well, after I watched "Live at Pompeii", i conclude they were all pretty bland and faceless as people

That's exactly how they wanted to be and still do. Floyd are one of the very few bands that let the music do their talking without ever coming across as pretentious. No showboating, no 'look at how good I am', just 4 introspective guys (at the time) playing great music. Apart from the debut and the gatefold vinyl of Meddle the band didn't even bother putting photos of themselves on albums until AMLOR because they just weren't interested.

Live At Pompeii is ****ing brilliant, why make a live video with thousands of fans when you can just zone out in the ruins of an ancient city and just play music?

the music is good, no doubt, i think in the beginning of "A Saucerful of Secrets" live, they probably pioneered noise-rock

but they come across as pretty vanilla in personalities

Does that even matter?

maybe not

still, they're quite boring

It doesn't matter. It's not about showboating to the crowd, it's about expressing everything through music. Like telling a story through instruments.

i'd still like my favourite musicians to have some sort of "personality" - e.g. Tom Waits, Hendrix, Beefheart, etc

Roger Waters had a personality. He was just a massive effhead.

Pink Floyd Reportedly Set to Release New Album This Fall

New album set to be released in October. I'm not getting too excited for whatever they release, especially since Roger Waters' presence on the album hasn't been confirmed yet. I pray it's not Division Bell Part Two, Division Bell can suck my division balls.

Yeah, I have not liked any post Waters Floyd so cant get too excited about this. Gilmour, Mason and a bunch of hired guns phoning it in. No thanks.

Roger Waters hasn't been on a Pink Floyd album since 1983 and suddenly it's a problem?

If anyone has actually read into this album it seems like it is more of a swansong for Richard Wright with much of the album coming from his input on The Division Bell recordings and not a Dave Gilmour back slapping project.

I think people forget that the last 2 albums with Waters were essentially solo projects too and yes The Wall is ****ing crap 90% of the time.

Well I prefer Pink Floyd doing Roger Waters solo albums than Gilmour Floyd or Roger Waters solo albums. I would prefer a more Wright oriented album than Gilmour, Wright's got the best solo albums of the bunch barring Syd Barrett.

The Wall and The final Cut are genius. Momentary Lapse and Division Bell...not so much.

The Division Bell is definitely not their highest achievement. The only track i like is High Hopes... Momentary Lapse of Reason (while not being as good as most of the earlier albums) has some really fine tracks such as Learning to Fly and On the Turning Away

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I must say i like this album a lot. First time I heard it i was in bed in the dark with headphones on. I got so many chills at the beginning of Dogs of war.

Does anyone else feel like Floyd are ripping people off/creating false hopes? This is not, by all accounts, a new album. It's unreleased, unused footage from the Division Bell sessions. Most of it is instrumental and will probably reference back that album. I personally loved TDB, but if Floyd are going to "do a new album" I'd much rather it was new material rather than stuff they couldn't have been bothered to use in the original recording and are now pushing out for people to pay for. Seems a bit "money-grabbish" to me.

No High Hopes. I expect decent instrumental album.

That also made a perfect excuse for thousands of fans to zone out in a theater and watch the film!

It's a great film!

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Best part of Live at Pompeii for me was the footage of the band in the studio working on DSOTM. Watching Waters actually come up with the sequence for On The Run is just too cool.

Agreed. If you like that than this is a must see DVD:

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^^^ Seen it. A must for any fan of the band.

I really like The Endless River. Gilmour's guitar work is inventive as usual, the analog keys sound great. Very colourful impressionist soundscapes with lot of references to the band's catalog /I think there is a sample from Pompei at some point in Sum, the theme from Us and Them, some Shine On harmonies etc./ It is album that I will keep on listening to.

You do realize that it's not actually a new album. It's basically a cluster of tracks that weren't released on The Division Bell.

I do realize that the foundation of the album are tracks not used in The Division Bell and I don't think it is a bad foundation. Unfortunately, I wasn't involved in the recording of The Division Bell, so these tracks are something new to me. Also, I guess there is a plenty of work done later. I am not sure but I think it is similar situation with The Final Cut - lot of ideas and tracks Waters couldn't fit in The Wall, developed later in new album.

I tried to listen to The Endless River and I was bored by the third track. I decided that I was too sober to listen to Pink Floyd. I intend to do a full listen soon.

I really got into them when i was in high school. I have all their studio albums on CD (except Endless River, haven't even listened to that one) and even of few on vinyl. I do prefer their "classic" period more than anything else, but their early albums are interesting.

At 2:29 there is a pretty interesting story about the making of Jugband Blues off of Saucerful of Secrets (one of Syd's last two songs with Floyd).

Nah, there's also Echoes.

I have no idea what the prevailing opinion is on Roger Waters. Was he considered a good bass player?

Great lyricist/some good melodies. Apparently Dave played all the bass according to him. These days he seems a bit...bitter still.

Some of the waters-led material is great but the best pink Floyd album is piper at the gates of dawn

A hell of a line-up. Cobham, Moore, Appice, Wakeman, and Bonnet are some faves. I didn't even know Graham was still kicking it out there.

Animals Reimagined - A Tribute To Pink Floyd

What does that have to do with whether one likes it or not?