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Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)

Posted By: v3122

Date: 31 Jul 2019 15:15:23

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Columbia CK 47127 | ~ 367 or 172 Mb | Artwork(png) -> 229 Mb
Progressive Rock

War is Roger Waters' great muse, the impetus for so much of his work, including the semi-autobiographical 1979 opus The Wall. The Final Cut, his last album with Pink Floyd, functioned as an explicit sequel to The Wall, but 1992's Amused to Death acts as something of a coda, a work where Waters revisits his obsessions – both musical and lyrical – and ties them together with the masterful touch of a mature artist. Certainly, Waters' narrative of a society filtering all manners of ugliness through a television screen isn't as sci-fi silly as that of its immediate predecessor Radio K.A.O.S., but a greater point in its favor is that it's a richer affair than that stiff, synthesized relic of the late '80s. Working with Patrick Leonard – a veteran collaborator of Madonna's who also dabbled with the latter-day David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd – Waters gives Amused to Death forward momentum, an aspect conspicuously absent from the still, meditative The Final Cut and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, both of which seemed to be comprised of song poems. The tunes on Amused aren't quite hooky or melodic but they do have structure, as does the production by Waters, Leonard, and Nick Griffiths. The tapestry of found sounds, choirs, televisions, washes of organ, lonely acoustic guitars, and blues leads by Jeff Beck does recall Floyd at their '70s peak, but Amused to Death sounds grander and more expansive; it's a creature of the CD age, using up every one of its available 72 minutes. At this length, it's a mere ten minutes shorter than The Wall, and although it can sometimes feel indulgent, it never feels excessive. Unlike the other two Waters solo albums – or The Final Cut, which is a Waters project masquerading as a Floyd album – Amused to Death feels cohesive and complete as an anti-war rock opera. If it winds up being Waters' last original rock album, so be it: it is a masterpiece in the sense that it brings together all of his obsessions in one grand, but not unwieldy, package.

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992):

Tracklist:

01. The Ballad of Bill Hubbard 04:19
02. What God Wants, Part I 06:00
03. Perfect Sense, Part I 04:15
04. Perfect Sense, Part II 02:50
05. The Bravery of Being out of Range 04:42
06. Late Home Tonight, Part I 04:01
07. Late Home Tonight, Part II 02:13
08. Too Much Rope 05:47
09. What God Wants, Part II 03:47
10. What God Wants, Part III 04:01
11. Watching TV 06:07
12. Three Wishes 06:54
13. It's a Miracle 08:25
14. Amused to Death 09:07

All songs written by Roger Waters.

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Roger Waters / Amused to Death (CK 47127)

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