The Final Cut (album)

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'''''The Final Cut''''' is a rock Veronika Zemanova album by comedy ringtones Pink Floyd recorded at several studios in the Anetta Keys United Kingdom/UK from July to December hiphop ringtones 1982.

Introduction

The Tawny Roberts vinyl record/LP was released in the UK on Nextel ringtones March 21, Zdenka Podkapova 1983 and then in the Free ringtones United States/US on Busty Milly April 2. ''The Final Cut'' reached #1 on the UK album charts and #6 in the US. On Cingular Ringtones May 23, 1983, ''The Final Cut'' went villa borghese Gold album/Gold and Platinum and then Double Platinum on creation in January 31, the rudiment 1997.

Originally scheduled as the film soundtrack for the band's movie ''now baby The Wall'', it evolved into a new gov kirk concept album, railing against war, and subtitled ''A Requiem for the Post War Dream.''

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*One seems to be Water's view on world affairs at the moment (Tracks 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 12). Much of this was formed by the ban second Falklands War, and condemns universe closing Margaret Thatcher, space more Ronald Reagan, and villahermosa this Menachem Begin, among others. He also espouses his views of his proper world, and ends the album with a nuclear holocaust he fears might happen.

*Also there is of short story of a WW II veteran's mental plight (Tracks 2-4, 6, 10), presumably because of being involved in the bombing of consideration said Dresden. The tracks then feature him dealing with memories of the war (Your Possible Pasts), taking out his problems on schoolchildren (One of the Few, The Hero's Return), lamenting his life (Paranoid Eyes), and coming close to killing himself (The Final Cut).

"Not Now John" was released as a single (with the chorus' "fuck all that" williams accepted overdub/overdubbed as "stuff all that"), backed by an extended version of "The Hero's Return". There was also a video EP, with film accompaniment for four of the songs, directed by Waters' then brother-in-law.

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Track listing

=On the original release=
#"The Post War Dream" - 3:02
#"Your Possible Pasts" - 4:22
#"One of the Few" - 1:23
#"The Hero's Return" - 2:56
#"The Gunner's Dream" - 5:07
#"Paranoid Eyes" - 3:40
#"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" - 1:19
#"The Fletcher Memorial Home" - 4:11
#"Southampton Dock" - 2:13
#"The Final Cut" - 4:46
#"Not Now John" - 5:01
#"Two Suns in the Sunset" - 5:14

=On the 2004 re-release=
#"The Post War Dream" - 3:00
#"Your Possible Pasts" - 4:26
#"One of the Few" - 1:11
#"When the Tigers Broke Free" - 3:16
#"The Hero's Return" - 2:43
#"The Gunner's Dream" - 5:18
#"Paranoid Eyes" - 3:41
#"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" - 1:17
#"The Fletcher Memorial Home" - 4:12
#"Southampton Dock" - 2:10
#"The Final Cut" - 4:45
#"Not Now John" - 4:56
#"Two Suns in the Sunset" - 5:23

All songs composed by Roger Waters.

Personnel
*David Gilmour - guitar and vocals
*Roger Waters - bass and vocals
*Nick Mason - drums
*Michael Kamen - piano harmonium
*Andy Brown - hammond organ
*Ray Cooper - percussion
*Andy Newmark - drums on "Two Suns..."
*Raphael Ravenscroft - tenor sax
*The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted and arranged by Michael Kamen

Quotes

"''The Final Cut'' was absolutely misery to make, although I listened to it of late and I rather like a lot of it. But I don't like my singing on it. You can hear the mad tension running through it all. If you're trying to express something and being prevented from doing it because you're so uptight...It was a horrible time. We were all fighting like cats and dogs. We were finally realising - or accepting, if you like - that there was no band. It was really being thrust upon us that we were not a band and had not been in accord for a long time. Not since 1975, when we made ''Wish You Were Here''. Even then there were big disagreements about content and how to put the record together [...] It sold three million copies, which wasn't a lot for the ''Pink Floyd''. And as a consequence, Dave Gilmour went on record as saying, "There you go: I knew he was doing it wrong all along." But it's absolutely ridiculous to judge a record solely on sales. If you're going to use sales as the sole criterion, it makes Grease a better record than Graceland."
: - Roger Waters, June 1987, to Chris Salewicz

"Well, this has been my beef for years, I mean always has been one of my beefs about what we do is that the balance has to be maintained. I've said it hundreds of times, ad nauseam I've said it - it's the balance between the words and the music I think is a very important thing and that's what I think we lost very much on ''The Final Cut''."
: - David Gilmour, Australian Radio, February 1988

External link
* http://www.pinkfloyd-co.net/disco/tfc/tfc_album.html
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