The Final Cut: An Underrated Gem | ThisIs ReadyMade

I talked about this record in an earlier video about underrated albums but I thought it deserved a full video. The Final Cut is a fantastic record and I think it's worth looking into. Not Dark Side or The Wall, but it's own piece worthy of dissection. (Trust me, I didn't go into all of it here. Wanted to keep things moving so people who don't like it don't get bored).
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Videos used:
The Final Cut Video EP
Kamikaze Suicide Bomber (1945)
Margaret Thatcher’s victory in the Falklands
WWII in HD: VICTORY IN EUROPE: VE Day Celebrated Across the Globe, 5/8/45 | History
The Rear Gunner (1943)
Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Village - 1950s Test
Newspaper Train (1942) | Railways on Film
Troops Returning (1945)
Evacuating The Children (1940)
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Wing And A Prayer (1944)
Bloody Friday Attack on the Ulsterbus Depot (1972)
B-17 during air combat in WW2
SYND 02 06 1972 ULSTER BOMB BLASTS
Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89
Soviet Afghan War - RAW FOOTAGE
Lebanon 1982 - Part 1 of 3
Compilation of President Reagan’s Humor from Selected Speeches, 1981-89
British Armada Set Sail for War in the Falklands - CBS Evening News - April 5, 1982
BEGIN Japanology: Shipbuilding
Pink Floyd - Money (Official Music Video)
1985 Driving tour of Los Angeles Hollywood Part 1
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (February 23, 1985)
Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film 55
Rare Nuclear Bomb Footage Reveals Their True Power | WIRED
Tsar Bomba complete Footage
Roger Waters - Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Live)
Time - Pink Floyd - Music Video [HD]
Michael Kamen is scoring Iron Giant - part 1
Songs used:
Pink Floyd - Outside The Wall (Movie Version)
Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream
Pink Floyd - Your Possible Pasts
Pink Floyd - The Hero’s Return
Pink Floyd - The Gunners Dream
Pink Floyd - Paranoid Eyes
Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
Pink Floyd The Final Cut radio interview 1983
Pink Floyd - Southampton Dock
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink Floyd - Not Now John
Rogers Waters - Money (Us + Them version)
Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset

[@sunnyxdays1036]

The album is a masterpiece .

[@peterchios9637]

Absolutely 🎼☮️👊🇨🇦

[@carpet163]

If I could perfectly describe what The Final Cut to me is, I'd say it's the music you listen to while driving out at night alone. It just hits that emotional spot of loneliness in a messed up world.

[@barry1369]

I got that feeling walking home. I decided to put it on and I thought it was perfect for when out alone at night

[@jeffreywallitsch5898]

you perfectly summed up exactly why I love this album LOL

[@Yusni-bc2cm]

"Your Possible Pasts" has one of the most underrated David's guitar solo.

[@sobbing_horse]

underrated tbh 🗿

[@creamydistortion]

Gilmour once said he did all the solos in a couple days. He called the album "substandard", but my goodness it's got some of his best playing on it!

[@peterwright5249]

An the final cut an fletcher monorail

[@WingoEthan]

My god. This video essay is on par with the likes of Polyphonic. It is a crime how few views it has and how few subscribers you have. Thank you for helping to bring attention to an unfortunately overlooked album with this fantastic analysis.

[@92manix]

Thank you for looking at The Final Cut! Fun fact: this was my first ever Pink Floyd album. I inherited it from my uncle on cassette. I was totally confused about how cassette players worked, so I accidentally played the second side of the tape where I first met the explosion playing. This is my favorite Pink Floyd album although I also love every other album from them.

[@perklle4624]

From the day it came out til this day, no album has ever mooved me more than this. It changed my life, thanks Waters.

[@meanmax9663]

This is one of my all-time favorite albums. I have listened to it from beginning to end probably hundreds of times. It is indeed an underrated masterpiece.

