A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd Album Reviews
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason was the first Pink Floyd album without Roger Waters. David Gilmour took the reigns of the band with Nick Mason. Richard Wright also returned on keyboards. The album featured the single Learning to Fly, along with highlights such as On the Turning Away and Sorrow. But could the new Pink Floyd 3-piece lineup survive without their former bass player? #pinkfloyd #albumreviews #Amomentarylapseofreason #davidgilmour #rogerwaters #historyofrock #thelateryears
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Pink Floyd is without a doubt one of the greatest classic rock bands of all time. They began in the 60s with Roger Waters on bass, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wright on organ and Syd Barrett on lead guitar and vocals. Syd penned their early singles like See Emily Play and most of their 1967 album Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive). Their live shows featured unique light shows. However due to Syd's breakdown he was replaced with David Gilmour on guitar. This would become Pink Floyd's classic lineup with Roger taking more of a songwriter role, including Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun on their 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets. They stopped producing singles and focused more on albums like More, Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother. 1971's Meddle would turn out to be an important staple for the band with the rocking opener One of these Days I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces, featuring a rare spoken vocal by Nick, Roger's echoing bass line and Dave's Slide Guitar. The flip side, another 23 minute piece, Echoes, featuring Dave and Rick on vocals, is often regarded as Progressive Rock's finest moment, from the opening ping of Rick's leslie piano. They would also perform both these songs along with earlier classics Live at Pompeii. The Obscured by Clouds soundtrack appeared in 1972 with tracks like Burning Bridges and Childhood's End. However 1973's Dark Side of the Moon would become one of the most successful albums of all time, staying on the charts for nearly 13 years and still a best seller today. Roger's lyrics dealt with the evils of society driving one to madness, while the music was nearly one entire inter-connected piece (making it difficult to separate for a playlist or a best of / greatest hits compilation). Still standouts like Money, Time and Great Gig in the Sky are favorites among fans. Their 1975 followup Wish You Were Here, featuring the opening and closing piece Shine On You Crazy Diamond (a tribute to Syd Barrett who even showed up at the sessions), is thought to be equally great, if not greater, as Dark Side. But tensions between the band were beginning to rear their head. 1977 saw the release of Animals, notable for its famous cover. Roger became the band's main frontman and sole songwriter with Dave occasionally sharing the mic and writing credits. Tensions grew during the tour when Roger ended up spitting on a fan in Montreal and coming up with the idea for The Wall to separate himself from the audience. 1979 would see the release of The Wall, the album and later the tour and film. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 became their best selling single and Comfortably Numb remains one of their most popular tunes. But it nearly broke up the band as Roger fired Rick for lack of output, creating a greater rift between him and Dave. Recycling unused tracks from The Wall sessions, 1983's The Final Cut was Roger's final album with Pink Floyd. In 1985, Roger officially left the band. Dave and Nick decided to carry on reuniting with Rick for 1987's Momentary Lapse of Reason, produced by Bob Ezrin and featuring songs like Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away, Dogs of War and Sorrow. Roger sued to break up the band, but failed to do so instead focusing on his solo career. A Delicate Sound of Thunder, a live recording from their tour, was released in 1988. The Gilmour led Floyd would produce 1994's The Division Bell, a return to form for many fans with Rick now sharing vocal and songwriting duties again, along with lyricist Polly Samson. High Hopes has become a fan favorite. It wasn't until 2005's Live 8 concert when Dave, Nick and Rick reunited with Roger for a short set giving closure for many fans. Syd never performed with Pink Floyd again and died in 2006. Rick died in 2008. The album The Endless River was dedicated in his honor.
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"Sorrow" is an absolute masterpiece.
hard agree!!! espescially the pulse live version. opening guitar sounds thunderous and I also love the drums on the album version
Shine On is a masterpiece. Sorrow is just pretty good.
@@nectarinedreams7208 Whatever you need to say to make you feel better, Roger.
@@cornfilledscreamer614 It's just his opinion and I quite agree. I like Sorrow but there's not so much substance to it compared to a lot of other Floyd songs. David's guitar palying is great of course.
@@tobismusicchannel3033 Opinions vary. Not to dis SOYCD at all, but Sorrow is definitely up there...
I honestly love this album, On The Turning Away, One Slip and Sign Of Life are just perfect
I second that. One Slip and Signs Of Life are extremely underrated.
Yes me too. I thought it was one of their better albums.
As for Syd Barrett, well he provided a lifetime of ideas for Roger Waters to steal. Listen to the end of Bike or Dark Globe.
