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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 1513
Released: April 5, 1994 |
| Our Price: $6.50 |
| Used Price: $3.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Division Bell Track Listing:
1. Cluster One - Pink Floyd, Wright, Richard [1]
2. What Do You Want from Me
3. Poles Apart
4. Marooned - Pink Floyd, Wright, Richard [1]
5. A Great Day for Freedom
6. Wearing the Inside Out - Pink Floyd, Wright, Richard [1]
7. Take It Back
8. Coming Back to Life
9. Keep Talking
10. Lost for Words
11. High Hopes
Editorial Review:
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
The Division Bell Reviews:
at least my in my top ten favorite albums 
2008-11-26 - 4.5
I'm a very big Pink floyd fan. I own most of their discs and It's amazing how different yet spectacular each of them are! This one is no exception. From my experience this is their most soothing album. Listening to it gives you a certain calm feeling. A lot of reviewers are saying that the album is no good because it's different than the rest. And it is the most different. But In this situation that's definetly not a bad thing. The only thing I would have to say negatively about the disc is that the lyrics slightly suffer from the past.
I also would have to say that the music sounds like its coming from the early seventies. Another bonus for me!
all in all a have to have for any Pink Floyd fan!
A truly great album!
2008-10-24 - The Division Bell is my favorite Pink Floyd album. The production is superb, the sequence of songs is perfect; even my teenage daughter fell in love with it and used it as her lullabye CD, sending her off to dreamland every night. The thing that sets Pink Floyd music off from other rock groups, their atmospheric quality (mood music?), is capitalized on this album.
I also recommend the concert DVD Pink Floyd - Pulse for a truly FANTASTIC visual experience of this music. The DVD includes concert footage from their Dark Side Of The Moon album, a real bonus.
Farewell Pink Floyd 
2008-09-19 - This review is a personal tribute for Richard Wright who died this week, for all of us Floyd fans a very sad moment.
Since Wish You Were Here, Wright did not composed music for any album of the band; on Animals and The Wall he just graced the music with his excellent and unique Floydian keyboards; he was not on The Final Cut; on A Momentary Lapse of Reason he was a session musician due to some legal details and just played some here and some there; which leave us with The Division Bell, his major return to full composing status: Cluster One, What Do You Want from Me, Marooned, Wearing the Inside Out, Keep Talking. All of them, not only beautiful and elegant songs, but Floydian.
I'm very amused when I read some reviews that claim that this is 'soft rock', this is a tremendous musical misconception, comparing Pink Floyd with Hall & Oates, just because the playing is 'soft' or not 'hard'. Look again, the only 'soft' aspect in this album perhaps is Nick Mason's 'soft' drum playing, nothing else. This is indeed a dense album, musically, production wise and in the lyrics. Not only the band is playing in full spirit since Animals, but Floyd is there, now with Wright's important contributions: Marooned shares the same status of ANY Floyd ethereal classic, with its haunting piano, keyboards and guitar; Wearing the Inside Out is in the same vein of Summer 68 and Stay, vintage Floyd songs from the pre-Dark Side era
Only for the songs that Wright composed, this album is a must for all Floyd fans; any Roger Waters hardcore fan who thinks he IS Pink Floyd, is missing a whole and huge point of why Pink Floyd is what it is. Marooned won a Grammy for Wright and Gilmour. I rest my case.
Other songs like Poles Apart and High Hopes, would be missing a lot without Wright at piano, keyboard, organ and kurzweil command.
With Wright gone, a imposible to fill gap leaves Pink Floyd without the secret weapon to construct its typical unique and more than excellent music. A Musical Master who will be missed for the rest of our lives, but will live forever in every meloniac, for all ages to come.
New Floyd
2008-09-08 - Musically this product is superior to prior efforts. Concept albums are a throwback to the 70's, and this is an exceptional product about the complexities of relationships.
who is an advocate for fascism here? 
2008-08-30 - I wonder....
I really do.
Who is the advocate for fascism here?
Look at the horrible cover for this dreadful CD?
Now I'm gonna ask you again:
who is the advocate for fascism here?
Terrible, horrible people, just gross!
