Poll: How do you rate Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" album?

AMLOR an attempt at a Floyd 1987 album.
They accomplished what they could without Roger. I'm sure if Roger had been involved it would have been a more complete better effort. David pulled together what he could, Roger is sorely missed on AMLOR.

Stil like AMLOR it's pure 80's bliss with all its warts and lacks there of.

 

I recently revisited this album and now find it dated. I rated it not bad.

 

Not their best but always liked the album and always will.

 

Correct, he isn't. However, it looks like over the career of the band he was allowed to take more and more artistic control over the band's direction. Where earlier in their career it seemed more of a "band" effort at writing.

 

The 80s sound ('the sound of cocaine' as I call it) is unpleasant and makes the songs no fun to listen to. The songs themselves deserve a better environment; I find it odd that people consider it sacrosanct for the creator of a piece of work to want to adjust something they created after the fact; of course they should remix it if they want to.

Radio KAOS is equally guilty. Even with Waters on board, whatever AMLOR would have been would still be an 80s-sounding Floyd album.

 

AMLOR with Waters, still it would have been a fun 80's Floyd venture. Just sayin'

 

I like The Division Bell better, but all in all a not bad effort from a band trying to get back on it's feet. Quite a few outside collaborators & musicians involved. Originally just Gilmour & Mason, Wright came back late in the proceedings. Some very tasty guitar playing from Gilmour.

 

That's debatable and subject to personal preference.

As above

I was being overdramatic for the sake of it. They can do whatever they want; but in this specific case I'm not very excited about it, for the reasons I stated.

 

Curious thing, I never really cared to compare post-Roger era with the previous. That's maybe because I came from Genesis and when you like a band like that, in all its incarnations, as Phil would put it: "you learn to understand change".

Equally, "Roger's Floyd" and "Dave's Floyd" always felt like two different bands to me, as well as "Syd's Floyd" (which is - heresy! - my least favourite), or at least to different stages to be enjoyed as they are. I don't go to Lapse if I want a Meddle's feel, and viceversa.

Therefore, there's nothing "missing" to me in AMLOR. There is, at most, a pretty solid album with some stiffness in its lyrics, that was made by pretty competent band and equipe in that time frame.

 

Very well put. Agreed.

 

Gonna fire up new 2016 AMLOR vinyl tonight.

 

Clearly one of their worst. In fact, Endless River is the only other candidate for absolute worst Pink Floyd album.

 

Yikes!!!

 

In all reality, The Endless River is just Division Bell outtakes. It isn't newly created material, and shouldn't be considered as a main studio album.

 

Yep.....both albums are clearly a product of their times. That said, simply getting rid of the infinite reverb on the snare drum would go a loooong way towards "de-eightiesizing" AMOLR. Not my favorite Floyd record, but the great moments are still stellar, and it easily holds it's own in the PF catalog.

 

Me too. That album would be:

Learning to Fly
Dogs of War
One Slip
On the Turning Away
Sorrow
What Do You Want From Me
A Great Day For Freedom
Take It Back
Coming Back to Life
Keep Talking
High Hopes

As such, this "album" rates fairly high in my Pink Floyd discography. Better, actually, than much of the material between Piper and DSOTM, IMO (excepting Meddle, of course).

 

Yeah. Talk about barrel-scraping. It should have been a bonus disc on a DB reissue, not its own album.

 

It's a so-so album, but if you switched out "Signs of Life" and "Sorrow," side A would be one of their stronger album sides, IMO.

 

A boring David Gilmour solo album that he got Nick and Rick to play on and put out under the PF name. It bored me when it came out and I haven't listened to it in ages.

 

I like the album, but I think it is not one of their best.

 

But was it all worth it? I don't just mean the cost to make it or the lawyers it cost to allow them to use the Floyd name. What about the human cost? The almost irreparable friendships.

Whatever you think of the music, if it had been billed exactly for what it was - a Gilmour solo album then maybe, just maybe, the door may have been open for Roger to come back into the fold sooner and for more than 20 minutes!

 

Pretty dreadful. I tried to keep an open mind when I bought the cassette just after release and man was I ever disappointed. Roger's description of it as a pretty fair forgery was spot on unfortunately. The sound was sort of right but here was no backbone to it- nothing tugid, nothing that grabbed you, nothing of interest. Not my PF.

Funny how PF was a two person band at this point!

 

I never listen to this album, but I would recommend it to someone to hear once. The material was much more enjoyable in a live setting.

 

In High School I bought AMLOR as my first PF purchase in real time. Liked it quite a bit. Didn't age for me well. However if I do listen to it now I at least appreciate it as NOT sounding necessarily like a Pink Floyd album (which it gets accused of trying to sound like). It's just kind of weird and all over the place. One Slip sound more like 80's King Crimson than Pink Floyd. Sorrow doesn't really sound like anything from PF except maybe the darker stuff of the Wall but again it goes into other territory as well. Terminal Frost sounds like some Windham Hill label new age instrumental lol...
That said still don't think it's a great album (or even a really good album) however I do find it more interesting than the more highly acclaimed it seems Division Bell. To me that is the one that is really boring for me and surprised it's the album that supposedly goes back to the "real" Floyd sound. Doesn't sound like it to me. In the end it really doesn't matter anyways as my full enjoyment and total acknowledgement of Floyd pretty much stops after the Final Cut anyways .