The Final Cut (studio album)
by Pink Floyd
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The Final Cut is ranked 10th best out of 35 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 60,086.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/05/2025 15:46 | Siromynian | 1,578 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:13 | Araldo | 1,469 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2025 22:22 | IkoIko6 | 107 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 04:22 | MaxStorm98 | 3,795 | 89/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 19:11 |  TimBroad04 | 203 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 69.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.0.
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A great Pink Floyd/Roger Waters álbum!
There are two albums that don’t seem to fit the Pink Floyd formula of their post early 70’s output. This album and Animals. The difference is I think Animals is absolutely brilliant whereas this is a Roger Waters solo album and only Pink Floyd in name. I don’t hate this album, I like it, but I just don’t think of it as a Pink Floyd album. My first objection was no Rick Wright and then Nick Mason not having his heart in it for personal reasons with Andy Newmark and Ray Cooper being brought in to enhance the percussion.
Like I said it would be Roger’s best solo album but as a Pink Floyd album not so much. If you like Roger’s solo output then this highly recommended, if not then avoid.
My favourite Pink Floyd album, listened to it a thousand times.
Roger never had a great voice and it got worse by this album. The lack of Gilmour and Wright in songwriting definitely makes it even worse. And someone really needed to tell Roger to cut it with the repetitive themes, but no one did, so instead we got this rambling joke of an album.
That said, theres still more soul to this than most of Gilmour's creations.
This is an immersive album, an audio production intended to be listened to as a whole. The lyrics are outstanding, the music and sound effects simply create a mood that enhances what is being said. It is not for everyone or those expecting it to be like any other Pink Floyd album. Some editions have 'When the Tigers Broke Free' shoe horned into it and that really disrupts the listening experience, so try to find a copy with the original running order as listed on this site.
Definitely not as great as albums released between 1971 and 1979, but it doesn't mean that it is a bad album, it is actually good. I think that it has some strog lyrics and instrumental parts.
Underrated
A solid album, though you can tell Roger Waters had control of the band at this point and it sounds very much like a solo album. But there is some decent stuff here.
better than i remember
Brandon8 02/11/2022 21:35 | #281150
I enjoy many of Pink Floyd’s albums but this one didn’t take. Waters went too far here and this is a bloody mess.
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