Parlophone Repressing of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
923285
I have the Parlophone repressing of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. I am very satisfied with this purchase. The picture shows a different cover than the original but that is only the custom plastic sleeve. Underneath is the original Wish You Were Here album art. It comes with a poster, a post card, and a little art picture. My only compliant is that it was not put into a gatefold sleeve. All together I am very satisfied with my purchase.
949245
Great - For lovers of the early Pink Floyd Sound or any 60's rock fans !
3809372
Artistically, it's great. Wonderful performance. Unfortunately somewhere either in the recording, or mastering, is introduced piercing distortion. It's still my preferred recording (there aren't so many of The Bells to choose from), but by no means perfect.
2046869
I got to play with one of these for a few weeks and had tremendous fun working my way through Billy Currie Ultravox synth leads (just add a flanger and reverb, and you're good to go!) KORG has done a wonderful job recreating this classic. For a fixed-routing synthesizer, it's remarkably versatile, not to mention expressive. It's easy to quickly reconfigure it on the fly for wildly different sounds. The duo-phonic behavior (VCO2 playes the high note, while VCO1 plays the low note) takes a little practice to get the hang of. But there are some things that are impossible without it (e.g., Ultravox "All Stood Still" synth riff). I encourage anyone to just play with one of these for a little while, and you'll be hooked too!
3833837
New-retro FM synthesizer! Sounds great. Could use more algorithms and an arpeggiator and more than 32 or so banks for preset storage. The soundmondo app/website is killer. They could have made this ultra amazing...they just made it cool and functional. Even a little hipster....yeah exactly. I almost want to take a star or two off, but I will cut Yamaha some slack. The synth sounds awesome!
1956522
Have a lot of respect for Floyd after the band saw how much money  Rogers W. made off The Wall Tour they might as well dig through there rejects pile from The Division bell from 1994 and put on LP. David Gilmour sang on only one song the rest is instrumental.  Buy only on BLU-RAY. LP is for suckers like me the only plus is I got a free download from Amazon and sold LP. WIN WIN
3152157
I enjoy the Legends versions of these Pink Floyd hits. They're musically accurate although shortened on some songs from the originals.. They play nicely and are a nice addition to my collection : )
440567
This is a wonderful faithful rendition of this, made for radio production.

It may be difficult for non British English speakers to listen to and understand easily because of the accents in which case a single reader Audio book might be preferred.

BUT you would miss out on this fantastic, at times immersive, experience.

Much better to buy the CD's, import to itunes. Some editing required in itunes of the track names I found, to get the tracks to play in sequence when I did this about 5 years ago.

Check on import what names and numbering have been ascribed to the tracks and edit if still necessary.

Incredible value for this item!
2338605
My favorite Pink Floyd album. I heard this for the first time in 1971. The live album is much better than the studio side. This is the trippy jam band Pink Floyd acid test at its best. I think of this plus Meddle as the two peaks in their catalogue. By the time DSOTM became a top 40 hit, they had tamed down and become almost sterile. The recordings from then on were perfect and that perfection became the thing that launched a thousand punk bands. This is the rawest of PF recordings and lives and breathes.
1922534
I must start with the fact that I am a huge fan of Pink Floyd, and already have every scrap of material that I can own from them.  So why purchase this? For me it was to be a completist. I have the other two new immersion box sets, so I have to get this.  If you are not like me, and just want what is absolutely new (the two demo discs), then the experience 4 disc version would do just fine for you, and save you a lot of cash.  The contents of 4 of the discs are previously release (the wall album and is there anybody out there live cd's), but remixed. The remixing is really not that special for me.  The 2 demo discs were the must haves for me, and they are pretty cool to hear what was going on through the evolution of this album.  The dvd was not that great, has a documentary on the movie that was previously released on 20th anniversary wall dvd and concert films, but not worth extra cash from casual listeners.  The packaging is good, artwork excellent, and coasters, marbles, and scarf neat also.  This would have been the be-all, end all box set and gotten 5 Stars from me had they just took the time and put a blu ray version of The Wall film in here or a live recording of the wall performance with the original members from that time period, or best if both.  Overall, get the experience edition unless you get the good deal I did and have the shelf space and extra cash to purchase this.
980681
Pink Floyd's new single disc best of called A Foot In the Door is a great starter into the world of Pink Floyd for those who want to know what the band's music was like and first proper greatest hits album.
When I first got wind of A Foot In the Door I was like do we need another single disc Pink Floyd compilation but got as a gift from a family member as I'm a Pink Floyd collector and I am impressed.
A Foot in the Door, like the now out of print 2001 2-CD Echoes compilation, is not like many best ofs that are out on the market as it is a non-chronological compilation and has songs segueing from one to the next. A Foot In the Door (as its title suggests) is literally geared towards newbies who want to delve into the legacy of Pink Floyd and, unlike 1981's A Collection of Great Dance Songs and 1983's US only Works, is a single disc compilation spanning everything from 1967 to 1994 and coming in at close to 80 minutes.
It's impossible to put a collection of Pink Floyd songs together on one CD that will please everyone. I think the non-chronological placing of these songs adds something new to the mix and the transitions between some of these songs create a mosaic of music just as these songs did on their original albums. Producer James Guthrie was responsible for the segueing and tracklisting with help from the three surviving Pink Floyd members David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters.
The band's 1967 Syd Barrett era is represented by the band's first UK Top 10 hit being "See Emily Play".
1973's classic The Dark Side of the Moon is represented by a slightly edited version of "Time", "The Great Gig in the Sky", "Money" (which segues into "Comfortably Numb") and the album's closer "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".
1975's Wish You Were Here is represented by a new edit of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 - 5)" and has music fading out without the crossfade into Part 6 like on Echoes (which in turn segues into "Brain Damage"), "Have a Cigar" (which wasn't on Echoes) and a slightly edited version of the title cut (with the ending reduced as the wind noises segues into "Time").
1979's classic The Wall is represented by "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (which segues into "Have a Cigar"), "Hey You" (which opens this compilation) and "Comfortably Numb".
1983's The Final Cut is represented by "The Fletcher Memorial Home" (which segues nicely into the newish edit of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond").
1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason is represented by "Learning to Fly" (which segues into the previously aforementioned "Fletcher Memorial Home").
1994's swan song The Division Bell is represented rightly so by the album's closing track "High Hopes" (same edit that appeared on the now discontinued Echoes : The Best of Pink Floyd 2-CD compilation).
I know nothing on this compilation features any tracks from the 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1968's A Saucerful of Secrets, 1969's More Soundtrack, Ummagumma (also from 1969), 1970's Atom Heart Mother, 1971's Meddle, 1972's underappreciated Obscured by Clouds and 1977's underrated Animals but remember folks that it's hard to put a band of Pink Floyd's history together on one 80 minute CD. Now that Capitol in the States and EMI outside the US discontinued the 2 disc Echoes best of, this will be the only compilation from Pink Floyd readily available for American Floyd fans but Echoes is still available as an import if you want to have a more concrete overview to Pink Floyd's legacy. However, A Foot In the Door is a great overview for those who want to check out Pink Floyd's history on one 80 minute CD.
Highly recommended to newbies for Floyd fans!
2568684
Musically, I find this a very enjoyable album. Although it was pieced together using older recordings as a basis, and various musical passages are very similar to previous albums, to me it evokes a feeling of pleasantly drifting through memories of past Pink Floyd albums. The atmosphere and ambience of the recording is perfect. It ends too quickly - I wish the music would keep going on longer.

