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| Album
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| Released:
March - April 2000 |
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| Recorded:
1980, 1981 |
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| Genre:
Progressive rock |
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| Length:
105:16 |
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| Label:
EMI (UK) |
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| Columbia
(US) |
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| Producer:
James Guthrie |
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Background
For other works based on the Pink Floyd album,
see The Wall (Pink Floyd).
Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live, Pink
Floyd, 1980-81
Live album by Pink Floyd
Released March 23, 2000 (2000-03-23) (Europe)
April 18, 2000 (US)
Recorded 1980, 1981
Genre Progressive rock
Length 105:16 (total)
Label EMI (UK), Columbia (US)
Producer James Guthrie
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Blender link
NME link
Rolling Stone link
Pink Floyd chronology
P*U*L*S*E
(1995) Is There Anybody Out There?
(2000) Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
(2001)
Is There Anybody Out There? is an album released
by Pink Floyd in 2000. It is a live rendition
of The Wall, recorded by James Guthrie, with different
songs taken from various performances from the
years 1980 and 1981. Many of the performances
were in Earls Court in London.
The shows actually involved the construction of
a wall on stage, throughout the first half of
the show. Once it was finished, members of the
band performed in small openings in the wall,
atop the wall, in front of the wall, or even behind
the wall.
The album artwork featured the life-masks of the
four members of Pink Floyd at the time, which
were worn by the "surrogate band" during
the songs "In the Flesh?" and "In
the Flesh"
Is There Anybody Out There? contains live versions
of all the original songs along with two additional
songs: "What Shall We Do Now?" and "The
Last Few Bricks". "What Shall We Do
Now?" was actually planned for the original
album, but removed just before release. "The
Last Few Bricks", on the other hand, was
an instrumental bridge between "Another Brick
in the Wall (Part III)" and "Goodbye
Cruel World" which contained themes from
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Don't
Leave Me Now", "Young Lust", and
"Empty Spaces"/"What Shall We Do
Now?", and was played onstage to allow the
bricklayers to lay a considerable number of bricks
missing to almost completely seal off the stage
before Roger Waters appeared in the last one-brick-wide
space in the wall to sing "Goodbye Cruel
World", and end the first part of the show.
Interestingly, before the release of the live
album, this bridge never had an official title.
Fans called the track "Almost Gone"
on some bootleg albums of the shows, but the official
name -- "The Last Few Bricks" -- was
not used at the shows in 1980-1981, and instead
was suggested to Roger Waters by producer James
Guthrie during the mixing of the live album. There
are also two spoken tracks both titled or "MC:Atmos"
("Master of Ceremonies" was the title
on the first North American release), one occurring
before "In the Flesh?" at the beginning
of the album, and one before the reprise "In
the Flesh", midway through the second half.
These are performed by Gary Yudman, who was the
MC for the Earls Court shows in 1980 and 1981
(he also MC'd the Nassau Coliseum performances
of The Wall).
The release of this double album met some criticism,
some critics claiming it is too rigidly structured
for a live album, and might be viewed merely as
an inferior version of the studio recording; others
claim it is an excellent presentation of the live
shows as they were, and an excellent piece of
recording and production.
The tracks slightly differed from the album. "In
the Flesh?" and "In the Flesh"
had an extended intro. "The Thin Ice"
and "Run Like Hell" had a longer intro
and ending. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
had extended solos and a longer ending. "Mother"
had an extended intro, a longer guitar solo section
and an extended outro. "Young Lust"
had an extended intro and an extra Hammond Organ
solo after David Gilmour's guitar solo. "Hey
You" had its guitar solo extended. "Comfortably
Numb" had a longer ending solo and big finish.
"The Show Must Go On" had an extra verse
that was deleted from the original studio recording.
"Outside the Wall" was longer live than
studio.
In July of 2005, Is There Anybody Out There? was
re-issued in the US and Canada due to Columbia
Records losing the production masters. James Guthrie
and Joel Plante supplied the label with new masters,
and thus the mastering credit was changed from
"Doug Sax and Gavin Lurssen" to Guthrie
& Plante. The booklet features some songwriting
updates and mentions that the MC: Atmos on disc
one used a sample of We'll Meet Again by Vera
Lynn.
The album reached #19 on The Billboard 200 and
went Platinum (1 million copies sold) in the US
in May of 2000.
This was the first (and only) Pink Floyd album
which was not released on LP format. A limited
edition vinyl picture disc was published a few
months later, but it only included a few songs
from the setlist.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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