Ex-Singer RIPPED His Old Bandmate For Writing Song with His Wife...Became #1 Hit | Professor Of Rock
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- Coming up. It was the most anticipated album of its time. Pink Floyd with David Gilmour at the helm hadn’t released a new album in over 6 years! An eternity in rock! It would be the 2nd record released by the band since they parted ways with Roger Waters. The Division Bell hit #1 in 21 countries and it was put out when the musical landscape had completely changed with grunge and hip hop as king… Roger Water Ripped the songs apart, criticizing the fact that David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson had co-written the first single. Coming up a songwriter who helped with the mesmerizing first single High Hopes and also Take it Back with an interview with the co-writer. What would it be like to write a song with Pink Floyd? Well, we get that answer from an artist who co-wrote two songs with them along with the wisdom that David Gilmour passed on to him.
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Let’s not beat around the bush here… Every Pink Floyd fan knows and remembers that 6 and half year wait of absolute pain and anguish for their new studio album to drop in the 90s. 1987 to 1994 seemed like an eternity to wait for the Division Bell. Written mostly by Singer Guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright with contributions from Gimour’s then Fiancee and now wife novelist Polly Samson and Nick Laird Clowes of the Dream academy as well as experimental music composer Anthony More of Slapp Happy. I have to say, It was well worth the wait. Produced by longtime Floyd Collaborator Bob Ezrin and Gilmour, as well as engineer Any Jackson, saxophonist Dick Parry, and Bassist Guy Pratt.
It started in January of 93 when Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboardist Richar Wright began experimenting with new material at Brittania row studios. Guy Pratt who had been brought in during the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour came in and had a profound influence on the mood of the new music. They had gotten past the legal issues that plagued them during the making of their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, David Gilmour was relieved and more apt to create.
They moved the sessions a few times during the production of the Division Bell including David Gilmour’s Houseboat and the Studio Astoria. They were creating a lot of music. Some estimate between 60 and 70s pieces of music. As they progressed that turned into 27 as they got rid of some songs and merged others together. In the end, they transformed what they had into 11 tracks and the band all voted on what they wanted on the final tracklist.
As I said, David Gilmour’s fiancee at the time Polly Samson contributed lyrically on many of the songs including the singles Take it Back and High Hopes. This frustrated some involved including Producer Bob Ezrin although later he admitted that Polly had inspired Gilmour and that she pulled the album together.
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest late career album or song from a legendary band or artist?
Gold Dust - Tori Amos, 2002, album Scarlett's Walk
As for Floyd, it is High Hopes. Used to be Take it Back. Of course, The Division Bell.
And I must add Slayer's Repentless.
Division Bell
Wildflowers Tom Petty
Album: David Bowie "Blackstar"
Song: Queen "These Are The Days Of Our Lives"
"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys
Elton John- Can You Feel the Love Tonight and Circle Of Life from the Lion King Soundtrack.
My Dad being a diehard Pink Floyd fan naturally raised me on their music and I remember the day he discovered that they had released The Division Bell. He bought it on the spot and I remember him showing me the CD and one of us asked "Do you think it'll be as good as the other albums?" followed by "Let's find out" in response. He turned on the radio put in the CD and we proceeded to travel through the heaven's on the wings of Pink Floyd. It is one of the greatest memories I have of my Dad and that's saying something because there are so many. He was the type of person that everything he did was an amazing event, he made every thing better and could change any bad situation into good, he could turn any sadness into joy and he could fix anything broken making it better than new. He was one of those people who would make an impression on everyone he encountered, if you had the chance to meet him you would never forget him because of this unyielding light that shown from the center of his soul that could illuminate the entire planet. I believe his presence on earth helped maintain some of the balance in this world. Ever since his death in late 2019 the world has . . . . well just look at what's been going on since 2019. I could talk for day's about my Dad and how amazing he was but I won't. I just miss my Dad so much.
May you rest in peace, a man who stood above the rest with integrity, morality, honor and kindness, my Dad Paul L Brand
♥♥♥♥
David Gilmore's voice is one of the few that can just calm you and no matter the lyrics you find peace in yourself.....like John Denver 🕊️💜
He will seep his magic into your soul with compelling melodies.
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My wife isn't a long time Pink Floyd fan like me but she thinks High Hopes is the most beautiful song she's ever heard. We went to see Roger Waters last year and she enjoyed the music and visuals but she said it sounded like a Pink Floyd cover band. She told me if Gilmour ever tours, we'll fly wherever and pay as much as it takes for as many times as possible.
KEEP. THAT. WOMAN.
