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Scorpius
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Topic: The Endless River: Love it or Hate it? Posted: June 25 2017 at 23:26 |
I personally enjoy this album a lot, mainly because I read a PA review for it that describes each side of the album as a season of the year, which gave me an entirely new perspective on the album.
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Posted: June 25 2017 at 23:42 |
Regardless of all the cries of 'it's just out-takes from the Division Bell' , I absolutely love this album. Only the sax on Asinina is kinda cheesy, the rest is top-notch, classic PF !
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Posted: June 25 2017 at 23:46 |
My understanding is that most of it was written by I.P. Freely
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 00:07 |
sorry haven't heard a single note yet I`ve got it just haven't played it
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 01:57 |
I'd say yes. It belongs in the lower half of my PF album ranking list, but it is still pretty good.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 02:36 |
This poll asks two questions: 'love or hate it' and 'do you like it'. I rather prefer the last question. For an album to spur on such extreme feelings as love and hate it has got to have some sort of "presence" or "balls" whatever one wishes to call it...something that eludes The Endless River imo. It is a lovely little homage to Rick and I quite like it when it's playing but I certainly don't love or hate it. Far too strong emotions to describe this album. I'd say it's quite nice.
Edited by Guldbamsen - June 26 2017 at 02:37
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 02:49 |
Best Rick Wright solo album, with Gilmour as guest appearance if you ask me Actually it's a pretty good love-making-to album
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 04:06 |
It will never be the first album to hit my deck, but I've grown to like it for sentimental reasons.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 04:20 |
I wouldn't vote `No' exactly...I mean, it's a nice bonus, but it's kind of throwaway and forgettable...and it's odd that it sometimes sounds like `The Wall', considering Roger had nothing to do with it! For me, Floyd ended with the lovely feast that was `The Division Bell', a more than respectable `last meal'....and `The Endless River' was the leftovers and extras that go home in the doggie bag...still enjoyable, but not very satisfying.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 04:41 |
It's a good album, but if I have 1 free hour for Pink Floyd I'd likely spin something else
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 04:52 |
I liked it. Nothing ground breaking, but an enjoyable listen.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 09:19 |
I don't see it as "Love or Hate" type of music. Quite enjoyable and delightful, but nothing classic. It's more like a "middle of the road" album, but still worth to listen to it once in a while.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 09:45 |
Question 1: right in the middle
Question 2: yes
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 10:29 |
^^ Ditto
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 10:52 |
Atavachron wrote:
My understanding is that most of it was written by I.P. Freely
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 14:57 |
A little boring but whatever. I still enjoy it!!!
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 20:50 |
I do like it a lot... perhaps near "love it". It was the first album in a very long time that I gave myself time to put it on and just lie down and listen to it whole, and it was really beatiful, I don't think I would have enjoyed it nearly as much if I had been doing something else at the same time. Still, I think "The Division Bell" was an even better album... though as a swansong album this one might work just as nicely, if it were not for one problem: High Hopes is, for me, the best song a band could hope to finish their career with, and until a few years ago it was Floyd's swansong, but now it's "Louder than Words", one of the weaker tracks on the album, and not even a pale shadow of what High Hopes is. One last thought on the album... after hearing it, I can just imagine that if they had the mind for it, if they had included the best parts of this album on The Division Bell (even at the cost of leaving out some of the songs that made the cut), then that album could have ended up being even greater... some of the instrumental passages could even have been part of some of the songs on DB, making them longer and more akin to what they did in the 70's.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 21:00 |
It should have been released as a bonus in the next Division Bell box set, not packaged as a "new album"
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 21:38 |
I borrowed it from the library at one point. It's good but I wouldn't say it's one of their best or even one of the best of the ones just below their best. I would say it's probably as good as the final cut or obscured by clouds though.
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Posted: June 26 2017 at 21:39 |
Thatfabulousalien wrote:
It should have been released as a bonus in the next Division Bell box set, not packaged as a "new album" |
It's called making money. I agree but maybe they figured they would sell more this way. It actually went gold which is pretty amazing for a mostly instrumental album in the twenty first century and in an age where so many people download music for free.
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