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40footwolf 
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 Topic: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 7
Posted: October 31 2010 at 22:36 |
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Which black sheep will avoid the meat factory? Three days of voting to find out!
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Heaven's made a cesspool of us all.
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Follix
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Posted: October 31 2010 at 22:43 |
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There is only 3 good songs in AMLOR: Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away and Sorrow
While half of Division Bell is pure genious, easy choice here.
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tdfloyd
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Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:02 |
Both albums are flawed. I like them both. Bell has too many midtempo songs going nowhere. Lapse by a little bit, could change tomorrow
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Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:43 |
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I don't find the Gilmour Floyd so terrybly bad. As a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of it and it's got some of my favourite Floyd songs. However, I do like much more The Division Bell (this album I rank among my very favourites of Floyd, close to Dark Side, Wish you were Here, and Animals, and easily above The Wall).
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Shevrzl
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 02:58 |
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Actually I'm quite fond of AMLOR
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 02:59 |
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The Division Bell is the only Floyd album I would rate less than 3 stars.
MLoR is not fantastic, but a solid 3 star album to me and has some very nice moments.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:02 |
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I like Momentary Lapse a lot. The Division Bell is pretty poor though. Never got into to be honest even after playing it over and over.
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ten years after
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:09 |
I find it hard to chose between these two. Neither are classic Floyd. Had Momentary Lapse been their first album they would not have become particularly famous. However they are worthy efforts.
Division Bell had the makings of classic Floyd had Gilmour (and Wright) been in the mood - Cluster One (6 minutes), Wearing the Inside Out (stretched to 13 minutes), Take It Back (stretched to 10 minutes), Coming Back to Life (6 minutes) and Marooned (5 minutes) would have made a very nice 40 minute early 70s style PF album.
The extra time available on a CD makes bands feel obliged to give us 60 minutes plus every time and the anti-prog press of the mid 90s made extended tracks a no-no. The Division Bell in the end was just a moderate effort.
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someone_else
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:31 |
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The Division Bell. I give 'em a tie.
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kole
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:54 |
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The Division Bell. It has one of my all-time favourite songs - High Hopes.
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Gandalff
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 04:06 |
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The one with many beds on landscape. The second one is too long, thus expatiative and sometimes boring.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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yanch
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 06:27 |
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Division Bell. High Hopes raises it over AMLOR.
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 07:24 |
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A momentary lapse
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octopus-4
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 08:44 |
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High Hopes alone is enough
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:33 |
The Division Bell. It contains one of my favourites from Floyd, High Hopes.
Edit: Looking at the posts so far. I didn't know High Hopes got this much respect.
Edited by DisgruntledPorcupine - November 01 2010 at 09:34
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Snow Dog
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:35 |
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I don't rate High Hopes but it seems to be popular.
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Weirdamigo
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:43 |
I love, yes indeed love, the Division Bell. IMHO it's better than animals making it my 4th favorite Floyd album.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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spookytooth
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:47 |
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I actually enjoyed The Division Bell...I didn't really like A Momentary Lapse of Reason that much.
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Would you like some Bailey's?
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Jörgemeister
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 10:42 |
division bell, i actually enjoy it.
amlor feels too incoherent besides the nice few tracks and then sorrow, there is amoment in which i think "why am i listening to this"
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I Could have bought a Third World country with the riches that I've spent
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digdug
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 14:30 |
MLoR is pretty good....
but Division Bell is better
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Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 7
