it is underrated, cuz it is rly hard i mean not kinda hard with a sound, but this album has the greatest idea about war and etc. not everybody can understand it
This is my all time favorite song for all the reasons you give. It's about an airman gunner falling to his death and what is going through his mind as he falls, his hope and failures, how cruel the world is etc. His dream is a world without war, without killing. This is by far Roger Water's best vocal performance, actually the whole Final Cut album is really powerful and emotional.
"We cannot just write off his final scene" .... Take heed, of the gunners dream. We are obligated to make the world he fought for. Instead he rots in the corner of a field. And we still, kill the children. :(
My favorite by them, in the top 10 overall. Deep, beautiful and emotional. It makes me happy to see so many others appreciating this song and album as well.
Agreed, Dave has the prettier voice, but Roger's Lyrics are UNTOUCHABLE! they never fail to cut thru muscle and bone and go straight to the heart. He lulls you to sleep, then whispers MaDnEsS in your ear.
This one still gets me. Possibly the most powerful and emotional thing Waters has written. It references the London bombings but also the political context surrounding the Falklands War and the sense of how divided Britain was, politically and economically by Margaret Thatcher's government. The "Disappeared" were those citizens of Argentina who offended their military government and were taken away, often to be never heard from again.
Me too. As an argentinian, I've always felt powerless about everything the military did. From the disappeared people, to starting a war and sending the kids (most of them had never held a gun before) to their deaths. I'm currently in the process of making al album that talks about all of it. Regards!
It's important to remember. It's strange to think that for kids growing up now those days are as distant as World War 2 was for me, but they are not well remembered or talked about very much.
Roger is much loved in Uruguay and Argentine for his anti war political positions and particularly his several years involvement in helping to identify the unknown graves of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and met the mothers of the children who lost their lives in war. He also speaks up for the Palestinians rights.
I"m a 70 year old man who's seen Pink Floyd 7 times since the late 60's and have every album they've ever done. I haven't listened to this song in many years. I'd forgotten about it. Thank you for your emotional reaction. I'm going to suggest a song for you once again. I know you'll eventually get around to it. The one song they did that always tugs at the emotional me is the 1988 live performance of "On The Turning Away". It's so appropriate for the world today... and David's guitar solo is amazing. He makes his guitar plead and weep. I always need a tissue for this performance. ruclips.net/video/5413ws7HxN8/видео.html
alleneh I couldn’t agree more. I’m almost 68, have been a fan of Pink Floyd since I first heard Echoes when it came out, however many years ago that was. More 45 years, I know. I had much the same reaction to this song as this young man did. I could hardly breathe. I looked at my husband and saw tears in his eyes just like me but he didn’t have ruined mascara running down his face. You suggested an excellent song for him to experience. It absolutely is very relevant today with the world as fucked up as it is currently. I love seeing young people sit down and LISTEN to the greatest music ever written. Namastè Annie in Tennessee
I count myself lucky for having seen them once without Roger, you Sir are the envy of this comment section. Kudos for having such amazing taste, and it sounds as if you had some great experiences, and I couldn't agree more about "on the turning away live" they take it to another level.
It hits even harder when you understand that it’s about the thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid, his dream is of a future without war.
A highly underrated album that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Great reaction and you can see that it moved you Some of Waters best work in this album!
The first verse after the solo is so beautiful. "Somewhere old hero's shuffle safely down the street". That is such a powerful sentence in itself. In more ways than one. A place where those who didn't come home can be remembered and also live on for eternity. But also a place where we can change our world, where our children don't have to worry about war.
The Final Cut is my favorite album and the reason it is is because I love Rogers Voice to kill the child and leaving Beirut and so many works of art he has done are absolutely beautiful.
Final cut is a fantastic album even if it was made basically by Roger Waters and Richard Wright was out from the band after the Wall. David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Writh are not playing any of the songs from Final Cut in any live show what I have seen. But gosh is the album good.... I listen it to it all the time in the car and my two daughters born in 1999/2005 can sing every song
If I were Roger Waters and watched your reaction to this incredible song, I would be a very happy man. You're are living it now, man. Feeling it with every fibre of your being. I've been a Floyd fan for over 40 years. I love it all, I love them all as a whole, BUT for me Roger is at the heart of Floyd. Nothing and nobody can shred your emotions like that voice and the lyrics of an absolute genius. Sorry if I went a little overboard, ha.
Beautiful comment Denise. Roger is the man. The brain and emotion of Floyd. The Final Cut has been my all time favorite album for years. Absolute beauty.
Great comment, Denise. Waters is one of the few Trump hater celebrities that get's a pass from me. (unlike DeNiro and Depp) His talent far, far exceeds his hate.
Really great reaction, The Final Cut is amazing album that doesnt get as much praise as some of their others but some of the songs on there, like this one, are just top notch. A very different Floyd album from the rest of them.
I listen to this song every year when I visit the graves of my grandfather , who died in WWII and when I visit my Uncle's grave. He died in Vietnam. I salute them both for my freedom.
