Posted September 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” has swung a deal with online music retailer Pop Market to save you money on a plum Pink Floyd boxset.
Through Sunday, when you buy “The Dark Side of the Moon” Immersion boxset at Pop Market, save an extra 10% when you use promo code SHINEON at checkout.
The set’s already been marked down from $149.99 to $109.99. When you use our promo code, the price is just $98.99.
Posted June 2, 2012 by Floydian Slip
We’ve put up for bid more interesting working tapes — this time from the 1997 ”Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.
This is quarter-inch analog tape on a 10.5-inch reel in the original Ampex box. The interview runs 20-30 minutes.
The auction includes an 8-page transcript of the interview, which includes portions marked up for deletion before the interview aired.
Thorgerson was part of the legendary Hipgnosis design team, which was responsible for designing about a third of your album collection: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, 10cc, Led Zeppelin, Al Stewart, Black Sabbath, Alan Parsons Project, Phish, Cranberries and many, many more.
Posted May 24, 2012 by Floydian Slip
We’ve put up for bid some interesting working tapes from the 2001 “Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson.
These tapes were the result of assembling Jackson’s responses with our own re-recorded questions. Host Craig Bailey conducted the interview over the phone, without bothering to record the questions. Jackson recorded himself in a professional studio on his end for high fidelity, and mailed “Floydian Slip” a CD, which he’d burned at Astoria, David Gilmour‘s houseboat recording studio.
In addition to working with Floyd since “The Wall” movie (1982), Jackson’s an accomplished recording engineer who’s worked with Dream Academy and Boomtown Rats, among others.
Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip
A guest appearance Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour made in 1975 will be issued as part of a new compilation.
“When Your Life Is Your Own,” a recording Gilmour made with David Courtney, was first made available on CD when Courney’s 1975 “First Day” album was reissued as “First Day: The Complete Story” in spring 2010.
The new Courtney compilation, “The Show Must Go On,” will be made available June 11 in the U.K.; July 10 in the U.S.
Courtney’s first successes came as a songwriter for Leo Sayer and Adam Faith. As a producer, he’s done work with Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
Posted January 14, 2012 by Floydian Slip
We’re enjoying hearing an early band demo of Pink Floyd‘s “Young Lust,” the first promo item shipped by EMI in anticipation of February’s re-release of “The Wall.”
Due Feb. 28, the “Immersion” and “Experience” editions of the album will include previously unreleased demos and alternate recordings, such as this one.
Both editions will include an alternate version of “Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1,” as well as “The Doctor,” an early version of what would become “Comfortably Numb.”
The 7-disc “Immersion” set will also include David Gilmour‘s original demos of “Comfortably Numb” and “Run Like Hell” among many other rarities.
Listen for this band demo of “Young Lust” on Floydian Slip show #824, airing on all affiliate stations Jan. 19-25.
Correction: We’ll play it on show #825, Jan. 26-Feb. 1.
Posted September 17, 2011 by Floydian Slip
We’ve just received a 6-track promotional sampler from the upcoming “Why Pink Floyd?” reissue campaign.
The sampler contains previously unreleased material that will be made available Sept. 27 as part of the Experience and Immersion editions of “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Five tracks — “Breathe,” “Time,” “Money,” “Us and Them” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse” are taken from a 1974 Wembley show. The 6th is a demo of “Money” by Roger Waters.
We’ll feature some or all of the tracks on “Floydian Slip” #807, beginning Sept. 23.
Posted August 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Mojo has released a limited edition re-recording of Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
“Return to the Dark Side of the Moon,” a vinyl 12-inch gatefold record, comes with a special edition of the latest issue of the venerable British music magazine featuring a special Floyd cover. The issue contains new interviews with Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason. The Flaming Lips, Roy Harper, Roxy Music, The Shins, My Morning Jacket, Porcupine Tree and other groups “revisit the genius of ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Wish You Were Here,'” according to the magazine.
Mojo plans to produce only 10,000 copies of the package, which will be sold in HMV and WHSmith stores in the U.K. and in Barnes & Noble in the U.S. Mojo tells us to expect it in Barnes & Noble in about four weeks. The magazine’s also selling copies online, shipped direct to U.K. addresses for £15.99; £17.99 elsewhere.
