Music CD - Pink Floyd: Pulse

	Music CD: Pulse Artist: Pink Floyd List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $10.97 Your Save: $ 14.01 ( 56% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond 2. Astronomy Domine 3. What Do You Want From Me 4. Learning To Fly 5. Keep Talking 6. Coming Back To Life 7. Hey You 8. A Great Day For Freedom 9. Sorrow 10. High Hopes 11. Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074646706428 Format: Live Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 1995-10-10 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Comment: The performance of the entire Dark Side of the Moon album alone makes this worth it. Many songs from the Division Bell make a showing here with a few from The Wall and "Learning to Fly" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason. All in all, an excellent concert. Customer Rating: Summary: Pretty good Pink Floyd live album, despite Rog's absence Comment: For years, I stood by the assertion that without Roger Waters, it simply wasn't Pink Floyd. This was during the time of 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' when it first came out in 1987. It seemed more a very slick, over-produced David Gilmour album that happened to have Nick Mason and Richard Wright play on it (with a cast of many others as well); even though I did buy it on LP at the time (then the CD later on), much as I enjoyed it, I more or less considered it Gilmour's third solo album, and not the Pink Floyd follow-up to 'The Final Cut' (itself, obstensibly the first Roger Waters solo album). One more 'Rog-free' Floyd album followed, 'The Division Bell' in 1994 (preceeded by a lackluster live album 'The Delicate Sound of Thunder' in 1988) and that was a better album then 'Momentary' ... in part due to more involvement on Wright's behalf (who got to sing lead and co-write a track for the first time in ages, a welcome return). So the subsequent live album 'Pulse' the year after 'Divison' came and I ignored it until a year ago since I felt it might be no better than the other post Rog live album. That opinon changed when I decided it was time to fill holes in my Pink Floyd collection, so I got the 'Pulse' DVD and was amazed at how good it was, how well the band played and kept the flame going. OK, for this die-hard Roger Waters fan, it sill felt like it missing something (Rog's acerbic, edgy bent is absent, once David Gilmour took the reins) but it's still worth having in the DVD collection. So I chanced the live 'Pulse' CD (blinking light and all) and found that they did a very good job with 'Dark Side of the Moon' (that Rog sang lead on only the last two songs 'Brain Damage/Eclipse' means that he's vocally not missed that much) and the newer material shone bright too, as did other Floyd classics "Shine on you Crazy Diamond", "Comfortably Numb" and all the rest. Goes to show that even with the most legendary of bands, if they end up where one key member leaves and there's still the remainder of the band around to keep it going, still usually better than none at all. Customer Rating: Summary: Still the greatest live album of all time, hands down Comment: Pink Floyd's twenty first overall and second double live album PULSE was released in June of 1995. This double live album was recorded on the European leg of Pink Floyd's 1994 world tour to support their chart-topping album entitled The Division Bell (which is their last studio album to date). The reason for the PULSE album and its off-shoot video (later DVD) was at the end of the North American and Canadian leg of the tour (I saw them in Foxboro, MA in May of 1994 with 55,000 fans embracing them on one of their three nights sold out nights at Foxboro Stadium in Mass), they decided to resurrect something they had not done since their 1975 US Tour, their 1973 classic Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. PULSE was superbly produced by singer and guitarist David Gilmour and longtime engineer James Guthrie whom also engineered and mixed the album. Some songs had solos dubbed in from other shows because either the playing was awful or the solo came in a bar late or a vocal was flubbed. Hence, the album was not re-recorded in the studio unlike many live albums but edited from other shows as technology today allows fixings to come from a click of a mouse. The first disc is a potpourri of material of classic Floyd tracks like the Syd Barrett era classic "Astronomy Domine", "Hey You", "Shine on You Crazy Diamond (pts. 1-5 and 7)" and a stellar "Another Brick in the Wall(pt.2)" (with teasers of part 1 and Happiest Days thrown in for good measure) and post-Roger Waters material which were stellar readings of the Momentary Lapse tracks "Learning to Fly" and "Sorrow" (better on PULSE than on Delicate Sound of Thunder) and the tracks from The Division Bell starting with "What Do You Want From Me", "Keep Talking", "Coming Back to Life", "A Great Day For Freedom" and a spirited "High Hopes". The second disc is the complete Dark Side of the Moon album in its entirety plus encores of "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell". Except for the jam in the middle of "Money", the whole of Dark Side of the Moon sounds just like the studio LP, but almost better in some cases like "Time" (with Gilmour playing stellar leads here), "The Great Gig in the Sky" (I apologize but Sam Brown did the first part way better than Clare Torry IMHO and Durga McBroom and Claudia Fontaine were impressive) and "Us and Them". The rest is superb as well ("Speak to Me", "Breathe", "Any Colour You Like" and "Brain Damage"/"Eclipse"). On the cassette version of the album you had two extra tracks which were a killer "One of These Days" and a 22 minute ambient piece. The PULSE album, when first released, originally came packaged with a blinking light on the spine of the CD artwork. Also, the album was an instant smash hitting #1 in both the US and UK in its first week and selling over three million copies in the US alone immediately. Sales aside, this is the best live album ever as the songs are SUPERB and the performances are top-notch!!!! My Top 10 Live albums: 1)Pink Floyd - PULSE (1995) 2)Supertramp - Paris (1980) 3)Genesis - Seconds Out (1977) 4)Queen - Queen Rock Montreal (2007 though recorded in 1981) 5)The Who - Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition from 2001) (recorded in 1970) 6)Jethro Tull - Bursting Out (1978) 7)Rush - Different Stages (1998) 8)Yes - Yessongs (1973) 9)Iron Maiden - Live After Death (1985) 10)Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same (1976, though recorded in 1973) Customer Rating: Summary: Standing Ovation Comment: Any true fan of Pink Floyd will know that Pulse is by far the very best compilation of their best works. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent CD Comment: This is an excellent CD for all who love live music and specially Pink Floyd, it comes with a 2 CD set and the art in the CD is awesome More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: A two-CD live collection from a band left splintered by the departure of bassist-songwriter Roger Waters, Pulse is perhaps best noted for the blinking red light that was set in its spine upon initial release. It contains the remaining band (with guest musicians) performing the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, the novelty of which wears off soon after the crowd noise interrupts any potential intimacy. The crowd also sings along for several songs, which makes this either a great audio-video document or a misguided attempt at replicating the live experience. --Rob O'Connor