Over time, this has become one of my favourite albums. As a rule, I don't go much for compilation albums. However, this double album, taken from a Floyd concert (and happily unflawed sound-wise) has a real life of its own. This remains true even though the tracks are all taken from former albums which I love to listen to all by themselves. Often when you hear a song out of its original album context, you miss the support it derived from the pieces that went with it. This is particularly true of bands like the Moody Blues, who made albums rather than just songs, and it ought to be true of Pink Floyd. Yet "Pulse" works and it works well; I find myself playing it more and more often with real pleasure, even though I have most of the original albums on CD now as well. For me, it has taken its place in the Floyd catalogue and is well worth owning. I wouldn't buy it for the packaging alone, but I have to admit that's impressive also, and somehow typical of the group.Read full review
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)Read full review
Pink Floyd Pulse, my favorite live album, by my favorite classic rock group. What I really like about Pink Floyd is that they sound almost identical on the CD as compared to live, no studio magic here, just talent and years of practice. Disc one starts with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" a classic. Moving into a Syd Barret tune "Astronomy Domine" one of my favorite tracks. Then they do some of the standout tracks on the new album at the time titled "The Division Bell". With tracks like What Do You Want From Me", "Coming Back To Life", "High Hopes", and "A Great Day For Freedom". With some tracks from "The Wall". Disc two is the complete "Dark Side Of The Moon". With a little playing around on "Money" with a little jazz influence. With two more tracks from "The Wall". A well played "Comfortably Numb", and "Run Like Hell". If you are a Floyd fan get this CD.Read full review
This CD is one of Pink Floyd's greatest live works. The way they can create the studio sounds to there live concerts is incredible. The fact that Roger Waters is not a part of the Floyd Family on this CD, he is not missed. The sound quality on this CD is spot on. The packaging is also well done. Over all this is a great it em to have.
CD is fantastic and in great shape (when I finally got it). I had to contact the seller after a couple of weeks to see where this order was. They did apologize and I did received it in a few days after, all in great condition.
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