Chords for Roger Waters - Roger Waters on Amused to Death (Interview Video)
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79.45 bpm
Chords used:
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G
Gm
C
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I'm quite pleased that they're re-releasing Amused to Death because it
didn't get the attention that it deserved when [Gm] it came out 23 years ago.
A.
And B.
there is a sort of resurgence of vinyl [G] now.
People are buying vinyl
records because they like the sound of them.
I don't have a turntable but I
might buy one I think because I can still remember what it was like you know
to go like that and listen to it.
When you played Johnny Hodges record like a
million times you went fuck I've got to buy another one because [Gm] it's so beautiful.
We've changed quite a few things actually from the stereo mix from all
those years ago [G] because there were a number of different options.
We've done
amalgams in some places and definitely on Bravery we've done it.
I remember
saying hang on a minute where's the melody from that from from the bridge
where the fuck's that and he went no we didn't put that on the record.
Why not?
So we've put it on this.
No this isn't the new record this is an old record
that's been remixed.
I am making the first record since Amused to Death.
The
new record will be wedded [Em] to the sense that I have that we could do [F] better.
The
report card [Em] particularly as far as the Western nations and their [F] leaders are
concerned [C] would be [F] only [Eb] fair could do [Eb] much better.
One has [D] to remember all the
time that I'm talking about this work that I made it in 1992 [Gm] and I was
checking earlier by looking at the newspaper this morning and it's now 2015.
Most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even
more [Gm] relevant to our predicament as [C] people.
The title of the record Amused to
[A] Death is a steal from a book called Amusing [F] Ourselves to Death which [Cm] is
really about the notion that [D] given all the distractions that there are [Bb] in
modern life it is very easy to take our eye off the ball.
[Bb] That is if there is a
ball that is important to keep our eye on which I think there is.
Global [Gm] warming
is an obvious example which [C] is fundamentally important to even the
short-term survival of our species not to mention all the other species.
We are
diverted from that in [Bb] the world of entertainment now people used to talk
[Gm] about movies [Bb] and rock and roll and [Eb] TV not anymore they've been absolutely
blown away by this and when you're doing that [Ab] it's very [Ab] hard to keep your
eye on the ball over [Gm] there.
Huxley's awful view of the future [C] was that people
would become so pleasured and [Gm] amused by or whatever it might be that they would
no longer be interested in reading a [Bb] book.
In all of these theories there's
always a certain opiate of the masses and in Brave [Bb] New World it's called SOMAR
[Cm] and it's actually a drug that they give everybody.
They would no longer be
interested [Eb] in what anybody else might be thinking.
[F] No longer interested in all the
things that bind [Bb] us to the fact that we are human and that we are not cogs in the
machine.
I know this sounds very simplistic but it's fundamental to what
my record [Bb] was about all those years [D] ago.
Cue sound it's a way of processing
[A] already recorded [G] stereo information to make it feel as if the information is
coming from at least beyond [E] the backs of your ears.
If [G] you listen to the [D] record
of Muse to Death in stereo, has to be [Em] speakers this doesn't work on headphones
[G] it's got to be speakers.
[D] If you sit in the middle and you go what was that?
Because it's over there you know and you wow how did they do [D] that?
If you're
somebody who cares enough about the experience of listening to [A] the record you
should at least once [D] get somewhere where there's a really good amplifier and two
really good speakers and sit right in the middle and just close your eyes and
listen to it once [G] from start to finish.
In addition to the fact that the thing
was originally released in stereo but with Cue Sound we have made a 5.1 mix.
[B] Although I'm not a kind of techno [Dm] nerd myself [E] I'm so happy that there are
[Em] people who care about these [D] advanced formats because part of the burning of
books [Em] is also about [G] oh we don't give a fuck [D] about that let's all just listen to
[C] mp3s.
[G] Would I consider [Am] Muse to Death to be [F] angry?
[G] Angry no.
Angry feels sort [C] of
undirected to me.
Is Muse to Death sarcastic?
I've definitely used [Am] sarcasm
from time to time in my songwriting [A] career.
Probably some of it [D] is
sarcastic and [F] some of it pretends to be cynical but it's not.
There's nothing
[C] cynical about the record at [Am] all.
I'm often described as being a [Db] cynic.
You [A] could say that I'm cynical of the political [D] systems that we've
allowed to develop and that [G] we've adopted and we've become inured to and
which have amused us almost to death and amused a lot of brown people in other
places to death.
