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5 stars for a truly powerful recording. There is only one flaw, "Louder Than Words". Just the lyrics, not the music.
I purchased the deluxe edition for the Blu-Ray disk and the casebook. There are so many haunting photos of the band. Most were taken during The Division Bell sessions. One is current of David Gilmour and Nick Mason. They look old. Very old.
Where did the time go? I am 54 years old. It seems like only yesterday that I heard Dark Side Of The Moon for the first time in 1973, shortly after its release. In 1975, I purchased Wish You Were Here the day it was released, and on vinyl. Animals in '77. The Wall in '79. Each release different, powerful, and deeply personal as only Floyd's music can be. In '87, while stationed in England, I purchased the Imaginary Lapse Of Reason disk and attended the concert at Wembley Stadium. That show is on the live disk Delicate Sound Of Thunder. What a night.
So, you are asking what does all this have to do with The Endless River? The Endless River is a tribute to the late Richard Wright, but it is more. It is the conclusion of life along the ever flowing river of time. The opening moments of "Things Left Unsaid" are some of the most haunting pieces of music I've ever heard. As I listened, I felt myself transported back to my life's beginnings, my first memories. As the music played, I felt my life move forward to moments long gone. Moments which should have be different. If only I had said things differently. Lost opportunities with people I've lost. Every piece of this album's music reintroduced me to memories and thoughts from my past. "Ebb And Flow" carried me past all the people I met in my town, my state, other nations. "The Lost Art of Conversation" left me weak and wishing for a chance to make amends for pains I'd caused.
I suffered with each piece of music for many reasons. I suffered for my failures, but, also for the fond times now memory. I didn't want those moments to end, ever. No one does. But end they did as good times do, quickly.
To me, the weakest part of the album is the song "Louder Than Words". David Gilmour's voice is fine and the music is Floyd, but, the lyrics don't connect with me the way a Floyd song normally does. I have the same problem with "Louder Than Words" that I have with much of the Division Bell album. Lyrically, the songs didn't "feel" like Pink Floyd. I believe if David had written "Louder Than Words" with Roger Waters or Richard Wright, the vibe would have fit the album perfectly.
Few artists can genuinely touch us. Few help us to look at ourselves, our friends, our society with open eyes and a clear mind. Pink Floyd's music forces us to look candidly at ourselves. The fact that so many of us are affected by the albums is proof that Floyd will be loved and respected for as long as the music is played.
The essence of The Endless River is summed up in the final fading notes but, for me, it is the cover that speaks volumes. All Floyd album covers are brilliant. They speak volumes about the music and emotions of the band. The cover of The Endless River is one of the most powerful. A lone navigator of a boat in a river, or ocean, of clouds. He is traveling into a setting sun? Can it be a rising sun? The back cover is the same boat traveling to the same sun, but, it is pilotless. Floyd's music is the boat traveling forward on its own long after the navigator is gone. What will be said about their work in the future? Will they be remembered as Mozart is today?
Each piece of music reminds me of Richard Wright's keyboards. The emotions. The subtlety of style. The soul of sound. Under estimated even more than the great Nick Mason, Richard's simple, unfettered playing set the tone for every Floyd tune. He opened the musical doors admitting Mason, David Gilmour, and Roger Waters so they could add their own unique touch to all notes Floyd.
I highly encourage all of you to seek and buy his solo album "Wet Dreams". Released in 1978, this album demonstrates why Richard deserves to be listed among the finest keyboardists ever.
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Not their best album but still got Pink Floyd's magic
5 years after its release, I finally bought Pink Floyd’s Endless River blu-ray edition and listened to it for the first time. I own everything Pink Floyd has commercially released (Discovery box set containing all of their albums *except this one* and Immersion box sets) and here is my review:As a hard-core Pink Floyd fan, I think the album is a good album. It’s not their best work but it certainly doesn’t deserve 1 star review.Even though I understand the general criticism that “it feels like a hotchpotch of their earlier works” and “crumbles of letfovers from their early studio efforts” and while these criticisms are not entirely inaccurate, I still think the album deserves at least 3 stars.As for the criticism “this doesn’t sound like Pink Floyd”, I disagree and suspect that it comes from those who know of Pink Floyd by their most commercially successful albums in the 70s (The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, The Animals”). Yes, it is true that Endless River doesn’t sound like The Dark Side of The Moon or like the other aforementioned albums. However, Pink Floyd has always been a progressive band that experimented with different sounds. To those folks who say “this doesn’t sound like Pink Floyd”, I suggest that they listen to Ummagumma 1969 Pink Floyd album which also contains a lot of instrumental tracks and songs from their previously released albums. This is certainly not the first time Pink Floyd has released an album with dominantly instrumental songs. Even Atom Heart Matter 1970 album had a lot of instrumental tracks.I think a more fair criticism is that some of the tunes sound like the tunes from their previous albums or maybe a slightly changed versions of those tunes. I am not saying all the songs suffer from this criticism, but there are definitely some moments while you think “hey, I’ve heard that tune or something similar on Momentary Lapse of Reason or on Division Bell”. But then again, as a Pink Floyd fan, you may have experienced this feeling probably when you listened to Final Cut, the 1983 album that came after The Wall and has a lot of similar sounds/tunes from the Wall album.One other thing to keep in mind is that Pink Floyd has now only 2 members left and the band is not really active. So it is not fair to compare this album to the aforementioned Pink Floyd albums which are probably the greatest rock albums in history released at a time when Pink Floyd was at the top of their game with Roger Waters and the late Richard Wright and while they were in their 30s.With that said, if you are a hard-core Pink Floyd fan you will definitely enjoy this album. If you can get past the disappointment about the expectations of what this album should be and listen to it for what it is, any music fan will find the tunes on this album quite enjoyable.Now about the product itself, I added some photos to show you what the package looks like and what it contains. It comes in a nice box and contains a CD disc and a blu-ray disc, a hard cover booklet with photos and info about the album, and 3 post cards. Blu-ray disc contains audio and video and has extras (there are a couple of extra tracks that are not on the CD album, my favorite is a track called “Nervana”). You can listen to these extra tracks as audio or video (videos are not video clips or short films like the ones shown at Pink Floyd’s concerts but they are rather videos of the band playing and recording in the studio).My only minor complaint is regarding the menu behavior: You can select “play all” extras but cannot separate audio from videos. In other words, when you select “play all”, it will play all of the audio tracks and then it will play all of the video tracks. There is no option to say “play all videos”. I think they should have had separate “play all” menu options, one for audio and one for video. Another minor complaint is that the album is segmented into 4 segments, Side 1 thru Side 4 but you cannot see at which track a segment begins or ends and you cannot choose to play a particular side (say you want to play the tracks on side 3 only). Since this separation is not provided, I am not sure why they bothered to show the 4 sides on the menu. Wha they should have done was to provide an option to play side 1, 2, etc. When the user selects a side, it would show the tracks on that side with play all or play a particular track. This is just a minor complaint and I wouldn’t have made it if they didn’t display the Side 1, 2, etc. info.
