# Which Roger Waters album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543 "2001-10-10T06:43:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/1 "2001-10-10T06:43:19Z")
I’m a big fan of Roger Waters era Pink Floyd, but have been a but wary about his solo work. Which Roger Waters album is the best? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/2 "2001-10-10T07:10:44Z")
Lurid cover aside, _The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking_. Very much in Waters’ “primal whinge” mode, but as good record. Probably the best Eric Clapton record of the last 20 years too. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/3 "2001-10-10T07:23:05Z")
You probably already know this if you read my last thread. **AMUSED TO DEATH** is hands down the best cd. It utilizes a genius mix of sound effects, singers from accross and all kinds of other cool stuff. I’ll tell you the recipe for listening to this cd 1st) take phone off hook 2nd) turn down lights, light a candle (optional) 3rd) If anybody is in the room with you tell them to remain quiet throughout the duration of the cd. 4th) insert cd and play from begining to end. (enjoy) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/4 "2001-10-10T07:28:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* singers from accross and all kinds of other cool stuff.\*\* Dang it I meant “ **singers from across the board** ” ---
**Author:** ![spacedmanspliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spacedmanspliff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spacedmanspliff)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/5 "2001-10-10T07:44:55Z")
**Shakes** complement your taste **Yookeroo** Anused to death is definitely the best trust me i know ive heard them all the songs a)amused to death b)its a miracle c)watching tv d)too much rope e)what god wants are all awesome numbers with great lyrics pros and cons is a pretty good album too the one record id advice you to stay clear off for the time being is body hope this helps anyway from my point of view anything to do with floyd rules ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/6 "2001-10-10T13:19:15Z")
I have to highly highly highly recommend **“Radio KAOS”!!!** Even though it sounds completely like an album produced in the late 80’s, the songs are great and the production is perfect. Alot of people consider **“Amused to Death”** a better album, but for me, there is far to much filler on that album for me to recommend it. I feel that **KAOS** is a more developed and cohesive album! I guess that’s what you get when you ask for a recommendation around here. A bunch of people with a lot of different opinions. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/7 "2001-10-10T16:42:31Z")
I’d vote for **Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking** as the best of the solo albums – it’s coherent, in its own strange way, and Clapton is an excellent replacement for David Gilmour in Waters’s arrangements. (His guitarists later on don’t have the same chops.) It is, I’ll admit, something of an “Oh whiny me” record, but that’s what many of us _like_ about Pink Floyd to begin with. It also showcases his very best post-Floyd song, the single “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.” I will point out that the early '80s were when I was a teenager and discovering Floyd/Waters, which may skew my experience. My favorite Floyd record is **The Final Cut** , which supposedly everybody else hates. **Kadio KAOS** is a turgid mess. There are one or two decent songs on it – I’m fond of “Who Needs Information” – but the radio chatter is distracting, the story is silly, and the theme is puerile. It’s the only Floyd/Waters CD I actually sold – I didn’t want to have it around me any more. I haven’t listened to **Amused to Death** much, so I won’t comment. It didn’t really make we want to keep listen to it over and over, though, unlike most Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Ennui](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ennui/32/3396_2.png) [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-roger-waters-album/86543/8 "2001-10-10T16:52:03Z")
Amused to Death, not hands down but decisively. Marv Albert calling the gulf war like a basketball game: "He fires one,…\*YES \*there goes two.,… The rig is going into a prevent defense, will they make it? I don’t think so (Boooom). Need I say more.