Amused To Death is so great. Perfect Sense(s) is so wonderful. Waters' solo work is great. Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking is great too. Radio KAOS was cool, but the production was too 80s-ish sounding. Even Waters though so. But yeah, his songwriting is so moving and always strikes a nerve.
This was more a Roger Waters than a Pink Floyd album, but I ask you - what the hell is wrong with that, especially considering he was their idea man and main lyricist? If you want degrees, every album since Syd left has been more of a Roger Waters album. Roger has the most straightforward way of writing a song, and he doesn't have to deal in metaphor - he has such an amazing command of songwriting that nothing is vague or left to interpretation. The only thing he really asks in his songs is: Is this the life we really want?
I disagree with your statement to a degree. Every album since Syd has been a collective interpretation of everyone’s feelings. Everybody had a say in the music aspect of it all, the writing was waters and let’s not forget Gilmour. I think that saying every Pink Floyd album was a waters solo album is to extreme and really shows the divide amongst fans. Kind of devastating if you ask me.
Imagine you are are a young man fighting in WW2....a tail gunner on a bomber over enemy territory. Nighttime, where the explosions of flak can't be seen until the steel shrapnel rips your plane to pieces. Frightened out of your wits because you lied about your age to get in the military and you're only 16 in reality. You become ejected from your rear turret and fall thousands of feet to your certain death "in the corner of some foreign field". The song is about his thoughts of loved ones, his funeral and his vision of world peace ....as he plummets down without a parachute...
this might be my favorite Pink Floyd song...and probably my favorite album too...just an amazing work of art musically and lyrically ...thanx for the reaction
On the album there is indicated that the whole disk is dedicated to his father. He fell on the 18th February 1944 during the Battle of Anzio near Aprilia while serving in the 8th Battalion Company C of the Royal Fusiliers (listen to the song "When The Tigers Broke Free" regarding this). Waters referred to his father's death early in the song "Free Four" (He was buried like a mole in a foxhole). Although the song is from a perspective of a bomber gunner as his plane is plummeting to the ground, Waters tries to express the feelings of any soldier succumbing to death. What will happen at their funeral, if they are properly buried at all? Will the reason they gave their lives for be victorious or just? And then there is the mentioning of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings comitted by the IRA in 1982. In my opinion Waters is trying to suggest the every soldier tries to calm himself as he feels the fatal wound that the world will be better and he had died for a good cause even his remains will rest at a "corner of some foreign field". But some politician comes again and starts all over...
I remember being a young teen and listening to this album and The Wall, I even bought the Final Cut book. It still gets me emotional, I still cry, how can you not between the lyrics and amazing instrumental. Thank you for doing this reaction, I hope it reaches more people💕🙏💕
This I suspect would hit home to our beloved friends in Britain....War is ugly and permeates through generations....love your reactions brilliant keep it up ! Well done sir
I'm a massive floyd fan been all over to see waters and gilmore I'm going to see waters in nyc 2022 I'm from Liverpool I've got to say this is probably my favourite album I find it very emotional absolute pure quality what a fuckin band and great reaction from yourself that's what the final cut does to true floyd fans 👏
Like nearly all things, this comment will be subjective : Their is a biting intensity and sense of purpose here that is never reached in the post-Waters works of Floyd. Whether right or wrong Roger'
.. .Whether right or wrong Roger's approach just feels believable, and done for reasons beyond just more record sales. Although Gilmour's fine guitar work carried on, things like "Dogs of War" just pale in comparison and feel somewhat contrived. "The Gunner's Dream" is intense and feels sincere.
I'm a 73 year old VietNam combat vet/paratrooper who loves Pink Floyd. Between Springsteen's Born In The USA album and Waters The Final Cut Album these 2 albums really get to my heart and kept me sane! They both tell the best story of a combat veteran no matter the branch of service.
Don't miss Roger live if you get the chance! And if you get a chance get the vinyl! and spread your speakers apart because it was recorded as a one shot deal with an experimental recording technology called holophonics and it sounds like your in the room with the band. Glad you loved it. :)
Or, even better, listen to the entire "The Final Cut" album. Some say that it's an appendix to "The Wall" and from a certain point of view it is true. You can find here some characters from that album (for example, the Teacher).
TFC is my favorite Floyd album. The music, the lyrics, Gilmour's solos. Just amazing. The title track is my favorite. Love the imagery, the raw emotion of what Waters writes, the allegorical styling. I can't put a number on how many times I've listened to this album, and with the exception of the first time, each is as great as the next. Very, very underrated album, even by PF fans.
Here's a fact: no one but absolutely no other artist has ever moved me so much as R. Waters. I could listen to classic music for months and I could not come even close; or to some other bands/singers that I like; or I could just watch a painting or do anything else related to senses and it would not create such vivid and extraordinary experiences for me. PS: the song is about Roger's father rather than some IRA bombings, I don't know where you read that, but I'll look into it.
Thank you for reacting to this, one of the best Floyd songs ever written. Please react to more live pulse concert tracks too, the show was superb and some of the lighting effects are awesome.
