《藩籬之鐘》（英文：The Division Bell），是英國前衛搖滾樂隊平克弗洛伊德的第 14 張錄音室專輯，1994 年 3 月 28 日和 4 月 4 日分別由 EMI 和哥倫比亞唱片在英國和美國發行。該專輯的音樂主要由吉他手兼歌手大衛吉爾摩和鍵盤手理查德賴特創作，這是理查德賴特自 1973 年專輯《月之暗面》以來第一次在平克弗洛伊德的專輯中擔任主唱。大衛吉爾摩的未婚妻與樂隊合寫了許多有關溝通主題的歌詞。錄音地點包括樂隊的 Britannia Row 錄音室以及吉爾摩的阿斯托里亞船上錄音室。製作團隊包括樂隊長久以來的盟友，如製作人、工程師、薩克斯演奏者。 《藩籬之鐘》達到了英國和美國排行榜的第一名，但收到了不同評價。緊接著樂隊便進行了歐洲和美國的巡演。它在美國發行時獲得雙鉑金認證，並在 1999 年獲得三鉑金。專輯藩籬之鐘時期未被使用的素材成為平克弗洛伊德 2014 年的下一張也是最後一張專輯《無盡之河》的一部分。 概念 《藩籬之鐘》對待溝通的主題和說話的方法可以解決許多問題。 In the Studio 廣播的主持人 Redbeard 建議專輯提供 透過令人顫抖的優美的時刻，產生真正超越一切的可能性。 歌曲比如〈Poles Apart〉和〈Lost for Words〉之類的歌曲已被作為表明平克弗洛伊德和 1985 年離隊的前樂隊成員羅傑沃特斯之間的隔閡；但是，大衛吉爾摩否認了這一點，並表示：人們可以用他們個人的方式創作和敘述一首歌，但在這一點上使羅傑迴歸已經有點晚了。 專輯名稱引用了英國國會宣佈表決的藩籬鍾。 鼓手尼克馬森說道：這確實有一些意義，它是關於人們做出選擇的是與非。 東方集團垮臺後幾年，〈A Great Day for Freedom〉並列將柏林牆的倒塌以及隨之的戰爭、種族清洗以及南斯拉夫戰爭普遍的精神歡快聯絡在一起。最初錄製為英國電信的電視廣告的斯蒂芬霍金聲音樣本被用在歌曲〈Keep Talking〉之中；liner notes from Echoes 大衛吉爾摩被霍金參與的廣告所感動，他聯絡了廣告公司，允許他們使用在錄製的唱片之中。 馬森以為：從廣告中獲取創意是政治上不正確的，但這似乎是一個非常相關的部分。 在專輯的最後，大衛吉爾摩的繼子查理聽到掛在平克弗洛伊德經理上的電話聽筒，他已經懇求允許他出現在平克弗洛伊德專輯中。 錄製 在 1993 年 1 月，吉爾摩、馬森和賴特開始在改造後的 Britannia Row 錄音室即興創作新的素材。他們招募了貝斯手； according to Mason an interesting phenomenon occurred which was that Pratts playing tended to change the mood of the music we had created on our own Without the legal problems experienced during production of their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason Gilmour was at ease if he felt the band were getting somewhere he would record them on a twotrack DAT recorder At one point Gilmour surreptitiously recorded Wright playing capturing material which formed the basis for three pieces of music After about two weeks the band had around 65 pieces of music With engineer Andy Jackson back on the team and Bob Ezrin as coproducer production moved to Gilmours houseboat and recording studio Astoria The band listened to and voted on each track and whittled the material down to about 27 pieces of music Eliminating some tracks and merging others they arrived at about eleven songs Song selection was based upon a system of points whereby all three members would award marks out of ten to each candidate song a system skewed somewhat by Wrights decision to award his songs ten points each and the other songs no points Wright was not contractually a full member of the band a situation which upset him Wright reflected It came very close to a point where I wasnt going to do the album because I didnt feel that what wed agreed was fair Wright received his first songwriting credits on any Pink Floyd album since 1975s Wish You Were Here Gilmours fiancée Polly Samson also received songwriting credits Initially her role was limited to providing encouragement for her husband but she later helped Gilmour write High Hopes a song about Gilmours childhood and early life in Cambridge Her role expanded to cowriting a further six songs something which did not sit well with Ezrin In an interview for Mojo magazine Gilmour admitted that Samsons contributions had ruffled the managements feathers but Ezrin later reflected that her presence was inspirational for Gilmour and that she pulled the whole album together She also helped Gilmour who following his divorce had developed a cocaine addiction Keyboard player Jon Carin and drummerpercussionist Gary Wallis were brought in to complete the band before recording began Five backing vocalists were also hired including Sam Brown and Momentary Lapse tour singer Durga McBroom The band then moved to Olympic Studios recorded most of the winning tracks over the space of a week After a summer break they returned to Astoria to record more backing tracks Ezrin worked on the various drum sounds and previous collaborator and orchestral composer Michael Kamen provided the albums string arrangements which were recorded at Abbey Road Studio Two by Steve McLaughlin Dick Parry played saxophone on his first Pink Floyd album for almost 20 years on Wearing the Inside Out and Chris Thomas was booked to undertake the final mix Between September and December recording and mixing sessions were held at Metropolis Studios in Chiswick and the Creek Recording Studios in London In September the band performed at a celebrity charity concert at Cowdray House in Midhurst The album was mastered at the Mastering Lab in Los Angeles by Doug Sax and James Guthrie Jackson edited unused material from the Division Bell sessions described by Mason as ambient music into an hourlong composition tentatively titled The Big SpliffThe Return of the Parts of Something The Making of The Endless River by Daryl Easlea Prog October 2014 pp 3845 but Pink Floyd decided not to release it Some of The Big Spliff was used to create the bands final album The Endless River 2014 器樂譜寫 With the aid of Gilmours guitar technician