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PINK FLOYD BOX SET OF ALL 14 STUDIO ALBUMS RELEASED IN MINI FAUX VINYL FORMAT TO CELEBRATE BAND’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY
The 40th Anniversary year of Pink Floyd ends with a typical flourish, the release of, Oh By The Way, a spectacular limited edition box set which contains, for the first time ever, the band’s 14 studio albums. These classic albums are presented in mini vinyl wallets with all the original extras also miniaturised. Floyd’s longtime design wizard, Storm Thorgerson, has designed a sumptuous box, as well as miniaturising the original sleeve artwork. Oh By The Way is released on EMI Records on 10 December (11 December in the US).
This unique box set is the first time in Pink Floyd’s incomparable history that all of their standard studio albums have been packaged together and made available as a set. In addition to the albums and their extras the set comes with a specially designed 40th Anniversary Storm Thorgersonposter featuring 40 Floyd images.
Oh By the Way contains:
* THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (Single wallet) August 1967
* A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (Single wallet) July 1968
* MORE (Single wallet) June 1969
* UMMAGUMMA (Gatefold 2 discs) November 1969
* ATOM HEART MOTHER (Gatefold) October 1970
* MEDDLE (Gatefold) November 1971
* OBSCURED BY CLOUDS (Single wallet rounded corners) June 1972
* THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON(Gatefold + 2 posters + 2 stickers) March 1973
* WISH YOU WERE HERE (Single + liner + postcard + black shrinkwrap) September 1975
* ANIMALS (Gatefold) February 1977
* THE WALL (Gatefold 2 discs) December 1979
* THE FINAL CUT (Single wallet) April 1983
* A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON (Gatefold) September 1987
* DIVISION BELL (Gatefold) April 1994
Many of these 14 Pink Floyd albums regularly appear in the ‘Greatest’ lists of all time. They represent a body of artistic work which captured the imagination of fans across the globe.
Oh By The Way will be a must for the legion of Pink Floyd fans worldwide, who will note the careful reproduction of the original classic labels. The box set will no doubt be figuring high on the Christmas wish list of many of the new generation of Floyd fans, as the band’s musical legacy continues to exert a powerful appeal some 40 years after it played its first notes.
This is the 8° cd of the Box, stay tune for the other
Great sound, very nice artwork
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Heartbeats, mad laughs, machines and screams. Such are the opening moments of "The Dark Side of the Moon", ushering in a unique musical world where strange sounds, mellow music, bits of biting guitar and ROGER WATERS' cynical observations coexist in a disturbingly natural setting. Unlike "Meddle", which separated the actual songs and instrumental music by "Sides", "Dark Side" mixes them together, songs encased in instrumental sections that glue everything together into a solid, powerful mass. It's a great leap from their last studio album, calculated as commentary rendered in a dream state, from WATERS' laconic lyric delivery to RICK WRIGHT's spacey keyboard passages. The record opens with "Speak To Me", featuring the voices-in-your-head dialogue for which the album may be best remembered. The sleepy, subdued "Breathe" follows, the first of several songs from here that remain classics in the Pink canon. "On The Run" is an instrumental tunnel (similar to TANGERINE DREAM's music) that takes us to "Time", in which the music seems to crystallize around DAVID GILMOUR's guitar work, closing wPassword: No password specified ------------------------------------- [ Find more at http://www.torrentportal.com ] THIS TORRENT IS FREE, NO PAY FOR THIS. VISIT US AT THE COLOMBO-BT.ORG. thewall |