Pink Floyd - The Final Cut [Japanese Ed. 1st press] (1983)

Year: 21 March 1983 (CD 1983)
Label: CBS/Sony Inc. (Japan), 35DP 53
Style: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 43:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 243 Mb

Rich pop stars often act in predictable ways. They buy large houses in the country, read the wrong daily newspapers, and vote Tory. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters can be accused of a lot of things, but never of doing what’s expected. So Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, the follow-up to the multimedia extravaganza The Wall, turns out to be a mini-epic written by Waters, subtitled “a requiem for the post war dream,” and includes the most vicious attack on Mrs Thatcher that the pop world has mounted. When Waters gets going he makes all that “stand down Margaret” stuff sound positively tame.
The lyrics are the most startling part of an otherwise messy, overblown, and awkward album that includes a few strong songs, some brilliant recording work (with whispers, footsteps or other effects mixed into songs with brilliant separation and clarity), and patches that sound like outtakes from The Wall.
The opening anthem, with its chorus “What have we done, Maggie, what have we done to England?” echoes the final song in The Wall and makes it sound as if he’s about to embark on a detailed analysis of the collapse of the welfare state. Instead, he returns to various well-worn Waters themes, from the second world war and the death of his own father (to whom the album is dedicated), to stories of war heroes becoming teachers, or songs of personal madness, interspersed with references to the Falklands and the blistering attacks on Thatcher.
The most vicious, The Fletcher Memorial Home (another reference to his father) imagines Thatcher, along with Haig, Begin and others, in a “home for incurable tyrants and kings.” The album ends, as you might have guessed, with a nuclear holocaust. The songs are mostly quiet, often with orchestral backing interrupted by David Gilmour guitar attacks. Floyd enthusiasts should note that the band are now a three-piece (Richard Wright has escaped over The Wall), and despite the title it’s not necessarily their final album.
(theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/17/pink-floyd-the-final-cut-reviewed-1983)

01. The Post War Dream (03:03)
02. Your Possible Pasts (04:30)
03. One Of The Few (01:13)
04. The Hero's Return (03:00)
05. The Gunners Dream (05:08)
06. Paranoid Eyes (03:44)
07. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (01:16)
08. The Fletcher Memorial Home (04:15)
09. Southampton Dock (02:12)
10. The Final Cut (04:45)
11. Not Now John (05:03)
12. Two Suns In The Sunset (05:20)

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Pink Floyd - The Wall [Japanese Ed. 1st press. 2CD] (1979)

Year: 30 November 1979 (CD Jun 21, 1985)
Label: CBS/Sony Inc. (Japan), 50DP 361-2
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 39:19, 42:00
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 260, 286 Mb

The Wall is a 1979 Pink Floyd album, created after their success with The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. It is unique in that it tells a complete story about the life of Pink, a fictional rock star, and his gradual decline into shutting himself away from the world. Being a double album, the first disc chronicles his life from his rocky childhood, with a father who died in war (the ending of In The Flesh?, The Thin Ice, and Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1), abusive teachers (The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2), an overprotective mom (Mother), and living in constant fear of war (Goodbye Blue Sky).
To paraphrase from Dan Olson (Folding Ideas on YouTube), the variety of these childhood events is core to the album's theme: there is no one singular event that causes us to shut ourselves off from the world. They are all just bricks in the wall that keep us from others. Empty Spaces, Young Lust, and One Of My Turns show that he's resorted to sex and rock and roll (through the style of these tracks) to fill himself: to numb himself from the possible pain the world can bring him. But it becomes unavoidable when his wife finds out he's been cheating on her (Don't Leave Me Now), and combined with his abusive tendencies towards her, she leaves Pink for good.
This causes him to trash his apartment (Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3) and decide, “I don't need anything at all,” finally shutting himself out (Goodbye Cruel World). The album's first half is very catchy, with the swing of In The Flesh? and the disco beat of Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 being the best parts for me. The lyrics do a good job of describing his rough childhood and how he's attempted to fill himself with sex, rock and roll, and, as Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 reveals, drugs. But this is a double album, and the story isn't over yet.
(full version: craccum.co.nz/the-wall-1979-album-review/)

01. In The Flesh? (03:19)
02. The Thin Ice (02:29)
03. Another Brick In The Wall (Part I) (03:10)
04. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (01:51)
05. Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) (04:00)
06. Mother (05:33)
07. Goodbye Blue Sky (02:49)
08. Empty Spaces (02:07)
09. Young Lust (03:33)
10. One Of My Turns (03:34)
11. Don't Leave Me Now (04:16)
12. Another Brick In The Wall (Part III) (01:17)
13. Goodbye Cruel World (01:14)

