Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons of Going Solo

 

That would be right about now at 5:01am.

 

The title track and my favourite song from the album.

 

Hi,

"Amused to Death" is (for me) his best solo album. It has a lot more material that anyone can select and play within a rock show. After that, I would select "Radio Kaos", solely because it is true and right on, even if it was just a thing about Jim Ladd and some of his adventures in LA the most famous of which was the night that the number 1 FM Rock station disappeared only to become a new wave station 5 minutes later ... nothing was ever said, meaning that many folks got a pay out to say nothing, and life continued and in a place like LA with so many incendiary bands and stuff ... no one gave a damn. That makes "Radio Kaos" way more important, but in the end it signified the end of "FM Radio's" importance and how some corporate folks thought about the whole thing ... they didn't care about the music or the work that had been done into getting into number 1.

So when you hear ... "radio waste" ... you know what it means, but the funny/weird thing is that RW never said anything about the BBC, which was worse than the American c**terpart corporations, who at least ... (big fisting deal!!!) had an hour or two per week ... let's see 24x7 equals and they only play one of two hours?

I have not heard, in its entirety, the last album and won't comment on it until I listen to it. But, honestly, I have not gotten the CD's of a couple of the albums, because there are a lot more things I want to get that are way more interesting than RW ... and another version of The Wall ... not even for toilet paper, thank you!

Overall, I'd choose In the Flesh (2000) as my favourite Roger Waters album.

 

"Is This the World We Really Want" has passed under my radar, so it is one yet to explore... I've always liked The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and listen to it regularly in my car, but I think indeed that Amused to Death is his best.

I'm less impressed by his (or PFs) soundtrack work.

most of that live album is Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't mention it as relevant Roger Waters solo. 

the live album? 

Yes, it's a live album and it's one of the best concerts I've ever seen, having watched it again this afternoon. 

 

I wasn't sure if I'm still allowed to post the full concert here, so I've provided the YouTube link instead.

most of that live album is Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't mention it as relevant Roger Waters solo. 

That's true, although the concert doesn't  feature any other members of Pink Floyd in the flesh.

it's just Roger(and his band) doing Floyd and some of his solo work, but PF music dominates. 

I don't know about you, but I've always considered The Wall and The Final Cut to be Roger Waters solo projects anyway, and not collaborative Pink Floyd albums.

The piece of work which became Pros and Cons was presented to the rest of the band alongside demos of The Wall.

The latter was preferred over the former.

Waters then went on to overwhelmingly make The Final Cut and then only recorded Pros and Cons as a solo piece after he left Floyd.

Pros and Cons was never going to be a Floyd album once The Wall was decided upon as the album in 1979.