Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound Of Thunder (2019 Remix) [Live] (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:28 minutes | 2,86 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

If the end of the 80’s sounded the death knell for many sacred monsters at the top of their art a decade or even fifteen years ago, they were the synonym of a new birth for Pink Floyd. The band has already had two lives, one with and then without Syd Barrett. When in 1985, Roger Waters left the adventure, he tried at all costs to prevent his former Playmates from retaining the name of the formation for their future projects. After a long legal battle, Gilmour, Mason, and Wright won the right to continue using Pink Floyd’s surname. In 1987, A Momentary Lapse of Reason was released, the first album of the post-Waters era. This was followed by a pharaonic tour that gave birth to the live Delicate Sound of Thunder the following year. A one-of-a-kind album in the band’s history for several reasons. First because it is the first real official Floyd live (although Ummagumma released in 1969 included two records, a live and a studio). Then because it was a huge success at the time on two levels, thanks to its different audio and video formats, new proof that the group has long grasped the primordial role played by images to accompany its music (the film Live At Pompeii released sixteen years earlier is a perfect example). Finally because it is the first album to have been played in space thanks to Soviet cosmonauts having taken it with them aboard the Soyuz TM-7 shuttle towards the Space station Mir. Its remixed and especially completed reissue brings this live having made debate into a new era.

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Pink Floyd – Cre/ation – The Early Years 1967 – 1972 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:54 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pink Floyd Records

Set across 2 CD’s, Cre/ation The Early Years 1967 – 1972 charts the evolution of the band and bears witness to their part in cultural revolutions, from their earliest recordings and studio sessions to the years prior to the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon, one of the biggest selling albums of all time. From the single Arnold Layne to the 24-minute epic Echoes, fans will see the invention of psychedelic progressive rock via an insightful collection that explores the Pink Floyd story from the time Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett met at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic, through to Syd’s departure and David Gilmour joining to form the iconic lineup.

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Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pink Floyd Records

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 anything, this is the most impenetrable album Pink Floyd released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era. Still, it may be an acquired taste even for fans, especially since it kicks off with a side-long, 23-minute extended orchestral piece that may not seem to head anywhere, but is often intriguing, more in what it suggests than what it achieves. Then, on the second side, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Rick Wright have a song apiece, winding up with the group composition “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” wrapping it up. Of these, Waters begins developing the voice that made him the group’s lead songwriter during their classic era with “If,” while Wright has an appealingly mannered, very English psychedelic fantasia on “Summer 68,” and Gilmour’s “Fat Old Sun” meanders quietly before ending with a guitar workout that leaves no impression. “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast,” the 12-minute opus that ends the album, does the same thing, floating for several minutes before ending on a drawn-out jam that finally gets the piece moving. So, there are interesting moments scattered throughout the record, and the work that initially seems so impenetrable winds up being Atom Heart Mother’s strongest moment. That it lasts an entire side illustrates that Pink Floyd was getting better with the larger picture instead of the details, since the second side just winds up falling off the tracks, no matter how many good moments there are. This lack of focus means Atom Heart Mother will largely be for cultists, but its unevenness means there’s also a lot to cherish here. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Pink Floyd – Animals (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:41 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pink Floyd Records

With pigs, dogs and sheep, Pink Floyd’s Animals is a nod towards George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm. Of course, both works are only about one species in the end: Homosapiens. Released in January 1977, the album puts society under the microscope and dissects the ugliness and brutality of human nature. The record came at a time of huge social unrest in England: class tensions were on the rise, unemployment was skyrocketing and racial divide had hit a high-water mark. Anger was in the air and it bled into every corner of Animals.

