psuvm%kf4 (04/22/83)
It seems as if Roger Waters has completely taken over the group, and
this album could essentially be called a Roger Waters solo album. He
writes all the lyrics, most of the music, and sings almost all of the
songs. Still, the album is very good, very INTENSE. His singing is
very much like The Wall, yet more expressive, more powerful. This album
is more than a sequel to The Wall, more like a backround to it. Waters
is unafraid to attack anyone, and successively cuts down Reagan, Haig,
Breshnev, Thatcher, and even good old ex-president Nixon.
Waters contemplates nuclear holocaust, the loss of his father in
World War II, and a vision of 'The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable
tyrants, and kings. ' Very powerful indeed. He pokes fun at all the old
female backround vocalists, with his own that shout 'Fuck all that, Fuck
all that. '. He cuts down the Japenese, but at the same time sympathizes
with them, 'But it can't be much fun for them, ... With all their kids
committing suicide.'.
With grand visions, and moving vocals, Waters makes this an album
that must be heard a number of times to be understood. He captures the
underlying feeling of The Wall, but extends it, sort of coming out from
behind the wall. A must album for all Floyd (i.e. Roger Waters) fans, it
can best be described, in Waters own terms, as a 'Requiem for The Post
War Dream.