Disappointed by Rolling Stone

Originally Posted by stratman

Maybe TFC is just better than +-HH?

Originally Posted by hoan_rulz

today i went into rolling stone magazine web page took look at the reviews and story they had about pink floyd and their work... well i got a really big disappointment at such a great magazine.

the thing is that first i checked the list of albums and saw that most of them werent rated (not even the Wall which i saw it had only 2 stars in RS book of all albums) and PATGOD wasnt even there. Then i saw that TDB and 3 live albums had 2/5 stars, and then saw Final Cut with 5 stars along with DSOTM and WYWH so that made me curious and i went to check the complete review on TFC album and saw, among many things, this:
(these are fragments)

This may be art rock's crowning masterpiece, but it is also something more. 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 the "Wall" where last we left him. The result is essentially a Roger Waters solo album, and it's a superlative achievement on several levels.

Dismissed in the past as a mere misogynist, a ranting crank, Waters here finds his focus at last, and with it a new humanity.

By comparison, in almost every way, The Wall was only a warm-up.

...the Wall movie, a grotesquely misconceived collaboration between Waters and director Alan Parker, was released to a general thud of incomprehension.

Whether this will be their last album as a group (the official word is no, but Wright is apparently GONE FOR GOOD, and even the faithful Nick Mason relinquishes his drum chair on one cut to session player Andy Newmark) is not as compelling a question as where Waters will go with what appears to be a new-found freedom. He plans to record a solo album for his next project, and one hopes that just the novelty of becoming a full-fledged human will be enough to keep him profitably occupied for many years to come.


This review is by Kurt Loder. Well just have to say that this guy doesnt know a lil bout pink floyd by sayin Rick went out for good and for UNDERRATE AND INSULT the previous work of worlds best band. im sad bout the fact there are people that think the way loder does....
heres the link: http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/.../the_final_cut

What do you have to say about this?

Originally Posted by Not Now John

The Wall is a pile of pig vomit if you ask me.

Originally Posted by Hove

Kurt Loder wrote this in april 1983. Remember noone in the press knew anything about the tension between Waters and Wright before the band began recording "The Final Cut".

I'm not very upset about what he writes. I have not the same taste as him about Pink Floyd music, but I think noone has my taste, so it's no reason to judge him badly by that.

Originally Posted by terminalfrost

My copy came in the post yesterday - not much new in the article...oh well. The story has already been told so many times, there's not much else that anybody can say.