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The second Pink Floyd live release in less than ten years, Pulse is a marginal step above the overproduced Delicate Sound of Thunder. The recordings and performances have more room to breathe which is a welcome change of pace, and the cover art is very unique. However, like its predecessor, it struggles with a mixed bag of a setlist that suffers whenever the band tries to tackle anything from The Wall and forward. Gilmour as a vocalist can't match the rage and fury of Roger Waters, so when he tries to take on tracks like "Hey You" and "Run Like ****" they lose the paranoia and danger which makes them such powerful songs and just end up sounding way to sedate. There's also the major push of material from the lackluster Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason albums. Understandable Gilmour wanted the focus to be what the current lineup of the band was accomplishing which some of it was pretty good, but those albums have never been amongst the Floyd's greatest work.

The big selling point for this album at the time was that it contained for the first time a full-album length performance of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon. And to their credit, they deliver a pretty decent facsimile of that classic album. Sure, it a bit glossier than the original 70s recording, but on the whole decent enough. However, with the trickling out of high-fidelity live tapes of the same material being performed by the Floyd in their original mid-70s peak by the definitive lineup on recent reissues of Dark Side and Wish You Were Here 5.0 One of my favorite live performances.

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