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I'am sick and tired of the controversy bewteen Pink FLoyd. All these people fighting over who did all the work on each album.



I personaly LOVE this album, but I also love Piper at the gates of dawn. ahhh! Now theres Syd, the original main man, and heres Roger, our new main man. See how i like BOTH?!?



Pink Floyd are a truly amazing band. Each one of there albums sound almost nothing like the one they did before that.....example----compare Wish you were here with Animals, or Meddle to Atom Heart mother. ALL OF THEM are insanely awsome. I dont make any controversy over...oh this is Roger...or ohh this is all Gilmour! PINK FLOYD IS PINK FLOYD!



I hope you have seen my point.



But then again...im only 14.

I love floyd but...

The music is to me, to far and few between. It's like listening to poetry with a little bit of background music. I can get in to it if I try but it's a real effort, almost laborious. Nothing about this cd draws me in like every other Floyd album out there. The lyrics are great but personally I need the floyd magic in the music as well. There just simply is no musical adventure to me. Dry and too plain for such magnificent musicians. I know many will dissagree but that's ok. This is my viewpoint as I know others view this as a masterpiece. I give it 2 stars although I actually will not listen to this cd anymore.

Replica LP format??

Good album. I like it better than R.Water's next solo project, but it is not as memorable as some of the early Floyd albums. The imagery of the lyrics is good, and invokes several of the themes from The Wall.



I'm curious if this particular Import is in the replica LP format or not. Can someone please confirm. thanks.

The only new song is "When The Tigers Broke Free"

From what I can understand, the difference is the addition of the song "When The Tigers Broke Free" that was used in "The Wall" film. This song is about the death of Roger Waters father in WWII. It's suppose to be different from the version from "Echoes."

From the "Brain Damage" website: "The reason of this reprint is because the album is now on the EMI label worldwide. Until now, Sony Music owned the rights for North America, Japan, etc... and EMI wanted a new version to celebrate the return to its catalogue. The main change, in this version, is represented by the addition of "When The Tigers Broke Free". As you know, Tigers was recorded for The Wall film. It was originally destined for The Final Cut album, but at the end it was discharged, it was too much linked to Roger.



EMI suggested inserting this song on the reprint of TFC, and both Roger and the band approved it. A copy of the album was done, placing "Tigers" into the sequence in four different points to find the best place. Finally the copy was sent to Roger and he decided. We then did a new mix of the song, starting from 16-track tapes of the film soundtrack (a different mix from the "Echoes" one) and we inserted it into the sequence using a cross-fading effect. The other mixes are the originals.



We mastered all starting from original analogue tapes, using a special machine built by Tim de Paravicini. It used a valve EQ (by Tim too), linked to a "Gold Series" A/D converter from Dan Lavry Engineering. The album was compiled in SADiE. This version of The Final Cut has the best sound it ever has had on CD..."

The link: http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/general/feb04news.html



This is my favorite PF album. I loved the way Roger sang on it. I will buy this version when I get some money. I hope this helps.

This Is A Great Album

The Guy Who Said That This Is The Lowest On The Pink Floyd Scale"YOU ARE A IDIOT".I Would Not Recommend This To New Pink Floyd Fans But Roger Waters Is Pink Floyd And You Clearly Don't Know Or appericiate His Lyrics.

Waters' dark farewell to Floyd gets LP sleeve treatment

Pink Floyd's The Final Cut was originally released in April of 1983.

The album was the first Pink Floyd album of new material since 1979's 23 million plus seller The Wall. The album was mainly the work of Roger Waters(bass player/vocals) with muted contribution from drummer Nick Mason and guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour. Keyboardist Rick Wright was kicked out the band during The Wall sessions by Waters. The Final Cut was supposed to be the soundtrack to The Wall movie but instead became a gloomy vivid portrait of a morally crumbling post-WWII/Falklands War era England. The album is fixated on the second World War and what the personal and societal sacrifices of that conflict meant to Great Britain in 1982/1983.

"What have we done to England?/Should we shout, should we scream/'What happened to the post war dream?'" lyricist Roger Waters asks on the opening The Post War Dream. Throughout the album, Roger(whom had lost his father in World War II) explores that inquiry. Your Possible Pasts are taking shots at then UK and US leaders Thatcher and the late Ronald Reagan, which dates this song slightly. The main character in this album is the teacher from The Wall whom was disappointed in the generation they preserved (One of the Few and The Hero's Return), trying to keep a fellow serviceman's dream alive(The Gunner's Dream which is one of the album's best tracks), pursued by ghosts (the first half closer Paranoid Eyes).

The second half kicks off with Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert is great and is followed by my favorite song on the album The Fletcher Memorial Home which depicted Thatcher and Reagan as overgrown infants and tyrants(though I did like Reagan but c'est la vie). Southampton Dock was about Thatcher waving goodbye to the men and not about wives waving their husbands goodbye to go to war. The title cut is a great song too. Not Now John is a superb rocker and was the only Gilmour vocal on the record(him and Roger fought like mad and David took his name off the credits but still got paid to produce the album). The haunting Two Suns in the Sunset closed the album. Session Andy Newmark plays drums on this track as Nick was forced out as well.

By the time this album was finished, Pink Floyd broke up. The album was a #1 album in the UK but in the US, The Final Cut hit #6 and sold a modest 2 million in the US but was a flop compared to its predecessor.

In May of 2004, The Final Cut was reissued/rereleased with a slightly amended tracklisting featuring When the Tigers Broke Free, which was originally recorded for The Wall Movie and intended to go on The Final Cut but was left off as they felt the song was out of place. Ironically, the song works very well throughout the context of the album. At first, it was strange hearing this track after One of the Few because the clocks faded and then bang into The Hero's Return on the original Columbia issues. Now, with Tigers in tow, this is the true version of The Final Cut.

The sound quality on this reissue buries the original Sony remaster from 1997 and James Guthrie(one of three co-producers on the original album) painstakingly remastered this album with much better sound. I sold the Sony version of this album after I bought this.

In June of 2004, EMI in Japan released The Final Cut in a miniature LP sleeve which has all of the original LP artwork including the picture labels on the record. On the sleeve it is the original 1983 EMI LP tracklisting as When the Tigers Broke Free is not listed.

This expanded/Japanese deluxe version of The Final Cut is highly recommended!