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  • For some reason, I took to this album immediately when it first came out. The sarcastic desperation evident throughout much of the writing (all Waters') seemed quite cathartic to me at it's release and still today. I'd say this isn't an album for casual listening but one that you need to set aside the time for and dive into like a novel. Also agree with others here saying this is some of Waters' most powerful song writing.

  • Not castigating die hard Floyd fans who can't grip this album, but in my eyes its one of Waters's finest hours, probably a little to true to life for some. "as the windshield melts & tears evaporate,leaving only charcoal to defend"

  • Roger Waters performance was perfect in this song!

  • what is there to say...the finest way to represent a feeling, in a moment in time true music, is and art that Roger mastered like no other.

  • Great video what you tube is all about

  • I think the whole album is a continuation to The Wall. In an even more insane alternate reality, I see The Wall, The Final Cut and The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking as a soft of three-part, self-biographic, ultra concept album by Waters. But then again that's just me.

  • i like the picture at 2:00.R.I.P Rick Wright

  • this song is devastating.

  • This song...just...hard to put into words...have you ever been lieing alone in the dark and found your senses on complete overdrive..

  • I am completely breathless by Rogers work on this album

  • Fantastic video mate!

  • I do not own or know every Pink Floyd Album, I own a vast majority of them. My first Purchase was "Whish You Were Here", Which is My pick as their best, but The Final Cut is also right up there as one of their finest.

    But I must admit I often find peace within when I listen to their songs, these guys have helped me a lot of times, also SRV's Tin Pan Alley or Little Wing will also (PMU) Pick Me Up, that is.

  • @DKashman I liked "A NIce pair(ummagumma and a saucerful of secrets). I know a girl who suffers lsd flashbacks when she hears ANY early pink floyd(pre Dark side of the Moon)...............NO SHIT! She just freaks out and is a lot of fun2watch to this day when I get bored , I just put on some Interstellar overdrive and stand back!

  • As far as i know this song was intended to be on the wall, it fitted well there...

    This is Roger waters's best solo album by far !

    Anywaythe whole ablum is better than "The Wall" with no doubt.

  • 0:37 :D

  • @stosiedem The great pig in the sky :D

  • their best album and one of their best songs in my opinion

  • my fave floyd...but very hard to listen to.

  • That was the first song from which I fell in love with Pink Floyd back in the 10th grade.

  • you have to listen to Southampton Dock before this. beautiful :')

  • This is a great album, this song is my favorite for this disc

  • @zkrmorro a quien le importa que tu novia te dejara patetico!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • the most underrated album ever!

  • This is my favourite album too.

  • ALMOST makes it to number 4.

    1. Dark side of the moon

    2. Wish you were here

    3.Animals

    4. The Wall

    5. This great glory that is the final cut

  • Their most mature album.the wall was not this good.

  • Fucking legendary, no words can describe this perfection... So emotional

  • 2:03 Is that male sex between Nick and Rick?

  • I dismissed the final cut when I was younger as too bloody heavy. But I cant get enough of it these days, beautiful music and lyrics

  • john williams the famous classical guitarist said it best: music expresses the inexpressible.......

  • This solo beats Comfortably Numb....

  • back2future u fool cut out t terminology n njoy u up tight muppet!

  • agreed ROCK isnt ONLY MUSIC.If u have a hearth inside u should get that the album "Final Cut" is one of the best productions of the ROCK music.

  • The Final Cut album is BY FAR the best album i really dont know how the fuck peope say it is the worst BTW!!!!! a couple days ago they forgave eachother and are releasing 3 whole new albums that no one has ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is a god everyone!

  • Dificil de escolher ... mas certamente uma das melhores

  • @PAULOTERRIVEL1 totalmente de acordo ;mas gosto de todas as musicas dos pink floyd;tanbem tenho todos os albuns deles

  • "i never had the nerves to make the final cut"

  • Dislikes? Really you came this far down the floyd path and decided this one wasn't quite good enough?.

  • essa é perfeita...marcou minha vida!

  • The Final Cut is my favorite Pink Floyd album.

  • @boohar36 It is my favourite too :D

  • Who are most people? And there is no best Floyd Album... DSOTM, Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut, and for me personally everything after Waters left ... But really, those 4 albums, I love them each equally.

  • Holy shit this song is amazing and powerful.