[@murraymusic2633]

Love this,album, always have, I was 16 when it was released, it caught my 'zeitgeist' and continues to do so... 'they flutter behind you, your possible pasts...'

[@imagamerful]

Great video, this should have 100K views. I love the final cut, it’s my 6th favourite Floyd album after meddle and the big four. Waters is extremely gifted at writing, some of his best work for sure

[@Craigevansagain]

I consider this album part of The Magnificent Seven; Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut.

[@kevinwolffart]

Wow, nicely covered. I've been hooked on this album since about a year before Amused to Death came out. I loved it in a vacuum for decades because no one else I knew seemed to. Not even self-proclaimed diehard fans. Some even tried to talk me out of liking it, lol. Great to see more people learning how good it is. And still wildly relevant

[@whointheside]

Wow, this video is an underrated gem! I totally agree with you, The Final Cut is not (only) an album, is a sad but wonderful experience

[@rileyfair550]

You had me crying at the gunners dream.

[@mozart9991]

I think it is absolutely a contender for best Pink Floyd album. I say that feeling like, as with The Beatles' albums, there is little point to picking a favorite, as they are so varied and each excels in terms of what it was meant to be. But I've always felt 'The Final Cut' was among the finest works by the band. I don't understand at all the hate it gets. It's like a Pink Floyd album wherein the synths have been replaced by classical instruments and I love it.

[@mozart9991]

Oh, and it absolutely buries everything that came from post-Waters Floyd.

[@glumonion1454]

@@mozart9991 was it a competition? I would listen to everything made in the Pink Floyd name after Roger left this rather than this. Even the Endless River.

[@mozart9991]

@@glumonion1454 “There is little point to picking a favorite … The Final Cut [is] AMONG the finest works by the band.” No, it was not a competition, as my comments reflect. Cheers.

[@glumonion1454]

@@mozart9991 I think your final line is the clincher for me and where I disagree with you and many other mainly younger Pink Floyd fans. I loved the keys synths and pianos of Richard Wright and the way he combined with the guitarists to create awesome soundscapes that didn’t need orchestral enrichment. For me this was the sound of Pink Floyd. While the classical instruments complemented Atom Heart Mother, on the Wall and the Final Cut the classical instruments drowned and replaced those brilliant soundscapes. These are the reasons I have less love for The Wall and The Final Cut, and prefer to listen to the post Roger albums than particularly The Final Cut. I agree with you that the Final Cut is awesome, but for me just doesn’t sound like, and isn’t really a Pink Floyd record, to a lesser extent the same applies to the Wall. They are written by, directed by and performed by Roger Waters and an army of other musicians with Gilmour guesting (Mason and Wright barely contributed, so hardly a band effort). The same can be said for David Gilmour on A Momentary Lapse of Reason, although he made a pretty good job at recreating (or forging) that Pink Floyd sound. As you say, it pointless having a favourite album, but just like the Beatles I have a favourite period, in their case Rubber Soul, Revolver and Pepper. In Pink Floyd’s case it’s Atom Heart Mother until Animals.

[@mozart9991]

@@glumonion1454 I actually agree with everything you said with one or two caveats. I think Pink Floyd albums are "perfect" from 'Meddle' through 'The Final Cut'. Of course, at the beginning of that run, they were a band of four equal parts and by the end they were increasingly a Roger Waters project, even ditching the genius Rick Wright on the last of those albums. My point is that it is not a matter of preference for one over the other. At times in my life, The Wall and The Final Cut were my favorite albums. At other times, I preferred Meddle, DSOTM and WYWH. Animals being truly the middle album of this change, as it was very much a Waters' affair, but most of which was written as the band even before the completion of WYWH. I'm saying I love them all. I love Rick's synths and I also love the marriage of rock and orchestral/classical music of The Wall and The Final Cut. I love much of the band's music before Meddle and even some after The Final Cut (but not much, to be honest), but the six albums from Meddle to Final Cut (Obscured By Clouds is also great, but a soundtrack that the band didn't consider a proper album - much like The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour), but that album stretch is "perfect" to me, just like The Beatles' output was perfect imho from Rubber Soul through Abbey Road, even as their music evolved and changed. Thanks for engaging. All the best.

