Waters led the band in a hymn of guarded hope, ''The Tide Is Turning. Track listing Our Song 01:28 (Waters/Geesin) Sea Shell and Stone 02:15 (Waters) Red Stuff Writhe 01:15 (Geesin) A Gentle Breeze Blew Through Life 01:16 (. The band created a whooshing crescendo, aerial projections whizzed by on the screen, numbers and jargon rushed across the signboard, followed by a flash, silence and darkness -and a huge ovation, suggesting the crowd was less than terrified. The show didn't reprise the album, but it did lead up to Billy's big moment: a simulated nuclear apocalypse. Ladd would sometimes announce between songs (after a set of Pink Floyd material, he named the songs and called them ''music of Roger Waters'') and he carried on simulated conversations with ''Billy,'' the computer genius, whose words were carried on the signboard. The production's conceit was that it was a live radio broadcast over station KAOS, complete with station jingles, mock advertisements (including jokes about shredders and Senate subcommittees), and a live disk jockey, Jim Ladd, in a simulated studio. As with Pink Floyd concerts, the stage was dominated by a circular screen for film projections (some of which were older Pink Floyd animations) and lighting effects there was also an electronic signboard, carrying what may be the first supertitles seen at a rock concert. ''Radio K.A.O.S.'' has a plot line involving a disk jockey and a genius with cerebral palsy who communicates via computer and who can tap into the world's information systems. Rarely is arena-rock so explicitly political. One song attacks ''the powers that be,'' and parts of the stage show denounced military spending (to the tune of Pink Floyd's ''Money''), the Reagan and Thatcher governments, and the despoiling of the environment, complete with statistics. Waters's current album, ''Radio K.A.O.S.,'' brings his despair to the political arena. Waters did deliver strangulated shouts for some of the nastier characters from ''The Wall.'' His voice is introverted, better for talking than belting (for some of Pink Floyd's songs, Paul Carrack sang lead vocals) Mr. Money (1973) The masterpiece that made Pink Floyd ahead from everyone else and this song is a testament that they are not from this world. His music is generally slow-moving and enveloping, like rockers and hymns preserved in amber now and then, his newer material comes close to straightforward hard-rock, but leaving Pink Floyd hasn't changed his approach much. We look back at the Best Pink Floyd Songs By Roger Waters.
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Waters's two-hour, 45-minute set, the audience sang along wholeheartedly on Pink Floyd songs from ''The Wall,'' ''Wish You Were Here,'' ''Animals'' and ''The Dark Side of the Moon,'' and rallied to the special effects that crowned Mr. Waters has toured on his own before, but this year a group called Pink Floyd, featuring his former band mates, is also touring arenas it will come to Madison Square Garden in October. And he wanted to reclaim an audience that's rightfully his: the fans of Pink Floyd, most of whose songs were written by Mr. He wanted to warn, in no uncertain terms, of the dangers of unbridled militarism and mindless consumption. Roger Waters had a double agenda for his concert Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.
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