Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
2. Learning To Fly
3. Yet Another Movie
4. Round And Around
5. Sorrow
6. Dogs Of War
7. On The Turning Away
8. One Of These Days
9. Time
10. Wish You Were Here
11. Us And Them
12. Money
13. Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2
14. Comfortably Numb
15. Run Like Hell

Disc 2:

1. One Of These Days
2. Time
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Us And Them
5. Money
6. Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2
7. Comfortably Numb
8. Run Like Hell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8412 in Music
• Released on: 1988-11-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
After Roger Waters's departure from Pink Floyd in 1985, remaining members David Gilmore and Nick Mason decided to continue. The massive 155-date world tour that they embarked on in 1988 in the wake of the success of the Momentary Lapse Of Reason album featured one of the most spectacular live shows ever put together. With state-of-the-art lights and lasers perfectly synchronised with the music, a stage festooned with huge inflatable beds and pigs and a band featuring up to 10 musicians (including former keyboardist Rick Wright), it all had to be organised and executed with military precision. As a consequence, the music on this double live album does not contain much room for innovation or departure from the already scrupulously structured studio tracks. In some cases, as on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here" the results are relatively disappointing. In others, as on "The Dogs Of War", "Money" and "Another Brick In The Wall" there is enough added zest and energy to justify new versions. In general, the tracks taken from Momentary Lapse Of Reason appear in somewhat enhanced renditions. Mainly, however, this was an album directed at people who attended the tour and were able to fill in the otherwise missing onstage spectacle from memory. --James Swift

From Amazon.com
In the late 1980s, Pink Floyd came roaring back with a decent studio album and an awesome stadium tour. Delicate Sound is a postcard from that tour that has the impossible task of capturing the spectacle of flying pigs and crashing beds. Also without the brood and bass of the departed Roger Waters, even a large backing band can't recreate the majesty of the original recording of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond." Still "On the Turning Away," from A Momentary Lapse of Reason, sounds better than the studio version and a smattering of Floyd's best cuts from The Wall and Darkside of Moon make this live album a decent collection. --Greg Emmanuel

CD Description
This 1988 release by the seminal British outfit shows a band with a renewed vigour that comes out in their live show. After a bitter break with bassist and WALL mastermind Roger Waters, the band finally regrouped minus their erstwhile leader, with the rights to the Floyd name. They recorded and toured behind A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON, and that tour is captured here. Produced by vocalist/guitarist David Gilmour, the album is a smooth performance from a group usually considered to be a studio band. Classics such as "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb" are given room to breathe, making for refreshing variations on the original versions. Radio hits such as "On the Turning Away" are also given new light inthe live format, with a choir adding depth.
More than just a display of arena rock power, THUNDER shows seasoned veterans jamming on timeless material. Closing with a spirited "Run Like Hell", this album gives the listener a picture of one of life's essential experiences, a Pink Floyd concert.

Customer Reviews

Great tracks from the first post-Waters concert tour
I believe there is something of a generation gap in terms of Pink Floyd fans' appreciation of this live double album released in 1990. Older fans who experienced all of the band's genius in the 1960s and 1970s may have had a little trouble adjusting to the reconstitution of the band (without Roger Waters) in the 1980s. As for me, I had only recently discovered the band at that time - 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason was actually the first Floyd CD I bought. I had seen The Wall and was somewhat familiar with some of the classic cuts from Dark Side of the Moon, but Delicate Sound of Thunder was essentially my first real introduction to the musical mystique of Pink Floyd. I happen to much prefer Roger Waters' vocals on vintage Floyd tracks, but I am still impressed with David Gilmour's vocals and the energy with which Waters' former band mates resurrected Pink Floyd after the bitter breakup of the band. The fact that I really learned such songs as Comfortably Numb and Time from Gilmour's versions on this live album actually allows me to appreciate Waters' original vocals even more while never looking down on these recordings as inferior versions. Had I been a fan of Pink Floyd since the beginning (and I would have been if I had been born a decade or two earlier), I imagine I would have had trouble adjusting to the Waters-less ensemble showcasing their wares here. I should also add the fact that the later live double album release, Pulse, is of superior quality than this - but Delicate Sound of Thunder still wows me. The only unhappy feelings I have toward this album come from the fact that I didn't get the chance to see them perform in the concert tour from which this music is derived.

The fifteen tracks included on these two CDs represent a mix of the new and the timeless. Five of the ten songs from 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason are included: Learning to Fly, The Dogs of War, On the Turning Away, Yet Another Movie, and Sorrow. I happen to think AMLR was a great album, and the live performances of these songs really do them justice; On the Turning Away is a particularly incredible live track.

Of course, one's attention is always fixed most closely on the timeless Pink Floyd songs. Dark Side of the Moon is represented here by three songs: Time, Money, and Us and Them (of course, the second CD in 1995's Pulse contains a live performance of the entire Dark Side of the Moon album). The backup singers do get to be a little annoying on the drawn-out version of Money. Wish You Were Here supplies its own title track, an always-welcome addition to the fun, as well as this album's opening number Shine on You Crazy Diamond. One of These Days stands out as the only purely instrumental track on the double album. I am not a big fan of extended instrumental pieces, but Pink Floyd prove to be the exception to the rule - largely due to Gilmour's devastatingly impressive guitar work. Shine on You Crazy Diamond always reminds me a little bit of the old Doctor Who theme song, and that bit of nostalgia only makes me enjoy the music even more. This second disc closes with three songs from The Wall: the ever-popular Another Brick in the Wall Part II, Comfortably Numb (featuring a particularly scintillating guitar solo by Gilmour), and Run Like Hell.

Delicate Sound of Thunder has, in some ways, been superseded by 1995's Pulse double live album. It's a superior effort all around, but a number of the timeless tracks found here on Delicate Sound of Thunder cannot be found there. I can understand why some Floyd fanatics aren't overly impressed with this 1988 release, but a newly-reconstituted Pink Floyd (sans Waters) at slightly less than their best is still way, way better than almost everything else out there. The fact that Gilmour and the guys could deliver such quality performances of songs so intimately associated with Roger Waters proves just how timeless the music of Pink Floyd is.

Proof that Pink Floyd doesnt Roger Walters
All i will say is that if all live acts could be this good, i would go and see more live music. This album demonstrates a depth and quality of material that only long term established acts and artists like Pink Floyd can provide, the like of which so many critics are quick to dismiss. Despite the many good new bands currently on the scene (Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, The Bravery, Killers) quality like this offering from Pink Floyd always pull me back. I only rate it 4 stars as the vocals from Gilmour can at times be a little ropey, and the backing singers can intrude into the mix at times. Also if i am being picky there is a little too much of the Momentary Lapse of Reason album over older material, but this is still a quality record. Enjoy.

Dave's Big Bland
This "live" LP has plenty of overdubs. No probelm with that. The problem lies with the choice of material. The old Floyd tracks sound OK (if completely soulless), because they are good songs. The newer stuff from the awfully turgid A Momentary Lapse of Reason album suffers badly by comparison. After track 1 ('Shine On You Crazy Diamond') finishes, you may as well skip forwards to track 8. This way you can half a half-decent LP of what - at its best - sounds like a bland Floyd covers band going through the motions. In the song 'Money', these wealthy rockers lecture about the ills of commerce. Don't waste your money on this ca$h-in album.