The Final Cut is the deepest darkest and most political album by any band! Roger's dad died in WW2 and the album reflects what war does to families and how it tears them apart! "Two Suns In The Sunset"! Check it out!
Pink Floyd has a way of providing the magic of music to transport you through time and space...let you visit the past in an emotional and visceral way no other music can. All the feels. Beautiful.
To say I am a Pink Floyd fanatic is a serious under-statement. Yes I was in my teens and young adult years in the 70's. I really enjoy your reviews. I find so much joy in seeing someone enter the Floyd world with joy. Just a comment on this song - Gunner's Dream. It comes off a somewhat lesser known Floyd album called Final Cut that came out in the early 80's as a of and reaction to the Falkland's War. Just like Floyd's The Wall, it is a whole story set to music. If this song gave you a lump in your throat you must definitely listen to the rest of the album, especially The Fletcher Memorial Home, Southampton Dock and Final Cut Part 1. It is mind blowing!
My first video of yours… due to your song choice. I know you have done more Floyd already so I will say… with this song and what you are feeling. Welcome to the Floyd. Many emotions to come.
im so glad you also got emotional by this song as its gets me each and evey time, roger waters song writting got better and better as the band progressed and songs on this album truly show him to be an amazing lyricist, coupled with his voice which goes from soothing to pained and distressed in a heartbeat, thank you for choosing this video, your reaction was spot on
Everybody complaining that Rodger is this or that let me tell you he has one of the best of voices around the final cut his one of my probably my favorite album to listen to. To give you a little suggestion to kill the child and leaving Beirut is 2 of the best songs Rodger water has done throughout solutely beautiful
Roger bought and paid for all the criticism. At one point he wasn't ashamed to let everyone know he hated us fans because we didn't fit in his perfect little world.
I am from Argentina, in 1982 was a war betwen England and Argentine, it was very sad, I was 20 yeard old, l was to enlist in the army, but l didn't go to the Malvinas Island, but l live the war so closely, the war didn't was so long, but the soul is cutting by that war. After in 1983 Pink Floyd made this incredible album, Roger Waters lost his father in the second war, if you listen all the album, it is a conceptual and emocional journey of that days. Roger Waters intermediate with other people for recovery death soldiers that was very young, he was always an activist for the the peace. When Roger Waters come to Argentina in the first decade of the 2000, was a a great time. He made 9 shows of 60.000 people each. Record in Argentina. The best for you
Love that you've done this song. I had the same reaction when I first heard this and properly absorbed the lyrics. The Final Cut is probably my favourite Floyd album, or Roger Waters album to put it more accurately. Check out Two Suns in the Sunset with the lyrics. Nobody captured the Thatcher years, musically and lyrically, better than Waters. Also, check out his solo stuff. If you want something new then Picture That of his latest album is amazing.
I don't know you and it's my first time watching you but I can see it in your eyes...you got it man...keep it up...i am Arabian by the way who loves pink floyd
Same reaction DC, same reaction. I was 22 back then when i heard it for the first time, feels it even more today after 30 years. (That dying soldier was Roger father).
The line 'In some corner of a foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight' gets me every time. Roger's singing is perfect for this song; the whole album really.
I'm a italian guy who's lives near Aprilia the town and the place where Roger Waters father was killed in battle in the big war. You can tell this song is dedicated to him from is son. Iif you happen to come and visit there you found a big cemetery and a memorial full of english soldiers.
Beautiful album. The Wall was about young Pink growing up in post war England. His father died during the war, and his beguiled teacher is cruel, abusive and mocks his poetry. But then, Roger made The Final Cut about the very same teacher! Showing his side of things. Sharing his feelings of loss for his dear friend, the Gunner. Telling the story of the veterans who returned home after living through pure hell. I was so moved by Roger's effort to show the human side of the vicious teacher. With this, he pretty much demonstrates the the trajedy of PTSD. Good people experience horrible things, and both they and those around them suffer.
Great reaction, it was my first time as well, and to be honest, I almost cried as well.. Just brlijant, emotional song. You might try out Roger Waters Amused to Death album, for example The Bravery of being out of range, or Perfect Sense I and II. Studio version or In the Flesh Live version.
Powerful. Best Roger Waters album, know it is Pink Floyd but they participated basically reduced and just did their part. I love this album. You either love it or not. There are no middle views as I have seen it.
Did you notice how "Dream" turns into a scream and ends up in the sax that now takes over solo. I think Queen has done something similar once or twice (FM on piano to BM on Guitar), but apart from that you don't see this very often. Probably because it's just not that easy to do. So perfectly made here, you don't hear it until you realize it's a sax all of a sudden.
Dc, been watching your reactions for a few weeks, and just wanted to say I love knowing they are genuine. I have been a Floyd fan since my childhood ( born in 62 and American, my apologies, listen to them still almost daily. You should definitely watch the wall, it will be life changing as a movie buff! I saw it when it was released with my twin brother... epic moment in time. I might recommend San Tropez for a nice chill and also best live recording is definitely... Pink Floyd live at Pompeii, the entire DVD if you can find it... peace, out ;)
Buried my old man at sea a few years back . He was a WW2 vet and every year laid his wreath at our local war memorial the day after remembrance Sunday to remember his old ship mates because he hated all the flag waving bullshit as he called it . Rogers song always reminds me of my old dad.
