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 Enjoyable enough if you're in the right mood November 24, 2008
James B. Wilkinson (New Orleans, LA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hesitated to give this album a good mark. I don't approve of the way Waters hijacked the Pink Floyd name for this solo project, already having dominated production of The Wall. And the premise of the album (angst over the Falklands War) seems really misguided and irrelevant. War is war, but Waters could hardly have picked a more innocuous one to whine about.
Ultimately, though, the album succeeds in one very real way: I enjoy listening to it. This is the only Pink Floyd album I still listen to with any frequency.
Maybe this reflects my personality, which would imply, I guess, that I'm somewhat depressed and low key. But I think that's an oversimplification. Waters can play loud and fast, for example in "Not Now John" and again in "Two Suns in the Sunset." I think he knows joy as well as pain and much of what he communicates is not just sorrow, but remorse at what could have been.
The lyrics of this album are also well done, and better than most of the pseudo-intellectual stuff that Gilmour would produce after the split. From "Two Suns":
The wire that holds the cork
That keeps the anger in
Gives way
And suddenly it's day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset...
Could be the human race is run
That stands on its own as poetry and I don't see anything like that coming from Gilmour's Pink Floyd. I must also admit, though, that the albums Gilmour did without Waters are also some of my favorites.. I think both men benefited from making their escape.
In summary, this album feels like a good drink with someone older and wiser, taken at a bad moment in life to make one's self feel a little less alone. The bitterness is real, and it can be refreshing to know that it's shared.
their best effort September 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you think CDs are made for makeup mirrors this one is a good choice.
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