CLONE THAT WOMAN! ;)
Keeper
May I suggest The Australian Pink Floyd Band? (Or Brit Floyd, depending on which comes to your area?) They're both very good, and cover both eras of Floyd very well. :-)
I agree with her.
The song Coming Back To Life from The Division bell actually saved my life. Was in a very dark place and it helped me greatly. “The moment had arrived, for killing the past and coming back to life”.
my fav song from the post waters era
I give Waters credit.. The man can write a song.. but Gilmore gave every one of Water's songs a beautiful life. And then to hear Gilmores' songs that he wrote with his pain and passion playing guitar.. AWESOME!!
Nice job, Professor!!!
GILMOUR not Gilmore
@@sharonrichards1627 really?
@brianmaynard7320 yes, really.
I'd modify your comment into 'Waters has excellent song lyrics and basic melody Concept leading to good songs when other musicians help perfect them.' I don't consider Lyrics and basic Melody as being a completed song. IOW if its not completed then its only a song Concept. YMMV 🍺🍻
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Gilmore's guitar solos and his singing is what really made Pinkfloyd a great band. I think On The Turning Away is one of their best songs and their most underrated songs.
Division Bell remains one of my favorite albums of all time. Just a masterpiece of music. Poles Apart and Take it Back bring tears to my eyes every time I hear those songs. That album came out during probably the best time of my life and those songs bring me right back to that time. Absolutely love that album.
Not only are you a great storyteller, but you are also always so kind and reverent of all the artists you talk about. You never mock anyone or call someone a no-talent hack. Even when talking about an artist's addiction or suicide, you are respectful and compassionate.
I look forward to all your videos.
Excellent observation and comment!! Adam sets such a great example, in that regard.
Agreed
Kind? He basically put down Waters by talking about how bad is Amused to Death compared to Division Bell
The Division Bell remains one of my favourite Floyd albums. This one is particularly special to me, as it was my first introduction to the band as a teenager. I’d gone through some embarrassing musical phases as a young teen, but then my uncle gave me this album to listen to, and it opened my eyes not only to this incredible band, but a world of music I’d tragically overlooked until that point in my life. It’s safe to say the experience was life changing. Sadly, a few years later, my uncle passed away with mesothelioma. I think of him every time I listen to this album, and some musical passages to this day still cause me to tear up a little. Much like myself, music was his world. Thank you for this. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching.
Don’t worry. We all have those moments.
Thank you for this story! It’s great when an uncle, aunt, or cousin can introduce you to great music! I feel that music can create strong bonds that last a lifetime! I feel you for your loss, I’ve gone through a lot of that too, so I understand
Roger is such a critic, but has trouble admitting he was part of a group, and needed that group.
True.
Roger is a fantastic example of why any reasonable person cannot stand leftists. All they do is complain all day long and never actually provide any solutions. That being said, Roger Waters is nothing short of a lyrical genius
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Seeing him perform live was awesome buuuut I had to try to ignore his political commentary that he spouted from the stage and via his props.
Seeing PF without him was just as good musically and no propaganda.
Actually some of the cover bands were a better overall experience than Roger.
Great point. He was flawed.
@@BoredOuttaMySkullBoi I had never heard it put that way. That’s so dead on.
I still remember the 1st time I heard high hopes. Was a junior in high school and was cutting the grass. I still remember hearing the concert bells and thinking what is this. I was blown away. The pulse vhs tape got me threw my 1st acid trip. Been my favorite band ever since
We stood in line outside Best Buy, waiting for a special midnight opening to sell this album! Grabbed our CD's, drove to our apartment... (it might have gotten a little foggy for a moment)... and then we played this album. I can't express how completely thrilled we felt listening to The Division Bell that first time. I've never enjoyed a moment of music with friends like that since!
A great moment in time, a great moment for music, and this is a great video about it!
Waters doesn't understand or accept the fact the rest of the band was what made his songs so good.
Sad but true.
Very true.
I never thought Pink Floyd could continue as a band after Waters left but what a surprise this album was, I was actually shocked at how good it sounded. Gilmour is one of the true greats of all time. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada 🍁
Never as good without Waters' input.
It sounded fresh.
@@spanishpeaches2930 Why? Pretty much everything Waters put out after '85 was musically inferior.
I loved Learning To Fly and One Slip, which was also without Waters.
@@cornfilledscreamer614 They were better as a collective.
Favorite song off Division Bell has always been Coming Back to Life. Dave's version on a Night to Remember is just untouchable.
I agree. Beautiful song.
Same. Best song on the album!