I remember buying this album on its release date and remembering that I wasn't disappointed... only RW could write about the IRA blowing up bands men...
The Final Cut is the most emotional of all PF albums and an unappreciated masterpiece, often sidelined because it is perceived as largely a Roger Waters solo album with the other PF members being relegated to little more than session musicians. While it is true that the composition and lyrics are nearly 100% RW, Gilmour and crew still put their stamp on the album, albeit with the help of some other session musicians. But super-powerful stuff - and the meanings behind this particular song are spot-on - we should never let all those millions who died in WW2 die for nothing - they died for a better, free, peaceful world, and the way things are going we are messing things up big time !
This whole album is profund and huge on so many levels. The most underrate album .... ever... ever. It ends with a nuclear holocaust.... Two suns in the sunset.
I like your choice of song to react to. There are a pile of reaction videos to Time and Comfortably Numb, they're both superb recordings, but most of the reaction don't walk of the beaten track too much and this from a much less well known part of the band's history, and it's also a great record. One of my favourites.
Just found this video while surfing. I forgot how stunning this album is. Sad to say the Final Cut album is perhaps even more apropos today than when it was written.
Not sure how long ago I first heard of this album, but I got the impression that it was mostly comprised of material that was left on the cutting room floor........during production of 'The Wall'. I figured Roger was so bitter & angry ( following his leaving Pink Floyd ).......that he intentionally released it out of spite.....in the form of 'The Final Cut' I think David mentions it in 'Poles Apart' ( on 'The Division Bell' album ).I found this album in the remastered box-set of Pink Floyd albums, I had bought back in around 2011......not realizing it was even included. This was about 3 months ago, and that's when I listened to it for the first time. The ONLY song on there, that I kind of liked.....was 'Not Now John'.......and that's probably because David Gilmour sang a bit on it. On the other hand.....I absolutely LOVE Roger's last album....'Is This The Life We Really Want'.
Roger Waters isn't really a singer. He almost talks through the songs in places, but concentrates on telling a story. The Final Cut is an interesting album; I don't enjoy all of it, but some of it is absolutely brilliant.
The final cut is the most underrated album ever
it is underrated, cuz it is rly hard
i mean not kinda hard with a sound, but this album has the greatest idea about war and etc.
not everybody can understand it
Agreed.
I agree totally.
It's a Masterpiece....
Finally someone else says exactly how I feel regarding this album.
Roger rips your heart out. Genius.
This is my all time favorite song for all the reasons you give. It's about an airman gunner falling to his death and what is going through his mind as he falls, his hope and failures, how cruel the world is etc. His dream is a world without war, without killing. This is by far Roger Water's best vocal performance, actually the whole Final Cut album is really powerful and emotional.
Most Reactors and Commenters ignore this album, so sad as its their best
Well done
"We cannot just write off his final scene" .... Take heed, of the gunners dream.
We are obligated to make the world he fought for. Instead he rots in the corner of a field.
And we still,
kill the children.
:(
My favorite by them, in the top 10 overall. Deep, beautiful and emotional. It makes me happy to see so many others appreciating this song and album as well.
Agreed, Dave has the prettier voice, but Roger's Lyrics are UNTOUCHABLE! they never fail to cut thru muscle and bone and go straight to the heart. He lulls you to sleep, then whispers MaDnEsS in your ear.
the way the line "his dream is driving me insane" is drawn out into an utter scream of anguish always gives me chills.
This one still gets me. Possibly the most powerful and emotional thing Waters has written. It references the London bombings but also the political context surrounding the Falklands War and the sense of how divided Britain was, politically and economically by Margaret Thatcher's government. The "Disappeared" were those citizens of Argentina who offended their military government and were taken away, often to be never heard from again.
Me too. As an argentinian, I've always felt powerless about everything the military did. From the disappeared people, to starting a war and sending the kids (most of them had never held a gun before) to their deaths. I'm currently in the process of making al album that talks about all of it. Regards!
It's important to remember. It's strange to think that for kids growing up now those days are as distant as World War 2 was for me, but they are not well remembered or talked about very much.
Roger is much loved in Uruguay and Argentine for his anti war political positions and particularly his several years involvement in helping to identify the unknown graves of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and met the mothers of the children who lost their lives in war. He also speaks up for the Palestinians rights.
I tear up everytime I listen to this song. Every single time.
Thanks for the reaction
This album grows on you and gets stronger every year ... today its hands down my favorite.
The impact this group has had on my view on life is .. deep
i always listen to this alone. (men should not cry)
@@rodg011 men should not be afraid to cry
"The final cut" album was maybe Roger's peak as lyricist. Check out the title track.
I agree, his lyrics on that album are absolutely powerful and beautiful - definitely his best.
