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Summary: Essential For Early Floyd Fans
Review: Attention fans of early Pink Floyd music: this video is for you! Carrying about nine or ten songs, this video features Pink Floyd live at Pompeii, a place of ancient mystery and imagination. The setting and some of the footage in this video truly adds to the unique characteristics of Pink Floyd's music. This video features songs such as "Echoes" and "A Saucerful of Secrets". All these songs sound great in this unique live video. This is truly a must for Floyd fans everywhere.
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Summary: Masterpiece...
Review: If you love Real Floyd (not the new pre-packaged [stuff]), you must watch this film.You are given insight into the recording process of Darkside of the Moon, and treated to some incredible performance footage of Pink Floyd.
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Summary: Might be enjoyable if you're high
Review: I love Pink Floyd's music, and love the "Delicate Sound of Thunder" video. So I bought this one. YUCK! It's one of those depressing 1970's art films that somehow manage to accrue a cult following. There's too much pre-concert "behind the scenes" footage, the picture quality is poor, the cinematography is horrible, and - well, I have only watched it once. It almost ruined my love for the band. It portrays them as real lowlife scuzzballs.
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Summary: A Must Have For Floyd Fans
Review: This video is full of classic moments with Pink Floyd. "Live at Pompeii" provides a surreal experience that is a must have for any Floyd Fan. This is by far their best video. It includes various eclectic performances, some undescribable interviews, and film of the band's stay at Pompeii (eating meals, preparing instruments, etc...). The video contains a few "classic" quotes from band memebers--Nick Mason's "Apple pie, without the crust please!" for instance. In short...get it.
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Summary: Spinal Tap 1972
Review: The music in this video is great--something eery,haunting about it all, even in spite of the dated '70's special effects, but the huge close-up face shots interviews made me laugh. I kept thinking of "This is Spinal Tap." Four pompous stoned musicians, the British accents, some of them even look like Spinal Tap members. Good ole big-lipped David Gilmour,the most likeable member, looks like a 17 yr old who hasn't washed his hair for 2 weeks, and there's this smile from him after a "we-aren't-a-drug-oriented(he says "orientated"--oops)-group" comment: the most high, most glassy red-eyed comfortably numb smile I've seen yet. Roger Waters in his always arrogant egocentic manner, can't seem to focus his eyes much better. "If they don't like us, they don't come see us again." Oh really? I loved watching and listening to this vid. Hypnotic music. They're one of the most creative, innovative artsy bands ever--likened to an abstract painting. They just didn't quite come across as the brightest bulbs on their planet. But that's why it's fun to watch.
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Summary: SMASHIN'...
Review: I have
just absolutely
and helplessly...
...fell in love.
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Summary: The best Pink Floyd album they never released on vinyl
Review: If this had been released on vinyl it would be my favorite Pink Floyd album, next to Ummagumma. I transferred the audio from it onto a CD-R and I listen to it often. They chose some of their longer, more contemplative pieces and expanded on them, creating a soundtrack of sorts for the ruins among which they played. There's no audience noise to spoil it, either, the silence between the songs lends an eerie aspect to the whole thing. Find the earlier release if you can--the later one has been speeded up a bit and "Dark Side" studio footage has been inexplicably added. I could have used ten more studio albums like this one, but bands move on and try new things. Live at Pompeii stands alone as the greatest live recording of any rock band, ever.
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Summary: Not much more to say...
Review: There's not much more I can say that hasn't been said...At the time of my writing, there are 81 reviews. I just wanted to contribute to the stats. This is an amazing film; not just a rock or music video. It is an amazing piece of art and cinematography. I would have to say it represents all the aspects of rock and roll that The Wall didn't cover; the truly artistic aspects. What could be better than your own show in the arena at Pompeii with no one except the band and a film crew??????
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Summary: One of These Days...
Review: I'm a huge Pnik Floyd fan and i love this tape. If you're a real floyd fan you'll like this video. it has Meddle and some Darkside being performedand gives us some small glimpses into their creative process (chinese food is important). the only reason i give this four stars is because the one i saw had bad sound and it had too many shots of Nick Mason.
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Summary: Live At Pompeii: Cooler than a Polar Bears Arse
Review: This is the video that turned me from Pink Floyd apathy to Pink Floyd fanaticism. It is perfect. The cinematography will blow holes in your mind the first time you see it. Then it will blow holes in the hole-less parts every time after that. The selection of music is great because, unless your a pretty hardcore fan, you've probably never heard it. That was the case with me. The opening notes of Echoes part I durring the long zoom-in sucked me in and I wasn't released until the closing notes of Echoes part II that bring the video to it's conclusion durring the long zoom-out. Everything between (Careful with that Axe Eugene, Saucerful of Secrets, One of These Days, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and Mademoiselle Nobs, to name them all) is captured in musical and cinematic perfection. Nick Mason gets well deserved air time - he must be one of the hardest working drummers in rock history. Where else can you see Dave Gilmour sitting in the dirt screwing with his effects to make the crazy guitar sounds that were so characteristic of Pink Floyd at this time? Or Richard Wright mashing his keyboards with his entire forearm produce beatifully cacaphonic sounds? Or Roger Waters silohueted against a brilliant sun as he mercilessly beats on a massive gong? Even the studio footage of Dark Side of the Moon is awsome. Now we all know that Nick Mason doesn't like pie if theres any crust on it - "Rather have none at all than a piece with crust," he says. One of my favorite things in the world to do is to watch this tape - I'm watching it now. GET IT!
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