Pink Floyd: The Final Cut.

lazland wrote: JD wrote: Just finished the re-listening of this one and to be honest, there's a reason I remembered Not Now John, it's the only one worth remembering. It would have fit well in The Wall, but then it would have had to be a triple LP/CD and I don't think anyone wants that. Now that I've heard the whole thing I don't regret for a moment getting rid of the LP. When it was released as a single in the UK, the lyrics were changed from “f**k all that” to “stuff all that”, this to protect the delicate sensibilities of the British yoof.

I recall that the sanitised version even got some airplay on a couple of New York FM stations. For about a week.

I used to love it. Played during the first Gulf war. Now it's hard to sit through.
You can see a thread between Wish You Were Here and Animals as it's still the Pink Floyd band. The same band can be heard on The Wall.
But the thread between The Wall and The Final Cut isn't a thread. It's more rusted barbed wire.
Checking the connections and the band must have really been destroyed trying to get Pink Floyd The Wall Movie up and running.
Your Possible Pasts I like. Two Suns In The Sunset.
But if the band had seemingly ran out of ideas and couldn't collaborate as well.
Then... Well it came out as a Pink Floyd album. And that was that.

Not among my favourites from Floyd, by a long shot, but it's still got some really great songs. Among them, The Hero's Return is particularly frustrating, because it's so short... but I was able to download a single version of it, that includes, parts 1 AND 2 together, making the song long enough to be enjoyable... why it was left out of the album, and why was it not included when the album was reissued with When the Tigers Broke Free included (if only they had also included that whole song, I would have actually bought the album again).

I feel Gilmour should have sang more. But that's impossible as he just wasn't into the material. "Call me when you need a guitar solo".
It just doesn't sound like a band album.

Hmmm. Maybe Unpsychedelic Paul would be better.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Worst album Floyd ever released, the only one I've ever gotten rid of. Should have been a Waters solo album.