Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 7
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Topic: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 7
Posted By: 40footwolf
Subject: Pink Floyd Album Tournament, Round 7
Date 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! ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
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Posted By: Follix
Date 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. |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:02
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Both albums are flawed. I like them both. Bell has too many midtempo songs going nowhere. Lapse by a little bit, could change tomorrow |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:43
| 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). |
Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 02:58
| Actually I'm quite fond of AMLOR |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date 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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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date 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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:09
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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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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:31
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The Division Bell. I give 'em a tie. ------------- 
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Posted By: kole
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 03:54
| The Division Bell. It has one of my all-time favourite songs - High Hopes. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date 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. ------------- 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! |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 06:27
| Division Bell. High Hopes raises it over AMLOR. |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 07:24
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A momentary lapse |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 08:44
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High Hopes alone is enough ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:33
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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. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:35
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I don't rate High Hopes but it seems to be popular. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Weirdamigo
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 09:43
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I love, yes indeed love, the Division Bell. IMHO it's better than animals making it my 4th favorite Floyd album. ------------- A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date 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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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 10:42
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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" ------------- |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 14:30
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MLoR is pretty good.... but Division Bell is better ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 14:55
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The Division Bell ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 17:42
What he says, only for me it's my 3rd favourite Floyd album after WYWH and DSOTM. High hopes is the best Floyd song since Shine on... ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Weirdamigo wrote:Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 21:45
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Huh. I thought it would be closer for some reason, although the Division Bell is the better album, I agree. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Jazzywoman
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 23:15
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They both are 2 star ratings...but Momentary Lapse of Reason is slightly better. ------------- 
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 11:21
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The Division Bell. Absolute classic.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 11:24
| Though I went with Division Bell, I don't really get the deal with High Hopes. It's a good solo but not imo a career highlight for Gilmour. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 11:31
On this, I agree  ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 05 2010 at 11:38
My personal story with High Hopes: When I listened to it for the first time the echoed voice fading out on "Forever and ever...." touched me deeply, then the guitar coda completed the work. I don't know why but immediately after I started re-reading all the books of Clifford Simak. The sense of loss and regret for the time gone is the same as in novels like "City" and "Here Gather the Stars". When a song is able to touch me in this way, I consider it a masterpiece. It's a subjective fact, so it's not strange if it doesn't do the same to anybody else. Another song which did me a similar thing is The Post-War Dream, but the whole Final Cut worked on me in this way. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |