Post-Wall Pink Floyd albums

Eraserhead

Surprised just how good AMLoR is and I'm playing The Division Bell right now.

Obvisouly, the "glory days" were the mid to late 70s, but there's some great stuff that they did afterwards.

Discuss!

enharmonic

I have a hard time recognizing any Floyd that doesn't include Waters. Gilmour is one of my heroes. I love his guitar and vocal work, but he can't write a lyric to save his lilly-white ass.

The Final Cut was the last Floyd album as far as I'm concerned. I know I am in the minority, and I actually like Learning To Fly a good bit...but no Waters = No Floyd...at least when it comes to the soul of the machine. Gilmour is the heart.

evo

enharmonic wrote:

I have a hard time recognizing any Floyd that doesn't include Waters. Gilmour is one of my heroes. I love his guitar and vocal work, but he can't write a lyric to save his lilly-white ass.

The Final Cut was the last Floyd album as far as I'm concerned. I know I am in the minority, and I actually like Learning To Fly a good bit...but no Waters = No Floyd...at least when it comes to the soul of the machine. Gilmour is the heart.

totally agree. since roger waters left the new floyd stuff has been shit frankly. it kinda sounds like floyd but just nowhere near as good. it's kinda amnemic, just missing somthing.

the new dave gilmour cd is the same.

just proves that Waters was the man in floyd. the rest of the guys can play, theres no doubt about that, but it's not the same without Waters

MeddleDeal

I like post-Floyd. I like to think of it that Pink Floyd has 3 different eras, you had the Syd Barrett era (1965-1968), Roger Waters era (1969-1984) and David Gilmour era (1986-1994), each of them brought their own unique styles into the Floyd, I believe.

I DO LOVE The Division Bell. I played this album as soon as I woke up this morning, it is a nice, relaxing album to suite the day:)

dCowboyPJ

enharmonic wrote:

The Final Cut was the last Floyd album as far as I'm concerned.

I wouldn't even say that really since the rest of the band didn't even want to release it. Although I do love that album. It took me awhile to like it though. But I haven't talked to anyone that said they loved it right away.

MLOR is probably my least favourite album from Meddle on. I'm not really into anything before Meddle, but I like a couple songs off Atom Heart Mother. MLOR doesn't sound like floyd at all. It sounds way to 80ish for my liking. I'm not saying I hate stuff from the 80s...but Pink Floyd isn't suppose to sound like that.

I really like The Divison Bell though. That whole album is good from beginning to end.

i_am_a_wishlist

I didn't really like The Final Cut. It was like Roger was trying to make the Wall II. MLOR was ok. The Division Bell rocks. Especially What Do You Want From Me.

i_am_a_wishlist

I didn't really like The Final Cut. It was like Roger was trying to make the Wall II. MLOR was ok. The Division Bell rocks. Especially What Do You Want From Me.

Drifting Away

i have listend to the final cut once lol
now it sits next to the rest of my floyd collection haha

I dont mind Reason, i love Learning to fly, one of my favourite floyd songs!

bigmuzz

i dont mind it.......sure, their best stuff was done in the 70's, but thats a given

ive got meddle (1971), obscured by clouds (1972), DSOTM (1973, and IMO the greatest album of all time), WYWH (1975), Animals (1977), the wall (1979), the final cut (1983), momentary lapse of reason (1987), the division bell (1994), pulse (1995)

and out of all them, i reckon Final Cut is the weakest by far, and that was PURE roger waters........

dave gilmour has always been the man for me....he's a better musician and vocalist than waters.....

sure, waters might write better lyrics, but gilmour is just a god......

and their stuff post-waters is good in my opinion....and in some areas, great.

BinFrog

I like post-Roger Floyd, but I don't listen to it on the same level as Floyd from 66-83. I think it's still great music, but it's maybe a bit more of a passive listen than the stuff from the 60's and 70's and early 80's.

For the record, I listen to AMLoR about 100x more than The Final Cut.

D Lo Brown

there's a lot of good stuff on The Division Bell IMO. Is it as good as 70's Floyd? Of course not. But it stands on its own as a pretty good CD. I prefer it to Momentary Lapse of Reason.

Here's an idea: how about a CD of just Gilmour and an acoustic guitar doing old Floyd songs? Or even originals. Would probably sell millions....

transplant

enharmonic wrote:

The Final Cut was the last Floyd album as far as I'm concerned. I know I am in the minority, and I actually like Learning To Fly a good bit...but no Waters = No Floyd...at least when it comes to the soul of the machine. Gilmour is the heart.

exactly where I stand. I love The Final Cut.