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Pretty Good

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Oh, dear! Roger Waters was mistaken if he thought Pink Floyd would dwindle and die without him, but this album represents all that was wrong with the post-Waters Floyd. First there's 'Shine On, You Crazy Diamond', one of the more amiable soporific Floyd opuses, but their inability to hit the right pacing means it's hiccupping all over the shop here. The numbers from 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason' are leaden and laden with morose sentimentality, and Floyd's heightened obsession with making the maximum possible impact meant the loss of subtlety and surprise (a bugbear of symphonic rock at the best of times): the songs, like the ecstatic crowd, just thunder on indelicately somewhere in the background. The mechanical 'Learning To Fly' is a clumsily overproduced tune trying to sound spacey. And what is the point of a song like 'The Dogs Of War'? The musically superior 'Us and Them', also featured here, had already made the same point some fifteen years earlier in a much more poetically succinct manner. Even the excellent 'One Of These Days' is messed up; it certainly packs a punch, but there's a dreadfully peppy, stylised 80's sound to it, and that's the problem with the whole album. Rock groups, ever fearful of being labelled as passé, sometimes do the silliest things when pandering to the fickle tastes of the zeitgeist. By that time, Prozac Floyd had descended to the visual dork level of a Howard Jones, with the session men sporting ridiculous mullets and straining out jazzed up sax and guitar versions of the tunes which made Floyd great, accompanied by David Gilmour's silly and irksome growling. The point of this album? Another buck in the billfold.

The concert included some of the most innovative "light shows" I've ever seen in a musical venue. I saw it on tape so I'm sure it looks even better on DVD. I think the visuals were better than the music, to be frank. I didn't find the songs to be anything special. They weren't bad, but nothing I would want to hear over and over. Perhaps being stoned would be the ticket but those days are long over. Speaking of the "old days," I found some of the lyrics in here so '60s-ish with the irreverence of the period that it turned me off. Those ultra-Liberal days are over, too. It didn't inspire me to hear these songs again. "Hey, teacher....leave them kids alone!" should be changed to "Hey, guys, give those lyrics a rest! (or, "Hey, guys - learn some grammar!")

Definitely the best live Floyd out there...I saw this Tour in L.A. Ca., and it was the first and only time i got to see them live :-(.I thought it was a great concert then, but now that i've seen it on video... it's even better.I also have a few other videos of them live (dvds :-)_, including "Pulse". And a few David Gilmore dvds, but this tops'em all.It's definitely a must have.ps - can't wait for it to come out on DVD though. pss - I think that it was released on laserdisk at one time.see ya, Ted.

Well, "Delicate Sound of Thunder" is at least, a very provocative name. Actually this is Pink Floyd's first major concert since Waters left and I must say, lots of changes have occured for a typical Floyd show. Of them the good ones are- 1) Inclusion of other instrumental performers besides the original three, 2) The use of a round background screen for graphics; really excellent, this one. But what annoyed me is the use of three female background vocalists. They literally spoiled the show... completely destroying the psychedelic effect which was the trademark of the band.Ultimately the heart and soul of the show became Gilmour's guitars. Brilliant... in one word. The best of the songs performed must be "Money" as it appeared to me a bit different from the original one in tunes. Wayne Isham directed the show quite well... though not as in the level of Metallica's S & M. But in all, this show is a must-see for all Floyd fans.