Now if you do not want to spend all your money PINK FLOYD which, it must be admitted, does not fly with the back of a spoon, unless this is EMI, regarding the price of its skeud , here is why you MUST have:
the box "immersion" DSOTM: you get three completely different versions of the most famous disk PINK FLOYD. A prior to mixing with the official release of Alan Parsons (1972), a live, beautiful (1974), and known one that was released in 1973 on vinyl. In addition, you have pieces of work or in concert who have been largely reworked afterwards. Some are released on bootlegs (such as Money demo that can be found on the quad "Total Eclipse" released in 1993), others were unknown to me. Big advantage: the sound is magnificent while the famous bootlegs, it was somewhat rough.
WYWH "experience": it is, in fact, no need to buy the box "immersion" as the interest lies in the two disc of this double CD, namely, the working draft and WYWH ANIMALS 1974 as well as the lost version of "Wish You Were Here" with Stéphane GRAPPELLI. Regarding drafts played in concert, some are surprised that the pieces of ANIMALS were included on this album. This is easy to understand: the live version of DSOTM corresponds to the same concert at WEMBLEY 1974 that the three drafts, hence consistency. Indeed, they can be found on this bootleg famous "Black Holes In The Sky" released in 1991 on an Italian label and corresponding to the concert of 16 November 1974. Now, one could almost throwing away this double CD pirate, as the sound has been greatly improved by the Guthrie / Plant duo. It's simple, I keep it only for one reason: a version of Echoes was the only known concert before Gilmour and Wright released their version of the "On An Island Tour". Hopefully the unreleased tracks output job does not stop there to hear, finally, with his improvement, unpublished pre-DSOTM period.
THE WALL "experience": the demos contained in the record sufficient number two, although it is interesting to listen to others who are included in the "immersion" box. Some titles are very interesting to understand the evolution and the work or the importance of work of Bob EZRIN, particularly with regard to the major title "Another Brick in the Wall part. 2 ". Furthermore we do not find a draft of Roger Waters solo album: the Pros & Cons Of Hitch-Hiking.
Here are the reasons why it is not necessary to buy the boxes and WYWH THE WALL.
Except for any relative interest videos on THE WALL period with comments from Gerald Scarfe, concert videos already known on bootleg DVD "Video Anthology 1966-1983 ', the new material is rare. In fact, the only interesting is the "experience" discs. Moreover, it is true that the price of these boxes is excessive. In addition, these boxes contain uninteresting things like scarves, beads, cups below, totally useless and presentation booklets of which from the point of view of the photographs are beautiful. But the interest lies only in the collection.
The box set "Discovery" has no interest in that already has the entire Pink Floyd discography, especially in this magnificent package "Oh By The Way" which was released in 2007. Again the only interest lies in The 60-page booklet accompanying the disc 16.
One can not ignore the Best of Pink Floyd: "A Foot In The Door". Again, there is no interest in owning such a disc apart from the fact enjoy the original packaging but questionable. Moreover, as such, interest mainly lies in the release of this form vinyl disk. In other words, I expect.
In conclusion, the fan can navigate, although it can feel frustration in view of the many bands that could be exploited. It seems that if the operation "Why Pink Floyd? "Worked well, the group plans to release other unpublished including pre Dark Side period. What is sad in the story is that it is hoped that the record company is put in their pockets to satisfy the fan base that I am. And then we will be surprised that the Majors sell less patties' Just one question: Why this bias to cardboard sleeves, extremely fragile, rather than crystals boxes? Quite simply, I put my records in plastic boxes to keep intact pockets. EMI thank you! ! !
