Pink Floyd: The Division Bell | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 105
Added 2026-01-07 03:20:03 +0000 UTCWell...as I'll explain in the video, I wasn't planning on starting off 2026 with Pink Floyd, but I'm really happy that this album made it's way to the Extended Play Lounge today. This is a really enjoyable listen...one that re-filled me with some optimism and hope on a day that I needed it. It really is magical hearing these players make music together! I hope you enjoy as much as I did!
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"Take it back" was one of my road trip driving songs at one point, especially for nighttime driving. It's an amazing song to have on while cruising down some rural highway in the middle of nowhere. I get why so many people aren't fans of this album, which lacks so many of the original members, but I guess I'm outing myself as being as much a Gilmour fan as a Pink Floyd fan when I say "Division Bell" is my third favorite PF album, after Dark Side and The Wall. I do agree with the 'criticism' that Division Bell is a Gilmour album labeled as PF, but I have a hard time understanding why that is a bad thing.
Eric Fretheim
2026-01-10 20:19:30 +0000 UTCAfter listening to this again, I have to agree. I know that music is very subjective in that it triggers certain emotions/expecatations that differ based on life experiences (that's why some members here love this album). However, if I'm being objective (taking into account their entire ouevre and the contributions that Roger Waters has made over the years), this sounds less adventurous. This can also be applied to other musicians (U2 for example, had their prime from "War" through "Achtung Baby"; it seemed they were still young and hungry enough to make an artistic mark on the world rather than just offering commentary on their own personal lives after age 40).
Allen
2026-01-10 18:52:36 +0000 UTCBoth The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason are worthwhile listens IMO. Also would like to point out that I found the version of Wearing The Inside Out that you heard to have been a bit different from the album version that I'm used to. Also you heard the single version of Take It Back, which in its full album version isn't all that different, but the "guitar solo" is a bit longer and after hearing the album version the single version just sounds wrong in the way it's cut :)
DonHaka
2026-01-09 23:27:57 +0000 UTCI am so glad that this album won. This is pretty much my favorite record of all time. Whilst I love Pink Floyd's discography in its entirety, no other album makes me feel as warm and hopeful as this one. It's a perfect blend of the sounds of the late 80s and early 90s with Gilmour, Mason and Wright's musical sensibilities. It is also an album that I practically grew up on thanks to my dad. He would have this playing in the car when I was small and almost every new year we would listen/watch the PULSE live concert DVD.
DonHaka
2026-01-09 23:17:08 +0000 UTCWhilst I am a fan of PF, I am underwhelmed by this album, musically, apart from High Hopes - sorry - and tbh most of their material since The Wall. I look forward to Doug's reaction to Piper at the Gates of Dawn at some point.
Ruth James
2026-01-09 19:00:28 +0000 UTCWearing The Inside Out is about Rick's battle with depression. More of that on his solo album Broken China
BjΓΆrn Buske
2026-01-09 14:25:20 +0000 UTCThe lost city footage from Marooned is from Pripyat/Ukraine in the Chernobyl forbidden zone
BjΓΆrn Buske
2026-01-09 14:14:17 +0000 UTCGutted I didn't get to vote for Tull then, you would have had a tie even counting every vote!
Ulf Skjoldhammer
2026-01-09 10:10:56 +0000 UTCWould love to see you react to Nightwish's cover of High Hopes.
Octavio Stenberg
2026-01-09 04:32:54 +0000 UTCYes, the synergy is not there; most musicians who go solo end up making music more fulfilling (to them), but it seems to be weighed down by this isolationist mentality you mentioned.
Allen
2026-01-09 01:01:57 +0000 UTCThis is essentially a Gilmour album as Pink Floyd. Just as The Final Cut is essentially a Roger Waters album as Pink Floyd. Both are very sad in their own way. Isolation. Something is Missing... Sad.π
Rodney Griffin
2026-01-09 00:56:24 +0000 UTCThe high hopes video also features St Johnβs College Cambridge and the Bridge of Sighs which is in central Cambridge as apposed to Ely Cathedral which is in one of the other 2 cityβs which makes up the county. Most of the video is filmed in the Fens which is also where the Album cover was taken which is an area of East Anglia known for its incredibly flat landscape and farmland. The band being from central Cambridge aswell as David having gone to the Perse School also in central.
Oscar Kohler
2026-01-08 23:10:30 +0000 UTC
