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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 427829
Released: April 5, 1994 |
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| Used Price: $3.98 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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The Division Bell Track Listing:
1. Cluster One
2. What Do You Want from Me
3. Poles Apart
4. Marooned
5. 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
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:
Just plain great. 
2009-12-23 - I read a few of the one-star reviews for this CD and I just can't believe anybody would give this one star. My guess is that these are a bunch of Roger Waters fanatics who are pushing 60 and are harkening back to the days when they used to smoke a dube in the 70's and listen to classic psychadelic Floyd and try to figure out what it meant. I liked Floyd back in the day (late 70's and early 80's) and I thought their music was cool. But Floyd didn't need Roger Waters and this CD, their last, proves it. I listened to this on a tape that I made from a CD from the library back when it first came out. I bought it last year at a used book store on a CD and started to listen to it again a couple of weeks ago. This album is just great. I saw others calling it "pop" but it's not pop. It's more mainstream for Floyd but it's far from "pop" music. There are elements here that sound like old Floyd and yet a more mature, tighter sound. The recording is great, all of the songs are great (especially Keep Talking, What Do You Want From Me, High Hopes, Coming Back to Life and Lost For Words) Gilmour's electric guitar is great as always and is unmistakably David Gilmour. He has has some great acoustic work and rips the solo on High Hopes on a lap-steel guitar. This album shows a seasoned band looking back on their lives and giving some honest reflection about life. True,it doesn't sound like Floyd circa 1977, it sounds like a band that has evolved musically but still maintains elements of the sound that made them famous.
If you liked a Momentary Lapse of Reason at all you will love this work. I don't care what anybody says: this is Pink Floyd at it's best, with or without Roger Waters.
A Very Good Floyd Disc 
2009-09-28 - PF fans are so funny; It's not PF w/o Roger, this one sucks, not a great album, etc. This disc is a good example. The songs are great, the playing solid, but a lot of negative reviews. JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC PEOPLE!!! If you want to get all wound up, become a Rush fan.......
The worst of Pink Floyd's works 
2009-08-01 -
This was a horendous album by Pink Floyd's standards.This was definately my least favorite album.Almost everyone thinks that A Momentary Lapse of Reason was worse that The Division Bell.What are you talking about????That being said I cannot give a Pink Floyd album less than three stars.That would be heresy!For I always find something I like about a Pink Floyd album.Keep Talking,in my opnion,was the only descent track on the album.The rest was just trash!!!!!Nick Mason and Richard Wright don't even get to do anything.Half the album used progamed drums.What's up with that man?Come on!!!!I know that for a fact because it even says so on the liner notes for Echoes:The Best of Pink Floyd!!!!!!
So, all in all buy The Wall,buy Dark Side,buy Meddle,buy any other Pink Floyd album.Just don't buy this one.It's a waste of time and money.I mean,I do recall hearing somthing about David Gilmour saying that this album was the best Pink Floyd album since Wish You Were Here?Sorry Dave,but you're way off in my oppinion.1st of all,The Wall was my #1 favorite Pink Floyd album ever!!!!!!!!!!You really just can't beat Roger's epic storyline song writing style!So even though this was a sort of Gilmour's The Wall,pardon me but it SUCKED BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!So again I say buy any other Pink Floyd album just pass up on The Division Bell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not Pink Floyd Without Roger Waters 
2009-07-21 - Although much better than its predecessor, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, The Division Bell, like the previous release, is not a Pink Floyd Album really but a David Gilmour solo recording. Although Wright and Mason contribute on the tracks, the whole feel of the album is all Gilmour. His softsoken vocals combined with the ethereal blues guitar style we've come to cherish and admire, lacks any real resonance and feeling. What's missing, of course, is Roger Waters' dynamic vocals (and incredible bass lines of course)that lends itself so well to Gilmour's guitar magnificence. The album is pure parody of Pink Floyd in it's prime. While Gilmour himself has said that this is the best album by Pink Floyd since Wish You Were Here, it is nothing of the sort. His comment is clearly a crack at The Pink Floyd albums Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut which were primarily Waters' driven projects. Give the album a careful listen to the lyrics and you will find that this new project is Gilmour's own "Wall" whereby many of the same themes of the original are revisited. Gilmour is definitely trying to outdo Waters but fails miserably.
Talent-full
2009-07-15 - Pink Floyd is one of the most musically talented groups to ever play. This album is a prime example of their superior talent. I love every song on the album. The album, recorded in exceptional audio quality is a must have for any pink floyd fan, any rock fan, any guitar enthusiast. The lyrics are also vastly more intriguing and thoughtful than nearly any other artist, especially today's modern music. Highly recommended. Worth $50.
