I WASN'T READY!! Pink Floyd - The Final Cut First Ever Listen!! 

I don't care what anybody thinks about this album. I think it's one of the greatest albums of any kind ever.

When I play this album for people, they have no idea that this album exist. In my humble opinion, this is a masterpiece.

One of my favorite albums yet no one reacts to it.. Thank you for doing this song. Great reaction as well

Such an underrated album. It is brilliant start to finish.

Been listening to Floyd for 36 years, and The Final Cut is absolutely up there as one of the best. A beautiful and haunting masterpiece!!!

This álbum was made after the Falklands war. It's a requiem to a post war deram. It was the álbum who introduce me to Pink Floyd. I was 15 at the time and discovering music. What a discovery it was ....

I am biased, but Final Cut is hands down my favorite album ever. 🔥🔥🔥

Yes, it is a FANTASTIC album, filled with powerful songs.

Thank you for reacting to a song from this brilliant pink floyd album, unfortunately many reactors miss out on some emotional and great pink floyd music because they are swayed by the unreasonable roger waters haters, who say it is a waters solo album, but this album has a song written by david gilmour and 3 members contribute their talents on this album, more than gilmours pink floyd album "a momentary lapse of reason" at its initial release, it is a truly great album

Very underrated album, for some strange reason. Great to see someone reacting to it.

I like how Waters worked elements of "Nobody's Home" from "The Wall" in there.

This album doe not get enough credit it deserves. The songs are so deep as well as the guitar solos.

Pink Floyd at their absolute best, it defies description, David Gilmore's guitar playing on this album has transcended what I thought was possible with a stratocaster. It's because of the intensity and pain and feeling that Roger screamed these absolutely beautiful lyrics. Everyone did incredible . My favorite album

I love this song a lot but my favorite from this album is called The Gunners Dream

This is one beauty of an album... Where will you ever hear anything like this... It's art its theatre, It makes you picture things as you listen.. What I'm trying to say is its fu@#in awesome

The Final Cut album never ages out. You know an album is a beast when it ages well with you. Most music isn't deep enough to transcend as you mature. The Final Cut thrives with age.

My favorite Pink Floyd album I would get very depressed and I would ride around in the back roads in the country and have a couple of beers and listen to it as loud as it would go without distortion and it would make me feel better for some reason 👍✌️

Waters was the brilliant mind of Floyd. This is my all-time favorite album ever. Waters sends shivers from something so beautiful in his art. 🖤❤️

My favourite floyd album, masterpiece, listen to amused to death roger waters

Love Pink Floyd passionately and I love this album, you need to listen to it in depth and with the lyrics in front of you which are deeply moving and incredible.

I think some of PF's most sublime music lies on this album. It would be great to see you react to it.

Best album ever all the emotions you ever need

My own personal opinion. Lyrics are genius level.

I never knew a guitar could burst into tears until I heard Dave’s incredibly emotional solo on this song. Great album beginning to end.

One of my all time favorite Floyd songs on one of their best albums.

Such a great album...The gunners dream, the Fletcher memorial home are 2 of my favourites on this album aswell as this song 'The final cut'

Yep I believe you're right about the trust issue. But please don't forget the first few verses where he shares his sadness and depression. We always had our suspicions about Roger's state of mind but here he opens up and let's us see straight in. Its something most of us won't ever do. It's okay. One could say so much more. Oh, and then Mr. Gilmour steps up, interprets the thing, and lays down the most perfect instrumental metaphor. Yeah.

Many songs that are on this album were supposed to be on the wall but were cut for various reasons. So you still hear the same ideas from that album about isolation in this album.

Absolute masterpiece. Most people dislike this album because The Wall was a huge universal phenomenon.

YES!!!! Finally! The Final Cut. You're gonna love the album.

Nice analysis. This would be Roger Waters' last album with Floyd. He being the band's chief lyricist and conceptual leader... And on this, doing most of the vocals. This might also be their darkest album. So if you do it, prepare yourself for the ride. I personally think it's a great album.

I love the dark beauty of this record , but the fireworks are few and far between. It really is the dark night of the soul laid bare. It’s all the things you mentioned. Still you might scare some away. The Gunner’s Dream, Paranoid Eyes, Not Now John and the remastered bonus track from the movie The Wall called When the Tigers Broke Free.are the more choice cuts for me Good reaction. I wish more fans appreciated this album. It only hits harder for me as the years go by.

I can remember when this album was released , it got totally panned , i cannot for the life of me work out why, personally i think its one their greatest albums .

