Pink Floyd’s MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON turns 30 this year. Like so much of “prog” (yes, I put this in quotes) of the 1980s, it’s still controversial.
The same thing happened to Genesis, of course. Is ABACAB really a Genesis album? Or, how about ELP? Is EMERSON LAKE AND POWELL really an ELP album? Or Yes? Are 90125 or BIG GENERATOR really Yes albums? Ok, I won’t drag this idea into the ground. But, it’s fair to note, that the question regarding MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON is not unique.
At the time MOMENTARY LAPSE came out, I was living in Austria for my sophomore year of college. My great friend, Liz Ehret (now Bardwell), was visiting an American Army base in West German and picked up a copy of it as well as copies of Rush’s HOLD YOUR FIRE and Yes’s BIG GENERATOR for me. Of the three, the only one that floored me was HOLD YOUR FIRE. Still, I very much liked MOMENTARY.
Progarchy 