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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1992 - September: Roger Waters “Amused to Death”
Description: Roger Waters is one of the best known rock celebrities, both as a founding member of Pink Floyd and as a solo artist after leaving the band. Amused to Death is his third solo album, and Waters considers it to be a continuation of The Wall. The name is inspired by the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. The concept of the album is a television where the channels are continually being changed at random by an ape, and critiques the senseless obsession with T.V.
Waters had been politically critical for some time before thi...