Pulse | ||||
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Live album by Pink Floyd | ||||
Released | 29 May 1995 | |||
Recorded | 17 August–29 October 1994 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 147:59 | |||
Label | EMI (Europe) Columbia (elsewhere) | |||
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Pulse (stylised as p·u·l·s·e) is a live double album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was originally released on 29 May 1995, on the label EMI in the United Kingdom and on 6 June 1995 by Columbia in the United States.
The album was recorded during the band's Division Bell Tour in 1994, specifically the UK and European leg, which ran from July to October 1994.
The album includes a complete live version of The Dark Side of the Moon and features a booklet with many photographs from performances on this tour. It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s.
Unlike Delicate Sound of Thunder, David Gilmour and record producer James Guthrie have stated that no parts of the songs were re-recorded in the studio (James Guthrie confirmed this in an interview with Pink Floyd fanzine Brain Damage). However, the band and Guthrie fixed songs that had bad notes (as heard on some bootlegs) by lifting solos and corrected vocal lines from other performances as the band recorded most of the European leg. The CD claimed that it was mixed in "Q Sound" which produces a 3D audio effect even on a two channel stereo system.
"Take It Back" was originally going to be in the album with the recording from 25 September 1994, Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne but was cut due to length.
In the US, Pulse debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in June 1995 (briefly dethroning Hootie & the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View for a week before Hootie regained the number one spot in the US) and was soon certified double platinum by the RIAA on 31 July 1995.