My favourite Water's lyrics are on the "Animals" album.
Final Cut is my favourite track.
Couldn't agree more. Waters' writing is always amazing, but TFC is his best work, by far.
Still one of my favourite albums
I"m a 70 year old man who's seen Pink Floyd 7 times since the late 60's and have every album they've ever done. I haven't listened to this song in many years. I'd forgotten about it. Thank you for your emotional reaction. I'm going to suggest a song for you once again. I know you'll eventually get around to it. The one song they did that always tugs at the emotional me is the 1988 live performance of "On The Turning Away". It's so appropriate for the world today... and David's guitar solo is amazing. He makes his guitar plead and weep. I always need a tissue for this performance. ruclips.net/video/5413ws7HxN8/видео.html
alleneh I couldn’t agree more. I’m almost 68, have been a fan of Pink Floyd since I first heard Echoes when it came out, however many years ago that was. More 45 years, I know. I had much the same reaction to this song as this young man did. I could hardly breathe. I looked at my husband and saw tears in his eyes just like me but he didn’t have ruined mascara running down his face. You suggested an excellent song for him to experience. It absolutely is very relevant today with the world as fucked up as it is currently. I love seeing young people sit down and LISTEN to the greatest music ever written. Namastè
Annie in Tennessee
On the Turning Away is a great song. I was listening to it just today. So much of Pink Floyd is great, but there are some ones that really stand out.
I count myself lucky for having seen them once without Roger, you Sir are the envy of this comment section. Kudos for having such amazing taste, and it sounds as if you had some great experiences, and I couldn't agree more about "on the turning away live" they take it to another level.
if you don't know, the song was inspired by the 1915 poem "the soldier" by rupert brooke.
it was one of several poems in a series about WWI.
Only a genius can come up with something like this song..
love the way his voice blends into the sax
It hits even harder when you understand that it’s about the thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid, his dream is of a future without war.
That saxophone just simply grabs you by the soul and does not let go
So does waters voice !
A highly underrated album that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Great reaction and you can see that it moved you Some of Waters best work in this album!
The first verse after the solo is so beautiful. "Somewhere old hero's shuffle safely down the street". That is such a powerful sentence in itself. In more ways than one. A place where those who didn't come home can be remembered and also live on for eternity. But also a place where we can change our world, where our children don't have to worry about war.
very emotional song and brilliant reaction
I've been waiting a while for some reactions to "The Final cut". It's my favorite Pink Floyd album.
NOW let someone tell you The Final Cut isn't worth listening to!
One of my favorite albums that I forgot about for years.
Beautiful álbum!
The Final Cut is my favorite album and the reason it is is because I love Rogers Voice to kill the child and leaving Beirut and so many works of art he has done are absolutely beautiful.
Final cut is a fantastic album even if it was made basically by Roger Waters and Richard Wright was out from the band after the Wall. David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Writh are not playing any of the songs from Final Cut in any live show what I have seen. But gosh is the album good.... I listen it to it all the time in the car and my two daughters born in 1999/2005 can sing every song
worth every penny I paid for it. then CDS I bought
Ive heatd this song 1000 times, and it still brings tears to my eyes.
That Sax solo is Gorgeous 🎷😎👍🏼
If I were Roger Waters and watched your reaction to this incredible song, I would be a very happy man. You're are living it now, man. Feeling it with every fibre of your being. I've been a Floyd fan for over 40 years. I love it all, I love them all as a whole, BUT for me Roger is at the heart of Floyd. Nothing and nobody can shred your emotions like that voice and the lyrics of an absolute genius. Sorry if I went a little overboard, ha.
Beautiful comment Denise. Roger is the man. The brain and emotion of Floyd. The Final Cut has been my all time favorite album for years. Absolute beauty.
Great comment, Denise. Waters is one of the few Trump hater celebrities that get's a pass from me. (unlike DeNiro and Depp) His talent far, far exceeds his hate.
Denise Pollitt tbh I think roger is the brain, Gilmour is the soul, and nick, Richard, Gilmour and waters are the heart. Just me though
Loveley comment, waiting for more
This...you're reaction is the best...thank you!!
One of my all time favourite albums :)
Really great reaction, The Final Cut is amazing album that doesnt get as much praise as some of their others but some of the songs on there, like this one, are just top notch. A very different Floyd album from the rest of them.
I listen to this song every year when I visit the graves of my grandfather , who died in WWII and when I visit my Uncle's grave. He died in Vietnam. I salute them both for my freedom.
This song and album is on another level. I can't listen to this album unless I'm alone.
This album got me through some of my worst depression in high school. Stunning, harrowing, poignant, beautiful, healing
The Ballad of Bill Hubbard - Roger Waters and Jeff Beck from the album Amused to Death is also a very emotive piece
Amused to Death is another one of those underrated albums that few react to.
Amused To Death is so great. Perfect Sense(s) is so wonderful. Waters' solo work is great. Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking is great too. Radio KAOS was cool, but the production was too 80s-ish sounding. Even Waters though so.
