[87] 24. Roger Waters - Four Minutes / The Tide Is Turning

[1987] 24. Roger Waters - Four Minutes / The Tide Is Turning

Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.('87, 4th)

1. Radiowaves [4:57]
2. Who Needs Information [5:56]
3. Me or Him [5:24]
4. The Powers That Be [4:36]
5. Sunset Strip [4:46]
6. Home [6:00]
7. Four Minutes [4:00]
8. The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid) [5:44]

Roger Waters - vocals, guitars, bass, the odd keyboard including the shakuhachi on "Me or Him"
Andy Fairweather-Low, Jay Stapley - electric guitars
Mel Collins - saxophones
Ian Ritchie - Fairlight programming, drum programming, piano, keyboards, tenor saxophone on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be" and "Sunset Strip"
Graham Broad - drums, percussion
John Linwood - drums on "Powers That Be"
Nick Glenny-Smith - DX7 and Emu on "Powers That Be", including the great bass line
Matt Irving - Hammond organ on "Powers That Be"
Paul Carrack - guest vocal on "Powers That Be"
Clare Torry - guest vocals on "Home" and "Four Minutes"
Suzanne Rhatigan - main backing vocals on "Radio Waves", "Me Or Him",
"Sunset Strip", and "The Tide Is Turning"
Kate Kissoon, Doreen Chanter, Madeline Bell, Steve Langer, Vicky Brown - backing vocals on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be", and "Radio Waves"
John Phirkell - trumpet on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be", and "Sunset Strip"
Peter Thoms - trombone on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be", and "Sunset Strip"
and The Pontardoulais Male Voice Choir, led by Noel Davis

The Characters
Jim Ladd - Jim
Andy Quigley - the "Forgive me, Father" speech
Shelly Ladd - California weirdo: Monkey and Dog lady
Jack Snyder - California weirdo: Guppy
Ron Weldy - California weirdo: I don't like fish
J.J. Jackson - California weirdo: Flounder
Jim Rogers - California weirdo: Doesn't like fish, marine fish
John Taylor - California weirdo: Shellfish Shrimp Crab Lobster
Stuart, the spaniel - played Uncle David's Great Dane, with the help of
an AKAI 900 sampler and a DX7 to make him sound bigger
BBC Master computer - Billy
Harry & India Waters - children in the garden

7. Four Minutes

[Billy:] "Four minutes and counting."
[Jim:] "O.K."
[Billy:] "They pressed the button, Jim."
[Jim:] "They pressed the button Billy, what button?"
[Billy:] "The big red one."
[Jim:] "You mean THE button?"
[Billy:] "Goodbye, Jim."
[Jim:] "Goodbye!
Oh yes
This ain't au revoir, it's goodbye!
Ha! Ha!
This is KAOS
It's a beautiful, balmy
Southern California summer day
It's 80 degrees...
I said balmy...
I could say bomby
Ha! Ha!
O.K.
I'm Jim and this is Radio KAOS
And with only four minutes left to us
Let's use this as wisely as possible....
([Molly:] Everybody got someone they call home)
Out at Dodger Stadium
It's the bottom of the seventh
The Dodgers are leading three to nothing over the Giants
And for those of you who are looking to go surfing tomorrow
Too bad
(Telephone rings)
I'm kinda lost in here to tell you the truth
O.K., good
Ladies and gentlemen
If the reports that we are getting are correct
This could be it
Billy, if you're listening to me
Please call now."
After a near miss on the plane
You swear you'll never fly again
After the first kiss when you make up
You swear you'll never break up again
And when you've just run a red light
Sit shaking under the street light
You swear to yourself you'll never drink and drive again
Sometimes I feel like going home
You swear you'll never let things go by again
Sometimes I miss the rain and snow
And you'll never toe the party line again
And when the east wind blows
Sometimes I feel like going home
[Jim:] "Billy, if you are listening, please call."
[Californian Weirdo:] "Sole has no eyes."
[Molly:] "Goodbye little spy in the sky
They say that cameras don't lie
Am I happy
Am I sad
Am I good
Am I bad?"
[Jim:] "Billy, if you're listening, please call."
[Californian Weirdo:] "Sole has no eyes
Sole has no eyes."
[Billy:] "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."
[Margaret Thatcher:] "Our own independent nuclear deterrent
Has helped to keep the peace."
[Billy:] "Six, five four, three..."
[Ordinary Person:] "...you've go a job..."
[Billy:] "Two, one..."
[Margaret Thatcher:] "For nearly forty years"
[Jim:] "Goodbye Billy."

8. The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)

I used to think the world was flat
Rarely threw my hat into the crowd
I felt I had used up my quota of yearning
Used to look in on the children at night
In the glow of their Donald Duck light
And frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning
But, oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning
Satellite buzzing through the endless night
Exclusive to moonshots and world title fights
Jesus Christ imagine what it must be earning
Who is the strongest
Who is the best
Who holds the aces
The East
Or the West
This is the crap our children are learning
But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Now the satellite's confused
'Cos on Saturday night
The airwaves were full of compassion and light
And his silicon heart warmed
To the sight of a billion candles burning
Oo, oo, oo, the tide is turning
Oo, oo, oo, the tide is turning
The tide is turning Billy
I'm not saying that the battle is won
But on Saturday night all those kids in the sun
Wrested technology's sword from the hand of the war lords
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning Sylvester
The tide is turning
[Morse Code:] "That's it!
Now the past is over but you are not alone
Together we'll fight Sylvester Stallone
We will not be dragged down in his South China Sea
Of macho bullshit and mediocrity"