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Post by DarkSideFreak on Nov 7, 2017 21:19:45 GMT 10
While I never bought the big box set, I did feel like enough of a Pink Floyd fan to get the single volumes when they were separately released. Adding everything together, I payed about 213 €. That's without Bonnus Continu/ation, obviously, but that's also about half of what the big box costs!
Hence, I felt I should post threads for the six separately available volumes. What do we think about the first volume, containing only Syd-era material?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 23:53:12 GMT 10
I listened to them all too though I streamed them on Spotify. Regarding the first volume, it was good of them to include the early recordings with Bob Klose but they were already out from not long ago so it is irritating they chose to release it twice so close together. I like at least half of these early recordings but don't listen to them much. It is of course a huge deal to be able to have the early singles in one accessible place, as they were practically unaffordable for a time and given the copyright purge on bootlegged tracks on youtube such as Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream, two tracks i've enjoyed for quite some time, again we can finally listen to them and have access to them without much difficulty. That's huge. The remix of Jugband Blues sounds much clearer, as does the remix of Matilda Mother but upon further inspection Matilda Mother here is actually an alternate version with different lyrics. I'd much rather take the original version over it. In the Beechwoods is a new discovery which I quite like, good little jam. My final thoughts on the first disc of the Cambridge St/ation is that it's an important release in Floyd history, marking the first time we've had entirely easy access to much of their early material but ultimately long overdue and only with one new discovery. As for disc two of this volume, i like the live version of Scream Thy Last Scream despite it's bad production, but everything else is completely worthless IMO. Just an early live gig, nothing special.
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Post by BluesyThug on Nov 10, 2017 15:37:44 GMT 10
Still have not got round to listening to it.... which I really need to rectify sometime in the future
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Post by DarkSideFreak on Nov 22, 2017 21:08:45 GMT 10
I listened to them all too though I streamed them on Spotify. Regarding the first volume, it was good of them to include the early recordings with Bob Klose but they were already out from not long ago so it is irritating they chose to release it twice so close together. I like at least half of these early recordings but don't listen to them much. It is of course a huge deal to be able to have the early singles in one accessible place, as they were practically unaffordable for a time and given the copyright purge on bootlegged tracks on youtube such as Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream, two tracks i've enjoyed for quite some time, again we can finally listen to them and have access to them without much difficulty. That's huge. The remix of Jugband Blues sounds much clearer, as does the remix of Matilda Mother but upon further inspection Matilda Mother here is actually an alternate version with different lyrics. I'd much rather take the original version over it. In the Beechwoods is a new discovery which I quite like, good little jam. My final thoughts on the first disc of the Cambridge St/ation is that it's an important release in Floyd history, marking the first time we've had entirely easy access to much of their early material but ultimately long overdue and only with one new discovery. As for disc two of this volume, i like the live version of Scream Thy Last Scream despite it's bad production, but everything else is completely worthless IMO. Just an early live gig, nothing special. The alternate lyrics to Matilda Mother are a lot more creepy than the Piper version... I quite like Scream Thy Last Scream but can't find much to like about Vegetable Man. It's interesting that they already played Set the Controls still with Syd. The John Latham session is not something I'll listen too often but it shows some of the more avantgardistic influences for their sound. It's like the middle part of Interstellar Overdrive stretched out across 30 minutes. Those early recordings were vinyl-only, though? I think they did it to secure the copyright so that the tracks couldn't be released by anybody 50 years after recording.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 16:31:06 GMT 10
They weren't on the CD but they are on spotify. At least in Australia they are.
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