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Pink Floyd: The Division Bell | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 105 (Patreon)

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2026-01-07 03:20:03
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Well...as I'll explain in the video, I wasn't planning on starting off 2026 with Pink Floyd, but I'm really happy that this album made it's way to the Extended Play Lounge today. This is a really enjoyable listen...one that re-filled me with some optimism and hope on a day that I needed it. It really is magical hearing these players make music together! I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

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Pink Floyd: The Division Bell | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 105

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Claudio Fernandes

Well, I was hoping to finally watch Doug react to one of my favourite albums of all time, Songs From The Wood. Hope it doesn't take too long now. In the meantime, I'll watch this reaction from an album which I think it's very overrated. At least that's what I thought when I listened to it a few times when it was released back in the 90s

Jeff Hansen

We saw Pink Floyd in April 1994 on the second night of the Division Bell tour in the Alamodome in San Antonio TX. Our seats were in the back about as far away from the stage as you could get. Not ideal right ? ... Except when they launched into Wish You Were Here . The sound of 35,000 people singing along with the band (who could hardly be heard) was an extraordinary almost surreal experience. The second set they played Dark Side of the Moon almost in sequence in its entirety. After the next show word got out and they stopped doing that. I remember leaving the the venue full of joy and incredibly thankful that I was there that night. Thanks Doug--this will be a real treat.

Gokhan Mergen

These are dark dark days. Some of the darkest I've seen in this country (USA). We all need a therapy and some of kind of post traumatic stress disorder relief.

Gokhan Mergen

The Division Bell is an album I've listened to regularly since 1994. Maybe at least a couple of times a year if not more. It's incredibly emotional and powerful. A true therapy of an album.

Gokhan Mergen

I guess we're still doing better than 9/11, financial crisis, iraq war, 1/6 -- some of the biggest traumas I had in the past ~30 yrs. So truthfully, we're not doing the worst (hopefully).

Gokhan Mergen

I listened to every minute of this 1:39:00 episode. It was truly delightful. Thank you!!!

me_you

The scenes in the Marooned video were from the abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which was close to Chernobyl and had housed many of the workers from the power plant.

Joe O'Farrell

Thank you for a great commentary on (in my opinion) a much underrated album. Others have already mentioned the Chernobyl context of the video appended to Marooned, so my contribution can be about Anthony Moore! He’s an academic and writer who collaborated extensively on the previous PF album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason; he was the lyricist for On The Turning Away

KellieE69

And I personally could not love this anymore. Will watch tonight when I get off work.

Ralph Darvill

An album that I had never previously heard in full. Although I knew several songs from it. I found later Floyd output a little one dimensional, and one-paced to be honest. It's all perfectly pleasant on the ear, and impeccably played, but for me it lacks anything to really grab me. The rumbling feud with Waters also gets in the way of some wider creativity.

Ruth James

As the vote was so close, perhaps Songs from the Wood could be next week's EPL?

ben-one-eye

If you want a whole album that sounds like Cluster One, there is such an album actually. It's called The Endless River.

JB (TrainofThoughts)

Coming Back To Life is my favorite Floyd song of all time!! That song never fails to both completely wreck me and inspire me to keep moving forward with a sense of hope. Gilmour at his finest!!

Adie

I don't think I ever sat down and listened to the whole album from start to finish before - it was a lovely experience. On Poles Apart the circus-like music reminded me of Pow R. Toc H. from Piper at the Gates of Dawn (which you heard in Daily Doug Ep. 398.) and how that early Pink Floyd track superimposed or cut to apparently unrelated circus-like music (a la Ives' Holidays Symphony 'say'). So, for me, this is an invocation of Syd Barrrett, or at least of the Pink Floyd that he led.

James Geckle

I was surprised how much I enjoyed hearing this album again. I was never a naysayer but I hadn’t returned to it for quite a while. Me & The Mrs listened together and reminisced about seeing the Pulse tour. Folk in Philly were leaving behind the official Floyd butt cushions placed on the first several dozen rows. I only took one extra, I wonder if I would have been stopped if I took a dozen! A factoid exploded into my brain hole just now. I believe Douglas Adams was hanging out with The Floyd, who were wondering what to call their next album, and he suggested, ‘The Division Bell.’ PS My Mrs was my girlfriend in 1994 and we got married in 1995. Coincidence!?

