Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (REACTION) with my wife 

No one hit so hard with words and emotions as Roger Waters. For me, the Shakespeare of Rock Music ...

Honestly one of Floyd's best albums. More cohesive in theme and tone, it just works. It's effectively a Waters solo album, but it has Gilmour's guitars so that's good enough for me. I wasn't aware of the band's troubles surrounding this album when I heard it. I only knew that the music touched me deeply.

Everyone seems to hate this album, but I just love it. It's so good.

Very underrated album. The gunner's dream deserves a listen too. Not now John, Your possible pasts and the Fletcher Memorial home.

Roger is a genius they all are one of the best writers and vocals and all he does for humanity

One of the most under-rated albums ever. Thank you, enjoyed your reaction.😊

One of my favorite albums from start to finish

Brutal, uncompromising and brilliant. The background to this album is fascinating, and it marked the end of that version of Floyd. Gilmour hated it, but I think his guitar work on this album is as good as it gets.

Roger's voice is so fierce and the emotions so raw.

His personal wall has been upgraded somewhat: Minefield in the garden, shotguns in the hall, then a safe door with a combination lock.

My favourite album from Pink Floyd. Too underrated 🤟

I have been listening to Pink Floyd for 36 years from the age of 14. They are quite literally a massive part of my life for many reasons. The Final Cut is just unbelievable and yes I think it is underrated, one of my favourites along with The Wall, Animals and Wish You Were Here. I saw them in Rotterdam in 1994 when Sam Brown sang Great Gig in the Sky, just unreal. "The child is grown the dream is gone" is my favourite line of any song, The Floyd really were/are stone cold geniuses.

With Pink Floyd the best way to listen is the entire album as it is a story, and one song is just a chapter in the book. This album is a cohesive masterpiece. As a combat veteran it crushes me.

The album as a whole, is just a masterpiece. Every song interlocks with all the others. You should once listen to it from start to finish.

The Final Cut album has been called the third part of The Wall, so many of the songs reflect further in Roger loosing his father during WWII and also further on the relationships in his life perhaps. The song is certainly full of emotions and I think is brilliantly reflected in the solo from David Gilmour. David has said that by this time he felt like his part in the album was that of a paid musician vs being part of Pink Floyd. So maybe the frustrations he was feeling also came out in the solo. All I can say is that remembering back to when the album came out, I remember really liking it.

I was so lucky to have the patience to listen to The Wall when I was 11. Years later and it's still my fave PF album...❤

Ohhh yes, finally a reaction from The Final Cut... Finally YOUR reaction, that I love sook much! Love this (underrated) album... Waters at his best in lyrics and voice, atmospheric and melancholic sound sooo deep! Thank you (again) guys! ❤

please gunners dream next pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

This song was actually supposed to be on The Wall. It fits in the section where Pink (the protagonist) is more and more isolated and feeling alienated from his wife.

Master piece

Este album ha marcado muchas vidas.

wow nice x mas gift ,one of my favourite Floyds song good choice.

That is the official video for this song. That's Roger Waters in the video with half of his face covered by darkness. Once you see The Wall movie you'll notice some familiar faces in this video that are in the movie. This is regarded as a Waters solo album under the Pink Floyd name and it's the last Floyd album before Waters officially left the band. A lot of these songs didn't make it on The Wall album and Gilmour was quoted as saying, "if it wasn't good enough for The Wall why make another album with them?" That's not word for word but it's close. I don't have the actual quote memorized but I know that was Gilmour's thoughts about this album. I love this album personally and think it deserves way more credit than it gets!

Has no one explained the song for you yet... O.k. here...its about "Pink"... The young boy in the video Another brick in the Wall who gets slapped by the teacher, poems everybody poems ..the laddie reckons himself a poet. Its about him alienating himself from the rest of the world.. it is and always will be one of the greatest songs ever written about the struggle of life. Its not a sequel to The Wall but more like an inside look into the mind of a young boy struggling to adjust to society and all its dark places, finally getting to the point of no return, but again ... struggling. ..... Hope this helps.❤

I loved this album what a journey ❤

Give a listen to 'Fletcher Memorial Home' from the same album. Roger Waters' father was a British soldier killed in World War II fighting against the Germans in Italy. It's another great song.

Thanks for music the final cut i love

Now do When the Tigers Broke Free from the same album. Lyrics version. And The Gunner’s Dream. Same album.

The video to me. Seem to be all about children hood memories.

