the older I get the more I have to be careful about when and where I listen to The Final Cut. It makes me so freaking emotional. Even just this song just now. I'd forgotten how quickly it makes me cry.
My favorite Pink Floyd album I would get very depressed and I would ride around in the back roads in the country and have a couple of beers and listen to it as loud as it would go without distortion and it would make me feel better for some reason 👍✌️
Love Pink Floyd passionately and I love this album, you need to listen to it in depth and with the lyrics in front of you which are deeply moving and incredible.
@@StillColour From this album try Paranoid Eyes, Your Possible Pasts, When The Tigers Broke Free, The Gunners Dream. From other albums, anything from Dark Side Of The Moon but if you want a real treat from that album listen in one sitting from Us and Them on side 2 to Eclipse at the end, 19 minutes of absolute amazing music will leave you emotional but floating. Make sure you have the lyrics handy when you do so, it will have a lot more meaning.
This is one beauty of an album... Where will you ever hear anything like this... It's art its theatre, It makes you picture things as you listen.. What I'm trying to say is its fu@#in awesome
This álbum was made after the Falklands war. It's a requiem to a post war deram. It was the álbum who introduce me to Pink Floyd. I was 15 at the time and discovering music. What a discovery it was ....
I’m with you. Top 5 any how. Seems most Floyd fans don’t like it because of the way it came to be and what happened as a consequence. Waters lyrics are at their peak on the Final Cut, perhaps because it’s so personal… When the Tigers Broke Free chokes me every time. But you have to wonder if it would have been as strong, sonically, if it was a Waters solo album.
I've just watched this and I loved your facial reactions to it... Have you listened to the whole album? You must... Its a lot about the Falklands and the futility of war and the damage done to young soldiers. The music and random sounds mix is excellent.. My favourite PF album..
Pink Floyd at their absolute best, it defies description, David Gilmore's guitar playing on this album has transcended what I thought was possible with a stratocaster. It's because of the intensity and pain and feeling that Roger screamed these absolutely beautiful lyrics. Everyone did incredible . My favorite album
Thank you for reacting to a song from this brilliant pink floyd album, unfortunately many reactors miss out on some emotional and great pink floyd music because they are swayed by the unreasonable roger waters haters, who say it is a waters solo album, but this album has a song written by david gilmour and 3 members contribute their talents on this album, more than gilmours pink floyd album "a momentary lapse of reason" at its initial release, it is a truly great album
The song uses the same “chassis” as comfortably numb For me this song is a supplement to the Wall, I see it as Pink contemplates suicide he wonders how his wife would react to his schizophrenic nazi alter ego
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 as is the other pink gloyd albums, this happens when you are a lyricist and no other member is coming up with any ideas for albums.
The Final Cut album never ages out. You know an album is a beast when it ages well with you. Most music isn't deep enough to transcend as you mature. The Final Cut thrives with age.
I love the dark beauty of this record , but the fireworks are few and far between. It really is the dark night of the soul laid bare. It’s all the things you mentioned. Still you might scare some away. The Gunner’s Dream, Paranoid Eyes, Not Now John and the remastered bonus track from the movie The Wall called When the Tigers Broke Free.are the more choice cuts for me Good reaction. I wish more fans appreciated this album. It only hits harder for me as the years go by.
Yep I believe you're right about the trust issue. But please don't forget the first few verses where he shares his sadness and depression. We always had our suspicions about Roger's state of mind but here he opens up and let's us see straight in. Its something most of us won't ever do. It's okay. One could say so much more. Oh, and then Mr. Gilmour steps up, interprets the thing, and lays down the most perfect instrumental metaphor. Yeah.
Many songs that are on this album were supposed to be on the wall but were cut for various reasons. So you still hear the same ideas from that album about isolation in this album.
Nice analysis. This would be Roger Waters' last album with Floyd. He being the band's chief lyricist and conceptual leader... And on this, doing most of the vocals. This might also be their darkest album. So if you do it, prepare yourself for the ride. I personally think it's a great album.
I can remember when this album was released , it got totally panned , i cannot for the life of me work out why, personally i think its one their greatest albums .
I don´t know if someone told you but this is another conceptual album by Pink Floyd, you need to listen to it from the begining to the end, every song is conected somehow with the next.
Most underrated Pink Floyd album and, as far as I’m concerned, the final Pink Floyd album unless you want to count Waters’ solo albums Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Amused to Death. I don’t care for any of Floyd’s post Waters’ efforts. jmo.
I loved this album back when my Pink Floyd fan buddies didn't. I loved this album the first time I heard it although it's not a true "Pink Floyd" album. It's a Roger Waters album with help from David Gilmour. The first time I heard this was on vinyl and I couldn't believe the quality of sound. It's a digitally recorded album put on vinyl and in 1983 it was nothing short of amazing. I think Gilmour does some of his best work on this album which is amazing because he already hated Roger and hated what was going on but he still brings his best to whatever he does. I don't know how many of these "reaction videos" are real but I get the feeling a lot of millennials are discovering how good the old music was.
Are you ready now. In the end he is contemplating suicide. Never had the nerve to make the final cut. Then again as roger loves his metaphors it can mean severing yourself from life or was once your loved one. As for the Albun. Lyrically the most heart wrenching emotional piece of work you will likely ever hear.
Underated song/album, and underated Chanel too, i saw your réactions of the wall, it's really nice and honnest reaction, thanks, i'm gonna wait d'or thé album, keep going, from a french viewer
Gotta listen to the whole lot (haven't you already?). It's all one song... Man... You weren't there.... 1983... (Smelly student flat on the North coast of Ireland).
