Pink Floyd - Early Years (Box-Set)

^Pretty good summary.  The full box set also has the 7" vinyls which is a huge plus for me anyway.  Plus the movies as I mentioned earlier. 

Usually when I start a thread it takes like a week to gather three responses.

Sean Trane wrote: did you get the big box or just the individual smaller boxsets (they go by years)?   Personally, I chose the 68, 69, 70, 71 & 72   I didn't go for the bookslef ones: pre-68 and 73, which were not interesting my curiosity.

Individual! Went for 69, 70, 71 and 72
The actual box-set is way too pricey considering what I can get outside of it. Like Steve (HolyMoly) I too am not that big on dvd’s. The last time I saw a gig over the tv was probably over a decade ago (Pompeii or Woodstock perchance).
I love live gigs...also as cds/lps..but yeah...I’d go for a really good flick over a tv-gig any day

I have a somewhat ambivalent relationship with reviewing in that I generally love writing them (when inspired), but often when I come across them later on I realise that many of them need to be taken into the context of the music ie they don’t make sense unless you’ve heard the album for yourself. Therein lies the crux of dancing about architecture
Then again many many sentences and ideas about music have been channeled through reviews - stuff I read maybe decades ago that still pops up when I listen to X album. Not so much about specifics like what band member played what or what year X song first was conjured up..but more to do with emotions and glib observations that somehow magically make sense. Sort of when you can draw a direct (or indeed un-direct) parallel between music and something else entirely...and it suddenly makes sense on a different level. That’s where I get really interested..and perhaps not so surprisingly also where I tend to reside psychologically when writing a review.
Examples of others doing this beautifully right here on PA are David the Pear doing freeform reviews with strange unorthodox letters and cyphers, Greenback’s washing machines and TD as well as Michael Neumann’s urge for raw potatoes whilst listening to Trout Mask Replica. I have hundreds of similar images in my mind connected to the music via other people’s words.
Btw thank you very much for your kind remarks earlier on Greg, much appreciated

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 13 2020 at 02:03

Guldbamsen wrote: Usually when I start a thread it takes like a week to gather three responses.

Come on David, this is Floyd we're talking about, not Art Zoyd.

Guldbamsen wrote: Usually when I start a thread it takes like a week to gather three responses.

LAM-SGC wrote: Not wishing to start the Third World War, but as a lifelong PF fan, from the first time I heard DSOTM, just months after release, I have always considered the acid, space, psyche rock Floyd to have ended on a high with DSOTM. Where is the boxset cutoff point?

The cutoff point is with "Obscured By Clouds" in 1972, however, Volume 7 has an excellent 1974 performance of "Echoes" at Wembley on it.

Guldbamsen wrote: I Put another way: I am far more likely to put on any of these cds compared to any other big band boxset I own...maybe with the exception of Tangerine Dream’s Official Bootleg Releases

I did end up getting it, but not until they released them individually, and I think at a better overall price, since it was indeed way too expensive... I just wish something similar happens with the new box-set of later years (I don't understand how they expect to sell it at just about the same price as the early years one, since it covers so much less albums / material). Still, for both sets, I didn't like they way they went around to release them... I believe they could / should have released it in albums format at regular album prices... they could have done a pair of "lost" studio albums, one for the Syd era songs, and another for the Gilmour pre dark side ones. And then some 3 live albums and one or two live videos... I could really have done without the interviews and promo stuff and so on. It could have been set at a better price, and I guess they would even have sold more copies. However, yes, the set does include some really great stuff. The Barrett era singles are nice, but specially the 1965 recordings that had never been released before (as well as In the Beechwoods, Vegetable Man, and Scream thy last Scream). Then there's the live disc, which sadly didn't get the vocals recorded, but the instrumental songs do sound great with all that jamming (Pow R Toc H, and Interstellar Overdrive). From the third set, it's nice to have a whole recording of The Man and the Journey concerts, though the two BBC concerts that follow in the next sets are actually better (I particularly love the 30 Sept 71 one, with my favourite versions of Fat Old Sun, One of these days, and Embryo, as well as Echoes as part of the set. Throughout the sets there are many great live videos to enjoy too.