Pink Floyd - Shine' On Box Set [1992] The Early Singles + Antiques, A Rare Collection of Oddities (1967-1971) [2015] + A Nice Pair [1973] + The Early Years- 1967-1972 Creation [2016] (5 x CD's)

 

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Pink Floyd - Shine' On Box Set [1992] The Early Singles + Antiques, A Rare Collection of Oddities (1967-1971) [2015] + A Nice Pair [1973] + The Early Years- 1967-1972  Creation [2016] (5 x CD's)

Pink Floyd - Shine' On Box Set [1992] The Early Singles       The "Shine On" box set remains my favourite box set I've ever bought by Pink Floyd. It's packaging and presentation shames all the later efforts. And the mastering a are still very good. The EARLY SINGLES bonus CD is great. It compiled, for the first time ever, the band's first five 7" single A- and B-sides, in their original mono mixes. Its disappointing that it didnt include Scream Thy Last Scream (Studio outtake) and Vegetable Man. Unlike the other discs in the box set, The Early Singles was housed in a digipak case. 

Pink Floyd - Antiques, A Rare Collection of Oddities (1967-1971) [2015]     This is a bootleg of early Pink Floyd songs and includes the tracks Scream Thy Last Scream (Studio outtake) and Vegetable Man.  (Studio outtake). Track 3 has a CBC Radio story/interview with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason with unreleased "Astronomy Domine".

Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair [1973]      Why the American version of this compilation of the group's highly esteemed first two LPs merits a relatively rating requires some explanation. The American version of A Nice Pair is a classic example of a good idea gone bad through the ineptitude of the people actually carrying it out. In the wake of the mega-hit status achieved earlier in 1973 by Dark Side of the Moon, executives at Capitol Records, in tandem with their counterparts in other countries, decided to remarket the group's earlier catalog; in America, this meant reissuing their first two LPs, Piper at the Gates of Dawn (originally issued stateside as Pink Floyd, in edited form) and A Saucerful of Secrets, both of which originally appeared on the Capitol subsidiary label Tower and were, by then, out of print. The result was a double LP called A Nice Pair, which was also put out in England -- which was odd, since both original albums were still readily in print on that side of the Atlantic. At least in England they got it right, releasing a straight compilation of the two original albums' contents. In America, however, the geniuses at Capitol had to add tracks in order to make the first platter, containing Piper at the Gates of Dawn, complete -- but instead of adding the original studio version of "Astronomy Domine," they took the very different live version from two years later off of the Ummagumma album and slapped it on, chopping off the applause at the end. The result was ludicrous, as well as frustrating to the most serious members of a vast legion of new American fans acquired in the wake of Dark Side of the Moon, who discovered that they still had to buy an imported LP to fill in their early history of the group or to absorb the way in which the band presented themselves in the opening minutes of their first LP. What made it worse was that it would have been no more expensive to get it right than it was to get it wrong -- they simply needed someone handling the matter (which was hardly rocket science) who knew what he was doing. Otherwise, the most notable element of A Nice Pair was its outer jacket by Hipgnosis, which was made up of 18 different images, one of which was a substitute for a recalcitrant Floyd Patterson, who wanted 5,000 dollars for the use of an image of him tinted pink on the cover; thus, the boxer, in a manner similar to that of Leo Gorcey on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band cover, aced himself out of a chance at footnote-level immortality in the rock music firmament. The cover was also censored in the U.S.A., a sticker covering a pair of female breasts and other, minor problems entailed with some of the images on various fronts. Otherwise, the American version of the album is just a well-meaning but unnecessarily flawed effort at exploiting the band's history. (AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder)

Pink Floyd - The Early Years- 1967-1972  Creation [2016]      A double-disc distillation of the massive box The Early Years 1965-1972, The Early Years 1967-1972 condenses that 28-disc set into a 27-track compilation. Naturally, most of the real rarities remain exiled to the big box, but that's fair: only the diehards will recognize the importance of Floyd's collaboration with artist John Latham. Instead, The Early Years 1967-1972 tells the same tale as The Early Years 1967-1972 but in an easily digestible form. The double-disc relies relatively heavily on familiar songs -- it opens with "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play," perhaps the two best-known Syd Barrett songs, and finds space for "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "Free Four" -- but what distinguishes 1967-1972 is that it's the first early Floyd compilation to trace their journey from Barrett's warped psychedelia to the majestic art rock of the early '70s. Some essential songs are missing -- this doesn't sample the albums, after all, so songs as varied as "Astronomy Domine," "Let There Be More Light," and "One of These Days" are all absent -- but the repetition of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "Embryo" illustrates how the band rapidly gained confidence and ambition, which is essentially the story of this compilation and its parent set. Certainly, the details of the box are missed, but on its own terms, The Early Years 1967-1972 is absorbing: it illustrates how Pink Floyd became Pink Floyd. (AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

