Added: 3 years ago
From: KMRakaKAT
Views: 166,091
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (334)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I don't usually burst into tears... But when I do, you know it's the glorious fault of Roger Waters.

  • We shared many great memories to this song. My First LOVE of 26 years, I MISS YOU,,,,,,........I know you are in great PEACE, something you didn't get here on earth so THE GOOD LORD took you home to have ONLY PEACE and SMILES.

    R.I.P. My True Friend, ALWAYS with me wherever I go, in my heart forever I know :)

    Rusty Santana - March 4th 1970 - November 6th 2010 - Suicide By Overdose

  • They just don't write music like they used to, do they. Full of feeling and emotion, and that sax at the end is a touch that is hard to replicate. Written when music was made popular because of TALENT, not because MTV force-feeds it down the throat of the masses. It's sad but true, video really did kill the radio star. It sucks to be older but, from a musical standpoint, I'm glad I grew up when I did and was able to see the bands that I saw - in their prime and when they were hungry.

  • cara muito linda valeuuuuuu dicosilva rio rj brasil fuiiiiii

  • I love this song. The best song from the best cd/album by Pink Floyd.

  • @Seattlecarnut what?????? its understandable if you like this album alot but how can you claim it as the best PF album?? you really like it better than Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here and Animals? what about Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, or Atom Heart Mother? and there are a few others before that, too...

    but are you serious when you say that?

  • @freddiebarry93 Now, don't get your knickers in a knot. I love Dark Side and The Final Cut. I haven't listened to any of the other PF cds. Perhaps when I do, I'll make my own judgement, ok?

  • @Seattlecarnut well there you go you, shouldn't have said the final cut is their best album

  • the final cut is the only Floyd album i'm not into. i do like "the hero's return", i LOVE the guitar solo from "the fletcher memorial home" and i really like "not now john". but the other songs, i don't like so much...Roger's singing just really turns me off in those tracks. even he admitted it wasn't good singing

  • ashes and diamonds, foe and friend

  • If this is playing when the shit finally hits the nuclear fan....who gives a shit ?

  • I always hated this album.But many years later as I come back to it.I love it more and more.I guess it kinda grows on you.....PEACE

  • I love it whens hes like "Oh No" 

  • Had this on cassete it burned up with my dog and everything I owned

  • @Ancientmirrors1 dude...sorry to hear that`

  • no prob with just a picture it's the music that counts Bro!

  • I haven't heard this album for over 25 years..bringing back lots of memories right now..two suns is 1 of my favorites...

  • and as the windshield melts

    my tears evaporate

    leaving only charcoal to defend

    finally i understand

    the feelings of the few

    ashes and diamonds

    foe and friend

    we were all equal in the end

  • funny isn't it?

  • The lyrics of pink floyd are brilliant never heard such good lyrics

  • A bit like Radiohead - The Tourist.

  • @redspidermusic

    Don't know if I agree, but wouldn't it be: "the tourist is like this one"?

  • @redspidermusic No, The Tourist is like this song.

  • she'll automatically take the seat, cause she already knows, its hers to begin with

  • When your life seems like a pile of shit, this album will help, because you empathize and relize, my life could be worse .

  • this is the true anti war song!

  • Bullocks to the critics. This song, and every other one, are awesome. If you don't like the track of "The Final Cut" you have no soul, your entire family hates you, and you can't figure out what that "THING" is on your back. Love ya Rog.

  • @SuperFezziwig wait i have a question....what about this album do you like best? do you like it most because of the concept that the lyrics illustrate? or is it the music that you like most?

  • there's no 5/4 in this song. it's 9/4 and common with 7/4 breaks...bush league chaps, bush league...

  • as much as i like this album, i think the reason that most people dont care for it, is that it is basicly a Rogers solo album. after wish you were here, he kind of got a superiority complex, and thought that he was the groups key member, and started dictating there artistic choices.

    the other band members thought that they were not being allowed to contribute any ideas of musical talent to most of the songs on this album, and the wall and animals to a lesser extent.

  • @themightygreenman and the other members are as guilty as roger is. as roger did not realize that he was making the other members feel that way the other members where actually contributing part of their magic into each song from all those albums, and although they may seemingly be roger waters single songs, if gilmour and the other guys weren't contributing anything it wouldn't be as good as it is. the whole band together is what it takes to make these masterpieces, it is not a one man game.

