i feel like i’ve seen something about the final cut piece you mention. the final cut was/is not an easy listening record. it’s depressing as shit. timid. pensive. i thought i was so cool when I got that CD. i felt like i knew that there was a part two to the wall that other’s didn’t know about.
Fuck Kurt Loder
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Yeah its not an album you throw on at parties haha…it’s an angry Roger Waters on that record…and yeah it is depressing but I love it for that…sometimes I am in that mood and no other album will do…I saw Waters on the Pros and Cons tour(still have the shirt although a few sizes too small) and for some reason I feel like he played at least one song from Final Cut…funny how you remember certain shit from 35 years ago…but then again,maybe I imagined it…I remember he did all of Pros and Cons and then took an intermission and then came out and played a bunch of Floyd songs…it might have been Not Now John or Fletcher Memorial Home…
Yeah, I also love Final Cut. Really dark and mean and lovely. Great on headphones too. Huge fan of Amused to Death, though haven’t heard it in a while - tend to put on Final Cut instead of solo Waters.
I rather liked “On an Island”, it’s a sweet album made by a late middle-aged man in love. Honestly, it’s my favorite Gilmour solo, but that’s damning with faint praise. I rate him highly as a guitar player and he’s got a lovely voice, but I vastly prefer him singing Waters’ lyrics than anyone else’s. “High Hopes” is the only post Waters Floyd track I rate highly, but that may be unkind and I really should do a re-evaluation some day…
Now listening to: NIN’s “Pretty Hate Machine,” in honor of their upcoming induction into the (ha ha) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Ah, say what u want about the HoF’s irrelevancy, I’m pretty happy about this. Objectively, Motorhead and Judas Priest and Soundgarden should be inducted instead of NIN, but I’m a huge Trent fan, so this is a win in my world.
Motorhead,Priest and Thin Lizzy should definitely be in before some of these others…the whole thing has long been a sham though…
Puscifer. I’ve been on a bit of a kick lately.
RnR HOF is a joke.
I actually prefer Puscifer to Tool. I think Tool is like like a dying star at this point, so big and bloated that’s it’s only a matter of time before it implodes in on itself.
I didn’t like that last Perfect Circle album
I think Puscifer’s first few releases when they were groovy and dubby were fantastic.
After awhile they got dull, for my money. I can’t even remember any of the songs from “Money Shot” and had to look it up to even see what the record was called.
NP: All 3 of The Birthday Party albums
Listening to the Genesis 1983-1998 box, which I found for a steal at Half Price books. Invisible Touch remaster sounds fantastic. We Can’t Dance still drags with a handful of boring tracks, Calling All Stations isn’t as bad as I remember it being.
Much RUSH…
Archon Satani - The Righteous Way To Completion
Mortiis - Spirit of Rebellion
Nice to see the old goblin returning to his dungeon-synth roots!
Tangerine Dream-In Search of Hades
Lesson Seven released their material last year. This one is interesting
Bring Me The Horizon - amo. Make fun of me all you like, it’s got some killer songs. Apparently the band left off being a standard metalcore outfit with this album, and spruced up their music with some techno and R&B. It works. “Nihilist Blues” is worth the price of admission alone.
Amused was a great album , he had great musicians play on it, Jeff especially but as with Gilmours solo stuff, it seems missing something, I always felt the 2 of them complicated each others style and sound, to me Waters needed Gilmours down to earth and grounded vibe to offset his almost haunting and neurotic style , as Gilmour needs his to spice up his , I think when He did About he was writing it as it was, a solo album, but with Momentary he was doing a Floyd album and I think he may have tried to hard to write an album that he had to much self pressure and in reality not enough personal shit from his past to get material from. don’t get me wrong , he is a fantastic song writer and musician , but Floyd fans have come to expect a kinda Waters like angst against the Gov, the War , and a fuck load of personal issues that has been a successful run thus far, and I think that Momentary was also written or mostly co-written by Gilmours wife who didn’t really like what he was doing , the album works live, seems to take on a new life when preformed, but not played as a whole entity onto itself, but I feel that as good as musicians as both of them are, we, well me atleast needs to hear them together as I have since I saw the Dark Side tour as a real little kid,my uncle was babysitting me and took me, and became a fanatic ,just a opinion
Weyes Blood.
I’m a little obsessed.