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How can it be a cash grab when bands rarely make money off of releasing studio albums anymore? Touring is where the money is, and Pink Floyd is not gonna be doing that.   I think this is a touching

bathory
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I'll listen, but I can't say I'm too excited   I don't like any floyd at all after the wall, and even the wall is a bit too long for me (I prefer the lamb or even topographic oceans when it comes to p

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It is a very well produced demo.   Again...totally a background type of disc. Anyone buying this hoping for Pink Floyd will be really disappointed. Spark up some kind and pop on the 5.1 blue ray mix a

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Is this REALLY Pink Floyd, or the latest cash grab?

 

Sure is the real Floyd,minus Roger Waters of course!The recordings are from The Division Bell sessions back in the nineties.It's a sort of tribute to Richard Wright,Floyd's keys player,who died a few yrs ago.Four sections,mainly instrumental,with the last track having Dave Gilmour vocals. Can't wait……

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I'll listen, but I can't say I'm too excited

 

I don't like any floyd at all after the wall, and even the wall is a bit too long for me (I prefer the lamb or even topographic oceans when it comes to prog double albums)

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I'll listen, but I can't say I'm too excited

 

I don't like any floyd at all after the wall, and even the wall is a bit too long for me (I prefer the lamb or even topographic oceans when it comes to prog double albums)

 

The Wall,Topographic Oceans,The Lamb-All brilliant!

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I'm pretty pumped for this. I've just got into Pink Floyd a couple years back. So this is like my first album release experience. Kind of like Clockwork Angels and Thick as a Brick 2!
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It's also been announced recently that Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will be releasing a new album in 2015!Plus a tour too!Not sure where though.
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I'm pretty sure that the album will make the long winter nights sweeter and a lot shorter. Hope it's not the last one under the name Pink Floyd, as Gilmour stated.
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I'm amazed that so many people like Waters-era Floyd but have never heard Waters' absolutely amazing "Amused to Death"-album. If it was a Floyd album it'd be in the top 3. It's so good.

 

Listen to it. If you like The Wall, you'll love Amused.

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I'm amazed that so many people like Waters-era Floyd but have never heard Waters' absolutely amazing "Amused to Death"-album. If it was a Floyd album it'd be in the top 3. It's so good.

 

Listen to it. If you like The Wall, you'll love Amused.

I like The Wall but I prefer everything from Meddle to Animals...

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I'm amazed that so many people like Waters-era Floyd but have never heard Waters' absolutely amazing "Amused to Death"-album. If it was a Floyd album it'd be in the top 3. It's so good.

 

Listen to it. If you like The Wall, you'll love Amused.

 

It's ok, like Rog has said it's considered Pt 3 to Dark Side and The Wall. DSotM>Animals>The Wall for me. I find the other works a little patchy inc all the solo albums.

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I'm amazed that so many people like Waters-era Floyd but have never heard Waters' absolutely amazing "Amused to Death"-album. If it was a Floyd album it'd be in the top 3. It's so good.

 

Listen to it. If you like The Wall, you'll love Amused.

 

I have the gold disc of that album. IT'S AMAZING!!!!!!

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I'm amazed that so many people like Waters-era Floyd but have never heard Waters' absolutely amazing "Amused to Death"-album. If it was a Floyd album it'd be in the top 3. It's so good.

 

Listen to it. If you like The Wall, you'll love Amused.

 

I have the gold disc of that album. IT'S AMAZING!!!!!!

 

Beautiful.

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Not surprised, the initial reviews are out and they are terrible. Personally, and I love PF, I was concerned this would be too noodley, patched together, unformed scraps. Seems to be the case.

 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-endless-river/

 

Pink Floyd aren’t hiding the basic facts behind what will probably turn out to be their last-ever album: ‘The Endless River’ consists of leftovers from their last studio LP, 1994′s ‘The Division Bell,’ includes mostly instrumental tracks and was assembled as a tribute to keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008.

So if it sounds like a collection of old outtakes at times, that’s the point. And if it has more in common with the band’s post-Syd Barrett, pre-superstardom records than the mid-’70s epics that turned on millions of headphones-wielding fans, that’s sorta the point, too.

