Pink Floyd (Gilmour) songs that came out of a blender.
586376
This album doesn't work all that well either as individual tracks or thematically. There is Floyd-sounding material but a lot of it is uninspiring. Immersed in all this is their only top 40ish sounding song Learning to Fly. It is decent but seemingly misplaced, and overly commercialized by Pink Floyd standards.  Terminal Frost is a worthy instrumental. The masterpiece is On The Turning Away which could have easily been a cut on the Wall or Animals.
1151333
The Pink Floyd songs and Jerry Garcia songs are best.  Most of the other songs sound very dated.  The second CD has some great Floyd songs on it.  Rick Wright plays great on the last song of the second CD.  The Floyd songs on the second CD range from country, blues to jazz.  Comes with a nice booklet giving details about the making of the movie and music.
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!
140227
Shine on you crazy diamond...one of my favorite songs, EVER...WISH YOU WERE HERE was one of Pink Floyd's earlier albums. Now that MP3 and The Cloud Player are making all these classics available to the masses, I can listen to what ever my mind kicks up at the moment. There were so many bands. So much great music made between the early seventies to the nineties (and still kicking!!) that it is impossible to explain the significance of bands like a pink Floyd. We owe them...big time. Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Van Halen, ACDC, Rush, and the list goes on and on...all in those few decades. Their popularity waxes and wanes like the moon, but every new generation, will, at some time or another, start the reign again. No matter how music changes; boy bands, the hottie girl epidemic, grunge, alternative...it makes no difference. One style will rise, crash, and burn. And then the pure superiority of that short age will AGAIN come around. Why? Because the generation that spawned Pink Floyd stood on the backs of blues and soul super stars and keep tweeking and tweeking, and getting better equipment, and renovation that culminated in the very epitome of what was possible to attain with the guitar bands. A guitars neck has only a finite amount of possibilities. A finite number of styles and grooves, riffs, bends and wiggles. Well, during that twenty to thirty year span, bands like Pink Floyd TRIED THEM ALL. In order for future musicians to ever compare...well, their just going to have to invent a new instrument.
2324756
Pink Floyd - Animals
Oh my.  Roger's mad about something.

Starting with DARKSIDE, Roger Waters began to gradually assume control of Pink Floyd, a reality of life that would culminate in their last Waters album, FINAL CUT.  DARK SIDE and WISH YOU WERE HERE was at the beginning of this process.

ANIMALS, however, is where you could tell who had set the controls for the heart of the sun, and it sure as hell wasn't Gilmour, Mason, or Wright.  Waters not only took control lyrically, but decided the whole album would be a concept record about the dividing people up in three classes as animals: pigs, the ruling class, sheep, people who do whatever they are told and have no backbone, and dogs, who are cutthroat and only in it for themselves, often subservient to dogs.  Then there's the two brief recordings of "Pigs on the Wing", which is only two halves of the same song.

This is commonly thought of as Pink Floyd's `Punk album'.  While as far as the music goes this definitely is not punk, the attitude and the lyrical anger definitely coincide with what was going on in the punk movement during the late 1970s.  And make no doubt - Roger's angry.  Real angry.

Going back to the longer song format, oddly enough after the great success of Dark Side and WISHING YOU WERE HERE, there were no real potentials for a single.  The three main songs that formed the bulk of the album were LONG.  "Dogs" is a 17 minute epic, and Roger just rails against the coatthroat nature of the doglike nature of people.  This is one of Pink Floyd's best epics, both musically and lyrically, with several amazing instrumental passages.  He likewise has some anger-fueled commentary about the sheep and pigs as well, and in the pigs track has a backward track section that is a parody of Psalms 23.  "Pigs" also has the amazing effect where Waters' main vocal metamorphizes into an guitar note and then that note is broken up with the drums.  Amazing stuff.  Overall, the album sounds very much like Waters was reading a lot of George Orwell at the time he was writing the music.  The album is also notable for the famous Pink Floyd flying pig that went on tour wit them.

