Final Cut vs. Amused - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The Final Cut has a cumulative score of 3.17; Amused to Death is 3.95. Yet, I can't help wondering which album wins out when head-to-head.

Amused easily

The Final Cut has Gilmour.
Amused to Death has It's A Miracle !!
Going with AtD.

I think Amused to Death is superior in pretty much every way, and is the finest piece of anything Floyd related since Animals.

It's on PA!

I think Is This the Life We Really Want? is the best Floyd-related album, easily. I'm so enamored with this album, so excited by it, that yesterday I went back and put Amused to Death on. Sadly, I couldn't make it halfway through. I found it unlistenable, and those cheesy chorus-line vocals are awful. I don't think Amused has aged well at all. On the other hand, The Final Cut doesn't just have Gilmour's guitar; it also has Michael Kamen's orchestral production; it has more sonic variety, more tonal colors, and is less overblown than Amused.

I guess I'm in the minority though. I really expected The Final Cut to win this head-to-head poll by a mile (or a kilometer if you like LOL

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On another note: As a week has gone by, and Is This the Life continues to get few reviews (and most seem to be middling, if respectable) (if this were a Steven Wilson album, Progarchives would've blown up), I'm starting to wonder if there are many Floyd fans left these days. Perhaps our patience and goodwill ran out after so many years, endless Wall re-runs, and mediocre albums. Is This the Life is a Floyd classic, seriously. Sonically and production-wise, it's like the album that should have come out after The Final Cut, like a Pink Floyd from another dimension that never broke up! Does this album miss Gilmour's guitar? No!!!! You can easily imagine that's him adding tasteful licks. I loved it the day I heard it; and I'm more impressed with it today than ever.

Edited by jude111 - June 08 2017 at 07:57

I never got Amused to Death while others I know rant about it. The Final Cut, as mundane as it is, at least had some cohesiveness about it.

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

The Final Cut I enjoy more than Amused To Death.

Amused to Death, but it's really close. I guess it's got more great songs. But as noted, Final Cut has Gilmour, and it does help a lot. I wonder how Amused to Death would have sounded if it had Gilmour on it... there are parts that scream for his input (like What God Wants part 3)... though on some others I don't think he could have done a better job.

14-13. The Final Cut has for me, gone from really disliked to admired, respected though like most Rog solo work a little austere to really appeal. e.g. Amuse To Death. I thought it was ok but never quite "got" the buzz others seemed to manage.

Anyway TFC is a Pink Floyd album with much the same line up as The Wall.

For me the most notable PF solos are DG's especially his first. Though his last has also not take flight with me either.

So it's Gilmour versus Beck on these two. Recommend that u tube clip of DG guesting with Beck and performing ELP's (sic) Jerusalem - there is a certain irony in there as well; Jerusalem versus the Dark Satanic Mills or something...

Wanorak wrote:

Amused by a hair, I love both.

And what was so special about that hair?

Poll Question: Which album is better?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
The Final Cut	19	[54.29%]
Amused to Death	16	[45.71%]
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