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Shine On

Pink Floyd - Shine On Audio CD

A fair review of the Pink Floyd "Shine On" 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 Pink Floyd reviews here, or go back to the Pink Floyd tabs.

Band: Pink Floyd
Title: Shine On
Rating:

Release Date: 1992-11-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Arnold Layne 2: Candy And A Currant Bun 3: See Emily Play 4: Scarecrow 5: Apples And Oranges 6: Paint Box 7: It Would Be So Nice 8: Julia Dream 9: Point Me At The Sky 10: Careful With That Axe Eugene 11: In The Flesh? 12: The Thin Ice 13: Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) 14: The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 15: Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 16: Mother 17: Goodbye Blue Sky 18: Empty Spaces 19: Young Lust 20: One Of My Turns 21: Don't Leave Me Now 22: Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) 23: Goodbye Cruel World 24: Pigs On The Wing (1) 25: Dogs 26: Pigs (Three Different Ones) 27: Sheep 28: Pigs On The Wing (2) 29: Shine On The Crazy Diamond (Part One) 30: Shine On The Crazy Diamond (Part One) 31: Shine On The Crazy Diamond (Part One) 32: Shine On The Crazy Diamond (Part One) 33: Shine On The Crazy Diamond (Part One) 34: Welcome To The Machine 35: Have A Cigar 36: Wish You Were Here 37: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two) 38: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two) 39: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two) 40: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two) 41: Speak To Me 42: Breathe 43: On The Run 44: Time 45: The Great Gig In The Sky 46: Money 47: Us And Them 48: Any Colour You Like 49: Brain Damage 50: Eclipse 51: Signs Of Life 52: Learning To Fly 53: The Dogs Of War 54: One Slip 55: On The Turning Away 56: Yet Another Movie 57: Round And Round 58: A New Machine (Part 1) 59: Terminal Frost 60: A New Machine (Part 2) 61: Sorrow 62: Hey You 63: Is There Anybody Out There? 64: Nobody Home 65: Vera 66: Bring The Boys Back Home 67: Comfortably Numb 68: The Show Must Go On 69: In The Flesh 70: Run Like Hell 71: Waiting For Worms 72: Stop 73: The Trial 74: Outside The Wall 75: One Of These Days 76: A Pillow Of Winds 77: Fearless 78: San Tropez 79: Seamus 80: Echoes 81: Let There Be More Light 82: Remember A Day 83: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 84: Corporal Clegg 85: A Saucerful Of Secrets 86: See-saw 87: Jugband Blues

If you can find it, Buy it
I read about this box set recently in a book by Storm Thorgerson [. . ]and his book "Mind Over Matter 4" (highly recommeded).

He discusses what the box set project was like, and it caused me to have an interest in acquiring it.

Now the box set is over 18 yeras old, way out of print, but on Amazon I found numerous new & used sets for sale. I opted for a used one.

The CD's sound fantastic. The re-mastering is really great. I own several versions, Japanese pressings, Mobile Fidelity, SACD of DSOTM, and vinyl. The sound is very good.

The book, postcards and the total package are just a cool set.

If you are a collector, or a PF fan, find one & buy it.

This made my day!
I have always liked Pink Floyd, but it wasn't until 2000 that I really got into them. As I approached my completion of college there are two things that come to mind when I look back, finishing school and Pink Floyd. A guy I knew who ran a record store called me and said, "Hey, I just got the Shine On box set, I will sell it to you cheap if you want it!" So I dragged myself down their and picked it up. I had most of the music on there, but it was the singles I was after at the time. . . This is a must for any serious Pink Floyd fan, if you are one and you don't have this. . . maybe you should, because some day soon these things are going to be rare.

Joya s�lo para coleccionistas fan�ticos a muerte
La diferencia? Un buen libro de pasta dura y con la historia y lyrics del grupo, adem�s de postales de colecci�n, un cd con un par de canciones in�ditas y una caja para los cd's los mismos que vienen en una caja negra especial. Quienes busquen en Shine On, una recopilaci�n completa, les advierto que mejor no lo compren, ya que este box set es una selecci�n de ciertos discos de PF.

Este box set es s�lo para fan�ticos. Si eres un fan�tico indiscutible de PF y si ya lo has convertido en tu religi�n, entonces debes de tenerlo. Vale la pena.

Pink Floyd celebrated its 25th anniversary by re-defining the word BOX SET!!!

The box was released to commemorate the band's 25th anniversary as a recording act. Pink Floyd released their 9-CD box set Shine On in November of 1992.
Compiling a box was not an easy task. Instead of pulling songs from each album, the band (mainly guitarist/singer David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright) with some help from estranged bass player/singer/lyricist Roger Waters and the extra help from longtime friend James Guthrie and Doug Sax remastered seven chosen albums which represented the best of the band's history.
Obviously, the classics were picked (Meddle, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall) and one transition album (A Saucerful of Secrets) and the band's comeback (A Momentary Lapse of Reason) and all were digitally remastered from the original master tapes.
Since there were no outtakes, the band released their first five singles on a bonus disc called The Early Singles which uses the mono mixes of the songs. Four of the songs had not ever been released on album in the US("Candy and a Currant Bun", "Apples and Oranges" (unreleased in the US), "It Would Be So Nice" and "Point Me at the Sky" (unreleased in the US)), three not ever on CD ("Paintbox", "Julia Dream" and "Careful With That Axe Eugene") and three had been on CD in the US ("Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play" and "The Scarecrow").
I first got this box set for Christmas in 1992 and was a great box set and made the original late 80s CDs and the Mobile Fidelity discs sound pale in comparison. Also, the book was excellent as it had some rare photos and historical info about each album and the artwork was superb.
This box set went Platinum immediately but is unfortunately out of print in the US as the band is no longer on Columbia (the band nullified its contract after Columbia complained about lack of new material as the band was about to release The Wall Live Is There Anybody Out There? in 1999 so Pink Floyd manager (the late) Steve O' Rourke switched licensing rights of the band's music back to Capitol/EMI worldwide since the band owns the master tapes to their music and not the label).
Highly recommended if you are a newbie to Floyd but good luck finding it! .

The Original Digital Remaster
When I got this set way back in 1992, for Christmas, this set was the only place you could find these CDs with digital remastering. This is mainly to clarify what a previous poster wrote about re-releasing thid with the digital remastering. (That was the selling point) It was my understanding that the digital remasters of the same albums in their stand alone form were not released until 1994-1997, and that those remasters were simply the same as the shine on set, so in fact, there is no difference in sound quality between these CDs and the stand alone versions (with the exception of the XXth & XXXth Anniversary releases of DSOTM. This was verified when I bought new copies of all of the discs in this set, in order to obtain the artwork available in the stand alone versions.

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