FYI....song facts; Written by Roger Waters, this song is about Pink, the main character in Pink Floyd's album The Wall. The song describes what it's like to alienate yourself from the world. Pinks tells us about his young life, and how hard it was for him to socialize with humanity while he was behind his wall. The final part of the song tells us how he almost killed himself. The song is pretty much an epilogue to The Wall, telling the story of Pink while he was "behind the wall." Many believe this album to be the sequel to The Wall album, but it is mainly songs that were written from a narrative point of view for the 1982 movie, which starred Bob Geldof in the leading role. >> "The Final Cut" is a movie term used to describe the last edit before the film is sent to theaters. Having the final cut means ultimately deciding what's in the film. In the context of this song, the term relates to suicide, as Pink declares, "I never had the nerve to make the final cut," meaning he couldn't work up the courage to end his life. The Final Cut was a pivotal album for the band. Their previous album was The Wall in 1979, which was wildly successful but led to tensions in the group as Roger Waters asserted control. The grandiose tour that followed - a spectacular artistic achievement - was Waters' brainchild. When Pink Floyd began work on The Final Cut, it was spearheaded by Waters, who wrote all the songs and did nearly all the vocals. The theme of the album was the repercussions of war. The album was Waters' last with Pink Floyd. He released a solo album called The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking the following year; the next Pink Floyd album (without Waters) came in 1987 with A Momentary Lapse of Reason.

The last clip IS associated with the song. The gentleman in the clip played the teacher in the Wall movie.

its from the same time he wrote the wall, this song is very much about a person behind an emotional wall, the guard dogs, shot gun in the hall, and such are all obstacles to a person getting see their true feelings. The struggle to let out those feelings and the doubt of how the other person in a relationship will react, leave and take the children away or take him home. In the end he never gets the nerve up to do it.

Short story. When I first heard Dark side of the moon I thought its OK, then I played it 2-3-4-5 time and then I didnt stop for moths, then I heard Wish you were here I thought its OK, then I played it 2-3-4-5 time and then I didnt stop for moths, and that goes for every Pink Floyd album so I got some 5 years of best music experience of my life. I know every song, every note of every song and it was worth it. They are gonna be learned in music schools

I loved this album❤

The Gunner's Dream from this album is my favourite Pink Floyd song.

Love The Final Cut album , splits fans gets a lot of hate .

Guys, that is the official video. Great song, so deep and sad. Dave Gilmour's guitar solo, yet short, is still amazing and full of feeling. Love your reaction, guys Greetings from Argentina!

Same album, the gunners dream is a great song, full album is about a soldiers take and suffering from ptsd about returning from the Second World War, not everyone’s favourite album as it’s mainly roger waters efforts in the writing but I love the album

You'll need to do review to the band Queensryche and the song Silent lucidity. You all will love it. Love your reviews!

the best album ever

Go with 'The gunners dream' then go with 'two suns in the sunset' from the same album. There are lyrics to both on RU-vid

Best lyrics ever❤️

Thank you, appreciate listening to this song again through you. 👍💙

Is it still Floyd without Rick?????? It's a Water's album....... more than a Pink Floyd one......

The name Pink Floyd comes from the first names of two black American bluesman named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

The Final Cut is the last Pink Floyd album. So it's late Pink Floyd. Early Pink Floyd is 1967.

My introduction to Pink Floyd. Love it!

I love this track. Took me quite a while to get used to the whole album, but when it clicked, it really clicked. I wore out two vinyl albums, a cassette tape and now still play the CD. The desperation in the singing is a triumph - and that guitar solo! The band was all but spilt up when this album came out. Some of the tracks on this album were intended for The Wall, but Gilmour felt they weren't good enough. When Waters wanted them on this album, Gilmour still felt they weren't right. No matter. This album is another one that needs a full listen because it all links together like many of their other albums.

100 % official video. Enjoyed your reaction to this great song.

Many fans don't like The Final Cut album, but I feel it is a masterpiece, the whole feel and tone of the songs with the subject matter matter is very emotion. I also suggest that the album should be heard from start to finish as each song leads into the next.

I feel the video completely coincides with the lyrics.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is actually the official video

le dernier album chef d'oeuvre de PF, sombre, poétique. Bien sur, il manquera les grandes envolées instrumentales des albums 68/78; mais l'émotion est toujours à son comble et meme après 40 ans, ces chansons touchent l'âme.

As a teenager this albulm just blew me away....about 38 minutes in total....tought me more about war than any other album ever.