01. Hey You (04:41)
02. Is There Anybody Out There (02:57)
03. Nobody Home (03:11)
04. Vera (01:29)
05. Bring The Boys Back Home (01:26)
06. Comfortably Numb (06:23)
07. The Show Must Go On (01:37)
08. In The Flesh (04:15)
09. Run Like Hell (04:20)
10. Waiting For The Worms (04:01)
11. Stop (00:31)
12. The Trial (05:19)
13. Outside The Wall (01:44)

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Plays Hits Of Pink Floyd (1994)

Year: 1996 (CD 1994)
Label: Edel Company (Germany), 0028382EDL
Style: Modern Classical, Instrumental, Classical Pop
Country: London, England, UK
Time: 51:09
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 318 Mb

I would not have been a massive fan of Floyd although I have some of their albums. However the real strength is that the Royal Phil have captured much of the essence of the original pieces - many of which are excellent stand alone songs on their own. When you put them together into over 50 minutes of music it becomes a rich musical experience which can be enjoyed time and time again. I do not know what Floyd think of the CD but I would argue that it is an incredible tribute to their achievements. It has encouraged me to seek out more CD's by the Royal Phil on other artists. Well done to Pink Floyd to giving us such great music. Well done to the Royal Phil for giving us such a great recording of magnificent music.
(amazon.co.uk/Royal-Philharmonic-Orchestra-Plays-Floyd/dp/B000026BEU) Review by I. Drysdale. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2010
I originally bought this album on a somewhat dull supermarket trip. That was 3 weeks ago and it has hardly been turned off since! In my eyes and ears it takes something special to divert my attention away from the original recordings of Floyd, but this cd is a wonderful and beautiful rendition of the bands greatest songs. For both fans and lovers of classical music this album deserves to be listened to. A definite 5 stars!
(amazon.co.uk/Royal-Philharmonic-Orchestra-Plays-Floyd/dp/B000026BEU) Review by  Think Pink. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2003

01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (09:42)
02. Money (05:05)
03. Us & Them (06:16)
04. Hey You (04:31)
05. Another Brick In The Wall (06:54)
06. Wish You Were Here (04:25)
07. Time (05:50)
08. The Great Gig In The Sky (04:15)
09. In The Flesh (04:06)

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Pink Floyd - Animals [Japanese Ed. 1st press] (1977)

Year: 21 January 1977 (CD Jul 21, 1985)
Label: CBS/Sony (Japan), 32DP-360
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:48
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 267 Mb

I admit without qualm that it began for me with Animals. My brother was in college, and one day I went through his records and listened to the ones with the coolest covers. Animals fascinated me then as it still fascinates me today. It is the acute anthropomorphic fantasy, possessing a timeless quality that has thrust it into the category of "classic," though it may remain forever in the shadow of its more commercially successful older brother, Dark Side Of The Moon. Consisting of three tracks each longer than ten minutes and two tracks under two minutes, Animals is not for the attention- span- deficient. However, within this impenetrable fortress of radio- unfriendly tracks, we hear Dave Gilmour's guitars at their absolute best, get a full-on dose of Roger Waters' powerful lyrical imagery, and are presented with the worst elements of our own humanity- packaged in the skins of "Sheep," "Dogs" and "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". For those weaned on The Wall and Dark Side, you'll find Animals to be a whole new bag of feed. Where Floyd's two most recognizable albums made their mark with operatic aggression and fear, Animals deals in dirt- under- the- fingernails reality, the common smallness that simultaneously binds and repels us all. "Dogs," a 17-minute study in the commonest of all faults, lazily dispenses bite after venomous bite into the desires that drive us to seize the fast buck and screw anyone that gets in our way: "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, So that when they turn their backs on you, You'll get the chance to put the knife in."
All this wrapped up in the flaky coating of two hauntingly similar and musically identical tracks casting opposite views of cynicism and hope on the proceedings. Animals is like George Orwell's Animal Farm run through a full- audio acid test- spectacular in every aspect and now in full color.
I admit without qualm that it began for me with Animals.
(pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6307-animals/)

01. Pigs On The Wing(Part One) (01:24)
02. Dogs (17:06)
03. Pigs(Three Different Ones) (11:30)
04. Sheep (10:18)
05. Pigs On The Wing(Part Two) (01:27)

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Japanese Ed. 3rd press] (1975)

Year: 12 September 1975 (CD Jul 21, 1985)
Label: CBS Records / Sony Records (Japan), 32DP 359
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 44:18
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 256 Mb

