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(Credits: Far Out \/ digboston)<\/p>\n
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To make a perfect album once is to achieve the ultimate pinnacle of being a musician. While a single song certainly has its own sense of pure artistic endeavour, it is the album by which so many bands and artists are judged. Pink Floyd<\/a> are one band to have achieved that impressive feat. <\/p>\n But, even still, that has never made the art of creating the perfect record any easier. The truth is, even if an audience loves a record, it doesn\u2019t mean the artist who made it will. It\u2019s hard for any artist to be completely satisfied with their work. <\/p>\n Since there are only so many hours you can devote to one song or album, it\u2019s up to you to make it the best that you can under the circumstances before the label starts wondering where the product is. Although Roger Waters had the rest of Pink Floyd wrapped around his finger after The Wall, his last album with the band was still half-finished compared to all of his other visions.<\/p>\n As far as Waters was concerned, though, Pink Floyd was practically his brainchild by the end of the 1970s. Having been there from the beginning with Syd Barrett still in the band, Waters was one known for taking bits and pieces from different songs and meshing them together to create his masterpieces, ruminating on the nature of humanity throughout albums like Dark Side of the Moon. <\/p>\n After the band\u2019s 1973 album became one of the biggest albums of all time and a fixture of dorm room walls the world over, Waters was convinced that he needed to carve out a vision for how the rest of their career would go. Not happy being just a songwriter, Waters could be best described as the band\u2019s conceptual director on records like Wish You Were Here and Animals.<\/p>\n While it would be stretching to call anything Waters was doing intricate, the best contributions he made to the band was making albums that stood as works of art. When working on The Wall, that art came at the expense of some of his bandmates, leading to Waters firing Richard Wright halfway through the record and only hiring him back as a salaried musician when working on the accompanying tour.<\/a><\/p>\n When the band got back to work on a new project, Waters figured that he wasn\u2019t done with the concept of The Wall. Despite David Gilmour\u2019s objection, The Final Cut would be the glorified B-sides of what was left from their previous album. While it\u2019s a crime to leave off songs like \u2018When the Tigers Broke Free\u2019, much of the album teeters closer to musical theatre than anything remotely rock and roll.<\/p>\n The Final Cut may well be one of the band\u2019s better efforts, but it does hold a certain resignation which will not please avid Pink Floyd fans. The album represents a moment where David Gilmour gives up the ghost and lets Roger Waters run wild.<\/p>\n The record was originally written to be the soundtrack to\u00a0The Wall\u00a0film but was given its own release after Waters realised the album\u2019s potential. A lot of that spark came from Britain\u2019s involvement in the Falklands War and therefore acted as a moment of global protest, something Waters would become very astute at.<\/p>\n![\"Roger](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Roger-Waters-Us-Them-2019-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Roger Waters plays bass. (Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n