Oh By The Way (16CD)
Artist(s):
Pink Floyd
Label: Capitol Records
Publisher(s):
Capitol Records
Studio: Capitol Records
Manufacturer: Capitol Records
Binding: Audio CD
Format(s): Import, Box set, Limited Edition
List Price: CDN$ 208.99
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Definitive Collection: Mini Lp
Perception
Track Listing
Number of discs: 16
1.
Astronomy Dominé
2.
Lucifer Sam
3.
Matilda Mother
4.
Flaming
5.
Pow R. Toc H.
6.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
7.
Intersteller Overdrive
8.
Gnome
9.
Chapter 24
10.
Scarecrow
11.
Bike
12.
Let There Be More Light
13.
Remember a Day
14.
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
15.
Corporal Clegg
16.
Saucerful of Secrets
17.
See-Saw
18.
Jugband Blues
19.
Cirrus Minor
20.
Nile Song
21.
Crying Song
22.
Up the Khyber
23.
Green Is the Colour
24.
Cymbaline
25.
Party Sequence
26.
Main Theme
27.
Ibiza Bar
28.
More Blues
29.
Quicksilver
30.
Spanish Piece
31.
Dramatic Theme
32.
Astronomy Domine [Live]
33.
Careful with That Axe, Eugene [Live]
34.
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Live]
35.
Saucerful of Secrets [Live]
36.
Sysyphus, Pt. 1-4 - Rick Wright
37.
Grantchester Meadows - Roger Waters
38.
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and - Roger Waters
39.
Narrow Way, Pt.1-3 - David Gilmour
40.
Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Pt. 1 Entrance/Pt. 2 Entertainment/Pt. 3 E - Nick Mason
41.
Atom Heart Mother: (A) Father's Shout/(B) Breast Milky/(C) Mother Fore/
42.
If
43.
Summer 68
44.
Fat Old Sun
45.
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: (A) Rise and Shine/(B) Sunny Side Up/(C)
46.
One of These Days
47.
Pillow of Winds
48.
Fearless
49.
San Tropez
50.
Seamus
51.
Echoes
52.
Obscured by Clouds
53.
When You're In
54.
Burning Bridges
55.
Gold It's in the...
56.
Wots... Uh the Deal
57.
Mudmen
58.
Childhood's End
59.
Free Four
60.
Stay
61.
Absolutely Curtains
62.
Speak to Me
63.
Breathe
64.
On the Run
65.
Time
66.
Great Gig in the Sky
67.
Money
68.
Us and Them
69.
Any Colour You Like
70.
Brain Damage
71.
Eclipse
72.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4, Pt. 5
73.
Welcome to the Machine
74.
Have a Cigar
75.
Wish You Were Here
76.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond: Pt. 6, Pt. 7, Pt. 8, Pt. 9
77.
Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 1
78.
Dogs
79.
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
80.
Sheep
81.
Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 2
82.
In the Flesh?
83.
Thin Ice
84.
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
85.
Happiest Days of Our Lives
86.
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
87.
Mother
88.
Goodbye Blue Sky
89.
Empty Spaces
90.
Young Lust
91.
One of My Turns
92.
Don't Leave Me Now
93.
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3
94.
Goodbye Cruel World
95.
Hey You
96.
Is There Anybody out There?
97.
Nobody Home
98.
Vera
99.
Bring the Boys Back Home
100.
Comfortably Numb
101.
Show Must Go On
102.
In the Flesh
103.
Run Like Hell
104.
Waiting for the Worms
105.
Stop
106.
Trial
107.
Outside the Wall
108.
Post War Dream
109.
Your Possible Pasts
110.
One of the Few
111.
When the Tigers Broke Free
112.
Hero's Return
113.
Gunners Dream
114.
Paranoid Dream
115.
Paranoid Eyes
116.
Get Your Filthy Hands Memorial Home
117.
Southampton Dock
118.
Final Cut
119.
Not Now John
120.
Two Suns in the Sunset
121.
Signs of Life
122.
Learning to Fly
123.
Dogs of War
124.
One Slip
125.
On the Turning Away
126.
Yet Another Movie/Round and Around
127.
New Machine, Pt. 1
128.
Terminal Frost
129.
New Machine, Pt. 2
130.
Sorrow
131.
Cluster One
132.
What Do You Want from Me
133.
Poles Apart
134.
Marooned
135.
Great Day for Freedom
136.
Wearing the Inside Out
137.
Take It Back
138.
Coming Back to Life
139.
Keep Talking
140.
Lost for Words
141.