One of my top favorite albums

It's excellent 👌

I bought this album many years ago when I was very depressed. This album made me ten times more depressed. I still love it though.

best album ever

The final cut is in the album of the same name. Next to Dark Side of the Moon, the greatest Pink Floyd album and one of the greatest all time, period.

Tragically beautiful

I loved this album back when my Pink Floyd fan buddies didn't. I loved this album the first time I heard it although it's not a true "Pink Floyd" album. It's a Roger Waters album with help from David Gilmour. The first time I heard this was on vinyl and I couldn't believe the quality of sound. It's a digitally recorded album put on vinyl and in 1983 it was nothing short of amazing. I think Gilmour does some of his best work on this album which is amazing because he already hated Roger and hated what was going on but he still brings his best to whatever he does. I don't know how many of these "reaction videos" are real but I get the feeling a lot of millennials are discovering how good the old music was.

BELLISSIMA !!!!!!!!!!!

They video si amazing

Bravo Sir not many react to this classic

I don´t know if someone told you but this is another conceptual album by Pink Floyd, you need to listen to it from the begining to the end, every song is conected somehow with the next.

Most underrated Pink Floyd album and, as far as I’m concerned, the final Pink Floyd album unless you want to count Waters’ solo albums Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Amused to Death. I don’t care for any of Floyd’s post Waters’ efforts. jmo.

Best 3 Floyd albums to listen to in their entirety are DSOTM, Animals, and the Final Cut.

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

glad u discovered this lil gem,is my fav PF all time song.

Are you ready now. In the end he is contemplating suicide. Never had the nerve to make the final cut. Then again as roger loves his metaphors it can mean severing yourself from life or was once your loved one. As for the Albun. Lyrically the most heart wrenching emotional piece of work you will likely ever hear.

Gotta listen to the whole lot (haven't you already?). It's all one song... Man... You weren't there.... 1983... (Smelly student flat on the North coast of Ireland).

Subbed for your thoughtful reaction. Peace brother

one of my favs that isnt popular. emotions!!

Underated song/album, and underated Chanel too, i saw your réactions of the wall, it's really nice and honnest reaction, thanks, i'm gonna wait d'or thé album, keep going, from a french viewer

Hey, I definetely agree that the song has the same vibe as Comfortably Numb. I never really noticed that myself. Thanks for a good review!

Great reaction video - thank you!

It's probably my favorite Pink Floyd album, definitely worth the time to just kind of chill, lay back, have the headphones on and listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. It tends to be one of the least liked albums by many fans although there are also many like myself who think it's their best work. Many consider the final cut a Roger Waters solo album because of the very minimal or absent contribution by PinkFloyd members and use of studio musicians. David Gilmore has some of his best guitar solos on this album IMO and Rick Wright is absent. The piano and keyboard parts were done by either Bob Ezrin or Michael Kaman. It was prolifically graced by the orchestration of Michael Cayman whose presence was not as prominent in their other albums.

Dark album

Great analysis.

Thisbis awesome you want to react to whole album. I am also waiting, as I see others in comments too, for someone to dig into this one, it is about war and is bit depressing, especially "when the tigers broke free" and the last one - "Two suns in the sunset". Leaves me with tears almost everytime, especially when you're a father :)

For sure amigo

Underrated. The last real Pink Floyd album. Without Roger PF were crap and soulless.

who else started singing the next song ?? LOL (I did).. One of the best studio albums ever produced.

Late to the party but thank you Dude for sharing your thoughts around this exceptional song. As I'm sure you all know this was meant to be included on The Wall, but things shifted. Its really worth googling Waters explaining this track, its very dark and complex, and as such he doesn't go into it in detail, but he has made reference to his battle with a certain type of addition that destroyed his marriage. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WxTxlGHKYpY.html 47:20 into interview. Its a magnificent track and album

full album is pink floyds thing !

I’ve listened to this album hundreds of times. It is an anti-war album. It is a criticism of politicians sending young men to die, yet again.

im new here.. but i have to ask you to react to "on the turning away" but in the live version of the CD.... delicated sounds of thunder. I know that it has a dvd from it but i think that the version of the cd is better. Anyway... nice to see people watching PF.

albums got more feel than the wall... i mean its an album you can listen to start to finish...

