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Any Colour You Like 
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 Posted: September 21 2009 at 23:26 |
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Why should he have to make another album?
Don't forget that the process of making an album is not an easy one, and Roger isn't exactly a young un' anymore.
I'd have also thought that his discography would have spoken for itself by now too.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 23:23 |
How does writing a freaking opera not count as making an album just because it's not that album you wanted?
I thought Ca Ira wasn't bad, but then again I only listened to it once (for free via Ruckus) and I don't feel the need to buy it.
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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russellk
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 23:08 |
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Because he doesn't have anything new to say.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 22:59 |
The guy has 65 years, he has been musically active for 45 years if I'm not wrong, has earned all the money and recognition he needs...................Let him enjoy life!!!!
If he wants to write an Opera, a Cantata or anything he wants...Allow him, he has gained that right.
BTW: I wish I was 10% clueless as David Gilmour, maybe he isn't worried about politics as Roger, but it's his choice...For God's sake, I'm tired to see how one man who has done so much for Rock and Prog as David, is bashed to praise another genius who doesn't need help.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 21 2009 at 23:01
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Epignosis
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 22:39 |
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Because last time I checked, he wasn't a slave.
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Dellinger
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 21:48 |
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A few years ago I had read that he was indeed working on an album. It was even stated that it would be a double album, on one CD he would touch war issues (or political, I don't quiet remember now) and on the other CD he would thouch Love issues. I even think I read, when he played Each Small Candle and Flickering Flame in his tours, that those were supposed to be included in a forthcoming album. I'm still waiting.
Ofcourse I would also love to see the original shows of The Wall in DVD.
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CryoftheCarrots
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 21:34 |
"even the practically clueless David Gilmour "
Ouch!!
Wish I had a micron of his cluelessness !  |
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"There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about"
MJK
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 20:21 |
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I heard he was working on a Broadway play version of The Wall. I'm hoping like hell that fell apart, I can't bear the thought of that album being discussed on the Today Show, or the thought of him "injecting some humor" into The Wall as I heard him say once. Instead of trying to wreck The Wall he should be working on getting out a high quality DVD of the live shows from the original tour. Now that would be a good use of Roger's time.
Maybe he doesn't feel he has a great album in him, in which case, it's a blessing that he doesn't just pump out more product like too many old farts.
Yeah, I know, that's cynical.....hey, I'm all for it if the music is great.
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RoyFairbank
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 20:07 |
Ran out of space there. This thread is for real ROG fans who sort of understand what I mean! - Roger Waters hasn't released an album since 1992 (Amused to Death!)
- He released two updated political tracks in 2004 (Leaving Beirut and To Kill A Child)
- In 2007 he released a fillerish song for a movie track entitled Hello I Love You
- Earlier (before 2004) he had released one or two songs (for instance Each Small Candle)
excuse my shouting, but: WHERE IS MY ALBUM! He did release that opera who I do not care to name... that doesn't count. - Those who have followed Roger will know he tours frequently and impressively,
- also that he is much more political and a whole lot smarter than he ever was.
- He has become quite an imposing intellectual with a good historical consciousness (his awful opera is an example).
- He said in an interview in 2008 that he mainly continues touring for political reasons.
Now, with the recession and expanding wars in Afganistan and now Pakistan and the great crisis of modern society... why isn't Roger Waters in the recording studio? I mean, even the practically clueless David Gilmour got an "album" cut in 06. Even Richard Wright was working on an album and Nick Mason wrote a great book! Why why why? What events, personal situations, changes etc. forced Roger to abandon studio work (he has done quite a bit at various times this decade) and make virtually the only really political progster silent at such an important time? What do proggers out there think a Roger Waters album would look like circa 2010 anyway? BTW in the ancient guys coming up with new albums category , thanks to Peter Gabriel at least for the brilliant Burn You Up, Burn You Down on Big Blue Ball. It may not be an album, but it rocks! No thanks to the WHO, for their flat as H Endless Wire in 2006. 
Edited by RoyFairbank - September 21 2009 at 20:08
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Why why why hasn't Roger Waters released an album?
