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Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Tim Renwick (vocals, guitar); Dick Parry (saxophone); ...Read more
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Still the greatest live album of all time, hands down
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'...Read more
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Pink Floyd Pulse
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 ...Read more

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Album Features
UPC:074646706428
Artist:Pink Floyd
Format:CD
Release Year:1995
Record Label:Columbia (USA)
Genre:Art Rock, Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond
2. Astronomy Domine
3. What Do You Want From Me
4. Learning to Fly
5. Keep Talking
6. Coming Back to Life
7. Hey You
8. Great Day for Freedom, A
9. Sorrow
10. High Hopes
11. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

DISC 2:
1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. Great Gig in the Sky, The
6. Money
7. Us and Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
11. Wish You Were Here
12. Comfortably Numb
13. Run Like Hell

Details
Producer:David Gilmour, James Guthrie
Distributor:Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:Live
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Tim Renwick (vocals, guitar); Dick Parry (saxophone); Jon Carin (vocals, keyboards); Guy Pratt (vocals, bass); Gary Wallis (percussion); Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom (background vocals).Recorded live in Europe and The United Kingdom in 1994.Recorded at Earls Court Arena, London, England.Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitars); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Tim Renwick (vocals, guitar); Jon Carin (vocals, keyboards); Guy Pratt (vocals, bass); Dick Parry (saxophone); Gary Wallis (percussion); Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom (background vocals).Recorded live in Europe and The United Kingdom in 1994.Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitars); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Tim Renwick (vocals, guitar); Jon Carin (vocals, keyboards); Guy Pratt (vocals, bass); Dick Parry (saxophone); Gary Wallis (percussion); Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom (background vocals).Recorded live in Europe and The United Kingdom in 1994.Personnel: David Gilmour, Tim Renwick (vocals, guitar); Jon Carin (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Guy Pratt (vocals, bass guitar); Dick Parry (saxophone); Nick Mason (drums, percussion); Gary Wallis (percussion); Jason Reddy (computer); Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom, Sam Leigh Brown, Sam Brown (background vocals).Audio Mixers: David Gilmour; Seth Goldman; Colin Norfield; James Guthrie ; Andy Jackson.Recording information: England; Europe.Illustrators: Julien Mills; Peter Curzon.Photographers: Michael Dwornik; Michael Dwomik; Andy Earl; Dimo Safari; Robert Lou Llewellyn; Claude Gassion; Denis O'Regan; Jill Furmanovsky; Lester Cohen; Claude Gassian; Tony May.No matter which of Pink Floyd's leaders (Barrett, Waters, Gilmour) is at the controls, the band has always been about grandeur. The epic scale of their psychedelic explorations, the life-altering themes of their recordings, their ground-breaking, conceptual stagings, have all helped in the construction of the group's mythology. And more than any other rock band's, Pink Floyd's myths have endured even as the band and its fans have grown older.A live double album, PULSE works not only as an extended postcard of 1994's biggest tour, but as the Floyd's myth re-charger. Consider the facts: the release was celebrated with a laser-light show atop the Empire State Building, and the spine of the CD package features a perpetually blinking light. But, as is always the case with Pink Floyd, there is method in their madness. The blinking light harkens back to the heartbeat that is the unifying theme of their classic DARK SIDE OF THE MOON album, which is performed in its entirety on disc two.Disc one is an approximation of the band's first set, featuring a powerful run through Syd Barrett's "Astronomy Domine" (the definition of late-'60s British psychedelia), as well as a host of songs from 1987's MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON and '94s DIVISION BELL. But the second set is the true keeper of the two. Having made its tour debut on the 25th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, DARK SIDE loses none of its glow when transferred to a live setting. David Gilmour ably handles Roger Waters' vocal parts, and emphasizes instrumental interludes--"On The Run," for instance, sounds like a true precursor to The Orb's ambient noodlings. The radio hits ("Money," "Us and Them," "Brain Damage") are all re-interpreted enough to sound novel, but still retain a comforting familiarity.

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3 Stars - Good - ...The music on PULSE is generally good and often splendid....a beautiful artifact...
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Still the greatest live album of all time, hands down

Created: 15/10/08
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&quo​t;).
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)
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Pink Floyd Pulse

Created: 15/02/08
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.
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Not just a CD!! It is an experience!

Created: 04/06/07
This double live disc ROCKS!!! It rocks in that groovy & mellow kind of way that ONLY a Pink Floyd & Roger Waters fan could appreciate. The sound is PHENOMINAL! The album is produced very well. This is one of those CDs I like to put in the CD player at night while driving down a nice and quiet highway. (Be careful just how COMFORTABLY NUMB you are.) Play it at the appropriate volume and let IT TAKE YOU away. You will feel like you are RIGHT THERE AT THE SHOW. You can actually FEEL the music and energy coming through your speakers. It truly is a wonderful escape to do so. If you had a bad day, just pop in this Pink Floyd CD and forget about the world. Because your getting ready to go on a nice little trip. And nothing else matters when your in the Pink Floyd mode. So don't be a ding-dong! Buy the disc and take your own little trip. PLUS it is an inexpensive little getaway. Try it! You won't be sorry.

P.S. I highly recommend actually going to see this group live. Like the album, it is not just music at a concert. It is an EXPERIENCE! It WILL move you and touch your life!
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Well put together list of live material

Created: 30/11/05
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.
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Pulse by Pink Floyd- 2 Disk DVD

Created: 04/12/10
I have always been a HUGE fan of of the unique Band: Pink Floyd and this double live DVD does not disappoint.
It has all the well-known and well-loved Floyd tracks, including those from Wish you were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, The Division Bell and The Wall.
A must have for any true Floyd fan. Enjoy...!!!
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