amused to death

• roger watersin 1992 yilinda cikan albumu.
  
  this species has amused itself to death...
• 1 the ballad of bill hubbard
  2 what god wants part 1
  3 perfect sense part 1
  4 perfect sense part 2
  5 the bravery of being out of range
  6 late home tonight part 1
  7 late home tonight part 2
  8 too much rope
  9 what god wants part 2
  10 what god wants part 3
  11 watching tv
  12 three wishes
  13 its a miracle
  14 amused to death
• albumun 9:07 dakikalik kapanis sarkisi.
  
  // switch tv channel //
  man: consider it a bargin at even 6 or 7 or even 8 hundred dollars... hi! you're live on the show! hi!
  woman: denise from delaware
  man:how are you?
  woman: first time i've even been this.. uh, spoke to you.
  man:why, it's my pleasure!
  woman:---son, bought that thing for me, and you were supposed to give it to me on mother's day.
  man:uh-huh
  woman:but you didn't.
  man:(?) tell me (?)
  woman:ah, maybe about 7 or 8 hundred dollars
  man:seven or eight! a congratulation! ok!
  woman: bye-bye
  man: bye-bye
  
  we own this at four hundred dollars
  
  you gotta be kidding me!
  seven, eight, nine hundred dollars!
  tell ya what
  while it was seventy-five, eighty maybe
  
  cut the price
  cut it and give it away
  to end the day
  to end the day out there...(?)
  it's incredible (?)
  not even worth selling (?) seventy-seven (?)
  
  doctor doctor what is wrong with me
  this supermarket life is getting long
  what is the heart life of a colour tv
  what is the shelf life of a teenage queen
  ooh western woman
  ooh western girl
  ooh western woman
  ooh western girl
  news hound sniffs the air
  when jessica hahn goes down
  
  // heh //
  // ha ha ha //
  
  he latches on to that symbol
  of detachment
  attracted by the peeling away of feeling
  the celebrity of the abused shell the belle
  ooh western woman
  ooh western girl
  
  and the children on melrose
  strut their stuff
  
  woman:(?)...she had a bodyguard to guard her pearls...(?)
  
  is absolute zero cold enough
  and out in the valley warm and clean
  the little ones sit by their tv screen
  no thoughts to think
  no tears to cry
  all sucked dry
  down to the very last breath
  
  woman: (?) glamorous (?)
  
  bartender what is wrong with me
  why am i so out of breath
  the captain said excuse me ma'am
  this species has amused itself to death
  amused itself to death
  it has amused itself to death
  amused itself to death
  
  we watched the tragedy unfold
  we did as we were told
  we bought and sold
  it was the greatest show on earth
  but then it was over
  we oohed and aahed
  we drove our racing cars
  we ate our last few jars of caviar
  and somewhere out there in the stars
  a keen-eyed lookout
  spied a flickering light
  our last hurrah
  our last hurrah
  
  and when they found our shadows
  grouped around the tv sets
  they ran down every lead
  they repeated every test
  they checked out all the data on their lists
  and then the alien anthropologists
  admitted they were still perplexed
  but on eliminating every other reason
  for our sad demise
  they logged the only explanation left
  this species has amused itself to death
  no tears to cry
  no feelings left
  this species has amused itself to death
  amused itself to death
  amused itself to death
  
  alf razzell: years later, i saw bill hubbard's
  name on the memorial to the missing at arras.
  
  amused itself to death
  
  alf razzell: and i... when i saw his name, i was absolutely transfixed.
  it was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of
  nightmarish memory that i'd had of leaving him all those years ago.
  
  amused itself to death
  
  alf razzell: and i felt relieved. and ever since then i've felt... happy about it, because always before, whenever i thought of him, i was searching myself; "was there something else that i could have done?"
  
  amused itself to death
  
  alf razzell: put me down. put me down. i'd rather die. i'd rather die. put me down
  
  alf razzell: and that always sort of worried me. but having seen him, and his name in the register; as you know in the memorials there's a little safe, and there's a register in there with every.. every name... and seeing his name and his name on the memorial.. it sort of lightened.. lightened my heart, if you like.
  
  woman interviewer: when was it that you saw his name on the memorial
  alf razzell: ah, when i was eighty-seven... ah, that would be a year, ninety f... eighty-four, nineteen eighty-four.
  
  // switch tv off //
  // crickets fade out //
• roger waters ın bu şarkıyı eski grup arkadaşlarına itafen yaptığı söylenir.
• hakkaten bir temasi olan, bu tema etrafinda eglenmeyi de, goz yasi dokmeyi de bilen (ornek watching tv adli parca olabilir: 'shed a tear for my yellow rose') bir dalganip bir durulan, en azindan bir kere bastan sona dinlenmeyi hakeden guzel ve hazin bir albumdur. dinlerken sarki sozlerinin de bir yandan takip edilmesi albumun temasini kavramakta ise yarayabilir.
• özel bir efekt/tını/mix elde etmek için, yer yer, bazı kanalların fazlarıyla oynadıklarından şiddetle şüphelendiğim albüm. özellikle köpek havlamaları, sağa/sola yatırılmış konuşma efektleri, korolar gibi kanallarda dikkati çekiyor.
• yana done tekrar dinlenir. melodileri insanin kulagina kazinir. muzik tarihinin ciddi kazanclarindan ne ki hakki yenmis bir albumdur. tekrarlamakta sakinca yok: her eve lazim...
• albumdeki cogu sarkinin arkasinda ya da onundeki cenci kadın seslerinin de hak ettikleri ilgiyi görmedigini düşünüyorum. roger waters'ın her ne kadar yetersiz ama pek karizmatik bir sesi olsa da, kadın sesi başka bir şey işte, hele de cenci gırtlaklısı. onları secmesinden ötürü waters'ı bir kez daha teprik ediyoruz...
• jeff beck'ten don henley'ye muhtesem bir kadrosu olan album.
  
  quadrophonic ses duzenine gore kaydedilmistir. quadro bir muzik sisteminiz yoksa albumu %100 dinleyemezsiniz.
• roger waters'ın pink floyd dan ayrılmasının akabinde 1992 de çıkarttığı albüm.
  
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  bu albüm roger waters'ın tarzını tamamen muhafaza etmekle beraber, pink floyd'un roger'sız zamanlarında ürettiği albümlerden müzikalite, atmosfer, ruh ve konsept olarak çok daha öndedir. roger waters'ın pink floyd için ne kadar önemli olduğunu buradan görüyoruz.
  
  ancak şöyle birşey de var ki bu albüm asla bir dark side of the moon, bir animals, bir atom hearth mother hatta syd li zamanlardan bir the piper at the gates of dawn olamaz. bu da waters'ın da gilmour'suz , wright'sız ve mason'sız (ve barret, tabii ki) eksik olduğunu ifade eder.
  
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