Phil Taylor Carin located some of Pink Floyds older keyboards from the warehouse in which they had been stored including a Farfisa organ Some of the sounds sampled from these instruments were used on the tracks Take It Back and Marooned Carin was joined on keyboards by Ezrin Durga McBroom supplied backing vocals alongside Sam Brown Carol Kenyan Jackie Sheridan and Rebecca LeighWhite Gilmour used several styles on the album What Do You Want from Me is influenced by Chicago blues and Poles Apart contains folksy overtones Gilmours improvised guitar solos on Marooned used a DigiTech Whammy pedal to pitchshift the guitar notes over a full octave On Take It Back he used an EBow an electronic device which simulates the sound of a bow on the strings on a Gibson J200 guitar through a Zoom effects unit 包裝和標題 To avoid competing against other album releases as had happened with A Momentary Lapse Pink Floyd set a deadline of April 1994 at which point they would begin a new tour By January of that year however the band still had not decided on a title for the album The list of names being considered included Pow Wow and Down to Earth At a dinner one night writer Douglas Adams spurred on by the promise of a payment to his favourite charity the Environmental Investigation Agency suggested the division bell used in the lyrics for High Hopes and the name stuck Longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson provided the album artwork He erected two large metal heads each the height of a doubledecker bus in a field near Ely The sculptures were positioned close together and photographed in profile to give the illusion that not only were they either facing or talking to each other they also presented the viewer with a third face Thorgerson mentioned the third absent face was a reference to Syd Barrett The sculptures were devised by Keith Breeden and constructed by John Robertson Ely Cathedral is visible on the horizon The pictures were shot in cold February for optimal lighting conditions Since 2001 the sculptures are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio An alternate version of the cover photo featuring two stone sculptures by Aden Hynes was featured on the compact cassette release and the tour brochure The album was released in the UK and US on CD vinyl cassette and minidisc each with its own format and labelspecific design The artwork inside the CD liner notes revolves around a similar theme with the image of the two heads formed by various other objects such as newspapers A Great Day for Freedom coloured glass Poles Apart and boxing gloves Lost for Words Pages two and three portray a picture from the Chilean Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory The CD tray itself had the name of Pink Floyd printed in Braille on the left front side 發行和評價 On 10 January 1994 a press reception to announce The Division Bell and world tour was held at a former US Naval Air Station in North Carolina in the US A purposebuilt Skyship 600 airship manufactured in the UK toured the US until it returned to Weeksville and was destroyed by a thunderstorm on 27 June Pieces of the aircraft were sold as souvenirs The band held another reception in the UK on 21 March This time they used an A60 airship translucent and painted to look like a fish which took journalists on a tour of London The airship which was lit internally so it glowed in the night sky was also flown in northern Europe The Division Bell was released in the UK by EMI Records on 28 March 1994 and in the US on 4 April and went straight to 1 in both countries The Division Bell was certified silver and gold in the UK on 1 April 1994 platinum a month later and 2x platinum on 1 October In the US it was certified gold and double platinum on 6 June 1994 and triple platinum on 29 January 1999 In the United States the album debuted at number one in the Billboard 200 during the week of April 23 1994 selling more than 460000 units at the time it was the 12th largest singleweek total since Billboard began using SoundScan data in May 1991 and also became the fifthlargest firstweek sales sum back then The next week it stayed at the top of the chart selling a little less than half its firstweek total it moved 226000 units during its second week on chart The next week sales slid by 30 from last weeks sum selling 157000 units despite this sales decrease the album stayed at number one The following week on May 14 1994 The Division Bell remained at number one on the Billboard 200 and sales declined by 17 On its fifth week on chart it fell off to the fourth place on the chart It was present on the Billboard 200 for 53 weeks It was certified three times platinum by the RIAA on January 29 1999 