An Angry Roger Waters And A Sexy And Beautiful Hitchhiker

     Today is Roger Waters’ birthday so I would listen to nothing but his solo songs all day. First on my list is his brilliant first solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. Released in 1984, it's a concept rock album based on his series of dreams one night—he dreams about picking up a beautiful and sexy female hitchhiker and thinks of having an affair with her despite him being a married man. I love this album because Roger here is often angry and screams quite a lot. His powerful (and blood-curdling, lol) vocals is at full display in some songs here. He always sings passionately and emotionally and I love it when he screams.  It is probably due to all these screaming and wailing, and of course his age, that his voice is sort of shot now.

      It also should be noted that Roger Waters presented the concept and demo tapes of  both this album and The Wall to Pink Floyd then, and made them choose which one they’d like to record, with the condition that the one that would not be chosen, he’d record as a solo album. Pink Floyd, of course, chose The Wall.

     And every Pink Floyd fan now wonders how The Pros and Cons Of Hitch Hiking would have sounded if the band chose it instead of The Wall. And oh, Eric Clapton played in The Pros And Cons.