3 Classic Albums Roger Waters Had Harsh Words For

Armed with their success and staunch opinions, many classic rock artists have become known for their loose-lipped criticism. One such artist is Roger Waters. The Pink Floyd co-founder seemingly has an opinion on everything. Find three classic albums he had harsh words for, below.

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The Division Bell (Pink Floyd)

To start off our list of classic albums that Roger Waters had harsh words for, we’re looking at his comments on one of his own works: The Division Bell. Waters–an equal opportunity critic–hasn’t been afraid to take stock of his career. He felt that The Division Bell was a low point, signaling a decline for Pink Floyd.

“With all due respect to the people who went out and bought those records, they are just rubbish,” Waters once said. “Particularly The Division Bell; it’s just nonsense from beginning to end.”

I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

Triplicate (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan often made moves that pi**ed off his audience. In some instances, that was the whole point. One Dylan move that confounded Waters was Triplicate–an album that saw The Bard sing tracks from the Great American Songbook. For many fans–and Waters–this classic album wasn’t up to par with the rest of Dylan’s, era-defining work.

“I haven’t got time to do an album of Frank Sinatra covers,” Waters once said. “You go, ‘Fu** me, Bob, what is wrong with you? Why would you do that?’”

Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my gal and I
Ain’t together
Keeps raining all the time

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols (Sex Pistols)

Many classic rockers had trouble accepting punk rock when it first began to take shape. What classic rock artists were to the mild-mannered crowd decades earlier, punk became to them in the ’70s. Waters once took aim at the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, calling it “noise”.

“The Sex Pistols were just trying to make noise,” Waters once said of this classic album. “It was so clearly contrived. You know, they were managed by a bloke who ran a shop selling silly clothes.”

I am an Antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passersby

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