The sound quality is spectacular.

The bad news: the quality of the vinyl pressing is spotty. My first copy had some serious pressing defects in disc 1 - sounded like really deep scratches, but even worse they were at random intervals (not in every revolution). They totally destroyed the dreamlike quality of the music. Amazon quickly sent a replacement copy, and the second one is quite good - only about 3 random pops on side 1 (none of which were as loud as the 1st copy), and the vinyl is quiet. Even on my second copy, disc 2 needed a good wet cleaning to eliminate what sounded like a bad scratch throughout the first minute.

I see other vinyl reviewers disagreeing about the pressing quality, and my experience indicates they could all be accurate - you can get lucky, or you could get a bad copy.
2312709
As a LONG time Pink Floyd listener, of course I'm going to like this! True, it's mostly instrumentals, but I LIKE PF instrumentals! And yes, I could have bought just the CD for a lot less but I'm getting so I really prefer high-res audio files, whether they are SACDs, DVD-Audios, Blu-Ray or downloaded FLAC files from sources like HDTracks. This is a fitting capper on a distinguished career by one of my favorite bands ever.
2038250
This recording sounds like a kind of environmental music, which was played by Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper and Rober Wyatt with some sax blasts played by Brian Hopper and with the tape looping work by Bob Woolford in 1969.  According to the brochure in this CD, "Spaced" seems to have been made to fulfill the contract with the record company and it was the same timing when "Volume Two" was recorded for the same reason.
Since it is the creature of tape loops edited in the living room of Bob Woolford's apartment, it sounds different from other titles by Soft Machine. Although there are several portions scattered here and there, in which you can enjoy the dynamism of their live performance, it still sounds like a remix of "cut up" phrases, which reminds me of the technique of writing taken in "The Soft Machine" by William Burroughs.
As a Soft Machine freak, it is "must to have". But it could be "nice to have" for average listeners of good old progressive rock music.
174752
Tape was in excellent shape. It played perfectly from beginning to end. It was a good quality recording. As far as content.....it's Pink Floyd !!! It CAN'T be bad !!!!
1814383
My guess is that lots of thought went into making the ultimate analog delay pedal. The pedal itself seems solidly built and the sound quality is great, with the authentic sound of the older analog delays, particularly referencing The Wall era Floyd...nice and warm. But, what makes this super cool for me is the tap and expression inputs which allow you to sync to other sources and to control repeats on the fly. I've only been playing with it a couple days and its easy to set it just to the point of oscillations then hit an expression pedal to generate wild noise then push back to get it under control; super fun stuff. Bonus; An actual human at Walrus Audio will write you back if you have questions about the unit. Cool pedal, cool people.
2480689
Hey I have this on LP. I think it has New York, not "West 63rd", on the Label so it must be an original.. The Audio Wave reproduction is so great I can only listen it from now on. So warm..These are so superior to normal bit sampling. Its really worth cost. I just think The Japanese have it on superior packaging with the " Mini LP sleeve" covers however.
But they do have nice photos of the original session.