![]() ![]() What’s that? You’ve got every Pink Floyd album (except A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell)? Don’t worry, EMI hasn’t forgotten the legion of die-hard Floyd fans. The “Discovery” set includes all 14 studio albums, spanning the band’s career from their indie-psych beginnings in the late ’60s to their Roger Waters-free “lapses of reason” from the late ’80s and early ’90s. EMI/Capitol Records gave the world a special gift this past Tuesday: a completely digitally remastered, slick-as-hell Pink Floyd box set. Grab a black light, maybe a lava lamp, and call in sick. This time, we sort through the best and worst of England’s biggest, greatest, and smartest psychedelic export. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. It was a cool experiment, but pretty much everything else they did was better.Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract. Given that, Atom Heart Mother is my 6th favorite Floyd record while Ummagumma ranks dead last. I usually don’t count the live album as part of Ummagumma when comparing them, it’s not really fair since we’re usually talking about studio material in these. Summer ‘68 and Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast aren’t bad either. ![]() AHM has a similar take, letting each of (except Mason) the members kinda take charge of a song, only here they are all actually listenable songs. ![]() some of that stuff is barely recognizable as music. I absolutely love each of the live performances included, but the AHM suite is one of my favorite Pink Floyd pieces, almost as good as Echoes imo. ![]() The live half of Ummagumma vs the Atom Heart Mother suite is tough. Well, half by half is a pretty interesting comparison. ![]()
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