The Final Cut (2011 Remastered Version) Pink Floyd

• 1 The Post War Dream (2011 Remastered Version) 02:59
• 2 Your Possible Pasts (2011 Remastered Version) 04:23
• 3 One Of The Few (2011 Remastered Version) 01:14
• 4 When The Tigers Broke Free (2011 Remastered Version) 03:17
• 5 The Hero's Return (2011 Remastered Version) 02:42
• 6 The Gunner's Dream (2011 Remastered Version) 05:18
• 7 Paranoid Eyes (2011 Remastered Version) 03:41
• 8 Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (2011 Remastered Version) 01:16
• 9 The Fletcher Memorial Home (2011 Remaster) 04:09
• 10 Southampton Dock (2011 Remastered Version) 02:09
• 11 The Final Cut (2011 Remastered Version) 04:47
• 12 Not Now John (2011 Remastered Version) 04:59
• 13 Two Suns In The Sunset (2011 Remastered Version) 05:18
• Total Runtime 46:12

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The Final Cut is the 12th studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 2 April in the United States through Harvest and Columbia Records. It comprises unused material from the previous Pink Floyd album, The Wall (1979), alongside new material recorded throughout 1982.

The Final Cut was the last Pink Floyd album to feature founding member Roger Waters, who departed from the band in 1985. It is also the only Pink Floyd album not to feature founding member and keyboardist Richard Wright, who left the band after the Wall sessions. The recording was plagued by conflict; guitarist David Gilmour felt many of the tracks were not worthy of inclusion, but Waters accused him of failing to contribute material himself. Drummer Nick Mason's contributions were mostly limited to sound effects.

"The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention. This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall and the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievement of some kind -- there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work (apart from Waters' own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core). That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that it's the album that Waters intended it to be. And it's equally clear that Pink Floyd couldn't have continued in this direction -- Waters had no interest in a group setting anymore, as this record, which is hardly a Floyd album in many respects, illustrates. Distinctive, to be sure, but not easy to love and, depending on your view, not even that easy to admire." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

David Gilmour, lead and rhythm guitars (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10-12), co-lead vocals (11), additional backing vocals
Nick Mason, drums (1, 2, 4-5, 8, 10-11), tape effects
Roger Waters, lead vocals (all tracks), bass guitar (all tracks except 7), acoustic guitar (2-4, 6, 7, 9-12), synthesizers (3, 4, 11), twelve-string guitar (11), tape effects
Additional musicians:
Michael Kamen, piano (5, 6, 8-10, 12), electric piano (2, 5), harmonium (1, 10), production
Andy Bown, Hammond organ (2, 6, 11, 12), piano (5), electric piano (4)
Ray Cooper, percussion (6)
Andy Newmark, drums (12)
Raphael Ravenscroft, tenor saxophone (5, 12)
Doreen Chanter, backing vocals (12)
Irene Chanter, backing vocals (12)
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Kamen, conductor (1, 5-10)

Recorded July–December 1982 at Mayfair, RAK, Olympic, Abbey Road, Eel Pie, Audio International, and the Billiard Room in London, Hookend Manor in Oxfordshire, England
Produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen

Digitally remastered

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