A Momentary Lapse of Reason

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review by: date: 2009-06-17 rating:
Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason
Obviously I've bought this many years after it's release, but I still love it. br / br /Very classy production values, none of the wierd moments that dogged the Floyd's earlier work. br / br /Some very cool moments on Dogs of War, One Slip and Yet Another Movie. Dave's guitar playing is sublime (as always), plus some great rock drumming and keyboard moments. br / br /Roger Waters must've been kicking himself for calling them a spent force - especially if you compare the quality of this to Hitchhiking!

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review by: date: 2009-02-03 rating:
The lowest point: a tedious, dispriting mess and a stain on the Floyd legacy
While one can appreciate Gilmour and Mason's desire to carry on after Waters left, they really shouldn't have bothered. Of all the items in the Floyd's often hugely impressive catalogue, this is - by a long way - the low point. br / br /The 80s haircuts, production sheen and studio trickery (all mullets and MIDI) has dated horribly; the lyrics are shockingly banal; the music is awful, a stodgy, plodding mess of power ballads (the Zippo-waving snore-fest "On The Turning Away"), vacuous bombast (the unintentionally hilarious "Dogs of War"), irritating sax parps and laughable attempts at pop (the wince-makingly bourgeois "Learning To Fly"). Most of the rest is just life-sappingly dull filler. Even Gilmour's normally exsquisite singing and guitar playing is listless. br / br /This record is a complete con. It is nothing to do with the Floyd - it's a bad Gilmour solo record (Mson and Wright are barely on it) masquerading as a Floyd album. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but in fact it's a terrible mistake, and a stain on the band's legacy that should have been binned before release. Roger Waters was right. br / br /Avoid!

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review by: date: 2009-01-04 rating:
Better than Gilmour solo
This is, at best, a fair album in the Floyd canon. There are several obvious problems: the production is dated, dull and muted; the drumming is chronic (Mason had been a bad boy and hadn't been practising hence the over-emphasis on electronic drums); songs are (gulp) boring - 'The Dogs of War' is perhaps the worst Floyd ever (there is not even the excuse of psychedelic whimsy or drug-induced excess as they were too old for such things!) and 'One Slip', despite a great opening, quickly falls into tedious pop pap. But there are some great things here as well. br / br /The album actually begins with its' best song - 'Signs of Life' is an absolute gem, if only it could go on for another five minutes. It really is Wright and Gilmour at their timeless best. Spoiled of course by going into 'Learning To Fly' - imagine the reaction of fans when they heard its' horribly compressed and electronic drum crunch. br / br /'On The Turning Away' is near perfect - good sentiment, fair lyric, but great great guitar playing. The live version is even better. br / br /Side two of the album - this is more like it. It feels like a band rather than a bunch of session musicians. 'Terminal Frost' and 'Sorrow' are exceptional. They really are Floyd classics. There is a pathos and an ethereal quality that, for mw, defines the quintessential Floyd experience. br / br /In conclusion, a good album in places yet, ignoring some of their more idiosyncratic output, far from their best. Get it by all means, but just don't expect it to be the best album you have heard,or indeed the best Floyd album you have heard. br /

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review by: You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the B*tch! date: 2008-07-29 rating:
Get real and get a life.
So Roger Waters threw the toys out of the pram and spat out his dummy. Who the hell cares? He went on to have a successful solo career and jolly good luck to him. br / br /But to then say, oh well Pink Floyd is no longer in existence and this is a Gilmour solo album, under the name of Pink Floyd, is frankly infantile. This is David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright and they are as much the essence of Pink Floyd as Roger Waters ever was. Oh and by the way if Roger Waters was so damn sure that Floyd could not exist without him, why did he take such trouble to exclude Rick Wright and draw up legal papers preventing him from ever rejoining the group? Perhaps because he recognised, as anyone with a semblence of wits should, that great groups are not simply the product of one individual. The Floyd survived Syd Barrett and they sure as hell survived Roger Waters. br / br /This album is an excellent illustration of what Floyd had been waiting for, the digital revolution, the chance to present themselves as they wished to be heard. No tape hiss, no pops and clicks, just pure sonic genius. br / br /The song writing of Gilmour has always been underrated and played second best to the obsessive drive of Roger Waters. But here for the first time he is given room to breathe and experiment. br / br /I own copies of all of Pink Floyds studio albums and several live ones. They vary enormously in sound and in intent, but the quality of musicianship and attraction of each, although unique in and of themselves is farely constant. 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' is up there with the groups best work to date. br / br /Long live Pink Floyd.


review by: date: 2008-03-25 rating:
Great album but not a timeless classic
I listened to this two evenings ago for the first time in 15 years and it sounded absolutely amazing. The sounds are diverse and and full of interest and I was on tenderhooks for the next thing coming along. On another listen last night the heavy 80's influence was all too apparant, especially the lyrics to some of the songs, if you are allergic to dairy products (cheese) then be careful. Their albums prior to this reflected the era they were made in, but there was/is a timeless quality too - Wish You Were Here will always be a masterpiece. For this album there is too much influence from the era of recording, too much immitation of the Floyd sound and not enough aloofness from everything else which is the true hallmark of Pink Floyd.

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