High Hopes
Customer Reviews
Another box set in the wall
It may be the worst named box set in history, but it does what it sets out to do - deliver authentic minature reproductions of every Pink Floyd album. It is nothing short of beautiful in its presentation, and the quality is as good as I've ever heard. Yes the industry is shameful for taking advatage of we the listeners with yet another hyped up box set that would cost far less if one were to buy each album individually, but the LP style sleeves are a work of art themselves. So relax, enjoy and have a cigar. For years I have wanted to crown the music industry - they should have made CD's come in LP sleeves right from the start.
P.S. The poster is very cool too.
Beautiful Set!
"Oh By The Way" is a box set containing all 14 of Pink Floyd's studio albums from "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" straight through to 1994's "The Division Bell. Included with the 14 albums is a nice poster and two drink coasters. You may or may not want to use these depending on the collector value of it, but either way they are nice editions. Take note that "Oh By The Way" does NOT include the compilations "Relics" or "A Collection Of Great Dance Song's", or any of the live albums (besides the live disc on "Ummagumma"). Im not going to bother reviewing the music here as we all know its spectacular, but I'd like to review the box and mini lp's themselves.
Your probably looking at this as another "gimmick to get money out of fans" box set, but I think EMI has created a high quality well worth your money box here! The box itself has extremely neat artwork similar to the "Ummagumma"' cover and is nicely laminated, but for me what makes this set worth it is what they have done with albums themselves! They are all replicated to be exactly like the original album's when they were first released in the 60's and 70's, just in miniaturized form. For example, "Dark Side Of The Moon" comes with its original two posters inside the LP as well the stickers that came in the LP. "Wish You Were Here" comes in its original black bag and contains the postcard as well. "The Wall" has its sticker on the front and "Obscured By Clouds" and "Meddle" are textured just like the originals. Not a thing is missing! These aren't cheap quality either, they are all laminated gorgeously and are very sturdy! I was very surprised of how high quality these really are!
I admit it would have been nice if they included "Relics" or some new unreleased material, but nevertheless I think this is essential if you love Floyd or are new to them and want to get all there albums. Buy this while you can, its a treasure you wont regret owning for listening pleasure and viewing pleasure!
Cheers!
pink floyd - oh, by the way - pitchfork media
Let's start with the basic facts: Oh, By the Way is a limited-edition 14-album, 16xCD box set containing the entirety of Pink Floyd's studio album discography, immaculately repackaged as miniature LPs with gatefold covers and the original inner sleeves, stickers and posters where applicable. Also included are a special new poster designed by longtime Floyd-affiliated cover art designer Storm Thorgerson commemorating the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's first LP The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and a couple of "Pink Floyd coasters" which are included as collectors' items and therefore will never see the underside of a drinking glass, ever. Depending on where you buy it, the whole thing retails for something in the neighborhood of $250-$260-- just over $15 a disc, which is a pretty fair price if you've ever wanted to own every Pink Floyd album ever in novelty faux-vinyl form.
It's also one of the most superfluous pieces of collectors'-market eBay-bait I've ever heard of. There is no rarities disc, no concert material (aside from the live half of Ummagumma), no previously unreleased work, no interviews, no DVDs, no 5.1 audio, no historical liner notes and-- most significantly-- no remasters save the one you can already get on the recently-released standalone 40th Anniversary Edition of Piper. Assuming you're like a lot of people and already own the latest, cleanest retail-release pressings of every Pink Floyd record you'd ever want, Oh, By the Way will serve no purpose outside of a fan-pleasing visual novelty; it practically exists to be looked at instead of listened to.
To be fair, at least two-thirds of this box set is worth listening to-- for the umpteenth time, as the case probably is. That 4.0 is a mark against Oh, By the Way's pointless surface-gloss curio status and its unadventurous by-the-books version of canonization rather than an actual judgment of the music tucked inside. If you really need one of those, pretend that 4's an 8; Pink Floyd's first few phases-- the intial decade or so of their career-- still sound rewarding even as the band itself gets further entrenched in the cultural stasis of classic rock's hermetically-sealed nostalgia.
As the sole full-length snapshot of the band's Syd Barrett era, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn neatly sums up what made their first incarnation great-- the balance of whimsy and discomfort, displayed in the band's ability to feel at home inhabiting both chart-friendly psych-pop ("Arnold Layne"; "See Emily Play") and experimental space-rock sprawl ("Astronomy Domine"; "Interstellar Overdrive"). The remainder of the records from the 1960s and their first album of the 70s-- A Saucerful of Secrets, Music from the Film 'More', Ummagumma, and Atom Heart Mother-- reveal a band in continuous and restless transition, looking for their footing and a new identity after Barrett's departure. These records are Pink Floyd at their most aimless-- for every indelible moment like the slow creep towards screaming violence in Ummagumma's live version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" or their bid for Beach Boys teenage-symphony pop in Atom Heart Mother's "Summer '68", there's the tedious multi-part suites that toy with experimentalism for its own sake, some good-start-no-finish soundtrack tidbits and that one Ummagumma track where Roger Waters made a bunch of silly animal and/or ranting Scotsman noises and slapped a big unwieldy 16-word title on it.
