The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
by Roger Waters

From Jboy56 05/27/2024 16:13 | #303720

No, booring, too floydy

I’m just running face first in this album in the last 24 hours. Waters voice goes from subtle to menacing throughout and I love it. Feels like listening to The Wall again for the first time, not quite as epic but hits big in spots. The saxophone weaves in and out of many songs and my god, the saxophone solo on Go Fishing is as good as it gets.
Unsettling. Dark. Menacing. So glad to have given this effort some attention

Roger Waters doesn't sing on this album, he shouts his way through it. When you consider some of the fantastic vocals he delivered in Pink Floyd (If from Meddle, Biding My Time from Relics, Pigs on the Wing from Animals, Shine on You Crazy Diamond from Wish you Were Here, Brain Damage and Eclipse from Dark Side of The Moon) just to name a few, I can't help wondering what happened. There is no real atmosphere or depth to this album and I feel that it is carried by backing singers and session musicians. Considering that David Gilmour released A Momentary Lapse of Reason (which has some excellent songs on it) as his first album without Roger Waters, it is quite clear at this point who will carry the Pink Floyd sound forwards. Disappointing...

From LoganGrube 05/06/2018 14:38 | #214314

This album isn't even in the top 1500 and I feel it's over ranked because of the name attached to it.

I love Floyd. I love Roger's stuff on his own.I love this album. I've been fortunate to know it since release and over 30 years later it still sounds as fresh, intense and crazy as it did to me after three decades.
I understand it won't be everyone's cup of tea and for many it can be quite hard to penetrate with really only the title track an accessible pop(ish) track - but still far superior to most if not all pop out there.
I love the journey

I am a huge Floyd fan, but I just started listening to Waters' solo stuff. I enjoyed this album a lot more than later Pink Floyd albums.

From timtooky 04/08/2014 21:54 | #108818

the wall is the best record ever. and this is the third disc of it. and even if it's not as good as the wall it's still the third side of the greatest album ever.

First solo album and first feeling - it's very good and until now the feeling is still the same

From cannychub1 04/17/2012 10:24 | #40406

Always enjoy listening to Waters, Floyd or solo, a lyrical genius.

From Robert Anton Wilson 11/07/2011 18:36 | #30046

In the late 70's Roger offered two projects to his bandmates of Pink Floyd, it was to be this or "The Wall". I think they did the right thing by choosing The Wall just because it was such a massive, obvious winner of a concept not because this one was no good. The musicianship is great and if anything this album probably benefits from not being done by the Floyd because it introduces interesting new sonorities into the Waters framework. I mean, the guitarist is still Eric Clapton -not Gilmour but not a nobody either- and the sax work, particularly on "Go Fishing" will just blow your minds out.