I think it’s a great album and always wanted a remix. When that came I didn’t like it the original is fine
@babylemonade2868 Agreed. I liked some aspects of the remix, but I thought some of the bite was lost in the 2019 version.
My dad JAMMED Sorrow in his 87 Corvette tape deck when I was a kid. He’s gone now,and this track i so special to me because I feel closer to him when I play it.
Floyd "Purists" are so cringe, this album is a masterpiece
From start to end, brilliant
Seriously, Gilmour absolutely KILLS it on the guitar solos on this album. They’re just so damn good!
When I was planning my first ever solo vacation, "Learning To Fly" became my anthem, along with the Tom Petty song of the same name. For that reason I always associate those two songs with finally meeting my online friends in person after 6 years
This was a great review! Can't wait to see the Division Bell review!
This is my favorite Pink Floyd album !!! I know that isn’t the popular opinion, but I could care less. Learning to fly is maybe my favorite song ever created. Just beautiful. Reminds me of my dad who introduced me to Pink Floyd.
No one else is mentioning this so I will. Terminal Frost is amazing! Not quite shine on or echoes but still a great effort
I love the sequence of 'Round and Round' 'A new Machine, Part 1' 'Terminal Frost' and 'A New Machine, Part 2'.
I still love it! Brings the goosebumps every single time. 👌🏻
I actually really like the dark 80's sound tbh. Fav song for me is Yet Another Movie, peak epic.
For me the appeal of this album (discovered when I was probably about 15) was always it's feeling of being a totally isolated, futuristic, depersonalized, existentially despairing, machine-like music, which both the technology of the time and the reality of Dave's isolated and uncertain period of recording it made possible. I always thought Dogs of War stunk, regardless of the mix haha, but everything else was and still is gold to me, and the sometimes inappropriately punching drum sounds, squealing "dentist" guitar, and expansive reverb almost to parody levels somehow all work together to give a feeling of, what felt to me at the time and still kind of does, like Sartre-in-sound. Which, was completely my headspace as a teenager, and I can still kind of fall back into.
Me too. I love that really heavy drum sound on the record. Also yet another movie is such and underrated song.
Honestly, the line one Yet Another Movie describes this album in a nutshell
"He's not the worst, he's not the best"
He, of course, is referencing the album
Some good tracks, some meh ones, it's a good record that definetly deserves the spotted fish ranking
This is my all time favorite song.
So as 15 years old Pink Floyd fan when the album came out I really liked it at the time. I agree On The Turning Away makes the album. I did get to see them on that tour 2 times. First at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia with something like 100,000 people there. The second at the Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey. Both shows were amazing and I truly felt that Roger wasn’t missed at all.
I love most everything on this album. terminal frost is one of my absolute faves.
Momentary Lapse of Reason is very good
AMLOR, although it was not a true 4 member album, it was still enjoyed and the concerts were banging.
I like this album quite a bit. The recent remixed and partially re-recorded album is also good, just a little bit different from the original. With the rerelease of Delicate Sound of Thunder, we have all of Momentary Lapse of Reason live, and it is far superior to the studio album..
thanks for making these videos as they really help me to get deeper into pink floyd and understand and appreciate their musical genius even more.
To me, there are no bad Floyd songs, or Roger Waters, but the worst annoying to me are Talk box highlight Keep Talking and Barrett era Chapter 24, not so inspiring really
Hey I just wanted to thank you for making your history of rock videos, as in my Music History class for the last couple of weeks before finals we watched all of them and they brought joy in my days and made everyone laugh!
Been so hyped for this, you legend JT!
Imo, one of the weaker Pink Floyd albums, extremely dated, and a lot of the songs would be done better live. However even a meh album by Pink Floyd is better than most albums, especially with On the Turning Away and Learning to Fly.
Love your videos man, gives such a early TH-cam vibe, like I've been watching forever!
I think it's a good album, better than the Final Cut, and ANYTHING from RW solo efforts. Yes the lyrics aren't the same, but for me it's all about the music, words are tertiary. As far as musicianship, DG and GP are better bass players and DG's vocals are always better, see every hit they had. And like you said the live album kills, as did the concert in 1987. The Radio KAOS tour that was happening at the same time paled vastly in comparison. I saw both. RW was all sour grapes at this point and the guy with video at the beginning is just a RW fanboy and apologist, romanticizing his work. We've all heard what he can come up with by himself.