  • If the song had an amazing solo by David starting from, 2:35 till Roger started singing again would be epic

  • left undone?.... welll, let's get it done!!!! ooofffff!!! love it!  SUDDENLY IT'S DAY AGAIN!

  • this song gives me goosebumps all over.

  • Love it. Love you pink floyd you've helped me through some rough times.

  • we are all equal in the end... he was referring to death

  • @fbigpilllin No schlit.

  • oh yeah!!! luvly jubly x

  • true feelings....

  • He made this song with 2012 in mind,,

  • This song is like pretty much every Roger Waters song.

    Depressing, but awesome.

  • @CrapTurret94 Crap Turret........ you mean like from Portal 2?

  • @smartlamppost Yeah.

  • @CrapTurret94 i don't know what your talking about. none of his songs or Floyd songs depress me. they are very dark, though

  • @freddiebarry93 I was exaggerating, though The Gunner's Dream really is.

  • @CrapTurret94 yeah i know what you mean by saying its depressing. i just don't like it when people throw that word around about PF music.

  • @freddiebarry93 well .. ! If you don't like Waters , why do you listen to him ? that's not for you Crapturrt .. is for for people who judge and they don't know which way to go , and in the end they judge people in any directions they fingers go .. if you are scared from dark dont be , because by listen to rihana you not going to know what is going in your life for true , and only Roger can tell you what is it , and all of you who judge Waters you are only insects !!!!!!

  • @Skenderbegss DID I SAY THAT I DON'T LIKE ROGER WATERS?? NO!

    as a matter of fact, i'm a BIG FAN OF HIM! wtf is up with you people on youtube who assume the most absurd shit? fuck off will you? You obviously need to learn not to judge haha

    just because i said Water's songs are dark, does not mean i dislike them! i absolutely love all of his lyric concepts. I'm not in love with this particular album.

    do you even know english, man? you do not make any sense, whatsoever

  • @freddiebarry93 Roger fans are more tolerant , you did take my comment wrong you can

    say to me any thing you like I am glad you are fan of him , yeah maybe that to I don,t know english perfect ,! take care man

  • @699smooth Roger's fans aren't "this" or "that". there are all sorts of Waters fans. ANYWAY i'm more of a Pink Floyd fan...i'm not really into Roger's solo stuff...people of all ages, races, and gender are fans of him. i am an american 18 year old for example and i know a 60 year old Austrian guy who is a big Floyd fan, and we are very different but share good music taste.

    and wait who the hell are you? i was talking to Skenderbegss and your acting like i replied to your comment?? im confused

  • someone stole my CDs so here I am.. at u tube.

  • Awesome song!

  • anyone else find the fact this was the song in the Waters' era funny? the very last verse is "we were all equal in the end" ... of course roger had yelled at nick for not being able to drum to this song, kicked richard out of the band, and then said pink floyd was all his... I just find the last phrase hilariously ironic!!... Don't get me wrong, I love Roger - my favorite artist... as he explains in the wall shows he was "miserable and fucked up" back in these days, lol

  • @PringDaddyPring "we were all equal in the end" ...maybe Waters was referring to just himself and David Gilmour. (and perhaps Sid as well).

    : )

    Ya, he clearly thought this was the last PF album. Too bad those two can't put their egos aside and keep on creating together. I still have hope.

  • @PringDaddyPring Check out the two suns in the sunset...awkward. I found Waters to be a little more warm compared to Gilmour...but, whatever:

    We will meet Again - Roger Waters & David Gilmour

  • nothing short of awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I remember being haunted by this tune, this whole album, when I was a 13 year old kid becoming politically aware. Thank you PF.

  • When it comes to Pink Floyd, im always speechless. words cant describe the feel of their music

  • seems roger waters dreams about the 2 suns are comeing true. tis is the nail in the coffin. when did this come out? in the 70 s or 80s? ive had dreams come true as well but never made a song about a dream that was comeing true right infront of us. if you dont understand this song just search YT vids for comet elenin,nibirue ore plant x. or just watch the two suns we now hav. i wasent really totttally believivg it untell i heard tis song.

  • Not my favorite Pink Floyd album, but the lyrics are brilliant.

  • Beautiful.

  • They were speaking about 2012 Wormwood!

