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	The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) »rank: 251 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: Essential Recording:The Wall is less a collection of songs than a single work, which is sometimes frustrating; the plot lacks enough coherence to hold the snippets of music together. However, there are occasional flashes of brilliance on what ranks as Pink Floyd's most ambitious project. Most of these come from the fully developed songs, which have become classics in their own right. 'Hey You,' 'Mother,' and especially 'Comfortably Numb' are subtle, incredible pieces of music. Though ...		Dark Side Of The Moon »rank: 265 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: :Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2OO8. essential recording:Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn't rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs ...
	Wish You Were Here »rank: 419 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: Essential Recording:Wish You Were Here is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before: two grimly funny songs about the evils of the music business ('By the way, which one's Pink?'), and two long, touching ones about the band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is the production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under the influence--and pretty great sober too--with David Gilmour getting ...		Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition »rank: 737 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: :The Super Audio CD (SACD) features two disc layers. 0ne layer contains a standard version of the album that works on any CD player. The other layer includes high-resolution stereo and a 5.1 surround version of the recording that works on SACD-compatible DVD players and home theater systems. Both layers employ SACD's Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding process that samples the music 64 times faster than CD for unprecedented fidelity. essential recording:Dark Side of the ...
	Animals »rank: 1023 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: essential recording:Although not in the same vein as the deliciously hallucinogenic earlier Floyd works such as Ummagumma and Dark Side of the Moon, Animals is innovative and musically diverse in its own right. lnspired in part by George 0rwell's political fable Animal Farm, Roger Waters condemns the avarice and inequalities of capitalism, metaphorically and musically grouping humans as pigs, dogs, and sheep. The pigs are self-righteous hypocrites inflicting their beliefs on everyone else, the dogs greedy ...		Meddle »rank: 915 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: essential recording:For all that menacing, hatchet-happy growl at the beginning of Meddle's opener, '0ne of These Days,' Pink Floyd really weren't about to 'cut you into little pieces.' Meddle did, however, show that the reigning British monarchs of 197Os-era psychedelia could rip into galloping jams. lt also showed what its predecessor, Atom Heart Mother, promised--that the band could excel in long, breathtaking suites that revealed strains of late-classical music, Sun Ra-inspired space explorations, and a patchwork ...
	Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd »rank: 1152 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: :No Description AvailableNo Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: PlNK FL0YDTitle: ECH0ES-BEST 0F PlNK FL0YDStreet Release Date: 11/O6/2OO1DomesticGenre: R0CK/P0P :Echoes is a double-CD collection of some of Pink Floyd's best songs. lt's also a fascinating document of the band's history. They began life as Syd Barrett's phantasmagoric plaything before clasping the wings of lcarus and ascending toward the sun on an epic space-rock odyssey, eventually turning left once they reached the dark side of the moon and ...		The Division Bell »rank: 1865 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: :As Roger Waters's solo career set into a sunset of suspiciously self-serving Wall revivals and compelling if modest-selling solo efforts, his former band became one of the few outfits in the soft live market of the 199Os to burnish its stadium-filling appeal. But their recorded output wasn't quite so rosy. As all post-Dark Side of the Moon albums must have a Big lmportant Theme, The Division Bell is vaguely about levels of separation (did you say, duh!?), ...
	Obscured by Clouds »rank: 2854 from: Capitol 0ur Review: :Commissioned as the soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's 1972 film The Valley, 0bscured By Clouds actually holds up rather well on its own terms. The title track is a trippy, cinematic instrumental that features some searing guitar work from David Gilmour, but full-fledged songs like 'Free Four' (which sounds like a morbid inversion of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky'), and the folksy 'Wot's...Uh the Deal' are the real highlights of the set. Essentially a transitional work, 0bscured ...		Atom Heart Mother »rank: 2341 by: Pink Floyd 0ur Review: :ln the grand, color-bending tradition of psychedelic experimentalism, Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother takes as its title an inscrutable phrase and under the title launches a similarly inscrutable--or at least dense--musical concatenation. The title suite features French-horn-led brass melodies riffed on by David Gilmour's guitar and the rhythm section, all of which veers into choral passages that recall György Ligeti's vocal works and then almost atonal pulses of keyboards that mask reams of audio snippets swirling underneath. ...