As far as the "Pigs on the Wing" song, I have bee spoiled by the version floating around on the track that was actually released on the 8-track version of the album.  Snowy White, Thin Lizzy's Guitarist and occasional tour musician for Floyd, actually recorded a guitar solo, and this solo was used to link the two halves into a whole, turning the Pigs on the Wing songs from two bookend recordings on the album to a completed song with a running time of 3:25.  Like it much better that way.

And while lyrically there's much akin to punk, ANIMALS stays true to the Pink Floyd sound in ways that only Pink Floyd could have come up with.  The music is both ethereal and spacey and drawn out, yet somehow concise, fast moving, and with some great, hard playing all at once.  Phenomenal stuff.

This was one of my Pink Floyd albums, and I've always enjoyed it.  My tape actually broke Pigs into two portions, with half of it on Side A and the other on Side B, so I always thought there were six songs on it.  While the songs themselves are a little long, overall the album holds up very well.
2451078
My ex brother-in-law gave me this cassette for Christmas in 1985.  From that moment on, I started to acquire an interest in PINK FLOYD.  I have all the remastered edition of their studio albums, including this album.  I got this album because of the remake version of their classic hit MONEY that outdoes the orginal version from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (my favorite PINK FLOYD album).  I heard this song was rerecorded because of problems between CBS and their first record label HARVAST that is part of the CAPITOL RECORDS division.  This version has a whole lot more better arrangement and it is also played at the same pace throughout the song.  Furthermore, the vocals, the sax (played by DICK PARRY) and guitar solos sound a whole lot better too. I suppose after hearing this version for 3 years and then listening to the original version that I do not like, I am just used to listening to this version on this album.  I am also half way surprised and not surprised about DAVID GILMOUR playing all the intruments on this version, considering the dark moments at this time.  The only other song I comment on is the acoustic classic WISH YOU WERE HERE, which happens to be the first song I learned how to play on my guitar.  I love the way the 12-string guitar sounds through a background speaker, or whatever, and the 6-string guitar.  Along with DAVID'S lead vocal are the acoustic piano and synthezer by RICHARD WRIGHT, the mellowed drumming by NICK MASON and the bass guitar by ROGER WATERS.  I do not know for sure whether the harmony vocal is sung by ROGER or DAVID.
1136016
As good as the musicians in this band are, it's much like watching a Pink Floyd tribute band. They can play all the right notes, but they will never sound like Pink Floyd.

The truth remains that the contribution Waters made to pink floyd was with lyrics, not sound. With the exception of Final Cut, it is Gilmours vocals that remain the signature sound of Floyd, and it was Gilmour and Wrights musicianship that defined Floyd.

This was a great concert, despite Waters looking disinterested at times, but no matter how talented the musicians here are, the Pink Floyd sound I grew to love is simply lacking.

If you want to hear a good cover band play Pink Floyd songs, get this DVD. The sound quality is great.

