I held my tongue during the antiwar music discussion some time ago so as not to overload the blog, but these two YouTubes (part 1, part 2) constitute the short film Pink Floyd did for their unjustly neglected 1983 album, The Final Cut. Four songs from the album are featured. At about 5:00 into part two begins “The Fletcher Memorial Home,” which envisions a kind of insane asylum to which the warmongers of the world could be entrusted. This part is a bit shocking. Viewers of Pink Floyd The Wall will recognize the main character here. It’s the schoolteacher from … Continue reading Pink Floyd and War