[@stuartraybould6433]

Great video, nice to hear somebody else loves this album. Only bettered musically by Amused to Death but lyrically, The Final Cut is the greatest album ever made. I thought so at the time of release and still love it today, can bring me to tears sometimes and angry at others. A very special album, much more important that Dark Side or even The Wall.

[@glumonion1454]

If not for Dark Side of the Moon, this album wouldn’t have seen the light of day. This Album (and The Wall to a slightly lesser extent) is a completely different Animal to the Stuff before Pigs on the Wing. To me the Final Cut is a Roger Waters album with Gilmour guesting. It sits well with his solo career. There is no Pink Floyd on this and precious little of the Floyd Sound I grew up with and listened to since 1969. I like Roger Waters and his solo, and really admire his political stance, even though he tore my favourite band apart. I think Amused to death is Rogers best solo album which I include The Final Cut, but none of it comes close to the classic Pink Floyd era of Atom Heart Mother til Animals, but I am a Pink Floyd fan and you are a Roger Waters fan, so are bound to disagree.

[@paradiseoctagon21794]

I couldn't agree more with everything you're saying. The Final Cut is truly a masterpiece.

[@AliciaB.]

Thank you so much for posting this. I don't often hear someone say they like The Final Cut, let alone that it's their favourite album of all time. I'm pretty sure it's mine too , and I was so pleased by the ending of your video. The whole point of TFC is to express naked, profound feelings -dare I say, of an almost human nature- as simply & faithfully as possible, which is the most beautiful thing an artist can do and in my opinion the ultimate goal of all art. But it does call for a simple, straightforward, almost stripped back musical style, and that last line from Paranoid Eyes is one of the moments it's executed most perfectly. TFC is not meant to be pleasant or inventive, which seems to be what the people who crap on it get out of Pink Floyd, and the reason why they can say things like 'it's basically a Roger album' (so what ?) or 'it's sooo boring & uncreative' , 'it tarnishes the Pink Floyd legacy' while somehow having no problem with AMLOR & Division Bell ... 😐 I don't quite agree with your point that TFC isn't supposed to be as deep as Dark Side. Maybe you meant 'as broad' ? I don't think the lyrics in DSOTM are actually digging that deep, because they're not very thorough with their subjects, and I find they also kinda lack that vulnerability. Basically they sound more like generalizations made by an external observer than piercing personal accounts. They're still excellent though, and they do cover a wide range of topics. The Final Cut, however, goes into excruciating detail to express feelings as realistically as possible, and it takes the time to explore the causes & consequences of the situation it's describing. What I'm saying is, for a concept album to be deep, it needs to be somewhat focused. That might also be due to the fact that in 1972 Roger was still a young lyricist, and maybe a little bit shy & self-conscious ? Another thing. Have you seen Jojo Rabbit ? I haven't but I've seen MakeBetterMedia's analysis of it and I realized while watching your video that the portrayal of fascists as immature idiots that they've gone for in some scenes is actually quite similar to the 'Fletcher Memorial Home' video clip.

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

Glad you liked the video! I haven't seen Jojo Rabbit but I did see some trailers. Totally can see what you're saying.

[@elijahmgibbs]

@@ThisIsReadyMade Taika Waititi is such a hilarious Hitler

[@AMEER-114-]

​@@ThisIsReadyMade You really did a good job in your commentary and the whole construction of this video... Supposed floyd fans who dismiss or disparage this album are equal to all other mass media robots who have their perceptions basically shaped by what is intentionally fed to their exceedingly weak and moldable minds

[@jacobfedder6330]

i spent 22 years as a paratrooper . when this album came i understood deep downin my heart the meaning . in war there are no winners only survivors.

