Final Cut

Pinkpig21 · Post by **Pinkpig21** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:37 pm

I'm starting to like it more myself. I just saw the Not Now John video. I thought it was pretty cool, but I don't understand it for the most part.

Meddler · Post by **Meddler** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:24 pm

My favorite song from TFC is Gunners Dream... Simply Glorious!

JML · Post by **JML** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:14 am

Prkl wrote:I hate the album. I've tried to like it, but I can't, because I just find the music on it utterly boring and uninspiring... And no, I don't care how good Waters' lyrics are on it.

Agree... sadly, but still, only thing I like on TFC is the art-work. I have tried to listen several times but still I don't like it. Actually it might be the only Pink Floyd -album I don't like.

Post by **mosespa** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:24 pm

I think it's an incredible album.

Jack Dempsey · Post by **Jack Dempsey** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:28 pm

Think i'm like most people. Took a time to get into it.

seamusz · Post by **seamusz** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:52 pm

JML wrote:Agree... sadly, but still, only thing I like on TFC is the art-work. I have tried to listen several times but still I don't like it. Actually it might be the only Pink Floyd -album I don't like.

Funny... The artwork on FC is my least favorite.

JML · Post by **JML** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:30 pm

zolly wrote:Funny... The artwork on FC is my least favorite.

Well the front cover is quite weird but at least in the cd-version those lyrics and pictures are quite simple and beautiful...

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:39 pm

Like i said in another thread somewhere on this forum: TFC works like therapy for me.

When i'm in any state or form of mental dysfunction, i put TFC on. It always works. Everything up to 'Not Now John' makes me realize what a miserable idiot i am. After that 'Not Now John' is something like a cathartic kick in my face which tells me to get a life. And then 'Two suns in the sunset' makes me somehow slip back to reality.

Besides that i have to admit i hardly ever listen to TFC. It's up to you to guess how often i need therapy

Yucateco · Post by **Yucateco** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:43 pm

well the artwork.... if you have the "old" cds its just the normal cover and in the inside the lyrics in a very hard to read writing on white pages... no pictures, no art, nothing.

Btw, i agree completely with your signature JML

JML · Post by **JML** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:21 am

Yucateco wrote:well the artwork.... if you have the "old" cds its just the normal cover and in the inside the lyrics in a very hard to read writing on white pages... no pictures, no art, nothing.

I have the one with black pages and white writing and pictures of flowers and like that.

Yucateco wrote:Btw, i agree completely with your signature JML

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Jack Dempsey · Post by **Jack Dempsey** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:28 am

Worst cover me thinks.

x-rays · Post by **x-rays** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:44 pm

I think you need to have a special state of mind to like this album, be like Roger Waters... You must take all about war, sad love, suicide into you. I understand that some people could not like it at all. David Gilmour, e.g., even if it hadn't been planed and performed in conflicting conditions under Roger's dictatorship wouldn't like TFC after all. It is very good to listen when you feel a bit depressed - not too much, it would be too dangerous

, contrary to David's songs such as Blue Light which are very happy.

Besides politic satire against Thatcher is something funny in this album, sometimes quite difficult to understand, though. It can be seen in the great 4 video clips which have been released to promote the album.

To me, the atwork is great: see the LP! (black, white and red: my favorite colours!) The front cover isn't weird any more and the (big) photographs (colours, and so on) are simply beautiful, like the film's pictures.

By the way, I admit it's a difficult album, but it it was easier for me to get into it than into 'Amused To Death'...

Flame-Sky Diver · Post by **Flame-Sky Diver** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:48 pm

I love The Final Cut. There are many great songs (The Gunner's Dream, The Final Cut, The Fletcher Memorial Home, Not Now John, Two Suns In The Sunset). I actually like The Hero's Return, One Of The Few, Paranoid Eyes and Your Possible Pasts too. Southampton Dock and Post-War Dream are nice, but not my favourites, GYFHOMD is tolerable.

Post by **mosespa** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:23 pm

If the worst thing you can say about this album is that the cover art sucks...that's still not doing too bad for the album, eh?

Meddler · Post by **Meddler** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:42 pm

I want Gunners Dream played at my funeral...