Music CD - Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder

	Music CD: Delicate Sound of Thunder Artist: Pink Floyd List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $15.48 Your Save: $ 14.50 ( 48% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond 2. Learning To Fly 3. Yet Another Movie 4. Round And Round 5. Sorrow 6. The Dogs Of War 7. On The Turning Away
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074644448429 Format: Live Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Comment: Bought this one along with Pulse on DVD. Very nice, this one has an incredible version of "On the Turning Away" and features many classic Floyd hits. I like the version of "Run Like Hell" as sung by David Gilmour and Guy Pratt on this and Pulse vs. the album version and the few youtube live bootlegs I've seen. It seems much more intense and fitting with the theme of the song. Customer Rating: Summary: What can I say Comment: As with any Pink Floyd connoisseur I shied away from the live recroded albums. This one change my mind at least when it comes to Pink Floyd. This is not my first copy of Delicate Sound of Thunder, the first one worn out so there was a need for the replacement. If you are just getting started into Pink Floyd I would suggest Dark Side of The Moon as the starter album. For a group which has had no number 1 hits Pink Floyd does have a lot of staying power. Customer Rating: Summary: THE BEST ALBUM EVER! Comment: This album has all your favorites on 2 CD's, and was recorded right when David Gilmour's voice was at its best. Awesome. Customer Rating: Summary: It's decent... but it's totally pointless. Stick to the originals Comment: It's sad to see Pink Floyd as a mere crowd-pleasing dinosaur act, but that's exactly what you get. See, nothing about the music contained herein is bad - if this was my first Floyd purchase, I'd probably give it a high rating. But I've been exposed to a lot more of the group's work than this, and I can safely say that there's one key problem with it: In order to keep the crowd pleased, Pink Floyd decides to show them just how good they are at re-creating the studio versions of the old classics like "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" note-for-note - the only real difference in terms of arrangement is in Gilmour's vocals, which haven't really held up well. And the music is just pointless. For one, who really wants to hear "Learning to Fly"; "Yet Another Movie"; "The Dogs of War" or "On the Turning Away" again? Yeah, I know they were touring in support of A Momentary Lapse of Reason, but A Momentary Lapse of Reason is one of the worst albums ever made (and certainly the worst Pink Floyd's ever did), so I get no enjoyment out of any of those tracks - live or studio, even though once again there's very little difference. If anything, they make "Learning to Fly" worse, since the female backup singers sound sick or stoned or something. I do kinda like "Sorrow", though, but there's no point in it being nine minutes long. As a matter of fact, there never was. So then after the awful Momentary Lapse of Reason set ends, it's back to oldies act mode. These versions of "Time"; "One of These Days"; "Wish You Were Here" and "Us and Them" are nice enough, but again they're totally pointless in light of the far better studio versions. I mean, I guess I'm impressed that Dave still remembers and can perfectly recite his guitar solos from those old '70s classics, but I'd rather hear them take risks in a live setting. There are a few changes of pace on a couple of the group's biggest hits, though. "Money" and "Comfortably Numb". If you ask me, this version of "Money" is pretty much awful - way too long, with random stupid "ooh, ooh!" and "MONEEEEY!" backup vocals and awful singing from Dave. At least it isn't a total rip-off of the original studio version. But it's a bad deviation. See, for some reason, Dave thought it would be a brilliant idea to vie everyone solos on that song, including - I am not making this up - the backup singers. Who are, other than the Momentary Lapse of Reason set, my least favorite part of this album. See? They can't get it right here. When they do play it safe, it ends up nice but half-hearted; and when they try to totally change things up it ends up awful (they also do that on "The Dogs of War", which features a guitar-sax duel. As if the sax solo in the original wasn't mindless enough, now they have the guitar and the sax dueling. I mean, why did they even perform "The Dogs of War" in the first place? Why not "Echoes" or anything from Animals or anything from the Syd Barrett years? Or maybe "Dogs", that would've been sweet. Not "Dogs of War", mind you, but "Dogs". "Comfortably Numb" also changes things up, which again is good, but sadly they convert it into bombastic arena-rock. Whatever, we still have the studio version of "Comfortably Numb", which was my favorite song ever when I first discovered this group a couple years back) Or they could've just broken up after Roger Waters. Oh yeah, there are a couple of other songs I didn't mention, both hits off of The Wall: "Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2" and "Run Like Hell". Needless to say, they're both pretty pointless. If you've heard the studio versions, you've heard the live ones (well, there's no children's choir on "Brick in the Wall", but that goes without saying). There's some pretty cool guitar on the finale "Run Like Hell", though - the only song on this album that I can throw my full support behind. That's good, at least. One great song; a lot of accurate but meaningless remakes of the classics, a couple of blundered experiments, and some just-plain bad songs. Why did this even come out? Customer Rating: Summary: Between good and bad Comment: This album is both good and bad. It is good because it Has alot of my favorite Floyd songs such as: "On the Turning Away", "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb", and "Time". It is bad because it is ruined by "The Dogs of War" and "Round and Around" two of the worst Pink Floyd songs i have ever heard. "One of These Days", "Yet Another Movie", and "Learning to Fly" are Ok but far from great. I have to say this though David Gilmour's vocals are alot Better than Roger Waters'. I recommend Pulse on either CD or DVD. Much Better! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: In the late 1980s, Pink Floyd came roaring back with a decent studio album and an awesome stadium tour. Delicate Sound is a postcard from that tour that has the impossible task of capturing the spectacle of flying pigs and crashing beds. Also without the brood and bass of the departed Roger Waters, even a large backing band can't recreate the majesty of the original recording of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond." Still "On the Turning Away," from A Momentary Lapse of Reason, sounds better than the studio version and a smattering of Floyd's best cuts from The Wall and Darkside of Moon make this live album a decent collection. --Greg Emmanuel