I disagree, I think amused to death is far better than this album but it is better than Rogers other albums
@@jamesthomas8645 I just have never been a fan of the brooding RW. He should've gotten all that out via The Wall. I've seen him live 5 times and it was all presented throughout each show. I have lost interest in going back. So I skipped the last show. I will see DG anywhere he plays. It's a more uplifting musical experience, which is pretty much all I want from a concert. RW hypocritically tries to shame your life purchases by including a Mercedes Benz logo during the modified GBBS animations while personally owning a 280SL. Meanwhile DG auctioned off his unique collection of guitars with all the proceeds going to charity, while Roger sits atop his stash of $300+M. It will be interesting to see how much will go to charity once he passes. Nothing against your opinion, you like what you like.
@@koelekahuna9370 the wall was the very first album I listened to so I’ve always been in camp Roger but I love David as well
@@jamesthomas8645 That's cool, mine too I think, but I quickly moved onto the Dark Side and Meddle + WYWH and Animals.
@@jamesthomas8645 Nah, it's not. It's just too angry and political, much like Roger's entire solo work. Also, I think it's quite rich that Roger would accuse David of hiring lyricists to sound like him when he spent 4 albums hiring guitarists to fill the gap left by David. And to be honest, the only thing that makes Amused to Death a worthwhile listen for me is Jeff Beck's guitar work.
Honestly? I like this album. Tracks like One Slip, On The Turning Away and Sorrow are great and the 80s production gives it a certain charm over Division Bell.
I also love the pointless lists bit.
On the Turning away, my favourite Floyd song. I have almost all their albums and a fan since the early 70s and I love this album. I have several albums from both Gilmore and Waters and Dave gets the most spins. I’d say this album gets underrated to much. Delicate Sound of Thunder proves these songs are great. Cheers.
Roger Waters picked great musicians to help record and tour, and so did David Gilmour, the sad thing is Roger and Dave are back to spitting venomous words at each other, the shame beyond any album 'fails'
I really loved that click bait video in the middle, so accurate, too funny. I thought your analysis of this record spot on, great job JT
David actually played the Steinberger on most of the songs! Only „Signs of life“, „Learning to Fly“ and „Terminal Frost“ have the Red Strat on it! Love the Steinberger sound on „Dogs of War“ and „OTTA“. On „Round and Around“ he played his Gibson Goldtop for whatever Reason…
That's interesting. I would have thought for sure "On the Turning Away" was his Strat.
@@JTCurtisMusic yes the tone is very close! I I think thats because both guitars beeing equiped with EMG SAs… some of the tremolowork on „turning away“ is a bit difficult to achieve on a strat. The „slide“ solo at the end of „Yet another movie“ is also the steinberger… its a really versatile instrument! For a perfect Steinberger tone check out his solo on the Song „Only One Word“ by Propaganda. Thanks for your great Contend by the way!
Another great video! Keep up the good work as always! ❤🙏
I remember buying the album Momentary Lapse of Reason when it came out and loved "Learning To Fly" - and I had ZERO idea one of the singers (Roger) had left the band until 10 years later around the turn of the century. Still love the song Learning To Fly. Dogs of War and On The Turning Away has some great lines. "No more turning away, from the weak and the weary...."
I prefer Roger-less Floyd to the Roger solo stuff... there was a hollowness to the album but it's the 80's production... I had four people from school call me up just to see if I'd heard it... I was such a Floyd fan in high school... (except The Wall- even liked Final Cut more than The Wall)... my fave song on this- On the Turning Away-
Maybe I am in a significant minority, but, for me, there are some great songs on Momentary Lapse. True, I would rate Animals, Dark Side Of The Moon as better, but still I am grateful for this record's release.
To that one commenter @AMguitar @1:31 who said Roger wrote 90% of the music.. are you kidding me? Do you honestly think it was roger who came up with the synth composition in sheep? Or the guitar riff in pigs? Or the guitar licks in have a cigar? Roger waters can barely play the bass, his primary instrument, let alone write a piano and guitar chord progression. On the wall do you think it was roger who came up with any of the orchestral arrangements? No, it was Michael kamen.. yet kamen never got a single song writing credit. So if roger can do that to the great Oscar-winning michael kamen, you think he wouldn't do that to the shy and quiet Rick? Or the only non founding member Dave? It was Bob ezrin's idea to turn another brick pt 2 into a disco rock and to add the school choir yet ezrin didn't get song writing credits either. Stop deluding yourself into thinking roger wrote pink Floyd's music
Good points. Roger was great, but he was great as part of a team. He was not Pink Floyd as he likes to think.
Excellent video about a sadly underappreciated album. I came to love it later on, but I'd just sort of liked it at first. Speaking of love, I picked up a 45 RPM half-speed master of the vinyl for this record, not sure when, but would that be the 2019 remix you referred to a few times? It's making me want to go back and hear it again - perhaps tonight - that is, if I can get my roommate to stop talking long enough😅😅😅😅
I seriously cannot understand why any true Pink Floyd fan would dislike this album. I find it quite good. Yes it has an 80s vibe, however, the songs Sorrow, Terminal Frost, and Yet Another Movie/Round and Round are great tracks. As the initial album post Roger Waters, it works. Nothing beats hearing them live from The Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour!