As the follow-up to the Floyd’s iconic, record-breaking 1973 concept album The Dark Side Of The Moon, this album is often unfairly overlooked. With the benefit of hindsight, Wish You Were Here has the same faultless pacing and sequencing of its predecessor, but a more coherent musical narrative, structure and tone, as well as greater lyrical sophistication. Here, the ‘concept’ is more down-to-earth, since much of the record is an extended tribute to the late Syd Barrett ­ the genius behind their early works, who flew too high and burned too bright, becoming one of rock’s most infamous drug casualties before Pink Floyd emerged from London?s psychedelic underground scene to become one of the biggest success stories of the 1970s. It’s also the last great album by a band that would produce something as adolescently puerile as The Wall by the end of that decade.
Barrett is the subject of the epic “Shine On You Crazy Diamond, parts One and Two” of which take up more than half the playing time and bookend just three other shorter tracks. Despite some questionable keyboard tones from Richard Wright, the majestically unhurried instrumental intro is a triumph of suspense. It?s nearly nine minutes before Roger Waters starts singing and the effect is startling, as are the words: ‘Remember when you were young?/ You shone like the sun / Shine On You Crazy Diamond!/ Now there’s a look in your eye / Like black holes in the sky’. It’s debatable whether the ‘iPod generation’ will get all of the eerie, almost visual sound detail in the more melodramatic “Welcome To The Machine”, which presages some of the pomp of their later work. Guest vocalist Roy Harper is a gritty presence on the music industry-bating “Have A Cigar” and the breathless title track finds Waters’ lyrics at their most soul searching. Some may baulk at Dave Gilmour’s long, bluesy guitar workouts, which form the backbone of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and crop up throughout the album. Hey, these were the dying days of prog. rock. Punk was just around the corner and it’s easy to see why, but mid-seventies post-psychedelic angst seldom sounded so chilled.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b8dp/) Review by Jon Lusk. 2007

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Part I, II, III, IV, V (13:31)
02. Welcome To The Machine (07:33)
03. Have A Cigar (05:24)
04. Wish You Were Here (05:22)
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Part VI, VII, VIII, IX (12:25)

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Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon [50th Anniversary Ed.] (1973)

Year: 1 March 1973 (CD Oct 13, 2023)
Label: Pink Floyd Music Ltd. (Europe), 5054197181146
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 42:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 257 Mb

When Pink Floyd first premiered what would become the most successful rock album of all time, it was quite literally too big for the system to handle. A half-hour into the band’s concert in Brighton on January 20, 1972-the live debut of what was then called “Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics”-the band started to play “Money,” which required synchronizing their performance to a pre-recorded sound collage of jingling coins and ka-ching-ing cash registers. But coupled with the band’s power-sucking sound system and lighting rig, the show slowly ground to a halt. After a brief break, bassist Roger Waters came to the mic to explain: “Due to severe mechanical and electronic horror, we can’t do any more of that bit, so we’ll do something else.” Less than a month later, the band had to abandon a performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall when the same thing happened.
Over the prior half-decade, Pink Floyd had established themselves as, if not the best psychedelic rock band, then certainly the most technologically extravagant. From late 1966 through the fabled Summer of Love, they were the house band at the UFO, the Swinging London rock club/art space/drug den, which gave them free rein to blend their droning jams with trippy visuals, sound effects, fog machines, and extreme volume. That August, Waters told Melody Maker that he wanted Pink Floyd to travel from city to city with a circus-style big top. “We’ll have a huge screen 120 feet wide and 40 feet high inside and project films and slides.”
His prediction never came to be, but for an invite-only gig at Queen Elizabeth Hall in May 1967, the band installed a joystick dubbed “The Azimuth Co-ordinator” on top of Richard Wright’s keyboard to send the band’s potent, droning sound and sci-fi effects careening around the first-of-its-kind quadraphonic playback system in the venue. For the back cover photo of the 1969 double album Ummagumma, drummer Nick Mason arranged the band’s road gear to resemble an aircraft carrier, a concise reversal of one philosopher’s claim that rock music is not much more than “a misuse of military equipment.” Waters told Melody Maker that Pink Floyd’s gear fixation was a matter of going where no band had gone. “We’re trying to solve problems that haven’t existed before.”
(full version: pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/)

01. Speak To Me (01:11)
02. Breathe (02:45)
03. On The Run (03:33)
04. Time (07:05)
05. The Great Gig In The Sky (04:44)
06. Money (06:22)
07. Us And Them (07:50)
08. Any Colour You Like (03:25)
09. Brain Damage (03:50)
10. Eclipse (02:08)

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