10 Most Underrated Pink Floyd Songs

Say what you will about Roger Waters as a bandmember and person in general, but there’s no denying his ability to convey anguish with virtually unrivaled genuineness and dynamism. Your Possible Pasts – like Vera, Pigs (Three Different Ones), Bring the Boys Back Home, and many other tunes before it – does a phenomenal job exemplifying that.

As with several other inclusions on The Final Cut, it was a rejected song from The Wall LP that ended up in 1982’s film adaption. Its mixture of historical account and personal narration is typically engrossing and detailed (“By the cold and religious, we were taken in hand / Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad / Strung out behind us, the banners and flags / Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags”).

Likewise, Waters’ back and forth dispositions (between soft lamentation and outraged quandary) are masterfully executed, personifying his emotions with riveting authenticity. Around him, the arrangement and production oscillate accordingly, using natural sounds and other manipulations for maximum cinematic grandeur.

Few other Pink Floyd selections use emptiness to such harrowing effect.