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David Gilmour - X2:(David Gilmour/ About Face) Audio CD

A fair review of the David Gilmour "X2:(David Gilmour/ About Face)" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all David Gilmour reviews here, or go back to the David Gilmour tabs.

David Gilmour Band: David Gilmour
Title: X2:(David Gilmour/ About Face)
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Release Date: 2008-10-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mihalis 2: There's No Way Out Of Here 3: Cry From The Street 4: So Far Away 5: Short And Sweet 6: Raise My Rent 7: No Way 8: Deafinitely 9: I Can't Breathe Anymore 10: Until We Sleep 11: Murder 12: Love On The Air 13: Blue Light 14: Out Of The Blue 15: All Lovers Are Deranged 16: Cruise 17: Let's Get Metaphysical 18: Near The End

The voice & talented guitarist of Pink Floyd
The overall sound in both CDs reflects the very deep & meaningful footprint on Pink Floyd and their successes. If you enjoy the voice of David Gilmour & appreciate his highly touted guitar skills, this two CD combo is a great buy. There are pretty hard rockin songs & of course melodic spacey sounds Gilmour does so very well. The boss plays for change: Bruce Springsteen as singer, guitarist--and statesman. (CULTURE): An article from: Sojourners.


Sadly lacking
There's no reason that it shouldn't have been included in this. In this day and age when it seems like every remastered re-release is scrounging up extra material, About Face skips the extended version of Blue Light which had come out during it's original release.


Ditto
I share the other reviewer's voice. . Truth is that David Gilmour was Pink Floyd. I don't think I need say more, really.


A cheap and convenient way to acquire David Gilmour's first two solo albums

The two CDs in David Gilmour X2 consists of his first two solo albums (which are his self titled solo debut from 1978 (which contains classics like "There's No Way Out of Here", "So Far Away", "No Way" and "I Can't Breathe Anymore") and his second solo album About Face from 1984 (which contains tracks like "Until We Sleep", "Murder", Blue Light", "Out of the Blue" and "All Lovers Are Deranged")) together at a low price rather than buying the CDs individually. One time Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour's US record label Columbia Records (who handles the distribution rights to his catalog in all countries outside Europe (in Europe he is on EMI)) has just re-released his first two solo albums as a convenient 2-CDs for the price of 1-CD package called David Gilmour X2 (coincidentally this set comes out at the same time that his new Live in Gdansk album (available in five configurations) was released).
The versions of his first two solo albums contained in this special 2-for-1 set are the remastered CD versions that were first released in September of 2006 here in the US and the other territories where David is signed to Sony BMG (see my reviews for the self-titled David Gilmour remaster and the About Face remaster to save time for re-writing the reviews here).
Interesting that this package is only available in the US and Canada as Columbia/Sony owns the licensing rights to David Gilmour's solo catalog whereas EMI in Europe has the licensing rights to DG's catalog (in a similar manner like Pink Floyd licensing their catalog to EMI/Capitol and/or CBS/Sony (before the band switched all licensing rights to EMI for the whole world)).
If you want to acquire both of David's two pre-On an Island solo albums and either not spent lots of money or upgrade the 1980s CDs to new remastered CD versions, this is the best bet and an actual money saver to do so unlike buying them separately. If you own the 2006 remasters already then steer clear.
RECOMMENDED!.


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