Pink Floyd-Classic or dud

For a minute I thought maybe they were re-releasing albums as a Zaireeka type of thing..

wow

what is this 'immersion' thing?

and I can't see the tracklists on the zoomed-in images, am I missing something?

I've been dying to talk about these for ages (my other half is connected loosely with the project) there's a lot of interesting stuff coming out, we even get to hear Stefan Grapelli on WYWH!

They must have kept the vaults pretty well screwed down over the years, I was not even aware that there was much unreleased studio material out there. am not aware of the existence of any bootlegs of it.

yeah they never put bonus tracks on any of their albums. i guess they can make a lot more money doing it this way.

Tracklist and bumf for WYWH:

DISC 1 - CD1:

Wish You Were Here digitally remastered by James Guthrie, 2011

DISC 2 - CD2:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

Raving & Drooling live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

You’ve Got To Be Crazy live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

Wine Glasses from the unreleased ‘Household Objects’ project

Have A Cigar alternative version (previously unreleased)

Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)

DISC 3 - DVD1, ALL AUDIO:

-Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) in standard resolution audio at 448 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) in high resolution audio at 640 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, Original Mix (1975) LPCM stereo

-Wish You Were Here, Quad Mix (previously released only on vinyl LP/8 track tape) in standard resolution audio at 448 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, Quad Mix (previously released only on vinyl LP/8 track tape) in high resolution audio at 640 kbps

DISC 4 - DVD 2, AUDIO VISUAL:

-AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen Films:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

-AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip

-AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film

Concert Screen Films play in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound

DISC 5 - BLURAY:

-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit

-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, Original stereo mix (1975) mastered in high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit

- AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen films:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

-AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip

- AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film

40 page 27cm x 27cm booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson

Exclusive photo book edited by Jill Furmanovsky

27cm x 27cm Exclusive Storm Thorgerson Art Print

5 x Collectors’ Cards featuring art and comments by Storm Thorgerson

Replica of Wish You Were Here Tour Ticket

Replica of Wish You Were Here Backstage Pass

Scarf

3 x Clear marbles

9 x Coasters (unique to this box) featuring early Storm Thorgerson design sketches

12 page credits booklet

Also in the pipeline:

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/rare-1967-pink-floyd-recording-airs-in-stockholm.html

^ Must admit, that's got me Raving & Drooling

The track listings for all three are up here:

http://www.pulse-and-spirit.com/news/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-und-wish-you-were-here-box-sets/

Would have been the perfect place for them to finally release the full Wall live footage but I guess Rog is still against that.

T'aint good enough quality sadly, underexposed.

Ah well thats a shame.

It always frustrates me how little live in-concert film there is of prime 70s prog bands. I guess the technology wasn't quite there and the price was prohibitive.

Some amazing shit has surfaced over the last couple of years, the Harvested guys are pretty adept at sourcing, cleaning up and disseminating footage from old European Music shows or one off In-Concert performances.
http://www.harvested.org/

And I'm hopeful that some material does get released in the future, especially considering EMI (like many companies) are going to have to get more creative with the way they release material, I reckon they could make a decent go of a PF DVD along the lines of the Led Zeppelin one from a few years back. It appears Nick Mason is the main custodian and motivating party wrt their archive, Gilmour is a lot less interested, and he's been collecting footage, so maybe one day!

http://youtu.be/WprjXjwxYXU

is that a dark side of the moon scarf in the pic of the dark side of the moon set?

yep, one of the extra bits and bobs you get.

I hear the Wall set comes with a Gerald scarf.

(rimshot)

damnnnn, that syd era live recording! want it. the bootlegs from that period sound so bad and yet ... they sound so good! hope it gets a release...
these box sets look cool, too. but where's the Animals set! COME ON.

Syd rules ok.

a little birdy tells me they may do big album sets for the other lps if these ones sell well

They're all planning to come out, at least the big hitters, dunno about Obscured by Clouds, More etc:

This is one of those bands that I don't know if I like or not, because they've been so overexposed that I've tired of hearing them. Kind of like trying to imagine if you would think "Stairway to Heaven" was a great song if you just heard it for the first time, and you'd never heard of the band who made it.

