The Endless River
Which brings us to The Endless River. It's a beautiful piece of music.
After The Division Bell, they did have Andy Jackson edit the leftovers into a large ambient work called The Big Spliff, but they never released it. Finally in 2012, David and Nick revisited the material and decided to actually do it. It's a lot of things, and you can go read all the various things said about it, but everybody gets it wrong in some way.
David Gilmour always said and believed that Pink Floyd didn't belong to any person. Pink Floyd was the group of people making the album, in the flesh or in spirit, part of the band or a hired hand. He kept reluctantly inheriting more and more of it, until he was finally done. This is David Gilmour's last Pink Floyd album, and fittingly it's an instrumental collage with a final song written by his wife.
Pink Floyd played music. It's his way of saying hello to all the people who want to listen, and goodbye to all the people who helped make it happen. So to summarize my thoughts, don't confuse the meaning for the machine. The machine will grind you up and spit you out. You can fight it, rage against it, be its victim, or if you're hopelessly optimistic, find some beauty in the journey.
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After The Division Bell, they did have Andy Jackson edit the leftovers into a large ambient work called The Big Spliff, but they never released it. Finally in 2012, David and Nick revisited the material and decided to actually do it. It's a lot of things, and you can go read all the various things said about it, but everybody gets it wrong in some way.
David Gilmour always said and believed that Pink Floyd didn't belong to any person. Pink Floyd was the group of people making the album, in the flesh or in spirit, part of the band or a hired hand. He kept reluctantly inheriting more and more of it, until he was finally done. This is David Gilmour's last Pink Floyd album, and fittingly it's an instrumental collage with a final song written by his wife.
Pink Floyd played music. It's his way of saying hello to all the people who want to listen, and goodbye to all the people who helped make it happen. So to summarize my thoughts, don't confuse the meaning for the machine. The machine will grind you up and spit you out. You can fight it, rage against it, be its victim, or if you're hopelessly optimistic, find some beauty in the journey.
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