The Final Cut (song)

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"The Final Cut"
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From the "Selections from The Final Cut" radio promotional single
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Final Cut
PublishedPink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released21 March 1983 (UK)
2 April 1983 (US)
RecordedJuly–December 1982
Genre
Length4:42
Label Harvest (UK)
Columbia (US)
Songwriter(s) Roger Waters
Producer(s)
Music video
"The Final Cut" on YouTube

"The Final Cut" is the title track from Pink Floyd's twelfth studio album, The Final Cut (1983). [1] [2]

Contents

Background

This song tells of a man's social isolation, clinical depression, sexual repression and social rejection. At the end of the song he attempts suicide but "never had the nerve to make the final cut".

It has been speculated by some listeners that the song may be told from the perspective of Pink, the main character of The Wall (1979), after the events of that album.

"The Final Cut" is one of four songs (along with "The Hero's Return", "One of the Few", and "Your Possible Pasts") used in The Final Cut that had been previously rejected from The Wall . This song is included in the video version of the album The Final Cut Video EP. The song made an appearance as the B-side of the "Selections from The Final Cut" radio promotional single (with "Your Possible Pasts" on the A-side.) [3] [4] It also appears in the American film Strange Frame (2012).

Personnel

Pink Floyd

with:

References

  1. Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN   1-84195-551-5.
  2. Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   0-7119-4301-X.
  3. Povey, Glenn. Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.
  4. "Discogs "Selections From The Final Cut"". Discogs . 1983.