🎧 Pink Floyd, "The Final Cut". As much as I have come to despise Roger Waters as an adult, when I was 17 he wrote this powerful anti-war record, which for all of RW's misguided and misinformed senior moments, still resonates. He re-introduces the Teacher from "The Wall" as a tortured vet, haunted by his deeply buried memories. Pink returns as well, still just a scared little boy trapped in a rock star's body. 1/2

At Water's direction and with Gilmour and Mason relegated to supporting players, it is PF's artiest record, and could be seen as a prequel to RW's "Amused to Death". Released 40 years ago this week. Turn out the lights, put on the cans, and lose yourself in this one.

There's a great in-depth article about the record here:

loudersound.com/features/how-p

songwhip.com/pink-floyd/thefin

@MPCavalier I'm really torn about this album. Both love and hate it. And then I get to Not Now John and it's like a body on life support coming back for one last glorious breath before collapsing.

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That seems to be the prevailing consensus. It's overwrought, its subject matter had been beaten to death, and of course, "it ain't Pink Floyd." And it isn't. But compositionally I think it was a pretty big leap forward for Waters as far as complexity and arrangements.

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