It's weird, I never really cared for the album, then one night in 2007 I saw a Floyd cover band do Coming Back to Life and I suddenly got it. I still think of that night every time I hear it now, would have never guessed a Division Bell song would be my sole and fondest memory of a "Pink Floyd" concert, so to speak.
@Jim if you haven't heard it yet, check out Dave's version from the show In Gdansk. Just top notch version imo.
One of my all time Pink Floyd songs, especially from Pulse.
Take It Back is an amazing song that hooks you right away…the opening notes and the opening line are perfect. Gilmour’s Pink Floyd reminds me of Sammy’s Van Halen…I completely understand the love for the classic line ups, and they made some amazing albums. But these later albums were fantastic in their own right…Momentary Lapse of Reason, Division Bell, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Balance - great albums that highlight the longevity and adaptability of two great bands.
I agree. I feel the same way about Gilmore and Hagar. They surprised me. They held their own.
I LOVE this album! One of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. Right up there with the Pulse live album! I never really picked sides on the Waters/Gilmour Pink Floyd breakup, I just always hoped one day they'd put their differences aside and let bygones be bygones. I've seen them both live with their variants of Pink Floyd, and all I can say is regardless of who's playing the music on I'm just happy I still get to hear it live from the legends that created it. Have an amazing day professor!
Thanks Ken!
Right. Sometimes you gotta hope for the best and move on.
DAVE BROUGHT THE MELODY AND ON PITCH VOCALS AND ROGER BROUGHT THE DRAMA , LYRICS AND CONCEPT. THEY NEED EACH OTHER TO PRODUCE THE BEST FLOYD MUSIC.
Not without Richard Wright and Nick Mason.
Pink Floyd is always been more of an experience. Every time you place headphones on, it is feeling, a drifting into another state of mind.
So many songs you speak about on this channel just revives so many memories. The takes you provide on these songs really just make me appreciate the beauty of what these artists created for us to enjoy. Thanks for bringing these perspectives. Such a joy
Thanks for listening!
I think post-Roger Pink Floyd really came into their own on The Division Bell, with Rick Wright also being brought back completely into the fold. I really liked the comment about Dave creating a soundscape world when working with sound effects. My personal favorite Roger solo album is Radio K.A.O.S. (where radio comes out of chaos).
"The Division Bell" is my second favorite Pink Floyd album, behind "The Wall"..."Bell" feels so personal and real..."Poles Apart" has one of Gilmour's best solos, by far...
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I agree. It's an underrated album in the Floyd collection!
@@ProfessorofRock Just heard a cat meow on "Poles Apart" for the first time...man, I love this song! Thanks for reminding me to listen to this today...just what the doctor ordered!
It’s such a great album. The Wall and Dark Side are my two favorites.
Great to hear someone acknowledge the fantastic guitar solo at the end of Poles Apart. Thank you! It's my equal favourite Floyd song, alongside another which also has a pretty decent guitar solo at the end, Comfortably Numb.
Me and my girlfriend, who would become my wife, were on vacation. When we got into the hotel room after a long journey, we each opened a beer, turned on the CD player with "The Division Bell". We lay on the bed and listened and when the music stopped, we played it again. It was almost a religious experience. The favorite is "High Hopes", which is the perfect end to a great record. Thanks for the video and greetings from Sweden! 👍❤
The Division Bell was just such a wonderfully cohesive album for me, there wasn't anything out of place and no need for filler. It was just there, waiting to be savoured in full. "What Do You Want From Me?" got a fair amount of playtime from me at first, but I was in my 20's and really didn't know where I was headed or even where I wanted to go so that song was a good companion for that stage in my life. Now I look back and I see that, from where I am right now, "High Hopes" is a suitably comfortable accompaniment to my middle years.
I wanted to "like" this over and over while watching it. Professor- you touched a place in the soul that I can very much relate to. You're like a songwriter yourself in the way you describe the emotions that music brings out In us all. Thank you for painting such vivid pictures of nostalgia for us. It feels so good to go on that journey with you. This episode in particular I can tell meant a lot to you. It does to me too. Thank you for keeping this music in the foreground of our collective memories- it's so important to so many of us!
Listening to Pink Floyd initiates deep personal thoughts about your life. The interesting thing is, as you get older the songs change their meaning to you.
It all changes with time.
High Hopes - the live versions especially - has one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
It’s truly amazing.
And the story of the ride home was so vivid; great job of describing the complex feelings that we experience through songs. You described literally and figuratively a road we all travel. This is your song.
Thanks Bill!
Music gives us life.
Thank you Mr Gilmour! Thank you Sid, Rick and Nick ad well.
On an Island is my favorite Gilmour solo LP.
