10 Biggest Drop-offs In Rock History
3. Pink Floyd
There's probably a massive contingency of Pink Floyd fans who consider 1994's the Division Bell to have been the final statement the prog titans wanted to make. Since Roger Waters was firmly out of the picture at this point, it felt like Floyd wanted to put one last stamp on their career and leave their legacy where it was. After a while though, the temptation of reaping on your past glory ends up getting the better of you.
Compiled of mainly instrumentals, The Endless River is some of the most hollow sounding music to ever have the name Pink Floyd attached to it. Though The Division Bell was already a far cry from something like Wish You Were Here or the Wall, the fact that these tracks barely pass for background music make it all the more disappointing, as David Gilmour throws arrangements together for the hell of it.
As much as Gilmour hasn't lost his touch, the whole album really feels soulless when you don't have some unifying theme or even a handful of hooks behind it at any given time. Even though it's nice to remind your audience that you can still throw down when you want to, The Endless River is the ultimate case study of if you don't use it, you lose it.