Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed U.S. Pressing! Top Quality Limited Edition Remastered Audiophile 2LP Vinyl Set In Deluxe Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover! Plated & Pressed On 200 Gram High Definition Vinyl! Includes Special Antistatic “Quality Records” Rice Paper Inner Sleeves. Less Than 1,000 Records Per Stamper & Released In Limited Quantities. The Brilliant Third Solo Album From Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Features Jeff Beck On Guitar.
This 2015 2LP 200-gram vinyl edition of ‘Amused To Death’ features remastered audio from the original master tapes, completed by longtime Roger Waters / Pink Floyd collaborator and co-producer, James Guthrie. The cover and gatefold art has been updated for 2015 by Sean Evans, the creative director of Waters’ 2010-2013 ‘The Wall Live’ tour and movie.
Side 1:
The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard
What God Wants, Part I
Perfect Sense, Part I
Perfect Sense, Part II
Side 2:
The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
Late Home Tonight, Part I
Late Home Tonight, Part II
Too Much Rope
What God Wants, Part II
Side 3:
What God Wants, Part III
Watching TV
Three Wishes
Side 4:
It’s A Miracle
Amused To Death
AMG –
The tapestry of found sounds, choirs, televisions, washes of organ, lonely acoustic guitars, and blues leads by Jeff Beck recalls Floyd at their '70s peak, but Amused to Death sounds grander and more expansive... War is Roger Waters' great muse, the impetus for so much of his work, including the semi-autobiographical 1979 opus The Wall. The Final Cut, his last album with Pink Floyd, functioned as an explicit sequel to The Wall, but 1992's Amused to Death acts as something of a coda, a work where Waters revisits his obsessions -- both musical and lyrical -- and ties them together with the masterful touch of a mature artist. Certainly, Waters' narrative of a society filtering all manners of ugliness through a television screen isn't as sci-fi silly as that of its immediate predecessor Radio K.A.O.S., but a greater point in its favor is that it's a richer affair than that stiff, synthesized relic of the late '80s. Working with Patrick Leonard -- a veteran collaborator of Madonna's who also dabbled with the latter-day David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd -- Waters gives Amused to Death forward momentum, an aspect conspicuously absent from the still, meditative The Final Cut and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, both of which seemed to be comprised of song poems. The tunes on Amused aren't quite hooky or melodic but they do have structure, as does the production by Waters, Leonard, and Nick Griffiths. The tapestry of found sounds, choirs, televisions, washes of organ, lonely acoustic guitars, and blues leads by Jeff Beck does recall Floyd at their '70s peak, but Amused to Death sounds grander and more expansive; it's a creature of the CD age, using up every one of its available 72 minutes. At this length, it's a mere ten minutes shorter than The Wall, and although it can sometimes feel indulgent, it never feels excessive. Unlike the other two Waters solo albums -- or The Final Cut, which is a Waters project masquerading as a Floyd album -- Amused to Death feels cohesive and complete as an anti-war rock opera. If it winds up being Waters' last original rock album, so be it: it is a masterpiece in the sense that it brings together all of his obsessions in one grand, but not unwieldy, package.
Geoff –
The magnificent third solo album from Waters is his best... and right up there with 'Dark Side...' & 'The Wall' -- Genius!! The magnificent third solo album from Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is easily his best -- a recording you can play over and over and over. As anyone who witnessed Roger on his 'Dark Side of the Moon' tour in 2007 will tell you, the material on 'Amused to Death' is right up there with 'Dark Side...' & 'The Wall'. It also has Jeff Beck on guitar, the production is out of this world and it is finally back on high quality vinyl -- Genius!! :)