https://www.amazon.com/Amused-Death-2-LP-200-gram-vinyl/dp/B011O1N5DW With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly and unthinkingly in thrall to its television screens. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman.The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. Track Breakdown The Ballard Of Bill Hubbard. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2015 Vinyl release of "Amused To Death" on Discogs. The BBC would not air the first single of the album, "What God Wants, Part I", because of its "touchy" lyrics. Take popular culture, consumerism, technology, etc. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. There was no tour in support of Amused to Death and selections from the album were performed sparingly on future tours by Waters. The closing title song, “Amused to Death”, is a nine minute package of cynicism and sarcasm, with a tinge of hope at the end. This is a slower paced song on the album. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. This species has amused itself to death Amused itself to death Amused itself to death We watched the tragedy unfold We did as we were told We bought and sold It was the greatest show on earth But then it was over We ohhed and aahed We drove our racing cars We ate our last few jars of caviar And somewhere out there in the stars A keen-eyed look-out Amused To Death (9:06) Total Time-72:45 BBC 1. When Amused to Death came out (1992), I found it a little bit disturbing. While a wholehearted Pink Floyd/Roger Waters fan, there were philosophical elements of the lyrics that made me uncomfortable. The theme comes full circle as Bill Hubbard is laid to rest and memorialized. About “Amused to Death” A masterpiece whose central themes are as relevant decades later as they were when the album was first released. Neil is big on how technology negatively affects the human race and especially public discourse. The Final Cut, his last album with Pink Floyd, functioned as an explicit sequel to The Wall, but 1992's This is the first song on the album, coming before "What God Wants, Part I". "Amused to Death" (the whole album actually) relates to Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Lyrics to Amused to Death by Roger Waters from the In the Flesh Live album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more! War is Roger Waters' great muse, the impetus for so much of his work, including the semi-autobiographical 1979 opus The Wall. Waters was outraged. In this tune from the album Roger sums up all the rest. He was participating in a panel on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the contemporary world. 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