THE DIVISION BELL

People tend to negatively review this album, citing that Floyd without Roger Waters "just isn't Floyd". These people are wrong. David Gilmour carries PF on his back with this album and proves that it's his vocals and his solos that made the classic Floyd albums great, much moreso than Waters' contributions.

The album's first non-instrumental is an uncharacteristically upbeat number, "What Do You Want From Me", which sets the stage for the melancholic songs that are to follow. The great tracks on here include the aforementioned "WDYWFM", "A Great Day for Freedom", "Keep Talking", "Lost for Words", and the most epic song the band recorded post-Animals, "High Hopes". This song closes the album with an air of elegant dramatism and beauty, with Gilmour's solos standing out more than anywhere else on the album.

My only complaint with this album is that some of the middle songs seem to run into each other and that perhaps a few more upbeat numbers would have been rewarding. Still, this is no album to balk at, and certainly not the Waters-less failure that many people decry it as.

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