[C] But if it appears cynical it may be because [Am] what comes
across as cynicism is [Em] satire.
It's very easy to confuse the two.
[Gm]
didn't get the attention that it deserved when [Gm] it came out 23 years ago.
A.
And B.
there is a sort of resurgence of vinyl [G] now.
People are buying vinyl
records because they like the sound of them.
I don't have a turntable but I
might buy one I think because I can still remember what it was like you know
to go like that and listen to it.
When you played Johnny Hodges record like a
million times you went fuck I've got to buy another one because [Gm] it's so beautiful.
We've changed quite a few things actually from the stereo mix from all
those years ago [G] because there were a number of different options.
We've done
amalgams in some places and definitely on Bravery we've done it.
I remember
saying hang on a minute where's the melody from that from from the bridge
where the fuck's that and he went no we didn't put that on the record.
Why not?
So we've put it on this.
No this isn't the new record this is an old record
that's been remixed.
I am making the first record since Amused to Death.
The
new record will be wedded [Em] to the sense that I have that we could do [F] better.
The
report card [Em] particularly as far as the Western nations and their [F] leaders are
concerned [C] would be [F] only [Eb] fair could do [Eb] much better.
One has [D] to remember all the
time that I'm talking about this work that I made it in 1992 [Gm] and I was
checking earlier by looking at the newspaper this morning and it's now 2015.
Most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even
more [Gm] relevant to our predicament as [C] people.
The title of the record Amused to
[A] Death is a steal from a book called Amusing [F] Ourselves to Death which [Cm] is
really about the notion that [D] given all the distractions that there are [Bb] in
modern life it is very easy to take our eye off the ball.
[Bb] That is if there is a
ball that is important to keep our eye on which I think there is.
Global [Gm] warming
is an obvious example which [C] is fundamentally important to even the
short-term survival of our species not to mention all the other species.
We are
diverted from that in [Bb] the world of entertainment now people used to talk
[Gm] about movies [Bb] and rock and roll and [Eb] TV not anymore they've been absolutely
blown away by this and when you're doing that [Ab] it's very [Ab] hard to keep your
eye on the ball over [Gm] there.
Huxley's awful view of the future [C] was that people
would become so pleasured and [Gm] amused by or whatever it might be that they would
no longer be interested in reading a [Bb] book.
In all of these theories there's
always a certain opiate of the masses and in Brave [Bb] New World it's called SOMAR
[Cm] and it's actually a drug that they give everybody.
They would no longer be
interested [Eb] in what anybody else might be thinking.
[F] No longer interested in all the
things that bind [Bb] us to the fact that we are human and that we are not cogs in the
machine.
I know this sounds very simplistic but it's fundamental to what
my record [Bb] was about all those years [D] ago.
Cue sound it's a way of processing
[A] already recorded [G] stereo information to make it feel as if the information is
coming from at least beyond [E] the backs of your ears.
If [G] you listen to the [D] record
of Muse to Death in stereo, has to be [Em] speakers this doesn't work on headphones
[G] it's got to be speakers.
[D] If you sit in the middle and you go what was that?
Because it's over there you know and you wow how did they do [D] that?
If you're
somebody who cares enough about the experience of listening to [A] the record you
should at least once [D] get somewhere where there's a really good amplifier and two
really good speakers and sit right in the middle and just close your eyes and
listen to it once [G] from start to finish.
In addition to the fact that the thing
was originally released in stereo but with Cue Sound we have made a 5.1 mix.
[B] Although I'm not a kind of techno [Dm] nerd myself [E] I'm so happy that there are
[Em] people who care about these [D] advanced formats because part of the burning of
books [Em] is also about [G] oh we don't give a fuck [D] about that let's all just listen to
[C] mp3s.
[G] Would I consider [Am] Muse to Death to be [F] angry?
[G] Angry no.
Angry feels sort [C] of
undirected to me.
Is Muse to Death sarcastic?
I've definitely used [Am] sarcasm
from time to time in my songwriting [A] career.
Probably some of it [D] is
sarcastic and [F] some of it pretends to be cynical but it's not.
There's nothing
[C] cynical about the record at [Am] all.
I'm often described as being a [Db] cynic.
You [A] could say that I'm cynical of the political [D] systems that we've
allowed to develop and that [G] we've adopted and we've become inured to and
which have amused us almost to death and amused a lot of brown people in other
places to death.
[C] But if it appears cynical it may be because [Am] what comes
across as cynicism is [Em] satire.
It's very easy to confuse the two.
