THE DIVISION BELL

Better than A Momentary Crapse of Reason...heheh. Today I did my first listen - one on headphones with nothing else to clog my senses and one now as I surf the net. The album is much better listened to as casual background music. If you really listen to it and do nothing else, you realize that the entire album is directed solely at one person - Roger Waters. Every song with lyrics talks about how "you" were bad or cruel or mean and "I" am so good and innocent and need sympathy. Now I don't have a side with either one of them, but this album is kind of self-absorbed on Gilmour's side. The best song in my opinion is Cluster One, a very nice almost bluesy piece. Gilmour had so many people help write the lyrics, half of the entire album seems to be written by his journalist girlfriend at the time! The noise at the beginning is sounds of the earth's crust moving as recorded by a professional seismologist. Besides that, the whole album is not really that much different from AMLOR. Just take away the cheesy 80's noises and things like that which were popular in that decade. BOTTOM LINE - Get it if you have to get every Floyd album. Otherwise it's pretty overrated.