DISCOVERY

Pink Floyd

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2011

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc 1 - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
1. Astronomy Domine (4:12)
2. Lucifer Sam (3:07)
3. Matilda Mother (3:08)
4. Flaming (2:46)
5. Pow R. Toc H. (Instrumental) (4:26)
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (3:06)
7. Interstellar Overdrive (Instrumental) (9:40)
8. The Gnome (2:13)
9. Chapter 24 (3:42)
10. The Scarecrow (2:11)
11. Bike (3:23)

Total Time: 41:54

Disc 2 - A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
1. Let There Be More Light (5:38)
2. Remember a Day (4:32)
3. Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun (5:27)
4. Corporal Clegg (4:12)
5. A Saucerful of Secrets (Instrumental) (11:56)
6. See-Saw (4:36)
7. Jugband Blues (3:00)

Total Time: 39:23

Disc 3 - More (1969)
1. Cirrus Minor (5:18)
2. The Nile Song (3:26)
3. Crying Song (3:33)
4. Up the Khyber (2:12)
5. Green is the Colour (2:58)
6. Cymbaline (4:49)
7. Party Sequence (Instrumental) (1:08)
8. Main Theme (Instrumental) (5:26)
9. Ibiza Bar (3:19)
10. More Blues (Instrumental) (2:12)
11. Quicksilver (Instrumental) (7:13)
12. A Spanish Piece (Instrumental) (1:05)
13. Dramatic Theme (Instrumental) (2:18)

Total Time: 44:57

Disc 4 - Ummagumma (Live) (1969)
1. Astronomy Domine (8:32)
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Instrumental) (8:49)
3. Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun (9:27)
4. A Saucerful of Secrets (Instrumental) (12:51)

Total Time: 39:37

Disc 5 - Ummagumma (Studio) (1969)
1. Sysyphus, Pt. 1 (Instrumental) (1:09)
2. Sysyphus, Pt. 2 (Instrumental) (3:30)
3. Sysyphus, Pt. 3 (Instrumental) (1:49)
4. Sysyphus, Pt. 4 (Instrumental) (6:59)
5. Grantchester Meadows (7:27)
6. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave (4:58)
7. The Narrow Way, Pt. 1 (3:28)
8. The Narrow Way, Pt. 2 (2:53)
9. The Narrow Way, Pt. 3 (5:57)
10. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 1: Entrance (Instrumental) (0:59)
11. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 2: Entertainment (Instrumental) (7:05)
12. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 3: Exit (Instrumental) (0:41)

Total Time: 46:55

Disc 6 - Atom Heart Mother (1970)
1. Atom Heart Mother (23:42)
2. If (4:30)
3. Summer '68 (5:28)
4. Fat Old Sun (5:23)
5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (13:01)

Total Time: 52:04

Disc 7 - Meddle (1971)
1. One of These Days (Instrumental) (5:55)
2. A Pillow of Winds (5:12)
3. Fearless (6:08)
4. San Tropez (3:43)
5. Seamus (2:14)
6. Echoes (23:34)

Total Time: 46:36

Disc 8 - Obscured By Clouds (1972)
1. Obscured By Clouds (Instrumental) (3:05)
2. When You're In (Instrumental) (2:31)
3. Burning Bridges (3:30)
4. The Gold It's In the... (3:07)
5. Wot's...Uh the Deal (5:09)
6. Mudmen (Instrumental) (4:17)
7. Childhood's End (4:33)
8. Free Four (4:16)
9. Stay (4:07)
10. Absolutely Curtains (Instrumental) (5:52)

Total Time: 40:15

Disc 9 - Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
1. Speak To Me (Instrumental) (1:07)
2. Breathe (In the Air) (2:49)
3. On the Run (Instrumental) (3:45)
4. Time (6:53)
5. The Great Gig In the Sky (Instrumental) (4:44)
6. Money (6:23)
7. Us and Them (7:49)
8. Any Colour You Like (Instrumental) (3:26)
9. Brian Damage (3:46)
10. Eclipse (2:12)

Total Time: 42:57

Disc 10 - Wish You Were Here (1975)
1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 (13:32)
2. Welcome To the Machine (7:31)
3. Have a Cigar (5:07)
4. Wish You Were Here (5:34)
5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9 (12:29)

