Pulse (1995)
Disc One
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. A Great Day for Freedom
9. Sorrow
10.High Hopes
11.Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. II
Disc Two
1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
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
Make no mistake about it, a Pink Floyd
live souvenir really needs to be seen as opposed to heard.
Therefore, its probably to your advantage to pick up the DVD as opposed
to the CD release (remember, though, there were no DVDs in 1995 when
this came out). But, as far as a live release goes, this one is pretty
close to being as amazing as you could possibly get.
Taken from the massive stadium tour promoting The Division Bell, it's amazing how much
better this tour sounds as opposed to the last one. All of the amazing
spectacles, visuals, lasers, etc. are the same, yet the music is much
more diverse this time around. Of course, I'm talking about the tour,
not necessarily the album here when I say "diverse". During one leg
the tour (that I didn't see), they performed the entire The Dark Side of the Moon which
is, in fact, represented here. Contrasting this to the last tour,
when they played their entire new album (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)at the time, though, it's easy to
see that this was a better way to go.
It's still weighted a little heavy with the post Roger Waters era, and
there's still nothing from Animals or The Final Cut (the latter I can understand,
but I wish they would have thrown something in from the former), but
they do manage to resurrect Astronomy Domine from their
very first album The Piper
at the Gates of Dawn.
This was as good of a live album from Pink Floyd as you could get, and although
no one new at the time, it would be the last time we would see them regularly.
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