  • @ryanLeKing well Niburur...but its about Nuclear War

  • One of my all-time favorite Floyd / Waters songs... Actually... Best lyricist out there, and even if you don't enjoy the "adult contemporary" sound this album has... It has some of the best lyrics of any album... 

  • I think it's okay but I prefer Dark Side of the Moon,The wall and animals.

  • Unlike a lot of Pink Floyd fans, I like this album. When I read the review I was expecting mediocre anti war songs for 40 minutes, but I was really surprised. This album is really good. Its not my favorite but it's good. The only problems with the album is that a lot of the songs sound the same, but if you like the sound then you will like all the songs.

  • this album is the expression of Waters' songwriting genius.

  • superb. thank you muchly for putting it here. just when i needed it :)

  • 404

  • just one , love and kisses pink floyd, rodger walters,and k.o.a.s. and of course sid barrett (hope you are still playing your panio)

  • This is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Animals is a close second, then the Wall. Dark side of the moon is good. But over rated IMO.

  • I find it kind of cool how the last two words on this album coincidentally happen to be "the end".

  • This is THE greatest song ever written and always will be. No argument.

  • THE SAX!

  • think hes talking about elenin?

  • @goathead52 IM SURE HE S TALKING ABOUT ELENIN... if the band you re in... plays a diferent tune... i ll see you at the dark side of the moon.

  • @duran11jav

    in an interview roger said it was about sid.

  • This is one of the best songs on the album. Thanks Roger. You did good.

  • this song's incredible. it's a lot like hallowed be thy name, by iron maiden. i first heard this, and some other floyd at about age four, and they were ground into my brain. that might be why i like maiden so much. Floyd's fuckin incredible

  • I have listened to this song many times, but never interpreted it correctly until after I listened to "The sun is Burning." Then it was simple and I could appreciate this song even more!

  • nick mason didn't play drums on this as it hada 5/4 time signiture he could not play

  • this album has so much heart.

  • The sun is in the east, even though the day is done...awesome lyrics as usual.

  • I performed this the other day. I got a bit carried away playing it... Great tune! :'D

  • 5 people didnt see the two suns in the rear view mirror

  • lets see the pink floyd albums i have are in order (correct me if i am wrong) the piper at the gates of dawn, meddle, dark side of the moon, the wall disc 2, and animals i want more man.

  • @91onemanband Piper, Saucerful of secrets, ummagumma, Atom heart mother, Meddle, DSOTM, Animals and the wall. I has those :D

    Animals came out before The Wall.

  • Having first seen the Floyd way back in 69( yeah Im an old lad). Theres not a bad Floyd track.Each one has its own merit, and a TRUE fan would accept that.

  • A lot of people dislikes this album, but I really love it so much........great album.

  • Did Roger do this one all himself? Or were the other members included?

  • Ashes and diamonds

    Foe and friend

    We were all equal in the end

    So true....

  • AWESOME! 

  • The Final Cut is an okay Roger Waters solo album.

  • Anyone else find that at 2:22 right after he says "like the moment when the brakes lock" sounds a little bit like child in time by deep purple?

  • @MegaMark0000 Definitely.

  • I've read a comment on Marooned and one guy said that The Division Bell and The Final Cut are the worst Pink Floyd albums. Well... it's definitely a matter of taste. It's so strange that I've been listening Pink Floyd all my life and I consider this album one of the best. Quite puzzling. But, in the end, it's not about what album is the best... it's all about the fact that they influenced my life and I would be a poorer man without their music.

  • @christhefugitive Sod that comment - The Division Bell is by far the best  post-Waters PF album, and The Final Cut is an incredible piece of work. If you must have a worst its probably Atom Heart Mother.

  • @rogoldomedonfors Atom Heart Mother is awesome! <My worst is probably.... UmmaGumma.

  • @Ascerus I love Ummagumma! Some of it is very avant-garde, but you can really learn to love it.

    I've got every album except from Soundtrack from the Film More (want it tho) and the albums after The Final Cut. I love all of them, can't really decide which one I love the most, nor which one I dislike the most. It's all gold. Depends on my mood, really.

  • @TGPotet I love UmmaGumma. It's just the worst PF Album.

  • Wow, 4 people disliked this. A certain 4 people somewhere clearly have shit musical taste if they disliked this gem.

