Pulse (Pink Floyd album)

Term

  • CD 1: 75min 34sec
  • CD 2: 73min 47sec
  • DVD: 145min

Occupation

Pulses ( also P • U • L • S • E written ) is originally a double live album and a live video of Pink Floyd, which were published together after the successful "The Division Bell " Tournée of 1994 1995. First, the video was only available on VHS and Video CD. After several delays, the live video was released on 10 July 2006 for the first time on DVD. Album and video containing the first official live recording of the complete album The Dark Side of the Moon. Content differed live album and video, as the album combines recordings of several concerts while the video is complete - even live via pay- per-view transmitted on TV - Concert 20 October 1994 documented at London's Earls Court.

  • 2.3.1 CD / Cassette 1, LP 1 and 2
  • 2.3.2 CD / Cassette 2, 3 and 4 LP
  • 3.1 Title List 3.1.1 Video CD / DVD 1
  • 3.1.2 Video CD / DVD 2
  • 3.1.3 Laser Disc
  • 3.2.1 DVD 1
  • 3.2.2 DVD 2

Formation

The recordings for the CD were recorded from August to October 1994 concerts in London, Rome, Modena and Hanover with the Le Voyageur 11 mobile analog. The video was recorded entirely on October 20, 1994 at London's Earls Court.

The intercutting of different appearances for the album pulses has been criticized in part because it so - got offered no "real " concert - as opposed to video. In addition, various tracks on the album in the studio were revised subsequently. David Gilmour and co-producer James Guthrie, but stressed that - in contrast to the previous live album Delicate Sound of Thunder - recorded and mixed no song parts in the studio again. There were only corrected wrong notes and the like for the publication by the relevant instruments or vocal parts from other live recordings took out and used instead of the faulty passages. The band justified this procedure so that you wanted to be the high sonic claims that are made ​​on a Pink Floyd album, justice. Yet, the album does not apply to some fans for these reasons as " real" live album. Recorded from the audience bootlegs of concerts, however, show that in fact limit the subsequent changes to the details described.

Pulse was mixed in the Q- sound method to a more natural, wider sound field cover. Q- Sound allows a semi- surround-sound listening experience from just two speakers. The same procedure was used in 1992 by Roger Waters, the former head of Pink Floyd, for his album Amused to Death.

Double live album

Design

For the album cover design Storm Thorgerson responsible. The CDs are in pulses into the extensive Inlet, which is actually a small book, integrated front and rear. The book itself plugged again in a book slipcase. On the slip back a little red light-emitting diode is mounted, which pulsated with an AA cell for several years. It was planned that this light ceased to pulsate when the Pulse tour ended, which is not 100% was possible but because of the long production time. The pulse rate is matched to the average heart rate of man. In the new edition of the live album was waived this amenity and the slipcase is correspondingly reduced somewhat.

The LED electronics removed from the sheath.

The low battery warning on the inside of the package.

Differences U.S. / Europe versions

The European edition of the CD album was released on EMI, while Columbia Records was responsible for publication elsewhere (including the U.S. ). Although both editions contain the same songs, but there are some differences to the packaging and on the Inlet.

  • In the U.S. version of the CD, the battery can be easily replaced, since the bracket is pushed only in the slipcase. In the European ( UK) variant, this is only possible with some effort, since battery and LED are glued in a slipcase.
  • The CD label is down somewhat Spartan in the U.S. version.
  • The inlay of the European version has about 15 pages more than the U.S. version
  • U.S. version is regularly sold with an additional, printed cardboard, which is about twice as large as the actual slip book. In this case, the printed cardboard had a matching hole for the LED. On the cardboard an enhanced version of the print can be seen on the book slipcase.

Formats

The largest-selling edition of the live album (and the only one still available ) is the double CD. Besides the packaging described above appeared in Japan in 2005, also known as a limited - edition Papersleeve, in which the entire presentation reminiscent of a scaled-down version of an LP package.

The album was released in a limited edition of 5000 pieces worldwide out on four vinyl LPs. In contrast to the CD lacks the flashing light in the LP box. For the little booklet from the CD is as great book ( with some additional photos) part of the box. In addition, the LP version also includes the play One of These Days. This London recording of the piece have been published exclusively on the Pulse LP and cassette. The 1994 released CD - Single High Hopes / Keep Talking also contained a live recording of One of These Days, but this came from the concert at the stadium in Hanover, Lower Saxony on 17 August 1994.

Pulses appeared except in the usual formats CD and LP also as cassette album, a short time later by the western music industry as a medium completely specified format. The double cassette still contained the well on the vinyl album to be found One of These Days, a 22 -minute ambient sound collage, which was heard usually before the start of concerts through the speakers. To date, this usually soundscape titled piece has only appeared on the Pulse - cassette album.

Title list

Main vocals David Gilmour, unless otherwise indicated.

