Marc Fagel's Blog: Jittery White Guy Music: The Blog, page 174

David Gilmour: S/T (1978)

Most Pink Floyd solo albums largely serve to confirm that, as much as the band was at loggerheads (particularly in the latter years), they really needed each other to produce great music.  Roger Waters needed David Gilmour to add some melody and lightness to his otherwise relentlessly dark and didactic and often tuneless music; Gilmour needed Waters to provide some lyrical bite and musical edge to what could be bland affairs.  And don't get me started on Nick Mason and Rick Wright's...