I saw Dave In Pompeii in 2016 Rattle that lock tour. The highlight of my concert going experiences.
I look at Roger being so difficult to work with as a blessing. Dave got to come into his own.
Dave Rick Nick and Roger did great work together as well. Unfortunately Roger never got the help he needed for his NPD.
Dave really did come into his own.
I hope Roger has gotten help out there nowadays.
I listened to this album every day for a year (or close to it) starting on the day it dropped. I was 17…and I would play it at night and fall asleep to it. It truly is a beautiful masterpiece. Still one of my favorite all time albums.
I love how both the music and the video for take it back sleep you away and make you feel like you’re being transported to another time in place. I’ve always been drawn to music that does that, and some of Pink Floyd’s other songs do that for me as well.
This album has had such a huge impact on me since the day I bought it. I remember thinking maybe there were too many guitar solos but being only a bass player at the time I didn’t appreciate that aspect. But years later it would become the reason I am guitarist now. It’s the perfect album to put on for a nice drive with the windows down on that first sunny spring day. It’s monumental from first note to last.
David has the voice and guitar tone that can only be described as The Gates of Heaven Opening Up.
Pink Floyd don't have a bad album to their name. I'm delighted that Division Bell was able to bring them back into relevancy.
I wasn't as a big a fan of the Endless River. But that's being picky.
the final cut was a bad album. if only because it was the point of separation and was almost entirely about roger waters father eric. this was water direction not the rest of the bands rick wright left because waters wouldn't let up on him and 2 years after wright left, waters left, the song a momentary lapse of reason is about waters leaving and almost immediately wanting to return as leader or founder but it wasn't gonna happen
I just don't like Ummagumma that much. The band didn't like it either.
@@ProfessorofRock Endless River is really a swan song to Richard Wright and for that reason I hold it dear to my heart. Wright like JP Jones and Entwhistle were the missing ingredient from taking a band from really good to greatness.
I like umma, grandchester and careful esp. but I like other albums much better
Waters could leave Pink Floyd and it still sounded like Pink Floyd. Gilmour was and still is the essence of the Pink Floyd sound, in my opinion.
High Hopes is the best song on the album for me, because the music itself is so haunting and ultimately uplifting. Of course, the lyrics, harkening back to the earlier days of Pink Floyd, just add to the mystique of the song. A fitting way for the band to go out.
I agree. Great stuff.
The live versions on Gilmour solo shows are amazing. Never got to see him live, but the DVDS are great.
It’s a cool song.
To me - it's honestly one of the best songs ever written. Melodically almost perfect, perfect dynamics, absolutely great lyrics.
Instead of doing an unnecessary elective during my final year of medical school, I took a month off to visit family in Poland. I delayed the trip by a day to see Pink Floyd perform in Nashville, TN in April 1994 with my girlfriend, now wife of 29 years, and it was FANTASTIC! I flew to Warsaw the next day, and bought the engagement ring when I returned. She delivered all of our children while listening to Pink Floyd in her headphones!
I had a very similar experience to your car ride when this album came out. I had just moved back home to Jacksonville Florida from Dallas Tx. My father and I got up early one Saturday morning and he put this cd in his home stereo system. You know, the old tall cabinets system that could fill your house, and the neighbors house with music. It was a cool spring day and we both had a great time jamming and cleaning all morning. We had the album on repeat. I remember stopping to sit for a moment. I looked around and saw my father really for the first time as a friend rather than dad. I knew then my life would never be same.
Now I regularly listen to the Pulse concert while working on something and the songs from the Division Bell are most my favorites. They always take me back to that day with Dad.
What did i learn from a record and not from school
thanks to Rick Nelson "Ya can't please everyone
so ya got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson!
@@ProfessorofRock You need to do an episode on Ricky Nelson, completely underrated when talking about the influencers of early R&R..... he made it ok with his little videos at the end of Ozzie and Harriet.
YES! I frequently return to that song. It sure helped me. The earlier one learns this lesson, the more successful and happy one will be. Beats the hell out of school.
I learned this: You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Thanks, Mick and crew!
That song saved my sanity as a child! So simple, but so profound.
You keep referencing that interview with Nick Laird-Clowes. You REALLY got so many pearls from that interview. His enthusiasm is infectious and wonderful.
This interview, and many other sources, paints an incredible picture of David Gilmour and his many contributions.
As to your poll question, that is a tough one and worthy of some deep thought and consideration. I'll have to get back to you on that one... Bowie's last album, Blackstar. Or maybe Leonard Cohen's last studio album, Thanks for the Dance or novel, A Ballet of Lepers. Anyways those are the first to pop into my head.