  • Apparently 'Back2tfuture' haven't seen the movie 'The Wall'... all songs from 'The Final Cut' is part of the movie... and as far as I now it was supposed to be the 3'rd album in 'The Wall' album, but due to different issues during recording it was taken out of the album... feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.... Still I love this just as much as any other Pink Floyd album.. :-))

  • oh God, what beautiful great memories are coming back, I LOVE PINK FLOYD, the best group ever in history .. Roger Waters RULES. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME :)))))))

  • Admit it, how genius is this group and each individual. Two albums in one. Pink Floyd's final album and Roger Water's first solo album.

  • This song...is about Rogers thought of the band coming to and end...he was crying...you ever cry..and try to see..thru fish stained eyes..its poetic......there will never be a band that exudes poetry so well

  • This song saved my life. I was a second away from making the final cut...

  • @alexandersrose Glad you are still with us

  • @alexandersrose same here dude... same here... but I still feel like making the final cut you know?

  • @melchiahim hey, I've feel that way alot, i've even failed suicide. whatever it is though, i'm telling you, it's never worth it. Just find a way to be happy, to hell with everything else. I don't know you but I know your listening to the right music :) . cheer up, its just a ride.

  • @melchiahim It's not worth it brother. There is no good there.

  • @alexandersrose That's awesome!!

    What it is about the song that made you change your mind?

    Thanks so much

  • @macdaddylorenzo The hope this song brings. It's just a crazy dream, but it's a dream.

  • @alexandersrose Thanks for your answer, that's beautiful.

    It's crazy, and sometimes it's real. That what makes it so wonderful, it's humbling.

  • @alexandersrose Good for you, cuz. I hope you are in a better place now. Pink Floyd's music has saved more than one life, I suspect.

  • It's sort of sad because this generation can't really grasp what this album tries to communicate and no future generations will either. It's a concept album that perfectly reflects the ethos of the era. I only say it's sad because if you understand what the lyrics mean then it's a much deeper experience. I feel privileged to get to experience it like that.

  • this is possibly my favourite ever album. I strongly recommend listening to the whole thing whilst going to sleep. Soooo deep

  • There isn't a more touching album than The Final Cut in the whole of music industry. I love it, it impresses me to the deepest part of me. To me this is the best Floyd album after The Wall. The only reason why this alblum was criticized is because it was preceded by such masterpieces as Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. But for me that doesn't throw a shadow over The Final Cut.

  • This is the final cut. Roger said what he needed to say and then. See ya, wouldn't want to be you. Roger is PF! Listen to Amused to Death and you will no longer doubt.

  • this is the last album with waters before he left the band but yes it is pink floyd

  • This is one of the most honest and heartbreaking songs I've ever heard. Its incredible. Fuck the haters.

  • After all the critics took their best shots ..."Ahh, it didn't sell like The Wall or Dark Side" .... Roger was leaving a market one day and a lady stopped him to tell him how much the album meant to her, her father having been killed in WWII as well.... Roger walked out with his bag of potatoes and thought, "Good enough!"

  • This is great..good job. Thanks

  • This is not a Pink Floyd's album. This is a Roger Water's album. It's amazing, but it isn't a Pink Floyd album.

    Whatever, this is awsome.

    Good job, Roger.

  • Beautiful song.

  • Rogers pours his fucking heart out in this album, outstanding, people wonder why today's artist get so much flack, it's mostly because today's so called "artists" just don't put themselves on the line like this anymore.

  • great song ,awesome infact ,but so is maxwells silver hammer,can't compare ,both GREAT Brittish bands .

  • That is why this was Pink Floyd's Last Album... Before Roger went on his own an PF did their thing after years of Court Fights concerning the name and music of PF

  • I listen to this as much as Comfortably Numb.

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  • @buddy3991 Roger Waters dad died in war...

  • the Final Cut finished them, it's all about Waters (mind you, brilliant, he imposed this on the rest of them). I love Floyd but I love RW too and I love this album

  • Best song of Roger.

  • “Puede ser que THe Final Cut sea el mejor disco solista de Waters, pero es el peor de Pink Floyd”

    David Gilmour En New Musical Express, 9 Julio de 1988

    Igual no esta nada mal, el problema es la perdida del balance entre musica y letras

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  • @MrSlimflux And i still cry for all those young "gunners" that remain there !! And hate Maggie !!

