The Final Cut
During my month in the Marine Corps — summer 1984 — I met one guy I could consider a friend, though I never saw him again after we came home. I wanna say his name was Steve or Scott — maybe it was Steve Scott — I can't remember for sure now.
Anyway, we talked about how much we loved Pink Floyd — how we both considered the band's Roger Waters our favorite songwriter (my first "favorite poet") — and he couldn't believe I hadn't yet heard their 1983 album The Final Cut, which he insisted was their best work ever.
So I came home and bought the cassette and fell in love with it. Lots of memories associated with it — including a major falling out later that year that's mostly healed. The whole album — particularly the title track — is still particularly meaningful to me on a number of levels.
Anyway, we talked about how much we loved Pink Floyd — how we both considered the band's Roger Waters our favorite songwriter (my first "favorite poet") — and he couldn't believe I hadn't yet heard their 1983 album The Final Cut, which he insisted was their best work ever.
So I came home and bought the cassette and fell in love with it. Lots of memories associated with it — including a major falling out later that year that's mostly healed. The whole album — particularly the title track — is still particularly meaningful to me on a number of levels.
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 5/23/2010 1:23 PM 
Categories: Music
Tags: USMC Pink Floyd Roger Waters The Final Cut
Categories: Music
Tags: USMC Pink Floyd Roger Waters The Final Cut
and here's the song that came after "The Final Cut" on the album. It's called "Not Now John," writen by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour
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Thanks for posting these. I'd never heard any of the Final Cut before and listen to the two you've posted earlier but finally just now listen to all 4 parts back to back.. and I'm just blown away... Love this more than anything else I've heard of their's so far and that is saying a lot.
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The short film The Final Cut featured four songs from the album. Interestingly, I never knew the film existed until yesterday, though I've known the album by heart for about 25 years.
About the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_%281983_film%29
About the record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_%28album%29
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Great information . I think it sounds like they will resort to reconciliation, so we need all the information we can get.
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