Overview: Re-edited in 2019 from the original tapes this 2-Disc Blu-ray Box-Set is displayed in a rigid slipcase digipak and features a battery operated pulsating light, as per the original 1995 CD.

Including music videos, concert screen films, documentaries, Pulse Tour Rehearsal footage and more, along with a simply stunning 60-page booklet also included, Pink Floyd’s P.U.L.S.E. (Restored & Re-Edited) is an incredible offering from Sony Music / Legacy Recordings).

Blu-ray Verdict: P.U.L.S.E., originally released as an album in 1995, was recorded on the European leg of the Division Bell tour and the DVD and Blu-Ray packages include the whole live performance of The Dark Side Of The Moon - the only full live filmed recording of this seminal album.

The concert, filmed on October 20th, 1994 at Earls Court in London, saw Pink Floyd play some of their classic tracks as well as highlights from the recently released album The Division Bell.

Standout tracks include High Hopes, Keep Talking, Sorrow, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and The Great Gig In The Sky.

As for some quick insight into the album, Pink Floyd actually claim they had no intention of recording another live album when they began the Division Bell tour, but performing The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety convinced the group to release another double-live set, aptly-named P.U.L.S.E.

There’s no question that the group is comprised of talented musicians, including the number of studio professionals that augmented the trio on tour, but whether they are definitively inspired musicians is up for debate though.

For a large part of Pink Floyd’s live show is based on the always impressive visuals; such as like on the Division Bell tour, where they closed each show with an unprecedented laser extravaganza.

Thus, in order for the visuals and the music to coincide, the group needed to play the sets as tightly as possible, with little improvisation, of course.

That said, and bringing things back to that timeframe, at this point of Pink Floyd’s career, there was no more Roger Waters in the band and it was solely David Gilmour’s band by then.

And so with Gilmour taking the lead, he was joined by Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Guy Pratt on bass. In truth, the show has a slew of Division Bell tracks (What Do You Want From Me?, Coming Back To Life, Keep Talking, A Great Day for Freedom and the magnificent High Hopes), and a somewhat nostalgic revision of older songs, like Astronomy Domine (from The Pipers At The Gates of Dawn), Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here, Hey You, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2), Comfortably Numb (where Gilmour’s second guitar solo is reason alone to buy this!) and Run Like Hell (from the brilliant The Wall); oh, and The Dark Side of The Moon in its entirety, of course!)

In fact, the production of this concert is just so insanely fantastic all round here on this exquisite new Blu-ray set, with one of my favorite parts of it being the last track before The Dark Side of The Moon segment, when they perform One of These Days (featuring Gilmour’s haunting riff on the lap slide guitar, and which was released as the first track on Meddle).

The curtain call songs here are perfectly chosen also with the band coming back on stage to play a set that begins with Wish You Were Here; written at a time in the ’70s as a song for Syd Barrett (who, as I’m sure we all know by now, was the original leader of the band but who was sadly replaced in the ’60s due to severe mental illness), and backs that up with a tremendously sculptured couple from The Wall, Comfortably Numb and Run.

Listening to this incredible 2-Disc Blu-ray and watching along with all the quite wondrous extras now included in this thoroughly immersive new Box-Set, my original opinion that it was one of the band’s best, and utterly flawless live performances to date back then still hasn’t changed.

Blu-ray 1: The Concert Film (originally released as Columbia Music Video 24V-50121, 1995)
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V, VII)
2. Learning to Fly
3. High Hopes
4. Take It Back
5. Coming Back to Life
6. Sorrow
7. Keep Talking
8. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
9. One of These Days
The Dark Side of the Moon (full album)
10. Speak to Me
11. Breathe (in the Air)
12. On the Run
13. Time
14. The Great Gig in the Sky
15. Money
16. Us and Them
17. Any Colour You Like
18. Brain Damage
19. Eclipse
Encores
20. Wish You Were Here
21. Comfortably Numb
22. Run Like Hell

All tracks recorded live at Earls Court, London, England - 10/20/1994

Blu-ray 2: Bonus Material
Music Videos (BD 48/24, DVD 48/16)
1. Take It Back (1994)
2. High Hopes (1994)
3. Marooned (2014)

Pulse Tour Rehearsal (1994) (BD 96/24, DVD 48/16)
4. A Great Day for Freedom (Version 1)
5. A Great Day for Freedom (Version 2)
6. Lost for Words

Concert Screen Films (1994) (BD 96/24, DVD 48/16)
7. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-IV, VII)
8. Speak to Me
9. Time
10. The Great Gig in the Sky
11. Money
12. Us and Them (Black & White)
13. Us and Them (Colour)
14. Brain Damage + Eclipse (North American Dates)
15. Brain Damage + Eclipse (European Dates)
16. Brain Damage + Eclipse (Earls Court, London Dates)

Documentaries & Additional Material (BD 48/24, DVD 48/16)
17. The Division Bell album cover photography (Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK) (1994)
18. Pulse TV Ad (1995)
19. The Division Bell Airships (1994)

20. Behind the Scenes [Interviews with the Lead Technicians for the Division Bell Tour]

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction (1996) (BD 48/24, DVD 48/16)
21. Wish You Were Here (with Billy Corgan)

Audio-Only Live Recordings (BD & DVD 96/24)
22. One of These Days (Live in Hanover 1994)
23. Astronomy Domine (Live in Miami 1994)

[They Came in Peace, Live, Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Live at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany 25 Feb 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Mauerspechte Berlin Sportspalast, Live 5 June 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Live, Lyon 12 June 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Live 23 Sept 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Vol. II, Live 23 Sept 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove, Bradford University, Live 10 Oct 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); Embryo, San Diego, Live 17 Oct 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify); The Screaming Abdabs Quebec City, Live 10 Nov 1971 (Pink Floyd Music) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify)]

The P.U.L.S.E. concert film -- helmed by esteemed director David Mallet -- will be available as 2x Blu-ray and 2x DVD deluxe box sets, with the video footage having been expertly re-edited by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis from the original tape masters especially for The Later Years release in 2019 this December 16th, 2021.

The cover design, originally created by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon for the 2006 DVD release, has also been updated with photography by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis and Rupert Truman/StormStudios. The packaging artwork is designed by Peter Curzon from StormStudios, under the direction of Aubrey Powell/Hignosis.

As noted, this release also sees the reintroduction of the iconic pulsating light as per the original 1995 CD release, this time operated by 2 replaceable AA batteries. The deluxe packages include music videos, concert screen films, documentaries, Pulse Tour rehearsal footage & more, alongside a 60-page booklet.

Pink Floyd - P.U.L.S.E. Restored & Re-Edited (2022 Teaser)

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