The whole album Final Cut by Pink Floyd is their best so raw yet so well produced Gets the wrap as the worst The others are like Pink Floyd Disney style for the masses
@@StillColour A year late in replying, but this song (and several others on this album) were actually originally written for The Wall. It's written from the perspective of the main character of that album, and the string section is playing the same melody line that they did on the chorus of Comfortably Numb.
It's probably my favorite Pink Floyd album, definitely worth the time to just kind of chill, lay back, have the headphones on and listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. It tends to be one of the least liked albums by many fans although there are also many like myself who think it's their best work. Many consider the final cut a Roger Waters solo album because of the very minimal or absent contribution by PinkFloyd members and use of studio musicians. David Gilmore has some of his best guitar solos on this album IMO and Rick Wright is absent. The piano and keyboard parts were done by either Bob Ezrin or Michael Kaman. It was prolifically graced by the orchestration of Michael Cayman whose presence was not as prominent in their other albums.
Late to the party but thank you Dude for sharing your thoughts around this exceptional song. As I'm sure you all know this was meant to be included on The Wall, but things shifted. Its really worth googling Waters explaining this track, its very dark and complex, and as such he doesn't go into it in detail, but he has made reference to his battle with a certain type of addition that destroyed his marriage. th-cam.com/video/WxTxlGHKYpY/w-d-xo.html 47:20 into interview. Its a magnificent track and album
Thisbis awesome you want to react to whole album. I am also waiting, as I see others in comments too, for someone to dig into this one, it is about war and is bit depressing, especially "when the tigers broke free" and the last one - "Two suns in the sunset". Leaves me with tears almost everytime, especially when you're a father :)
im new here.. but i have to ask you to react to "on the turning away" but in the live version of the CD.... delicated sounds of thunder. I know that it has a dvd from it but i think that the version of the cd is better. Anyway... nice to see people watching PF.
Advance warning - The Final Cut is a "difficult" record, though it's a very necessary one for fans. Musically, though it pains me to say this, it has the same problem as the Who's Quadrophenia (one of my most hated so-called-"classic" albums) - i.e: it's marred by being both "one-paced" and repetitious (in the sense of "overloaded with leitmotifs", and thus short on actual content). And that's just the beginning of the difficulty... As noted The Final Cut has some musical overlap with The Wall, but it also has musical overlap with Roger's solo album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking (which is even harder to approach - overbearingly one-paced, and filled with callbacks to both The Wall and The Final Cut). Of course these three albums are all intended to add up to one long self-analytical opera-cycle, written mainly (but not entirely) by Roger and not only conceptualised simultaneously but (to a degree) written simultaneously. It can be argued that the Pink Floyd "Family" finally overreached, and fulfilled the prog-rock stereotypes, with the Wall/Pros & Cons/Final Cut trilogy. Opera-cycles and leitmotifs are certainly not bad things in and of themselves - but, frankly, this ain't der Ring des Nibelungen, and it ain't even Theusz Hamtaahk...
This whole album was ALL Roger Waters work. The band didn't like the direction Roger was taking the band. The reason for Roger departure. It actually workout for both. Roger solo work was very good , like wise Floyds 2 albums speak for it"s self.
Let’s face it if your not English and of a certain age would these lyrics on this album make much sense? It is a superb album if you understand it fully…
the wall, 1981 live is the best version of the wall. ITs an album with masks in the cover. no need to react.. just search fot it man.. its the best version. I like always the best version of songs..
Roger Waters's control got excessive, but it was far from completely without excuse and reason. That whole party line about "'The Final Cut' is a Roger Waters solo album in all but name" is one of the biggest misnomers in the history of Pink Floyd. That whole party line about "Pink Floyd broke up because Roger bad" is one of the biggest oversimplifications in the history of rock music, at least. Waters had to save Pink Floyd from falling into the black hole left by Syd Barrett's late 1967 breakdown. By their own admission, Richard Wright and David Gilmour had run out of great musical ideas and were even lazy, at least as early as the aftermath of "Wish You Were Here" in 1976. That alone was of little of Roger's fault. Almost 10 years of constantly doing gigs and writing and recording music and essentially filling the Barrett shaped hole was simply burning Wright and Gilmour out by 1975. Even Roger was struggling. All of the Floyds including Nick Mason were victims of the success of "Dark Side Of The Moon". All of their relationships with their childhood sweethearts ultimately broke down as a result. Even their mental health took a tumble in the mid-late '70s. Whilst it only partially, let alone fully, excuses Roger's behaviour, Roger Waters was also under terrible financial and record company pressure to complete "The Wall" in 1978-1979 as a result of Pink Floyd falling into crippling financial debt. This was because holdings company Norton Warburg had lost all of the Pink Floyd members' pension funds after investing them in an ill-fated series of ventures. Pink Floyd were also liable to pay back the back taxes as a result. Gilmour's creative burnout was also partially due to the constant performing to rowdy audiences from June 1973 through July 1977 whom didn't really give a shit about Pink Floyd's music in that period and really only went to gigs to hear "Money" and would shout for "Money" until they got it. That at least alienated Waters and Gilmour from their audiences, whom prior to June 1973 were at least mostly loyal and respectful fans. Waters rightfully felt that he had to express all of his troubles about war, mental illness, alienation, greedy corporations, losing Syd, losing his dad and the loss of compassion within society as a whole and injustice. Waters is the best ever lyricist in my honest opinion, along with Barrett, whose own lyrics were wonderfully charming and whimsical. Waters was understandably afraid that if he didn't write about his troubles, Waters would become as burned out and ill as Barrett. Basically through little fault of Waters, the creative golden era of Pink Floyd was on borrowed time ever since things started to fall apart in late '73, during the troubled aftermath of "Dark Side Of The Moon" and its increasingly rowdy tour. Pink Floyd could easily have ended altogether back then, which would have especially spared Wright and Mason and their loved ones a lot of heartache and misery. They are certainly awesome albums; "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall" and "The Final Cut"; and they are my favorite Pink Floyd albums. However, all these classics