[@frmrchristian8488]

I agree, that this album is indeed a masterwork! It contains some of the very best Gilmour guitar licks and his tone throughout the album is my absolute favorite of his career. I've always been a huge fan of Waters' singing style. His voice can convey so many emotions, ranging from very tender and vulnerable to slightly sharp screams and notes sung in a higher register that can almost convey a feeling of psychopathy. Then, take all of that and juxtapose it to Gilmour's more mellow and relaxing breathy voice. The two compliment one another and form a complete package. But that's all just about the sound quality. The music composition alone on the album is just beautiful at times. Fantastic chord progressions and very well written melodies. The string and horn arrangements are excellent. To top it all off, Waters' amazing lyrical prowess is once more put on display. IMO this is one of those deep albums that doesn't necessarily have any "singles" or "hits" but is a journey you must experience. If you open your mind and get on this ride, listening to the work as an entire album, you will greatly be rewarded.

[@jor-di]

I looked at the views on this to see only 500?? This deserves so many more views. Holy shit. One, your production and the way you put everything together is absolutely god tier. Everything from using the font to finding so many clips to accompany your explanation is just *chef’s kiss*. This isn’t particularly a strong album for Waters’s vocally and I think that’s why many people turn it away. The story and emotion in each track is the reason why this is one of my favorite albums ever. Thank you for this. I appreciate it so much.

[@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382]

holy shit i teared up a bit at the end there. this might be my favourite video of yours.

[@Bryan-ce6bo]

Same and Idk why

[@harpermotorsports16]

Great video! As a 16 year-old I remember being very disappointed and not liking this album at all, probably because it followed up The Wall. But as I've grown older and listened to it a lot more, it has become my favorite Pink Floyd album!

[@vayres7512]

This album is a masterpiece.

[@TheZacharyMartinShow]

When you’re one of the few, to land on your feet, what do you do? To make ends meet?

[@michaelvessel4604]

Honestly, I've never really been the biggest fan of The Final Cut but this video really makes me want to give it another chance, man I think that I really didn't get it at all. Amazing video and beautiful analysis btw.

[@1OFantasma]

Man I was like the wall the best work but when I heard the final cut that was the best thing ever

[@robertoquiros4385]

Final cut is not junk to me.....open your narrow sick minds...and you'll be able to heard the beautiful record it is

[@jamesxboxgaming]

Obscured by clouds is also very overlooked

[@StingrayMk1]

I love this album. But it's hard to listen to as it is so sad. I listened to it heaps as a late teenager, in the late 80s. Not listened to it much in the intervening decades. Maybe 10 times. Two weeks ago I started playing the songs and singing them on my guitar. Never occurred to me to learn them before. Too sacred I guess. But I've been enjoying the process of revisiting this album and learning the music behind it. A bloody great Pink Floyd album.

[@MusicLover-dg3wg]

So glad someone said it. This album honestly took me a few listens to get into, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. Great video!

[@Joelster-og4pf]

Look… I can’t hate this record. I can’t dislike it. It’s a captivating listen and a great one at that. Your last comment at the end… “it’s vulnerable”.. that I so agree with. That totally fits the album work too.

[@frommetoyou1981]

Firstly, Thank you for this wonderful video. Brilliant. Done sir. It's my favourite Pink floyd album. It combines music, vision and literary to create a sad but beautiful, cinematic view of a post war world that has forgotten about the fundamental requirements of the human race - Love and compassion. "What have WE done to England? Should we shout? Should we scream? What happened to the post war dream?"

[@marcospacheli3144]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! you just said everything i ever wanted to say about this album but never had the, let me put this way, nerve to make the final cut's proper defense.

[@kevnar]

When so-called "fans" start gate-keeping who a band should be and what they should be all about, you get reviews like that. The absolute arrogance involved is staggering. But this is the world we live in now. Everybody wants to be catered to in absolutely everything, but they all have the attention span of a gnat. Anybody who tries to pander to these people winds up sounding like a mishmash of bland garbage.

