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    William Ruhlmann
    All Music Guide

    Capitol Records gets into the Pink Floyd compilation game, but why bother when all you have in mind is the same old tired tracks, plus one previously unreleased song appropriately called "Embryo"?

bootlegs are where it's at
over 2 years ago

Were you around in 1970? I wasn't, and not many of my friends were either. This is the reason for bootlegs, or RoIO's (recording of illigetimate origin). Without them, people of my age group can't experience the massive live sound of a song like "Embryo" from Pink Floyd or "Watcher of the Skies" by Genesis. These songs just absolutely have to be heard live to get the full effect and dynamic...

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Remembering Pink Floyd: The Best $5 I Ever Spent
about 1 year ago
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Earlier this week Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, 65, sadly passed away following a battle with cancer. I love Pink Floyd. To me Dark Side Of The Moon is not only one of the greatest albums ever made, it is the first album EVER that I remember spinning non-stop, continuously, all the way through, from start to finish as a very hyper-active kid. It mellowed me out better than a dose of...

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Music for a rainy Sunday....
over 2 years ago

Here's the Floyd performing one of their rarest tracks, Embyro, live from San Tropez, 8-8-70.*edit: noticed the first video cuts off so here's the end of Embryo and Green is the Colour

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Pink Floyd doing "Embryo"--Live on BBC 1971
about 1 year ago
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Don't get me started on Floyd's unreleased back catalog. Despite the existence of film scores, entire unheard concerts, studio experiments and songs that never made it to album, the Floyd people continue to dump pap on us like the recent "Oh, By The Way" boxed set: re-releasing, once again, the entire back catalog. The EMI people need to release a real Floyd rarities box, containing stuff like ...

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bootlegs are where it's at
over 2 years ago

Were you around in 1970? I wasn't, and not many of my friends were either. This is the reason for bootlegs, or RoIO's (recording of illigetimate origin). Without them, people of my age group can't experience the massive live sound of a song like "Embryo" from Pink Floyd or "Watcher of the Skies" by Genesis. These songs just absolutely have to be heard live to get the full effect and dynamic...

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