Ultratop.be – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 June 2017. Is This The Life We Really Want?' has so much going for it. It all sounds great on the surface, Roger's voice is in charismatic Norwegiancharts.com – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 June 2017. I will rate this album as excellent, four stars. I will not dip into it as often as I still do with Amused to Death, but, as

Swedishcharts.com – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 June 2017. a b TJ Kliebhan. "Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want?". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on 1 June 2017 . Retrieved 2 June 2017. appreciate a bit of Trump bashing, raging against the inequities of the world and how, if you were God, you would Danishcharts.dk – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 June 2017.Portuguesecharts.com – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 June 2017. Italian album certifications – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 3 April 2017. Select "2017" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Is This the Life We Really Want?" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione". a b c "How Pink Floyd's Roger Waters refound his fire at 72". The Nation. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018 . Retrieved 25 April 2018. Weird to think that after 25 years I'm listening to a new Roger Waters record. Strange to also imagine that this is the

change it all, then this is the album for you. If you don't appreciate such things, and the somewhat hectoring tomes Kot, Greg (19 July 2017). "Roger Waters is, for a change, happy to be on tour". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019 . Retrieved 10 May 2019.Smell The Roses" is where I don't really like how Water's sings. And it sounds kind of commercial in part because of the vocals I think. Suddenly before 2 minutes samples take over. So cool and much better to my ears. We hear dogs barking madly then this soaring guitar comes in ala Gilmour before 3 1/2 minutes then the vocals return. "Wait For Her" is the start of that three piece suite. Piano and strummed guitar as reserved vocals join in. It does turn fuller as vocals continue and contrasts will continue. Seagulls can be heard to end it with strummed guitar as it blends into the next tune. Godrich’s presence is a reminder of Pink Floyd and Radiohead’s shared mission to use state-of-the-art technology to explore the more woeful recesses of the human condition. He creates the perfect context for Waters’ bleary-eyed missives, making him sound like Thom Yorke’s mightily pissed-off activist uncle. easily appeared on any of the `Kid A' onwards Radiohead albums (although the final moments ape `Dogs' droning spacey about the album. Waters is Waters, and his politics are his politics, but the man is responsible for some of the most You Were Here', but it does deliver one of the only (brief) moments of soaring David Gilmour-like guitar slow-burn of the disc.

Throughout, Waters affects a low, dolorous croon or a Dylan-esque sneer. Either that or he hoarsely shouts – all the better to express his inchoate fury. The songs are less varied, however, tending to chug along morosely, based around similar clusters of chords to David Bowie’s Five Years, which suits the apocalyptic foreboding but can make you long for a brightly coiffed alien androgyne to come along and break the monotone gloom. canvass, and all the ambient sound-effects from Pink Floyd and Roger solo albums past - switching channels, news As a example you're CNN. I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad. I won. I won. And the other thing, chaos. There's zero chaos. We are running - this is a fine-tuned machine..." wonderful soundscape canvas for Waters to play and speak upon, and it is here that I feel is the most crucial pointthose years ago!), moments of slightly more ambitious arrangements and a couple of really dynamic diversions. But instead, Keyboards, Guitar, Arranged By, Engineer, Producer [Produced By], Mixed By, Sounds [Collages], Arranged By [Strings] – Nigel Godrich

The record is really about love – which is what all of my records have been about, in fact ... It's also the question of how do we take these moments of love – if we are granted any in our lives – and allow that love to shine on the rest of existence, on others. Roger Waters is still doing the things Roger Waters is known to do--and, I must admit, still doing them well. But, there is nothing here that is new, innovative, "progressive" (was there ever?), or refreshing. As a matter of fact, one might say that the stylings, sounds, and melodies present on this album sound extremely familiar. A few times I find myself even asking, "Hasn't he already done this before? (even on this very album?)" And yet I admire the fact that Roger still has creative juices flowing--that he feels he still has something to say (as well as a format in which to express his ideas). His voice is old, worn, but he can still surround himself with top notch performers, arrangers, conductors, and engineers. The strings arrangements are the highlights for me; the drums a little too intimate and "friendly" for my tastes. Waters has called this a concept album, and it does have that coherence. But there is a downside: what you might positively spin as a lugubrious uniformity could be viewed more negatively as repetitively bleak. There are fillips for long-term fans. Picture That has the psych propulsion of One Of These Days Floyd, A Part Of Me Died features a Gilmour-esque descending guitar line, while Oceans Apart has elegiacal echoes of Wish You Were Here.The concerns I have with that central question – "Why are we killing the children?" – are still there. I'm still deeply concerned that we're killing children all over the world with hardly a second thought because we've become so insensitive to the idea of every time the curtain falls on some forgotten life, it is because we stood by silent and indifferent – it's normal. I'm quoting from the record now. And unfortunately, it has become normal; we have normalized the death of the innocent. Offiziellecharts.de – Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 9 June 2017. a b "Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? Album Review". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017 . Retrieved 2 June 2017.