I can't speak to the digital copies, CD and so on, would imagine they are sourced from the same files and would sound equally impressive. Meddle sounds the best I've ever heard it, even from my UK Harvest original pressing.Īnyone into Floyd should pick up a couple copies on vinyl and try them out. With The Final Cut, Pink Floyd caps its career in classic form, and leader Roger Waters for whom the group has long since become little more than a pseudonym finally steps out from behind. Wish You Were Here, will blow your mind it's just that good, especially the phenomenal resolution, sound stage, and dynamics on Welcome To The Machine. Been into them since the '70's Animals era, and honestly if these new pressings sounded bad, I'd be all over them like flies on S#it. I'm an old school Floyd fan who owns their material on digital and vinyl.
Pulse on 4 slabs of vinyl sounds the best I've ever heard it other than when I attended the Division Bell shows at RFK Stadium, Washington DC, July 9,1994. High quality quiet vinyl pressings with equally high quality files from the original tapes equal an absolutely top shelf listening experience. My system while not the best, is pretty good if I say so myself, and I can tell you these albums truly sound excellent. All the hoopla and negative press generated because these albums were pressed using high resolution masters from the original analog tapes is unfounded and I question just how many posters actually own or have listened to them. I now own most of the latest crop of reissues on vinyl, having opened and played Meddle, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall thus far. previous to 2011, it was 20 years or more since new vinyl versions of the complete catalog were released. O álbum foi lançado em março de 1983, pela Harvest Records, do Reino. TFC is one of the remaining latest reissues I still need to pick up on vinyl, just so I have a current complete new set on vinyl, since no one knows how long it will be till these albums are released again. The Final Cut foi o derradeiro álbum do Pink Floyd com membros da formação clássica, à exceção de Richard Wright. On the 2016-2019 reissues, the added 'When The Tigers Broke Free', previously released only as a single or on the Echos CD/Vinyl sets. So much for the theory records wear out if you play them.Ī clean copy shouldn't be that hard to find, as many fans under-appreciated the title during release, since it's more of a solo vehicle for Roger Waters, the conclusion to The Wall, since some tracks date to Wall's sessions. Even the lead in and dead wax are acceptably quiet for an album of its age and the number of times I've played it in 35+ years. Sound quality is off the charts, providing 3D sound that is wide and deep, with focused vocals, with all around the room experience. Its dead quiet, totally flat, does not skip or possess other audible issues. A pair of slightly older uncles introduced me to them at age 9, and my life was never the same.Īs far as The Final Cut is concerned, my go-to copy is the US 1983 CBS pressing (original) which was purchased at the time of release new for 6.99$. I began listening to them buying their music on vinyl and tape, as well as attending their attending concerts for 45 years. Waters also dedicated the album that was provisionally titled “ Requiem for a Post-War Dream” to his father, Eric Fletcher Waters who died in World War II.Let me start off by saying I'm a huge fan of Pink Floyd and The Final Cut. From left to right the medals are the 1939–45 Star, the Africa Star, theDefence Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The strips of fabric are four World War II medal ribbons laid out on a black fabric background. The top left of the front cover shows a portion of a Remembrance poppy that has been used since 1920 to commemorate soldiers who have died in war. “ The Final Cut” was an anti-war concept album so the cover is all about War, a favorite topic of Pink Floyd ( Waters in particular).
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Upon looking at the artwork my first thought was, what does it mean? The Final Cut The Post War Dream Your Possible Pasts One Of The Few When The Tigers Broke Free (only on 2004 remaster) The Heros Return The Gunners. When their 12th studio album “ The Final Cut” was released on March 21, 1983, Waters created the not so impressive album cover himself. Almost all of the Pink Floyd album covers were created by Storm Thorgerson, a founder member of graphic art group Hipgnosis until Roger Waters had a falling out with him before “ The Wall” album.