Total Time: 44:16

Disc 11 - Animals (1977)
1. Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 1 (1:25)
2. Dogs (17:05)
3. Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11:26)
4. Sheep (10:18)
5. Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 2 (1:28)

Total Time: 41:46

Disc 12 - The Wall (1979)
1. In the Flesh? (3:20)
2. The Thin Ice (2:26)
3. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 1 (3:11)
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (1:50)
5. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 (3:58)
6. Mother (5:34)
7. Goodbye Blue Sky (2:47)
8. Empty Spaces (2:07)
9. Young Lust (3:29)
10. One of My Turns (3:36)
11. Don't Leave Me Now (4:15)
12. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 3 (1:14)
13. Goodbye Cruel World (1:17)

Total Time: 39:06

Disc 13 - The Wall (1979)
1. Hey You (4:40)
2. Is There Anybody Out There? (2:41)
3. Nobody Home (3:22)
4. Vera (1:33)
5. Bring the Boys Back Home (1:27)
6. Comfortably Numb (6:22)
7. The Show Must Go On (1:36)
8. In the Flesh (4:15)
9. Run Like Hell (4:23)
10. Waiting For the Worms (3:57)
11. Stop (0:30)
12. The Trial (5:18)
13. Outside the Wall (1:46)

Total Time: 40:50

Disc 14 - The Final Cut (1983)
1. The Post War Dream (3:00)
2. Your Possible Pasts (4:26)
3. One of the Few (1:13)
4. When the Tigers Broke Free (3:15)
5. The Hero's Return (2:42)
6. The Gunner's Dream (5:18)
7. Paranoid Eyes (3:41)
8. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (1:16)
9. The Fletcher Memorial Home (4:10)
10. Southampton Dock (2:12)
11. The Final Cut (4:42)
12. Not Now John (5:01)
13. Two Suns In the Sunset (5:18)

Total Time: 46:28

Disc 15 - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)
1. Signs of Life (Instrumental) (4:23)
2. Learning To Fly (4:52)
3. The Dogs of War (6:03)
4. One Slip (5:08)
5. On the Turning Away (5:41)
6. Yet Another Movie (6:12)
7. Round and Around (Instrumental) (1:13)
8. A New Machine, Pt. 1 (1:45)
9. Terminal Frost (Instrumental) (6:15)
10. A New Machine, Pt. 2 (0:39)
11. Sorrow (8:46)

Total Time: 50:58

Disc 16 - The Division Bell (1994)
1. Cluster One (5:56)
2. What Do You Want From Me (4:21)
3. Poles Apart (7:03)
4. Marooned (5:29)
5. A Great Day For Freedom (4:17)
6. Wearing the Inside Out (6:49)
7. Take It Back (6:12)
8. Coming Back To Life (6:19)
9. Keep Talking (6:10)
10. Lost For Words (5:13)
11. High Hopes (8:34)

Total Time: 66:23

Line-up / Musicians

- Syd Barrett / guitars & vocals
- David Gilmour / guitars & vocals
- Nick Mason / drums & percussion
- Roger Waters / bass & vocals
- Richard Wright / keyboards & vocals

Guest musicians:
- see respective albums' info

Releases information

EMI 2011 remaster of Pink Floyd studio albums

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and to NotAProghead for the last updates
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PINK FLOYD Discovery ratings distribution

4.38
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Review by VianaProghead
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Review N� 831

"Discovery" is a very special compilation of Pink Floyd that was released in 2011. It's an excellent box set that contains all the studio albums released by the group in their extraordinary musical career. It's very similar to "Oh By The Way", the other compilation of the group that also contains all their fourteen studio albums. The disks are all re-mastered as on the other compilation. Apart from what I said before, there's nothing else new here like, bonus tracks, early singles, some rarities, an extra disc with documentary material, photos from the band or live images from their live concerts.

As I've already reviewed all these albums previously on Progarchives, in a more extensive way, I'm not going to do it again. So, if you are interested to know, in more detail, what I wrote about them before, I invite you to read those my reviews. However, here I'm going to write something about them in a shorter way. So, of course, I'm not going to analyze them track by track, as I made before, but I'm only going to make a global appreciation of all those albums. I reviewed "Oh By The Way" already on Progarchives, a few days ago and I wrote something simple and short about it.

