Lets discuss Pink Floyd #1?

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Do you feel that the Momentary Lapse of Reason and the Division Bell are fully Pink Floyd albums, or more David Gilmour solo releases with help from two former band mates?

And why?
 
definitely more of a gilmour influence showed through but still great. my personal album of theirs is the final cut but i do love them all. my favorite dvd is pulse.
 
I consider them actual Pink Floyd albums, the Band can't really help it that Roger Waters has an ego the size of Texas can they?

However they are two of My least favorite Floyd albums, ranking ahead of only Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother for Me.
 
I... don't care *too* much for PF sans Waters, but I have to admit that A Momentary Lapse of Reason is better than the Division Bell (IMO). The Division Bell and Ummagumma are my LEAST favories. I still love PF no matter WHAT.

I mean, of course they're fully albums and all, they're just not what I'd choose to listen to in the spur-of-the-moment kinda thing.
 
Honestly out of all the Pink Floyd albums those were my least favorite albums, but I still enjoy listening to them. In my opinion when they were in the 80's their style had been changing. In my own opinion, they do sound like a solo album from Gilmour, I know because I own his "On An Island" solo cd.
 
I definitely consider them Pink Floyd albums. To put it quite honestly, Roger's an asshole and he left the band of his own accord, as far as I know. I think I read somewhere that he didn't think they could go on without him or whatever and they did.

I still can't help but admire him, though.
 
I think you've got to look at the bigger picture. There's no doubt that Pink Floyd peaked during the period that Gilmour and Waters cooperated and collaborated, but there was Pink Floyd before Gilmour and after Waters. Syd Barrett's influence is often under appreciated, as are the contributions of Mason and Wright. But I would argue that the man who took them to the top was Alan Parsons, whose work on Dark Side of the Moon was truly revolutionary. Gilmour and Waters were wise enough to capture Parson's vision and continue making great music through Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.

I have a friend who argues that there is no Floyd without Gilmore/Waters just as there would be no Steely Dan without Fagen/Becker, but Steely Dan is a two man team surrounded by a vast rotating corp of excellent side men. The quality of Steely Dan's music never lapsed, while Floyd's clearly has as they've attempted to continue with a core that's shrunk and aged.

Are Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell "fully" Pink Floyd albums? Unfortunately, no. They've got a few good tracks, but the collective genius that drove them through the 1970's can't be recaptured.
 
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