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  2. Can’t imagine they’ll be giving too many sets away at that price!
    The 2 cd version will surely be enough for all but the most avid Floyd fan, esspecially as all but one of the cds will be released seperately next year.

  3. It’ll be great to finally get some of the 68-72 stuff (for me at least) – and all those versions of Embryo – luvverly.

    Are they doing this as part of that thing where if you don’t release it, after 50 years it becomes public domain I wonder?

  5. I think they think we ONLY listen to the one artist! And why everything all at once?!

    I’d much rather the stuff being released in the style of the Kinks 60s stuff on CD –
    mono/stereo/a side/b side/bbc session/unreleased track etc. but, hey, there’s MORE MONEY doing it this way.

    I’ll evaluate it when I see the whites of their eyes…..
    In the case of the Beatles CDs, I bought diddley squat.
    The Rolling Stones, I bought diddley squat.
    The Kinks, I bought all of them.

  6. They’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t, aren’t they? This collects everything together that no sane person would want, and will sell out instantly to those who care. It represents as close to the last word on their output as is probably possible. It also avoids (wisely) ruining their standard releases with (to the casual listener) unlistenable nonsense. At least three of them are still alive to oversee this.

    I’m more than a little interested to be honest.

    • Assuming it’s done similarly to the DSOTM and WYWH Immersion sets, the blu ray discs have the quad versions in multi-channel PCM (I think the DVDs have data-compressed Dolby Digital and/or DTS versions) which plays through a standard 5.1 (or better) surround amplifier. If you don’t know what I’m on about, there’s possibly little advantage for you in having them. 🙂

      One of the nice things about having the quad mixes of those two albums is the ability to rip them and re-save them with just the rear channels, which gives you nice ambient “remixes” of them, that are playable on any stereo player – perfect for late night listening.

        • Piper is a vastly superior beast in Mono, despite the oft said cliches re mono v stereo, some true, some not but in the case of Piper it’s almost a different album. Far far better.

  10. In my opinion it’s a great set. If you look at the tracklisting on the Floyd site (which breaks up the contents to the separate individual boxes) you’ll see that it isn’t really that overblown or “useless”.
    Great outtakes (“More”!) and BBC sessions finally. I have (blurry…) bootleg DVDs of most of the video content from 1967-1971, and those French and Belgian TV clips are priceless, as are the professionally filmed and recorded gigs from 1969, 1971 and 1972.
    Ordered the big one already, mainly for the three feature films included (does anyone want the “replica” 7″ singles?).

  12. The sad thing is that they appear to have used the services of a single fan \ collector for rarer material and because of animosity towards him among the PF Fanbase (yes, I know, fans bitching, whoda thunk) he’s not privy to the best sources.

    As a result, some of the BBC sessions stuff which a fan has in superior quality than wha is on the box will not be featured as the Floyd “people” were not made aware of it until it was too late to add to the set.

    A general request across the fanbase for such material would have made more sense.

    Still, something for Floyd At The BBC 6oth Anniversary edition in 2026

  14. Funny enough, yesterday as I sat in the bath I was thinking about my civilian mates at the time MP3 players came out. I’d had years of people coming in to my room and their first words would be “Why do you need all those records/CDs?” (the implication being that music was freely available on the radio and could be topped up with Now That’s What I Call The Hits Album at Christmas). Then MP3 players came along and those same mates would tell me, because they’d heard a song on TGI Friday, they’d downloaded all of the Ocean Colour Scene albums to add to their 100,000 track music library.
    When I see these bumper releases containing CDs with track listings that go
    1. X version 1
    2. X version 2
    3. X version 3
    4. X version 4
    5. X version 5
    etc
    I think there must be something wrong in the genetic makeup of humans that they need to collect this stuff. I’d be surprised if even the music lovers on here would be more likely to listen to all this stuff any more than my mates were going to make use of their 100,000 track library.
    The difference, of course, is their nuttiness wasn’t costing them the Earth…

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