Can you give an example of a "LOL moment" on Pros and Cons?Pros and Cons - didn't like it much in the '80s (though probably then because it sounded nothing like Pink Floyd) but I still never cared for it much any more after that. I throw it on from time to time and treat it like an unintentional joke. There are definitely some LOL moments on it. And yes, the sound engineering is great, for whatever that's worth.
Radio KAOS - I don't think that any of Waters' solo albums are anything special, but IMO this is the best of the lot, from start to finish. It's a total '80s time capsule album; I only play it when I'm listening to other similar-sounding mid/late '80s material. But I find it to be fairly tuneful and the concept is so far out and inscrutable that it rarely interferes with the songs. And unlike the worse MLOR album that his former band put out at the same time, the female chorus of singers that complement Waters' vocals neither sounded out of place nor cloying, but rather like they belonged in the songs.
Amused to Death. - By far the most uneven of the three albums, IMO. I think the best few songs are better than anything on Radio KAOS (to say nothing of Pros and Cons), but that the few worst songs are significantly worse than anything on Radio KAOS. Perfect Sense (both parts), Too Much Rope and What God Wants Part 2 IMO range from unpleasantly superfluous to some of the most cringeworthy stuff I own. Elsewhere, Ballad of Bill Hubbard and It's a Miracle are uninteresting filler that also probably should have been cut. But if you get rid of all that stuff (and thanks to digital editing I have) you still end up with roughly a 45 minute Roger Waters album that is pretty visceral - musically it's tuneful and it has some bite and some punch and lyrically doesn't grate too much. For example, the title song sounds tiresomely redundant by the time you get to it, if you were to listen to the full album, but in its edited form the horse hasn't been beaten enough yet to become dead, so it actually does have some of the impact/resonance that was intended.
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