If you want to hear Pink Floyd play Pink Floyd songs post-1985, buy the Pulse DVD. (Or better yet, get the laserdisc version if you have the player and can find it!)
2142577
A follow up of the brillant Wish You Were Here this album is about George Orwell's thoughts of the society stance. This is Pink Floyds last album with Rodger Waters that has great music in it too. Waters lyrics are great in this album better than most other progressive bands. The 1.25 songs Pigs on the Wing start the album with Waters singing a love song about his new wife. Dogs starts the epic part with acostic prerecorded guitar by Gilmour great lyrics to sing to,2nd verse is where the band picks-up with heavy bass and tight guiar licks. As the track sizzles up with some guitar soloing the band gets a diminishing effect with the word stone decaying more and more when repeated. Some new updated synth goes screeching in with Mason behind on drumming. The song builds up again turning into a massive ending with Waters adding "who" to every line of the song and ends with a punchy outro. Pigs is about the rich people,poor people and Mary Whitehouse,a censor person trying to keep smut off the T.V.The song is a dirty white funk cowbell driven piece with some nice piano by Wright. Sheep has got this bombastic feel with Waters screaming his lyrics to the people with a bible verse with some attached lines turning it into a butcher praise. We end with Pigs on the Wing same chord progerssion different words,same time too 1:25. Recommended Wish You Were Here or Brain Salad Surgery by ELP.
2056071
Amazing. A must have. Every Pink Floyd fan deserves this record. A very interesting play, based on the Dark Side of The Moon.
4973443
I LOVE this!  Crisp, clean British prog rock from Pink Floyd's producer.  It sounds very much like post-Waters Floyd, with better lyrics. A really pleasant listening experience.  Highly recommended.
822251
Blues and great guitar. If you like the more mellow form of Pink Floyd, then this is your jam.
2789384
I am a David Gilmour fan and I must say that this is my favorite recording of his music. All around, a pure joy to listen to.  Also, it is a great set list.
4454338
This is a great album.  I enjoy listening to in often.  The cover picture is a foundry just outside Vitoria Station, London England.  I had held out hope that the members of Pink Floyd would regroup for one more album/disc.  Guess it will not happen.
3279200
The first of this two-disc set is comprised of rather raucous renditions of some of the Floyd's earliest material. The live versions at times outshine the studio versions, and listening to David Gilmour's guitar work on Astronomy Dominie in particular shows the listener why he was chosen to fill Syd Barret's shoes as a guitarist. Gilmour is unequaled, perhaps the most under rated player in popular music. Careful With That Axe, Eugene also betters it studio counterpart, the build-up is scary as all hell, and the screams near the end are chilling. Very gripping, and an indispensable document of their early years. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the majority of the solo tracks that comprise disc two. The only song I have adopted into the Classic Floyd Cannon is Water's Grantchester Meadows. The vocal melody is brilliant, the words even more so. And the tender folk ballad ends with a delightful bit of found sound - a fly buzzes round the ears until it is chased and swatted. What remains of the solo material is either underdeveloped, self-indulgent or just plain unlistenable. It shows that  as a band they are an unparalleled musical  force, and as individuals they are marginally  creative, at best. Buy this one for the live tracks, if you are a fan of early period Pink Floyd, and skip over what you don't care for on the studio disc.
324670
Great Albums. A must for Die hard Pink Floyd Fans. It is def not for casual listeners as it is mostly instrumental. Shame they could not get Roger Waters involved to write some lyrics. That would have put the icing on the cake.
3647280
I don't have a bunch of Pink Floyd these days, since when I listened to them it was on vinyl - so it's awesome to have downloaded this great collection.
3085548
While this is the first album by Pink Floyd it also may be the strangest. If you are used to DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall then you probably will not like this album. If you are open-minded and like experimental music then you will love this. Syd Barrett was indeed an insane genius. I don't think Floyd would have been better if he would have stayed on though. This album does what The Beatles tried to do, Rolling Stones even took a shot at it and that is making an album that when listened to carefully gives you a feeling of a good trip. The only band that could do that near as good as Floyd was The Doors. Syd's voice on this has an almost evil troll sound to it. The lyrics are sometimes laughable but they do tell a story. I'm a die-hard Floyd fan but David Gilmour is my favorite of the band so I don't think the guitar is as good on this as later albums. This is one of those albums that depending on your mood will have different effects on you. I'm guessing paranoia is one that Syd was going for. Something about a song about a gnome that makes me paranoid anyway. Bike is a catchy little song that you will go around singing for a few days about your bike that you would let someone have but you can't because you borrowed it. My favorite song on this is Flaming. Hearing Syd say, "Yipeee you can't see me, but I can you" is paranoia at it's best. Like most Floyd albums this flows from song to song. It's a great album. I would recommend it over The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Rolling Stones At Their Satanic Majesties Request. It's a really good listen.