[@creamydistortion]

Yes, it's an absolute pleasure to listen to, and it's very deep...

[@choptopshusband]

This is an amazing video. Even though TFC is low in my Floyd rankings I still think it’s a solid record. This is some of Roger’s best songwriting by far with the whole idea of turning leftover songs from The Wall into an anti-war concept album is brilliant to me. David and Nick are great as always (some underrated Gilmour solos on here) and some of my fav Floyd songs are on here like The Post War Dream, Your Possible Pasts, & The Gunner’s Dream. I think my issue with the record (and a lot of people I see share the same sentiments) is that the album starts to get a bit underwhelming sonically. I do agree the album needed to be slow for its concept, but after a while it starts to get a bit repetitive with some songs starting to blend in with each other not really being 100% engaging for me. Roger’s vocals are a mixed bag for me here as some songs he sounds amazing like the intro but songs like the title track it sounds like he’s trying too hard barely reaching the notes. Even though Michael Kamen did a great job on the piano, orchestra, and production, I do miss and feel the absence of Richard on keyboards. There’s really only one song I dislike on here and it’s Not Now John. Yeah lyrically it’s great with the critique of Japan and America after the war, it’s just sonically it always came off so corny to me sounding like great value version of Young Lust, I’ve never liked that shit. Besides that, every song on here is solid to even amazing. Me personally I prefer the Gilmour era stuff over this but still it’s a pretty good record especially with what was going on with the band at the time. I think Roger did a great job for what he could do and for the most part it works. It’s nowhere near as bad as some people say it is but at the same time I kinda get why it’s not for everyone (especially coming out after an album like the fucking Wall). I just wish it was a bit more consistent and engaging for me. Again great video!

[@RoyCosioVegantennis]

Its an amazing concept album....one of my all time fav

[@geoffreymerrifield5666]

The Final Cut is incredible. Some agree, some do not. No worries, there are things I dislike that others think is a masterpiece. Gilmour's guitar solos are at another level..

[@neoaeonmusick]

This is really great I never seen her explained to this extent and I've only seen a small amount of the video footage that goes along with the album.

[@edmess6372]

Great Album! I got it when it was originally released. I saw the film Pink Floyd The Wall in the film cinema. the final cut is one of my favorite old records

[@gwimbly519]

Final Cut is a beautiful album. It has some of my all time favorite pf songs: gunner's dream, the title track, and two suns in the sun set are all up there with the best from pf. It's an album that is hard to get on your first listen but it just gets better with time. It also is unfortunately as relevant today as it was when it first released.

[@WorseReviews]

Was it for _this_ that daddy died?

[@Yusni-bc2cm]

The title track is one of the band's best songs.

[@andrewwalker8757]

Yes I agree Pink Floyd best album. People don’t quit get it they don’t want to hear about Apathy for others

[@perklle4624]

My favorite album, notering will evere come close.

[@bellyofanarchitect]

My alltime fav too.

[@claudiocruzat8777]

It was in 1991 Or 92 I discovered a black cassette. during vacation i found a complete original tape. I was speechless.

[@thegigamaster8476]

Kudos to you for making this your channel deserves enough views/subs to actually match the quality of your content. You sir are an underrated gem

[@theskoolmustard00]

Thank you for making this, its my favorite PF record

[@pinkraven4402]

I honestly never ever understood why it's considered a very weak album. Like, dude, "The Post War Dream", "Your Possible Pasts", "Thr Fletcher Memorial Home", "The Gunner's Dream", "The Final Cut", "Two Suns In The Sunset" - these are FANTASTIC songs. "The Final Cut" is definitely one of the most beautiful pieces they ever released, the freaking solo in this one... JESUS. I definitely can see how you could think there's too much lyrical filler, but even then, I have no clue why people miss the songs mentioned above, this is golden man. And even if the album isn't perfect, it's still very ambitious and born from a place of love and bitter sadness

[@tednindo6761]