I remember when this album came out, my local radio station had this program on Friday or Saturday nights called For Headphones Only. I stayed home the night they played this album in full the first weekend after release. I was so glad I did, the album blew me away.
I love the backup singers ‘oooooooo’ so uplifting
Love this album, definitely an underrated fine piece of work. Thank you for presenting it on here, enjoy hearing about all the inside information I never knew about. This album is a real gem!
That's pretty deep! When this album came out, I was stationed in Korea, and had just broken up with my fiance. This and "Poles Apart" sort of kept me on a straight course.
Division Bell is a great album but I don't know, I don't understand why Momentery Lapse is so under rated.
It's a fantastic album and the supporting tour was absolutely mind blowing!
Momentary Lapse is wonderful.
"Delicate Sound of Thunder" -- saw it twice, Best Ever.
yeh we attended the lapse show ahead of their time laser lights sound system i think they had a second drummer also was deandome unc
Of course you will mainly see the people hitting this to talk about an album they love, but 'critically' I don't see much way to compare it to Momentary Lapse. The sad thing is that I think David simply doesn't have the confidence in writing lyrics, probably because of who his partner was, for a variety of reasons. But I remember listening to it and thinking 'gee thats nice'. Which is what I thought of the travelling wilburys or some new pop band. Which is sacrilege to Pink Floyd. Thats likely my fault, you tend to forget over time the "Final Cut" and "Ummagumma".
But I'd go song by song on BOTH albums and attempt to argue objectively why Momentary is the better album. I dont' give a shit WHO wrote the songs or lyrics, it was a Pink Floyd albume if nothing else because the angry ghost of Roger was INVITED into the studio as they shopped around for writers they thought could imitate him.
@@mikearchibald744 "the angry ghost of Roger was INVITED into the studio as they shopped around for writers they thought could imitate him." what's supposed to mean this sentence? xD Roger was not in the band during this album
"7 or 8 seperate bits, and that's lovingly crafted" ..an absolute pleasure listening to Nick take us inside the studio.
The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot, but Waters, I think, is a legit lyrical genius. But like with many if not most geniuses, they're not usually easy to get along with. Add to the mix a rock & roll ego, and you get Roger. One of the things I love about this channel, is it seems the majority of the interviews, most seem so humble and down-to-earth.
True. The man is a great performer. He just takes it too far sometimes.
For one, David Bowie said "to be an artist is to be mentally unstable". Neil Peart was also a lyrical genius and often under rated because he was such a good drummer, but he said it best "you can't escape your childhood". Roger lost his dad, and had a dominant mother. Davids parents shipped him off to boarding school. That almost says it all. In EVERY rock band they say there needs to be a Roger Waters or it won't last. Jon Anderson was that in Yes, Tony Banks became that in Genesis. I think it was Johnny Ramone who said "somebody has to be the adult or nothing gets done".
I get the impression that after Dark Side David would have been happy busking on a streetcorner. But as you say about Roger, the band and lyrics say it all, so whenever I've seen interviews he's REMARKABLY humble on that. He even recently said Dave adn Rick were becoming the egomaniacs and jeering at what a shitty musician he was.
So we only see the 'interview moments'. Considering what is going on in the world, teh Pink Floyd feuds seem pretty adolescent. "old dude makes fun of partner". "Old dudes wife says other old dude is a jerk". Thats kind of schoolyard stuff. You can get a lot from Rogers lyrics, but people SAY all kinds of shit, politicians SAY shit like that too, turns out they don't buy it. So I don't tend to take the drama too seriously, the music I do.
Thanks for the reminder on how much I loved The Division Bell! My mom always loved Pink Floyd--in fact I have her vinyl copies of Dark Side of The Moon & The Wall.
Thank you (as always) Professor. I LOVE this album. From start to finish this is a masterpiece.
I had "High Hopes" for The Division Bell when it first came out. I have to say I was utterly "lost for words" when I heard the first track "Cluster One", people just "keep talking" about it. It really made me feel like I was "coming back to life", unfortunately I had to "take it back" because I listened to it so much the first week I was "wearing the inside out" of the tape. I felt like it was "a great day for freedom" , listening to it again on my walkman on the beach back in 94, I could easily have been "marooned" there and I wouldn't have cared. It was utterly "Poles apart" from their other albums. Someone shouted , "hey you", I said "what do you want from me" . That was now 30 years ago, people really did think we'd be living on the "Dark side of the moon" by now. God bless.
it was the 1st Pink Floyd album I had purchased even though I was familiar with most of their songs. I was quite surprised to hear that the album was so good from front to back with not a bad song on the album. David Gilmour is such a legendary musician.
