Even the brighter moments like “Learning to Fly” feel far too Pop-y to be Pink Floyd. Just listen to “One Slip” and tell me you do not want to just get up and dance on some roller skates. The overproduction is unbearable at times, and there are moments where the album literally feels like an 80’s disco musical. Some of the vocal parts on the album, like on “A New Machine” are just plain weird, and not even that Ummagumma-type weird. Apart from this, though, the album is a grossly overproduced mess that is littered with 80’s music cliches. The man knows how to play the guitar, and this album has a few excellent guitar solos, and, well, it probably sold way more copies than it would have if it were released as a Gilmour solo album. Amongst all of the criticism, refusal to accept the album as Pink Floyd, and lawsuits from Roger Waters himself, this album was released in 1987. So, halfway through the recording of his second studio album, he decided, hey, let’s have Nick Mason come in and bang on the drums a couple of times and have Richard Wright play a couple of notes and we will call this a Pink Floyd album. A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)ĭavid Gilmour realized after the release of his 1978 self-titled, debut album that he was not really bringing in the money like he used to when he was a part of Pink Floyd.

Some would call these “Sound Collages,” but whatever they are, they are not music, so literally every other album that features music ranks ahead of this one. Finally, Nick Mason gives us whatever the hell “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party” is. Gilmour actually gets somewhat close to music with “The Narrow Way” (key word – somewhat). Wright makes a variety of random noises on “Sysyphus” Waters comes in and injects some actual music into the album with “Grantchester Meadows,” only to follow that up with the weirdest thing of all-time (Several Species). Then, each of the four members tries their hand at making weird sounds and labeling it as music. The album starts with a few live versions of some of their earlier hits, but they decided to try and make them even weirder than they already were (weirder does not mean better!). This album is more or less the band’s first without front man Syd Barrett, and man, his absence is felt. Just listen to the track titled, “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict,” and you will understand. This is one of the weirdest, creepiest, freakiest, most random, and most confusing albums to ever exist. How could you describe this album to someone who has never listened to it? I think you just need to hear it to believe it.

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