Pink Floyd
The Division Bell
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AMG Review of The Division Bell
William Ruhlmann
All Music GuideThe second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason -- keyboard player Rick Wright is back to full bandmember status and has co-writing credits on five of the 11 songs, even getting lead vocals on "Wearing the Inside Out." Some of David Gilmour's lyrics (co-written by Polly Samson and Nick Laird-Clowes of the Dream Academy) might be directed at Waters, notably "Lost for Words" and "A Great Day for Freedom," with its references to "the wall" coming down, although the more specific subject is the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism. In any case, there is a vindictive, accusatory tone to songs such as "What Do You Want From Me" and "Poles Apart," and the overarching theme, from the album title to the graphics to the "I-you" pronouns in most of the lyrics, has to do with dichotomies and distinctions, with "I" always having the upper hand. Musically, Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Wright have largely turned the clock back to the pre-Dark Side of the Moon Floyd, with slow tempos, sustained keyboard chords, and guitar solos with a lot of echo.
If it had a tongue, it would have licked me......
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......that sounds so much better than saying if it had teeth it would bite me. I am not in a kinky mood today.Anyway, when I went away to the Rothbury Festival at the beginning of July, I left my car in my office's parking garage from that Thursday to Monday, as it is supposed to be safe there so long as I tell the security people that I am doing it. Well, when I came back from said festival,...
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Rick Wright
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I know i'm a bit late catching up with all the news, especially the passing of Rick Wright. I've been listening to a lot of old Pink Floyd lately(i seem to go through phases with different artists). What a truly astonishing legacy they have left in their wake, a legacy which would be very difficult to ever match. A group of musicians with prodigious talent and beautiful music. Art to stand the ...
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Royal Mail: album artwork stamps
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The folks of Royal Mail knows about art, but they know shit about music. They picked The Division Bell as the Pink Floyd album to be featured on stamp. Oh, and how about A Rush Of Blood To The Head? Is their a doctor in the house? Serious case of brain damage.The 10 stamps will feature the following album covers: Blur - Parklife David Bowie - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders...
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