‘The Endless River’ sounds like it was made by a band in transition. And in a way, that’s pretty much what Pink Floyd are these days, with only singer-guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason left. Wright plays on these tracks, but he’s almost an ethereal spirit here, drifting above, below and alongside the songs with ghostly detachment. He gives ‘The Endless River’ its familiar qualities, but he also gives it some purpose and some of its aimlessness.

As such, don’t go into the album expecting ‘The Dark Side of the Moon,’ ‘Wish You Were Here’ or even ‘The Division Bell.’ ‘The Endless River’ is subtler, and less inviting, than that. This is not an album of songs so much as it is a collection of ambient music pieces, sculpted together from leftover fragments of a 20-year-old album that, let’s face it, is no classic.

But tracks like the opening ‘Things Left Unsaid,’ ‘It’s What We Do’ (whose synth and rhythm passages echo ‘Welcome to the Machine’) and ‘Allons-Y (2),’ which features a signature searing Gilmour guitar solo, remind fans that, before they became one of the planet’s biggest rock bands, Pink Floyd were scoring long, complex instrumental pieces for people to trip out to.

Many of ‘The Endless River”s 18 cuts are stitched together so that it all flows together as a 53-minute instrumental suite with separate sections. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always come together seamlessly. The sweeping ‘Anisina,’ a highlight, gives way to ‘The Lost Art of Conversation,’ a short, snoozy piano-based track that leads a string of similar, less-than-two-minute songs that were most likely unfinished studio fragments in their original forms. And the plodding ‘Talkin’ Hawkin’,’ which includes a sampled 1994 commercial with physicist Stephen Hawking (and is a sorta sequel to ‘The Division Bell”s ‘Keep Talking’), is more novelty than a fully formed number.

So when Gilmour’s voice cuts through the clutter on ’Louder Than Words,’ the closing track and the album’s only song with a lead vocal, it’s like a memory from the past, reminding us that ‘The Endless River’ is a Pink Floyd album.

But the thing is, it really isn’t. It’s more like a remix record of previously unreleased songs that just happened to be assembled by the artists who made the music. It may not be the final LP fans want from one of classic rock’s most beloved bands, but as a closing-chapter tribute to both their late bandmate and lasting legacy, it’s kinda fitting.

 

 

Read More: Pink Floyd, 'The Endless River' - Album Review | Ultimate Classic Rock | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-endless-river/?trackback=tsmclip

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/pink-floyd-the-endless-river-album-review-boring-and-desperately-disappointing-9840601.html

 

 

 

Ah, now I remember why punk had to happen.

 

 

Culled from some 20 hours of old Division Bell session outtakes edited and revised to form one long, continuous flow, The Endless River is depressingly symptomatic of the stasis that a certain kind of ponderous prog-rock had reached by the late '70s - and in this case, there's not even the engagingly sour lyrical personality of Roger Waters to spike the somnolent progress.

A mostly instrumental album featuring just one vocal amongst its 18 largely indistinguishable "tracks", The Endless River's character is epitomised by the title "On Noodle Street": it's just aimless jamming, one long thread of Dave Gilmour's guitar against Rick Wright's pastel keyboards and Nick Mason's tentative percussion, with nary a melody of any distinction alighted upon for the duration.

The title is fraudulent: like living things, rivers pass through stages as they proceed from source to sea, from the frothing cascades of youth, through the majestic flow of maturity, to the meandering ruminations of old age and eventual accession into oceanic oneness; but Pink Floyd here have jumped straight to the late stage, which may be hardly surprising for such elder statesmen of rock, but doesn't make for a narratively gripping exercise. It just trickles on and on and on, and when it's over, it's as if it never happened. It just evaporates away.

What's particularly irritating is the way the album apes previous Floyd tropes in ersatz manner, with the spoken-word intro mumblings of "Things Left Unsaid" simply reminding one that the comparable mutterings on Dark Side Of The Moon actually served a thematic purpose: here they're just window-dressing, luring fans into a desperately disappointing experience.

It would take a Barrett-load of drugs to make this sound remotely interesting, though I wouldn't advise that. But what's blindingly clear is that, without the sparking creativity of a Syd or Roger, all that's left is ghastly faux-psychedelic dinner-party muzak. Which is fine, if you're thinking of throwing a ghastly faux-psychedelic dinner-party.

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I'm giving it a listen now. It's enjoyable, but it isn't blowing me away

Same here. Gave it a first listen tonight and it didn't grab me at all. There still is Time...

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