Ironically, this was not the early PinK Floyd album, in-fact it was the last one. Funnily, most will say that it was the most underrated album in the Pink Floyd canon yet it’s a multi-platinum masterpiece. It’s true that it would be hard to make out of the song as usual this was last song from the concept album Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. The album covers England vs Falkland war, Margaret Thatchers approach and then climbing capitalism. The entire album as usual written by Roger Waters who was the singer in the video.

Yes!! My favourite album

Could anybody love "him"!

You could say that the entire album is Roger Waters more than Pink Floyd. He did what he wanted. Music, lyrics, what the other members had to do, etc. Hence after this they separated.

Once again, respect for the courage to play something from it. Thanks. Very difficult topic; I belong to a generation that always judges an album as a whole and listens through it. First of all, something positive: Waters dealt with his father's war years, the situation at the time with the Cold War and - which many English people were reluctant about - the Fakland War under Thatcher's regime. Actually a very ambitious project. On the other hand, the democratic group chemistry has not been right for a long time: see, among other things, song credits since Animals, dismissal of Rick Wright (who was floating around on a Greek island) etc. Musically I was disappointed, more of a musical (partly on The Wall, then even more so on the solo albums) and the uniform, broken voice gets annoying over time, let alone the trivialities that Waters has been saying lately. Gilmour couldn't/didn't want to tax anything apart from a few short solos, and then stood out for his very questionable comments on this album, Thatcher and Fakland: the old dusty Sir of the old UK; but thought about it, with Rick Davis Supertramp on the political song Brother Where You Bound in 1985; maybe he's not as one-dimensional as I imagined him to be. Realization: So don't take me too seriously; enjoy good music. Have a good start to the week everyone✌.

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Final Cut is 90% all Rogers work. Hence: the credits said " music performed by P.F. Rick Wright was not consider part of P.F. as Roger " Fired him". Roger has quoted said MTV ruin music with videos. Taking away their imagination of the words. Roger lost his dad in WW2 when he was 6 wks. old ,his dad lost his dad when he was 2 yrs. old. The band didn't like the direction of the music causing him to leave. End of The wall " Banging your head against some mad buggers wall" as it all.

Same album...The Gunners Dream (also with the lyrics).

The video is relevant to the song. I won't explain it fully, but basically during world war 2 the men went to war and it was the women that kept the country going. You are seeing women in the video that rallied the nations and are important figures in history that played a key role in world war 2. Some other women there as well. I have given you a basic rundown but it's a deep album and alot of people don't like it. Me personally I think it's a really powerful album and underrated.

I found this reaction looking for a reaction to the album, not the song. I'm glad it landed here, in order to understand the song, you need to listen the entire album in its entirety. The meaning is about contemplating suicide....

I believe this was the single released to promote the album and I do find the video distracting as well. I highly recommend 'The Gunner's Dream' which I think is a bit more poignant and illustrates much more or what the album is all about. Love the reactions as always. Cheers!

i'm not sure how much forethought went into the making of the album,but roger waters may have known this was going to be the last pink floyd album...with him anyway. the band was not functioning as a complete unit. rick wright was gone altogether. the last song on the album, "two suns in the sunset", ends with the line "ashes and diamonds,foe and friend,we were all equal in the end" makes me believe roger knew it was over. on the last song of the last pink floyd album he would work on, the last two words were "the end". for him it was the final cut. as for the final cut song itself, many people have lived that sense of despair,myself included. whatever it was that brought us back from the brink of making the final cut, in the song's case the phone ringing, there is a sense of relief that it wasn't yet our time.that hope is not lost,and we made it through another day.

Love this 1

11:04. True, that. Normal is what people on average feel is normal. But nobody is wholly average. So in some way or other, we’re all crazy to others. You can’t win this. And whenever you go through a tough time, you feel lonely by definition. Nobody goes through exactly the same thing at the same time. Or if they do, they have their own worries. With no time to spare for yours, just as you have no time for theirs

Hi guys another great reaction hard to decrypt a pink Floyd song on a first listen the song is in three sections it starts painting the picture of a secret service soldier or hit man for the military then on the gun shot it goes back to before ww2 when he was a young man with nothing but girls on his mind then the final section is his return after his service haunted by his dreams and the things he’s had to do scared to open up to his wife with the fear she will leave and driving to the point off attempting suicide but then the phone rings hope it was his wife the video to me seems like a montage of the war effort and what the post war dream means to him people enjoying them selves and being free to do as they like keep up the good work thanx 👍

dave gilmour has said this is/was one of his least favorite projects of their catalog, me, personally, thank GOD IN HEAVEN for it, its very under rated, under appreciated, and for me one of my favorites, gilmours guitars combined with rogers lyrics and heart wrenching strained, emotional voice/singing, he not only writes genius lyrics, but he has ultimate control of his voice, from soft to strained, and controls it perfectly to quite a stirring effect, sadly its the only thing in their catalog sans richard, i could only imagine what his participation would have added to this already perfect masterpiece

Southampton Dock... Two suns..

