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| 1. One Of These Days |
| 2. Arnold Layne |
| 3. Fearless (lnterpolating 'You'll Never Walk Alone') |
| 4. Brain Damage |
| 5. Eclipse |
| 6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun |
| 7. See Emily Play |
| 8. Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered... |
| 9. Free Four |
| 10. Embryo |
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PINK FLOYD Works (1986 US 10-track CD compilation album including Arnold Layne Brain Damage Eclipse & See Emily Play housed inside a 5?" x 12?" card longbox which has a deletion cut on the edge and still sealed in the original shrink)
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86 of 88 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
EMBRYO - It's here; on this CD!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Works (Audio CD)
Quite simply unless you are a Floyd fan you should purchase "Echoes - the best of Pink Floyd" instead of this brilliant compilation. "Echoes" showcases 26 tracks for a couple of quid more.However, that said if you are a die hard fan then "Works" offers a treat for you. Several of the tracks have noticably different mixes from those on the original studio albums. Possibly these were taken from the quadrophonic mixes, remember quadrophonics? I don't, way too young, but it was similar to todays surround sound. The music on this collection is varied and interesting if not as commercial as the tracks on Echoes. See Emily Play and Arnold Layne (both hit singles in 1967) are wonderful pop songs displaying Floyd's early psychedelic leanings and Set the Controls (1968) knocks almost anything The Beatles did into touch. Just listen to the drumming (something Ringo was never too good at). Embryo is here. This is still quite a rarity. Works is the only offical CD to contain this track to date. It is a 4 minute studio track which sounds like... (you decide, I won't spoil it for you). Free Four is an average track from the bands most underrated album: Obscured By Clouds. I say average but it's brilliant and the album is stunning, it's just average when compared to the other track on OBC. The lyrics are sad (Roger's dad being buried in a foxhole (Anzio)) but are set to a delightful, bouncy tune. A typical Floydian juxtaposition. You are probably familiar with the remaining tracks so I won't waste your time discussing them, apart from Several Species which has to be a complete rarity on its own has it shows Roger Waters with a sense of humour. (Yes, I know he smiles on the What God Wants video too). Works is a creative, interesting and well thought out compilation originally release back in the days of 40 minute vinyls. The music dates from 1967 to 1973 but the does not sound dated. Thanx for reading this.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Start here,
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This review is from: Works (Audio CD)
When Division Bell came out at least one reviewer commented how hard it was to review the album without seeing it as another Pink Floyd album, to judge it in it's own right rather than as an attempt to recreate Darkside of the Moon or 'be different'
If you had never heard Pink Floyd before this isn't such a daft place to start- One of These Days is quite an opener, and pretty representative of mid period Floyd- without the length some people find hard to take, one from Syd, Fearless was my favourite Floyd song thirty years ago, because it doesn't sound like someone cut it out of a concept album. Several Species .... would only get on a greatest hits album for the title, but at least it has a sense of humour and if you know your Pierre Henry. To answer the youngster's question about Quadraphonic sound. In quad hi fi the home listener had two speakers in the front, roughly where yours probably are now, and two at the back forming a square with the listener in the middle. (Pink Floyd performed using the far better one in front, one behind with left and right beside the audience - but I digress). Listen to 'Us and Them', the vocals Up, up, up up and down, down, down, down (in the end it's only round and round and round and round) originally rotated round the room (if you had a quad hi fi) If you listen in stereo the voice goes "up, up" on the left "up up' on the right and so on, because going round in a circle there are two left then two right speakers. Once quad was well and truly dead, and CDs had been out for years, someone undid all that clever maths to stop the quad having "a hole in the middle' and made it sound sensible over to channels, alternating left and right. Atom Heart Mother, Darkside and Wish You Were Here are all quad masters, if you listen for it you can tell!
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3.7 out of 5 stars (37 customer reviews) 42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One Word: Embryo,
By Alan Caylow - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Works (Audio CD)
"Works" is a collection of early Pink Floyd tracks from 1967 to 1973, and although the material chosen for the disc is all excellent---from the rare Syd Barrett-era singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play," to "Dark Side Of The Moon" favorites "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse"---the main reason for adding "Works" to your Floyd collection is the rare song, "Embryo," not available anywhere else but here (unlike the Syd Barrett singles, which you can also find on the CD, "Relics"). "Embryo" is a truly gorgeous song, a great Floyd buried treasure. Strangely enough, though, the band has always claimed that this song was never actually finished, a claim which seems to be proven true by the live bootleg recording of it I've heard. On record, "Embryo" is a soft, tranquil number. Live in concert, it was a powerful, amped-up rocker, featuring some awesome electric guitar by David Gilmour. Even so, this "embryonic" studio version of "Embryo" remains a hauntingly beautiful song, and one that demands to be added to your Floyd collection right now. "Works" isn't really an essential purchase for the casual Pink Floyd listener, but for the diehard fan, "Embryo" alone makes this CD a definite must-have.
42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The review directly beneath me is erroneous.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Works (Audio CD)
After dark side of the moon was recorded in 1973, the floyd was lured to another record company away from capital records for bigger money. They'd been with capital for all their early works.Capital records, still owning the rights on all music dark side and earlier, decided to cash in on Floyd's new found fame by releasing a compilation. "Works" was done without Pink Floyd's input, nor did any band members receive any dividends from sale. It is strictly a Capital Records investment. And to many diehard floydians, it's blasphemy because not only did Capital do it on their own, they remixed many of the tracks, such as Brain Damage. Again, without the Floyd's consent. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Only CD release of Embryo,
By P. J. Walstra "pwalstra" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Works (Audio CD)
I would tend to agree with most reviewers that this compilation is not the strongest the record company could come up with. It has some tracks that are also on Relics, which doesn't make sense. I give this one 3 stars though as it has a different mix of Brain Damage & Eclipse and contains the only official release of 'Embryo'. This version appeared by mistake on a Harvest sampler album called 'Picnic - A Breath Of Fresh Air' and hadn't been released since. Embryo was played live at many Pink Floyd concerts in the early 70's but then in an electric version - very different from the acoustic version you'll find here.
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