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Live Albums By Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd developed from a psychedelic space rock group with a liking for quirky singles – think Arnold Layne about stealing women’s clothes from the washing line – to a worldwide phenomenon that represents the acceptable side of progressive rock and concept albums.

Going back through their discography shows that it’s been an interesting journey.

Studio Albums by Pink Floyd

1967 – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1968 – A Saucerful of Secrets
1969 – Soundtrack from the Film More
1969 – Ummagumma (studio and live)
1970 – Atom Heart Mother
1971 – Meddle
1972 – Obscured by Clouds
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon
1975 – Wish You Were Here
1977 – Animals
1979 – The Wall
1983 – The Final Cut
1987 – A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1994 – The Division Bell
2014 – The Endless River

Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best selling albums of all time with an estimated 50 million copies sold.

Live Albums by Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are known for their extraordinarily successful studio albums like Dark Side Of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall but can they cut it live?

Anyone who’s been to see a Floyd gig will tell you that it’s a complete sensory experience with a real show happening in front of their eyes but a great live album must stand up for its sound. It needs a video to capture everything that happens at a Floyd show.

The Pink Floyd live album issue is further complicated by the lack of albums from the time when they were at their recording peak. They even premièred Dark Side Of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and most of the tracks that became Animals before they were recorded in the studio.

At that stage, seeing seeing Pink Floyd live was a view into the future, now it’s a look into the past.

1968 – Ummagumma
1974 – Pink Floyd Live At Wembley
1980/81 – Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live
1988 Delicate Sound Of Thunder
1995 Pulse

Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974

This is a bit of a cheat but when Pink Floyd issued expanded copies of Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, they included bonus tracks from a 1974 concert at Wembley. This is your best chance to hear Pink Floyd live at their peak without resorting to dodgy bootlegs.

Roger Waters and David Gilmour have released live albums that feature Pink Floyd tracks, especially Roger Waters who has been keen to show how he would have developed the music under the Pink Floyd brand name.

Please vote in the poll to find out the best Pink Floyd live album.

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Buying Albums By Pink Floyd

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The Best Live Albums Of All Time

Floyd live albums have been nominated in the polls to find the best progressive rock and classic rock live albums.

Please vote in the poll to find the best prog rock live albums.

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Because there are so many great progressive rock live albums I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.

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Please also vote in the poll to find the best classic rock live albums.

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Because there are so many excellent classic rock live albums I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.

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You can get these albums from Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk.

Roger Waters The Wall Live In Germany 1990

The Wall Live In Germany is a live album by Roger Waters, former songwriter, singer and bassist for Pink Floyd.

It was recorded live in Berlin, Germany, 21st July 1990 and was performed eight months after the Berlin Wall came down.

In 2015 Roger Waters issued another, more recent, live performance of The Wall. Pink Floyd also have a live album of their concerts for 1980/81 tour for The Wall called Is There Anybody Out There.

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David Gilmour Live In Gdansk 2006

Live In Gdansk is a live album and DVD by Pink Floyd’s star guitarist, David Gilmour.

It was recorded in the Gdańsk Shipyard with the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in Gdańsk on August 26, 2006.

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Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974

When I was putting together my poll to let readers like you vote to decide what is the best Pink Floyd live album, I came up with the idea of creating Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974.

You can get a recording of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Raving and Drooling and You’ve Gotta Be Crazy from Wembley, London on the Experience and Immersion versions of Wish You Were Here.

All the tracks on Dark Side Of the Moon are available live from the same concert are available from the Experience remaster of the DSOTM album.

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Pink Floyd Ummagumma 1969

Ummagumma is the first Pink Floyd live album recorded in 1969 with early psychedelic space rock classics.

It was a double LP with one LP live and the other recorded in the studio and featuring compositions by the individual members of the group. Only one song, Grantchester Meadows is really worthwhile.

Pink Floyd Ummagumma Live 1969

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Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? 1980 & 1981

Is There Anybody Out There? is the Pink Floyd live recording of The Wall concerts from 1980 and 1981 at Earls Court London.

I wasn’t lucky enough to be at these gigs but I had a flatmate who raved about how good The Wall concerts were.

This album was first issued in 2000 and is really the first prime time Pink Floyd live album when the group had conquered the world. (Ummagumma was too early and Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse were a controversial version of the Floyd without the main songwriter, Roger Waters.)

Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There?

Whether this album has a role to play in your album collection depends on two things:

What you think about The Wall as a music experience – the best known tracks (Another Brick In The Wall pt2, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell) are on both Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse.
Whether The Wall is better live than in the studio

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Pink Floyd Delicate Sound Of Thunder 1988

Delicate Sound Of Thunder by Pink Floyd is a live album recorded in 1988 on the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour without Roger Waters.

Could the Floyd cut it without their former band leader and main song writer?

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What Is The Best Pink Floyd Live Album & Studio Album?

This page has readers polls for you to vote in to find the best live albums by Pink Floyd and the best studio albums by Pink Floyd.

You can also see the results so far.

The Best Pink Floyd Live Albums

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Pink Floyd Pulse 1994

Pulse is a live album by Pink Floyd when they were promoting The Division Bell studio album. It was recorded in October 1994 released in 1995.

It raises some challenging views on what you want from a live album?

Pink Floyd Pulse – Overall Rating = 22/30

I think I’m going to upset a few people on this review although Pink Floyd are one of my favourite groups and I’ve owned nearly all their albums.

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