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Track list

Shine' On Box Set The Early Singles

01 Pink Floyd Arnold Layne 2:56

02 Pink Floyd Candy And A Currant Bun 2:48

03 Pink Floyd See Emily Play 2:56

04 Pink Floyd Scarecrow 2:12

05 Pink Floyd Apples And Oranges 3:08

06 Pink Floyd Paint Box 3:49

07 Pink Floyd It Would Be So Nice 3:47

08 Pink Floyd Julia Dream 2:35

09 Pink Floyd Point Me At The Sky 3:40

10 Pink Floyd Careful With That Axe Eugene 5:46

Antiques, A Rare Collection of Oddities (1967-1971)

01 Pink Floyd Intro by Paul McCartney 0:52

02 Pink Floyd Interstellar Overdrive 4:17

03 Pink Floyd Interview with Syd Barrett & Roger Waters 3:38

04 Pink Floyd Pow R Toc H 0:49

05 Pink Floyd Intro by Hans Kelle 1:03

06 Pink Floyd Astonomy Domine 3:58

07 Pink Floyd See Emily Play 2:45

08 Pink Floyd Flaming 2:48

09 Pink Floyd Reaction in G 0:39

10 Pink Floyd Scream Thy Last Scream 4:43

11 Pink Floyd Apples and Oranges 3:06

12 Pink Floyd Paintbox 3:28

13 Pink Floyd Jugband Blues 3:09

14 Pink Floyd Vegetable Man 2:33

15 Pink Floyd Julia Dream 2:35

16 Pink Floyd Clowns and Jugglers 1:27

17 Pink Floyd Terrapin 3:09

18 Pink Floyd Gigolo Aunt 3:41

19 Pink Floyd Baby Lemonade 2:35

20 Pink Floyd Effervescing Elephant 1:03

21 Pink Floyd Two of a Kind 2:33

22 Pink Floyd Dominoes 3:00

23 Pink Floyd Love Song 1:31

24 Pink Floyd Baby Lemonade 2:20

25 Pink Floyd Octopus 4:58

A Nice Pair CD1

01 Pink Floyd Astronomy Domine 4:15

02 Pink Floyd Lucifer Sam 3:07

03 Pink Floyd Matilda Mother 3:08

04 Pink Floyd Flaming 2:45

05 Pink Floyd Pow R. Toc H. 4:25

06 Pink Floyd Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk 3:05

07 Pink Floyd Interstellar Overdrive 9:41

08 Pink Floyd The Gnome 2:14

09 Pink Floyd Chapter 24 3:44

10 Pink Floyd Scarecrow 2:12

11 Pink Floyd Bike 3:26

A Nice Pair CD2

01 Pink Floyd Let There Be More Light 5:37

02 Pink Floyd Remember A Day 4:32

03 Pink Floyd Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 5:27

04 Pink Floyd Corporal Clegg 4:09

05 Pink Floyd A Saucerful Of Secrets 11:56

06 Pink Floyd See Saw 4:36

07 Pink Floyd Jugband Blues 3:00

The Early Years- 1967-1972  Creation CD1

01 Pink Floyd Arnold Layne 2:56

02 Pink Floyd See Emily Play 2:54

03 Pink Floyd Matilda Mother 3:59

04 Pink Floyd Jugband Blues 3:01

05 Pink Floyd Paintbox 3:47

06 Pink Floyd Flaming (BBC session, 25 September 1967) 2:42

07 Pink Floyd In the Beechwoods 4:42

08 Pink Floyd Point Me at the Sky 3:41

09 Pink Floyd Careful With That Axe, Eugene 5:48

10 Pink Floyd Embryo (from ‘Picnic’) 4:42

11 Pink Floyd Ummagumma Radio Ad (Capitol US) 0:22

12 Pink Floyd Grantchester Meadows (BBC session, 12 May 1969) 3:46

13 Pink Floyd Cymbaline (BBC session, 12 May 1969) 3:39

14 Pink Floyd Interstellar Overdrive (live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969) 4:23

15 Pink Floyd Green Is the Colour (BBC session, 12 May 1969) 3:21

16 Pink Floyd Careful With That Axe, Eugene (BBC session, 12 May 1969) 3:27

The Early Years- 1967-1972  Creation CD2

01 Pink Floyd On the Highway (Zabriskie Point remix) 1:16

02 Pink Floyd Auto Scene, Version 2 (Zabriskie Point remix) 1:14

03 Pink Floyd The Riot Scene (Zabriskie Point remix) 1:39

04 Pink Floyd Looking at Map (Zabriskie Point remix) 1:55

05 Pink Floyd Take Off (Zabriskie Point remix) 1:19

06 Pink Floyd Embryo (BBC radio session, 16 July 1970) 10:12

07 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother (live in Montreux, 21 November 1970) 18:00

08 Pink Floyd Nothing, Part 14 7:01

09 Pink Floyd Childhood’s End (2016 remix) 4:33

10 Pink Floyd Free Four (2016 remix) 4:16

11 Pink Floyd Stay (2016 remix) 4:08

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