[Gm]
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Gm
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Gm
_ _ _ _ _ I'm quite pleased that they're re-releasing Amused to Death because it
didn't get the attention that it deserved when [Gm] it came out 23 years ago.
A.
And B.
there is a sort of resurgence of vinyl [G] now.
People are buying vinyl
records because they like the sound of them.
I don't have a turntable but I
might buy one I think because I can still remember what it was like you know
to go like that and listen to it.
When you played Johnny Hodges record like a
million times you went fuck I've got to buy another one because [Gm] it's so beautiful.
We've changed quite a few things actually from the stereo mix from all
those years ago [G] because there were a number of different options.
We've done
amalgams in some places and definitely on Bravery we've done it.
I remember
saying hang on a minute where's the melody from that from from the bridge
where the fuck's that and he went no we didn't put that on the record.
Why not?
So we've put it on this.
No this isn't the new record this is an old record
that's been remixed.
I am making the first record since Amused to Death.
The
new record will be wedded [Em] to the sense that I have that we could do [F] better.
The
report card [Em] particularly as far as the Western nations and their [F] leaders are
concerned [C] would be _ [F] only [Eb] fair could do [Eb] much better.
One has [D] to remember all the
time that I'm talking about this work that I made it in 1992 [Gm] and I was
checking earlier by looking at the newspaper this morning and it's now 2015.
Most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even
more [Gm] relevant to our predicament as [C] people.
_ The title of the record Amused to
[A] Death is a steal from a book called Amusing [F] Ourselves to Death which [Cm] is
really about the notion that [D] given all the distractions that there are [Bb] in
modern life it is very easy to take our eye off the ball.
[Bb] That is if there is a
ball that is important to keep our eye on which I think there is.
Global [Gm] warming
is an obvious example which [C] is fundamentally important to even the
short-term survival of our species not to mention all the other species.
We are
diverted from that in [Bb] the world of entertainment now people used to talk
[Gm] about movies [Bb] and rock and roll and [Eb] TV not anymore they've been absolutely
blown away by this and when you're doing that [Ab] _ _ it's very [Ab] hard to keep your
eye on the ball over [Gm] there.
Huxley's awful view of the future [C] was that people
would become so pleasured and [Gm] amused by or _ whatever it might be that they would
no longer be interested in reading a [Bb] book.
In all of these theories there's
always a certain opiate of the masses and in Brave [Bb] New World it's called SOMAR
[Cm] and it's actually a drug that they give everybody.
They would no longer be
interested [Eb] in what anybody else might be thinking.
[F] No longer interested in all the
things that bind [Bb] us to the fact that we are human and that we are not cogs in the
machine.
I know this sounds very simplistic but it's fundamental to what
my record [Bb] was about all those years [D] ago.
Cue sound it's a way of processing
[A] already recorded [G] stereo information to make it feel as if the information is
coming from at least beyond [E] the backs of your ears.
If [G] you listen to the [D] record
of Muse to Death in stereo, has to be [Em] speakers this doesn't work on headphones
[G] it's got to be speakers.
[D] If you sit in the middle and you go what was that?
Because it's over there you know and you wow how did they do [D] that?
If you're
somebody who cares enough about the experience of listening to [A] the record you
should at least once [D] get somewhere where there's a really good amplifier and two
really good speakers and sit right in the middle and just close your eyes and
listen to it once [G] from start to finish.
In addition to the fact that the thing
was originally released in stereo but with Cue Sound we have made a 5.1 mix.
[B] Although I'm not a kind of techno [Dm] nerd myself [E] I'm so happy that there are
[Em] people who care about these [D] advanced formats because part of the burning of
books [Em] is also about [G] oh we don't give a fuck [D] about that let's all just listen to
[C] mp3s.
[G] Would I consider [Am] Muse to Death to be [F] angry? _
_ _ [G] Angry no.
Angry feels sort [C] of
undirected to me.
Is Muse to Death sarcastic?
I've definitely used [Am] sarcasm
from time to time in my songwriting [A] career.
Probably some of it [D] is
sarcastic and [F] some of it pretends to be cynical but it's not.
There's nothing
[C] cynical about the record at [Am] all.
I'm often described as being a [Db] cynic.
You [A] could say that I'm cynical of the political [D] systems that we've
allowed to develop and that [G] we've adopted and we've become inured to and
which have amused us almost to death and amused a lot of brown people in other
places to death.
[C] But if it appears cynical it may be because [Am] what comes
across as cynicism is [Em] satire.
