Product 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.

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: #2111 in Music
• Released on: 1988-11-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

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

Customer Reviews

A fine album....
I think this is an excellent recording, showcasing a fine selection from Pink Floyd's repertoire. The sound quality is fine...maybe too fine actually as most songs sound like note-perfect, error free replicas of the studio versions...hence the four star rating...

Thunder Doesn't Rumble Delicate Floyd
After Roger Waters departure in 1985, many critics thought that Pink Floyd were finished. However David Gilmour, Nick Mason and later Richard Wright, decided that their life wasn't over. After their 1987 album 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, Pink Floyd embarked on a near three year long world tour, which began on 9th September 1987, lasting until 30th June 1990 with the charity show at Knebworth. The tour is documented by this album, recorderd between the 19th-23rd of August 1988. With a full backing band of younger musicians, with the exception of Tim Renwick, the band performed a tight show, well recorded. Although songs 'Signs Of Life', 'A New Machine (Part 1&2)', 'Terminal Frost', 'On The Run', 'The Great Gig In The Sky', 'Welcome To The Machine' and 'One Slip', the album features stunning versions of old favourites like 'Money', 'One Of These Days' and 'Comfortably Numb' as well as new songs 'Yet Another Movie', 'Sorrow' and 'On The Turning Away.' With David Gilmour's delicate vocals and lead guitarr, along with Nick Mason's drumming and Richard Wright's keyboards, particulary on 'Money', show that Pink Floyd, are not dead, as they never died in the first place.

No Great Gig In The Sky..?
My only dissappointment is that the best version of Great Gig In The Sky I've ever heard was recorded on this tour and was on the VHS of the concert but, unfortunately, has been omitted from this 2cd set.

The whole thing is only about 90 minutes so why drop a track?

Nonetheless, it is a must have for anyone who's got everything else because, even though PULSE does have most of this material, there are some variations to the tracks and some, mostly from Momentary Laps... are truly brilliant performances.