CD / Cassette 1, LP 1 and 2

  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Earls Court London, October 15, 1994
  • Main vocals: Richard Wright and David Gilmour
  • Cinecittà Rome, September 21, 1994
  • Earls Court London, October 14, 1994
  • Niedersachsenstadion Hanover, August 17, 1994
  • Earls Court London, October 13, 1994
  • Earls Court London, 13th and 15th (last verse ) October 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Jon Carin
  • Earls Court London, October 19, 1994
  • Cinecittà Rome, September 20, 1994
  • . Earls Court London, October 20, 1994 Some parts ( the line " forever and ever" and part of the lap steel solos ) come from one of London's other concerts from 14th - 19th or 21st - October 29th, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Jon Carin
  • Earls Court London, October 21, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour, Guy Pratt, backing vocals Tim Renwick
  • Earls Court London, 16th and 20th (last part) October 1994
  • Instrumental

CD / Cassette 2, 3 and 4 LP

  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Instrumental
  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Jon Carin
  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Instrumental
  • Explosion recorded in London in 1994 on October 15. Intro recorded at the Festa Nazionale dell'Unita in Modena on 17 September 1994. The rest of the song comes from, as well as the majority of Breathe (Reprise), from the appearance at Cinecittà in Rome on 20. September 1994. The end of Breathe (Reprise) was recorded in London on October 20, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Richard Wright
  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Main vocals: Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, and Durga McBroom
  • Festa Nazionale dell'Unita Modena, September 17, 1994. A part of the saxophone solo comes from one of London's concerts 13 to 29 October 1994.
  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994 Second and third chorus. London, October 19th 1994.
  • Earls Court London, October 23, 1994 Last part: . London, October 19th 1994.
  • Instrumental
  • Earls Court London, October 19, 1994
  • Earls Court London, October 19, 1994
  • Cinecittà Rome, September 20, 1994
  • Earls Court London, October 20, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Richard Wright
  • Earls Court London, October 15, 1994
  • Main vocals: David Gilmour and Guy Pratt

Live Video

The live video was initially released to coincide with the live album in June 1995 as a VHS home video and Laserdisc as well as a video CD. The content, however, more on the live album. So among other things missing Astronomy Domine, for it is One of These Days and Take It Back, see the video. Moreover, it was changed on the laserdisc, the order, the second page only lists the titles of The Dark Side of the Moon. In contrast to the album, video is not from recordings of several concerts, but from the live recording of the concert, 20 October 1994 at London's Earls Court, which previously one of the first pay- per-view live broadcasts on television worldwide was seen. Compared to version live broadcast the published video version has been slightly re-cut. For example, a wrong note is cut out at Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Furthermore, the second solo of Comfortably Numb was reduced by about a minute. The director was in the transmission as in the published video of renowned director David Mallet. The Video CD and laserdisc were adjusted due to the low economic success of these formats relatively quickly, so that for a long time the VHS version was the only available edition of the Pulse concert film. A DVD was announced on several occasions ( first in 2005, to mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of the original album ), but the publication was delayed again and again. The DVD was finally ( Europe, Rest of World ) published on 11 ( U.S.) or 10 July 2006. The DVD reached already at the first delivery of platinum and is currently 8 times platinum the third most successful music DVD in the U.S. by Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. In Germany, the Pulse DVD occupied on 21 July 2006 took first place in the Media Control Charts.

While the VHS, laserdisc and video CD edition took over the design of the album, the long-time Pink Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson the packaging for the DVD release designed completely new, but similar to elements of the original pulse cover designs.

Title list

All footage of 20 October 1994, Earls Court, London.

Video CD / DVD 1

Video CD / DVD 2

  • On the DVD packaging for unknown reasons as stated Breathe In The Air

LaserDisc

Page 1

Page 2: The Dark Side of the Moon

Page 3

DVD bonus material

In addition to the full concert, the DVD includes extensive bonus material, including a variety of Pink Floyd music videos as well as some of the partially rotated specifically, during the concerts projected on the round screen in the background of the stage film inserts (called Screen Films). In addition, there are some other live video under the name Bootlegging the Bootleggers, for the so-called bootlegs cut together (ie illegal recordings of concert-goers ) to live video, and were provided with official audio recordings of the affected concerts.

DVD 1

Bootlegging the Bootleggers

Screen film

Music Videos

Others

  • Pulse TV Advertising
  • Tour Schedule
  • Stage plans

DVD 2

Screen film

Bonus Live Material

Others

  • Photo Gallery
  • Cover designs
  • Behind - the - scene footage Say Goodbye to Life as We Know It

Occupation

  • David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
  • Nick Mason - drums
  • Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
  • Jon Carin - additional keyboards, vocals
  • Guy Pratt - bass, vocals
  • Gary Wallis - percussion
  • Tim Renwick - guitar, vocals
  • Dick Parry - saxophone
  • Sam Brown - vocals, background vocals
  • Claudia Fontaine - Backing vocals
  • Durga McBroom - Backing vocals
Record label Genre Live-Album Video-CD Compact Disc Digital Audio Analogsignal Q-Sound One of These Days (Pink Floyd song) Ambient music Anthony Moore Bob Ezrin Sam Brown (singer) Money (Pink Floyd song) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) Run Like Hell List of number-one hits of 2006 (Germany) Bootleg recording Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Billy Corgan Richard Wright (musician) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets Ummagumma Atom Heart Mother Meddle Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) Animals (Pink Floyd album) The Wall The Final Cut (Album) A Momentary Lapse of Reason More (soundtrack) Obscured by Clouds Relics (album) A Collection of Great Dance Songs The Nile Song Fearless (Pink Floyd song) Us and Them (song) Time (Pink Floyd song) Another Brick in the Wall High Hopes (Pink Floyd song) Pink Floyd discography
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