Roger Waters Amused To Death

I can absolutely relate to the opinion made by Snackeyp. As a huge fan of Pink Floyd/Gilmour/Waters I bought this album almost the same time it was released in 1992. My reference at that time was ”Pros and cons...” and after the so-so album ”Radio KAOS”, my expectations were quite high... I listened to it a few times...and I was so disappointed!!! I had to put it back in my CD-shelf and my immediate thought was I would probably never play it again...

However!!!
After a few years I explained my frustration over the album to another Pink Floyd-fan. He just looked at me, begging me to give it another shot! 
But you should start from the back, with the titletrack, and work your way through the album backwards and then try it again from the start, he said. 

OK, that’s what I did and now I discovered a whole new album! The songs ”Amused to death”, ”It’s a miracle” and ”Three wishes” really caught my attention...now!! I started to listen to the album over and over again, and today (25 years later) it is one of my absolute favourite-albums. Period! A masterpiece in the genre of progressive rock!

As for the q-sound, it is something I really enjoy when I sit down in front of my stereo system. Almost surround sound from a two-channel system...isn’t that cool??

Over and out!
Happy listening!

I second The Final Cut, as my favorite. Its an emotionally moving, anti-war themed, well recorded , album. OP makes some valid points about Amused to Death.

I have had this album for less than a year, and only purchased it because of all the positive things posted about the material, and the recording. I kinda lost interest in any post Final Cut material from the Floyd camp, but wanted to check this one out. I'll say that it does sound quite good, sonically, on my system, but I just can't get into the content. I have tried coming back to it time and again, but just have a real hard time listening to Waters angst ridden lyrical content .  Just my two cents folks.

 My 4th favorite album. I have the 2015 AP SACD, as well as the 1993 Gold Long box Mastersound, and a regular 1992 version. All were recorded with Qsound. To me the 1993 Gold CD is better sounding, as well as a bit warmer than the SACD. There a few tracks that are really good for testing your soundstage. I would try a different CD version (1992-93) before you give up on it.

Sorry, every listening produces the same feeling -- overly pretentious, hopelessly recycled themes, excessively self indulgent drivel and desperately in need of the restraining and creative hands of Gilmour, Wright and Mason. Every Waters solo album since Pros & Cons has been a steady decline in unlistenability -- for me. Pardon me for saying so, but without David Gilmour joining the band after Barrett went off the rails -- there would have been no Dark Side, No Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Animals or The Wall. As for the latter, think of the songs you know and love from The Wall (Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell) those were largely completed compositions that Gilmour offered to the band from a solo album he was working on when The Wall came up short of material and it was Bob Ezrin who (against the wishes of the entire band) recorded the school children choir for another Brick In The Wall, Part 2. Waters was a great creative force but without the rest of the band, principally Gilmour, he would be relegated to the early (and only years) of Pink Floyd.