THE DIVISION BELL

Well, this is the 137th entrie or review of this album, so i have to place my point of views, maybe some reviews are similar too what im thinking of, and some of them i am totally disagree so lets start.

Maybe when you hear thet Roger Waters left Pink Floyd, maybe you thought that it was the end of the band, but no way, as we know David Gilmour decided to follow doing albums, the first was A Momentary Lapse of reason in 1987, and im not going to talk about it, and 7 years later Gilmour , Wright and Mason make this album " The Division bell". When Gilmour take the leadership o the band, he changed the style of Pink Floyd, is Gilmour´s style still progressive rock? of course yes, is a different sound for example, for me the best Pink Floyd era is from 1971 to 1977,when masterpieces like Meddle, DarkSide and Animals were released, and the sound of Division Bell is not the same as that era, and of course it is totally different to Waters´ leadership era (The Wall and Fnal Cut), more guitar oriented and all the songs sung by Gimour except the beautiful "Wearing the Inside Out", sung by Richard Wright.

"Cluster One" is the first track on here , with a sound of nature with the softly sound of Gilmour´s guitar and the ambiental keys, good atmospheric and melodic passages. "What do you Want for me" is the first "main" track of the album, i dont remember if it was a single, it is also the first song with vocals, for me lyrics are great, and musically nice bass lines and great guitar work, maybe compared with their 70´s stuff this is less complex and a bit more poppish, great song for me. "Poles Apart" is the third song, it is a nice song, but of course notthe best, maybe this is one of the weakest tracks of the album, good arrangments and nice drums, but lack of creativity despite its 7 minute lenght. "Marooned" is a beautiful song, starts with a nice atmospheric sound, in the fund we can listen to keyboards, while Gilmour is doing his great guitar job, it has great guitar tones and beautiful sounds, it is an instrumental song, i think it is really beautiful. "A Great day for freedom", to be honest, it is the track i less enjoy, in fact when i listen to P.U.L.S.E., and this song is coming i prefer to advancing one song, it starts with david´s vocals, it reminds me that horrible "A New Machine " song. "Wearing the Inside Out" is a great song, sung by the mysterious and always great Richard Wright, it is a special part of the album, i like his voice, is not superb but its quite pleasant, i think this is one of the most beautiful lyrics here, and also we can listen to Dick Parry´s sax, nice sound too. "Take it Back", who doesnt know this song? , in fact, this song has a nice video, it is no my favorite track but it is one of the most popular here. "Coming back to Life",and here you are ladies and gentleman, this is my favorite song, i love it, beautiful lyrics, and it has a great beggining with Gilmour´s riff between keys soundscape, and then he stars to sing, where were you.... great, of course this is really poppish when we are thinking of a progressive song. "Keep Talking", it stars with some strange vocals saying "for millions of years...." it is nice, something different, another good point of this song are back vocals, female vocals while Gilmour says one part, they are in another, good song. "Lost for Words", this song has a special sound, acoustic guitar and gream drums rythm, but it is another lack and simple song. "High Hopes" is probably the most well - known song here, and probably the proggiest of them all, besides of being the largest, it has some great rythm changes and a very powerful sound compared to the other songs.

Well, so i find this album very pleasant, is not the best workof Pink Floyd, of course it is the best without Waters (IMO), but if you are looking for some truly progressive rock, this is the wrong album, thats why i think it cant be a 5 star album , despite i love and i really enjoy it, im going to give it 4 stars, and if you thought that it is a bad album, believe me, NO WAY... this is a great album!