Pink Floyd: Second or Second Last?

Of the competing two here I'm going for "A Momentary Lapse of Reason".

Blame it on a momentary lapse of reason.

Now this discography will get a lot more intersting as we get closer to the middle.

I don't get why it's mocked and hated. 

Ok, I get that these are all reasons for it to not be considered amongst Pink Floyds best works. But mocked and hated? 

I wonder how it would be considered without the Pink Floyd name attached. If it was released as a David Gilmour solo album for instance (which for all intents and purposes it is).

I would think/suggest that ASOS is more valuable and important as it showed a band that was onto something ... which they developed further in the next couple of years while allowing for DG to get settled, which you can see in the film they did in the Pompeii arena.

Well, "The Final Cut" for sure, which is also considered by most to be a lesser work.

The other two have vital contrubutions from Gilmour, (particularly his guitar work) although "The Wall" could well be considered a very personal Waters autobiographical statement.

voted for Momentary Lapse

you've got to learn to quote people properly, i never wrote what it says above there. 

Animals is not a Waters solo album, maybe the concept, but musically Gilmour contributed to Dogs and Wright contributed to Sheep, although weirdly he's not credited. 

Both Gilmour and Ezrin were involved with The Wall and then Michel Kamen with The Final Cut and Pros & Cons. Waters needs great musicians to put his ideas to music.