This was my late wife's favourite Pink Floyd track. We were lucky enough to see Pink Floyd perform at Wembly Arena in the late 80s, I cannont recall them playing anything off "The Final Cut", however they started with "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and finished with "Comfortable Numb" they were truly awesome !
Love this tune. Love Pink Floyd, always have. The Wall was my first personally owned 8-track, got it with my first portable 8-track player in 78/79. Some things just get better with age.
I haven't listened to this for a while. Always makes me cry when I realise this was recorded 28 years ago but nothings actually changed in this world. Powerful stuff.
@MrUnderdog1970 ever since I was a 12 year old, this song has managed to make me understand a bit of the sorrow that's in this world and made me wish that people would really take heed not of the dream of a poor gunner, but of what they themselves have lived through, and teach their kids as I was taught, to learn from the past,from art and from culture. I am now 23, and these songs still bring me to tears and nothing else has changed. The world would e a better place if people would just listen.
I remember the first time I heard this song... I was on a train from Germany to Denmark, and had just returned home from Iraq... I started bawling... It helped me to heal in certain ways by exposing that raw visceral feeling that was bubbling up from within after my experience with war... Every time I hear it, it brings me back to that train ride, and helps me stay in touch with the pain that drives me to make the world a better place by fighting for social justice. Thanks Pink Floyd!
One of Roger's most moving vocal performances, second only to "Too Much Rope" from "Amused to Death." His use of the recording studio as a therapist's couch just...creates this wellspring of emotion in his work that is hard to match.
this song makes me cry every time i hear it because this is the song my dad mom sister and i listened to before we went to my uncles funeral... he passed away from brain cancer when i was 7 and i miss him every day and this song meant so much to him and i love it
As impossible it is to say any song is THE best, as there is so many, I have to say this is the song with the heaviest lyrics, and therefore has been my favourite Pink Floyd song the last two years! And that sax is awesome! I want a Roger Waters The Final Cut tour in 2010!
growing up in the north of ireland,rogers songs about senseless wars really hits home,i just hope my children can now have a normal chilhood, which eludes alot of people
to everyone this song is so deep tht it is just one of the songs tht will never die and mire power to every soul tht loves pink floyd and keep on keepn on
For a co-worker of mine, who is going through some deep pain now. He is not a Floyd fan, but I thought of him when I heard this song earlier today. Take care.
Incredible album... for me...the most beautiful one. Every happy piece of my childhood is in this album, in everything that Pink Floyd means... and... and.. HOLD ON TO THE DREEEEAAAAAMMMM!!!
i was convinced two suns in the sunet was my favour saxaphone solo by Pink Floyd, then i listened to this and was like, pff yeah right so beautiful and gives me shivers down my spine everytime!
the mighty floyd never fail to stir something in me,dave guilmores moody guitar and roger waters lyrical writtens made and sadly in the end broke the bands back,the final cuts was a deeply political yet haunting album,ty to the uploader of this vid ur a saint amonst floyd fans :D:D
Yeah, my favorite too. Actually, this is my favorite Pink Floyd album at all. Many would laugh at me, but still, The Final Cut os one of the most underrated albums ever - such orchestral arrangements, such strong messages. Well, it sure has many tunes that still ring true more than 25 years later!
beautiful I have been listening to this album since I was 14 I am now 36 and it still almost brings me to tears as my dad commited suicide on christmas eve 1985 and as a father to 2 beautiful girls I cant begin to understand why and I still feel like that 11 year old boy when i listen to Floyd as it was my dads favourite band,sorry for rattling on
It's so ridicollous to click "fine" to appreciate song like this! I can clik "fine" after listening rihanna but pink floyd!? I think it;s the most beautiful song i've ever heard.
Ive been asked on many occasion what my all time fave Floyd track is,straight away i say,Comfortably Numb and then i hear tracks like this then change my mind. I love all Floyds tracks
and ever... roger write more... don't leave us with only these few writings, we want millions more... give it up my bratha and share whats up inside your craZy head.... i need it... im addicted to it.... ADDICTED DO YOU HEAR!! look at what you created in me.... this one record... final cut... can't stop listening to it... help!!
