Those seven words are a pretty accurate review of this album. He said of this album, “Just rubbish…nonsense from beginning to end.” Sadly, he’s not wrong. A lot of the best Pink Floyd stuff is the kind of puzzling material that keeps you guessing what it’s actually about, but this is too far past the mark.
This album did well commercially, but it’s not particularly great. In fact, unused material from the recording sessions for The Division Bell would end up on the track listing for The Endless River. The Division Bell was the last album that Pink Floyd would release for twenty years before their final foray, The Endless River.
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Incidentally, the tracks on this album do pair very well with the psychedelic visuals of the obscure movie they were produced for, but they don’t make for a particularly great album on their own. According to Roger Waters, the movie’s director Barbet Schroeder “didn’t want a soundtrack to go with the movie…He wanted the soundtrack to relate exactly to what was happening in the movie, rather than a film score backing the visuals.” So, they pretty much had free reign with it. One of Pink Floyd’s worst reviewed albums is actually the soundtrack for an English language French movie about heroin addicts who go to Ibiza. Here are all of them, ranked from worst to best.
Over the course of their run, Pink Floyd created fifteen brilliant albums. They’re in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the UK Music Hall of Fame, and they’re one of the best selling artists of all time with over 250 million records sold across the globe. They were also trailblazers in the worlds of prog rock and psychedelic rock, and every artist in that genre that has followed has been influenced by them, at least a little bit. Pink Floyd are without a doubt one of the greatest rock bands of all time.