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| Album
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| Released:
March - April 1983 |
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| Recorded:
July - December 1982 |
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| Genre:
Progressive rock |
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| Length:
43:27 |
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| Label:
Harvest, EMI (UK) |
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| Columbia,
Capitol (U.S.) |
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| Producer:
Roger Waters, James |
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| Guthrie,
Michael Kamen |
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Background
The Final Cut is a rock album by Pink Floyd recorded
at several studios in the UK from July to December
1982. It is the final Pink Floyd studio album
to feature Roger Waters. None of the songs have
ever been performed live by the band, though some
have been performed live by Waters during solo
tours. The album is dominantly Roger Waters (similar
to The Wall, but even more so). Waters' dominance
on the album is most clearly seen on the back
cover, which reads "The Final Cut: A Requiem
for the Post-War Dream - by Roger Waters, performed
by Pink Floyd".
The LP was released by Harvest/EMI in the UK on
21 March 1983, then on Columbia Records in the
U.S. on April 2. The Final Cut reached #1 on the
UK album charts and peaked at #6 in the U.S. on
the Billboard album charts. The Final Cut went
Gold and Platinum in the U.S. in May of 1983 with
a million copies in sales and then Double Platinum
on 31 January 1997. It was the lowest selling
Pink Floyd studio album in the U.S. since Meddle
(released in 1971).
The album was noted for having been recorded using
what was called "Holophonics" - a process
for enhancing the aural three-dimensional 'feel'
of the recording. It was also claimed that this
process could not be duplicated through subsequent
recordings, i.e., copying to tape cassette.
Originally scheduled as the film soundtrack for
the band's movie The Wall, it evolved into a new
anti-war concept album. The album cover states:
"A Requiem for the Post War Dream by Roger
Waters, performed by Pink Floyd" - it was
written solely by Waters and is the last Floyd
album with him on board. The Final Cut is also
the only Pink Floyd album on which Richard Wright
does not appear, as he was fired during the recording
of The Wall. It has only one David Gilmour lead
vocal (on "Not Now John"), and only
features David Gilmour's distinctive guitar work
on several of the songs, with Waters himself playing
some of the guitar parts. The overall sound is
much like a Roger Waters solo album, but the mood
of every song is very dark. Waters offered to
release it as a solo effort, but Gilmour requested
it to be a Pink Floyd record due to the pressure
of the recording company wanting a Pink Floyd
album and not a Roger Waters album. However, in
his book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink
Floyd, Nick Mason claims that Roger never offered
to release it as his solo record. Waters dominated
the recording sessions, furthering the tension
that already existed between him, Gilmour, and
Nick Mason, and even employed renowned session
drummer Andy Newmark on "Two Suns in the
Sunset." In 1985, Waters left the band. Gilmour
and Mason (along with Wright as a session player)
later put out A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987
and continued to tour and record as a threesome.
The Final Cut was also the only Pink Floyd album
not to have a concert tour in support of the album
as the band unofficially split up in January of
1983 as Roger Waters dove head first into the
recording of The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
and David Gilmour recorded his solo album About
Face.
"Not Now John" was released as a single
with "fuck all that" from the choruses
overdubbed as "stuff all that" (the
lyrics on the sleeve of the 7" single contain
that phrase "stop all that"), backed
by an extended version of "The Hero's Return"
as a B-side, featuring an additional verse.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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