Radio K.A.O.S.

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking With Eric Clapton's valuable assistance, Waters takes the concept album to new heights on this 1984 masterpiece, his first LP after leaving Pink Floyd. Each of the 12 songs represents a scene of a surreal dream (nightmare?), and Waters brilliantly captures the pendulum of emotion...	Amused to Death Amused to Death is perfectly titled; it conveys its maker's mordant humor and underlying pessimism. Roger Waters's third solo album allowed a faint but perceptible return to the sound of his estranged former band, Pink Floyd. There are moments here ("What God Wants," "Three Wishe...	The Final Cut	Ça Ira Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to se...	Broken China Brand new solo album by the Pink Floyd keyboardist, with Sinead O'Connor appearing as guest lead vocalist on the tracks 'Reaching For The Rail' and 'Breakthrough'. The album has a Floyd sound and look throughout, thanks to their designer Storm Thorgerson.
When the Wind Blows Released only on vinyl in the U.S. when the film first came out in 1986 (and deleted shortly thereafter), this is the CD edition of the soundtrack to Raymond Briggs' anti-nuclear sci-fi cartoon about the fate of an ill-prepared retired English couple when nuclear Armageddon strik...	In the Flesh Live It's nothing short of remarkable that Roger Waters has built a successful career on obsessive ruminations on alienation, megalomania, and guilty fame, largely on the backs of one of history's most long-lived arena acts. The musical legacy Waters has shared with "another band" (as...	David Gilmour Digitally remastered reissue of the first solo album from the Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist, originally released in 1978. Features musical assistance from Steve Rance, Willie Wilson, Rick Wills, Mick Weaver and others. Nine tracks including 'There's No Way Out Of Here', 'Cry Fro...	Animals Although not in the same vein as the deliciously hallucinogenic earlier Floyd works such as Ummagumma and Dark Side of the Moon, Animals is innovative and musically diverse in its own right. Inspired in part by George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm, Roger Waters condemns th...	The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) The Wall is less a collection of songs than a single work, which is sometimes frustrating; the plot lacks enough coherence to hold the snippets of music together. However, there are occasional flashes of brilliance on what ranks as Pink Floyd's most ambitious project. Most of the...

Roger Waters - Back To The Regan Era 80's
This was Waters second solo album after leaving Pink Floyd. His first "The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking" was a big disappointment to me and I did not really care for it. "KAOS" would fare a bit better, but still suffers from Rogers rather maudlin writing style and the lack of his former cohort David Gilmour as a musical partner. "KAOS" is a concept album about a wheelchair bound boy who can receive radio waves through his head. The story unfolds through his correspondence with a DJ at KAOS radio station in Los Angeles. Jim Ladd (a DJ in real life) did the voice of the jock on the record. In the end the boy in the chair decides he is going to blow up the world, but then changes his mind. This album is not all that far from the theme of Waters last Pink Floyd album "The Final Cut" in which the globe is neutralized by nuclear war during the "Two Sunsets" finale. I thought Waters got better with each solo album he did which puts this one squarely in the middle. Going back to it after all these years there is a lot of 80's musical cliché's to be found which tends to date the material, but this is still a pretty good album from mister Waters.

No, it's not PINK FLOYD, but it IS a great album
This is the first album Roger Waters put out after he left Pink Floyd (he had not announced his departured from Pink Floyd when "The Pros and Cons of Hithhiking" was released in 1984), and it came out at roughly the same time David Gilmour put out his first "Pink Floyd" album without Roger Waters (A Momentary Lapse of Reason). Between the timing of each and the well publicized legal battles between Waters and Gilmour, comparisons of the two albums were unavoidable. Which one's "Pink"? The answer as it would turn out, was neither, but in absence of a Waters-Gilmour partnership within Pink Floyd, "Radio KAOS" is a solid effort from the brains of that unit. The theme of Radio KAOS is similar to that of The Wall in that it's intended as a semi-linear story, although there are clearly gaps. While The Wall was semi-autobiographical, Radio KAOS centers on fictional characters, primarily "Billy", a handicapped kid who is a techno-wiz and manages to hack into government systems to communicate (among other things), and "Jim" a DJ at a Los Angeles radio station, who Billy makes contact with. While the concept and characters are of some importance since they are referenced in parts of many of the songs, the songs also address more universal themes such as the economic realities of captitalism, politics as entertainment and the importance of something to call HOME. Standout tracks include "Radio Waves," "The Powers That Be," "Home" and "The Tide Is Turning". Criticism of this album has often centered on the 80's-oriented production, which is a far cry from the smooth and organic sounds of most classic Pink Floyd. Waters himself has criticized the sound of this album, suggesting that producer Ian Ritchie talked him into a more modern sound which he now regrets. All in all, I agree that the production is a bit dated and vastly different from anything else Waters did with or without Pink Floyd. That said, the material still manages to rise above it and the overall result is still a much more listenable album than Waters' solo debut three years earlier, "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking". Not even sequenced drum machines and keyboards can drown out the incredible songwriting voice of Roger Waters, so this is far from a wasted effort. The now-dated production cost this album one star, but apart from that, this is a solid and vastly underrated effort from Roger Waters in my book.

Great CD!!!
I had seen this show in 1987. I had purchased this CD years ago, but, wore it out. So I had to get the CD again. I had given it to my neighbor (who had never heard it before) Now he wants one too. Great songs, Roger will always BE Pink Floyd. Any one who out there who has never heard this yet, Grab a CD and enjoy!!

great album!
short but sweet album. catchy tunes and great lyrics. a cool concept with billy the computer. fav track? Home

roger fans vs music fans
This album is terrible. You think to get a full gist of pink floyd, that you will have to hear this album. Don't! This Evil album sounds like a bad 80s album that is for sell in the tape bin bad.