Even more relevant today than it was when it was created

[@AvanRoyOfficial]

Oh my god the concept oh my god hail roger waters

[@ultra_marcus]

I adored this album as a teenager in the mid 90's but sadly I've moved away from it, for me Roger's solipsism was a little to prevalent here, not just in his music but in his relationships with his band mates. I'd also go so far as to say The Fletcher Memorial home was an embarrassing evocation of his fathers memory and legacy, unlike When The Tigers Broke Free, which was dignified and Powerful. However, I very much enjoyed your appraisal. My favourite song in this collection of Wall rejects is probably The Gunners Dream.

[@TheMACnator]

At first I didn't really like this album, I found Roger's voice and random yells to be annoying. After some listens I started to kinda like it, but it was by far my least favourite PF album for sure. But time passed, and yesterday I finally decided to sit down and listen to the whole album with the lyrics... and wow. Beautiful. Also I am a very anti-war person so I related to the lyrics a lot. I listened to it again after watching your video and yeah, this is definitely a great album that I'm gonna keep coming back to. It's great, after listening to the whole Floyd discography, I can still find genius in their work :)

[@theralle]

The Final Cut is after The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon on of the BEST Album Pink Floyd ever made!!!! 😀 I love this Album too... 😀

[@neoaeonmusick]

#1 PF Album IMO

[@Craigevansagain]

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".

[@jimmorson9117]

Excellent review😁

[@nal3wka]

Greetings from Pink Floyd Comfortably Posting. Keep up the good work!

[@skippy1138]

Awesome video- I love "The Final Cut"......

[@hipikbb]

Best of the best!

[@JMK65]

A masterpiece!

[@steelypeanut]

Dude I just discovered your channel this morning and I love your content! These essay videos are legendary and the Pink Floyd memes are great! Keep on rocking!

[@davidbreen6335]

I like this album I don’t care what anybody says. It’s definitely interesting. I do have to say it is definitely a Roger Waters album backed up by Pink Floyd members. What’s interesting is that when it came out a lot of people who worshiped The Wall hated this record. That’s kind of strange given that a lot of these songs hence why even though the plot lines not similar, the direction is similar a lot of these songs were actually originally intended for The Wall But I believe it was Bob Ezrin, who rejected them and threw them aside which probably led to a very intense and problematic relationship between Roger Waters and Bob Ezrin as I did hear they fell out after The Wall Album was finished. Getting back to what I said though it’s interesting that diehard fans of The Wall hated this album for the reasons I talked about.

[@tobywilliams707]

I love this record

[@peterchios9637]

(MASTERPIECE) SHINE ON 💎 🎼☮️👊🇨🇦

[@P_-gv4bv]

Thank you for the video!

[@jakovkrezo6889]

thank you for helping me better understand this final cut. it was a bit hard since english isn't my first language but you explained it fairly good. i nearly cried when you said "some owergrown infant thought this was wort it and now death of thousends is assured." i really felt that, as it is mostly present reality we are afraid of. again thank you very much for your words, this video is as beautiful as the album. love it

[@matthewashbrook9077]

It's interesting you said The Final Cut is overshadowed by the drama that surrounded it's recording... that's the reason I didn't listen to it for so long, but I think overall it's a great record.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

Beautiful stuff, man. I really hope this video blows up, no pun intended.

[@joe18425]

Best track is a toss up between Gunners dream & two suns in the sunset. With 'not now john' coming in third. PS: DO RADIO KAOS NEXT !

[@TheZacharyMartinShow]

The Heroes Return

[@jatropha9771]

Brilliant album!!!

[@chemofloyd]

Excelente trabajo! Debería se mucho más conocido, gracias por postearlo! Y tienes toda la razón, este álbum es una joya de principio a fin, oscuramente brillante!

[@lukaspenarol]

Te best PF albun imo 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@curtisk2286]

Been saying this for years. I would rarely find someone who'd ever heard of the album, people that liked and knew PF?!

