Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (1983) {2017, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

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Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: The Final Cut
Year Of Release: 1983 / 2017
Label: Sony Records #SICP-5414
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> WavPack_FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:46:21
Total Size: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
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The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 2 April in the United States through Harvest and Columbia Records. It comprises unused material from the previous Pink Floyd record, The Wall (1979), alongside new material recorded throughout 1982. The Final Cut was the last Pink Floyd album to feature founding member Roger Waters, who departed in 1985. It is also the only Pink Floyd album not to feature founding member and keyboardist Richard Wright, who was fired during the Wall sessions. The recording was plagued by conflict; guitarist David Gilmour felt many of the tracks were not worthy of inclusion, but Waters accused him of failing to contribute material himself. Drummer Nick Mason's contributions were mostly limited to sound effects. Waters planned the album as a soundtrack for the 1982 film adaptation of The Wall. With the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a concept album exploring what he considered the betrayal of his father, who died serving in the Second World War. Waters provided lead vocals for all but one track, and he is credited for all songwriting. The album was accompanied by a short film released in the same year. The Final Cut received mixed reviews, though retrospective reception has been more favourable. It was a commercial success, reaching number one in the UK and number six in the US.

The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention. This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall and the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievement of some kind – there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work (apart from Waters' own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core). That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that it's the album that Waters intended it to be. And it's equally clear that Pink Floyd couldn't have continued in this direction – Waters had no interest in a group setting anymore, as this record, which is hardly a Floyd album in many respects, illustrates. Distinctive, to be sure, but not easy to love and, depending on your view, not even that easy to admire.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (1983) {2017, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

Track List:

01. The Post War Dream [3:01]
02. Your Possible Pasts [4:26]
03. One of the Few [1:14]
04. When the Tigers Broke Free (Bonus Track) [3:15]
05. The Hero's Return [2:43]
06. The Gunner's Dream [5:18]
07. Paranoid Eyes [3:42]
08. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert [1:17]
09. The Fletcher Memorial Home [4:11]
10. Southampton Dock [2:12]
11. The Final Cut [4:42]
12. Not Now John [5:01]
13. Two Suns In The Sunset [5:19]

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