Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-1972 -Anticip/ation

All I'm interested in Floyd-wise would be a standalone issue of ASOS in mono. Even the illegal digipack of that is hard to find now. Still, at least this set means I will likely to be able to get it more easily by illegitimate means.

 

When asked about the inclusion of the Meddle and AHM quad mixes, here's the reply from Andy Jackson:

Yes, they're on it. A new Pompeii mix too (which is surround, although not exactly bombasticly so, as it's a 'gig').

 

As a fan I'll buy this but I'm really hoping its way less than $700

 

When was he asked that question?

 

This is a bad time for any Pink Floyd fan that has to eat

 

Somebody asked him on the QuadraphonicQuad Forum.

 

For a band that existed until 1994, I would say 1972 is definitely early.

 

That's interresting. I wouldn't think Pompeii would be released as content in a box set. In my opinion it deserves a stand-alone release.
But if they include it, they better include Chit Chat With Oysters too!

 

Maybe it will see a stand alone release in addition tk being in the box. I don't see why not. The DVD is nice, but it's been in need of an update for quite some time.

 

Are the multi channel versions going to be SACD or DVD?

 

DVD isn't nice, sound is no-noised and it runs nearly semitone faster.

 

I stand corrected. I was unaware of the issues. It only proves my point further that it needs an upgrade. It needs a proper wide release outside of a huge box targeted at collectors.

 

I was asking not to justify the price but to see if it's possible to fit all the studio albums in 24/96 on a single Blu ray or would it take multiple.the last box sets had the CD ,DVD and blu ray of the Album,if the same format is followed that would waste more of the 22 discs we know of.For now.

 

Hopefully Blu-ray. Also hope they include all the audio in hires on Blu-ray.

 

I know what you are saying. My brother who works for a major label has told me many times that record companies like boxsets, because they never get remaindered. However, when I look at that set with all it's book/slip-cases, shiny facsimile posters, digitally processed facsimile single covers and its size and its god-knows-what-else, I ask myself – 'what happened to the thing we all loved?' – i.e. the music. Music that used to come in nice simple single cardboard LP covers and cheap jewel-cases and that people without hedge funds could buy. Don't get me wrong - I'm happy the PF Industry Machine has put this music out at last – but at what cost? And I do not just mean financial. (I'm not arguing for DL files either because they really are a waste of money.)

 

I always wonder who has the time to listen to 27 Cd boxsets. I find 5 CD sets hard enough.

 

So we'll have to wait until 4pm again?! :/

 

So we'll have to wait until 4pm again?! :/

 

You're right. What happened to rock 'n' roll? Everything is so corporate these days, it stinks.

Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman, are playing local to me next year, and the cost is getting on for £100.

And you can also pay extra for meet and greet's, and the soundcheck...whoopie doo.

"If you want to count me, count...me...out."

 

OK, so now there's Rick Wright photo on PF's official Facebook... The pattern has been broken...

 

The cost is the thing that confuses me, I fully understand the cost to them with all the collating of archives and prep work that goes into these things but prices in the hundreds will undoubtedly put most people off. If this hits the shelves at $500-700 or £400-500 that is certainly in England a third of most peoples monthly wage packet and the cost can not be justified on music. If the set is released as we have seen it with no way to build these sets then it will become an elite item and many who are tech savvy will simply vote to illegally download and the ones who are not will go without or listen on an upload to Youtube.

A much more sensible approach would be to break up this set into the 7 volumes with the singles maybe being housed in the over-sized box with the room for the volumes to be added as we buy them. If they did a program like that then this will sell much higher amounts than it is going to. Obviously that is based on what little info we have.

 

The price tag isn't that confusing. The music industry is bleeding the last drop from sales of physical media. And the target group is people who still buy physical media, and within that group a fair percentage have a hefty disposable income, and that will guarantee they sell enough units to make a profit. Very cynical, for sure.

 

The price tag isn't that confusing. The music industry is bleeding the last drop from sales of physical media. And the target group is people who still buy physical media, and within that group a fair percentage have a hefty disposable income, and that will guarantee they sell enough units to make a profit. Very cynical, for sure.

 

SO want the quad & 5.1 mixes and a mono SFOS and I'm more than interested in the rest of the rumoured material (the compilation of BBC video material that has been part of the BBC Floyd nights over the past few years is wonderful), but £500+ ?

Hoping for separate Quad/5.1 on either SACD or Blu, as per Wish and Division Bell and even Endless River to an extent. With separate Quad/5.1 releases I'd happily drop £200 on an iTunes boxset for the rest and I'd love a higher quality official release of Point Me At The Sky than was on the early singles disc in Shine On.

 

It wasn't even one from the "early years" either...