Like alot of us, I went through a brief PF phase in my late teens, mostly Dark Side of the Moon. Discovered Syd in college; still love his stuff, especially the early Floyd singles "See Emily Play", "Arnold Layne", and "Apples and Oranges". Saw one of their late-80s post-Waters shows - it was impressive but there was a definite feeling of playing off past glories from someone no longer in the band, despite Gilmour's impressive guitar prowess. I'll vote Classic even though I'm sick of most of their music by now.

I have everything up to The Wall, but IMO all you really need is Piper, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish, Animals and The Wall.

And of course The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. Search also "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and "Jugband Blues" off Saucerful of Secrets.

Acoustic Sounds is also releasing the SACD of Wish You Were Here at the same time.

I see a very expensive late summer for myself.

Obscured By Clouds is more interesting than Piper, Saucerful and Atom Heart Mother for me. Particularly because the songs "Burning Bridges" and "The Gold It's in the..." are peak material (for me) even though there is some weak material on the album.

i want to think "oh PF are just scrounging more money off me" but then I remember that the only PF thing I've ever purchased new (that is, not used) was A Momentary Lapse of Reason back when it was released. so I suppose I can buy these.

xp to me
oh yeah and "Wots... Uh, the deal?"

If they actually released Household Objects as a standalone, I'd be all over it.

I read somewhere that one of the least recognized 80's albums is Pink Floyd's own personal favorite album from their discography... is there any truth to that? It might of been Momentary Lapse of Reason

it might be gilmour's favorite. or he might have just been trying to make waters mad.

I can't imagine Nick Mason and Rick Wright would be all, "Hey, you know what our favorite album of ours is? The one we didn't play on!"

they didn't play at all on momentary lapse? weird.

jim keltner and carmine appice played most of the drums on that album, mason's parts got erased because mason apparently didn't think they were very good. wright was brought on as a session musican when the album was almost finished. either way it's not like you can really tell, and neither of them did very much on anything post - animals anyway.

Gilmour sez: "Both Nick and Rick were catatonic in terms of their playing ability at the beginning. Neither of them played on this at all really. In my view, they'd been destroyed by Roger. Nick played a few tom-toms on one track, but for the rest I had to get in other drummers. Rick played some tiny little parts. For a lot of it, I played the keyboards and pretended it was him. The record was basically made by me, and other people and God knows what."

Also, the photo on the inner sleeve of the first pressing is of just Gilmour and Mason.

So conceivably, there is a "Pink Floyd" song or two (or more) with no original members.

Okay, I was in a soulseek chatroom and the trivia bot asked something like "what was Pink Floyd's favorite album that they made?" and the answer was either Momentary Lapse or Division Bell. Could of been bot error but you never know

I should really get Final Cut, Momentary Lapse and Division Bell one of these days. Just never motivated enough to check them out for some reason.

eh, i dunno, are the post waters records worth it? even as a 14 year old floyd fanatic, i could never really dig the gilmour era beyond a couple songs.

Learning to Fly was kind of a cool single. I liked the video.

Final Cut is worth getting, I'd skip the post waters albums

Final Cut is the last thing I have much time for. probably prefer that last Gilmour solo LP to the post Waters PF ones

I have a soft spot for latter-day Floyd; it's like they decided that "Comfortably Numb" should be its own genre.

waters' favorite floyd album is the wall. both gilmour's and wright's is wish you were here. dont know about mason, but he did once describe obscured by clouds as "i thought it was a sensational lp, actually"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOwf3TDygkM

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now my mexican restaurant sucks

david gilmour played comfortably numb with roger waters tonight at the london Wall show. got tickets for next tuesday, pretty hyped.

Nick Mason speaks

This piece claims everything will drop in September, including vanilla reissues of the rest of the catalog.

yep, see www.whypinkfloyd.com for all that