As a veteran who's lost a few friends and seen my share of miserable shit, I must say that this album speaks so many truths. It really hits home with all the nonsense a person puts up with and tries to deal with when returning from combat. Props to Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
Yes, the idea of some of the songs on the Final Cut was to elaborate on the narrative of the Wall. That was the original idea for the album and it was titled 'Spare Bricks' but it was never carried through. However this song, and few others like 'Paranoid Eyes' and 'The Hero's Return' talk about the schoolteacher from the Wall, and how he got to be like he was. Also the song 'The Final Cut' elaborates on Pink's story. In order to maintain the feel, the used the same actor for the schoolteacher.
@MrUnderdog1970 Right on. Thanks for posting that insightful piece about Floyd. Your "unhealthy obsession" was merely you and Pink Floyd coming together to help you process your own individual shit. These people are Shamans, I'm glad you notice that.
This is one underappreciated album. I wish people would really grasp the title's dual meaning. Pink Floyd's Final Cut with Roger and I'll leave the rest to you to figure it out....".you can relax on both sides of the tracks" :) PEACE
aaaa. You're so lucky! You saw them alive! I want that too! But I was born too late! I need timemachine! I want to see them playing alive! All together. Pink Floyd! Forever in my heart!
Respect to Waters. I most enjoy listening to The Wall and The Final Cut, in which Waters had the greatest influence. I think it's really weird how people write off those albums and call them not 'Pink-Floydish'. Waters is Pink Floyd to me.
@LordLehmann1 This song along with many others from the album "the final cut" were originaly meant to be in the wall and tell the story of the school teacher.
@grimshaid Thomas Dolby played The Teacher, when Waters performed The Wall in Berlin back in 1990. The Actor who played The Teacher in the movie from 1982 is Alex McAvoy.
@vesodoc Very true. It is extremely underrated, it does have good messages and overall the actual music is good. And the fact that the lyrics are extremely well written makes it one of the best Roger Waters album ever.
Also, some of the lines were inspired by Rupert Brooke's poem "The Soldier" like the line "A corner of some foreign field" Absolutely love this album and the rest, Waters, Gilmour, Mason, Wright, all of them are amazing.
So many people just write Pink Floyd off as an "acid head" or "druggie" band. So untrue. The musical and psychological genius of this band is astounding. I only got to see them live one time (without Roger Waters unfortunately) and it was one of the very best performances I've had the pleasure to see. The Final Cut was truely a sad disturbing look into R.W.'s mind and maybe a lesson to be learned by all of what this world has become. Old Pink is one of the greatest bands in all of rock history.
This was my late wife's favourite Pink Floyd track. We were lucky enough to see Pink Floyd perform at Wembly Arena in the late 80s, I cannont recall them playing anything off "The Final Cut", however they started with "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and finished with "Comfortable Numb" they were truly awesome !
Love this tune. Love Pink Floyd, always have. The Wall was my first personally owned 8-track, got it with my first portable 8-track player in 78/79. Some things just get better with age.
I haven't listened to this for a while. Always makes me cry when I realise this was recorded 28 years ago but nothings actually changed in this world. Powerful stuff.
@MrUnderdog1970 ever since I was a 12 year old, this song has managed to make me understand a bit of the sorrow that's in this world and made me wish that people would really take heed not of the dream of a poor gunner, but of what they themselves have lived through, and teach their kids as I was taught, to learn from the past,from art and from culture. I am now 23, and these songs still bring me to tears and nothing else has changed. The world would e a better place if people would just listen.
I wore this tape out in the 80s but haven't listened to it in 20 years. Now TH-cam has allowed me to rediscover it.
Pure genius.
the transition from 'hold onto the dream' to the sax solo...agh, just makes my heart ache. beautiful masterpiece.
That has always been one of the most moving Floyd moments for me as well. Art, Life, Voice, Music....becoming one.
I wish music nowadays were like this, A message in every line of lyric that made you think, to his situation and other soldiers like him. Great song
Waters is a masterful lyricist. There are other ones out there, but you'd probably dislike their music
Non mi stanco mai di ascoltarla!!!! L'assolo di sax piu bello dell'universo!!!!!THANK YOU
My son leaves in 7 days for Marines basic...holy shit...did tihs just make me cry like a baby. Thanks so much for posting.
I remember the first time I heard this song... I was on a train from Germany to Denmark, and had just returned home from Iraq... I started bawling... It helped me to heal in certain ways by exposing that raw visceral feeling that was bubbling up from within after my experience with war... Every time I hear it, it brings me back to that train ride, and helps me stay in touch with the pain that drives me to make the world a better place by fighting for social justice. Thanks Pink Floyd!
This song changed my life. When I was young I liked really bad music and then I heard this. Music has been a huge part of my life ever since.
makes me cry everytime i listen to it! Probably one of the best Floyd albums in their later years imo!