The Final Cut album had a video/short movie made for it. This video is from that. Personally, I think this album can stand along side the previous 4.

Most underrated album EVER. A masterpiece. Thank you. Please react to the gunners dream from the same album. 👌

This is the official video for the song that’s roger waters singing in the video

waters album amused to death is to me a follow on

When the tigers broke free Pleaseeeeeee😢😢😢

For me "The Final Cut" is Part 3 of "The Wall" you could say "The Wall Reprise" and Roger Waters first solo album. "Two suns in the sunset" the last song of the album is more topical than ever before ...

i think this album is very underated. Its basically a Waters solo album.. kind of the wall part 2. Its very dark and you have to be in the correct mind space.

"The Wall" is an absolute masterpiece, it changes a part of my life as a teenager/ young adult. Also as a musician of course. The thing between Roger and David could happens in every " team/ couple/ close friends". In french we say that it's a relation kind of " Je t'aime, moi non plus" ( As Gainsgourg write it) . Can "be " translate": "i love you,( answer:) so don't i" . By the way, The wall is my favorite album of PF and the Movie by Alan Parker is an absolute fantastic movie/ experience and im surprise nearly everybody never mentions it!

You should listen to complete LP The fina cut

My favorite Floyd album ❤😊

By the Way, I love "The Final Cut" album since 1983 ...

Mmm, this is really a Roger Waters album, about his farther in World War 2. Sadly, there was a lot of friction between the members, which led to pink Floyd carrying on without their vocalist and bassist Roger.

the final cut. my take is two fold. One its a man almost committing suicide but a phone call stopped him AND this was waters final album with pink floyd so it was the final cut for him. I could be wrong.

Please react on Pink Floyd "Lost for words" Rehearsal 1994

Hi!!! nice reaction! Like this song. Can I suggest a reaction!? Pls react to Gabriel Henrique's performance on AGT. He got the Golden Buzzer! You never react to him, and he will probably go to the finals. Check him out!!! Tomorrow will be his live show, he is in the sem-finals!!!!!! Please vote for Gabriel!!!!

Could you please try "Roter Sand orchester version" from Rammstein? With lyrics. Its a good underrated song :)

Yeah, this is one of those where the video really didn't have much to do at all with the song, so I wouldn't be looking at it for clues to the meaning of the song ;)

There's one with lyrics

You need to do THE GUNNERS DREAM

Taj Farrant...Crossroads

Vocals,lyrics and music by……Roger Waters

Shotgun"s" in the hall ... And if I'm in, I'll tell you what's behind the wall.

Pure Roger Waters. ❤

I disagree with Mister Water's ideology, albeit I love this album.

They have no clue...early pink floyd?

I am glad you have discovered this Album, "The Final Cut".As Roger Waters gets gloomier about the State of the world and dispairs the truth of War and his own personal experience of losing his father in WW 11. Your must listen to "When the Tigers broke Free" If this track does not bring a tear to your eye I will be very surprised. !!! Keep up with your great reviews.

The song feels like it's from the same label as the previous album The Wall. However, it's also a collection of songs that didn't make it onto The Wall for various reasons. Neither Gilmour nor Mason were ever thrilled with this release. Waters had by this time definitely usurped the leadership position in the band (he had already fired Wright) and had become insufferable. Even on tour with The Wall, he didn't communicate with the others at all - he slept in another hotel, flew to gigs alone by helicopter and didn't talk to anyone. Unlike The Wall, David didn't even argue with Roger about creative things in TFC anymore. This period was devastating for the band. And the entire album The Final Cut is considered by all to be Waters' first solo album. However, Gilmour hardly sings on it either (he sang most of the songs up to that point). Of course he played all the guitar parts on the album very well, but that was the end of it. And that was the definitive end of Pink Floyd's most famous era.

I can understand how the other band members were getting bored with Waters writing the same album over and over again. Like all bands, Pink Floyd had their run. 3 decent songs on the album imo.

I love the last part where the guy is about to commit suicide until the phone rings and he ends up reacting to regret doing it