Is This The Life We Really Want?

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Weird to think that after 25 years I'm listening to a new Roger Waters record. Strange to also imagine that this is the

carried by acoustic guitar chords that all drift uncomfortably close to a mix of `Pigs on the Wing' from Floyd's heavy classic about the album. Waters is Waters, and his politics are his politics, but the man is responsible for some of the most

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It's been a quarter century since former Pink Floyd bass player/frontman Roger Waters delivered his greatest solo artistic Rapports Annuels Albums 2017". Ultratop. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017 . Retrieved 21 December 2017. It seems that it's been a very long time that I have heard some new material from Roger Waters and I and Cons of Hitchhiking', and musically and vocally `...Life' is very much in the same style of those ones. So if you're not a fan Waters has called this a concept album, and it does have that coherence. But there is a downside: what you might positively spin as a lugubrious uniformity could be viewed more negatively as repetitively bleak. There are fillips for long-term fans. Picture That has the psych propulsion of One Of These Days Floyd, A Part Of Me Died features a Gilmour-esque descending guitar line, while Oceans Apart has elegiacal echoes of Wish You Were Here.

Australiancharts.com – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 June 2017. thoroughly confronting and depressing lyric weaving between murky cutting orchestral stabs and brooding drumming, all

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canvass, and all the ambient sound-effects from Pink Floyd and Roger solo albums past - switching channels, news Waters initially planned to record a concept album; [7] he conceived a radio play about a man and his granddaughter investigating why children are being killed in other parts of the world. [7] He described the play as "part magic carpet ride, part political rant, part anguish", and said it featured about a dozen songs. [3] Godrich persuaded Waters to abandon the theatrical elements and create a "less linear" work. [7] Waters said he planned to produce the original idea in the future. [7] That isn't to slight the other songs on the album at all. The Last Refugee is a fantastic song -- especially if you take it in alongside the official video. In the live show, the character from "The Last Refugee" opens the concert, the video highlights the middle of the show, and finally at the end, she closes the show. This isn't a spoiler. Most of us, though, sit somewhere in the middle, and, certainly, long-term Floyd fans must by now be used to