I’m a very pro waters fan. But your comment is correct and spot on.
Then you clearly cannot understand what true Pink Floyd fans like about Pink Floyd.
One of my earliest memories is sitting backwards in my dads couch listening to his Walkman and playing the first three tracks over and over and over. Signs of Life, Learning to Fly and then Dogs of War.. I remember thinking how cool it was that the music and the soundscape mixed seamlessly together just blew my 6 year old mind.
I was in the Army in Germany when this came out... Even saw the concert in Munich. One of my favorite Floyd albums
All PF reviews have been great. Looking forward to the Division Bell and I hope Endless River is included in that one or gets its own review.
My favourite Pink Floyd album. Sorrow is epic,
This is a great time to be a JT Curtis fan. The Division Bell review coming out, Elements on vinyl (MORE DETAILS PLEASE!!!), whatever you’re doing after PFAB, you mentioned the you MAY (I stress MAY because I don’t want anyone coming at me if he never does) do History of Rock 2010s.
Edit: now I know Top Ten worst Beatles covers
On the turning away is one of the most beautiful songs ever written by the Floyd. Team David no question.
After relistening to this album for the first time in about a year, I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would. While I'm not a huge fan of 80's production (it's good in small quantities, but not when overdone), I think the band really makes it their own on this album and the next two they would release. They have this really spacious ambient vibe that I really dig, and this is especially true for tracks like Signs of Life and Terminal Frost. I agree that On the Turning Away is the best track on here. It's a great song with a great message, and a solid solo from Gilmour. Dogs of War is also a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, mainly because I love the organ runs and sax solo on it. I will say that the second side is where the album starts to lose me. Even with the great instrumental Terminal Frost, the rest of it does nothing for me. It's kind of the opposite problem I have with Big Generator by Yes, which came out the same year. That album has a great second side, but the first side is more poppy and not very interesting. The second side of this album just bores me. The New Machine songs have no reason to exist, and Yet Another Movie and Sorrow are snoozefests for me. Maybe I would prefer their live counterparts more, but the studio ones just don't do anything for me. It's like if AI was asked to generate Pink Floyd songs. I think my biggest gripe with the album is that it's really lacking that creative spark that makes Pink Floyd so great. I understand them wanting to try new things and keep up with the times. To bring up Yes again, I think they did a great job doing this with Drama and 90125. Both records have an 80's new wave sound to them, while still keeping a lot of those classic Yes ingredients. Here, a lot of songs sound like they could have come from any progressive pop/rock band of that time. Again, I must make clear that I do really enjoy the album, and songs like Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away, and Terminal Frost are up there with my favorite tracks from the group. It's just not one I revisit a lot because it lacks that signature Pink Floyd flavor, and it kinda slows down during the second half. Thankfully, their next studio album would fair much better. Which reminds me, I need to relisten to Division Bell pretty soon as well!
I am one of the people that refer to Momentary Lapse of Reason as a David Gilmore album, not to be negative but just because, to me, it's just the way it is. I do enjoy a few songs from the album-Learning to Fly and Sorrow in particular. I had to laugh when you listed the reasons why some people don't consider this a PF album. I love each and every member of Pink Floyd (not a fan of their ugly squabbles though) so it's not about me favoring one member over the other. They all did contribute to the PF sound, in varying degrees in various albums. But without Roger, you are taking away a bearing wall. And without Gilmore's god-like guitar talents, I would feel a similar hole if he left and the other three continued. I wish the four of them had been able to come together and rise above the issues. But when you are talking about creating masterpiece after masterpiece, it's a difficult thing to hang onto.
This album is a MASTERPIECE
I have legit watched this video numerous times
It’s just so in depth and amazing man
I really enjoy your content a lot
I’ve really been digging into this album A Lot
I bought it remastered the original and the remixed version all on vinyl
And also bought the Cd/DVD box set
Can’t get enough of this album
Don’t get me wrong I’ll say it now
I love there older and newer stuff
All of it actually
Umm maybe except for The Final Cut
Division Bell is much better then momentary lapse for one reason and one reason only… HIGH FUCKIN HOPES!
Scottie Page is the best!
The 2019 version is awesome. Nick fixed the drums
Gilmour's "About Face" is a wonderful, honest record with spectacular playing. "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" is a mood piece with three good songs.
Most of About Face is really good. Better than AMLoR by a long shot.
