I have always enjoyed The Division Bell... Actually, Coming Back to Life is one of my favorite tunes.... period.

(Short dissertation to follow)

I was just noticing as I read through the thread that most folks who like TDB from the start seem to be some of us older folks.. Seem the younger fans out there don't take to it too well.. (maybe I'm wrong). That leads me to a thought....(I know.. scarey,,Dave's thinking again).

Since I was around to buy every PF album since UmmaGumma as a new release, I was required to wait the few years between release dates.. I grew, matured, experienced the world around me as The Floyd did. The news on my TV at night was pretty much the same as the news Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason were watching in the interims between albums. The influences that shaped the sound of the individual albums are as apparent to me now as when I heard them for the first time.

As a younger fan, buying the CD's out of order of release date and not having the ability to experience the social climates that shaped each album, you may not be able to appreciate each work as those of us did when we heard the original releases. I listen to TBD with as much appreciation for the musicality and I do for the nostalgia of the time it came out. The same can be said for WYWH, DSotM, The Wall, etc.

Maybe I'm just rambling.. I hope this makes some sense to sombody.. maybe I just need my pills..

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