Just then the phone rang I never had the nerve to make the Final Cut

Wall..Final Cut..Amused to Death…a trilogy, to me.

I will defend to my dying day that Roger Waters' finest lyric is 'now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age' from 'Paranoid Eyes'. Love 'The Final Cut', it's the album I listen to most these days along with 'Animals'.

A truly underrated and underappreciated masterpiece. This album contains 2 of Gilmour’s best recorded guitar solos, and Two Suns in the Sunset is an all-time track. That being said, when they added “When the Tigers Broke Free” between “One of the Few” and “The Hero’s Return” on the recent remastered versions, it killed one of the best song transitions and a high point of the album.

Fantastic album. Cruelly overlooked. Perhaps not an album for the *casual* listener ( strokes beard ) Emotionally charged and politically relevant as ever.

It always felt like a 3rd disk of The Wall to me

If you're a PF purist like me, you know that Animals was the last true album by them. The Wall and Final Cut are beautiful and great albums but really are Water's projects just like everything after thr Final Cut is really Gilmour projects. The magic of Pink Floyd was when they all collaborated together. IMHO.

Psychotherapy of Roger. Just „performed by Pink Floyd“.

Despite it being overwhelmingly a Waters creation (and wonderful it is too) it's worth remembering Gilmour's incredibly angry guitar throughout. A tremendous listen albeit the final embers of a great partnership.

A sadly underappreciated masterpiece. Definitively not your dreamy Pink Floyd stuff - more an urgent relevant wake-up call. And with Paranoid Eyes and The Gunner's Dream it has two of their most emotional songs.

"There's a kid who had a big hallucination..."

The Final Cut is the LP you put on at the party after 2 AM when the alcohol is gone and all the weed is smoked and the few remaining guests haven't taken the hint that it's time to go home. #1 for clearing out the room.

By the cold and religious, we were taken in hand, shown how to feel good and told to feel bad.

Fantastic album. Brilliant emotional thought provoking lyrics, especially if you’ve lost someone to war. The correct title, the end of Floyd.

I loved this ever since the first day it came out. Knowing the disintegration of the band at the time you can hear the tension and anger in Gilmour’s guitar solos and singing in Not Now John. And Nicks drums were absolutely insane! I feel they played it with such an anger maybe to send a message to Roger like a mic drop

This was a Roger Waters solo album featuring the remaining members of Pink Floyd. Momentary Lapse of Reason was the same but with Dave as the driver.

A masterpiece! Unfortunately no Richard Wright and, of course, the tension between Waters and Gilmour/Mason must have been excruciating. Gilmour is quoted as saying “…it should have been called The Final Straw”.

One of the very best Floyd albums. I can see why people wouldn’t like it, a lot of the music isn’t immediately attractive and let’s face it, Roger Waters ain’t exactly Roy Orbison when it comes to vocals. A listener must immerse himself in the deeper meaning of the words in order to be moved by this album but make no mistake, it can be done.

1983, I remember it quite well! Some say it’s not a good album, some leftovers from The Wall, but hey, i don’t mind some leftovers from amazing dinner! Still a highly sociological and political probe into our own civilization and way of life, in a Floydian tradition!

With Rick gone and David's production credits removed, to all intense and purpose this was Water's first solo album.

A record that really divides the fans. I first heard it about a year after getting to know the official masterpieces such as Dark Side and The Wall. I didn't get it at first, but to this day, The Final Cut still gets better every time I listen to it. It's a shame for the members of the band that the relationships were so strained during the making of the album.

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes.....

I think Two Suns in the Sunset was the best song of that year and one of the best nuclear war songs ever written. It captured the Cold War paranoia of that era very well.

Used to drive around in my first car with house speakers in the back, playing this on cassette, I still have that same cassette

The 'Unknown' Pink Floyd record. People hated it when it came out. I think it was a great last record for that line up. It was a dismal (but great) run off from The Wall. We would never hear that studio sound again.