Roger Waters: The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (Columbia); David Gilmour: About Face (Columbia)

WHEN PINK Floyd stopped creating cabin music for space craft, the group entered an extremely fruitful three album period that remains the pinnacle of their post-Syd Barrett career. Dark Side of the Moon, inexplicably their most popular record (still going strong after ten years on Billboard's Top 200 chart), brought Floyd down to Earth, relatively, by adding a strong — and much needed — dose of reality and intensity to their previously dull meanderings. With purpose and power, the following LPs, Wish You Were Here and Animals, balanced starkly wrought music with pristine production and Roger Waters' intelligent if unrepentantly venomous lyrics.