It’s one of their best.
I was lucky enough to see them in concert on this tour in Pittsburgh. One of the greatest moments in my life. I was a sophomore in high school. Went with my best friend and his father, who just sadly passed away this past Thanksgiving. A moment in time I will never forget!
This album was an absolute revelation to me, a Pink Floyd renaissance and I was all in then and even more so now. I love this album, every track. Wright's Wearing the Inside Out is a standout for me, and add the exquisite presentation of Storm Thorgerson and on every level The Division Bell is rapturous!
I liked you review. It feels honest. Other people cannot praise Division Bell without mentioning Waters. I suspect they praise Division Bell only to put down Waters. In fact, they promote Waters without even listening to Division Bell
Seriously this is one of your best episodes. I was captivated by your openness of how this album made you feel. Such insight to your feelings in just that point in your life. Very interesting and poignant. Thank you
This album is my mostest favorite!!! It has gotten me through soooo many difficult times and then the rebuild. Poles Apart is just...... IT.
I remember waiting outside a downtown Montreal record store just before midnight, March 27th, 1994, with my 7-month pregnant wife (her decision to join me) to be one of the first to purchase the CD, which was coming out the next day… i.e. after midnight. Great times! My favourite cut is "A Great Day For Freedom". Excellent, emotional guitar solo by Gilmour.
What a ride to say the least, songwriting can be easy, but it can also be very challenging on a variety of fronts. Fantastic work as always
Many thanks!
Life can throw curveballs.
I’m with ya man. Division Bell came out at a pivotal point of my adolescence. Haven’t listened to High Hopes for about 20 years, but knew every word by heart. It just sticks with you.
I think the band had a much more positive (and better) sound when Waters left. As David once said, it got to the point where the music sounded more like "complaining" rather than a song.
Your videos just keep getting better and better, loving this channel.
A very underrated album. I feel they went back to their roots with the The Division Bell. The help with the writing freed up the group to compose great music in their iconic style.
You can also hear they threw some new age in the mix.
They had no help to write the music. Probably, you confused with Momentary Lapse
“ I wanna hear some sounds that recognize the pain that I feel , yeah ! “ The Verve . Genius
I saw this show in Oakland. WOW! What an event. Gilmour’s guitar and vocals coupled with an amazing sight and sound experience…it was Pink Floyd in full glory!
Saw this show in Oakland twice - awesome 🤯
One of my all time favorite albums! The music is perfect! Thank you sharing this!
Another gem on The Division Bell is "What Do You Want from Me?" It sounds a lot like classic Floyd.
Great song. Good call Lewis.
The open chord at the beginning I always had to crank it to 11 to get that first injection of gilmour guitar in my vains 🎸🤯
It is a Floyd throwback for sure.
the bridge is so good
Gritty song. Great choice!
Hey Professor, I grew up with Pink Floyd being a part of my musical life and from the first time I listened to Time form the Dark Side of the Moon album that song touched my heart profoundly and rings with greater truth with age. Now 68.
"I quit school, it was interfering with my education' - G. Carlin
Ha ha. Classic Carlin!
Seven dirty words…
No contest on what I like best...Division Bell. What I remember most about the album was the signs all over Best Buy. I know it's funny but I had never seen so many ads for an album before. Great album too. High Hopes is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. I like Take it Back but High Hopes is just so full and majestic. When he sings the chorus it just moves me. Comfortably Numb is probably his best guitar solos (if not the best, one of the best of all time) but High Hopes is right up there with it...very stirring. Hope you do a story about it someday soon. Keep up the great work.
David Gilmour's battles with Roger Waters in Pink Floyd was always musical while Waters would always make it personal. Gilmour has always given Waters credit for his deftness with the themes he would come up with and the lyrics that would capture the heart of those themes, but Gilmour's biggest gripe was that Waters would always revert to simple musical themes or arrangements that Waters often insisted on that in Gilmour's opinion under-served the lyrics. Perfect example was from The Wall. Comfortably Numb sounds as grand and huge because Gilmour pushed for a more sweeping musical arrangement to support the alienation theme of Waters' evocative lyrics. Waters' insisted it should be smaller musically, almost folk like. Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees!! Thankfully producer Bob Ezrin saw the bigger picture and sided with Gilmour. There is no way Comfortably Numb would be the classic it is today if Roger had gotten his way with it. It works precisely because of the cutting lyrics and massive sounding musical arrangement.
One of the greatest songs of all time, from the lyrics all the way down to the mesmerizing guitar solo.
