Although i find it hard to forgive him for his ego, which saw an end to the best band that Earth has ever produced, you can't deny he was a huge part of the engine of Pink Floyd when you see it executed like that.

The whole was exponentially greater than the sum of its parts. Roger's problem was that he would never be seen as a Syd Barrett style prodigal genius, despite being one in his own right.

A comment above reminded me that a friend of mine had tickets to the reunion they did for Live8, but they never used them. They told me a week after when i brought it up and said i could have had the tickets if i wanted. Wanker knew i was a huge Pink Floyd fan. We haven't spoken much since.

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With the exception of most of the early stuff with Syd Barrett, "Animals" was always my favorite Pink Floyd album. (Seriously, it just doesn't get any better than "Interstellar Overdrive".)

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The two paintings at 1:27 are by Syd Mead. He was commissioned by NASA to do crazy awesome paintings in the 60's and 70's.

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JK! I wish I could have been there, I am moving to Canberra next year however, so if the next one is in Syd/ACT/Melb I'll definitely try and make it.

I have a difficult time counting this album as within the Pink Floyd discography. Sure, it's the music of Nick, Dave, and Roger, but this sounds more like the aftershocks of The Wall and the fallout within the band that it precipitated.

Just as Rick and David played on Syd Barrett's solo album, "Barrett," I see this as Nick and David playing on Roger's solo album, "The Final Cut."

And while I love Pink Floyd (from Piper, to Saucerful, to Atom Heart Mother -- maybe parts of Umma Gumma -- to Meddle, to Animals, to Dark Side, to the Wall, et. al.), I have little tolerance for any of the band's solo material, including Rogers', in which I count this particular music.

I'd like to say to Roger, someday, "For gosh sakes, man, wasn't the double-album, gigantic stage show, and feature film enough to get the message across? You didn't have to try to make a sequel out of it, did you?"

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Wow! I had no idea this existed. Great find, and super cool. The video really opens up the atmospheric music and personal lyrics of this material, which is otherwise some of Floyd's least accessible. The "Not Now John" segment was actually on rotation as a single video on Mtv at the time--I remember seeing it in high school. I suppose this entire short film was also shown there at least once around that time too.
BTW, Rick Wright doesn't play on this album at all--Waters fired him during the making of The Wall and did not invite him back for The Final Cut (though Wright did play at the Wall concerts). Sadly, his name should probably be removed from the tags, just as the man has now been removed from our lives. RIP. :-(

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Whoa, this guy is like the 1950's Syd Barrett.

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I love Pink Floyd's music but, watching people try to dance to this was really funny.
I know what you mean about it being a different band, I would've loved to have seen them from Syd Barrett up to The Wall but, not now. No offense to the loyal fans of the name Pink Floyd but, the band Pink Floyd ended (for me) with Roger Waters leaving. Mostly because that's when I came into it, when Roger Waters was the main force. Some might argue that the Syd Barrett era was the best Pink Floyd and while I like the music from that particular line-up, the 1st Pink Floyd album I heard and loved was post Syd Barrett. I didn't even know Syd Barrett's name until well after Animals came out.


Syd Barrett wasn't what made the band famous or even good for that matter. When Roger Waters was the creative leader of the band, that's when they made their best music. I'm not saying that it was Waters alone—in fact I'm not a fan of his solo stuff—but the stuff they came out with when he was at the helm was and is Pink Floyd. Anybody who says it was Syd Barrett is just being a hipster-esque Floyd fan. Anybody that says their best work came in the 80s, needs arsenic.

I love Pink Floyd's music but, watching people try to dance to this was really funny.
I know what you mean about it being a different band, I would've loved to have seen them from Syd Barrett up to The Wall but, not now. No offense to the loyal fans of the name Pink Floyd but, the band Pink Floyd ended (for me) with Roger Waters leaving. Mostly because that's when I came into it, when Roger Waters was the main force. Some might argue that the Syd Barrett era was the best Pink Floyd and while I like the music from that particular line-up, the 1st Pink Floyd album I heard and loved was post Syd Barrett. I didn't even know Syd Barrett's name until well after Animals came out.

yeah seriously. I'm now almost 30, still a huge music nerd. One of the only bands I have ever really disliked is Phish. To this day I think Phish are one of the worst bands ever. Nuff said, hippies (and this coming from someone that listens to Syd Barrett, Parson Sound, Faust, Can and all sorts of weird... "hippy" stuff, but still dislike Grateful Dead as well.)