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As it turned out the remaining members, minus curmudgeonly creative force Roger Waters, pulled off a fair approximation of what machine learning can do now. Beautifully recorded and redolent of the band’s signature crystalline guitar solos, swampy organs and moody synth pads, ''The Division Bell'' went straight to number 1 in the UK and the US, eventually selling something like 10,000,000 worldwide. But the critical reaction was “mixed”; one wittily dubbing it “''Wish You Were An Animal On The Dark Side Of The Wall''”. Despite phenomenal sales, posterity has favoured Roger Waters’s judgment that ''The Division Bell'' was “just rubbish ... nonsense from beginning to end.” | As it turned out the remaining members, minus curmudgeonly creative force Roger Waters, pulled off a fair approximation of what machine learning can do now. Beautifully recorded and redolent of the band’s signature crystalline guitar solos, swampy organs and moody synth pads, ''The Division Bell'' went straight to number 1 in the UK and the US, eventually selling something like 10,000,000 worldwide. But the critical reaction was “mixed”; one wittily dubbing it “''Wish You Were An Animal On The Dark Side Of The Wall''”. Despite phenomenal sales, posterity has favoured Roger Waters’s judgment that ''The Division Bell'' was “just rubbish ... nonsense from beginning to end.” | ||
Roger Waters still tours ''The Wall''. No-one tours ''The Division Bell''. In a way it is the direct equivalent of Nirvana by AI: a luscious, flawlessly executed recombination of a bunch of ''old'' Pink Floyd records, put together without the “watchmaker” of Pink Floyd himself. | |||
The importance of [[authenticity]]. Why is it not the same when it isn't David gilmour playing that guitar solo? | The importance of [[authenticity]]. Why is it not the same when it isn't David gilmour playing that guitar solo? | ||