The first post-Waters Floyd is magnificent

Review Score: (10/10)
Just because Roger Waters wanted to take all the toys home and play with them himself doesn't mean that the other boys had to let him. I've liked some of Waters' work a lot, seen the man perform solo, and he seems to be a nice chap. But he should have done "Radio K.A.O.S." to get his solo needs out of his system, and then went back to the band.

This album can hold it's head up high as a great Pink Floyd album, Waters or no Waters. It's no "Wall", but at least we don't have to hear another album of Roger complaining about his mother. There are a few musical interludes ("New Machine") that don't particulary grab me, but "Animals" had a lot more dry moments, in my opinion. Overall there are songs and concepts here that are as good as anything the band every did.

Ya got yer high and mighty concepts like the other albums, but with this album I actually think I can figure them out. I'm going to take "Learning to Fly" literally and just enjoy the song. While "The Dogs of War" is obvious, a much more earnest effort is "On the Turning Away". The lyrics "Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away" is as cryptic as I need to get. OK, so "Sorrow" slips into some old habits as we meet the guy who talks to rivers, but I can listen to the drumming on that song all day.

Too bad we didn't get a lot more albums this good.

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