High Hopes is one of the most beautiful songs.

The Division Bell doesn't get enough love. It's a great album. Give Poles Apart a listen.

Fittingly, this was the closing track on their final true studio album - chronicling their small beginnings, ascension, ultimate stardom, tension, and slowly unwinding into retirement and relatively quiet lives - then culminating in one of the most incredible tours ever, both sonically and visually. Some FYIs - Polly Samson is Mrs. Gilmour: The "Endless River" was primarily composed of music written for the "Division Bell), and devoid of lyrics (except the last song) as a tribute to Richard Wright (RIP): Most of the music was written by either Wright on his own, or in conjunction with David: the recordings feature more storied session musicians than Steely Dan or Alan Parsons ever dreamed of. The core four albums (DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall) with Waters increasingly running the show reflected his ever growing bitterness and inner turmoil, ultimately climaxing in the basically unlistenable "Final Cut" (in reality, a Waters solo album with the rest merely session players) and then his attempt to destroy what they had built as a group. The two post-Waters albums, both musically and lyrically, carried more uplifting and hopeful messages - perhaps to partially offset some of the previous direction they had been going.

Give Wearing the Inside Out a listen. Written by the much underrated Rick Wright R.I.P.

I love the division bell album and I too only listened to the endless river once and won't be listening to it again, I was at Earl's Court for the pulse concert and have seen Roger live as well.

Coming Back To Life is worth a listen.

If you haven't seen any of his songs from either on an island or rattle that lock they're worth checking into. Such as "the blue" or "on an island" from the on an island album. And his rattle that lock album "in any tongue" faces of stone 2 incredibly great songs especially "in any tongue" if you watch the live version from Pompeii 2016!! Also if you do the song on an island check out the 2006 live version where he has David Crosby and Graham Nash doing the backing vocals.

His Wife is also a Poet. That helps. Fantastic show.

@65alef

4 ай бұрын

Mrs Polly Samson Gilmour

Riguardo a THE FINAL CUT sono completamente d'accordo con voi. HIGH HOPES è apparentemente una canzone un pò triste e nostalgica e basta È invece una delle piu autobiografiche della storia della band. Scritta da Gilmour stesso con sua moglie Polly Samson sposata poco tempo prima dell'uscita dell'album THE DIVISION BELL . La canzone ricorda gli inizi con Syd Barrett e la sua triste vicenda e in seguito il rapporto difficile con Roger Waters e il suo abbandono con uno sguardo pieno di nostalgia ma che termina con la speranza lanciata in aria dal suono della lap steel guitar magistralmente suonata da Dave. A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS può essere un fantastico gancio con questa e quelle immagini dal live at Pompeii una delle piu belle realizzazioni scenografiche di un brano bello e profondo .

@glennandadriansrocktalk

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight! I'll take a better look at the lyrics.

Adrian looks wasted today,... Pink Floyd is just incredible!

Pink Floyd without Roger Waters is about as lively as a whale on a beach, but I like The Final Cut a lot, so I'm probably in the minority about many things. That said, this song is possibly the best on either of the post-Waters albums, even if lyrically it reads like a less pointed version of Time.

@Rassskle

4 ай бұрын

Without Roger Waters, Pink Floyd is at least 200% better live, but minus a brilliant lyricist. The Final Cut......their worst ever album. Purely Rogers solo effort gone wrong.

@delorangeade

4 ай бұрын

@@Rassskle I'm more interested in what Roger has to say than what the band has to play.

@Rassskle

4 ай бұрын

​@@delorangeade Roger appears to write a lot of humanitarian thoughts. On the surface they make okay lyrics, but without the bands music, they are just regurgitated thoughts from thousands of previous writers. Except for those songs and thoughts that are 100% about Roger himself.....they are his only original thoughts and opinions.

Staggered that you don't like The Final Cut, a great Floyd album with tracks that didn't make the cut for The wall essentially.

@glennandadriansrocktalk

4 ай бұрын

The circumstances surrounding it made a difference to me - Roger wouldn't allow much input from anyone else, if any, and he was treating them terribly. By then the Wall had been out 3 and a half years. If it were out under a different artist's name, I might have liked it more, but it was a disappointment after a string of epic albums.

🙏 "promo sm"