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Music CD - Pink Floyd: The Division Bell
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Music CD: The Division Bell
Artist: Pink Floyd
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $6.04
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Cluster One
2. What Do You Want From Me
3. Poles Apart
4. Marooned
5. A Great Day For Freedom
6. Wearing The Inside Out
7. Take It Back
8. Coming Back To Life
9. Keep Talking
10. Lost For Words
11. High Hopes
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646420027
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1994-04-05
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: A GREAT Pnk FLyod Album
Comment: If you just get over the fact that Roger was not there in 1994, you can relax and really appreciate this one. Certain cuts on this album are still on my active playlist. "High Hopes" is among the BEST songs ever on a Pink Floyd album, period. Listen to it a few times and you will be hooked. It's right up there with "Wish You Were Here" and "Welcome to the Machine". As a whole, "The Division Bell" is not equal to "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Wish You Were Here", but is excellent nonetheless - highly recommended!
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Summary: Mediocre Effort
Comment: Sorry guys, I got an iPod for Christmas and have been slowly loading hundreds of CD's into it and listened to this one again the other day. I picture the pre-recording session meetings going like this:
Gilmour: Ok, what do we need to make an album sound like Pink Floyd? Anyone?
Mason: We need cool sounds
Wright: And lush sonic landscapes
Gilmour: Great! Let's go into the studio!
Some of this album is ok but when I stumbled across the lyric that says "the rain fell on the roofs of uncertainty" I had to stop. Gilmour is a great guitarist and has shared songwriting credits on some of Pink Floyd's finest songs (Dogs, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, etc) but he cannot carry the creative weight himself.
Pink Floyd, like other great bands (the Stones come to mind) is more than just the sum of its parts. To excel, it requires the collaboration of Waters and Gilmour (or Jagger and Richards). Otherwise it's mostly going through the motions. Those motions can produce some occasional high points but cannot sustain an entire album.
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Summary: The Division Bell
Comment: I didn't think that Pink Floyd CDs couldn't get any better than DARK SIDE OF THE MOON & WISH YOU WERE HERE but, THE DIVISION BELL proved me wrong. I don't what took me so long to listen to this CD but, it was worth the wait. WOW!!!
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Summary: Gilmore Finds His Voice
Comment: David Gilmour's songwriting comes into its own on this album, which is their last to date. Soaring and cerebral, the album suddenly lacks a lot of that cynicism and bitterness that was a hallmark of the Roger Waters era, and takes on a more positive vibe. Despite having lost their primary songwriter, this album still fits in fairly well with the rest of the band's discography, and still sounds very much like we expect Pink Floyd to sound.
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Summary: DIVISION SMELLS
Comment: I grew up being one of the biggest Floyd fans I knew of. And in those days, us Floyd fans had ways of telling whether or not other kids on the beat were actual Floyd fans or not. One way of telling was to ask them what their favorite album was. If you said "Division Bell" we stole your discman, and you were officially banned from the club.
Anyway- it's not to say that Division Bell is a bad album necessarilly... but it's not really anything worthy of the top shelf either. The word dull comes to mind far to often. No matter which way you slice it. Lets face the facts here... David Gilmore is not a good song writer. I think that the other band mates could have stepped up their game a little bit too on this effort. Even though it is light years better than the artificial Floyd album Momentary Lapse of Reason, which is essentially a David Gilmore solo album.
Now, I won't beat the dead horse that claims that Floyd was nothing without Roger Waters. But the songs on this album just don't speak to me on any level. Some of them are nice and mellow, and at times slightly (very slightly) Floydesque. But mainly I thought of this album as a commercially hyped vehicle for a tour, and nothing else. The Division smells. I think you are better off with the live album Pulse, as it has some better sounding versions of these songs on it...
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Editorial Reviews:
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As Roger Waters's solo career set into a sunset of suspiciously self-serving Wall revivals and compelling if modest-selling solo efforts, his former band became one of the few outfits in the soft live market of the 1990s to burnish its stadium-filling appeal. But their recorded output wasn't quite so rosy. As all post-Dark Side of the Moon albums must have a Big Important Theme, The Division Bell is vaguely about levels of separation (did you say, duh!?), with more than one not-so-opaque lyrical jab at the estranged Waters. But there's a sense that the band may have put more thought into its trademark audio gimmickry (well represented here by the actual sound of the earth's crust cracking--you don't get that on Rage Against the Machine albums!--and a "spoken" intro by Dr. Stephen Hawking, or rather his voice synthesizer) than it did into its songs this time around. The opening "Cluster One" has a hypnotic minimalist lure that dissolves all too quickly into the bluesy waffle of "What Do You Want From Me," while Floyd Mach III leader Dave Gilmour's usually lyrical guitar work is uninspired throughout, a definite Floydian slip. Still, the band maddeningly manages a few moments of the old grandeur here and there. The Division Bell is not a great Pink Floyd album, but an all-too-fallible simulation. --Jerry McCulley
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