Roger Waters

Amused To Death COLUMBIA, 1992

Waters’s second solo album, 1987’s Radio K.A.O.S., was a set of great songs sunk by a rotten production and outsold by the reconstituted Pink Floyd’s

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, released the same year.

All Waters’s frustration was poured into this follow-up.

This time he heaped scorn on humanity’s fixation on TV while the world went to hell around it. The comparative restraint of Too Much Rope masked a fury that boiled just below the surface.

And when he did cut loose, as on The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range, it proved that his righteous ire burned as fiercely as ever.