But yeah, his songwriting is so moving and always strikes a nerve.
This was more a Roger Waters than a Pink Floyd album, but I ask you - what the hell is wrong with that, especially considering he was their idea man and main lyricist?
If you want degrees, every album since Syd left has been more of a Roger Waters album. Roger has the most straightforward way of writing a song, and he doesn't have to deal in metaphor - he has such an amazing command of songwriting that nothing is vague or left to interpretation.
The only thing he really asks in his songs is: Is this the life we really want?
I disagree with your statement to a degree. Every album since Syd has been a collective interpretation of everyone’s feelings. Everybody had a say in the music aspect of it all, the writing was waters and let’s not forget Gilmour. I think that saying every Pink Floyd album was a waters solo album is to extreme and really shows the divide amongst fans. Kind of devastating if you ask me.
Imagine you are are a young man fighting in WW2....a tail gunner on a bomber over enemy territory. Nighttime, where the explosions of flak can't be seen until the steel shrapnel rips your plane to pieces. Frightened out of your wits because you lied about your age to get in the military and you're only 16 in reality. You become ejected from your rear turret and fall thousands of feet to your certain death "in the corner of some foreign field". The song is about his thoughts of loved ones, his funeral and his vision of world peace ....as he plummets down without a parachute...
One of the best albums out there. love it .
Love the way the vocals and the sax merge almost seamlessly. Just one of the many cool parts of an awesome piece of musical art.
this might be my favorite Pink Floyd song...and probably my favorite album too...just an amazing work of art musically and lyrically ...thanx for the reaction
On the album there is indicated that the whole disk is dedicated to his father.
He fell on the 18th February 1944 during the Battle of Anzio near Aprilia while serving
in the 8th Battalion Company C of the Royal Fusiliers (listen to the song "When The Tigers Broke
Free" regarding this). Waters referred to his father's death early in the song "Free Four"
(He was buried like a mole in a foxhole). Although the song is from a perspective of a bomber
gunner as his plane is plummeting to the ground, Waters tries to express the feelings of any
soldier succumbing to death. What will happen at their funeral, if they are properly
buried at all? Will the reason they gave their lives for be victorious or just?
And then there is the mentioning of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings comitted by the
IRA in 1982. In my opinion Waters is trying to suggest the every soldier tries to calm
himself as he feels the fatal wound that the world will be better and he had died for
a good cause even his remains will rest at a "corner of some foreign field".
But some politician comes again and starts all over...
Truly great songs are suppose to rip your heart out and change you forever
Anddddddd another one bites the dust and goes down the rabbit hole of Pink Floyd! Enjoy the journey! The Gunner's Dream is my all time favorite.
his voice pierces directly into my heart
I have to add, I appreciate the way you listen without interrupting twice per verse, you get the whole picture, then speak. Good job.
I remember being a young teen and listening to this album and The Wall, I even bought the Final Cut book. It still gets me emotional, I still cry, how can you not between the lyrics and amazing instrumental. Thank you for doing this reaction, I hope it reaches more people💕🙏💕
This I suspect would hit home to our beloved friends in Britain....War is ugly and permeates through generations....love your reactions brilliant keep it up ! Well done sir
well, being 300th person to like the video and get emotional with you is how i started my 2019.
I'm a massive floyd fan been all over to see waters and gilmore I'm going to see waters in nyc 2022 I'm from Liverpool I've got to say this is probably my favourite album I find it very emotional absolute pure quality what a fuckin band and great reaction from yourself that's what the final cut does to true floyd fans 👏
I heard it when first released. I have a tearful reaction every time.Thanks bro.
Like nearly all things, this comment will be subjective :
Their is a biting intensity and sense of purpose here that is never reached in the post-Waters works of Floyd.
Whether right or wrong Roger'
.. .Whether right or wrong Roger's approach just feels believable, and done for reasons beyond just more record sales.
Although Gilmour's fine guitar work carried on, things like "Dogs of War" just pale in comparison and feel somewhat contrived.
"The Gunner's Dream" is intense and feels sincere.
Great comment, sums my views up as well.
I'm a 73 year old VietNam combat vet/paratrooper who loves Pink Floyd. Between Springsteen's Born In The USA album and Waters The Final Cut Album these 2 albums really get to my heart and kept me sane! They both tell the best story of a combat veteran no matter the branch of service.
Don't miss Roger live if you get the chance! And if you get a chance get the vinyl! and spread your speakers apart because it was recorded as a one shot deal with an experimental recording technology called holophonics and it sounds like your in the room with the band. Glad you loved it. :)
Your reaction hits me emotional hard at heart, tyvm 🙏
Or, even better, listen to the entire "The Final Cut" album. Some say that it's an appendix to "The Wall" and from a certain point of view it is true. You can find here some characters from that album (for example, the Teacher).