One of Roger's most moving vocal performances, second only to "Too Much Rope" from "Amused to Death." His use of the recording studio as a therapist's couch just...creates this wellspring of emotion in his work that is hard to match.
What a fantastic song! Thanks for posting this!
hauntingly beautiful..........and still so relevant after all this time......a testament to rogers' foresight.....my oh my !
Wow, i haven't heard this for 20 years.....Very powerful, just blew me away again!
this song makes me cry every time i hear it because this is the song my dad mom sister and i listened to before we went to my uncles funeral... he passed away from brain cancer when i was 7 and i miss him every day and this song meant so much to him and i love it
As impossible it is to say any song is THE best, as there is so many, I have to say this is the song with the heaviest lyrics, and therefore has been my favourite Pink Floyd song the last two years! And that sax is awesome! I want a Roger Waters The Final Cut tour in 2010!
growing up in the north of ireland,rogers songs about senseless wars really hits home,i just hope my children can now have a normal chilhood, which eludes alot of people
to everyone this song is so deep tht it is just one of the songs tht will never die and mire power to every soul tht loves pink floyd and keep on keepn on
A great song from a great album, powerful and well written.
well said my friend!you could not have said it any better. And so right on the sax thats just amazing didnt leave my player forever.
The silver in her hair shines in the cold november air.
Awesome, just amazing song writing, it's poetry
This song..and the track after..make me cry..make me understand why life is worth living.
has to be the best song of all time ever! where the vocals turn to jazz is jus insane im 20 and this is a great song
The most amazingly felt solo I've ever heard!
The solo sax like a cry of despair and agony! amazing!
Everyone shouting "masterpiece" are totally right. One of the most emotional Roger's songs. And I love the album, too! :)
Best use of this song ever was in episode 2 of BBC's Occupation, aired 2 days ago. I had chills down my spine!
For a co-worker of mine, who is going through some deep pain now. He is not a Floyd fan, but I thought of him when I heard this song earlier today. Take care.
Incredible album... for me...the most beautiful one. Every happy piece of my childhood is in this album, in everything that Pink Floyd means... and... and.. HOLD ON TO THE DREEEEAAAAAMMMM!!!
i was convinced two suns in the sunet was my favour saxaphone solo by Pink Floyd, then i listened to this and was like, pff yeah right
so beautiful and gives me shivers down my spine everytime!
I thought i was the only one who held this moment in musical history with such regard... :-)
the sax solo is simply amazing... nothing else could be said!
I had no idea this song had a music video! Awesome.
Very well-done arnold... Masterful corrugation of video & sound
What a great song.... so many memories..........
Very beatiful song (the second best on the album, after Two Suns in the Sunset), and maybe the best lyrics i ever have heard!
The most sad and melancholy song already made!
5 stars!
One of the PF/RW best song. Ever. Thx Man!
the mighty floyd never fail to stir something in me,dave guilmores moody guitar and roger waters lyrical writtens made and sadly in the end broke the bands back,the final cuts was a deeply political yet haunting album,ty to the uploader of this vid ur a saint amonst floyd fans :D:D
One of my Favorite Pink Floyd albums i never get Tired of hearing it /O-O\
omg... that sax solo ...
simply goosebumps!
....and no-one kills the children anymore....
...grande roger......troppo pochi conoscono questa poesia....
Yeah, my favorite too. Actually, this is my favorite Pink Floyd album at all.
Many would laugh at me, but still, The Final Cut os one of the most underrated albums ever - such orchestral arrangements, such strong messages.
Well, it sure has many tunes that still ring true more than 25 years later!
You take the frail hand, and hold on to the dream.
Amazing.
Incredible! Love it;)
Thanks for posting!
UNDER RATED! one of their best!
you're not human if this song doesn't make you cry.
For me this is the best song of PinkFloyd. It makes me sad,but with this song i love this sadness.
Brings tears to my eyes !
Stunning music.
"And hold on to the dream!"
every time i listen too this i cry
this song is uhh mazing!
love it
In our horizons there are the roads that we live with the pinks floyd
beautiful I have been listening to this album since I was 14 I am now 36 and it still almost brings me to tears as my dad commited suicide on christmas eve 1985 and as a father to 2 beautiful girls I cant begin to understand why and I still feel like that 11 year old boy when i listen to Floyd as it was my dads favourite band,sorry for rattling on
Best... Pink Floyd... music... ever!
