Best Song On Momentary Lapse Of Reason

On The Turning Away

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Come in here dear boy
have a cigar
you're gonna go far

-RW '75

favorite songs:


learning to fly
on the turning away
sorrow

Is that the one with Bono?

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is snuggly

Learning to fly
Dogs of War
Sorrow

The others are good but these are the best in my opinion.

I voted for Sorrow, Terminal Frost and Signs of Life. Those three are on an equal footing.

Also, i don't no if anyone has pointed this out, but are Sorrow and High Hopes from the Division Bell not esentially based on the same concept of loss and sadness? That is one thing i notice about the 2 post Waters albums, they both begin and end on essentially the same things as each other, whilse sounding very different.

The only thing i find is missing from Momentry Lapse is the Wright sound. I really miss it on this album, much more than i missed it on the Final Cut.

Still, there's something very much haunting about the album, and the artwork enhances this feeling. Gilmour clearly went a bit darker on this one. I mean sure, the Wall and FC are dark, but they were Waters' version of dark floyd. This is perhaps the darkest of all the floyd albums to my ears.

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

I Feel the same way... it's really dark.


But there's something else:

I think this album is much deeper than what people think. I don't know if there's anyone else feeling the same. I think it's a really deep album, musically, liricaly... i don't know why people sees it like a superficial album.

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If I Don't Promise You The Answers, Would You Go?

Deep? Dark? Nah. Most of it is commercial.

Actually, i agree, it is a lot deeper than people give it credit. The repetition of the ide of "one" in the lyrics is quite clever. Apart from Learning to Fly, it's quite a careful and precisely themed album. It's also quite a bit heavier than previous or later releases, and i stick by it as a darker piece. It's almost as dark as Ummagumma... [Which is a joke, not that you can tell... what with it being somewhat lacking in the most fundemental aspect of jokes: humour]

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

Huh?

When i use square brackets, i'm mumbling to myself. It'd be best for everyone to ignore me then

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

But not the rest of the time?

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stchrissie is not me.

Oh no, you should pay the utmost attention to me at all other times. Otherwise i shall kill you with a bucket...
[I am now pondering how that would work... My mind has come up with only one solution...]
OK, forget the bucket. Instead i shall feed you to the "Horrific Bog Beast" of Scone [pronounced Scoon (it's a small village that is part of Perth)]

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

Hard for me to choose between Learning To Fly and On The Turning Away. I Turned Away.

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It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Once again I love all the songs on this album. But the top three are: 1.Sorrow
2.On The Turning Away
3.Signs Of Life

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Into a deep and dreamless sleep our spirits fall
And what we sow we cannot reap nor keep at all

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