A Momentary Lapse Of Reason - Pink Floyd

As I have been off the anti-depressants, I have been doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things – creative writing, going into town, walking all around our local area. It has been a liberating few weeks! As I have been feeling especially creative, I have found myself listening more and more to my favourite band – Pink Floyd. To me, they are an amazing band. Almost thirty years since their first album came out and over twenty albums later, they are the most imaginative and versatile musical group I can think of. Their work evokes such emotional responses in me, from tracks that make me want to cry to ones that make me want to get up and strut my ...

So Roger Waters has gone, Pink Floyd is now just about David Gilmour, with Rick Wright sacked and Nick Mason only there in a token gesture type of way. Now I like David Gilmour don't get me wrong, but I’m sorry to have to say I really am not keen on this effective David Gilmour solo album. I mean it’s not awful, it’s still a reasonably good album, it’s just it really doesn’t come up to the standards you come to expect after hearing all the other Pink Floyd albums. Roger Waters had become the writer in Pink Floyd, it was him driving them more than anyone else, maybe not necessarily musically, but certainly in artistic terms. The ...

Despite being the most enduringly revered band of progressive rock, Pink Floyd’s artistic integrity nonetheless managed to burn out after little more than a decade. Different fans will have differing views of the point at which the band peaked, ‘sold out’ or ran out of ideas, largely depending on whether or not they loathe Roger Waters and deify Syd Barrett, but the common consensus tends to be that 80s Pink Floyd, through creative differences, exhaustion and legal fracas, sucked. The only debate that remains is which of ‘The Final Cut’ or ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ sucked the biggest. The debate isn’t a pointless one, as both albums represent polar ...