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The Post War Dream. Pink Floyd. Track 1 on The Final Cut. Producers. Michael Kamen, James Guthrie & 1 more. This opening song lays out many of the themes of the album to follow, and sets up the...
"The Post War Dream" is the opening track on The Final Cut, an album by the English progressive rock band, Pink Floyd.
Indeed, the album is subtitled on the back cover as A Requiem For The Post War Dream by Roger Waters and is the only Pink Floyd album to only have one person credited for its entire writing.
In this article, we will explore the meaning behind the song “The Post War Dream” by Pink Floyd. Released in 1983 as part of their album “The Final Cut,” this song delves into themes of war, sacrifice, and the disillusionment that follows.
- Glenn Povey
- The front cover shows a Remembrance Day poppy and selection of British Second World War medal ribbons including the Distinguished Flying Cross (white with diagonal purple stripes), The 1939-45 Star (equal stripes of dark blue, red and light blue), The Africa Star (sand with dark blue, red and light blue stripes), and the Defence Medal (orange with wide green edges bearing narrow black stripes).
- Two versions of the track Not Now John were recorded, with one version obliterating the words “fuck all that” with an overdub of “stuff all that” for the single release to ensure radio play.
- The word “fuck” occurs in the song Not Now John six times as part of the phrase, "fuck all that"; and once again near the end the song as part of the "Where’s-the-bar?"
- Collectors were quick to discover the B-Side of Not Now John: The Hero’s Return (Part 2), is essentially an additional verse to the song, but is absent from the album.
The Falkland War was the catalyst of the work, the betrayal of the post-WWII dream of peace among the nations, and the most bitterly unreasonable war of the decade until America's War in the Persian Gulf.
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