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Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 1988.11.22
Time:
 45:23 / 44:77
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.pinkfloyd.com
Appears with: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Purchase date: 2001.06.12
Price in €: 25,99



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CD 1:
[1] Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Gilmour/Waters/Wright)
[2] Learning to Fly (Carin/Ezrin/Gilmour/Moore)
[3] Yet Another Movie (Gilmour/Leonard)
[4] Round and Round (Gilmour)
[5] Sorrow (Gilmour)
[6] The Dogs of War (Gilmour/Moore)
[7] On the Turning Away (Gilmour/Moore)

CD 2:
[1] One of These Days (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
[2] Time (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
[3] Wish You Were Here (Gilmour/Waters)
[4] Us & Them (Waters/Wright)
[5] Money (Waters)
[6] Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Waters)
[7] Comfortably Numb (Gilmour/Waters)
[8] Run Like Hell (Gilmour/Waters)

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DAVID GILMOUR - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
NICK MASON - Drums
RICHARD WRIGHT - Keyboards, Vocals

TIM RENWICK - Guitar, Vocals
JON CARIN - Keyboards, Vocals
DURGA MCBROOM - Background Vocals
SCOTT PAGE - Saxophone
GUY PRATT - Bass, Vocals
MARGARET TAYLOR - Background Vocals
GARY WALLIS - Percussion

DAVID HEWITT - Engineer
LARRY WALLACE - Mixing Assistant
TRISTAN POWELL - Assistant Engineer
DAVID GLEESON - Assistant Engineer
JON CROSSLAND - Artwork, Graphic Design
ROBERT "RINGO" HYRCYNA - Assistant Engineer
JOHN F. MCGILL - Artwork, Graphic Design
ANTHONY MAY - Photography
DIMO SAFARI - Photography
ANDY EARL - PHotography
PHIL TAYLOR - Musical Equipment Technician
NEXUS - Graphic Design
STORM THORGERSON - Artwork, Art Direction, Cover Design

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1987 CD Sony Music Video 6486
1987 CD CBS 49019
1988 CD Columbia 44484
1990 LP Columbia 44484
1990 CS Columbia 44484
1994 CD Columbia 44484


In one respect, it's hard to fault David Gilmour for retooling Pink Floyd as a neo-oldies act with Momentary Lapse of Reason, since Roger Waters took the band over the brink with his obsessive, non-musical The Final Cut. Fans were eager for an album that sounded like classic Floyd, which is what Momentary Lapse was. But what they really thirsted for was a live spectacle from Floyd, where they could hear the old tunes and see all the old stunts. That's what they got on the 1987/1988 Pink Floyd world tour, which is documented on the double-disc set, The Delicate Sound of Thunder. Gilmour's reunited Floyd was intent on recreating the sound and feel of classic Floyd, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the oldies feel like the classic records, only with Gilmour taking each vocal. He and Floyd deliver well, but this is a recreation that makes less sense on record than it did on stage, where the nostalgia was justified. Here, it feels passable but never compelling. This is professional, competent, and, often, even enjoyable music, yet, like many souvenirs, it never once feels necessary.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



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 - Amazon.com



After Roger Waters's departure from Pink Floyd in 1985, remaining members David Gilmore and Nick Mason decided to continue. The massive 155-date world tour that they embarked on in 1988 in the wake of the success of the Momentary Lapse Of Reason album featured one of the most spectacular live shows ever put together. With state-of-the-art lights and lasers perfectly synchronised with the music, a stage festooned with huge inflatable beds and pigs and a band featuring up to 10 musicians (including former keyboardist Rick Wright), it all had to be organised and executed with military precision. As a consequence, the music on this double live album does not contain much room for innovation or departure from the already scrupulously structured studio tracks. In some cases, as on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here" the results are relatively disappointing. In others, as on "The Dogs Of War", "Money" and "Another Brick In The Wall" there is enough added zest and energy to justify new versions. In general, the tracks taken from Momentary Lapse Of Reason appear in somewhat enhanced renditions. Mainly, however, this was an album directed at people who attended the tour and were able to fill in the otherwise missing onstage spectacle from memory.

James Swift - Amazon.co.uk



Nach über 20 Jahren veröffentlichten Pink Floyd 1988 ihr erstes richtiges Live-Album. Auf Ummagumma (´69) standen zwar schon zahlreiche Live-Nummern, aber als vollwertiger Konzertmitschnitt ging das Doppel-Album dann doch nicht durch. Delicate Sound Of Thunder fällt somit die undankbare Aufgabe zu, aus dem gigantischen Haufen von Floyd-Klassikern möglichst viele herauszupicken und dabei auch noch möglichst alle Perioden der Bandgeschichte zu berücksichtigen. Die ersten Alben bleiben dabei leider unberücksichtigt, dafür wird neben den Bestsellern aus den Siebzigern aber auch das damals aktuelle Langeisen A Momentary Lapse Of Reason mit einbezogen. So stehen brandneue Nummern wie "Round And Around" oder "Dogs Of War" völlig gleichberechtigt neben weitaus bekannteren Tracks der Marke "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Time", "Money", "Another Brick In The Wall" oder "Wish You Were Here". Die Mischung funktioniert bestens, und da der Sound und die Performance wie bei Floyd üblich vom Allerfeinsten sind, kann dieser Output den extrem hohen Erwartungen problemlos gerecht werden.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



Die "Momentary Lapse Of Reason"-Tour im Sommer war ein Superspektakel. Auf diesem Live-Mitschnitt ist es nachzuvollziehen. Die 14 Songs vereinen Aktu- elles wie "The Dogs Of War" und Klassiker wie "Another Brick In The Wall" in ausgefeilten, spannenden Versionen und mit berauschendem Klang.

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Ein Kritiker aus Frankreich - aus dem Land also, in dem Pink Floyd wie die himmlichen Boten einer neuen Kunst verehrt werden - verglich die Giganto- manie auf der Welttournee vom Frühsommer 1988 mit den monumentalen Zeugen aristokratischer Prachtentfaltung. Schon in dem Film "Pink Floyd In Pompeji" hatten die Engländer die Architektur zum festen Bestandteil ihres Multi- Media-Spektakels gemacht, diesmal mußten Laser-Kanonen und Kulissen wie das Schloß von Versailles die optische Dimension ins Großartige steigern. Auf solche Schauspiele sind Pink Floyd heute verstärkt angewiesen. Denn auf der Bühne agiert nach dem Ausstieg von Roger Waters eine Band ohne Extravagan- zen, die ihr Hitmaterial perfekt wie im Studio herunterspielt, ohne durch solistische Highlights zu glänzen. Das lastet schwer auf dem Live-Doppelalbum "Delicate Sound Of Thunder". Die Heimanlage kann dem Zuhörer nicht das Gefühl vermitteln, Teil eines Happe- nings für alle Sinne zu sein, und trotz 1-A-Tonqualität kommt kaum ein Stück lebendiger rüber als in der entsprechenden Studioversion. Atmosphäre ver- breiten noch die romantischen Sphärenklänge von "Shine On You Crazy Dia- mond", ein voller Ausfall ist dafür das Repertoire aus "The Wall", das ein- deutig Roger Waters' Ding war - David Gilmour singt zielstrebig an der Stim- mung vorbei. Den Sound-Effekten aus "Dark Side Of The Moon" wiederum fehlt der letzte Tick HiFi. So kommt "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" dahergebraust wie ein Mercedes ohne Stern. ** Interpret.: 05-09

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