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| Tracks | No complete songs, just clips and interview footage. |
| Cheese Factor | 5 |
| Squirm Factor | 2 |
| The Peak | David Gilmour speaks (yeah, the rest of this is *that* unremarkable) |
| The Abyss | Those inane scenes of "the interviewer" in the restaurant with the television set. |
| Fashion Crimes | Plenty, but it's all previously seen archival footage. Nothing new to report, otherwise. |
| Overall Picture / Sound Quality | A+ / A+ |
While MTV's first Pink Floyd special ('Over The Wall') was an hour-long retelling of the band's story as well as a selling tool for the second U.S. leg of the 'Momentary Lapse Of Reason' shows, their appearance in 1989 on MTV's Rockumentary series seeks to compact the band's history into an even smaller package, as well as trumpet the (then) forthcoming release of the 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' video.
Once again, David Gilmour dominates the interview segments, which at least manage tell an abridged-for-television version of the band's history more coherently than 'Over The Wall.' Unsurprisingly, Gilmour looks utterly bored by the whole shebang (and after being forced to answer some of these questions for as long as he has, who can blame him, really?). Ah well, at least this time we get to hear from Roger Waters (albeit only at two different points during the program for about a grand total of 30 seconds).
Visually, we are in very familiar territory here as nearly every piece of performance footage shown here can be found on 'Video Anthology 1' or 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' (the only exceptions I could spot were an Italian concert ad from 1988, and a brief snip of Langley Iddens rowing across the screen from the "Signs Of Life" film). What's new here, however, is the way the entire program was edited together. Instead of having an on-camera narrator or interviewer (or even a topic card) to move us along from segment to segment, we flash back to some unseen guy sitting in a restaurant, eating his meal, and watching all of this on a portable TV screen positioned on the other side of his table. How very inventive of them.