The second "live" album in seven years, only how much of it is actually live is open to debate, as the thick digital sheen is anything but spontaneous or raw. It comes in a...
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It's a real toss-up deciding which of the Floyd's original albums is the true nadir, but forced at gun point to choose which I'd prefer to listen to, I guess I'd take this...
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The second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason -- keyboard player Rick Wright is back to full...
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Dance songs! Those guys are such cards. You already own all this stuff, or you should, so skip the lame "greatest hits" package, and the subsequent Works as...
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Anyone who knew anything about Pink Floyd knew that a dance band they were not, so this...compilation, courtesy of Columbia Records, was intended ironically. Arguably the...
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A reissue of Pink Floyd's first two albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, as a two-record set. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music...
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Since Relics is a compilation and not a regular studio album, it tends to be overlooked when thought of as one of Pink Floyd's better releases. It might not be regarded as a...
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Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it's possible to make the argument that Pink Floyd's music of...
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Maybe it's been ruined by umpteen playings on classic rock radio, or maybe it was never really as great as you thought it was. But while parts of the Floyd's big money-maker...
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By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently...
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The music is familiar -- the real attraction of the limited-edition twentieth anniversary edition of Pink Floyd's landmark 1973 album is the packaging. This release uses the...
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Pink Floyd's masterpiece is a tribute to fallen friend Syd Barrett, that "painter, piper, prisoner, and martyr" and all-around crazy diamond. It is also a very funny...
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This is a 100-minute video of a concert given during the 1989 tour by the edition of Pink Floyd sans Roger Waters. It's an extravaganza, to be sure, but somewhat hollow, and...
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The last great album by Pink Floyd Mark III is a George Orwell-styled allegory about the people who stumble through life as dogs, sheep, or pigs. Mean-spirited as hell,...
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Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that's hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as many rewards as its...
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To Floyd fans in the know, this top-heavy concept album was actually old hat, as the band had addressed its themes about the horrors of war, the cruelty of society, the...
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This is Roger Waters's two-disc meditation on the travails of a rock star, whose unhappy life causes him to build a psychological barrier between himself and the rest of the...
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Wherein Waters employs an orchestra to play songs absolutely devoid of tune about how bad it was for Maggie Thatcher to invade the Falklands, a tragedy almost on par with...
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The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the...
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Capitol Records gets into the Pink Floyd compilation game, but why bother when all you have in mind is the same old tired tracks, plus one previously unreleased song...
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A lavish and expensive eight-CD box set of Pink Floyd's greatest hits -- which are all albums, naturally. Seven albums (A Saucerful of Secrets, Meddle, The Dark Side of the...
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Forget Sgt. Pepper's; the best psychedelic rock album to come out of Abbey Road in 1967 was Pink Floyd's debut, which mixes weird instrumentals ("Astronomy Domine,"...
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The title of Pink Floyd's debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett's favorite children's book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical imagery of The Piper at the...
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A collection of music composed for the film of the same name by Barbet Schroeder (I've never seen it either), this disc actually has some of the Floyd's best tunes from the...
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Commissioned as a soundtrack to the seldom-seen French hippie movie of the same name, More was a Pink Floyd album in its own right, reaching the Top Ten in Britain. The...
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Two albums in one! There's a darn good 1969 live set consisting of material from '67 and '68 (you can almost smell the incense and patchouli), and a not-so-good studio album...
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For many years, this double LP/CD was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd's pre-Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live disc and a studio disc all for the...
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The best moment from Pink Floyd Mark II, this disc includes the fully orchestrated side-long title suite (don't laugh, it's actually pretty darn catchy) as well as a handful...
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Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn't mean it's more accessible. If...
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Aside from the magisterial "Echoes" and the killer groove "One Of These Days," there's not much happening on this disc, unless you count Steve Marriott's dog crooning on...
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Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its follow-up, Meddle. Opening with a...
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Syd Barrett is present on the Floyd's second album with only one original ("Jugband Blues"), but his influence can be heard loud and clear on several other tunes. Only the...
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A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett's relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy instrumental passages. Barrett's...
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This two-track import EP, running 28:45, features the complete versions of "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Nick's Boogie" recorded by Pink Floyd in January 1967 at its first...
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Pink Floyd's showmanship culminated in The Wall, an album designed to be a theatrical experience. Waters had a brilliant idea for the show -- an actual wall would be...
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Being the quintessential album rock band, Pink Floyd hasn't had much luck with "best-of" and "greatest-hits" compilations, like A Collection of Great Dance Songs and the...
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The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the...
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