Showing posts with label song. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
THE FINAL CUT SONG AND INTRODUCTION OF THE ALBUM LYRICS PERSPECTIVES AND REVIEW
This song is one of the most unique songs I have ever heard. I love the Lyrics (Not a new thing for me talking about Pink Floyd),it has a whole story within the song. And its so good I am almost at a loss of words.Talking about the instrumentals and the musical theme/concept,I am very much impressed with this.And its pretty emotional to get the fact that this was the last album with which Roger Waters was present with the band.(I dont know when I got so involved with the members of Pink Floyd) The musical effects are just out of the world - wonder to me,very well defined with the concept of the song.At the end of the second part of the song,there is a tremendous sound of a bullet through a shotgun,just before "whats behind the wall".While saying the last line of the third part "Or is it just a crazy dream?",there was a certain strain in the voice,very impressive.The last line of the fourth part almost got me off my nerves.The way there was a soft,almost whispering "Would you send me packing?" followed by a "Or would you take me home?" on a very high note,in a pained tone.I am amazed at how well Waters sang this song.I am usually a Gilmour fan when talking about vocals,but this song definitely changed my viewpoint considerably.Though Waters did not really like himself singing in the album,he said that you could find the "mad tension running through."And I have to say,I am pretty embarrassed with David Gilmours eccentric behaviour saying "The Final Cut is very good but its not personally how I would see a Pink Floyd record going." The Final Cut is not just good,its great,its impressive,its ideological,its bold.I am in Love with the album,literally.I am surely going to review each and every song over there.Waters frustration about the Falklands War - just everything.And now I am pretty much understanding why he was not honoured by the British Government much.And ideology has to get you working because action speaks louder than words. And that I have to admit,whether he was a leftist or not (though I have seen left ideals in him and when he spoke about The Post-War dream in this album,he did speak of the ideals they,inclusive of his late father from Labour Party,UK,who was a communist,had to give his life in World War II along with millions of all those who truly dreamed of a more peaceful,liberal,honest and less diplomatic England.) The album has a very good blend of music and ideals.And you see,I just had to love it.Throughout the album,Margaret Thatcher has been opposed and referred to as "Maggie".I am still impressed by every attribute of Roger Waters right now and I have to admit,he was much more frank than Gilmour.And I personally like frank speakers,they are less in number.Coming to the song,I would give the scores -
Note that - I will be surely reviewing all the songs from this album sooner or later. Information Credit - Wikipedia (Particularly This Album) Disclaimer - I do not own the photographs used in this post. Lyrics - Please refer to the Music section of What is A Perspective? page of the blog.
MELODY - 5/5
INSTRUMENTALS - 5/5
THE VOICE BEHIND - 5/5
LYRICS - 5/5
As a Song - {(20/20)*100%}= 100%
The Final Cut Disc
The Final Cut Album Cover
The Backside of The Album Cover of The Final Cut
The Final Cut Disc (Different Cover)
Here are the lyrics -
Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
Im spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.
If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun to my hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if Im in Ill tell you whats behind the wall.
Theres a kid who had a big hallucination
Making love to girls in magazines.
He wonders if youre sleeping with your new found faith.
Could anybody love him
Or is it just a crazy dream?
And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
And leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
As you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing?
Or would you take me home?
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
"Hello? Listen, I think Ive got it. Okay, listen its a HaHa!"
Song Review Green Is The Colour More by Pink Floyd
This is definitely the best romantic song from Pink Floyd I have ever come across.Though not a huge fan of the genre,there is something in the song bound to get hold of your attention.Owing to the fact that the song was written and composed by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour,it is a grammatically perfect performance,be that the voice behind,the lyrics,the tune and the theme.Even the piano and drums (Courtesy : Richard Wright and Nick Mason) were so nicely accorded with the song that I cant think of any flaws in it.
Song Review
Just like A Pillow OF Winds,the song can be best described as a soft,acoustic guitar based love song.First of all,I love how beautiful the tune and the instrumentals are.If you sought to disagree with me,please approach but I personally am unable to find a single flaw with the song. Gilmours voice complements the song very beautifully (I do not know of any genre it could probably sound unsuited to.) And I cant complain about the lyrics,either.Waters has done a Bravo job here,like in so many other instances (say The Wall,The Final Cut to name a few).The song begins with very incandescent,soft notes on the acoustic and there is no much change or combination of high/low notes anywhere.It sounds dreamy,perfectly expressing the mood of the particular movie scene - the bar scene in More(1969) directed by Barbet Schroeder.I wonder how Waters managed to play the bass so softly,with such a calm theme.The song is so melodious that you can forget about everything else and give it a 5/5 like that.But I am reviewing keeping every factor in mind,and yet I am so helpless! LYRICS - 5/5 MELODY - 5/5 INSTRUMENTALS - 5/5 THE VOICE BEHIND - 5/5
As a song - {(20/20) * 100 %} = 100%
Perspectives On The Song
A very soft acoustic based song always helps to calm me down and soothe my nerves.But heres the thing I love about this : it helped me get over the temporary hatred I had grown for the colour green - simply because TMC (Trinomool Congress) uses that colour anywhere and everywhere and intrigue people to use it instead of other colours,especially red.But green is not responsible for the fact that fascists here are using it.It has always been a symbol of nature and eternity.I needed time to realise this,but I did understand,after all.
Green Is The Colour Lyrics
(Credit : www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/www.azlyrics.com)
Heavy hung the canopy of blue
Shade in my eyes and I can see you
White was the light that shined through the dress that you wore
She lay in the shadow of the wave
Hazy were the visions of her playing
Sunlight in her eyes but moonshine made her cry evry time
Green is the colour of her kind
Quickness of the eye deceives the mind
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
Green Is The Colour by Pink Floyd
Personnel
(Credit : Wikipedia)
David Gilmour — acoustic guitar and vocals
Richard Wright — piano and organ
Nick Mason — drums
Roger Waters — bass
with:
Lindy Mason — tin whistle
About The Song
(Credit : Wikipedia)
Live arrangements of the song were performed as a full electric band piece and at a slower tempo. Richard Wright built a calm sheen of warbling organ sound throughout, which created a more natural segue into the piece that always immediately followed it, "Careful with That Axe, Eugene". David Gilmour also sang a scat vocal over his guitar solo during the outro. In a live intro to the song from 1970, Roger Waters states that the song is "about being on Ibiza" the setting of the film, More.
In The Man and The Journey suite, the song was retitled "The Beginning" in "The Journey" half of the show. It was played as a medley with "Beset by the Creatures of the Deep", which was a retitling of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene".
The song was a regular part of the bands shows from early 1969 through 1970, then less common in 1971. It was played for the last time during their short tour of Japan and Australia in August 1971.
It is in the key of G major.
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