[@edoetschedoetsch]

The single best anti-war album I have ever heard. Hugh Floyd fan. One if the best. Too bad the band was so disheveled at the time as it might have been even better. Gilmore's solos are powerful. Fletcher Memorial Home should actually be created and send the war mongers there!

[@pinkraven4402]

I don't know how you can listen to Gilmour's solos on this LP and ignore it

[@bessie1854]

Bought the album when it came out, was disappointed and did not care for it back in 1983 and still don't care for it very much.

[@hermanmunster3358]

For me, this is more of a Pink Floyd album than Momentary Lapse ever was, and certainly more so than The Division Bell, despite the musicality and themes of those albums, and Rick's contributions, which I would NEVER discount. And let's not mention The Endless River, which to me is just a collection of cutting room floor offcasts from The Division Bell, it is AWFUL, and to be perfectly honest, should have been swept up and discarded, along with the empty coke cans, and fish and chip wrappers from those earlier sessions... Nice album cover though! The Final Cut, for me, has a great deal of emotional content, and it DOES have a cohesive theme of The British Working class being fuc*ed over, and forgotten about by the Ruling Elites, all the sacrifices made during the industrial revolution, then the wars we have been involved in, seem not to matter one iota. And British people especially, just feel like they have been swept aside, as foreign imports and cultures supplant our own. Alongside our efforts as a people to make Britain a great country! That is what this album represents for me. The theme could, I guess, apply to other countries. But to me, this very much tells a tale of how the British Ruling Elites in particular, have always treated the Working Classes, with utter disdain and ambivolence. I suppose the only other album that comes close to having a similar theme is DSOTM, which was way ahead of its time imo, and quite visionary. As DSOTM in retrospect, seems to predict the greed and excesses of 1980's Britain, with the emergence of Yuppie culture. But The Final Cut is a Standout album for me, and I actually prefer it to The Wall, so it definitely makes my Top Five Pink Floyd works.

[@chefbrittan84]

I hated this album when I was younger, now I'm in my 40's and I really enjoy it.

[@BootlegLizard]

Beautifully made video

[@zeezrawesome132]

Great album. May not be the greatest out of Pink Floyd albums but dang I’ve listened to the Final Cut quite a bit.

[@thechaosbringer858]

Holy fuck you startled me almost as much as "In The Flesh?". You can't just interrupt soft music by shouting, "AFTER THE WALL WAS RELEASED!!!"

[@JohnSmith-ys3wc]

Good take on the album. Thanks

[@Bryan-ce6bo]

Omega swag

[@larryflaco8320]

If the Final Cut was a movie then Nostalgia Critic would bash it into Oblivion

[@mr.blue7357]

100% Agree

[@ashisaweeb]

yeah but is it The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn? yeah didnt think so.

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

yeah yeah wheres the video you said you were making from like 5 months ago lol

[@ashisaweeb]

@@ThisIsReadyMade soon fool

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

@@ashisaweeb better be soon

[@kidpesto]

nice vid!

[@randyruble5903]

roger was pink floyd, they sure sucked without him, n i love em both

[@Dave_Murr]

Well done.

[@meowmixe]

I understand why this one gets overlooked. Believe me, it was a lot to absorb as an 11 year old buying his first record. But I watched a lot of hard news, 60 minutes type stuff. So this was all topical: Falkland war, Maggie, Inflation, depressed wages, imports rising over domestics. Like myself, this one really works for those that like it. IMHO it has great depth and flow. Kind of like a Foley soundstage at times. Two suns in the sunset is my personal favorite. No Rick Wright on the album just leaves me wanting to hear what his parts would have sounded like.

[@Craigevansagain]

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.

[@Craigevansagain]

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.