owe a lot to the wonderful and experimental pre-Dark Side records including Syd Barrett's wonderful baby, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" especially in terms of the development, evolvement and refinement of the classic dark psychedelic and pastoral Pink Floyd soundscape beginning in songs such as "Astronomy Domine", "Pow R Toc H" and "Interstellar Overdrive". This evolution and refinement can easily be heard if one listens to all of the Pink Floyd albums in chronological order. Interestingly, that whole early Pink Floyd creative golden era from late 1965 through May 1973 was also when the camaraderie both within The Floyd and between The Floyd and their audience at gigs was at its strongest. The former camaraderie within Pink Floyd was shown to great effect in the 1972 "Live At Pompeii" film. The classic dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape along with great musical ideas and Roger Waters's riveting lyrics and concepts are the vital things of Pink Floyd's magic, which is painfully absent from all of the post-Waters Pink Floyd albums. I find it very fascinating that the long 1966-1983 creative golden era of Pink Floyd was able to last so long despite so much upheaval along the journey. Roger no doubt played a huge role in the great run. Before "Animals", Roger Waters originally excelled mostly as the lyricist, bassist, concept artist and occasional singer of Pink Floyd, however his musical composition and orchestration wisdom had increased dramatically through the 70s because of Roger's formerly fruitful musical partnerships with Syd, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour. As these great musicians and writers had, in that same order, gradually all became burned out and ran out of a regular run of great musical ideas by the end of "Wish You Were Here's" creation, it was Roger whom through the lion share of the remaining creativity was able to keep Pink Floyd's creative golden era going for those precious if troubled final years of great albums and concerts, once again with that classic and magical blend of the dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape and Roger's great musical ideas, riveting lyrics and concepts. Working with Ron Geesin in 1969-1970 on the "Atom Heart Mother" title track and "The Body" soundtrack, and later working with Michael Kamen and Bob Ezrin on "The Trial" and "The Wall" in general in 1979 further enriched Roger's musical composition and orchestration wisdom. For the most part, even Roger's solo albums and gigs are at least faithful and respectful to the 1966-1983 creative golden era of The Pink Floyd, musically and lyrically. Everyone, including David Gilmour infamously, disses "The Final Cut" for using leftovers from previous Pink Floyd records like "The Wall". Another overblown statement! Pink Floyd were always adapting leftovers throughout their great career without any detrimental effect on their music! Everyone always has to whine about Richard Wright's absence on "The Final Cut" and even simply diss the album for that reason alone. Yet, what would Wright have done better on "The Final Cut"? Glorified 80s garbage like he did with Zee on their "Identity" album or a sterile new age/ambient/corporate rock cipher like Rick did with David Gilmour, Waters Hater Polly Samson and many other guest writers on "The Division Bell" and "Endless River"? That was all he could do in Pink Floyd's final years of 1980-1994. It's all well and good missing a great musician, yet what is the point of whining about someone missing from a given record if they couldn't have done anything themselves to make it better? Syd Barrett's absence certainly didn't stop albums like "Dark Side Of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" from being great, so why should Rick's absence have stopped "The Final Cut" from being great? If Wright and Gilmour really had such great musical ideas post-'75, allegedly left off "Animals" and "The Wall" and "The Final Cut" because of Waters, then why didn't they use them on any of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", "The Division Bell" or "Endless River", when Waters was no longer domineering? Instead, all we got post-Waters was mostly sterile ambient and/or sterile corporate rock dreck with only fading glimmers of past glories. In addition to Pink Floyd becoming "a spent force, creatively" post-The Final Cut, Waters wanted to legally liquidate Pink Floyd following his '83 departure to stop them from becoming yet another corporate rock band like U2, Duran Duran, Status Quo and The Rolling Stones. Corporate rock was the very antitheses of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters's musical vision of Pink Floyd. Both Syd and Roger wanted to create music for art's sake and to express what matters to them. Gilmour had that mindset originally but post-The Final Cut, he fell into the greedy trap of filling stadiums and cashing in the brand. Yes, in the good old days with Syd Barrett and all the way from the UFO Club in 1966/1967 to "Wish You Were Here" in 1975 Rick was an insanely awesome and epic composer, keyboard player and singer to the extent of being Barrett's and Gilmour's musical soulmate and combined with each of them in turn, the musical heart of classic Pink Floyd but Rick became burned out and ran out of great musical ideas by time "Animals" started in 1976. As a result of this creative burnout combined with him succumbing to the same aforementioned alienation of performing at the rowdy '75 and '77 gigs, Rick even wanted out of the band in both 1975 and 1977 but every time, however, the greedy record company executives coerced poor Rick to stay which only set the poor guy up for a fall which cost him his mental health and his marriage to his childhood sweetheart. 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Continued from above. And so during his final years in the Pink Floyd creative golden era on "Animals" and "The Wall" in 1979, Rick was only barely playing whatever Gilmour or Waters wrote for him. Same for "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" in 1987, which itself was more glorified 80s garbage, not from the fault of Rick but from the fault of Gilmour and many other guest writers and guest musicians. This along with the rubbish half load of songs from his 1984 "About Face" album also shows how little Gilmour could have contributed to "The Final Cut" other than playing whatever Waters wrote for him. As with Wright, Gilmour's best era musically and creatively was the early golden era of Pink Floyd of 1968-1975. "The Final Cut" came out in 1983, right in the middle of the 80s music wasteland. Yet, thanks especially to Roger Waters with his maturing wisdom for bittersweet melodies and moving lyrics and emotional vocals and with help from Gilmour on his trusty guitars and especially the beautiful keyboard and orchestral arrangements from Michael Kamen and Andy Bown, "The Final Cut" has such a timeless and special sound that it's not just the best album of its era but in my honest opinion one of the best Pink Floyd albums ever and fittingly the last album of the Pink Floyd creative golden era of 1966-1983. ** Edit ** I'm sorry, I had to post this last bit of my fleshed out and edited post separate because stupid youtube wouldn't let me post the whole thing in one post.
