Artist: ROGER WATERS
Album: THE PROS AND CONS OF HITCH HIKING (CD)

Year: 1984/ 2001
EAN/UPS: 5099750798126
Media type: CD

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is a concept album by British musician Roger Waters. Some notables assisting Waters during the recording of the album were conductor Michael Kamen, actor Jack Palance, saxophonist David Sanborn, and guitarist Eric Clapton.

The album concept is about a man's midlife crisis and how he dreams of adultery against his wife, amongst other things. The album takes place in real time from 04:30 to 05:12. Its cover prompted controversy for featuring a rear-view nude photograph of the model Linzi Drew. In some countries, the album has been released with this picture censored.

In 1978, Waters played demos of this album and The Wall to his band mates, who decided that they liked The Wall better, except their manager Steve O'Rourke who thought that Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking was better. In the end it was decided that The Wall would be a Pink Floyd album and this ended up as Roger Waters solo album.[1]

Gerald Scarfe created all the graphics and animation for the album and its supporting tour. Fisher/Park created the stage and props used during the tour. Scarfe had drawn caricatures of all the band members for the tour program, and the caricature of Roger which he named Rog, seemed to have a long snout like a dog. So Gerald created a character of a Dog in the image of Rog and named him Reg. Reg became the main character of the story and stage animation of the Pros and Cons of HitchHiking tour.

TRACKLIST:

01 4:30AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad) - 3:12
02 4:33AM (Running Shoes) - 4:08
03 4:37AM (Arabs with Knives and West German Skies) - 2:17
04 4:39AM (For the First Time Today, Part 2) - 2:02
05 4:41AM (Sexual Revolution) - 4:49
06 4:47AM (The Remains of Our Love) - 3:09
07 4:50AM (Go Fishing) - 6:59
08 4:56AM (For the First Time Today, Part 1) - 1:38
09 4:58AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin) - 3:03
10 5:01AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking) - 4:36
11 5:06AM (Every Strangers Eyes) - 4:48
12 5:11AM (The Moment of Clarity) - 1:28

All songs written by Roger Waters

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in April of 1995.

In 1984, Waters went on tour to promote the album with Eric Clapton, which consisted of almost all sold out shows. The beginning of the concert consisted of Pink Floyd numbers, and the second half they performed the album.

Some of the music on the album uses melodies also found in the Pink Floyd songs "In the Flesh" and "The Fletcher Memorial Home"