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  • you can hear the vamp for comfortably numb in the background of this track... and the album its clearly if not an homage to [i]the wall[/i] is is definitely a requiem to it or an epilogue...

  • falklands

  • Never heard this before. Will listen again without doubt. Sublime solo on the old guitar and a wonderful 'first hit' on the mind. Just goes to show. Still loads of great stuff, old and new, out there.

  • You think David Gilmour got any pussy back in the day? More ass than a toilet seat I bet!!!!

  • I mean reallyyy.!!!! WHO THE FUCK CAN DISLIKE SUCH A SONG??

  • pros and cons of hitchiking Roger at his finest 1 of the best albums you can listen to with headphones on THANK YOU for posting this final cut sublime

  • Me gusta muchísimo esta canción. Me encantaría poder compartirla con Alejandro, la persona más hermosa que conocí en mi vida.

    Ya descubro sola a Pink Floyd...

    ...somos Floyd y yo, todas las noches, todos los días.

  • the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best.... ohh, let's take a break..... the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best  the best the best the best the best !!!!!

  • hahaa van nistelrooy

  • Final Cut (Album) ... the final masterpiece of Roger Waters with Pink Floyd

  • awesome ;top album two suns in the sunset my fav song

  • For Xmas '87, I asked my sister to get me Momentary Lapse of Reason for my present because MTV was playing LTF a lot and I'm captivated by flight. When I saw my wrapped present, I saw it was a cassette, but when I opened it, it was DSOTM. !? No idea what that was. She said, "If you wanna listen to PF, this is the album you start with." And from the opening heartbeat, they've been my fav band since. And in all my years of listening to PF, to me, David's guitar solo at 3:26 is PF's best ever.

  • the final cut!!! was for syd. rodger tried to get him back. but sid said no!!!

    

  • Wonderful musical group.

    They are for me first and will be last with my breath.

    A fact of fast passing is horrifying me. Doesn't already live Syd and Rick............. remaining ,I wish long, beautiful years of the life.

    Even though it is not very real I would like if only Waters and Gilmour were reconciled.

  • And If i show you my dirk side..will you still hold me tonight? <3

  • not frequently, music could be made at times that is too early to be appreciated.... i think final cut is one of those...

  • Oh my actual days :O

  • I'll admit, the Final Cut has flaws, and when listening to the album as a whole, it becomes pretty obvious that Waters had completely taken over the band by this point, preventing the other members from contributing.

    Luckily, Roger Waters is a musical genius, so we still got an amazing album with great songs like The Final Cut.

    God damn, we need more music like this.

  • how can guys like roger waters and mark knoppler faded and replace by that fucking faggot pencil dick sasha baron cohen's faggot reporter bruno looking justin bieber

  • Magical. Definately would of fitted at the end of The Wall.

  • The greatest of all pink floyd's song, and its not even on their pink floyd's greatest hit album??? david gilmour must be jealous with roger waters

  • What? What? Most people say Final Cut is the worst Pink Floyd album? It's one of the best! The most emotional album ever. People just don't get what Pink Floyd is about.

  • @MazeFiguresAnimator

    it is not one of the best,it is the best album!

  • @MazeFiguresAnimator The problem is not with the album itself, but with the fact that rather than being a Pink Floyd album, it's more of a Roger Waters album.Listen to his solo albums and you will understand what I'm saying (or perhaps you already had).

  • @MazeFiguresAnimator there is no suck thing as the worst Pink Floyd album. I think there all amazing even with syd barret... or however you spell his name lol

  • So Roger Waters had/has some pretty serious mother/father issues to work though but you have to admit that the man is a genius. What I would give to have been able to see him and David Gilmour live..

  • Beatles are nothing like Pink Floyd lol. PF are the best!

  • I think this is the most incredible, honest, heartbreaking song I've ever heard. And everyone can relate to at least one lyric in here. That's what makes it so fucking good.

  • A song that change lives

  • I HAVE THIS ALBUM...UNOPENED ,FACTORY SEALED, I'LL SELL FOR 50 BUCKS, MESSAGE ME

  • you send it to Romania?

  • Well I would say Roger Waters are one of the best songwriters in music history, but I wouldn't say fuck the Beatles or anything. The Beatles laid down the foundation for bands like Pink Floyd. So good things lead to better things. Without each other they wouldn't be possible.