for shipments of three million units Despite decent sales The Division Bell received mixed reviews Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly gave it a D writing that avarice is the only conceivable explanation for this glib vacuous cipher of an album which is notable primarily for its stomachturning merger of progressiverock pomposity and New Age noodling Rolling Stone Tom Graves criticised Gilmours performance stating that his guitar solos had settled into rambling indistinct asides that are as forgettable as they used to be indelible only on What Do You Want from Me does Gilmour sound like he cares Nevertheless the album was nominated in the 1995 Brit awards for the Best Album by a British Artist but lost to Blurs Parklife In March the same year the band was awarded with a Grammy for the Best Rock Instrumental Performance on Marooned In Uncuts 2011 Pink Floyd The Ultimate Music Guide Graeme Thomson wrote that The Division Bell might just be the dark horse of the Floyd canon The opening triptych of songs is a hugely impressive return to something very close to the eternal essence of Pink Floyd and much of the rest retains a quiet power and a meditative quality that betrays a genuine sense of unity Uncut reviewed the album once again in 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary reissue and in their review praised the album for its production citing that the album sounded much more like a classic Pink Floyd album than 1983s The Final Cut and throughout the album noted the empathy and connection between Wright and Gilmour stating that these moments were at the albums musical heart The album was reissued again with the Pink Floyd Records label on 26 August 2016 巡演 Two days after the albums release the bands Division Bell Tour began at Joe Robbie Stadium in suburban Miami The set list began with 1967s Astronomy Domine before moving to tracks from 1987s A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell Songs from Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side of the Moon featured as well as The Wall Backing musicians included Sam Brown Jon Carin Claudia Fontaine Durga McBroom Dick Parry Guy Pratt Tim Renwick and Gary Wallis The tour continued in the US through April May and midJune before moving to Canada and then returning to the US in July As the tour reached Europe in late July Waters was invited to join the band but he declined and later expressed his annoyance that some Floyd songs were being performed again in large venues On the first night of the UK leg of the tour on 12 October a 1200 capacity stand collapsed but with no serious injuries the performance was rescheduled During the tour an anonymous person named Publius posted a message on an internet newsgroup inviting fans to solve a riddle supposedly concealed in the new album The message was verified during a show in East Rutherford where white lights in front of the stage spelled out Enigma Publius During a televised concert at Earls Court in October 1994 the word enigma was projected in large letters on to the backdrop of the stage Mason later acknowledged that the Publius Enigma did exist but it had been instigated by the record company rather than the band As of 2014 the puzzle remains unsolved The tour ended at Earls Court on 29 October 1994 and was the groups final concert performance until Live 8 Estimates placed the total number of tickets sold at over 53 million and gross income at about 100 million A live album of the tour named Pulse and a concert video also named Pulse which was shot on 20 October 1994 were released in June 1995 曲目列表 除了下方備註的曲目，所有歌曲主唱均由 David Gilmour 擔任。 原版 LP 20 週年雙 LP 版 再版 自 1994 年發行以來，藩籬之鐘 已經再版兩次。 第一次發行是《Why Pink Floyd》的一部分，這張專輯被 Andy Jackson 重新發布並以獨立的 CD 發行，作為 Discovery Box 套裝的一部分，該套裝首次將所有 14 張錄音室專輯收錄在一起。 第二次重新發行於 2014 年 6 月 30 日，發行專輯發行為 20 週年豪華版 套裝 和 20 週年雙 LP 唱片發行。 套裝包含了 2011 年重新灌錄的專輯；一個由 Andy Jackson 混錄的 51 環繞立體聲版 ；2 張 180 克的 LP 黑膠唱片；一個紅色 7 寸〈Take It Back〉單曲；一個清晰的七寸〈High HopesKeep Talking〉單曲；一個藍色的、雷射蝕刻的 12 寸 High Hopes 單曲；書籍及各式藝術卡片。2014 年的重新發行專輯上首次發行了黑膠唱片，1994 年發行的黑膠版本僅保留了歌曲的編輯版本它到一個單一的 LP。 人員 平克弗洛伊德 David Gilmour 主唱、原聲吉他、電子、古典吉他和鋼吉他、貝斯吉他 、鍵盤、演奏、、製作人和混音 Nick Mason 鼓、打擊樂器和教堂的鐘聲 Richard Wright 鍵盤、鋼琴、主唱 和副聲 製作人 Bob Ezrin 製作人 Andrew Jackson 工程師 Michael Kamen 管絃樂編曲 Edward Shearmur 管絃樂編曲 Steve McLoughlin 管絃樂錄製 Chris Thomas 混音 James Guthrie 母帶工程師 Doug Sax 母帶工程師 Storm Thorgerson 專輯藝術製作 Tony May 攝影 Rupert Truman 攝影 Stephen Piotrowski 攝影 Peter Curzon 圖形 Ian Wright 圖形 Aubrey Powell 專輯藝術製作 額外音樂人 Jon Carin 演奏、鋼琴、額外的鍵盤手 Guy Pratt 貝斯吉他 Gary Wallis 敲擊樂器 Tim Renwick 吉他 Dick Parry 次中音薩克斯管 Bob Ezrin 鍵盤、敲擊樂器 Sam Brown 副聲 Durga McBroom 副聲 Carol Kenyon 副聲 Jackie 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