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Floydoid 
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:18 |
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This is purely a vote for which album you think is lyrically, Roger Waters' best work.
I've included only albums where Roger wrote the vast majority, if not all, the lyrics.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:32 |
Not that i care much for the lyrics as the music and the quality of the voice matter the most, i will go with ''THE WALL'' because this album was so huge and no one couldn't escape the meaning of the story.
After that too much of'' Breznev in Afghanistan'', but i like ''The Final Cut'' and ''ATD'' 
Edited by febus - April 12 2007 at 12:33
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:34 |
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The wall has so much real and raw emotion in the lyrics. I can connect more with the Wall than the other albums so I have to go with the Wall.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:42 |
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A hard choice, but I would go for 'Dark Side' as for me, on this album, his ideas are more concisely stated, indeed here his words were as close to pure poetry as they ever got. On many of his later works the lyrics are more rambling, not to say they aren't good, and if you look, every now and again you get one of his astonishing rhyming couplets.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:45 |
The Wall, because there's so much emotion 
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:49 |
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I have to go with good ol Wish You were Here, I liked all except for Welcome to the machine, which was a mix between really good and really terrible lyrics.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 13:02 |
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I voted Wish You Were Here. The lyrics are great in every song there.
The Wall is too focused on the lyrics, and I find it to be a rather cold album.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 13:08 |
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I voted for "Animals" - uncomfortable listening perhaps, but doubtlessly Waters at his bitter, biting best!
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 13:42 |
The Final Cut.
That war was stupid, and I appreciate Roger's position on the subject.
Two suns in the sunset is my favorite apocalypsis song.
The final cut is my favorite suicidal song.
The Fletcher memorial is my favorite insanity song.
Not now John is my favorite F++k song
The Gunner's dream is my favorite crying song....
and so on.....
It depresses me so sweetly........
Then I go for the worst of Leonard Cohen and a bottle of vodka.
Edited by Tormato - April 12 2007 at 13:43
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I like Tormato, so shoot me! Every person in the world can't think the same.
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febus
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 15:11 |
 Tormato wrote:
The Final Cut.
That war was stupid, and I appreciate Roger's position on the subject.
Two suns in the sunset is my favorite apocalypsis song.
The final cut is my favorite suicidal song.
The Fletcher memorial is my favorite insanity song.
Not now John is my favorite F++k song
The Gunner's dream is my favorite crying song....
and so on.....
It depresses me so sweetly........
Then I go for the worst of Leonard Cohen and a bottle of vodka. |
Great, Great post: you got it!!! 
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 15:18 |
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Amused to Death
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 16:32 |
I couldn't possibly pick one album as a whole, but probably my favourite song lyric is "It's A Miracle" from Amused To death, especially:
"We cower in our shelters with our hands over our ears/ Lloyd-Weber's awful stuff runs for years and years and years and years/ An earthquake hits the theater, but the operetta lingers/ Then the piano lid comes down (crash)/ Breaks his f**king fingers/It's A Miracle"
Brilliant!
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 16:37 |
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Amused to Death!
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 16:51 |
Doubting between Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Amused To Death.
I choose Dark Side: the lyrics are simple but highly effective. The emphatic vocals and the music, which is almost to good to be true, do the rest.
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 17:02 |
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Animals for me. Yes the album does get a little political, but the metaphors and imagery he uses on it are amazing. I never really liked The Wall much at all to be honest
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febus
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 18:10 |
what is ''WHEN THE WIND BLOWS''??????? never heard of it? never saw a CD? 
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 18:20 |
Tormato wrote:
The Final Cut.
That war was stupid, and I appreciate Roger's position on the subject.
Two suns in the sunset is my favorite apocalypsis song.
The final cut is my favorite suicidal song.
The Fletcher memorial is my favorite insanity song.
Not now John is my favorite F++k song
The Gunner's dream is my favorite crying song....
and so on.....
It depresses me so sweetly........
Then I go for the worst of Leonard Cohen and a bottle of vodka. |
The final cut would even depress Patch Adams, man that album is horrible, but the lyrics are ok, like most of the lyrics to his solo albums are ok.
But the best lyrics according to me are for The Dark Side Of The Force Moon.
BTW agree with your signature. Rejoice
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The Reverend
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 21:01 |
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Animals -- for "Sheep".
Second post!
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Posted: April 12 2007 at 21:06 |
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Not sure, but I can tell you 'If' from Atom Heart Mother was definitely his worst lyric.
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Floydoid
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Posted: April 13 2007 at 00:56 |
febus wrote:
what is ''WHEN THE WIND BLOWS''??????? never heard of it? never saw a CD? |
It was a soundtrack album to which Roger contributed the whole of the second side. The movie was an animation, based on a Raymond Briggs story, about an elderly couple who are confused about the information they are receiving as the nuclear holocaust approaches. Maybe it wasn't released in all territories, but the album and movie are both worth checking out.
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