Advance warning - The Final Cut is a "difficult" record, though it's a very necessary one for fans. Musically, though it pains me to say this, it has the same problem as the Who's Quadrophenia (one of my most hated so-called-"classic" albums) - i.e: it's marred by being both "one-paced" and repetitious (in the sense of "overloaded with leitmotifs", and thus short on actual content). And that's just the beginning of the difficulty... As noted The Final Cut has some musical overlap with The Wall, but it also has musical overlap with Roger's solo album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking (which is even harder to approach - overbearingly one-paced, and filled with callbacks to both The Wall and The Final Cut). Of course these three albums are all intended to add up to one long self-analytical opera-cycle, written mainly (but not entirely) by Roger and not only conceptualised simultaneously but (to a degree) written simultaneously. It can be argued that the Pink Floyd "Family" finally overreached, and fulfilled the prog-rock stereotypes, with the Wall/Pros & Cons/Final Cut trilogy. Opera-cycles and leitmotifs are certainly not bad things in and of themselves - but, frankly, this ain't der Ring des Nibelungen, and it ain't even Theusz Hamtaahk...

It's about ptsd

The whole album is a great trip. In some ways is stands aside from the other Floyd albums but in the end it is just a great album, so who cares?

This whole album was ALL Roger Waters work. The band didn't like the direction Roger was taking the band. The reason for Roger departure. It actually workout for both. Roger solo work was very good , like wise Floyds 2 albums speak for it"s self.

Let’s face it if your not English and of a certain age would these lyrics on this album make much sense? It is a superb album if you understand it fully…

excuse the pun but , Waters always provided the cutting edge

the wall, 1981 live is the best version of the wall. ITs an album with masks in the cover. no need to react.. just search fot it man.. its the best version. I like always the best version of songs..

Roger Waters was the driving force of pink Floyd without him they've gone down hill hardly even writing there own songs

If you listen to Roger Waters albums it's like listening to the real pink Floyd

"The Final Cut' is not really a Pink Floy album any more. It's more like Roger Waters' first solo album.

Let's have IT!

