Taking the idea from AndersonCouncill (sorry couldn't resist) and applying it to The Final Cut. Some say they hate the album, but others around the board, like me, think that it's one of Floyd's best. Rate the songs and discuss this, imo, awesome album!
i liked not now john, the final cut, and the fletcher memorial home the most. and i'm not sure why 
i guess because the lyric work was good. the fletcher memorial home reminded me of another brick in the wall part I. because its about rogers father i believe. so it was a cool connection.
Okay here I go:
1. The Gunner's Dream: The most amazing song I've ever heard. So brilliant! I love Roger's vocals and of course the line "and no one kills the children anymore". Wow! I love that the message is being delieved through a soldier's dream, it makes it so much more powerful.
2. Paranoid Eyes: I love the piano. I noted that a lot of people were voting it off on "survivor" which surprises me, I always found that song so true. A very good observation made by Roger, and just a good song following the theme of the album, in which the Post-War dream never came true.
3. The Final Cut
4. The Post War Dream: "should we shout, should we scream, what happened to the post-war dream". Beautiful!
5. When The Tigers Broke Free: Clearly a very personal song to Roger, though many of his songs are. This song shows Roger's willingness to make a connection and show himself to his fans.
6.Two Suns in The Sunset
7.Southampton Dock: I love the idea, again. I love the way Roger sang it live on his In The Flesh CD, which has really given the song a whole new meaning to me.
8.The Fletcher Memorial Home
9.Not Now John: The ending of that song is so cool.
10.Your Possible Pasts
11.The Hero's Return
12.One of the Few
13.Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert: Though last on my rank it's still an awesome song.
I realize it's kinda hard to rank them, but I'm interested to see how everyone else ranks them, and their reasons.
thats actually a pretty good list. since i don't know too many people that like the final cut. (i thought it was alright personally even though i haven't heard it in about 8 months)
Ran like hell Wrote:thats actually a pretty good list. since i don't know too many people that like the final cut. (i thought it was alright personally even though i haven't heard it in about 8 months)
I my opinion it's the Floyd's best, then again I am a huge Roger fan, and that might be one of the reasons I love it so much. There are a lot of people here who have said they'll never listen to it, and others who listen to it everyday. It's one of those love or hate it albums I guess. For those who say they won't listen to it, because of its reputation as a Roger solo album, they don't know what they're missing. Those lyrics are the best ever!!!
1.Hero's Return
2.Gunner's Dream
3.Your Possible Pasts, I just can't get over the chourus
4.The Post War Dream
5.When The Tigers Broke Free
6.The Fletcher Memorial Home
7.Not Now John
8.Two Suns In The Sunset, in a way reminds me of Time and Childhood's End
9.The Final Cut
10.One Of The Few, i like how the back round fits in with the words
11.Parinoid Eyes
12.Southampton Dock
13.Get Your Fithly Hands Of My Desert
1. The Fletcher Memorial Home
2. Your Possible Pasts - suprised nobody else seems to like it
3. The Final Cut - an amazing guitar solo one of daves best
4. Two Suns In The Sunset - grown on me recently
5. The Gunner's Dream
6. Not Now John
7. Paranoid Eyes
8. The Hero's Return
9. Southampton Dock
10. The Post War Dream
11. One Of The Few
12. Get Your Hands Off My Filthy Desert
1. The Fletcher Memorial Home
2. Your Possible Pasts - suprised nobody else seems to like it
3. The Final Cut - an amazing guitar solo one of daves best
4. Two Suns In The Sunset - grown on me recently
5. The Gunner's Dream
6. Not Now John
7. Paranoid Eyes
8. The Hero's Return
9. Southampton Dock
10. The Post War Dream
11. One Of The Few
12. Get Your Hands Off My Filthy Desert
imo this album has some of daves best guitar solos ever
I don't think I can really rate the songs on this album, as I don't own it and haven't really listened to all of the songs equally, but the ones I have listened to made such an impression on me that I had to comment on this thread. :) Gilmour, I'd have to agree with you that TFC has some of your namesake's most powerful solos. Maybe it was just the way I was feeling at the moment when I was listening to the title track in particular, but it just hit me really hard...incredibly beautiful and heartfelt.