@@davidunger222 MUCH better. I think Gilmour's reservations about "About Face" has to do with its lack of commercial succes. He doesn't play a note from that album, when he tours.
Do you prefer this album over The Final Cut? I personally think The Final Cut doesn't even come close
I prefer Tfc.
@@doscwolny2221 Me too. It's much better, not neither are great.
When I first heard this album, I knew nothing about the squabble between Roger W and the others, so my opinion of it wasn't shaped by that or by who was or wasn't on it. I just didn't like it, and that probably shaped my perspective on the squabble when I DID learn of it.
So... it's decades later and I'm still not a great fan of this album, but "Learning to Fly" is a really good song, "Terminal Frost" is quite a good instrumental, "On the Turning Away" and "One Slip" are good, and "Sorrow" is okay and Gilmour plays great guitar as usual. And...um.... the sax solo in "Dogs of War" is good. Pity about the song, though.
Too much of the album is a bit dull, and the '80s production doesn't help. Although Roger's album of 1987 was no better in that respect.
One Slip is one of my favorite songs.
Personally I really like the Lapse of Reason album. Though there has been criticism of the album being too 80s sounding, many other classic artist at the time worked to modernize their sound. I suspect even if everything in Floyd was warm and fuzzy and Waters was still in the band, a resulting album would have had a similar glitzy/polished sound.
Though great to have Rick's keyboards fully incorporated into the updated 2019 version of the album, the mix seems to take away some of the bright-sparkle of the 1988 version.
The highlights for me are:
Dogs of War
One Slip
Yet Another Movie
Sorrow (the masterpiece)
Though the album flow does get disjointed with the unnecessary A New Machine Parts 1 & 2. I'm still confused by them to this day.
Just finished this one. Thus concluding my tour of the discography (not necessarily in order). Kinda bummed 😕
I have no idea why, but I feel One Slip is similar to George Harrison's song, Teardrops, where it feels so poppy, to the point where it becomes an enjoyable listen
Not to be that guy, but I’m pretty sure you mean teardrops, not tearbreaker, but you to have a good point
As a fan who lived through their career, hearing all the issues dividing Gilmour, Mason and Wright from Waters this album was a welcome respite from the internal war, that really left us all in shock, led to the hope Waters would hear it and do what he could to rejoin.
Do I put it in my top five favorite Pink Floyd albums? Absolutely NOT, but I still do like it, and really enjoyed the 1987 concert in Seattle. The old Kingdome never sounded better, with their true quad sound. Still my favorite live version of Welcome To The Machine.
Sorry, I digress.
For this album I can do without Learning to Fly, Dogs of War, One Slip and the two New Machines, to the point this is one of the only Pink Floyd albums I don't listen to from front to back. My track listing is:
Signs of Life
On The Turning Away
Yet Another Movie/Round and Round
Terminal Frost
Sorrow
Sorry, but I do like side two, with all its flaws. I especially like Yet Another Movie. Not just because I love movies, and love the visuals in the lyrics, even incorporating dialogue from the last scene in Casablanca, but I feel the music fits the lyrics. I feel that way about On The Turning Away and Sorrow, as well.
I agree with your spotted fish, but leaning towards a full goldfish. Again, you would have to understand that at that time when we, the fans who were alive at that time, clung to this album like a life-preserver.
Fun fact, JT.
(This is from MictheSnare's entire discography review from Pink Floyd, by the way).
Apparently, Bob Ezrin wanted David to rap and I think he also wanted to include hip-hop into this record, if my memory serves me correct.
I think that was with the division bell but notheless pink floyd rapping would've been insanely hilarious xD
The problem with most people - and I'm sorry, but I have to include you in that group - was their own expectations. Although they may have consciously accepted the fact that this is a different Pink Floyd, deep down, they were hoping for something more Waters-esque. As for myself, a man now 65 years old, who also plays guitar, loves the "old" Pink Floyd but also loves all music - including 80's - except most country and techno-pop-dance-clap-trap - I loved it and though that it was worth waiting for. No comparison to the Final Cut, which I felt was just a contract-fulfillment album. You could tell that their hearts weren't in it, even Waters'. MLoR? Right from the opening, you could hear the difference that musicians who love music make to the sound.
Nah, this is a pretty good album. Not their best, but still good. One Slip is really nice. Sorrow, while sounding excruciatingly '80s, has a melancholic darkness to it that I like. On The Turning Away is a classic. As for people saying Roger Waters wrote all the lyrics and all the music and that the sales show it... Yeah, MLoR sold 20-30 times more than his best selling album.