[@mickcarver1672]

I missed Wright on this record for sure. And the Waters, Gilmour balance definitely is skewed towards Waters. But Gilmour IS still there and he does help to balance Waters with his trademark, emotional and melodic guitar work. It is so hard to pick my fave Floyd album. Impossible really. WYWH has some of the best songs ever written. DSOTM is without genre and unable to classify in its brilliance, influence, and longevity. The Wall is also easily one of their best albums. But there is something about the Final Cut that makes it my favorite Floyd album cover to cover. Different for sure, but isn't that why this run of Floyd albums is so brilliant? DSOTM, WYWH, The Wall are all unique and aren't a tired band repeating themselves. So why is the fact that the Final Cut is different, dark, and less energetic make it inferior?

[@alfrulez2985]

I sleept watching this videos (not your fault) and wake up listening to RHCP(???

[@GIBKEL]

Has anyone asked why Richard had been hired as a session man….his choice, a compromise or ? I really love Rogers work but it has to have been the worst of times.

[@slumdogjay]

When Roger asked him to leave the band during the recording of The Wall he agreed as long as he could finish the album and play on the tour. He had officially left so he was just paid as a session musician for the concerts. Worked in his favour though because he made more money than the official members of PF as they lost a lot of money putting The Wall shows on.

[@martinb.1122]

I can't say I agree. your ending statement, that it isn't another TDSOTM, is something I totally agree with but I wouldn't say that it is an underrated gem. It's too depressing, honestly. The themes and presented Problems are all important but I don't think that is where pink Floyd shines the brightest. the final cut is in my opinion "a worse version of the Wall", while the Wall found the sweet-spot between banger instrumental parts and lyrical expression the final cut was too onesided, if I think of the final cut there are basically only two parts that immediately come to mind: 1.) that part in The Gunners Dream where the vocals lead to a great sax solo 2.) Not now John in general I feel like the final cut in general lacks grandeur, with the wall I sometimes just want to put on headphones, lie back and enjoy the ride, there you can really feel the music shivering through you. ( same with Animals, WYWH, and TDSOTM). With the Final Cut in don't want to do that, maybe with the Parts mentioned above but not the whole album. Sometimes I just don't want to get too deep into the whole meaning.

[@AliciaB.]

It's not the type of experience YOU want to get out of music. That doesn't mean it's not a gem of an album

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

its more like the wall

[@Craigevansagain]

The Final Cut means more to me and moves me more than the last 3 so-called Pink Floyd albums (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, The Division Bell and Endless River) ever will.

[@skwerrul]

You missed the basics of this song. Is this for why Jesus was crucified. Is this why my daddy died. Since the dawn of time, evangelical folks have been colonizers and wanted to convert the world. This is the existence of war. Us and them.

[@oliviergeoffroy9823]

it's not pink floyd it's obvious ... but few tracks are good like the final cut and not now john the production is amazing but the anger of roger waters is borderline however i like roger waters anger he speaks true ...but just sometimes ..;-))

[@Unfkngbelievable]

3 - 5 dummies

[@matthewkeith9889]

Understanding is key to any debate and you don't understand this album, you think the final cut is a Pink Floyd album, it isn't.

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

With all due respect, the argument that “some Pink Floyd albums aren’t Pink Floyd albums” is a reductionist statement that’s purpose is to discredit the work on the album for reasons not related to the music. TFC was an album made by Floyd. It was possible due to where the band was at the time after the In The Flesh/Wall tours among other factors such as the politics of the time. It also featured the then current members and while Waters receives all credits, each member contributes to the feel and compositions. The most blatant reasoning is the bands name on the cover. At the end of the day this was promoted and sold as Pink Floyd. It’s a part of the discography. You may not like the music, which is fine, but to say that it doesn’t deserve the name is more than anything a biased interpretation of why that album exists. To say something like “this album doesn’t count as them because ______” asks for a hierarchy of musical “purity.” It’s a way of gate keeping for whatever means. Correct, understanding is key, but this notion of yours which is used to discredit the efforts of the band shows little of it in my personal opinion. Would love to hear your side to it in this friendly debate.

[@raelimperialaerosolkid]

wrong it SUCKS