In my honest opinion I consider The Final Cut one of the best Pink Floyd albums and the last album from the long 1966-1983 golden era of Pink Floyd. Also, my honest opinion the following are the Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd albums:- 1) Wish You Were Here 2) Dark Side Of The Moon 3) Meddle 4) The Final Cut 5) Animals 6) The Wall 7) Obscured By Clouds All of these albums through both emotional music and lyrics are ultimately teachings about the best aspects of humanity; peace, friendship, well-being, love and compassion but they also warn about the various terrible things that can destroy them; tyranny, cruelty, capitalism, fascism, The Man, The System, The Machine, hatred, prejudice, indifference, social ostracism, bad teachers, hostile societies, social division and inequalities, modernity, bigotry, power, war and greed. Fundamentally all of the best Pink Floyd albums have this escapism vibe and as the great genius Roger Waters himself once put it in a discussion about Wish You Were Here, they are also about "how fucking miserable it (fucked-up modern human society, injustice and tragedy) all is". I also consider all of the pre-Meddle Pink Floyd albums honorable Pink Floyd classics thanks to their pastoral psychedelic and whimsical music and/or lyrics and even far-out experimentation. As awesome as "The Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd" albums however, they still owe a lot to The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, the rare Zabriskie Point and Atom Heart Mother. I love all of the 1966-1983 golden era Pink Floyd albums. However I believe the true Pink Floyd magic is gone after Roger Waters's 1983 departure. Even with Richard Wright's return in varying capacity, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, The Division Bell and The Endless River albums sound clinical and without the true Pink Floyd magic, these 3 near Ambient and at least in the case of AMLOR even corporate albums are in effect the end products of the Pink Floyd cog of "The Machine".
When I play this album for people, they have no idea that this album exist. In my humble opinion, this is a masterpiece.
I don't care what anybody thinks about this album.
I think it's one of the greatest albums of any kind ever.
It's their best no question...
I agreeeee
yes but, momentary lapse of reason is the greatest album of all time.
the older I get the more I have to be careful about when and where I listen to The Final Cut. It makes me so freaking emotional. Even just this song just now. I'd forgotten how quickly it makes me cry.
agreed, its extremely moving@@nofishinmydiet
Such an underrated album. It is brilliant start to finish.
Yes, it is a FANTASTIC album, filled with powerful songs.
Been listening to Floyd for 36 years, and The Final Cut is absolutely up there as one of the best. A beautiful and haunting masterpiece!!!
My favorite Pink Floyd album I would get very depressed and I would ride around in the back roads in the country and have a couple of beers and listen to it as loud as it would go without distortion and it would make me feel better for some reason 👍✌️
One of my favorite albums yet no one reacts to it.. Thank you for doing this song. Great reaction as well
Totally agree mate❤️👌
Absolutely, Gunners Dream one of the best Sax solos ever
Another master piece, the entire album
Love Pink Floyd passionately and I love this album, you need to listen to it in depth and with the lyrics in front of you which are deeply moving and incredible.
It is on my list!! Do you have any other pink floyd recommendations?
@@StillColour From this album try Paranoid Eyes, Your Possible Pasts, When The Tigers Broke Free, The Gunners Dream. From other albums, anything from Dark Side Of The Moon but if you want a real treat from that album listen in one sitting from Us and Them on side 2 to Eclipse at the end, 19 minutes of absolute amazing music will leave you emotional but floating. Make sure you have the lyrics handy when you do so, it will have a lot more meaning.
My own personal opinion. Lyrics are genius level.
Best album ever all the emotions you ever need
This is one beauty of an album...
Where will you ever hear anything like this...
It's art its theatre,
It makes you picture things as you listen..
What I'm trying to say is its fu@#in awesome
Absolute masterpiece. Most people dislike this album because The Wall was a huge universal phenomenon.
This album doe not get enough credit it deserves. The songs are so deep as well as the guitar solos.
Very underrated album, for some strange reason. Great to see someone reacting to it.
This álbum was made after the Falklands war. It's a requiem to a post war deram. It was the álbum who introduce me to Pink Floyd. I was 15 at the time and discovering music. What a discovery it was ....
