The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (Pink Floyd Album) (A Jet-Propelled Soft Machine)

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking is the thirteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 4 April 1982 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and internationally and on 13 April 1982 in the United States by Columbia Records.

It is Pink Floyd's last studio album to include founding member, bass guitarist and songwriter Roger Waters, and their only album on which he alone is credited for writing and composition. It is also the only Pink Floyd album that does not feature keyboardist Richard Wright.

Concept history
The concept, as envisioned by Waters in 1977, rotated around a man's scattered thoughts during a road trip through California, focusing on his midlife crisis, and how he dreams of committing adultery with a hitchhiker he picks up along the way. Along the way he also faces other fears and paranoia, with all of these things taking place in real time in the early morning hours of 04:30:18 am to 05:12 am on an unspecified day.

In July 1977, Waters played some of the music demos of what he had pieced together, but he also played parts of another album he was preparing titled Bricks in the Wall to the rest of his bandmates in the group Pink Floyd. After a long debate, they decided that they preferred the concept of Bricks in the Wall instead, even though their manager at the time, Steve O'Rourke, thought that Pros and Cons was a better-sounding concept, and David Gilmour calling Pros and Cons stronger musically.

In 1982, the members among themselves were deciding what the next album is going to use the project The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, or would use the The Final Cut project.