  • VERY underrated album :)

  • This is by far the best album. Every single album is beyond amazing, but this is a listen to everyday album. Life does not get more better than this

  • may 21 , massive earthquake apocalypse

  • all you that dislike PINK FLOYD i very much dislike you

  • One of Floyd's best albums, although Waters made it almos on how own.

  • this is soo underrated. only true Floyd fans understand.

  • @bunnygal079 my english teacher made us listen to this and write the real meaning of the song.... i understand it know ... what a awesome song

  • Nibiru is not new - ages ago mankind dedicated studies to it which didn't point towards destruction. For me personally the song simply pointed to an end which is not the end some do expect but an end that every single one experiences. Death of parents, friends and loved ones are striking and confusing all of us at a very certain moment.

    The nonsense of is simply to spend that much energy to achieve it prior to schedule :) ........Coming from the pub :)

  • I just can't get enough of this song, its just perfect

    just something about that sax solo that just speaks to me.

    Pink Floyd has a tendency to do that

  • This is the album to listen to when all hell is breaking loose. Like now.

  • @deadvolvo1 yep,slowly,but surely.

  • @deadvolvo1 this is the album to listen to when _________

  • Top 5 albums of all time. Dark side will always be number one, but this comes very close. Even though I try to include more variety on my fav albums, Pink floyds albums are so good, its hard to leave one out.

  • For those who don't know, this song coincided with early years of the Reagan Administration when everybody was freaking out because Reagan was massively building up American nuclear weapons and talking about the "evil empire" and nuclear armageddon (yes, even the top American generals were getting nervous). This album was a nod to the worldwide Ban The Bomb movement and a scathing criticism of Thatcher's ridiculous war in the Falklands.

  • Great drums on this song!

  • Comment removed

  • four people are beyond stupid

  • If the saxophone doesn't give you chills in this song...YOU HAVE NO SOUL!!!

  • "We were all equal in the end"

  • Don't care who played what this is just superb. The Saxophone solo is unbelievable!!!.

  • @ianderekwatson I have to agree...give me total goose bumps every time I hear it. When CD's came out, this was my very first one I ever bought. I now own every single last piece of material that PF ever produced. Just cant get enough!!

  • I love Pink Floyd but whoever played drums on this song is freakin awesome! Did he play on any other Floyd or Waters?

  • @RuffHouseStudios Andy Newmark. Yup, he played on Roger's solo Album, "The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking." He is a VERY well-regarded studio drummer. His timing on this tune is impeccable.

    He also played the Waters/Gilmour charity benefit recently.

  • ASHES AND DIMONDS

    FOE AND FRIENDS

    WE WERE ALL.....

    THIS SENTENCE ALWAYS BRINGS ME BACK TO PROPORTIONS IN LIFE !!!

  • ASHES AND DIMONDS

    FOE AND FRIENDS

    WE ALL WERE.....

    THIS SENTENCE AALWAYS BRINGS ME BACK TO PROPORTIONS IN LIFE !!!

  • i hope i am wrong but it strikes me that roger knew something that a tew of us are only waking up to now. i not some nut case, but sound like he talking about what some people call "nibiru", destroying human civilisation as we know it.... ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were all equal in the end.

  • @kingdion69 It's got nothing to do with superstitions. The other sun in the sunset is supposed to be a nuclear explosion. There's even a picture of that in the LP's inner sleeve of the record.

  • @1971ojoalparche1971 exactly.. you know the bit about the sun is in the east even though the day is??

  • @boazandjiacinth

    The Sun is in the East

    even though the day is done

    two suns in the sunset

    could be the human race is run?

  • @1971ojoalparche1971 im hoping you realise i was agreeing with you..

  • love this song only 11

  • I dont care what this song talks about. To me it has a specific meaning. This is ny favorite Pink Floyd song.

  • @hippiedp It's a good song, but it's not really PF. Every song in Final Cut was meant for The Wall, but they weren't good enough and didn't make that record.

    Roger Waters insisted on making this LP even when the rest of the band refused, and he published it anyway under the PF name. If you see the record, all of the band members are credited in it, but actually only Roger and hired extra musicians played in it.

  • @1971ojoalparche1971 Yeah, I read that at Wikipedia, but I generally think that the final cut is a good album. However, I can see two things that did not make so many people to prefer it. The first one is the fact that not even Waters who wrote this album seems to have been excited during the recordind of it. And the second one is the fact that the Final Cut came out after a miracle of music and people would probably never expect something less better than it after its releasion.