TFC is my favorite Floyd album. The music, the lyrics, Gilmour's solos. Just amazing. The title track is my favorite. Love the imagery, the raw emotion of what Waters writes, the allegorical styling. I can't put a number on how many times I've listened to this album, and with the exception of the first time, each is as great as the next. Very, very underrated album, even by PF fans.
oh jesus ,,,,,,,touches my soul
Here's a fact: no one but absolutely no other artist has ever moved me so much as R. Waters. I could listen to classic music for months and I could not come even close; or to some other bands/singers that I like; or I could just watch a painting or do anything else related to senses and it would not create such vivid and extraordinary experiences for me. PS: the song is about Roger's father rather than some IRA bombings, I don't know where you read that, but I'll look into it.
Thank you for reacting to this, one of the best Floyd songs ever written. Please react to more live pulse concert tracks too, the show was superb and some of the lighting effects are awesome.
The Final Cut is the deepest darkest and most political album by any band! Roger's dad died in WW2 and the album reflects what war does to families and how it tears them apart! "Two Suns In The Sunset"! Check it out!
Another great reaction! I’m so happy I found your channel! Hello from Michigan USA 😘
Pink Floyd has a way of providing the magic of music to transport you through time and space...let you visit the past in an emotional and visceral way no other music can. All the feels. Beautiful.
To say I am a Pink Floyd fanatic is a serious under-statement. Yes I was in my teens and young adult years in the 70's. I really enjoy your reviews. I find so much joy in seeing someone enter the Floyd world with joy. Just a comment on this song - Gunner's Dream. It comes off a somewhat lesser known Floyd album called Final Cut that came out in the early 80's as a of and reaction to the Falkland's War. Just like Floyd's The Wall, it is a whole story set to music. If this song gave you a lump in your throat you must definitely listen to the rest of the album, especially The Fletcher Memorial Home, Southampton Dock and Final Cut Part 1. It is mind blowing!
Always makes me break down and cry, such a masterful song and album
Great song brilliant review as always!
That's how you do a reaction!!! Listen to the words, feel the feels. This song has made me cry before too and I'm kind of a bad ass.
My first video of yours… due to your song choice. I know you have done more Floyd already so I will say… with this song and what you are feeling. Welcome to the Floyd. Many emotions to come.
The Final Cut. Floyd's most underrated album. I love it.
im so glad you also got emotional by this song as its gets me each and evey time, roger waters song writting got better and better as the band progressed and songs on this album truly show him to be an amazing lyricist, coupled with his voice which goes from soothing to pained and distressed in a heartbeat, thank you for choosing this video, your reaction was spot on
You got a subscriber! I absolutely LOVE watching these first time reactions to Floyd, I am kind of jealous being honest!
Everybody complaining that Rodger is this or that let me tell you he has one of the best of voices around the final cut his one of my probably my favorite album to listen to. To give you a little suggestion to kill the child and leaving Beirut is 2 of the best songs Rodger water has done throughout solutely beautiful
Roger bought and paid for all the criticism. At one point he wasn't ashamed to let everyone know he hated us fans because we didn't fit in his perfect little world.
It is a powerful song. Absolutely my favourite from Final Cut. That you were tearing up just tells me you have retained your humanity.
the final cut is rogers best work. great vid mate.
Without a doubt. Really under aporeciated album.
This song is phenomenal and induces an emotional tsunami throughout your mind.
i LOVE YOUR GENUINE REACTIONS; YOU NEED TO DO THE ENTIRE ALBUM, IT'S THEIR MOST UNDERRATED
I am from Argentina, in 1982 was a war betwen England and Argentine, it was very sad, I was 20 yeard old, l was to enlist in the army, but l didn't go to the Malvinas Island, but l live the war so closely, the war didn't was so long, but the soul is cutting by that war. After in 1983 Pink Floyd made this incredible album, Roger Waters lost his father in the second war, if you listen all the album, it is a conceptual and emocional journey of that days. Roger Waters intermediate with other people for recovery death soldiers that was very young, he was always an activist for the the peace.
When Roger Waters come to Argentina in the first decade of the 2000, was a a great time. He made 9 shows of 60.000 people each. Record in Argentina. The best for you
Love that you've done this song. I had the same reaction when I first heard this and properly absorbed the lyrics. The Final Cut is probably my favourite Floyd album, or Roger Waters album to put it more accurately.
Check out Two Suns in the Sunset with the lyrics. Nobody captured the Thatcher years, musically and lyrically, better than Waters.
Also, check out his solo stuff. If you want something new then Picture That of his latest album is amazing.
I don't know you and it's my first time watching you but I can see it in your eyes...you got it man...keep it up...i am Arabian by the way who loves pink floyd
Same reaction DC, same reaction. I was 22 back then when i heard it for the first time, feels it even more today after 30 years. (That dying soldier was Roger father).
Try "Two Suns in the Sunset"!
Or... Southampton Dock
@@fordprefect9296 Or... The Fletcher Memorial Home .. or Paranoid Eyes.
This album has the strongest and most profound lyrics.
The final cut !!!
The line 'In some corner of a foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight' gets me every time. Roger's singing is perfect for this song; the whole album really.
Wonderful Reaction !!!