I've never seen anyone do a deep dive of "Yet Another Movie" but the lyrics lean into themes of sexual assault, cultural apathy, and sociopathy with very little ambiguity. I don't know if guys don't pick up as fast on that message or if it's just uncomfortable to confront so people blow it off/pass it over, but i don't see what else it could honestly be about.
my favorite song oat
@@benny_2049 It's got such a dark, looming 'tragic but inevitable' quality to it... the whole album seems plagued by sexual guilt or confusion... i can see why the album isn't a fave for popular fans of PF, but the lyrics on this album speak of more hardcore personal struggles than even the Wall does. Like 'sad intimacy.'
@Ingrid Fong-Daley the lyrics are so real...and the instruments are so ethereal, not space like or anything. but almost atmospheric...like every single instrument is surrounding you, almost overwhelming in a sense, but not really...kinda like the score of a film...lmao the name of the song is "yet another movie" and the lyrics are so real and can be interpreted so differently...I like to interpret the song like every person thinks their the Protagonist and main character of their own story kinda like movie characters "its just the same as all the rest" showing how everyone thinks their story is unique just like how every film tries to be unique...but in reality we're all the same...every person has yet another "unique" story...yet another movie
@@benny_2049 YES--the film score-y aspect is absolutely a part of it too... Great comment. :)
This is the first Pink Floyd album i had ever heard because it was the only album of theirs my mother had on cd instead of vinyl. I avoided the band for years because i hated the 80's synth sound and thought all their albums would be similar im glad i eventually listened to their other works! Meddle and Animals being my personal favorites! I think you kinda need to treat Roger Floyd and David Floyd like 2 different bands because the main lyrics and direction is very different stylistically. I love both for different reasons. Im a huge Roger fan lyrically but a Gilmour fan Guitar wise hes one of the best ever to do it. To me Pink Floyd is really those 4 guys.
I haven't been Team Roger for a long time. Never listen to his solo albums, used to love Final Cut but not so much anymore. But even today, with a bit more perspective and maturity, Momentary Lapse still sounds like Gilmour's attempt to keep Floyd in the public eye, take advantage of MTV's influence, and have a reason to go on tour for a couple years, make a sh!tzillion dollars, and maybe rub Roger's face in it all along the way. Props to those who enjoy it, but I never came around to it.
It may not be the best Pink Floyd album, but I prefer it over The Final Cut. The Final Cut lacks that Pink Floyd sound with Water’s ego taking over while Momentary Lapse of Reason returns to having great soundscapes while attempting to take the music in a new direction in an era without Waters.
what an awesome review!
I just felt like giving AMLOR another lister earlier this day and honestly, it just clicked to me, i love Signs of life and Terminal frost
If you are a Pink Floyd fan and have not listened to the album "The Division Bell", I highly recommend it.
The Revision Hell...yawn. zzzzzzzzz.
One Slip is an instant favorite since day one, I remember the ads when the album was announced a week before it dropped!!! Roger Waters had spotty bootlegs but near perfect records if you happen upon out-takes you'll see this. I've seen them both live and heard all the bootlegs I can put my ears on, love it to death! Pink Floyd are the Mount Everest of all things Rock
Great review again, as with tfc, this could be called a solo but through both releases i never heard either described as a solo, it wasnt till later that i heard them decribed as anything but a floyd album, although i am sure i heard gilmour say he eventually thought it needed more mason and wright to sound more like a floyd album, (cant remember where i heard that though), to me both are floyd albums but this one not as good, i look forward to hearing your take on tdb, i find it a bit of an improvement and an album i listen to much more than amlor,
The four songs you listed as worth listening to are all quite good.
I'd have to agree with pretty much everything you say here. I do think the 2019 version of the album is MUCH better than the original,
but no amount of sonic improvements can improve on subpar songwriting, which is all over the album.
And while I also like the same two or three tracks the most that you do, ultimately, I think the best thing about A Momentary Lapse of Reason
is that it brought Rick back and made the band tour again. - If that hadn't happened, we'd never have gotten The Division Bell, and I love that album!
Someone did a good 1 hour loop of Terminal frost that you can find on youtube. I have loved this track and often put that video on when sitting at the computer for background. I enjoy these reviews. Unlike some others, you can tell he's a fan and spent some time in the "deep waters".
Thank you!
I enjoyed this album but not Pink Floyd just like Final Cut is Rogers album
JT, im peoud kf you for covering rhis album. Your opinions were a lor more fair rhan rhat Jerk whose video you shared. As fimny as it was, i rhink he knew there ess littlenlogoc ro it! I have nore if sn appreciate for Learning To Fly (Bur I Ain't Got Wings, oops wrong LTF!) and On The Turning Away. I also liked thar look, almosr saying "Do i really have to review THIS album?!"