It's so ridicollous to click "fine" to appreciate song like this! I can clik "fine" after listening rihanna but pink floyd!? I think it;s the most beautiful song i've ever heard.
i love the way his voice flows into the sax
Ive been asked on many occasion what my all time fave Floyd track is,straight away i say,Comfortably Numb and then i hear tracks like this then change my mind. I love all Floyds tracks
and ever... roger write more... don't leave us with only these few writings, we want millions more... give it up my bratha and share whats up inside your craZy head.... i need it... im addicted to it.... ADDICTED DO YOU HEAR!! look at what you created in me.... this one record... final cut... can't stop listening to it... help!!
one of my favorite songs of their's
As a veteran who's lost a few friends and seen my share of miserable shit, I must say that this album speaks so many truths. It really hits home with all the nonsense a person puts up with and tries to deal with when returning from combat.
Props to Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
Wow......I mean.......wow.
i love this song
so beautiful
This album is so damn underated .
I love it.
Love the Floyd! Life sucks ass! Keeps me going! Thanks to Pink Floyd!!!
I LOVE THE FINAL CUT!!!!
best song in the entire music history
simply the best album ever created..i dont care what anyone says
Yes, the idea of some of the songs on the Final Cut was to elaborate on the narrative of the Wall. That was the original idea for the album and it was titled 'Spare Bricks' but it was never carried through. However this song, and few others like 'Paranoid Eyes' and 'The Hero's Return' talk about the schoolteacher from the Wall, and how he got to be like he was. Also the song 'The Final Cut' elaborates on Pink's story. In order to maintain the feel, the used the same actor for the schoolteacher.
The is Pink Floyd at their best (in my opinion) the whole album just flows like all good stories should.
To Pink Floyd
Thanks for the memories
A masterpiece!
I love the final cut. Its sad and a little depressing but also soothing
just wonderful
My favorite from The Final Cut!
the greatest saxophone solo I ever heard
very deep song! it's very dark but it's even fantastic! amazing when Roger screams
thanks to share that
@MrUnderdog1970 Right on. Thanks for posting that insightful piece about Floyd. Your "unhealthy obsession" was merely you and Pink Floyd coming together to help you process your own individual shit.
These people are Shamans, I'm glad you notice that.
Such a beautifully sad song.
That's amazing.
Without a doubt the best album Pink Floyd did
this album has haunted me for years...
that scream when he says "insane" gives me deep chills.........Waters said it's the gunner falling from his plane
This is one underappreciated album. I wish people would really grasp the title's dual meaning. Pink Floyd's Final Cut with Roger and I'll leave the rest to you to figure it out....".you can relax on both sides of the tracks" :) PEACE
that sax solo blows my face off every time
aaaa. You're so lucky! You saw them alive! I want that too! But I was born too late! I need timemachine! I want to see them playing alive! All together. Pink Floyd! Forever in my heart!
Incredible! Love it;)
What a tribute to all those who sacrificed for both sides regardless of leadership
Respect to Waters. I most enjoy listening to The Wall and The Final Cut, in which Waters had the greatest influence. I think it's really weird how people write off those albums and call them not 'Pink-Floydish'. Waters is Pink Floyd to me.
@LordLehmann1 This song along with many others from the album "the final cut" were originaly meant to be in the wall and tell the story of the school teacher.
@grimshaid Thomas Dolby played The Teacher, when Waters performed The Wall in Berlin back in 1990. The Actor who played The Teacher in the movie from 1982 is Alex McAvoy.
And as the teardrops rise to meet the comfort of the band.
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
fantastic
uma das musicas favoritas, simplesmente lindo!
@vesodoc Very true. It is extremely underrated, it does have good messages and overall the actual music is good. And the fact that the lyrics are extremely well written makes it one of the best Roger Waters album ever.
Also, some of the lines were inspired by Rupert Brooke's poem "The Soldier" like the line "A corner of some foreign field"
Absolutely love this album and the rest, Waters, Gilmour, Mason, Wright, all of them are amazing.
So many people just write Pink Floyd off as an "acid head" or "druggie" band. So untrue. The musical and psychological genius of this band is astounding. I only got to see them live one time (without Roger Waters unfortunately) and it was one of the very best performances I've had the pleasure to see. The Final Cut was truely a sad disturbing look into R.W.'s mind and maybe a lesson to be learned by all of what this world has become. Old Pink is one of the greatest bands in all of rock history.
Masterpiece