I'm a italian guy who's lives near Aprilia the town and the place where Roger Waters father was killed in battle in the big war. You can tell this song is dedicated to him from is son. Iif you happen to come and visit there you found a big cemetery and a memorial full of english soldiers.
Beautiful album. The Wall was about young Pink growing up in post war England. His father died during the war, and his beguiled teacher is cruel, abusive and mocks his poetry.
But then, Roger made The Final Cut about the very same teacher! Showing his side of things. Sharing his feelings of loss for his dear friend, the Gunner. Telling the story of the veterans who returned home after living through pure hell.
I was so moved by Roger's effort to show the human side of the vicious teacher. With this, he pretty much demonstrates the the trajedy of PTSD. Good people experience horrible things, and both they and those around them suffer.
Great reaction, it was my first time as well, and to be honest, I almost cried as well.. Just brlijant, emotional song.
You might try out Roger Waters Amused to Death album, for example The Bravery of being out of range, or Perfect Sense I and II. Studio version or In the Flesh Live version.
I’m a Floyd fan from 1971 and FC is by far my favorite PF album. It’s absolutely brilliant.
One of the finest songs ever written. Powerful shit man
Powerful. Best Roger Waters album, know it is Pink Floyd but they participated basically reduced and just did their part. I love this album. You either love it or not. There are no middle views as I have seen it.
Did you notice how "Dream" turns into a scream and ends up in the sax that now takes over solo.
I think Queen has done something similar once or twice (FM on piano to BM on Guitar), but apart from that you don't see this very often. Probably because it's just not that easy to do.
So perfectly made here, you don't hear it until you realize it's a sax all of a sudden.
Dc, been watching your reactions for a few weeks, and just wanted to say I love knowing they are genuine. I have been a Floyd fan since my childhood ( born in 62 and American, my apologies, listen to them still almost daily. You should definitely watch the wall, it will be life changing as a movie buff! I saw it when it was released with my twin brother... epic moment in time. I might recommend San Tropez for a nice chill and also best live recording is definitely... Pink Floyd live at Pompeii, the entire DVD if you can find it... peace, out ;)
The Final Cut is such an intense album. And also so underrated. This song is one of the most haunting Pink Floyd songs ever.
It's also a dream within a dream. Went to sleep listening to this album countless times.
Buried my old man at sea a few years back .
He was a WW2 vet and every year laid his wreath at our local war memorial the day after remembrance Sunday to remember his old ship mates because he hated all the flag waving bullshit as he called it .
Rogers song always reminds me of my old dad.
Love this song. Waters, eternal PF...
I remember buying this album on its release date and remembering that I wasn't disappointed... only RW could write about the IRA blowing up bands men...
The Final Cut is the most emotional of all PF albums and an unappreciated masterpiece, often sidelined because it is perceived as largely a Roger Waters solo album with the other PF members being relegated to little more than session musicians. While it is true that the composition and lyrics are nearly 100% RW, Gilmour and crew still put their stamp on the album, albeit with the help of some other session musicians. But super-powerful stuff - and the meanings behind this particular song are spot-on - we should never let all those millions who died in WW2 die for nothing - they died for a better, free, peaceful world, and the way things are going we are messing things up big time !
This whole album is profund and huge on so many levels.
The most underrate album .... ever... ever.
It ends with a nuclear holocaust.... Two suns in the sunset.
it's a shame this never gets played live.
I like your choice of song to react to. There are a pile of reaction videos to Time and Comfortably Numb, they're both superb recordings, but most of the reaction don't walk of the beaten track too much and this from a much less well known part of the band's history, and it's also a great record. One of my favourites.
Superb album. It's really poetry set to music
If this album doesn't bring tears to your eyes and haunt you deep inside your bones, then you are just... LOST
Just found this video while surfing. I forgot how stunning this album is. Sad to say the Final Cut album is perhaps even more apropos today than when it was written.
Gawd I love your reactions
Not sure how long ago I first heard of this album, but I got the impression that it was mostly comprised of material that was left on the cutting room floor........during production of 'The Wall'. I figured Roger was so bitter & angry ( following his leaving Pink Floyd ).......that he intentionally released it out of spite.....in the form of 'The Final Cut' I think David mentions it in 'Poles Apart' ( on 'The Division Bell' album ).I found this album in the remastered box-set of Pink Floyd albums, I had bought back in around 2011......not realizing it was even included. This was about 3 months ago, and that's when I listened to it for the first time. The ONLY song on there, that I kind of liked.....was 'Not Now John'.......and that's probably because David Gilmour sang a bit on it. On the other hand.....I absolutely LOVE Roger's last album....'Is This The Life We Really Want'.
Roger Waters isn't really a singer. He almost talks through the songs in places, but concentrates on telling a story. The Final Cut is an interesting album; I don't enjoy all of it, but some of it is absolutely brilliant.
He didn't have the pipes David had but when Roger screams, you take notice. I love it when he does that.
bless your reaction....
The final cut was the first Floyd album I heard, many many moons ago. It is also in my opinion 1 of there best. ✌