If Wikipedia's track-by-track credits are correct I'd say, while I like the album (no complaints), it's false advertising to call it Pink Floyd - not because Roger is missing, but because Richard and Nick are.
Per the individual track credits, Richard is on just five songs and Nick is on just four. Worse still, of the four to which Nick contributes, he plays drums on just two (one where he is the only drummer and one where he is the second drummer). On the other two he contributes spoken-word vocals and percussion, respectively. No "sound effects" as per the album's main page (though if anyone has a source saying otherwise please advise). Awfully scant involvement for a supposed full-fledged member.
The honest thing for David to do would have been to do what Pete Townshend did with his 1989 album Iron Man: Release the album under his own name but credit the relevant individual tracks to the band; then tour with the band under the band's name.
Or, alternatively, run by and get notes from Richard on all or most of the percussion-related programing, sequencing, and effects (or better still involve him in their creation); take his feedback on board; and on the relevant tracks credit him with something along the lines of "drum patterns."
As mentioned Rick came in very late in the creation of the album. He had not been on The Final Cut and I think David and Nick went into this with the intention that Pink Floyd would just be a two-man operation (even if David did the lion's share of the work). It's why I consider the live versions to be closer in spirit to Pink Floyd as Nick and Rick are performing on every song (which does make a difference).
Thankfully The Division Bell was a return to form for Pink Floyd.
@@JTCurtisMusic Thanks for responding. I understand about Rick. It's more Nick drumming on two songs (just one as main drummer), and contributing spoken words and percussion to just two others, that causes me to charge the band with false advertising in crediting Momentary Lapse to Pink Floyd.
If David and Nick are the only band members, you can't use Nick this minimally and use "Pink Floyd" (again I'd change my view with evidence of Nick contributing "effects" to other tracks).
If you're not going to use Nick on more tracks (which they could have done by taking his input or oversight when using drum machine), credit the album to David with a "featuring Pink Floyd" on the songs where Nick meaningfully contributes.
A two-man band where one "member" does hardly anything is not a band but a solo artist.
I must totally disagree that either The Final Cut or Momentary Lapse are like solo albums. If you know their solo albums well, they sound and feel very different. Michael Kamen did great filling in the piano/synth are on The Final Cut and Bob Ezrin's input filled in the Roger Waters gaps on Momentary Lapse.
Imo overly disliked album
David steals the certain sound on Learning To Fly from Supertramp's Cannonball on 1985's Brother Where You Bound, which David played guitar on the title track, Brother Where You Bound. Just outstanding guitar work from David. Makes the song sound like a Floyd's song. Another stolen idea David used is the song Keeping Talking using Stephen Hawking voice but Roger Waters already used the computerized voice from his Radio KAOS album in 1988. I think David needs other people to get his inspiration from. But there's probably more guitarist's who get more inspiration from David's work.
It’s a Gilmour solo album and that’s not bad.
Honestly this is a top 5 Pink Floyd album for me, definitely helped by the fact that my dad loves this album. My only real complaint is that The New Machine tracks are very unnecessary.
I love this album which was one of the first albums I bought on CD. It's no DSOTM or WYWH for sure and lacks Waters brilliant lyrics but it's a fair attempt at a new sound/direction while still maintaining much of the trademark mood/atmosphere of the old Floyd that was lacking on The Final Cut and features some of Gilmour's best guitar work.
David Gilmour allegedly once said that bassists are a dime a dozen, which considering this is a man who worked with Tony Levin, possibly the greatest bassist to ever live, that would be insane if true.
The English phrase he used, “ten a penny”, in relation to bassists was in response to Waters’ statement “guitarists are ten a penny”. Quoting - or rather - misquoting him without the necessary context only confuses the issue.
This review makes me love this album even more
Imho, Pink Floyd's post-Waters output doesn't suffer for the absence of Waters to the same degree that Waters' post-Pink Floyd output suffers for the absence of Gilmour and Wright.
Certainly Waters was the band's most prolific lyricist and in the sense of being able to write entire albums around a particular theme he was the best, but lyrics are only part of the whole. The "golden era" of DSotM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall couldn't have happened without the musical genius of Gilmour and Wright any more than it could have without the lyrical genius of Waters.
yet another movie is my favorite song oat
I love this album, it's one of the few that I can listen to in all of my moods, it makes me happy and sad, filled with masterpieces, and I don't mind the 80s sound I hardly even notice it, 'learning to fly' is a masterpeice, and 'one slip' made its way to my top 10 PF songs, also this album is in my Top 5 PF albums, everyone expierences it different...