This afternoon I was feeling really depressed - things had not been going well for me, and I've been dealing with clinical depression for about four years now anyway which doesn't help matters at times like these - and I went for a walk outside, and it felt like my whole life at the moment boiled down to the song The Final Cut. That song was playing in my head at full mental volume (does that make any sense? lol, even I'm not sure if it does) and just seemed to sum up everything for me, especially the first verse.
"Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes" - I wasn't crying at the time, but I think that was mainly because I had bypassed that stage and gone straight to numbness and feeling distanced from the world.
"I can barely define the shape of this moment in time" - Too many things going on in my life right now, and I'm not sure where I fit into any of them.
"And far from flying high in clear blue skies" - The sky was indeed blue, the weather was perfect, a very beautiful day outside, and it didn't fit my mood at all (grey and rainy would've been more suitable for my emotions, lol).
"I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide." - I just wanted to escape somewhere, to get away from life for a while and hide from everything and everyone.
And so on, and so forth...I don't know that I've ever had a song define a place in my life so well. It seems silly and juvenile now, lol, but I kept half-wishing that Roger Waters would just appear out of nowhere so I could talk to him, as it seemed then that someone who wrote lyrics like that would be the only person who could understand how I was feeling.
Anyway, I'm feeling slightly better now, but I haven't lost that connection that I felt earlier today...and something tells me I never will. :)
[/Topazzz being all sentimental and spilling her guts] :p
Topazzz Wrote:I don't think I can really rate the songs on this album, as I don't own it and haven't really listened to all of the songs equally, but the ones I have listened to made such an impression on me that I had to comment on this thread. :) Gilmour, I'd have to agree with you that TFC has some of your namesake's most powerful solos. Maybe it was just the way I was feeling at the moment when I was listening to the title track in particular, but it just hit me really hard...incredibly beautiful and heartfelt.
This afternoon I was feeling really depressed - things had not been going well for me, and I've been dealing with clinical depression for about four years now anyway which doesn't help matters at times like these - and I went for a walk outside, and it felt like my whole life at the moment boiled down to the song The Final Cut. That song was playing in my head at full mental volume (does that make any sense? lol, even I'm not sure if it does) and just seemed to sum up everything for me, especially the first verse.
"Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes" - I wasn't crying at the time, but I think that was mainly because I had bypassed that stage and gone straight to numbness and feeling distanced from the world.
"I can barely define the shape of this moment in time" - Too many things going on in my life right now, and I'm not sure where I fit into any of them.
"And far from flying high in clear blue skies" - The sky was indeed blue, the weather was perfect, a very beautiful day outside, and it didn't fit my mood at all (grey and rainy would've been more suitable for my emotions, lol).
"I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide." - I just wanted to escape somewhere, to get away from life for a while and hide from everything and everyone.
And so on, and so forth...I don't know that I've ever had a song define a place in my life so well. It seems silly and juvenile now, lol, but I kept half-wishing that Roger Waters would just appear out of nowhere so I could talk to him, as it seemed then that someone who wrote lyrics like that would be the only person who could understand how I was feeling.
Anyway, I'm feeling slightly better now, but I haven't lost that connection that I felt earlier today...and something tells me I never will. :)
[/Topazzz being all sentimental and spilling her guts] :p
Topazzz I have problems with depression as well, and I must agree with you that The Final Cut certainly stands out. The lines that do it for me are "And if I show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight and if I open my heart to you
and show you my weak side what would you do?" Oh my God, the first time I heard that I just listened to that line over and over again.
When I was a freshman and sophmore in high school I got along with most everyone and I was happy most of the time, but then once I became a junior things began to really go down hill for me. I was always crying or angry or tired. Nothing was worth anything anymore. I lost a lot of friends and I just didn't know what was wrong with me. I felt, and sometimes still do, like I was just losing my mind. Nobody felt like me it seemed. I think the entire album is somewhat depressing to listen to. It is a dark album, but that's why I like it so much. I always point out the lyrics, because that is what stands out to me. Those lyrics in The Final Cut describe how I feel. It's a release to hear those, to know that I'm not alone. They don't make feel so crazy. Do you know what I mean?