After the war we went to the Falklands again and this album was played on board all the time.
Such a great album...The gunners dream, the Fletcher memorial home are 2 of my favourites on this album aswell as this song 'The final cut'
I am biased, but Final Cut is hands down my favorite album ever. 🔥🔥🔥
I need to hear this album!
I’m with you. Top 5 any how. Seems most Floyd fans don’t like it because of the way it came to be and what happened as a consequence. Waters lyrics are at their peak on the Final Cut, perhaps because it’s so personal… When the Tigers Broke Free chokes me every time. But you have to wonder if it would have been as strong, sonically, if it was a Waters solo album.
I've just watched this and I loved your facial reactions to it... Have you listened to the whole album? You must... Its a lot about the Falklands and the futility of war and the damage done to young soldiers. The music and random sounds mix is excellent.. My favourite PF album..
Also loved what you thought about it and your interpretation was sound
Does this dude have doilies on his couch???😅
I like how Waters worked elements of "Nobody's Home" from "The Wall" in there.
also from If on Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd at their absolute best, it defies description, David Gilmore's guitar playing on this album has transcended what I thought was possible with a stratocaster. It's because of the intensity and pain and feeling that Roger screamed these absolutely beautiful lyrics. Everyone did incredible . My favorite album
Thank you for reacting to a song from this brilliant pink floyd album, unfortunately many reactors miss out on some emotional and great pink floyd music because they are swayed by the unreasonable roger waters haters, who say it is a waters solo album, but this album has a song written by david gilmour and 3 members contribute their talents on this album, more than gilmours pink floyd album "a momentary lapse of reason" at its initial release, it is a truly great album
Thank you so much for giving this a watch and an some insight! I will be reacting to the full album soon!
The song uses the same “chassis” as comfortably numb For me this song is a supplement to the Wall, I see it as Pink contemplates suicide he wonders how his wife would react to his schizophrenic nazi alter ego
It still is artistically a Waters' album in theme and style.
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 as is the other pink gloyd albums, this happens when you are a lyricist and no other member is coming up with any ideas for albums.
Yet The Final Cut was the worst selling Floyd album since their stuff from the 60s, including Momentary Lapse of Reason & The Division Bell.
The Final Cut album never ages out. You know an album is a beast when it ages well with you. Most music isn't deep enough to transcend as you mature. The Final Cut thrives with age.
Waters was the brilliant mind of Floyd. This is my all-time favorite album ever. Waters sends shivers from something so beautiful in his art. 🖤❤️
I never knew a guitar could burst into tears until I heard Dave’s incredibly emotional solo on this song. Great album beginning to end.
I love the dark beauty of this record , but the fireworks are few and far between. It really is the dark night of the soul laid bare. It’s all the things you mentioned. Still you might scare some away. The Gunner’s Dream, Paranoid Eyes, Not Now John and the remastered bonus track from the movie The Wall called When the Tigers Broke Free.are the more choice cuts for me Good reaction. I wish more fans appreciated this album. It only hits harder for me as the years go by.
My favourite floyd album, masterpiece, listen to amused to death roger waters
I love this song a lot but my favorite from this album is called The Gunners Dream
Yep I believe you're right about the trust issue. But please don't forget the first few verses where he shares his sadness and depression. We always had our suspicions about Roger's state of mind but here he opens up and let's us see straight in. Its something most of us won't ever do. It's okay. One could say so much more. Oh, and then Mr. Gilmour steps up, interprets the thing, and lays down the most perfect instrumental metaphor. Yeah.
One of my all time favorite Floyd songs on one of their best albums.
Many songs that are on this album were supposed to be on the wall but were cut for various reasons. So you still hear the same ideas from that album about isolation in this album.
I think some of PF's most sublime music lies on this album. It would be great to see you react to it.
Definitely going to reaction to the full album!
One of my top favorite albums
Nice analysis. This would be Roger Waters' last album with Floyd. He being the band's chief lyricist and conceptual leader... And on this, doing most of the vocals. This might also be their darkest album. So if you do it, prepare yourself for the ride. I personally think it's a great album.
One of the best! It is the sequel to The Wall!!!
Tragically beautiful
It's excellent 👌
Underrated. The last real Pink Floyd album. Without Roger PF were crap and soulless.
I can remember when this album was released , it got totally panned , i cannot for the life of me work out why, personally i think its one their greatest albums .
BELLISSIMA !!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!! Finally! The Final Cut. You're gonna love the album.
best album ever
They video si amazing
I bought this album many years ago when I was very depressed. This album made me ten times more depressed. I still love it though.
Bravo Sir not many react to this classic
Thank you very much :)
I don´t know if someone told you but this is another conceptual album by Pink Floyd, you need to listen to it from the begining to the end, every song is conected somehow with the next.
Great reaction video - thank you!
Thanks for giving this a watch :)
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
glad u discovered this lil gem,is my fav PF all time song.
I need to hear the whole album now!
Most underrated Pink Floyd album and, as far as I’m concerned, the final Pink Floyd album unless you want to count Waters’ solo albums Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Amused to Death. I don’t care for any of Floyd’s post Waters’ efforts. jmo.
The final cut is in the album of the same name. Next to Dark Side of the Moon, the greatest Pink Floyd album and one of the greatest all time, period.
Subbed for your thoughtful reaction. Peace brother
Much appreciated brother!
