, McCarthy), and all I can say is that The Final Cut is a kind of follow-up to the double album The Wall - a song which is on the CD reissue, When The Tigers Broke Free, is in the Alan Parker movie 'Pink Floyd, The Wall', and initially, The Final Cut was intended to be the movie soundtrack - but it's not, in fact.

It's a sad, sad, sad album, poignant (The Final Cut and The Gunner's Dream, for example, are really poignant), and totally beautiful. So underrated. A failure when it came out. Waters quit the band a short time after (I forgot to tell you that Rick Wright isn't on the album, he was fired by Waters in 1981, after the 'The Wall' world tour).

Please, gentlemen, stop trying to compare this marvellous album with the other Pink Floyd albums ! It's a so different album it can't be compared with any other one. That's why The Final Cut is a masterpiece.