Pulse (Pink Floyd album)

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Content and recording

Pulse includes a performance of the entirety of Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" features small portions of the songs "Another Brick in the Wall, Part I", "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part III".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Unlike the previous Pink Floyd live album, Delicate Sound of Thunder, no parts were rerecorded in the studio.[3] However, the band and producer James Guthrie fixed songs that had bad notes (as heard on some bootlegs) by lifting solos and corrected vocal lines from other performances as the band recorded most of the European leg. The album was mixed in QSound, which produces a 3D audio effect even on a two channel stereo system.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Packaging

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The outer packaging for Pulse with the light compartment and holder removed and placed on top.

Early CD versions came with a flashing red LED on the side of the case. This was designed by the EMI contractor Jon Kempner, using the now discontinued LM3909 LED flasher IC. The circuit was powered by a single AA battery; the battery life was stated to be over six months. Some versions were also made with two AA batteries and later editions of the CD set did not feature the blinking LED.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Kempner was awarded a platinum disc.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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Release

In the United States, despite a price of $34.99 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".) (which included flashing spine light and two AA batteries) Pulse debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 during the week of 24 June 1995 with 198,000 copies sold, it became the first multidisc album to top the Billboard 200 since the chart started using SoundScan data in May 1991.[5] The next week it fell off to number three on the chart.[6] It remained on the chart for twenty two weeks.[7] It was certified two times platinum by the RIAA on 31 July 1995 for shipments of one million units.[8]

On 1 July 1995 the video version of Pulse debuted at number one on the Billboard's Top Music Videos chart with 16,500 units sold.[9] The video was certified eight times platinum by the RIAA on 31 July 2006 for shipments of 800,000 units.[8]

The video version (on VHS and Laserdisc) also featured the song "Take It Back", and an almost complete performance from their 20 October show at Earl's Court, London. The Pulse DVD was released on 10 July 2006.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". On 16 December 2021, the band announced on social media platforms[10][11] that a re-release of Pulse on DVD and a first-time release on Blu-ray format was on 18 February 2022. The packaging re-introduced the blinking LED featured with the original CD release from 1995.[12]

The vinyl version was released as a four-LP box set and included "One of These Days" (also heard on the cassette release) as well as a large version of the photo booklet. The release of the album was promoted by a light show from the top of the Empire State Building in New York City with music simulcasted on a New York City radio station.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Reception

Template:Album ratings Writing for NME, Paul Moody wrote that Pulse comprised "a rehash of the usual prog meanderings ... Every perfectly recorded note and every immaculately reproduced photo tells you that this is music for the sort of hand-wringing hippies who still like to think they're in tune with the cosmos even though there's a BMW in the drive."[13] He was critical of the LED on the packaging, saying it "represents the multi-million pound rehabilitation of Pink Floyd by a generation who progged out in the 70s, sold out in the 80s and started gloating about it in the 90s in the gauchest possible terms".[13]

In Rolling Stone, Rob O'Connor argued that the "studio perfection" of The Dark Side of the Moon did not translate well to live performance, and criticised the "loud, annoying" audience.[14]

Track listing

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Personnel

Pink Floyd

  • David Gilmour – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar and lap steel guitar (on "One of These Days", "High Hopes" and "The Great Gig In the Sky")
  • Nick Mason – drums, percussion (on "Time")
  • Richard Wright – keyboards, synthesiser, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Astronomy Domine", co-lead vocals on "Time", "Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb"

Additional personnel

  • Guy Pratt – bass, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Run Like Hell"
  • Jon Carin – keyboards, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Hey You"
  • Sam Brown – backing vocals, first vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
  • Durga McBroom – backing vocals, second vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
  • Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals, third vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
  • Tim Renwick – guitar, backing vocals
  • Dick Parry – saxophone
  • Gary Wallis – percussion, additional drums
  • Doug Sax, Ron Lewter – mastering at The Mastering Lab

Charts

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Certifications and sales

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References

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