Pink Floyd

The band's first effort after the long, painful divorce from Roger Waters is a passable comeback record highlighted by the hit "Learning To Fly" and the "Welcome To The Machine"-like "Dogs Of War." Hardcore fans did their best to embrace the album when it came out, but the band is a mere shadow of itself without Waters.

"One Slip," which provides the title at just the moment the singer is so "decadent" as to copulate with a woman, is no less sexist than the rape-fantasy cover of Roger Waters's Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. "The Dogs of War," ID'd with blues bottom, could almost be the tin soldiers of Waters-as-Floyd's The Final Cut. In short, you'd hardly know the group's conceptmaster was gone--except that they put out noticeably fewer ideas. (Grade - C)