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The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 through Harvest and Columbia Records.It comprises unused material from the band's previous studio album, The Wall (1979), alongside new material recorded throughout 1982.
"The Gunner's Dream" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album The Final Cut. [1] [2] This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd. [3] The song tells the story and thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid, dreaming of a safe world in the future, without war.
This song is 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 promo single (with "Your Possible Pasts" on the A-side.) [3] [4] It also appears in the film Strange Frame.
The song begins and ends in 9/8 time, while the majority of the song is in 4/4 (or "common time"), and it is punctuated with added measures of 7/8 and 3/8. Adding to the complexity, the main theme of the rhythm guitar has chords changing emphatically in dotted eighth notes, so three eighth-note beats are divided equally in two.
"One of the Few" is a song by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. [1] It was released as the third track on The Final Cut album in 1983. [2] The song is 1 minute and 12 seconds long. It features a ticking clock in the background and a steady drumbeat. The melody features most of the D minor scale. [3]
"Southampton Dock" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut. [1] [2] In World War II, many soldiers departed from Southampton to fight against the Germans. In the eighties, Southampton was again used as a departure base, this time for the Falklands War. The song describes a woman who "bravely waves" the soldiers "Goodbye again".
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The song's intro features a car radio being tuned in and out of different stations and can be seen on the short film for 'The Final Cut'. "...a group of business men announced plans to build a nuclear fallout shelter at Peterborough in Cambridgeshire..." [radio tuning] "...three high court judges have cleared the way..." [radio tuning]