I loved this album back when my Pink Floyd fan buddies didn't. I loved this album the first time I heard it although it's not a true "Pink Floyd" album. It's a Roger Waters album with help from David Gilmour. The first time I heard this was on vinyl and I couldn't believe the quality of sound. It's a digitally recorded album put on vinyl and in 1983 it was nothing short of amazing. I think Gilmour does some of his best work on this album which is amazing because he already hated Roger and hated what was going on but he still brings his best to whatever he does. I don't know how many of these "reaction videos" are real but I get the feeling a lot of millennials are discovering how good the old music was.
Are you ready now. In the end he is contemplating suicide. Never had the nerve to make the final cut. Then again as roger loves his metaphors it can mean severing yourself from life or was once your loved one. As for the Albun. Lyrically the most heart wrenching emotional piece of work you will likely ever hear.
one of my favs that isnt popular. emotions!!
Underated song/album, and underated Chanel too, i saw your réactions of the wall, it's really nice and honnest reaction, thanks, i'm gonna wait d'or thé album, keep going, from a french viewer
Thanks so much for giving this and my reaction to the wall, its much appreciated! I'll be reacting to this album as soon as
Great analysis.
Thanks Fred!
Gotta listen to the whole lot (haven't you already?). It's all one song... Man... You weren't there.... 1983... (Smelly student flat on the North coast of Ireland).
For sure amigo
Best 3 Floyd albums to listen to in their entirety are DSOTM, Animals, and the Final Cut.
The whole album
Final Cut by Pink Floyd is their best so raw yet so well produced
Gets the wrap as the worst
The others are like Pink Floyd Disney style for the masses
Hey, I definetely agree that the song has the same vibe as Comfortably Numb. I never really noticed that myself. Thanks for a good review!
Thanks dude!
@@StillColour A year late in replying, but this song (and several others on this album) were actually originally written for The Wall. It's written from the perspective of the main character of that album, and the string section is playing the same melody line that they did on the chorus of Comfortably Numb.
Dark album
It's probably my favorite Pink Floyd album, definitely worth the time to just kind of chill, lay back, have the headphones on and listen to the whole thing from beginning to end.
It tends to be one of the least liked albums by many fans although there are also many like myself who think it's their best work.
Many consider the final cut a Roger Waters solo album because of the very minimal or absent contribution by PinkFloyd members and use of studio musicians. David Gilmore has some of his best guitar solos on this album IMO and Rick Wright is absent.
The piano and keyboard parts were done by either Bob Ezrin or Michael Kaman. It was prolifically graced by the orchestration of Michael Cayman whose presence was not as prominent in their other albums.
Late to the party but thank you Dude for sharing your thoughts around this exceptional song. As I'm sure you all know this was meant to be included on The Wall, but things shifted. Its really worth googling Waters explaining this track, its very dark and complex, and as such he doesn't go into it in detail, but he has made reference to his battle with a certain type of addition that destroyed his marriage. th-cam.com/video/WxTxlGHKYpY/w-d-xo.html 47:20 into interview. Its a magnificent track and album
I’ve listened to this album hundreds of times. It is an anti-war album. It is a criticism of politicians sending young men to die, yet again.
who else started singing the next song ?? LOL (I did).. One of the best studio albums ever produced.
Not now John!
Thisbis awesome you want to react to whole album. I am also waiting, as I see others in comments too, for someone to dig into this one, it is about war and is bit depressing, especially "when the tigers broke free" and the last one - "Two suns in the sunset". Leaves me with tears almost everytime, especially when you're a father :)
I had a feeling that I'd be in for an emotional listen, I need to mentally prepare myself haha! But I'm looking forward to listening to it
full album is pink floyds thing !
im new here.. but i have to ask you to react to "on the turning away" but in the live version of the CD.... delicated sounds of thunder.
I know that it has a dvd from it but i think that the version of the cd is better.
Anyway... nice to see people watching PF.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm adding it to the list!
Let's have IT!
Advance warning - The Final Cut is a "difficult" record, though it's a very necessary one for fans. Musically, though it pains me to say this, it has the same problem as the Who's Quadrophenia (one of my most hated so-called-"classic" albums) - i.e: it's marred by being both "one-paced" and repetitious (in the sense of "overloaded with leitmotifs", and thus short on actual content). And that's just the beginning of the difficulty...
As noted The Final Cut has some musical overlap with The Wall, but it also has musical overlap with Roger's solo album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking (which is even harder to approach - overbearingly one-paced, and filled with callbacks to both The Wall and The Final Cut). Of course these three albums are all intended to add up to one long self-analytical opera-cycle, written mainly (but not entirely) by Roger and not only conceptualised simultaneously but (to a degree) written simultaneously.
It can be argued that the Pink Floyd "Family" finally overreached, and fulfilled the prog-rock stereotypes, with the Wall/Pros & Cons/Final Cut trilogy. Opera-cycles and leitmotifs are certainly not bad things in and of themselves - but, frankly, this ain't der Ring des Nibelungen, and it ain't even Theusz Hamtaahk...
The whole album is a great trip. In some ways is stands aside from the other Floyd albums but in the end it is just a great album, so who cares?
This whole album was ALL Roger Waters work. The band didn't like the direction Roger was taking the band. The reason for Roger departure. It actually workout for both. Roger solo work was very good , like wise Floyds 2 albums speak for it"s self.
Yes like amused to death❤️👌
albums got more feel than the wall... i mean its an album you can listen to start to finish...
