Amused to Death
by Roger Waters
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 September 1992
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:12:37
- Community rating: 3.2/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A sprawling, highly conceptual art-rock narrative, 'Amused to Death' explores the desensitizing effect of mass media and television culture. Roger Waters delivers an incredibly misanthropic, political, and sarcastic rock opera filled with anti-war protest and deep lyrical pessimism.
Genres
Descriptors: political, anti-religious, war, protest, conceptual, satirical
Tracklist
- The Ballad of Bill Hubbard (4:20)
- What God Wants, Pt. I (6:00)
- Perfect Sense, Pt. I (4:14)
- Perfect Sense, Pt. II (2:51)
- The Bravery of Being Out of Range (4:44)
- Late Home Tonight, Pt. I (4:01)
- Late Home Tonight, Pt. II (2:12)
- Too Much Rope (5:47)
- What God Wants, Pt. II (3:39)
- What God Wants, Pt. III (4:08)
- Watching TV (6:06)
- Three Wishes (6:52)
- It's a Miracle (8:30)
- Amused to Death (9:06)
Credits
- Roger Waters - primary artist, producer, written-by, vocals, synthesizer [emu], bass [intro], vocals, twelve-string guitar, acoustic guitar
- Mark Burdett - art direction
- Nick Griffiths - co-producer, recorded by
- Paul M. Martin - coordinator [art co-ordination]
- Christopher Austopchuk - creative director
- Haydn Bendall - engineer
- Jerry Jordan - engineer
- Stephen McLaughlin - engineer
- Andy Bradfield - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Brian Burrows - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Chris Brown - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Dary Sulich - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Jeremy Wheatley - engineer [assistant engineers]
- John Lowson - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Marc Moreau - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Mike Bosley - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Ross Donaldson - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Roy Sweeting - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Steve Heinke - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Sean O'Dwyer - engineer [assistant mix engineer]
- Mark Fenwick - management
- Doug Sax - mastered by
- Ron Lewter - mastered by
- James Guthrie - mixed by
- Richard Haughton - photography by [additional]
- Tony Kaye - photography by [front cover]
- Patrick Leonard - producer, keyboards, drum programming [percussion programming], keyboards, arranged by [choir], keyboards, voice [2nd sportscaster], electric organ [hammond], synthesizer, piano [acoustic], piano, synthesizer, arranged by [choir]
- Buzz Burrowes - technician [qsound™ tech]
- Jeff Beck - guitar, guitar, soloist, electric guitar
- Luis Conte - percussion
- Alf Razzell - vocals
- Doreen Chanter - backing vocals
- Katie Kissoon - backing vocals
- N'Dea Davenport - backing vocals
- Natalie Jackson - backing vocals
- Randy Jackson - bass
- London Welsh Chorale - choir
- Kenneth Bowen - conductor [choir]
- Graham Broad - drums, drums, percussion
- Geoff Whitehorn - guitar [arpeggio], electric guitar
- Tim Pierce - guitar [chorus], lead guitar, guitar [chorus leslie]
- Andy Fairweather-Low - rhythm guitar [electric & acoustic], electric guitar [rhythm], acoustic guitar [rhythm], guitar, backing vocals, twelve-string guitar [played with a feather], rhythm guitar [12-string], twelve-string guitar [feathered]
- Bruce Gaitsch - acoustic guitar
- John Dupree - arranged by [strings], conductor [strings]
- Jimmy Johnson - bass
- Steve Lukather - guitar [intro guitars], guitar [additional]
- Rick DiFonzo - guitar [low grunting]
- BJ Cole - pedal steel guitar
- Brian Macleod - snare, hihat
- P.P. Arnold - vocals
- Marv Albert - voice [sportscaster]
- Lynne Fiddmont-Linsey - backing vocals
- John Pierce - bass
- Denny Fongheiser - drums
- Michael Kamen - arranged by [orchestra], conductor [orchestra]
- Steve Sidwell - cornet
- National Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra
- Jessica Leonard - voice [screaming kid]
- Jordan Leonard - voice [screaming kid]
- Charles Fleischer - voice [tv evangelist]