  • This album was introduced to me as a young teenager and got me out of the Pop rut that plagues so many "tweens". It still holds as my favorite to this day. Not a song on it is lacking in meaning and substance.

  • hmmm i thought this was about him going through depressoin and self harmig, and his relationship, but maybe im wrong

  • What the fuck am I listening to?

    Is this one of the best songs ever, or what?

    This is how a good-I mean epic-song should be. It doesn't need to have autotune, make you move, have the most original lyrics, have a solo with 2000 notes in 10 seconds. It has to have feeling, a meaning. Which clearly this song does.

    Roger Waters is the best songwriter in history. Fuck the Beatles, MJ, or whatever.

    This kind of songs are what keeps World War III from happening. Roger's father would be proud.

  • @buddy39914 I agree, hate songs with no meanings.

  • @buddy39914 man are you serious? fuck beatles???

  • @buddy39914 Agreed 1000 percent except for the comment about the Beatles. Nobody says fuck you to the beatles if you love music !!!

  • @moonlightonariver I'm saying that Roger Waters writes better songs than Lennon.

  • @buddy39914 I completely agree. It's disappointing how few people now even know Pink Floyd and even more disappointing that the older generations don't care to share this with us. Can't believe I went through so much of life without this as background.

  • @buddy39914 hey! the beatles are pretty EPICCCC too! :DD

  • @buddy39914 I AGREE BUT NO NEED TO DISRESPECT THE BEATLES..........*ITS NOT A MUSICAL COMPETITION

  • @buddy39914 dont you dare fuck the beatles.. :(

  • @buddy39914 If Roger's father were alive, this song wouldn't exist.

  • Thi9s sounds like the confortably numb melody

  • para mim que tenho 44 anos, foi e será o melhor disco de sempre. magnifico.

  • best song ever.

  • Powerful freakin' song.

  • quit bad mouthing this great album, seriously, go back to listening to lame shit for the rest of your life; its no skin off my balls

  • this is my all time favorite album, and song....brings me back to high school and good places....really a Roger waters solo album....listened to it hundreds of times...but unbelievably great

  • How come no one addresses his suicide threat? He holds the blade in his trembling hands, but just then the phone rings and averts it. What the hel do you think THE FINAL CUT refers to? SUICIDE! the final cut across his wrists - saved by a p[hone call.Absolutely no one refers to this.

  • @broncobra

    seriously are you that stupid to believe that no one would think of that?

  • @samie800 rofl

  • @broncobra That's my favorite line in the whole song, thanks for the reference lol

  • I started to love the Final Cut at the age of 12 and still love this masterpiece. Great, great, great!

  • Esse album veio para ser apreciado inteiro, sem interupção, são simplesmente momentos de puro êxtase. Maravilhoso!!!!

  • Only, fantastic song, best album for me.

  • This is my favorite Pink Floyd song, and this is by far the best Pink Floyd Album

  • I don't know, but since Roger left the band, Pink Floyd seemed to lose their edge lyrically. They are still a fantastic band, and immensely talented musically. But they just ain't the same without Roger's input. Roger wasn't scared to call a spade a spade, but since he left, the band seemed to lose that, and became a bit 'clinical' and over engineered in my opinion, although still very enjoyable. I think 'The Division Bell' was a brave attempt to regain what was lost, good, but no cigar.

  • @nomoreliblabcon Pink Flyd still goes on tour "with Roger Waters"

  • This is by far the best PinkFloyd album, at least thats my opinion.

  • @dahellinside

    I agree, always thought it was just me who thought that!

  • @RDEE1976 dont get me wrong, i love all the pink floyd albums, well to be honest you cant always love them all, but the final cut is just somehow above them all for me, it just has that "thing" that makes it perfect. i can listen to it 20 times a day and never get bored with it.

  • @dahellinside i love this album also and think this particular song is up there with some of the best songs that have ever been written, pure raw emotion, fantastic reference to Waters' own situation at the time e.g., 'would you sell your story to rolling stone', this was not about the 2nd world war this was about his own marriage..such beauty!

  • i dont know why the fan voted this as the worst album. This album is full with emotions and i really love this album.

  • one of the most if not the most moving song Roger ever wrote.