It's about ptsd
excuse the pun but , Waters always provided the cutting edge
Let’s face it if your not English and of a certain age would these lyrics on this album make much sense? It is a superb album if you understand it fully…
the wall, 1981 live is the best version of the wall. ITs an album with masks in the cover.
no need to react.. just search fot it man.. its the best version.
I like always the best version of songs..
If you listen to Roger Waters albums it's like listening to the real pink Floyd
Roger Waters was the driving force of pink Floyd without him they've gone down hill hardly even writing there own songs
"The Final Cut' is not really a Pink Floy album any more. It's more like Roger Waters' first solo album.
Roger Waters's control got excessive, but it was far from completely without excuse and reason. That whole party line about "'The Final Cut' is a Roger Waters solo album in all but name" is one of the biggest misnomers in the history of Pink Floyd. That whole party line about "Pink Floyd broke up because Roger bad" is one of the biggest oversimplifications in the history of rock music, at least. Waters had to save Pink Floyd from falling into the black hole left by Syd Barrett's late 1967 breakdown. By their own admission, Richard Wright and David Gilmour had run out of great musical ideas and were even lazy, at least as early as the aftermath of "Wish You Were Here" in 1976. That alone was of little of Roger's fault. Almost 10 years of constantly doing gigs and writing and recording music and essentially filling the Barrett shaped hole was simply burning Wright and Gilmour out by 1975. Even Roger was struggling. All of the Floyds including Nick Mason were victims of the success of "Dark Side Of The Moon". All of their relationships with their childhood sweethearts ultimately broke down as a result. Even their mental health took a tumble in the mid-late '70s. Whilst it only partially, let alone fully, excuses Roger's behaviour, Roger Waters was also under terrible financial and record company pressure to complete "The Wall" in 1978-1979 as a result of Pink Floyd falling into crippling financial debt. This was because holdings company Norton Warburg had lost all of the Pink Floyd members' pension funds after investing them in an ill-fated series of ventures. Pink Floyd were also liable to pay back the back taxes as a result.
Gilmour's creative burnout was also partially due to the constant performing to rowdy audiences from June 1973 through July 1977 whom didn't really give a shit about Pink Floyd's music in that period and really only went to gigs to hear "Money" and would shout for "Money" until they got it. That at least alienated Waters and Gilmour from their audiences, whom prior to June 1973 were at least mostly loyal and respectful fans. Waters rightfully felt that he had to express all of his troubles about war, mental illness, alienation, greedy corporations, losing Syd, losing his dad and the loss of compassion within society as a whole and injustice. Waters is the best ever lyricist in my honest opinion, along with Barrett, whose own lyrics were wonderfully charming and whimsical. Waters was understandably afraid that if he didn't write about his troubles, Waters would become as burned out and ill as Barrett. Basically through little fault of Waters, the creative golden era of Pink Floyd was on borrowed time ever since things started to fall apart in late '73, during the troubled aftermath of "Dark Side Of The Moon" and its increasingly rowdy tour. Pink Floyd could easily have ended altogether back then, which would have especially spared Wright and Mason and their loved ones a lot of heartache and misery.
They are certainly awesome albums; "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall" and "The Final Cut"; and they are my favorite Pink Floyd albums. However, all these classics owe a lot to the wonderful and experimental pre-Dark Side records including Syd Barrett's wonderful baby, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" especially in terms of the development, evolvement and refinement of the classic dark psychedelic and pastoral Pink Floyd soundscape beginning in songs such as "Astronomy Domine", "Pow R Toc H" and "Interstellar Overdrive". This evolution and refinement can easily be heard if one listens to all of the Pink Floyd albums in chronological order. Interestingly, that whole early Pink Floyd creative golden era from late 1965 through May 1973 was also when the camaraderie both within The Floyd and between The Floyd and their audience at gigs was at its strongest. The former camaraderie within Pink Floyd was shown to great effect in the 1972 "Live At Pompeii" film. The classic dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape along with great musical ideas and Roger Waters's riveting lyrics and concepts are the vital things of Pink Floyd's magic, which is painfully absent from all of the post-Waters Pink Floyd albums.
I find it very fascinating that the long 1966-1983 creative golden era of Pink Floyd was able to last so long despite so much upheaval along the journey. Roger no doubt played a huge role in the great run. Before "Animals", Roger Waters originally excelled mostly as the lyricist, bassist, concept artist and occasional singer of Pink Floyd, however his musical composition and orchestration wisdom had increased dramatically through the 70s because of Roger's formerly fruitful musical partnerships with Syd, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour. As these great musicians and writers had, in that same order, gradually all became burned out and ran out of a regular run of great musical ideas by the end of "Wish You Were Here's" creation, it was Roger whom through the lion share of the remaining creativity was able to keep Pink Floyd's creative golden era going for those precious if troubled final years of great albums and concerts, once again with that classic and magical blend of the dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape and Roger's great musical ideas, riveting lyrics and concepts. Working with Ron Geesin in 1969-1970 on the "Atom Heart Mother" title track and "The Body" soundtrack, and later working with Michael Kamen and Bob Ezrin on "The Trial" and "The Wall" in general in 1979 further enriched Roger's musical composition and orchestration wisdom. For the most part, even Roger's solo albums and gigs are at least faithful and respectful to the 1966-1983 creative golden era of The Pink Floyd, musically and lyrically.