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Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets (1968/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:24 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Rock
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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 influence is still felt (he actually did manage to contribute one track, the jovial “Jugband Blues”), and much of the material retains a gentle, fairy-tale ambience. “Remember a Day” and “See Saw” are highlights; on “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Let There Be More Light,” and the lengthy instrumental title track, the band begin to map out the dark and repetitive pulses that would characterize their next few records. – Richie Unterberger

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Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason (2019 Remix) (1987/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:09 minutes | 967 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Parlophone

After a protracted legal battle over the rights to the Pink Floyd name, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright released 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason despite Roger Waters’ protests. Retaining collaborators from Floyd’s past (like producer Bob Ezrin), this Gilmour-led version of the band crafted a number of songs that were as cerebral and introspective as anything Floyd had done in the past. The first single, “Learning to Fly,” served as the unofficial anthem for this latest chapter of Pink Floyd. The Andy Mackay/Gilmour-penned “One Slip” uses the requisite bells and whistles along with Tony Levin’s impressive stick solo to guarantee it a prominent place in the band’s canon. “The Dogs of War” and “On the Turning Away” are perfect commentaries on the conservative mindset shaping the ’80s at the time. The former is an ominous screed composed at a time when the Cold War was still a reality, and the latter is a swipe against the self-absorption of the Me Decade. – Rovi Staff

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Pink Floyd – A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd (2011/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:40 minutes | 2,95 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door is a greatest hits album by English rock band Pink Floyd, that was released as part of the Why Pink Floyd…? 2011–12 remastering campaign. It was later released on vinyl on 26 September 2018.

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Pink Floyd – A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pink Floyd Records

A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 23 November 1981 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and in the United States by Columbia Records.

The album contains alternative mixes of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (comprised parts 1, 2, 4 and 7) and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”.

“Money” was entirely re-recorded, as Capitol Records refused to license the track to Columbia/CBS Records. David Gilmour re-recorded the track himself, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar and vocals and co-producing the song with James Guthrie. Dick Parry reprised his saxophone role on the track. There are some differences between the re-recorded version and the original; mainly in the saxophone and guitar solos and the overall use of reverb and Gilmour repeating “away” at the end instead of the high pitch scat singing on the original. The drumming is noticeably different from Nick Mason’s, especially during the guitar solo, with very little of the tom-tom fills heard on the original.

All songs featured in this collection are also represented (albeit not in the same mixed form) on the later collection, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.

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Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (1994/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:30 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

The Division Bell 20th Anniversary collector’s box set features a new 2-LP vinyl edition of the album, remastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab from the original analogue tapes, including all the full length tracks (originally edited to fit on a single LP) in a gatefold sleeve designed by Hipgnosis/StormStudios. Five other discs are included: a red 7” vinyl replica of single Take It Back, clear 7” vinyl replica of High Hopes, 12” blue vinyl replica of High Hopes with reverse laser etched design, the 2011 Discovery remaster of ‘The Division Bell’ and a Blu-ray disc including ‘The Division Bell’ album in HD Audio, plus the previously unreleased 5.1 surround sound audio mix of the album by Andy Jackson. Another addition included on the Blu-ray disc is a new video for Marooned, the track that won a Grammy for ‘Best Rock Instrumental’ in 1994. Filmed in Ukraine during the first week of April 2014, the video was directed by Aubrey Powell at Hipgnosis. It will appear on the disc with audio tracks in both PCM Stereo and a 5.1 mix by Andy Jackson. Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour produced the original album, with orchestral arrangements by the late Michael Kamen. The anniversary box set discs have been remastered by long term Pink Floyd audio associates James Guthrie and Joel Plante. The set also includes 7 collectible film cards in a wallet as featured on the original High Hopes 12” release, 5 x 26cm x 26 cm art prints designed by Hipgnosis/StormStudios, and a new 12×12 24 page lyric booklet.

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Pink Floyd – A Great Day For Freedom 2022 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:34 minutes | 146 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Pink Floyd will release two physical versions of their first new music in over 25 years, recent single “Hey Hey Rise Up,” which was first released digitally in April to support of the people of Ukraine.

The single will be available as both a 7-inch and CD single on Oct. 21 in the U.S., with both formats boasting newly-reworked version of “A Great Day For Freedom,” from the band’s 1994 album. The Division Bell. David Gilmour reimagined the song using the original tapes, which feature Nick Mason on drums and the late Richard Wright on keyboards.

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