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(01-31-2011 10:30 PM)blue_ember Wrote: [ -> ]You make a good point LF and Arno but theres a reason it got so popular. Even if an album gets popluar like that deosn't meen its a great record for everyone or a great record at all and just because a record didn't get big it doesnt mean it isnt good. I'm just saying that theres a point when it gets so big like that, that there must have been something good on the album that people liked. Honestly triple platinum is very big! I can't name any other album off the top of my head that did so good. But you gotta understand what i mean right?

A couple things: One, triple platinum is a great distinction, but it's not "very big." Two, if you can't name any other album on earth that has sold more than three million copies, that's very odd to me, because Pink Floyd has had a couple that sold far more than 3 million copies. The Dark Side of the Moon has sold well over 45 million copies to date. The Wall is over 30 million. Wish You Were Here is over 10 million the last time I checked. I know Animals has sold close to 5 million, I think.

Not to mention the literally hundreds of albums that have been released in the last 50 years that have sold well over 3 million copies since their release.

(02-01-2011 03:52 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote: [ -> ]The fact that it had the name "Pink Floyd" on it probably helped a lot.

haha ya Honestly if there was an album with the band name Pink Floyd published I would buy it. haha well considering 2 of them are dead and one of them left way early on well w.e. haha If Gilmour, Waters and Mason came out with an album I would totally get it! It would be interesting!

I don't like it for a few reasons. One being too many songs sounding like ones off other albums.

What Do You Want = Have a Cigar
Poles Apart = Hey You (even has it in the lyrics)
Keep Talking = same tempo and changes as Yet Another Movie
Coming Back to Life = intro to Shine On
Lost for Words = Wish You Were Here speeded up

Actually, Cluster One has similar piano to Terminal Frost. So it lacks passion, and invention for me. The lyrics are pretty bad aswell.

(02-09-2011 05:20 AM)SoL Wrote: [ -> ]I don't like it for a few reasons. One being too many songs sounding like ones off other albums.

What Do You Want = Have a Cigar
Poles Apart = Hey You (even has it in the lyrics)
Keep Talking = same tempo and changes as Yet Another Movie
Coming Back to Life = intro to Shine On
Lost for Words = Wish You Were Here speeded up

Actually, Cluster One has similar piano to Terminal Frost. So it lacks passion, and invention for me. The lyrics are pretty bad aswell.

I noticed some of those things as well... Especially the worse lyrics, and the music to Poles Apart. I've always thought it was an attempt to recreate Us And Them though... But Hey You, Us And Them, and Poles Apart all have very similar structures. :P

Well of course they've got the same structure. If it aint broke, don't fix it right?

It takes away the originality though.

correct, but that's what Gilmour was trying to do. I remember when TDB came out and the hype was "This album is going to be the new WYWH"

Mmhmm, the album sounds quite a lot like Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Courtesy of Rick.

Edit: WYWH was original, though. TDB wasn't.

(02-09-2011 06:24 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote: [ -> ]Edit: WYWH was original, though. TDB wasn't.

Agreed, that's why I'm not a big fan of TDB.

I don't hear any allusions to WYWH on The Division Bell. Using the same two words that were used in another song doesn't mean it's a copy of that song. Poles Apart and Hey You are nothing alike. The intro to Shine On and Coming Back To Life aren't the same either.

Seriously, I don't know what you were listening to. :-\