Roger Waters's control got excessive, but it was far from completely without excuse and reason. That whole party line about "'The Final Cut' is a Roger Waters solo album in all but name" is one of the biggest misnomers in the history of Pink Floyd. That whole party line about "Pink Floyd broke up because Roger bad" is one of the biggest oversimplifications in the history of rock music, at least. Waters had to save Pink Floyd from falling into the black hole left by Syd Barrett's late 1967 breakdown. By their own admission, Richard Wright and David Gilmour had run out of great musical ideas and were even lazy, at least as early as the aftermath of "Wish You Were Here" in 1976. That alone was of little of Roger's fault. Almost 10 years of constantly doing gigs and writing and recording music and essentially filling the Barrett shaped hole was simply burning Wright and Gilmour out by 1975. Even Roger was struggling. All of the Floyds including Nick Mason were victims of the success of "Dark Side Of The Moon". All of their relationships with their childhood sweethearts ultimately broke down as a result. Even their mental health took a tumble in the mid-late '70s. Whilst it only partially, let alone fully, excuses Roger's behaviour, Roger Waters was also under terrible financial and record company pressure to complete "The Wall" in 1978-1979 as a result of Pink Floyd falling into crippling financial debt. This was because holdings company Norton Warburg had lost all of the Pink Floyd members' pension funds after investing them in an ill-fated series of ventures. Pink Floyd were also liable to pay back the back taxes as a result. Gilmour's creative burnout was also partially due to the constant performing to rowdy audiences from June 1973 through July 1977 whom didn't really give a shit about Pink Floyd's music in that period and really only went to gigs to hear "Money" and would shout for "Money" until they got it. That at least alienated Waters and Gilmour from their audiences, whom prior to June 1973 were at least mostly loyal and respectful fans. Waters rightfully felt that he had to express all of his troubles about war, mental illness, alienation, greedy corporations, losing Syd, losing his dad and the loss of compassion within society as a whole and injustice. Waters is the best ever lyricist in my honest opinion, along with Barrett, whose own lyrics were wonderfully charming and whimsical. Waters was understandably afraid that if he didn't write about his troubles, Waters would become as burned out and ill as Barrett. Basically through little fault of Waters, the creative golden era of Pink Floyd was on borrowed time ever since things started to fall apart in late '73, during the troubled aftermath of "Dark Side Of The Moon" and its increasingly rowdy tour. Pink Floyd could easily have ended altogether back then, which would have especially spared Wright and Mason and their loved ones a lot of heartache and misery. They are certainly awesome albums; "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall" and "The Final Cut"; and they are my favorite Pink Floyd albums. However, all these classics owe a lot to the wonderful and experimental pre-Dark Side records including Syd Barrett's wonderful baby, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" especially in terms of the development, evolvement and refinement of the classic dark psychedelic and pastoral Pink Floyd soundscape beginning in songs such as "Astronomy Domine", "Pow R Toc H" and "Interstellar Overdrive". This evolution and refinement can easily be heard if one listens to all of the Pink Floyd albums in chronological order. Interestingly, that whole early Pink Floyd creative golden era from late 1965 through May 1973 was also when the camaraderie both within The Floyd and between The Floyd and their audience at gigs was at its strongest. The former camaraderie within Pink Floyd was shown to great effect in the 1972 "Live At Pompeii" film. The classic dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape along with great musical ideas and Roger Waters's riveting lyrics and concepts are the vital things of Pink Floyd's magic, which is painfully absent from all of the post-Waters Pink Floyd albums. I find it very fascinating that the long 1966-1983 creative golden era of Pink Floyd was able to last so long despite so much upheaval along the journey. Roger no doubt played a huge role in the great run. Before "Animals", Roger Waters originally excelled mostly as the lyricist, bassist, concept artist and occasional singer of Pink Floyd, however his musical composition and orchestration wisdom had increased dramatically through the 70s because of Roger's formerly fruitful musical partnerships with Syd, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour. As these great musicians and writers had, in that same order, gradually all became burned out and ran out of a regular run of great musical ideas by the end of "Wish You Were Here's" creation, it was Roger whom through the lion share of the remaining creativity was able to keep Pink Floyd's creative golden era going for those precious if troubled final years of great albums and concerts, once again with that classic and magical blend of the dark psychedelic and pastoral soundscape and Roger's great musical ideas, riveting lyrics and concepts. Working with Ron Geesin in 1969-1970 on the "Atom Heart Mother" title track and "The Body" soundtrack, and later working with Michael Kamen and Bob Ezrin on "The Trial" and "The Wall" in general in 1979 further enriched Roger's musical composition and orchestration wisdom. For the most part, even Roger's solo albums and gigs are at least faithful and respectful to the 1966-1983 creative golden era of The Pink Floyd, musically and lyrically. Everyone, including David Gilmour infamously, disses "The Final Cut" for using leftovers from previous Pink Floyd records like "The Wall". Another overblown statement! Pink Floyd were always adapting leftovers throughout their great career without any detrimental effect on their music! Everyone always has to whine about Richard Wright's absence on "The Final Cut" and even simply diss the album for that reason alone. Yet, what would Wright have done better on "The Final Cut"? Glorified 80s garbage like he did with Zee on their "Identity" album or a sterile new age/ambient/corporate rock cipher like Rick did with David Gilmour, Waters Hater Polly Samson and many other guest writers on "The Division Bell" and "Endless River"? That was all he could do in Pink Floyd's final years of 1980-1994. It's all well and good missing a great musician, yet what is the point of whining about someone missing from a given record if they couldn't have done anything themselves to make it better? Syd Barrett's absence certainly didn't stop albums like "Dark Side Of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" from being great, so why should Rick's absence have stopped "The Final Cut" from being great? If Wright and Gilmour really had such great musical ideas post-'75, allegedly left off "Animals" and "The Wall" and "The Final Cut" because of Waters, then why didn't they use them on any of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", "The Division Bell" or "Endless River", when Waters was no longer domineering? Instead, all we got post-Waters was mostly sterile ambient and/or sterile corporate rock dreck with only fading glimmers of past glories. In addition to Pink Floyd becoming "a spent force, creatively" post-The Final Cut, Waters wanted to legally liquidate Pink Floyd following his '83 departure to stop them from becoming yet another corporate rock band like U2, Duran Duran, Status Quo and The Rolling Stones. Corporate rock was the very antitheses of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters's musical vision of Pink Floyd. Both Syd and Roger wanted to create music for art's sake and to express what matters to them. Gilmour had that mindset originally but post-The Final Cut, he fell into the greedy trap of filling stadiums and cashing in the brand. Yes, in the good old days with Syd Barrett and all the way from the UFO Club in 1966/1967 to "Wish You Were Here" in 1975 Rick was an insanely awesome and epic composer, keyboard player and singer to the extent of being Barrett's and Gilmour's musical soulmate and combined with each of them in turn, the musical heart of classic Pink Floyd but Rick became burned out and ran out of great musical ideas by time "Animals" started in 1976. As a result of this creative burnout combined with him succumbing to the same aforementioned alienation of performing at the rowdy '75 and '77 gigs, Rick even wanted out of the band in both 1975 and 1977 but every time, however, the greedy record company executives coerced poor Rick to stay which only set the poor guy up for a fall which cost him his mental health and his marriage to his childhood sweetheart. 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