ROGER WATERS radio kaos LP +poster 1987 PINK FLOYD nm

	£		19
	$		25

Artist: ROGER WATERS

Title: RADIO KAOS

Format: LP

Label: EMI, UK (KAOS 1)

Year: 1987

Style: rock

Info: Original pressing LP by Pink Floyd member Roger Waters.

Comes in original stickered picture sleeve with lyric inner sleeve, and is complete with a foldout poster! There is also a poly-lined plain sleeve which houses the record and slides into the lyric inner.

This is a concept/rock opera album based around a 23-year-old disabled man from Wales named Billy. Billy is confined to a wheelchair and is thought to be mentally a vegetable. However, Billy is highly intelligent but has no way of expressing himself. Billy has a twin brother Benny who is a coal miner. Billy lives with Benny, Molly his wife, and their children. Unfortunately, Benny has lost his job in the mines due to the "market forces". One night, Benny and Billy are out on a pub crawl when they pass a shop full of TV screens broadcasting Margaret Thatcher's "mocking condescension". Benny vents his anger on this shop and steals a cordless phone. Next, in theatrical fashion, Benny poses on a footbridge in protest to the closures; the same night, a taxi driver is killed by a concrete block dropped from a similar bridge. The police question Benny, who hides the phone in Billy's wheelchair. Benny is taken to prison, and Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to live with his uncle David in L.A.. Billy is gifted and can hear radio waves in his head ("Radio Waves" track 1), so he begins to explore the cordless phone, recognising its similarity to a radio. He experiments with the phone and is able to access computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak through them. He calls a radio station in L.A. named Radio KAOS (hence the album title) and tells them of his life story about his brother being in jail ("Me or Him" track 3), about his sister-in-law not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave ("Sunset Strip" track 5), and about the closures of the mines ("Powers that Be" track 4). Billy eventually hacks in to a military satellite and fools the world in to thinking nuclear ICBMs are about to be detonated at major cities all over the world whilst deactivating the military's power to retaliate ("Home" track 6 and "Four Minutes" track 7). The album concludes with a song about how everyone, in thinking they were about to die, realises that the fear and competitiveness peddled by the mass media is much less important than their love for family and the larger community. ("The Tide is Turning" track 8).
The album is dedicated "to all those who find themselves at the violent end of monetarism." This and other moments in the album--such as a segment juxtaposing a Ronald Reagan campaign slogan with clips from an old western TV show and an apparent recorded plea from American hostages not to engage in "heroics" to free them--make Waters' political point of view quite clear.

Eight tracks:-

-side 1:
1 . Radio Waves
2. Who needs information
3. Me or him
4. The powers that be
-side 2:
1. Sunset strip
2. Home
3. Four minutes
4. The tide is turning (after live aid)
Vinyl in near mint condition - looks nicely clean and shiny and has not been played all that much.
Sleeve in excellent condition with just a small amount of minor wear.
Inner sleeve in excellent+ condition.
Poster in near mint condition - looks superb and has never been hung on a wall!

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