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DiscountDelight - On An Island
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768028025
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2006-03-07
Studio: Sony
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than the last 2 Pink Floyd stuido albums
Comment: THIS IS MOST LIKE EARLY/MID PINK FLOYD, ESPECAILLY MEDDLE.
This is David Gilmour's third studio solo album. It comes in a very nice booklet style case, like a mini hardcover book. It is 53 minutes long and the sound quality is excellent.
Some people rave about the sonic quality. Sure that makes this CD even more enjoyable. But, sonic quality is not the only reason to buy a CD. In the eighties, there many New Age CD's that sounded beautify, but were boring and had no meat. And great sound is given with any product from the members of Pink Floyd, who have always been on the leading edge.
I really enjoy the songs on this CD. I think it is one of the better things that any member of the band has done since The Wall. It is not quite as good as Roger Water's Amused to Death.
This CD sounds most like Pink Floyd's "middle period" from More to Obscured By Clouds. Much of it sounds like the first side of Meddle. This was the time before Roger Waters really started to dominate the song writing, and band played more traditional and more mellow songs. They still have that atmospheric Pink Floyd sound, but none of the aggressiveness that Waters added to the music.
My favorite David Gilmour album is About Face. He did had a fantastic concert tour to support this album. Fans looking for something like Comfortably Numb should get About Face instead of On An Island. Gilmour's first studio album is more traditional rock/blues, but still very good.
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Summary: Never Say Never, David returned
Comment: Pink Floyd's guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour's new solo album On an Island is thus far the best album released this year so far.
This is Gilmour's first new recordings since the 1994 Pink Floyd studio effort The Division Bell and his first solo album since 1984's About Face.
The album was co-produced by Gilmour, Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera and Chris Thomas and this album's musical styles run from Floydish sounding tunes to jazzy to blues, it has it all.
Castellorizon is an awesome instrumental and what a way to start the album. I kind of subtitle it Let's Get Metaphysical Part 2 with DG's Strat duetting superbly with an orchestra about almost 2 minutes into the instrumental. We then segue into the title cut to On an Island. It is an awesome song and is already a masterpiece which would not have sounded out of place on a Pink Floyd record with Gilmour harmonizing with 66% of Crosby Stills and Nash being David Crosby and Graham Nash's superb harmonizing. Also, the guitar solos on this track of course are amazing. The Blue follows and is amazing with DG and fellow Floyd member keyboardist Rick Wright harmonizing on vocals very well. Gilmour's whammy pedal solos at the end of the track are amazing and cry shades of Marooned. Take a Breath follows and musically reminds me of Coming Back to Life and is a great song though some will scoff at it and has Gilmour pulling out the stops on both lap steel and Stratocaster. Red Sky at Night is an awesome instrumental and David kicks ass on sax showing he can play any instrument and he also does guitar effects here.
This Heaven follows and is a great jazzy shuffle and shows David can play any genre of music(as he had proven on his David Gilmour in Concert DVD when he sang an excerpt of a French Opera in French and also a version of the lullaby Hushabye Mountain). Then I Close My Eyes is a great instrumental in a different sort of tone, kind of reminds me of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast's second section but with some cumbus, glass harmonica and bass harmonica and Robert Wyatt's cornet added. Smile, I always liked this song, always have since Gilmour first performed it in 2001 and now sounds complete with David playing some great dobro on this track. A Pocketful of Stones is a nice ballad which is hard to put into words, arguably the best solo ballad Gilmour has recorded. Where We Start is a great way to end the album in a nice relaxing tone and cries shades of A Pillow of Winds from Meddle.
On the versions that are initially sold at Best Buy, there is a bonus track of an almost 7 minute blues instrumental jam called Island Jam which is a great number.
If you go into this album with expectations ala David Gilmour's 1978 album or a Pink Floyd album then you will be slightly disappointed but if you are an unbiased fan and appreciate music, take a listen!
Highly recommended!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great,This album is GOOD
Comment: I love David Gilmour and all his three albums.I was always one of the biggest Pink Floyd fan but I looked their albums with Gilmour better than the one with Syd Barret.This album though a bit softer and melancholy,is still very good and makes for a great purchase.RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: Poor. This album is BAD.
Comment: I bought this album based off a long love of Pink Floyd music and various solo albums done by the members of the band. Sonically, the album is above par, but the lyrics stink. Dave should move to an island for the next effort and make sure to leave the Mrs. behind. He can do much better then this. As for the die hards who are giving them album 4-5 stars, put down the pipe and be honest.
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Summary: Wow
Comment: Being a die-hard Floyd fan. I was skeptical at first. The album is truly wonderful. The sound quality is stunning. Not in an "Absolute Perfection" kind of way. But in a "on the Island with him" way. The best new album I've heard in a long time.
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Editorial Reviews:
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David Gilmour’s solo career hasn’t exactly been creatively restless; this is but the third album by the Pink Floyd guitarist, and first in 18 years. But that seemingly lackadaisical career ethos hasn’t prevented Gilmour from producing some of his finest work here, an album whose soaring, lyrical guitar lines will be familiar to Floyd fans, yet one also blessed by often surprising nuances and delicate musical textures. Gilmour’s Division Bell collaborator Polly Samson is credited with most of the writing, helping conjure a moody, texturally rich "island" that’s as much musical as it is personally and lyrically metaphorical. "Castellorizon," the impressionistic opening instrumental collage, presages much of what’s to come in subtle ways, with Gilmour’s emotionally-charged guitar lines climbing into realms usually staked out by contemporary Jeff Beck. Gilmour’s choice of collaborators is equally compelling, from the evocative orchestrations of Polish classical modernist Zbigniew Preisner and expected contributions from Floyd (Richard Wright and proto-Pink mate Rado "Bob" Klose) to a host of guest turns that span both decades and styles: Georgie Fame, Phil Manzanera, Jools Holland, Caroline Dale and Robert Wyatt. The title track is graced by the stately harmonies of David Crosby and Graham Nash while the instrumental "Then I Close My Eyes" spins a hypnotic, bayou-meets-boho ethos where Dale’s gentle cello lines meet the melancholy cornet flourishes of Wyatt to challenge the very notions of genre itself. "This Heaven" finds Gilmour in unexpected R&B territory, weaving playful riffs with ‘60s London scenester Fame’s Hammond organ and finding its lyrical spirituality in simple, personal intimacy, a subtext that wafts through the upbeat airiness of "The Blue" to the spare "Smile," spinning a surprisingly romantic elegy that co! mes satisfyingly full circle on the closing "Where We Start." No man may be an island, but Gilmour has nonetheless crafted a rewarding artistic oasis on this, his finest and most gently personal album. -- Jerry McCulley Recommended David Gilmour & Pink Floyd
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