Blinky

I love how "Keep Talking" is sort of the thesis of the album. It perfectly encapsulates everything in the songs around it, in terms of communication and isolation. Funny you mention this feeling like a David Gilmour solo album at times, since that's a criticism often levied against the Final Cut the other way, that it was more of a Waters solo album than a Pink Floyd album. It's ALSO good, but much darker. It's also interesting to think of Roger Waters, as a person, nowadays. He spent about 17 years in Pink Floyd, and then the last 42, more than 3 times as long, NOT in the band.

Oscar Kohler

The high hopes video also features St John’s College Cambridge and the Bridge of Sighs which is in central Cambridge as apposed to Ely Cathedral which is in one of the other 2 city’s which makes up the county. Most of the video is filmed in the Fens which is also where the Album cover was taken which is an area of East Anglia known for its incredibly flat landscape and farmland. The band being from central Cambridge aswell as David having gone to the Perse School also in central.

Rodney Griffin

This is essentially a Gilmour album as Pink Floyd. Just as The Final Cut is essentially a Roger Waters album as Pink Floyd. Both are very sad in their own way. Isolation. Something is Missing... Sad.😓

Allen
>>199170426

Yes, the synergy is not there; most musicians who go solo end up making music more fulfilling (to them), but it seems to be weighed down by this isolationist mentality you mentioned.

Octavio Stenberg

Would love to see you react to Nightwish's cover of High Hopes.

Ulf Skjoldhammer

Gutted I didn't get to vote for Tull then, you would have had a tie even counting every vote!

Björn Buske

The lost city footage from Marooned is from Pripyat/Ukraine in the Chernobyl forbidden zone

Björn Buske

Wearing The Inside Out is about Rick's battle with depression. More of that on his solo album Broken China

Ruth James

Whilst I am a fan of PF, I am underwhelmed by this album, musically, apart from High Hopes - sorry - and tbh most of their material since The Wall. I look forward to Doug's reaction to Piper at the Gates of Dawn at some point.

DonHaka

I am so glad that this album won. This is pretty much my favorite record of all time. Whilst I love Pink Floyd's discography in its entirety, no other album makes me feel as warm and hopeful as this one. It's a perfect blend of the sounds of the late 80s and early 90s with Gilmour, Mason and Wright's musical sensibilities. It is also an album that I practically grew up on thanks to my dad. He would have this playing in the car when I was small and almost every new year we would listen/watch the PULSE live concert DVD.

DonHaka

Both The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason are worthwhile listens IMO. Also would like to point out that I found the version of Wearing The Inside Out that you heard to have been a bit different from the album version that I'm used to. Also you heard the single version of Take It Back, which in its full album version isn't all that different, but the "guitar solo" is a bit longer and after hearing the album version the single version just sounds wrong in the way it's cut :)

Allen
>>199247129

After listening to this again, I have to agree. I know that music is very subjective in that it triggers certain emotions/expecatations that differ based on life experiences (that's why some members here love this album). However, if I'm being objective (taking into account their entire ouevre and the contributions that Roger Waters has made over the years), this sounds less adventurous. This can also be applied to other musicians (U2 for example, had their prime from "War" through "Achtung Baby"; it seemed they were still young and hungry enough to make an artistic mark on the world rather than just offering commentary on their own personal lives after age 40).

Eric Fretheim

"Take it back" was one of my road trip driving songs at one point, especially for nighttime driving. It's an amazing song to have on while cruising down some rural highway in the middle of nowhere. I get why so many people aren't fans of this album, which lacks so many of the original members, but I guess I'm outing myself as being as much a Gilmour fan as a Pink Floyd fan when I say "Division Bell" is my third favorite PF album, after Dark Side and The Wall. I do agree with the 'criticism' that Division Bell is a Gilmour album labeled as PF, but I have a hard time understanding why that is a bad thing.

Elevown

Thats for sure Pripyat in the Ukrainian Chernobyl exclusion zone.