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A Momentary Lapse of Reason

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Setting aside Waters exit from the band and Gilmours song writing abilities, I have come to thoroughly enjoy this album. Granted, it took me longer to get a feel for this one then say 'Dark side of the Moon' or 'Wish You Were Here'.
It really is underrated and under appreciated. I encourage all Pink Floyd fans and newcomers to give this a try without comparing it too much to Floyds past. Gilmour and crew deserve a chance.

AMLOR manages to capture the essence of Pink Floyd nicely without Waters involvement. In fact, I'd say the remaining band members have managed to recapture some of there creative essence featured in their earlier material that was lost as the turmoil in the band grew.

This is a must get if you like THE WALL and THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, this album is great, even though the style is very different. Less of a focus on lyrics, but still the guitar is great, so that makes up for the lyrics easily. The album received bad reviews by critics, but who cares, they're are to fools of music.

If you want a good Pink Floyd collection, get this!

In 1987, both Pink Floyd and Roger Waters released new albums. Roger released "Radio KAOS", which I felt was the worst of his solo efforts. It had a bad 80's production value to it, and musically it was weak.

Pink Floyd (or, more accurately, David Gilmour) released this album, which musically is quite excellent, but lyrically weak. Gilmour has admitted that he's not a strong lyric writer, and while the lyrics here are certainly better than anything released by today's pop stars, it's not strong compared to anything Pink Floyd had released previously.

One reviewer had previously stated that Roger "wasn't missed." I feel quite the opposite. He certainly was missed, in the same way that Gilmour is missed on Roger's albums. These are two guys who NEED each other. They're the Lennon/McCartney of the band. To achieve the Pink Floyd that we all know and love, you need Roger's biting lyrics with David's awesome melodies and guitar solos. When they're together, it's magic.

There's quite a few highlights here: "Learning to Fly" and "One Slip" are great, catchy pop songs. "On the Turning Away" is a nice ballad that builds to a fiery Gilmour solo at the climax. "Sorrow" is a heavy guitar driven classic. However, as good as it is, it doesn't really hold up that well next to anything Pink Floyd put out in the 70's.

"The Division Bell", which came out 7 years later, is much closer to a true "Pink Floyd" album than this, and much better.

i've always love pink floyd. david gilmore is an awsome musician with and without rodger waters.

Packaging was great, got here in a timely manner, all around I'm happy with this purchase. Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty

Classic Floyd with Gilmore taking the lead. Takes you on its own journey as do most Floyd albums. Listen completely through and let it take you somewhere. Absolute classic.........

Favorite track on this is Learning to Fly; this really shows PF's change when you compare this with same track on Pulse. Love all PF but won't put this anywhere near the top of their stuff. I'm same age as David Gilmour so have really become attached to their music over the many, many, many years.

even though it is not one of the best by Floyd it is still a better than good disc. I have it in the player fairly often so that says something.

I bought the 1997 "re-master" and it sounds awful - very harsh and brittle and compressed. If these sound engineers don't know what they are doing, the buying public should not have to pay for their incompetence! If a re-mastered re-master of a re-master comes out, the original re-master should be recalled by the manufacturer as a defective product and replaced at no charge! The only way they are going to stop making these multiple re-masters is if it starts costing them money because money NOT MUSIC is the only thing they understand.

First and only concert I ever saw, have this album on cassette back from the 80's...gotta have it on CD. Love it. Classic Gilmour/Floyd.