  • To me this is the best Floyd Song ever, nothing else they ever did drips raw emotion like this one does. It moves me to tears whenever I hear it.

  • I got this cassette for x-mas in 1988 and had it for over a year (unopened) until i heard this song on the radio...started listening to it a little, then I had to go to the hospital for a week and brought this along. It's one of those albums that you need to here over and over again to truly understand how awesome it is... to this day I still have this CD...the only Pink Floyd CD I own! I still listen to it without skipping a song! How many CD's can you say you don't skip forward?

  • <3

  • I love this album. It's My Favourite!!!

    Pink Floyd!!!

  • Waters is the greatest lyricist ever....listen to those lyrics...he is just a genius.

  • Back2tfuture, i was tempted to attack you when i first started reading your opinion on The Final Cut but you have a grip on what your talking about. Mate i love Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here. But The Final Cut is my 2nd fav album, just behind The Wall. I love it. The lyrics are fucking brilliant!

  • This is pretty much my favorite Floyd record. I find it has the definitive Roger Lyrics, and the most incredible emotion and tone in Gilmour's playing. It isn't a perfect record - but it has a sound and a feel that is all its own, and is just as good as anything they ever did before. It is a lesser-known album, though, for sure. I play in a popular Floyd tribute act, and whenever we play Not Now John and The Gunner's Dream at shows people are a bit confused ha ha :D

  • i always heard that all the songs on the Final Cut were originally supposed to be on The Wall but the record company wouldn’t let them release a 3 disk album so they had to take some songs out.

    has anyone else heard that or is it just false info?

  • @Qman132 It's sorta that, but also David Gilmour had some conflicts with Roger Waters trying to make the Wall all about him. David felt that Roger brought alot of rejected material from the Wall into the Final Cut, this along with conflicting artistic views eventually led to the splitting of the band. At least I'm pretty sure this is what happened.

  • I love all the shots with Syd.

  • @smithnya Yes, no one have to forget that genius

  • I just love how Roger goes back to "If" in this song. Such an underrated gem, this whole album is great imo.

  • was one of there best fuckin love it so much emotion

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  • There are only 2 songs I like on The FInal Cut, The Final Cut and The Gunners Dream. The rest of the album left much to be desired.

    As a big long time Pink Floyd fan I was really dissapointed in this album.

  • @FalconFBDT64 shame u feel like that, it was very moving

  • @dawnybawny

    It was, but there wasnt much music to the album, aside from the occasional guitar solo, it was mostly just Roger singing, where is the rock and roll that Dark side of the Moon, Wish You were here, Animals, and The Wall had?

    The only real rock n roll song on the album is Not now John and that song was terrible. I have a hard time listening to the final cut, thats why I only have the Gunners Dream and the Final Cut(song) on my Ipod from that album. They were the only good songs.

  • im listening to this song because i just broke up with my girlfriend and im depressed

  • @lordofthelobsters hang in there brother.

  • used to not like this album, and then one day i was in a bad mood and i just started singing this song in the shower (air guitar and all) and Ive loved it ever since.

  • @thestonefairy :) Me the saaame!

  • Roger waters is the genius behind this album , ofcourse with the help of the masters ,Gilmour and Wright and Mason

  • @masterofthenight0 Wright wasnt in PF at the time... Mason was mainly a studio musician... Gilmour had a bit bigger role than Mason, but not much... I guess thats why this is a Roger Waters album, preformed by Pink Floyd

  • Quite already, best vocals and best guitar what else do you want

  • One of the greatest albums of all times ! (as Kanye West would say)...Some critics gave it great reviews, some not... and it didn't sell well compared to all their albums of the 70's, but Roger tells a story about coming out of the market with his bag of potatoes, and a woman recognized him and stopped him to tell him how much The Final Cut meant to her, having also lost her dad in WW II.... and as Roger walked away he said he smiled and thought, "Good enough !"

  • любимейшая группа всех времен чего и вам желаю вслушаться понять полюбить

  • LOVE this album - some of Daves best guitar work - even though it was the end of the Floyd.

  • bottoms up floyd!

  • I love this album and this song...I know that it's one of those albums that people absolutely love or hate...and I think that's what's great about it! It doesn't elicit any so-so emotion...that's why it's powerful.

  • this song is amazing. just wow. nuff said