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rpop wrote:
How do Gilmour's solo albums compare to post-Waters PF?
They're very different from post-Waters Floyd IMHO. Gilmour's first (self-titled) album (1978) is comparable to Floyd material
of that time (not "his" Floyd), but his second,
About Face (1984), is very different from anything Pink Floyd ever released.
The first is definitely 100% progressive rock (there's a great review of it
here - the whole site is extremely good
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About Face is a combination of various styles. It's a perfect mixture of slightly heavier guitar work ("All Lovers Are Deranged", "Murder" and "Until We Sleep", the latter being the best IMHO), dramatic orchestral sequences ("Let's Get Metaphysical", "You Know I'm Right"), and mainstream-like stuff ("Love On The Air"). There's even a track on it which sounds more like Funk than anything else ("Blue Light"), it very much reminds me of Kool & The Gang.
Especially the orchestral arrangements are just fantastic, and the production is extremely good. The only thing I miss on this album are, quite ironically, really memorable guitar solos like that of "Comfortably Numb" (my *very* favourite PF track) - the leadout on the last track, "Near The End", stands out, but it's too short and just lacks "something" to come close.
My favourite tracks would probably be "Out Of The Blue" and "Until We Sleep", but the others are just marginally less good (apart from "Cruise" and "All Lovers Are Deranged" which kinda bug me). It's a great album and definitely worth having.
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rpop wrote:
Do Wright's solo albums sound similar to Wearing The Inside Out?
I only have
Broken China, so I can only comment on that. I'd say the album is not as straight-forward as "Wearing The Inside Out" or any Floyd album/track - there are only a few tracks that actually sound like "normal" songs (i.e., with a full arrangement), the rest is either instrumental (of which "Sweet July" is definitely the best - Dominic Miller's guitar work is outstanding), or sort of "experimental" stuff. Broken China isn't a bad album.
I've got to say one thing.
Why the hell is everybody talking about P.U.L.S.E instead of Delicate Sound Of Thunder?! DSoT is SO MUCH better IMHO, both for the performances per se and the sound. Playing stuff off the original masters as they did on P.U.L.S.E is just not what a Live performance is about - the goal is not to sound as close to the original as possible, if that were the case, they could just play the original albums and pretend they're playing instruments. Apart from that, the performances (most of all, Gilmour's vocals) are just poor as far as I'm concerned. (And about "Learning To Fly" - I know I've said this a thousand times, Roberto

- I think it's dreadful on P.U.L.S.E. The background vocals on the chorus are totally f*cked, the background vocalists are shouting in loud, short blasts more than singing, and the interlude sounds like crap to me, it's just totally over the top; the guitar leadout is also horrible. The DSoT version is much better *IMHO*.)
So, ScorLibran, I personally would strongly advise you to buy
Delicate Sound Of Thunder before you touch
P.U.L.S.E.

Man, this subject could be discussed endlessly.

CU
Dominic
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** = Hmm, the
main site states that it's no longer in operation and provides a URL to a new site, but the reviews don't appear there. They're still up on the old one, it's just that the contents table is missing. I'd better save them all offline before they get deleted...