Being the huge Floyd fan that I am, this album definitely was a long wait since the release of Momentary Lapse of Reason. I was chomping at the bit to listen to it, racing back to my apartment after buying it. I was blown away right from the get! My favorite tracks are "Take it Back", "Wearing the Inside Out" and "Coming Back to Life". I couldn't wait for the announcement of a tour. Once the tour was announced I was ecstatic!
I remember the local DJ's saying that Pink Floyd had a surprise for our show because 56,000 tickets sold out in less than an hour. The surprise.....
I got to see them play Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for the first time since 1975. Words cant describe the emotions/feelings I felt once I realized what was happening....
I will never forget the night of July 15, 1994 at the Pontiac Silverdome........
That’s like a one in a million experience. Their tours were breathtaking.
Many many years ago when I was probably 14 or just turned 15 I went out with my grandfather to a golf practice. We would do this often and after practicing long range we would go to the putting range. I remember on one occasion while putting there was this man next to us which had a boom box. As I am able to do perceive a rock station Take it Back comes up. I had not heard this song before but I instantly recognized David Gilmour’s vocals. I cannot tell you how blown away I was by this track all of the sudden creeping into my system. It was the right moment to hear it; being surrounded by green pasture and a cloudy greyish sky, it was perfect. It is perhaps one of the most surreal moments in my life, for a little while I forgot about golf entirely to my grandfather’s dismay perhaps 😂
The Division Bell is what made me a Pink Floyd fan. The first song I heard from it was "What Do You Want From Me?", and from there, I immediately dove down the rabbit hole. I had previously heard a few Pink Floyd songs in passing on radio & MTV(most noteably "Another Brick In The Wall part 2" & "Learning To Fly"), but it wasn't until The Division Bell that I was inspired to actively listen to the band's earlier works. The Division Bell still remains my favorite Pink Floyd album, and one of my top 4 favorite studio albums of all-time!
I'm 66 years old so i grew up in the 70S .
So to young for Woodstock But I was able to see a few of the super groups. Black Sabbath , Tree Dog Night , Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yes,, ELO. I actually saw the Liberty Bell concert at the old Indian stadium. The only Floyd concert I saw. Unbelievable, never forget it. The light show the music. Truly blew my mind. In youth I spent hours in my bed room with head phones mounted on my head. The only way to get the full depth of music. I always had a radio in my room. I would go to estate sales and buy old console radios. 1 had over 20 frequency bands. In 1975 a friend of minds brother was getting married. His brother was a student at Akron U, which was were the bachelor party was . My buddy and I showed up For the party and I walk in his brother's room and saw his roommate.. Eric Carman. So I got to party with a star of the times. Love what you do. Keep on and keep the peace. Vance G or VG as my friends call me.
My favorite part about music when I was growing up was that songs replaced pictures in a photo album for me. Learning all this behind the scenes stuff decades later and what the songs were supposed to be about as opposed to what they were in my mind is wonderful. First rate channel nd first rate story.
Remember when you would assign a certain song to one situation in your life?
I’m a lifelong Pink Floyd fan, thanks to my older siblings . My sister took me to see them in 1988 when I was 15 for Momentary Lapse Tour. Then years later the Division Bell came out. I listened to it a few times with some friends in college . I liked it . But it was after my junior year in college , my good friends and I did a summer study abroad program in 1994 in London. During that time, I was having a great time, but every morning , I worked out at a small gym down the street from the school. Take it Back was being played a lot on British radio. Especially at the gym. I loved it. Now, Every time I hear Take it Back, I will always think of that experience which was one of the greatest times of my life. For that reason, Take It Back has very special meaning for me . High Hopes though, does rank as one of my favorite (hope it’s not sacrilege agains Dark Side) Pink Floyd songs
The Division Bell is an important album, too bad Roger and David couldn't clean up their relationship-- this was a great video document Adam. Digging deep on your channel!!
Got The Division Bell for my birthday in April of 94 and played it from start to finish and loved every minute of it. And still do to this day 🙂
When the Division Bell came out I dragged my Pevey towers on the back deck and played it for the entire neighborhood while floating on the lake behind my house. They liked it so much! When the Division Bell Tour came to Clemson S.C. about 10 of us bought tickets and went to the concert together. Gilmore and Co. were perfect that night. I have been to hundreds of concerts... This is and always will be Number One.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing such a cool memory!
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Absolutely love Division Bell. I saw Floyd 3 times in the summer of 1994 during the Pulse tour. After The Wall and Dark Side this my 3rd favorite album from my all time favorite band.
I LOVE PINK FLOYD!
Gilmour is a genius. Roger Wayers is coming across as a bitter old man. A God complex if you will. Shame they couldn't get along.