At least half of the 2nd half of the album relates to Roger Zelazny’s sci fi novel ‘For A Breath I Tarry’. The protagonist is a sentient computer terminal called *Frost*.
‘A New Machine’ et al , even ‘Sorrow’ &’Yet Another Movie’ can be interpreted as *Frost*’s seeking to define humanity, following the demise of humans.
Poppycock, if I remember right it was one of the biggest tours, and take it for what it is, it was great for a new generation getting into Floyd
Also, JT. This album is very similar to Bowie's album Never Let Me Down (released from the very same year).
Funny enough, I find On The Turning Away to be one of the few skippable PF dongs for me. I just think it sounds a bit too much like cheesy uplifting church music. But hey, I might be wrong. It has been easily over a year since the last time I listened to it, so I'll give it another spin.
Edit: I listened to it again, and I'll admit, it was better than I remember, but something about David's vocals and especially the choir that just rubs me wrong. I'm probably going to keep skipping the song, as with A New Machine parts 1 and 2.
Have you checked out the 2021 Remixed and updated version of this album?
Play learning to Fly on a good stereo and it will change your day for the better
"nO roGER, NO piNk FlOYd." Guys, Pink floyd Is
- David Gilmour
- Roger Waters
- Richard Wright
- Nick Mason
- Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd is a band, not a guy.
This album is way too overproduced imo. If it had 70s styled production then I would have liked it a lot more. The snare sound is so annoying
Try the 2019 remix
I have always thought that this album was a concept album about a heroin addict that ODs and ends up in a coma
You did analyse it well, but forgot to put facts in their context. When this album came in 1987, it was the sound of the future, not the 80’s sound you’re talking about. Everybody, even myself was totally blown up by the sound, the production, the gear used (this was one of the first time we saw someone modulating his voice through a tube linked to his guitar….) You definitely need to take this part in consideration before telling that it « sounds 80’s ». Indeed, we were in 1987, then. Anyways, love your videos, and sub to your channel. Keep on the good work. I don’t agree with you all the time but your videos are well produced, and quite close to the truth. Chely. (45 yo, fan since I’m a little child)
Not by 1987. David Gilmour was already using a talk-box back in the 70s and Peter Frampton made it famous on Frampton comes alive in 1976. And DX7 keyboards were already well established on records by Prince, Tears for Fears, etc. I can see that in 1987 it was still seen as contemporary and cutting edge, but even David Gilmour himself said he felt they adapted the technology too enthusiastically, hence why they attempted to remix it years later. The Division Bell on the other hand has aged much better.
Roger Waters slagging off the albums of the Gilmour led Pink Floyd is largely predicated on the notion that his own 1980s solo output - Pros & Cons, Radio KAOS and yes The Final Cut were as good as the 1970s Pink Floyd albums that he helmed in particular DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall.
The problem for me at least with his 1980s output is that it isn't really that good and for the most part lack memorable songs. Whilst AMLOR and TDB don't quite hit the highs of 1970s 5 Star Floyd they are at least 4 star Floyd whilst Waters 1980s work was at best 3 star.
His later albums like Amused To Death and Is This The Life We Really Want are certainly much better.
Love the album. But I'm a no Gilmour no Floyd sound. More than I am no Waters no Floyd lyrics. The crime is when they worked together there's little you could find better and it ended. 😢
But JT what about the solo on yet another movie? A cracker and you went easier on this than I thought you would. Great review
As I said even when you come to a song that’s not doing it for you, you can still go “Wow that’s a great guitar solo” and Yet Another Movie is no exception.
Ok I fully disagree with anyone who says this is not Pink Floyd
It has Richard Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour on it.
Learning To Fly and On The Turning Away are absolutely amazing.
This whole album is absolutely amazing.
My favorite Floyd albums are easily
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Wish You Were Here
And A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Nothing will touch the Syd led era
This band has three main eras
The Syd led years
The Waters led years
Then the Gilmour led years
Amazing band with amazing talent
I would break it down as:
The Barrett led years (year?)
The Collaborative years (where everyone was contributing material - Atom Heart, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here)
The Waters led years
The Gilmour led years
@@JTCurtisMusic I respect that
It’s a safe sounding album. It doesn’t push boundaries or go into an adventurous path either.
I got into Floyd through MLOR at the time, and it's David and Rick that make The Sound I like, no Roger - who was making total crap like Radio Krap - wasn't a minus for me. And Sorrow was just fantastic.
I'm an open minded person and still don't care much this album
Learning to Fly and Sarrow are great Post Roger Songs from Pink Floyd.
Love this album very nostalgic