First, we have the two first Pink Floyd's studio albums "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" and "A Saucerful Of Secrets". Despite all the differences between both albums, there are many similarities between both albums, because they're the two best representative works of the psychedelic musical phase of the group. However, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" is a unique album in the entire Pink Floyd's discography. It's the only studio album under the leadership of Syd Barrett and explores psychedelic music in its more intimate and complex senses. "A Saucerful Of Secrets", despite having many psychedelic musical parts, has also, for the first time, the beginning of the fundamental elements of their future space rock sound. It proves that there were two different bands, the band with and without Sid Barrett. Both are two excellent albums. "More" and "Obscured By Clouds" are two very special Pink Floyd's albums, because both were made as two film soundtrack albums. I must confess that I never was a big fan of film soundtracks made by progressive rock bands. However, I can say that they're two good albums and are two interesting works to listen to. "Ummagumma" is a very special album in Pink Floyd's discography. It's divided into two distinct parts, a live and a studio part. The live part is great with its live versions superior to their studio originals. The studio part isn't a musical collective effort of the band but individual performances of their members. Despite being a good album, I must confess that I never was a great fan of those types of albums. "Atom Heart Mother" is, for me, an excellent Pink Floyd's album. I think that it's a very important transitional album for the group, with many progressive features and that it would be the turning point of the band's music. "Meddle" is the starting point of the band's sound, from the psychedelic to the space sound. It launched the roots of what would be the trademark of their music and became one of the most important albums to the band. It was also the first masterpiece of the group. "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" are simply the best and most influential albums from Pink Floyd". They made part of a very important trilogy of the group that immortalized the band and they became some of the better albums ever made. "The Wall" is the most ambitious, difficult, challenging, complex and powerful conceptual album released by Pink Floyd. With it, it started the increase of the dominion of Roger Waters in the band and it became a very personal musical project for him. It became one of most known albums ever, with many live performances throughout the time. "The Final Cut" and "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", despite being two distinct albums, both have a common thing. Both were personal bets. "The Final Cut" was a personal bet of Roger Waters and "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" was a personal bet of David Gilmour. So, in my opinion, they should never have been released as Pink Floyd's albums. Despite being two good musical works, they remain as two of the weakest Pink Floyd's albums. "The Division Bell" is an excellent album. It's, undoubtedly, the best album released by Pink Floyd since 1979, the year of "The Wall". This is almost a perfect album but I sincerely think that it lacks something to it. It lacks the creativity and the irreverence that Roger Waters gave to Pink Floyd.

Conclusion: "Discovery" is a great and a big compilation of Pink Floyd. It has the complete studio discography of the group, all remastered, plus a booklet. But, there's nothing else more than that. Thus, how to rate a compilation like this, especially for someone like me, who already has all those albums in its original version? So, sincerely, I think that the right thing to do is to rate this compilation with 4 stars, because all of it's good, great or even excellent. Of course, not all of Pink Floyd's discography is really great. It has its lower points like "More", "Ummagumma", "Obscured By Clouds", "The Final Cut" and "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", despite all being good albums. However, as a global appreciation, it has so many great albums that I sincerely think it deserves to be considered as an excellent box set.

Prog is my Ferrari. Jem Godfrey (Frost*)

Latest members reviews

4 stars Having a comprehensive collection of Floyd albums is a good thing. I do have this collection but not in this box set version. First there is, again, no Relics so am glad I already have my Japanese edition of this album (compilation) which really needed to expanded; include Money from Dance Son ... (read more)

Report this review (#1295196) | Posted by uduwudu | Thursday, October 23, 2014 | Review Permanlink

4 stars Oh my god, 16 discs of Pink Floyd!! Really? COntains 14 studio albums plus a booklet. ANd the price is out of this world. Maybe just for those too lazy to pick up the Floyd's work individually. But I don't really need everything they did anyways. Things like MORE, OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, and THE DIVISI ... (read more)

Report this review (#752799) | Posted by mohaveman | Sunday, May 13, 2012 | Review Permanlink

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