Is This Still Pink Floyd? 

Great coverage! I think you covered everything that came to my mind at some point. And I agree with you both: I is still Pink Floyd! Thanks again, my friends. I'll see you in the next vid! God bless you both!

Terrific discussion and I agree with the Jim/Armando that A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON and to a greater extent, THE DIVISION BELL are Pink Floyd albums. It's important to note that THE DIVISION BELL was the first album since Animals to include Gilmour/Wright/Mason in the creative process, Wright's first vocal performance since DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, and IMO, High Hopes is 1 of the Top 5 songs in Pink Floyd's catalogue. In terms of who contributed what in the Water's Era...I'll give Wright and Gilmour the floor. WRIGHT: Roger, by this time had become the lyricist...David and me would write some music and Roger would say ok, I'm going to go home and write some lyrics for this and come back tomorrow. GILMOUR: My musical taste and abilities had just as much actually, if not more to do with it all than Roger, and that if I allowed this dictatorship to become real and total, then our music would suffer, as I didn't think that, uh, I still don't, that that is really Roger's main forte.

This is a great topic! I agree with Gilmour essentially that tracks from "The Final Cut" were Wall leftovers and not strong enough for a full album and imo, "Pros and Cons" by RW has one memorable song on it "Every Stranger's Eyes" but Gilmour was a stick in the mud for sure the others really didn't have much to contribute, and Gilmour wanted to do a solo tour so I can understand Waters' frustration. "Radio K.A.O.S." and "Amused to Death" would have made spectacular tours if under the Pink Floyd brand and "MLoR" and "Division Bell" are fine albums. I saw MLoR on tour once in Foxboro, MA and was at the opening show for the Division Bell tour in Miami and also caught it in Tampa and at Yankee Stadium. I don't recognize "Endless River" as a Floyd album and in the end, they couldn't continue without Waters and David Gilmour doesn't like to tour or travel overseas any how, so how can the remaining members Floyd expect to carry on when the leader doesn't want to tour and they didn't bring on any new permanent members to replace Waters? Really there were only two founding members of the band left and imo, Jon Carin and Guy Pratt should have been made full members of the band if they were carry on with a post Waters version of PF.

Yes it’s still Pink Floyd. Lyrics took a hit but the music stayed awesome 😎

I love the Division Bell, play it often … Momentary Laose of Reason good too… can’t really complain about any album by David

yup. Still Pink Floyd, In the case of Division Bell it's Pink Floyd at their best with the almost psychic connection between David and Rick being absolutely incredible.

As a long time Floyd fan, I’ve never had any issues with Momentary Lapse or Division Bell. Considering the absence of Waters, Gilmour and the guys did well in putting together a couple of rather compelling albums. They still maintained that Floyd-like style, very moody, melancholy and menacing at times. I can assess that their Waterless albums don’t hold a candle to their ‘70s material, but I have much respect for their efforts put forth in their latter years. Even the Endless River has several shining moments.

AFAIC the Division Bell is what PF would have done had they not made DSOTM and WYWH.

I like a momentary lapse of reason because it was the album that got me into Pink Floyd and David Gilmour and it has some of my all time favorite Pink Floyd songs in dogs of war, one slip, on the turning away, yet another movie and sorrow is it classic Pink Floyd not really but to these ears it's a darn good album

Bands evolve. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since the early '70s. The first concert I ever attended was The Dark side of the Moon in Paris France. I was at the Miami Florida Division Bell Concert. And many concerts in between. They're all Floyd. Listen to David Gilmour's solo albums from '78 and '84 ... someone only casually familiar with Floyd of that era could mistake some songs as Floyd. Listen to Richard Wright's albums from '78 and '96 and you'll recognize that this guy obviously had a significant influence on Floyd. I think Roger is a brilliant lyricist. That doesn't mean I have to like him as a person in order to enjoy his songs. Songs that would not be good music without great musicians to back him up. Because let's face it, Roger is not a great vocalist nor is he especially memorable on any instrument. Oh, and by the way, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one of my favorite Floyd albums. Syd was brilliant.

I think the better question is: Is any album made after Wish You Were Here REALLY Pink Floyd, or just glorified Roger Waters solo albums and then later glorified David Gilmour solo albums?

"A Momentary laps of reason" is a genuine Floyd album. I wasn't much into Floyd until Gilmour joined. I get that Sid was a big influence on the band at the start but I was not that into the early Floyd albums. I do feel bad for what happened to Sid in the end though. I'm not a great fan of Polly's lyrics either. Roger was the master of lyrics for Floyd. Polly doesn't come close. The albums after Roger left are not lyrically that good but the music is Floyd down the ground. So IMHO Pink Floyd are still Pink Floyd even without Roger.

The answer to your question is NO

Not Pink Floyd, in my humble opinion. It's David Gilmour with two other members from Pink Floyd. And that's fine, I like Gilmour, Wright, and Mason making music. But it's not Pink Floyd. Beige Floyd at best. In fact, I have all these albums in my Apple Music library but have renamed them David Gilmour.

Amazing that nobody mentions Alan Parsons, without whom Dark Side would've been left a bag of tape snippets. And by the way: no Waters no Floyd. Except - The Wall is a massive bore.

It's not classic PF. Band remnants after Waters departed and track composition never achieves classic brilliance. Note that Waters solo work also never reaches the previous creative heights without other PF members.