  • @hippiedp I don't know what Wikipedia says, although you bring up good points. The truth is the band was on the point of breaking up while this was recorded: Wright was gone, Mason was distracted with car racing and a divorce, Gilmour and Waters didn't want to be in the same place together, and so on.

    PF's fans have always been loyal. Everyone expected a good record, but Final Cut was just far below their capacities. Their later records were pretty good I think.

  • @1971ojoalparche1971

    I just disagree on every level. This is probably tied with the wall as my favorite album by them. Obviously, i like the really maturbatory stuff by waters. To me, waters IS pink floyd. I never liked the syd barret stuff and the later albums without waters sounded like they could have been made by any decent alt rock group. I wish the group could have stayed together but i would much rather listen to waters than gilmore and especially more than barret.

  • @kmiller812 If you disagree" on every level", you are disagreeing with what Nick Mason wrote. He knows more about this than you or I, and I was paraphrasing from chapter 10 (pp 262-274) of Inside Out, the book he wrote. I have it right here in front of me and I recommend it.

    You like Roger Waters a lot and that's great, but can you be more authoritative on this than Mason?

  • @1971ojoalparche1971

    I wasnt replyng to that comment I was reply to the one where you said that this album did not meet expectations and that you liked the later albums better.

  • @1971ojoalparche1971 - The only person not on "The Final Cut" from Pink Floyd was Richard Wright. Yes, there were hired musicians, but it isn't a case of the hired musicians being the only people on the album.

  • @Zenutheduck I suppose strictly speaking you are correct. From Inside Out, the book Nick Mason wrote (pp264,) he explains Roger Waters composed the whole thing and it was going to be published as a solo Roger W. album, but the record company was expecting a new PF one, so they were legally bound to release it as PF.

    Gilmour did play some of his solos and Waters respected them, and Mason played in some songs, even though Waters commented it didn't matter because he was "...just a drummer."

  • @Zenutheduck Oh, and David's vocals on Not Now John.

  • It is really dark as it relates to a nuclear explosion

    therefore two suns in the sunset even though the day is done

  • La ultima creacion de Pink Floyd... aaaaa como la amo.... es el fin...

  • i cant understand how this song has 4 dislikes

  • @sawdring American by any chance ? Commie lyrics ? The whole album is anti-war not pro-communist. I'd take "their politics" in a heartbeat over anything currently on offer. By the way, which "politics" DON'T falter in the real world; i'd love to know.

  • Not like, love love love :D 

  • just one more time all , but it just can;t happen let the legends live with pride

  • This album doesn't have Rick Wright in it. The Wall was the last one with all 4 of them together.

  • ashes and diamonds foe and friend we were all equal in the end

  • this was thier finest hour , . . and I like all floyd put out even the barrett years

  • They should always play this song in all embassy elevators, break rooms and offices. I love the album, very political, thank you for posting this one.

    DEL

  • recently after listening this video. 2 people commited suicide........as they accidentally realized that they hit the dislike button.......they wanted to take it back........but there is no turning back...

  • I cry everytime I hear the little kids screaming mommy daddy

  • I can't believe Nick couldn't get his head around 5/4.

    Great session by Andy Newmark.

  • @robert140602 probably he could, but roger was totally obsessed with some things, so nick was at that time only a drummer.... yeah, roger at that time was genius as he has always been, but also was in perfect isolation there behind his wall...

  • The message in this album is timeless and still rings true today.....

  • This is one of my all time favorite albums ever. Every song on this album is great.

  • @TungstenGT67 and to think it was written for the wall but never went on it

  • I don't get the people saying it's a bad album. Roger is at his best and Dave cuts solos as ever. you may not agree with the message but musically it's a friggin' masterpiece.

  • This song makes you think...of your loved ones. Never leave them in anger. You may never see them again.

  • Comment removed

  • @frerinho Four of them?

  • @EmileJoulbert The final cut is the last album that they are all present as Pink Floyd (Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason).

  • @frerinho Wright wasn't in the final cut ;)

  • @frerinho actually i believe Wright at the time was fired...and only reunited to the Water-less Floyd for the Momentary album...

  • @frerinho actually i believe Wright at the time was fired...and only reunited to the Water-less Floyd for the Momentary album...that's what I just read about the Final Cct on Wikipedia