Everyone, including David Gilmour infamously, disses "The Final Cut" for using leftovers from previous Pink Floyd records like "The Wall". Another overblown statement! Pink Floyd were always adapting leftovers throughout their great career without any detrimental effect on their music! Everyone always has to whine about Richard Wright's absence on "The Final Cut" and even simply diss the album for that reason alone. Yet, what would Wright have done better on "The Final Cut"? Glorified 80s garbage like he did with Zee on their "Identity" album or a sterile new age/ambient/corporate rock cipher like Rick did with David Gilmour, Waters Hater Polly Samson and many other guest writers on "The Division Bell" and "Endless River"? That was all he could do in Pink Floyd's final years of 1980-1994. It's all well and good missing a great musician, yet what is the point of whining about someone missing from a given record if they couldn't have done anything themselves to make it better? Syd Barrett's absence certainly didn't stop albums like "Dark Side Of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" from being great, so why should Rick's absence have stopped "The Final Cut" from being great? If Wright and Gilmour really had such great musical ideas post-'75, allegedly left off "Animals" and "The Wall" and "The Final Cut" because of Waters, then why didn't they use them on any of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", "The Division Bell" or "Endless River", when Waters was no longer domineering? Instead, all we got post-Waters was mostly sterile ambient and/or sterile corporate rock dreck with only fading glimmers of past glories.
In addition to Pink Floyd becoming "a spent force, creatively" post-The Final Cut, Waters wanted to legally liquidate Pink Floyd following his '83 departure to stop them from becoming yet another corporate rock band like U2, Duran Duran, Status Quo and The Rolling Stones. Corporate rock was the very antitheses of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters's musical vision of Pink Floyd. Both Syd and Roger wanted to create music for art's sake and to express what matters to them. Gilmour had that mindset originally but post-The Final Cut, he fell into the greedy trap of filling stadiums and cashing in the brand. Yes, in the good old days with Syd Barrett and all the way from the UFO Club in 1966/1967 to "Wish You Were Here" in 1975 Rick was an insanely awesome and epic composer, keyboard player and singer to the extent of being Barrett's and Gilmour's musical soulmate and combined with each of them in turn, the musical heart of classic Pink Floyd but Rick became burned out and ran out of great musical ideas by time "Animals" started in 1976. As a result of this creative burnout combined with him succumbing to the same aforementioned alienation of performing at the rowdy '75 and '77 gigs, Rick even wanted out of the band in both 1975 and 1977 but every time, however, the greedy record company executives coerced poor Rick to stay which only set the poor guy up for a fall which cost him his mental health and his marriage to his childhood sweetheart. Continued below.
Continued from above. And so during his final years in the Pink Floyd creative golden era on "Animals" and "The Wall" in 1979, Rick was only barely playing whatever Gilmour or Waters wrote for him. Same for "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" in 1987, which itself was more glorified 80s garbage, not from the fault of Rick but from the fault of Gilmour and many other guest writers and guest musicians. This along with the rubbish half load of songs from his 1984 "About Face" album also shows how little Gilmour could have contributed to "The Final Cut" other than playing whatever Waters wrote for him. As with Wright, Gilmour's best era musically and creatively was the early golden era of Pink Floyd of 1968-1975. "The Final Cut" came out in 1983, right in the middle of the 80s music wasteland. Yet, thanks especially to Roger Waters with his maturing wisdom for bittersweet melodies and moving lyrics and emotional vocals and with help from Gilmour on his trusty guitars and especially the beautiful keyboard and orchestral arrangements from Michael Kamen and Andy Bown, "The Final Cut" has such a timeless and special sound that it's not just the best album of its era but in my honest opinion one of the best Pink Floyd albums ever and fittingly the last album of the Pink Floyd creative golden era of 1966-1983.
** Edit ** I'm sorry, I had to post this last bit of my fleshed out and edited post separate because stupid youtube wouldn't let me post the whole thing in one post.
In my honest opinion I consider The Final Cut one of the best Pink Floyd albums and the last album from the long 1966-1983 golden era of Pink Floyd.
Also, my honest opinion the following are the Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd albums:-
1) Wish You Were Here
2) Dark Side Of The Moon
3) Meddle
4) The Final Cut
5) Animals
6) The Wall
7) Obscured By Clouds
All of these albums through both emotional music and lyrics are ultimately teachings about the best aspects of humanity; peace, friendship, well-being, love and compassion but they also warn about the various terrible things that can destroy them; tyranny, cruelty, capitalism, fascism, The Man, The System, The Machine, hatred, prejudice, indifference, social ostracism, bad teachers, hostile societies, social division and inequalities, modernity, bigotry, power, war and greed. Fundamentally all of the best Pink Floyd albums have this escapism vibe and as the great genius Roger Waters himself once put it in a discussion about Wish You Were Here, they are also about "how fucking miserable it (fucked-up modern human society, injustice and tragedy) all is".
I also consider all of the pre-Meddle Pink Floyd albums honorable Pink Floyd classics thanks to their pastoral psychedelic and whimsical music and/or lyrics and even far-out experimentation. As awesome as "The Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd" albums however, they still owe a lot to The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, the rare Zabriskie Point and Atom Heart Mother. I love all of the 1966-1983 golden era Pink Floyd albums.
However I believe the true Pink Floyd magic is gone after Roger Waters's 1983 departure. Even with Richard Wright's return in varying capacity, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, The Division Bell and The Endless River albums sound clinical and without the true Pink Floyd magic, these 3 near Ambient and at least in the case of AMLOR even corporate albums are in effect the end products of the Pink Floyd cog of "The Machine".