[pdunkin]

--And on a related note, Pink Floyd stopped being Pink Floyd when Roger Waters left. After that, it was just Pink Gilmour with a Buttload of Studio Musicians.--

I think they stopped being Pink Floyd when they came out with that dreadful Final Cut. The only good thing to come off of that album was Gilmour singing Not Now John. The new Floyd is what you describe but The Division Bell is awesome IMHO.
Van Halen without Roth just isn't right but methinks Dave has gone a little off the deep end. I would rather have fond memories of the good ole days (as a previous poster said, Fair Warning is as good as it gets) than see geezers trying to recapture their youth and our bucks.

[Skooz]

"The Final Cut" had it's moments. "The Gunner's Dream" is quite good. But it isn't really a Pink Floyd album. It is a Roger Waters album. Rick Wright wasn't in the band at that time, and Gilmour only played a few tracks. Even Nick Mason was pushed aside for most of the album because Waters found a studio drummer he liked better.

Gilmour has even said that it got to the point that he told Waters, "If you need a guitar part, let me know," and left the studio for weeks at a time. Floyd was long over by then.

The last true Pink Floyd album was "Animals."

[gawatchman]

Yeah the dreadful final cut which was basically a Roger Waters solo album. I think a Momentary Lapse of Reason which followed w/o Waters was much better where the other members actually got to work as a group again. Actually, though I go much farther back, and say that Syd Barrett was the real genius as the first 2 Floyd albums were never matched.

[Pappy Smear]

The Final Cut seems to draw love it or hate it, and nothing in the middle. I know a lot of people hate it, but I think it is great. If stranded on a desert island with one Floyd CD, I might just choose that one. But then if I had to listen to it 100 times while bored on some island, I would probably end up blowing my brains out too.