Posted July 10, 2011 by Floydian Slip
On May 10, EMI announced a massive Pink Floyd reissue/rarities project called “Why Pink Floyd?” to commence this fall. (See our previous post: “EMI announces massive Floyd reissue/rarity project“)
Below is our second post detailing the items to be included in this project.
“A Foot in the Door” is one of the more minor pieces of “Why Pink Floyd.” A single CD collection of 16 Floyd tracks, all remastered by James Guthrie in 2011 with new artwork by longtime Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson.
The disc will be issued Nov. 8, with a price of $15.88.
You can pre-order “A Foot in the Door” now through Amazon.com. When you purchase through the link above, your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”
Amazon offers a pre-order price guarantee: If the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the release date, you’ll receive the lowest price.
Posted June 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip
On May 10, EMI announced a massive Pink Floyd reissue/rarities project called “Why Pink Floyd?” to commence this fall. (See our previous post: “EMI announces massive Floyd reissue/rarity project“)
Below is our first post detailing the items to be included in this project. We’re starting with the so-called “Discovery” editions, set for release in the U.S. on Sept. 27.
At the core of “Why Pink Floyd” is a reissue of every Floyd studio album:
All Discovery reissues have been digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of “The Wall”), and include newly-designed packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time designer Storm Thorgerson.
Designed to be an introduction to the band, all Discovery discs include booklets containing full album lyrics.
Single-disc albums are priced at $15.88; double-discs at $20.57.
All 14 Discovery reissues will also be available as a boxset that includes a 60-page artwork booklet designed by Thorgerson. The set is priced at $209.57.
You can pre-order items from the Discovery collection now through Amazon.com. When you purchase through the links below, your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”
Amazon offers a pre-order price guarantee: If the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the release date, you’ll receive the lowest price.
Posted May 10, 2011 by Floydian Slip
EMI announced today the largest Pink Floyd remaster and rarities project in the band’s 40-plus-year history.
The label will release remastered/repackaged versions of all 14 Floyd studio albums, along with deluxe — and deluxe, deluxe! — versions including tons of previously unreleased audio, video and more.
The label’s Web site for the initiative, “Why Pink Floyd …?,” promises, “a comprehensive release schedule, to be launched on September 26, 2011, encompassing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, SACD, an array of digital formats, viral marketing, iPhone Apps and a brand-new single-album ‘Best Of’ collection.”
A source close to the band told “Floydian Slip” in September 2010 remastering work on previously unreleased, and, in some cases, presumed to have been lost, recordings was being performed for eventual release, “subject to interminable contract negotiations.”
The project’s “Discovery” series will include individual remasters of all 14 Floyd studio albums:
… as well as “The Discovery Collection,” a box set containing all of them.
All have been remastered by James Guthrie, and come in newly-designed Digipaks with 12-page booklets designed by Storm Thorgerson.
“Experience” editions — coming for:
… are expanded versions in Digipak bonus disc format. Included are original remastered albums, discs of additional material and expanded CD booklets.
EMI will also release “Immersion” editions of:
Packaged in square boxes, the sets contain remastered, previously unreleased and audio-visual material, plus additional content such as reproduced memorabilia, new graphics, art prints, collectors’ items, booklets and more.
Also included in this project is “A Foot in the Door,” a new 14-track sampler of previously released material, also remastered by Guthrie; and vinyl editions of much of the back catalog.
The most exciting material, without a doubt, are the previously unreleased tracks contained in the “Experience” and “Immersion” sets.
The 6-CD “Dark Side” immersion set includes concert film screens in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound; early, live versions of “Dark Side” songs; demos of “Us and Them” and “Money”; documentary videos; “The Hard Way,” a cut from the band’s aborted “Household Objects” project, when it flirted with recording an entire album substituting everyday objects for instruments; and more.
The 5-CD “Wish You Were Here” immersion set includes live material from November 1974’s Wembley shows; “Wine Glasses” from “Household Objects”; an alternate take of “Have a Cigar”; and a version of the title track featuring Stephane Grappelli; and much more.
“The Wall” immersion set includes seven CDs, which contain a live version of the album; documentaries; interviews; and more.
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