Bitter, dour, politically volatile songs, full of distrust of the past and a grim, peculiarly English fear about what the future would hold: It was The Wall, with all of the illusory feel-good moments cast aside. The Final Cut, when Roger Waters saw the inherent problems with the rise of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s and for one moment found himself in perfect agreement with bands like Crass. Gilmour hated it, of course, and would take the band in a much more pedestrian direction after Waters left (see: The Division Bell), but what made The Final Cut really excel was never about what David Gilmour brought. Waters himself had the best explanation:
"The Final Cut was about how, with the introduction of the Welfare State, we felt we were moving forward into something resembling a liberal country where we would all look after one another...but I'd seen all that chiselled away, and I'd seen a return to an almost Dickensian society under Margaret Thatcher"
(From Comfortably Numb - The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, Mark Blake, 2008)
Where You'd Know It From: Your dad's Pink Floyd collection, your stoner buddy's Pink Floyd collection, your Pink Floyd collection (you pothead). It's Pink Floyd. I imagine you've heard of them? No? Too plebian for you?
Track Listing:
1. The Post War Dream (3:00)
2. Your Possible Pasts (4:26)
3. One Of The Few (1:11)
4. When The Tigers Broke Free (3:16)
5. The Hero's Return (2:42)
6. The Gunner's Dream (5:18)
7. Paranoid Eyes (3:41)
8. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (1:17)
9. The Fletcher Memorial Home (4:12)
10. Southampton Dock (2:10)
11. The Final Cut (4:45)
12. Not Now John (4:56)
13. Two Suns In The Sunset (5:20)
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("The Postwar Dream")
("When The Tigers Broke Free")
("The Fletcher Memorial Home")
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