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The Division Bell |  | Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  461 reviews
Sales Rank: 906
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 64200
UPC: 074646420027
EAN: 0074646420027
ASIN: B000002A3T
Release Date: April 5, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Cluster One | | • | What Do You Want from Me | | • | Poles Apart | | • | Marooned | | • | Great Day for Freedom | | • | Wearing the Inside Out | | • | Take It Back | | • | Coming Back to Life | | • | Keep Talking | | • | Lost for Words | | • | High Hopes |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PINK FLOYD
Title: DIVISION BELL
Street Release Date: 04/05/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
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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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 A masterpiece, and better than You remember. March 19, 2010
John E. Wilkins (El Paso, TX USA)
I don't normally do album reviews, but after reading all the wiki entries and so-called reviews of the Division Bell, this boy ain't gonna shut up anymore.
Once and for all, ladies and gentlemen, please get over Roger Waters' departure. It's so old and tired to read review after review that has nothing more than the feel of being written by Waters himself. I love Waters with Floyd, of course, but if the man can't get his crap together and play nice with this epic group, then he deserves to sit in his puddle of re-re-re-re-resurrecting the Wall over, over and over. That kind of behavior is a sad vision of someone becoming a parody of himself.
From start to finish, the Division Bell is every bit the decades-length masterpiece that is Pink Floyd. Period, end of story. Any nay-saying is just simply Twinkies hitting Gibraltar.
The last time I listened to it, I turned out the lights when "High Hopes" came on, and was thankful for an empty house and a loud stereo so that I could enjoy this epic all over again. The album, to me, is simply haunting in the best way possible, making me long for something so real and so fictional all at once that my breath is taken away.
Before I go into the ground, I want the funeral parlor to play "High Hopes" at whatever memorial service I have, big or small, ashes or bones, wind or stillness.
Those are the best words I know to give for a review here on such a great album, one that will forever be cemented in my top five, if not top three.
Stop taking a dump on it, put your hang-ups and nonsense aside, and play it again.
Breathe, folks.
Surprisingly good! March 17, 2010
John Peter Gonnella
This being the first Pink Floyd album I bought that lacked Roger Waters, I wasn't expecting a lot. How could Pink Floyd possibly go on without the genius behind Animals and The Wall? However, I was pleasantly surprised! This album helped to show me just how good of a band-leader Gilmour was, and how well the band got on without Waters AND Barrett. Songs like "What do you want from me?", "High Hopes", and "A Great Day For Freedom" are all great songs that feel new but also reminiscent of Pink Floyd's good ol' days of crazy overdubs and beautiful lyrics. A nice sort of "Getting back to our roots", especially after the dry and Water-dominated "The Final Cut".I would HIGHLY recommend this album to any Pink Floyd fan!
Pink Floyd or Chicken Soup March 14, 2010
R. Leist (Arizona)
I don't care if you say it ain't true Pink Floyd. Listen with your ears. I don't care if the band behind the music is Pink Floyd or Chicken Soup. This is an outstanding set of songs. The more you listen to each and every one, the more captivating they become. Strip off the names and stereotypes from them. This is just good music. One of the best albums I've ever heard. I like every song.
not their best but still better than the best of the rest March 11, 2010
dasluftfahrtenpissenoffen (munchkinland, Botswana 90210)
when this LP was new I was living in jackson hole , wyoming & turned on the public radio station out of casper , wyoming late one night to find that the DJ put on this cd ( very day/night of its release ) & played the whole thing from beginning to end ( I think he lost his job for doing that ) well there is no point to my intro & now anyway it ( division bell ) will go down in history as the very last pink floyd LP. would it be better with roger waters input?? probably yes but I still think it's fantastic classic pink floyd sound;... great melodic atmospheric pop with enough crunching guitars & distortion to satisfy everyone or most anyway
A Very Good Floyd CD January 4, 2010
J. Wilson (Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well here it is.... 2010.... and as I finish watching David Gilmour: Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall on Blu Ray I have to reflect upon the Divisional Bell. With the recent death of Richard Wright we see a final chapter to Pink Floyd. For me I have always believed that like many groups that broke up, the sum of the parts are greater than the individual members. Pink Floyd was no different. No one can argue the talents of Roger Waters. But looking back all these years since and listening to the works of both sides I have to say that the Pink Floyd legacy survived with David Gilmour. I have been patiently waiting for Waters to somehow emerge out of his state of anger and conceit to create something worthy of his talent. On the other hand, years later and I still find myself loving 'Divisional Bell'. Gilmour has stated that much of the contents were not about the relationship between Waters and the band but one only has to listen to the words to know that is understated. Rogers has his "Wall" and this is Gilmour's "wall" that has him expressing his feelings. Holds up well IMHO and I find myself pulling it out to play again and again.
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