Pink Floyd's 1988 live album The Delicate Sound of Thunder captured the band on their 1988 tour supporting A Momentary Lapse of Reason, their first album after the departure of Roger Waters. Specifically, the album was recorded at the tour's five-night run at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum in August of '88, and featured much of Lapse as well as many classic Floyd tracks. The album, along with a restored version of the companion concert film, was released as part of Pink Floyd's The Later Years box set, and was just reissued as a new standalone special edition available in a few different formats.
The three-disc vinyl version features nine songs not included on the original release of the album, while the two-disc CD reissue features eight more songs than the original. Audio was remixed from the original multi-track tapes by David Gilmour and Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson, and both the CD and LP versions come with a 24-page photo booklet. There's also a four-disc box set edition, made up of the double CD as well as Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film, that also comes with a 40-page photo book, a tour poster and postcards.
As for the film, it was restored from over 100 cans of 35mm footage, overseen by Aubrey Powell of design company Hipgnosis and features a new 5.1 surround sound mix. You can also get the concert film as a standalone Blu-ray and DVD.
You can check out a compare-and-contrast video of the original and restored version of "The Great Gig In The Sky" from the new version of the Blu-ray/DVD, and listen to the whole album, below. Tracklists for the vinyl, CD and Blu-ray/DVD sets are also below.
Related: Barrett: The Definitive Visual Companion, the official book about Pink Floyd's original frontman Syd Barrett, is out in paperback this week.
2CD
Disc 1 (Part 1) 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 2. Signs Of Life 3. Learning To Fly 4. Yet Another Movie 5. Round And Around 6. A New Machine Part 1 7. Terminal Frost 8. A New Machine Part 2 9. Sorrow 10. The Dogs Of War 11. On The Turning Away
Disc 2 (Part 2)
1. One Of These Days 2. Time 3. On The Run 4. The Great Gig In The Sky 5. Wish You Were Here 6. Welcome To The Machine 7. Us And Them 8. Money 9. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 10. Comfortably Numb 11. One Slip 12. Run Like Hell
3-LP VINYL
LP 1 : Side A
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5 2. Signs Of Life * 3. Learning To Fly
LP 1 : Side B
1. Yet Another Movie 2. Round And Around 3. A New Machine Part 1 * 4. Terminal Frost * 5. A New Machine Part 2 * 6. Sorrow
LP 2 : Side A
1. The Dogs Of War 2. On The Turning Away 3. One Of These Days
LP 2 : Side B
1. Time 2. On The Run * 3. The Great Gig In The Sky * 4. Wish You Were Here 5. Welcome To The Machine *
LP 3 : Side A
1. Us And Them * 2. Money 3. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
LP 3 : Side B
1. Comfortably Numb 2. One Slip * 3. Run Like Hell
BLU-RAY and DVD
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5 2. Signs Of Life 3. Learning To Fly 4. Sorrow 5. The Dogs Of War 6. On The Turning Away 7. One Of These Days 8. Time 9. On The Run 10. The Great Gig In The Sky 11. Wish You Were Here 12. Us And Them 13. Money 14. Comfortably Numb 15. One Slip 16. Run Like Hell
