History Music / AMomentaryLapseOfReason

* InLoveWithLove: "One Slip:

* {{Feelies}}: The U.K. limited vinyl edition included two posters.

''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' is the thirteenth studio album by Music/PinkFloyd, released in 1987. It is their first album not to feature Music/RogerWaters, who left the band in 1985. Along with ''Music/{{More}}'' and ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'', it is their only album to feature David Gilmour on all the lead vocals (except for some spoken word by Nick Mason). Additionally, as drummer Nick Mason considered his skills too rusty to contribute much and keyboardist Rick Wright was kept out of re-joining the band due to legal issues, Gilmour ended up writing all the songs either by himself or with the aid of outside writers, paralleling Waters' unilateral involvement on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' and Music/SydBarrett's on ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''.

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--> ''A momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life''

--> ''Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love?''
--> ''Or was it the hand of fate, that seemed to fit just like a glove?''

''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' is the thirteenth studio album by Music/PinkFloyd, released in 1987. It is their first album not to feature Music/RogerWaters, who left the band in 1985. Along with ''Music/{{More}}'' and ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'', it is their only album to feature David Gilmour on all the lead vocals (except for some spoken word by Nick Mason). Additionally, as drummer Nick Mason considered his skills too rusty to contribute much, Gilmour ended up writing all the songs either by himself or with the aid of outside writers, paralleling Waters' unilateral involvement on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' and Music/SydBarrett's on ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''.

The album marked a commercial return to form for Pink Floyd after the relatively low sales of ''The Final Cut'', topping the New Zealand Albums chart and peaking at No. 3 in both the UK and the US, going on to be certified quadruple-platinum in the US, triple-platinum in Canada, double-platinum in Switzerland, platinum in Argentina, Australia, France, and Spain, and gold in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. "Learning to Fly" became a major hit from this album, topping the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart (though it placed at a more modest No. 70 on the Hot 100 and missed the UK Singles chart entirely) and introducing the band to the Creator/{{MTV}} Generation. The Waters-less lineup launched Pink Floyd's first full-scale tour in a decade supporting the album, which lasted nearly two years, culminating in the band's 1990 Knebworth show. The run ended up becoming the highest-grossing concert tour of the entire 1980s, raking in $135 million in profits and 5.5 million attendees in total.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Learning to Fly" is not called "Tongue Tied and Twisted".

** "A New Machine" is a callback to "Welcome to the Machine" from ''Music/WishYouWereHere''.

There'll be no sleep in here tonight."

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* NewSoundAlbum: The album ramps up use of synthesizers, samplers and drum machines, giving it a sound straight out of TheEighties. The album is also geared in a more musically atmospheric and lyrically cerebral direction, more in-line with Pink Floyd's pre-''Music/{{Animals}}'' work.

* TheNotRemix: The album received one in 2019 for the BoxedSet ''The Later Years'', featuring newly recorded drum tracks by Nick Mason and keyboard parts by Richard Wright spliced in from live recordings. While not a radical deviation from the 1987 mix, the new version is described by Gilmour and producer Bob Ezrin as an attempt to "restore the creative balance" of the band on the album. The remix later received a standalone release in the fall of 2021.

The album marked a commercial return to form for Pink Floyd after the relatively low sales of ''The Final Cut'', topping the New Zealand Albums chart and peaking at No. 3 in both the UK and the US, going on to be certified quadruple-platinum in the US, triple-platinum in Canada, double-platinum in Switzerland, platinum in Argentina, Australia, France, and Spain, and gold in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. "Learning to Fly" became a major hit from this album, topping the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart (though it placed at a more modest No. 70 on the Hot 100 and missed the UK Singles chart entirely) and introducing the band to the Creator/{{MTV}} Generation. The Waters-less lineup launched Pink Floyd's first full-scale tour in a decade supporting the album, which lasted nearly two years, culminating in the band's 1990 Knebworth show. The run ended up becoming the highest-grossing concert tour of the entire 1980's, raking in $135 million in profits and 5.5 million attendees in total.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-the-inside-story-104505/ Roger Waters's take]] on the album:
--> "I think it's a very facile but quite clever forgery. If you don’t listen to it too closely, it does ''sound'' like Pink Floyd. It’s got Dave Gilmour playing guitar. And with the considered intention of setting out to make something that sounds like everyone’s conception of a Pink Floyd record, it’s inevitable that you will achieve that limited goal."

** In live performances, David Gilmour's guitar solo in "Learning to Fly" briefly quotes the solo in [[Music/TheWall "Young Lust"]], as captured in ''The Delicate Sound of Thunder'' and ''Pulse''.
* ConceptAlbum: {{Averted|Trope}}. It's the first and only Pink Floyd release since ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' that isn't a concept album.
** It does however use rivers as a recurring motif in the lyrics and on the cover.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: In the video for "Learning to Fly".

** "Sorrow" is directly based on the themes of ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'', and borrows the novel's opening lines for its own.

** In live performances, David Gilmour's guitar solo in "Learning to Fly" briefly quotes the solo in "Young Lust", as captured in ''The Delicate Sound of Thunder'' and ''Pulse''.

* ShoutOut: "Sorrow" is directly based on the themes of ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'', and borrows the novel's opening lines for its own.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title of "The Dogs of War" is based on the line "let slip the dogs of war!" from ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The limited-edition U.K. vinyl edition included posters and guaranteed ticket applications to the band's run of shows in the country that year.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The limited edition U.K. vinyl edition included a different cover image, posters, and guaranteed ticket applications to the band's run of shows in the country that year.

* VariantCover: The limited edition U.K. vinyl version included a live photo of the band instead of the standard image.

* TheNotRemix: The album received one in 2019 for the BoxedSet ''The Later Years'', featuring newly recorded drum tracks by Nick Mason and keyboard parts by Richard Wright spliced in from live recordings. While not a radical deviation from the 1987 mix, the new version is described by Gilmour and producer Bob Ezrin as an attempt to "restore the creative balance" of the band on the album. The remix is slated for a standalone release in the fall of 2021.

* IAmTheBand: David Gilmour did most of the work on his own, and wrote all the songs in it by himself or with outside writers like [[Music/RoxyMusic Phil Manzanera]]. Gilmour and Nick Mason are top-lined as band members in the liner notes, while Richard Wright was hired as a supporting musician for the album and its tour. In 2019, the band released the box set ''The Later Years'' and tried to avert this with a TheNotRemix version of the album featuring more Nick Mason and Richard Wright - Mason recorded new drum parts, while Wright's keyboard parts from live performances were edited in to the studio recordings

* TheNotRemix: The album received one in 2019 for the BoxedSet ''The Later Years'', featuring newly recorded drum tracks by Nick Mason and reinserted archival keyboard parts by Richard Wright. While not a radical deviation from the 1987 mix, the new version is described by Gilmour and producer Bob Ezrin as an attempt to "restore the creative balance" of the band on the album. The remix is slated for a standalone release in the fall of 2021.