Thanks for this Professor. My love for Pink Floyd will always outlast Roger Waters antics.
Thanks Roger!
God complex. Sad.
Another incredible video Professor!! Been a huge fan of Pink Floyd my whole life and I`m 59.
Rock on!
This is good company ✌️🎸
Happy almost 60th! 😊
The Pulse concert that came from this was AMAZING! One of the best shows I've ever seen!
High Hopes is, in my mind, one of the nicest piece of rock music ever written. It is just, just, er, B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. And The Division Bell is a very good album.
Nothing but great life memories associated with The Division Bell. Like you, I was at a crossroads of leaving college and embarking on independent adulthood. I actually refrain from listening to it too much so it doesn't lose that special place.
Dude, that's exactly what Hi Hope's was about! Leaving our innocents and our childhood for our dreams of a bright future. But once we realize our childhood dreams (if we are fortunate enough), we realize that it wasn't as bright as it seemed. That's when we look back and remember those nights of deep conversation and days of fun and enjoyment that we had with those few close friends with whom most of us lost contact with because of adulthood and different roads traveled mainly after college or any higher education. That's when we really cross over into adulthood.
I understand the connection that you have to the music of take it back, but both the music and lyrics to Hi Hopes delivers in both ways also. I had crossed into the "work" part of adulthood a few years back from 1994 but I was just starting to open my wings and making my first fumbling attempts at flying. I experienced life in so many different ways during the spring and summer of 1994. Colors were brighter, food tasted better, music was about real internal struggles while being much more raw. That is why "Hi Hope's" speaks to me like "Take it Back" speaks to you. One album that beat this album though was Pulse! The live version of all of these great tunes as well as all of "Dark Side of the Moon" and so many of their older tunes that also live on in our hearts.
Excellent album. High Hopes is one of their best songs, and the final solo is emotional and mesmerizing. Also love What Do You Want From Me and Keep Talking. And Marooned is pretty much the perfect song to listen to laying on a beach and pondering the universe.
Marooned is an amazing song.
Love Marooned! Still can’t believe it’s their only Grammy winning song. 🤔
It's truly amazing how you can remember the details of your life. I can't remember one song that i heard the first time and what i was thinking or doing.
I know Syd Barett is a revered and tragic figure, but Pink Floyd never would have been the success that they are if it wasn't for Gilmour. He elevated that band 100%. #Straightfacts!
High Hopes is the perfect song for Pink Floyd to take their final bow. One of my favorites.
Due to censoring on streaming services I still buy CDs and as you were talking about getting that new CD in the car stereo and the excitement of it, I really connected with that feeling.
CDs remain my listening experience as well. I've never used a streaming service or platform. I don't know why I would want to.
I miss CDs.
I love Division Bell. It was a prominent part of the soundtrack of my life in my last couple of years of high school, and has remained a mainstay of my soundtrack ever since.
The devision bell was a magnificent record. The lyrics were poighted and beautiful.
I was in college at a small liberal arts school and had a weekly show on the campus radio station. As I was the only DJ at the station who was into classic rock, the station manager gifted to me our promotion LP of The Division Bell. It is pressed on translucent light blue vinyl. Very cool. I still have it.
Poles Apart is my favorite song on the album. I love the whole thing really. I saw them on the tour in LA, can’t believe it’s been thirty years. I could go another lifetime not hearing about the Waters feud though. It’s ancient news, he has a huge career, Gilmour does as well. Moving on. And both this and the Waters album are great.
As long as they’re both doing great now there is no need to worry.
I am so happy did this song and Album. I love your insights. This is also one of my favorite songs.
There's not a bad song on Division Bell. Even Richard Wright (RIP) got some lead vocals.. The song that I keep coming back to is "Coming Back To Life". Like "Another Brick In The Wall", at least for PF, it's darn near danceable lol Thanks, Adam!
Darn near danceable! I love it. Thanks Fred.
Haha, can you imagine having to actually improvise a dance to that song? 😂
Thank you for the lesson, Professor. You helped keep me sane back during Covid lockdown. Wanted to thank you.
Thanks Lisa!
What you do is a service, a blessing and, sometimes, a literal lifesaver for many of us. Remember that on the days that you doubt whether or not it matters. Believe me, it matters plenty.
Such an iconic band. Too bad about Roger Waters' erratic behavior over the years, though, as it leaves a sour taste about his musical accomplishments. As for getting the CD, that "glee on Christmas morning feeling" made waiting for a new release so much fun. Love the personal anecdotes, Adam. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks Robster!
Everybody knows that feeling.
So well-done. Brilliant as always. The man from Dream Academy is so endearing and sweet.