10 Massive Drops In Quality Between Albums

Coming into the '80s, Pink Floyd were on top of the musical world...and no one was happy about it. For as much money and artistic integrity went into creating the album The Wall, it led to a separation between the band and Roger Waters, which would go on to destroy the band in the next few years. Roger had more to get off his chest though, and the Final Cut is basically him using the rest of the band members as sidemen for his vision.

Though The Wall had been Roger's baby from the start, the beauty behind it was how every other member put their stamp on things, like the piano textures of Richard Wright or David Gilmour's calming vocals leading the story along. On this album, that collaborative spirit is just gone, with practically the entire album being a Roger Waters solo outing with the Pink Floyd moniker slapped on it. We're still working with the mastermind behind The Wall here though, so there are still some decent tracks to be found, some of which even reference back to characters we had heard about the album before.

As it stands though, you can really hear the tension on this record as David and Roger start to drift apart, and it wasn't a shock when we learned that Roger Waters was going to go off on his own to pursue different solo projects. We all wanted to believe that the foundations of Pink Floyd could move past these hangups, but from listening to this one record, the writing was on the wall.