Not news: Roger Waters is a nasty narcissist.
Roger Waters has revealed that he re-recorded Pink Floyd‘s classic The Dark Side of the Moon album in advance of the record’s 50th anniversary this March. And he did it without involving any of the active members of Pink Floyd.
The 79-year-old musician disclosed the news in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, in which he exclaims, “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So… blah!”
As Waters acknowledged, he isn’t the sole author of the entire record — he has exclusive writing credits on three of the record’s 10 songs, two co-writes and he also authored all of the lyrics.
So, what’s different about this re-recorded version of this legendary album?
The Daily Telegraph‘s Tristram Fane Saunders was played Waters’ rendition of The Dark Side of the Moon and notes the deviations from the songs fans are so accustomed to.
“‘Time,’ that young man’s lament for mortality, sounds terrific with his old man’s timbre. ‘Breathe’ is wonderfully reimagined as a slow, acoustic groove. A country-tinged ‘Money’ could be a late Johnny Cash cut, with Waters growling charismatically at the very bottom of his register,” Saunders describes (via Prog). “But, surprisingly,” he continues, “Waters seems to have decided that what was wrong with the original album’s beautiful instrumental tracks was that they didn’t have Waters talking all over them. Now they do.”
Waters also took aim at his ex-bandmates and their alleged lack of creativity, stating, “”They can’t write songs, they’ve nothing to say. They are not artists! They have no ideas, not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”
Actually Roger, it seems you are the one who is crazy these days.
No doubt this is how your former Pink Floyd bandmates remember you:
And you still are one.
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