THE DIVISION BELL

BECAUSE THERE'S TWO GOOD SONGS ON IT.

High Hopes belongs in the top ten of any Pink Floyd best-of. It's truly intricate, Gilmour (and his girlfriend)'s corny lyrics are almost good here, and the vocals/music are brilliantly executed. It was the perfect note to go out on, a solid song.

Wearing The Inside Out gives us the triumphant return of Rick Wright, and it's purely lovely. It's probably the best song Rick ever sang, or wrote, and I love it.

BUT THE REST...

Keep Talking is pure crap, and they stole the bass riff from Sorrow (their own damn song seven years previous). What Do You Want From Me is solid, as are the two intrumentals (Cluster One and Marooned, if you care for some reason) but lacking real spark. A Great Day For Freedom was clearly meant to show how well they could do Waters; it doesn't work. Take It Back is a TERRIBLE BORING POP SONG and it teams up with yawners Coming Back To Life and Poles Apart (a petty and irritating blow at Waters) to put you right to sleep without a fight. Lost For Words is nice, too, but let's face it: two great songs and two okay ones, plus two instrumentals, still leaves us with a stinker of a Pink Floyd album.

Buy Amused To Death by Roger Waters instead. At least his more recent lyrics still aren't nearly half as embarassing as "I was spending my time in the doldrums, I was caught in a cauldron of hate." THANKS DAVID, I know enough EMO kids as it is, don't give me no EMO geezers.

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