C/D : Pink Floyd "The Division Bell"

that song is good, the rest of the album is terrible. the new gilmore album is much better.

"High Hopes" stands among Pink Floyd's best, in my opinion-- though it doesn't really sound like much else in their catalog. Or anyone else's for that matter (as far as I know).

huh

Next time you're found with your chin on the ground
There's a lot to be learned so look around
Just what makes that little ol' ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant can't
Move a rubber tree plant

But he's got high hopes... he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie in the sky hopes
So any time you're getting low
'Stead of letting go,
Just remember that ant.
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.

When troubles call and your back's to the wall
There's a lot to be learned, that wall could fall.
Once there was a silly ol' ram,
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam;
No one could make that ram scram,
He kept buttin' that dam

But he's got high hopes... he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie in the sky hopes
So any time you're feeling bad
'Stead of feeling sad
Just remember that ram.
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam!

So keep your high hopes, keep your high hopes.
Keep your high apple pie in the sky hopes.
A problem's just a toy balloon
They'll be bursting soon
They're just bound to go POP!
Oops there goes another problem kerplop.
Oops there goes another problem kerplop.
Oops there goes another problem kerplop.
Kerplop!

is that the song that the flanders kids sing?

*kerplop*

listening to this because of true detective

goddamn this is the most boring record ever made

but publius enigma!!

"High Hopes" is very good!

maybe even more epic than "Bohemian Rhapsody"!

full disclosure: i am only at Take It Back because this album's running time is THE REST OF MY FUCKING SAD PATHETIC LIFE

coming up on the 20th anniversary of the time me and my friends saw the floyd at the rose bowl during the division bell tour. DSOTM laser show at griffith park was more fun tbh.

I remember Take It Back sounding dangerously like U2. Maybe I should go back and listen to reconfirm that.

here's some audio from that show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-ewakMup0
this might've been the best part iirc.

ok holy shjt i didn't know about publius enigma

i had forgotten about "keep talking" that was kind of a minor-ish hit

why did this have to come out at the ignorant-ass age (of me) where you don't know any better and you just listen to everything by bands that you like, c'est la vie

yeah i really think division bell was a turning point for me in that regard. it took a little while, but at some point (probably about halfway through that rose bowl show) i was like wait this sucks!

[i typed that while totally rocking out to that "comfortably numb" btw]

yeah i really think division bell was a turning point for me in that regard. it took a little while, but at some point (probably about halfway through that rose bowl show) i was like wait this sucks doesn't rule!

― tylerw, Monday, February 17, 2014 5:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed

even when they suck pink floyd rules

oh the show ruled it just also sucked.
i mean, i was 15 and probably bought the tickets like six months in advance and tastes change fast at that age, i think. the other shows i remember seeing that spring were the breeders and pavement....

i saw my teenaged pink floyd show from outside the stadium, sitting on the curb across the street, since the stadium was down in a depression we could even see inside

but the lasers shot out into the sky

also the ticket was free

but division bell was still zzzzzzzzzz

ok holy shjt i didn't know about publius enigma

the thing about that was word of it was spreading mainly via usenet/mailing lists and it was before everybody had broadband so word was traveling largely via descriptions of shows or a few pictures from e.g. the new jersey show iirc? and I hadn't given a fuck about post-Piper Floyd since God knows when but that whole thing felt exciting and weird. I gather that the explanation is kinda mundane (like, a combo of some guy posing and a tech dude backstage who thought it was a joke worth taking a little further) but it felt so neat and mysterious in a way that was only possible for a brief moment in time

was ths referenced in true detective or something played from it?

I hate this album, but High Hopes is really really good, one of the greats. Too bad the whole album wasn't just that song.

Yea that Kit Williams/Publius shit was the most interesting thing about The Division Bell.

I think one big problem with this era of Floyd are those lazy, middle-aged tempos, every song drags like crazy.

coming up on the 20th anniversary of the time me and my friends saw the floyd at the rose bowl during the division bell tour. DSOTM laser show at griffith park was more fun tbh.

Hah - I was at that show too!

was ths referenced in true detective or something played from it?

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgLsAWSCMAEVYZ-.jpg

I would bet that's woody's shirt in real life

Hah - I was at that show too!
i think they actually opened with "astronomy domine" which would've been cool if we weren't still in the parking lot...

I was lucky enough to see two shows in London, one with all of DSOTM and the other straighter set with Astronomy, they were great, yeah..

Yah, "Astronomy Domine" was first. Possibly the best moment of the show as it was just the three of them recreating the UFO club as best they could. As much as I love how Gilmour constructs his guitar bits, he needs to free-form freakout more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0siszbObCcw

One great obscure track from this era is "Soundscape" - a 22 minute long ambient piece that was played as the opening of all the Division Bell shows. It later turned up on the PULSE cassette tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNYq-c0lBw

my drummer that smokes mad weed but is in great physical shape loves this album

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 16 April 2005 01:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

^^haunts my thoughts

also I was wrong, maybe it is terrible. I thought a defense could be mounted, like it sounds like a surprisingly decent album by a generic '80s band that you'd be happy to find in a $1 vinyl bin. but as a mid-1990s Floyd record yeah it's just a bit of a slog to put it mildly.

my drummer that smokes mad weed but is in great physical shape loves this album

i'm trying to understand what insights I am supposed to derive from this comment.

I haven't really bothered with post-Animals Pink Floyd albums (I think this is largely justified), but something about the the Division Bell, really catches my interest... probably the mysterious album art has something to do with it. I've only heard two songs off the album. The last track, "High Hopes," is very haunting, and I like it quite a bit. How's the rest of the album?
― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:40 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pink Fraud.
― shookout (shookout), Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:45 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stink Floyd.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:46 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so much ownage

http://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/299768/20535/bild-37910.JPG
I drove a 2nd hand VW Gold Pink Floyd for a couple of years (a red one). It did survive my first accident, but the second crash totalled the car...

The soundscape referenced upthread was cool as hell in the live setting--it probably was the best and perhaps only good use of a giant arena- 360 degree sound at a moment when people were still filing in and no one was really paying close attention, so you could really hear it clearly. I remember the show being pretty damn cool overall, having come around at probably my Peak Floyd period.

I love The Final Cut.
overall I prefer A Momentary Lapse to Division Bell, but from the latter I really dig three songs: Cluster One, Poles Apart, and High Hopes. also, I like Rick Wright's track.
I thought Take It Back sounded more like Simple Minds circa Street Fighting Years (another album I love) than U2.

http://www.divisionbell20.com/

Publius Enigma

still have never come around on this record

just gave it another listen though and enjoyed it for what it is.

Can't remember who said it, but one of the funniest things I've ever heard was that review/tweet/whatever that said of that stupid James Franco Wizard of Oz prequel, "This movie sucks so bad it probably syncs up with The Division Bell."

Correction: it was an ILX post!

This movie is gonna suck so bad that it will sync up with The Division Bell

― Your spectacular host (Viceroy), Friday, March 15, 2013 7:12 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

would have also accepted Momentary Lapse of Reason but Division Bell rings funnier

**long sigh**

I like the Division Bell.

Loud lol at that post

my drummer that smokes mad weed but is in great physical shape loves this album

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, April 15, 2005 6:04 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink