Track Listing

1. The Post War Dream
2. Your Possible Pasts
3. One Of The Few
4. When The Tigers Broke Free
5. The Hero's Return
6. The Gunner's Dream
7. Paranoid Eyes
8. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
9. The Fletcher Memorial Home
10. Southampton Dock
11. The Final Cut
12. Not Now John
13. Two Suns In The Sunset

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2902 in Music
• Published on: 2004
• Released on: 2004-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

A very good album, though it doesn't sound like 70s Floyd
Most Floyd fans (but not this one) agree that the group did their best work from 1973 to 1979. What to make of the later albums under the Pink Floyd name is a lot more difficult. To some, Roger Waters was the heart and soul of the band; the Final Cut is a masterpiece, or close to it, and the less said about what came afterward the better. To others, the Final Cut was a hideous misstep and the following work was an appropriate return to the "true Floyd style."

I don't really have a dog in that argument - I prefer my Floyd of the late 60s, early 70s vintage. Without getting into whether a "true Floyd style" really exists, this is a nice album that doesn't sound much like their previous work. Despite some stylistic similarities; a lot of the cheesy, late 70s glitz and bombast of The Wall is stripped away. What's left is largely a Waters solo album. The contributions by Nick Mason are negligible; Dave Gilmour offers some classic guitar solos ("The Fletcher Memorial Home" and "The Final Cut" are among his best) and a vocal on the awful "Not Now John". And though the arrangements are very nice (including some wild loud-soft dynamics - be careful with that volume knob), with the exception of an occasional saxophone or guitar solo there are few significant instrumental interludes.

As far as Waters - he manages to avoid the over-the-top, high-concept pretentions of The Wall and The Pros & Cons of Hitch-hiking. There's lots of truly moving music here - "The Hero's Return", "The Gunner's Dream", "Paranoid Eyes", "Southampton Dock", "The Final Cut". "Two Suns of the Sunset" has some of the best lyrics he wrote under the Floyd moniker, mostly free of the excessive bitterness that often crept into his work.

If you go into this album without expecting it to be Dark Side or Wish You Were Here part 2, there's a pretty good chance you will appreciate it.

CD for son
I bought this cd for my son because he loves The Wall so much. I just knew he would like it and I was right he plays it ALL the time.

Like all great works of art.....
...you don't always get it at first. In 1983 when THE CUT was released, I was as excited as I imagine most Floyd fans were and ran right out and bought the record. Well, I was 15 years old, and the whole thing was lost on me! I hated it, excepting "Not Now John", the albums only faster-paced rocker-and put it away for years.
Then one day, I ran into an old friend and we started talking about the Floyd-The Cut came up and after telling him my feelings on the album, he strongly suggested I give it another chance-and I'm very glad I did! This record is teeming with beauty and feeling-And although the contributions from the other band members are more as studio musicians than writers, the performances are unbelievable-Mason's drumming is at it's most powerful and precise-and Gilmour's solos and lead vocal on "Not Now John" are among the most emotionally charged of anything Floyd ever did. Of course, it took two keyboard players and an orchestra to replace Rick Wright...This album bleeds with feeling, quite possibly a projection of the musicians realization that the end was here. But they performed their parts like consumate professionals, and with tons of heart and soul.
This album is an emotional roller-coaster, conceived brilliantly and concisely. Like all the great Floyd albums from "Meddle" through The Cut, it has a life and personality all it's own-You can't compare "Dark Side Of The Moon" to "Animals", and you can't compare The Cut to any other Floyd creation. I will tell you one thing, though-If you don't run the gamut of emotion that Roger Waters intends, from sadness to anger to humor and back, maybe you should just walk away, and come back later when, well, you've grown up a little more.