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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Gilmour on the other hand is an amazing musician but can't write lyrics to save his life. Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell are both albums by committee as he had to bring in every session musician on the planet and even then he only produced a couple of tracks that even come close to the levels of PF's glory years.
Much as I love Gilmour most of his music is painfully boring and both Division Bell and Lapse of Reason relived so heavily on his guitar abilities and numerous thematic retreads from previous albums (like the excessive use of sound effects, wind blowing, water rushing, random other sounds etc).
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Both MLOR and DB where not albums by committee, MLOR was practically considered a solo project and DB was the birth child of David Richard and Nick locking themselves away jamming together. Listen to Endless River which was the cuts from that album, no where close could DB be considered an album by committee in fact that was biggest "band" effort since Wish You Were Here. You may not like it, by all means everyone has their taste and are not wrong for that, but it was a band album and was amazing to hear Richard once again have a musical force in the band.
Plus I wouldn't take David's lyric writing so lightly, he's far to modest but regardless Polly's pen of High Hopes could hold it's own against any Lyric in the Pink Floyd catalog including solo careers of all 4 members.
I don't think David is trying to capture the past of his former band, His last two world tour's were huge for Floyd, they were the pinnacle of the top tour band at the time. He could easily resurrect that dinosaur if he wanted and he's not interested in doing that anymore and even when you look at that it has snowballed insanely from doing the Robert Wyatt tribute
It's never going to be like it was they are not 30 yearolds trying to be the best and discovering themselves in the world and their place, they are 70's old men and thank god David has become boring to some for the plain fact who wants to see a 70 year old acting like they a 30
His last twp solo tours have been celebrations of his 60th and 70th birthday.
Edited to add , sorry if this reads as a negative tone, by all means I don't mean it to sound that way. Love the conversation and topic, and I'll admit I love the difference in opinion because it opens up a different view I never thought or considered or heard.