It's very easy to confuse the two.
[Gm] _ _ _
didn't get the attention that it deserved when [Gm] it came out 23 years ago.
A.
And B.
there is a sort of resurgence of vinyl [G] now.
People are buying vinyl
records because they like the sound of them.
I don't have a turntable but I
might buy one I think because I can still remember what it was like you know
to go like that and listen to it.
When you played Johnny Hodges record like a
million times you went fuck I've got to buy another one because [Gm] it's so beautiful.
We've changed quite a few things actually from the stereo mix from all
those years ago [G] because there were a number of different options.
We've done
amalgams in some places and definitely on Bravery we've done it.
I remember
saying hang on a minute where's the melody from that from from the bridge
where the fuck's that and he went no we didn't put that on the record.
Why not?
So we've put it on this.
No this isn't the new record this is an old record
that's been remixed.
I am making the first record since Amused to Death.
The
new record will be wedded [Em] to the sense that I have that we could do [F] better.
The
report card [Em] particularly as far as the Western nations and their [F] leaders are
concerned [C] would be _ [F] only [Eb] fair could do [Eb] much better.
One has [D] to remember all the
time that I'm talking about this work that I made it in 1992 [Gm] and I was
checking earlier by looking at the newspaper this morning and it's now 2015.
Most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even
more [Gm] relevant to our predicament as [C] people.
_ The title of the record Amused to
[A] Death is a steal from a book called Amusing [F] Ourselves to Death which [Cm] is
really about the notion that [D] given all the distractions that there are [Bb] in
modern life it is very easy to take our eye off the ball.
[Bb] That is if there is a
ball that is important to keep our eye on which I think there is.
Global [Gm] warming
is an obvious example which [C] is fundamentally important to even the
short-term survival of our species not to mention all the other species.
We are
diverted from that in [Bb] the world of entertainment now people used to talk
[Gm] about movies [Bb] and rock and roll and [Eb] TV not anymore they've been absolutely
blown away by this and when you're doing that [Ab] _ _ it's very [Ab] hard to keep your
eye on the ball over [Gm] there.
Huxley's awful view of the future [C] was that people
would become so pleasured and [Gm] amused by or _ whatever it might be that they would
no longer be interested in reading a [Bb] book.
In all of these theories there's
always a certain opiate of the masses and in Brave [Bb] New World it's called SOMAR
[Cm] and it's actually a drug that they give everybody.
They would no longer be
interested [Eb] in what anybody else might be thinking.
[F] No longer interested in all the
things that bind [Bb] us to the fact that we are human and that we are not cogs in the
machine.
I know this sounds very simplistic but it's fundamental to what
my record [Bb] was about all those years [D] ago.
Cue sound it's a way of processing
[A] already recorded [G] stereo information to make it feel as if the information is
coming from at least beyond [E] the backs of your ears.
If [G] you listen to the [D] record
of Muse to Death in stereo, has to be [Em] speakers this doesn't work on headphones
[G] it's got to be speakers.
[D] If you sit in the middle and you go what was that?
Because it's over there you know and you wow how did they do [D] that?
If you're
somebody who cares enough about the experience of listening to [A] the record you
should at least once [D] get somewhere where there's a really good amplifier and two
really good speakers and sit right in the middle and just close your eyes and
listen to it once [G] from start to finish.
In addition to the fact that the thing
was originally released in stereo but with Cue Sound we have made a 5.1 mix.
[B] Although I'm not a kind of techno [Dm] nerd myself [E] I'm so happy that there are
[Em] people who care about these [D] advanced formats because part of the burning of
books [Em] is also about [G] oh we don't give a fuck [D] about that let's all just listen to
[C] mp3s.
[G] Would I consider [Am] Muse to Death to be [F] angry? _
_ _ [G] Angry no.
Angry feels sort [C] of
undirected to me.
Is Muse to Death sarcastic?
I've definitely used [Am] sarcasm
from time to time in my songwriting [A] career.
Probably some of it [D] is
sarcastic and [F] some of it pretends to be cynical but it's not.
There's nothing
[C] cynical about the record at [Am] all.
I'm often described as being a [Db] cynic.
You [A] could say that I'm cynical of the political [D] systems that we've
allowed to develop and that [G] we've adopted and we've become inured to and
which have amused us almost to death and amused a lot of brown people in other
places to death.
[C] But if it appears cynical it may be because [Am] what comes
across as cynicism is [Em] satire.
It's very easy to confuse the two.
[Gm] _ _ _