And then there's the blockbuster stuff. With the exception of 1972's soundtrack-fodder footnote Obscured By Clouds, everything here from 1971's Meddle through 1979's The Wall has become so ingrained in the rock consciousness, so frequently dissected and joked about and lumped in with the Eagles and Yes in the textbook entry for Reasons Punk Had to Happen, that it's easy to forget why Pink Floyd got so huge in the 70s. (I'll pause to let you construct your own pot joke.) That they released some of the most slickly-produced and stylistically versatile music of its time-- simultaneously playing to the strengths of psychedelia, prog, and even r&b (ever play "Echoes" and Isaac Hayes' "Walk on By" back-to-back?)-- probably didn't hurt their commercial prospects, but a significant portion of their work, The Dark Side of the Moon in particular, was wrapped up in Waters' obsessive search for some kind of human empathy, and in the midst of a culture filled with rampant post-hippie ego-tripping and waning optimism that search rang true with a number of adolescents and college students-- and not just the ones of the 70s. Things do get shakier the further we get into the 80s and 90s: The Final Cut is draining if occasionally patience-rewarding, but the David Gilmour-fronted records A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell are cruise-control adult-contempo dross that sand off every edge the band had.
Oh, By the Way doesn't do much to make a specific case for Pink Floyd as an artistic entity-- it just drops everything in your lap and asks you to sort through it. But the odds of anybody not having any of this and wanting it all seem kind of slim, something the 10,000-copy run of this set probably anticipated. And with its sights aimed squarely on the diehard fans, putting the semi-complete works of Pink Floyd on the market without any real attempts to add the additional historical context or sonic refining that these fans would likely enjoy is as shameless as the insincere schmoozing of the "Have a Cigar" record-biz schmucks the box's title quotes.
-Nate Patrin, December 10, 2007
A Trip Through The Past
Those reviews quibbling about the non-inclusion of unreleased material in the "Oh By The Way" boxset are missing the point. While the release of new, preferably early live material would be much welcomed by us Floyd devotees, this set is simply about releasing all of the studio albums on cd reproductions of the original lps. As such, it is a wonderful package which takes us older fans back to the halcion days of lp packaging. Having all these albums in one package is also greatly welcomed as the "Shine On" boxset didn't include "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", "Ummagumma", "More", "Obscurred By Clouds", or "The Final Cut".
The repro cd sleeves are wonderfully done, even matching the original jacket style and material. All posters, stickers, and inserts are included as well. "Wish You Were Here" is sealed in black shrinkwrap, with the original sticker on it. I'll take it for granted that the sleeves and label are correct as it will never be opened for obvious reasons. As a final touch, the cd labels crrectly match the original vinyl releases. The poster and coasters included are just a little bonus.
Although I would have appreciated the inclusion of "Relics", it must be remembered that this was a later release of early singles and non-album tracks, akin to a "hits" package. In closing, I'm delighted with my purchase of "Oh By The Way" regardless of the fact that I already owned all of the albums on cd and lp. If you want a copy, get it right away as only 10,000 were made. Now if only David and Roger could put aside their differences long enough to get some '60s and '70s live stuff cleaned up and released.
Nearly comprehensive...
Here's the latest offering from Pink Floyd: nearly all their studio tracks in one box set, in miniature album sleeve reproductions. This is great for someone who has none or nearly none of the remastered cds, for the best way to appreciate the band is through the original albums, since so many of them are of a unified sound and theme or themes. Of course this is duplication for everyone else, unless you really want the reprinted miniature posters and postcards from The Dark Side Of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Personally, I would prefer Pink Floyd release live concert albums from the 1970's, and their late 1960's and early 1970's BBC sessions, plus perhaps more rarities such as single mixes. The 1971 compilation Relics is missing from this collection, a bit of a shame since this album collected the 1967-1968 singles "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "Julia Dream", "Paintbox", "Careful with that Axe Eugene", as well as cuts from the first three albums. Oh by the way, the 1969 track "Biding My Time" remains exclusive to Relics. Also missing is 1969's "Embryo" which first appeared on a 1970 Harvest label sampler LP (Harvest being the home of Pink Floyd for a few years) and which also appeared on the 1983 compilation Works. Later single mixes such as "Another Brick In The Wall, Part II" or an extended "promo" mix of "Run Like Hell" (both from The Wall, of course) would make this set more attractive. How about adding a CD or two of singles and rare (perhaps vintage live) tracks, making the set an essential purchase?
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