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Red meat and functional mushrooms.
Persistent and inconsistent guitar player.
A lefty, hence a fog of permanent frustration
Not enough guitars, pedals, and cricket bats.
USA Deluxe Strat - Martyn Booth Special - Electromatic
FX Plex - Cornell Romany
Released in 1987, during the aftermath of Waters’s departure and his resulting legal bid to stop the band from continuing under the leadership of David Gilmour, its quality has often been criticized in subsequent years.
“It wasn’t that I didn’t want to carry on – I did – but I don’t think I cared as much as David did,” Mason told Uncut in a new interview. “We’d be partly in the studios and partly in the lawyers’ office – ‘Was Roger going to injunct?’ And the answer was, of course he couldn’t, because he’d left the band, and the one thing clear in all our contractual arrangements was that if someone left, they left, and the band continued without them… That gave David and me the authority to carry on.”
However, he continued, “We sort of laid everything on [the album]…There was a sense of trepidation over what it would be like without Roger, so we slightly over-egged the pudding in terms of lots of session players. Some of it’s overproduced, far too much stuff on it.”
Studio engineer Andy Jackson recalled: “We were trying to make something that sounded very much of the time, which means of course that as time progresses it ends up sounding dated.” He remembered producer Bob Ezrin playing the band a “stack of CDs” to illustrate “what’s happening now,” adding: “In ’86, digital was very much at the forefront. [Dire Straits’] Brothers In Arms had just come out and that had a very particular sound, and that was one bar Bob said we should be aiming for.”
Bassist Guy Pratt, who became part of Pink Floyd’s live lineup for the album tour, reflected: “I thought it didn’t really sound like a Pink Floyd record, but it was a very good record. It’s very of its time – Floyd were suited to ’80s bombast.”
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I just don't own any of it after The Wall.
I think I've got the best end of the deal to be honest.
I’m not a big fan of the post-Waters Floyd at all either. I do have Pulse, but I’m not sure I’m very bothered.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Gilmour is right up there among the great guitar players, but he is no song writer without someone else to guide him, and Polly might be able to write a book but she can't do song lyrics!
I agree. The Final Cut is a fantastic album.
I'll give it another go. Things change.
Thanks for the pointer.
Bloody hell.
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But an odd thing happened... twenty years later I listened to it again and it seemed to have become far more resonant and powerful, and I realised I had misjudged it. And even more strangely, the last two tracks are actually the worst - the album should stop at the end of the title track really.
Gilmour never got it - he said it was largely songs that ‘weren’t good enough for The Wall’... he was wrong, they just didn’t fit on it. He picked The Fletcher Memorial Home as the song to go on Echoes as well - presumably because it has a solo from him - and while it’s a good song, The Gunner’s Dream is probably the best one on the album.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I too lost interest after that. Gave the later albums a go but just couldn't get into them. Probably good albums in their own right...think my tastes were changing too though maybe.
Great band.
Think they're taking the piss a bit with all the box sets and remix stuff though tbh.
If the new version features more Wright then that would be a very good thing. As Gilmour (I think) said, Wright added hugely to the soul of their music.
I always liked AMLOR, but it does sound much more like Gilmour’s solo albums than PF. I wonder if the new version will sound more like PF?
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!