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Why Pink Floyd...? was a re-release campaign of Pink Floyd's back catalogue, released in three stages over 2011–12.[1][2] Under the campaign, multiple forms of the band's material were released, with new remasters and unreleased tracks. The albums were available in three different configurations: "Discovery", "Experience" and "Immersion". The "Immersion" boxsets of The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here featured 5.1 surround sound mixes of the original albums, while that of The Wall did not. Wish You Were Here was also released in an SACD version. A new best-of album, titled A Foot in the Door – The Best of Pink Floyd was released, as well as Sampler, a Best Buy exclusive compilation.[3]
Phase 1 of the Why Pink Floyd...? campaign began on 26 September 2011 with the release of The Dark Side of the Moon "Experience", "Immersion" and vinyl editions; a remastered re-release of all 14 studio albums, a Discovery box set containing all 14 with a booklet, and a Sampler.
Phase 2[]
Phase 2 of the campaign began on 7 November 2011 with the release of the Wish You Were Here "Experience", "Immersion", SACD and vinyl editions; a new "best of" album entitled A Foot in the Door – The Best of Pink Floyd; and continued with the release of a Pink Floyd iOSapp on 14 November 2011.
Phase 3[]
Phase 3 of the campaign began on 27 February 2012 with the release of The Wall "Experience", "Immersion" and vinyl editions.[4]
Versions[]
Discovery[]
The Discovery editions collect the band's original 14 studio albums, newly remastered for 2011. They were released worldwide on 26 September 2011. The albums can be purchased individually or in a box set which also includes a 60-page book designed by Storm Thorgerson. All albums feature newly designed booklets and CDs.[5] Many of the album covers have been modified to be textless (in 2016 the same remasters were reissued under Pink Floyd Records label and all modifications to the covers were reverted; the discs also got their previous artwork instead of "Discovery" logo from 2011 issues[6]).
Since the release of Discovery the band have released their fifteenth studio album, The Endless River, in 2014 and reissued Obscured by Clouds in a new stereo mix as part of The Early Years 1965–1972 box set in 2016; it features in Volume 6 – 1972: Obfusc/ation. Neither of these have yet been made part of subsequent issues of Discovery.
Experience and Immersion[]
The band's three most successful albums, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, were released as expanded collectors' editions with memorabilia and previously unreleased material.
The Dark Side of the Moon[]
Discovery[]
Disc 1 – The Remastered Album
The original album, newly remastered for 2011.
Replica of the Dark Side of the Moon Tour backstage pass (in envelope)
Scarf designed by Thorgerson
Three The Dark Side of the Moon marbles (with pouch)
Twelve coasters featuring early art sketches by Thorgerson
12-page credits book
A Note from Roger Waters for Assorted Lunatics (in envelope)
Wish You Were Here[]
Discovery[]
Disc 1 – The Remastered Album
The remastered album now shows "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 1)" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 2)" as "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1–5)" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6–9)", respectively as on the original vinyl release.
The Experience edition contains Disc 1 above, as well as the following Disc 2:
Disc 2 – Live at Wembley & Unreleased Material
Disc 2 features previously unreleased live and studio audio:
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (early version) (Live at Wembley, 1974) – 20:22 (This is a pre-album version, therefore its individual parts (1-9) which are listed in the Wish You Were Here album cannot be accurately attributed to this version.)
"Raving and Drooling" (early version of "Sheep") (Live at Wembley, 1974) – 12:35
"You've Got to Be Crazy" (early version of "Dogs") (Live at Wembley, 1974) – 18:09
"Wine Glasses" (from the "Household Objects" project) – 2:12
"Have a Cigar" (alternative version) – 7:07 (This version has Gilmour and Waters on vocals instead of Roy Harper and features slightly different music.)
After mixing the original album in 1975, the band decided to add piano to Part III of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", but had no time to re-mix it, so Wright recorded the piano onto a separate tape and then it was added. This tape was soon lost, meaning that this piano is missing from the 1975 Quadrophonic mix. James Guthrie, upon realising this in 2008 while preparing to mix the 5.1 version got Wright to re-record the piano section so as it could be re-included.
The Quadrophonic version of the title track has an extra guitar/scat vocal solo by Gilmour between the last verse and the coda (on the right speaker).
Disc 4 – DVD-Video - Audio-Visual Material
Disc 4 contains audio-visual material of concert films:
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" intro concert screen film (in stereo and 5.1 surround)
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" concert screen film (in stereo and 5.1 surround)
"Welcome to the Machine" animated clip
Storm Thorgerson short film (2000)
Disc 5 – Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc containing the contents of Discs 3 and 4 in high-definition audio and video:
Wish You Were Here 5.1 Surround Sound mix (2009) (96 kHz/24bit)
Wish You Were Here 4.0 Quadrophonic mix (1975) (96 kHz/24bit)
Wish You Were Here LPCM 2.0 Stereo Mix (1975) (2011 Remaster) (96 kHz/24bit) (same as Disc 1)
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" intro concert screen film (in stereo and 5.1 surround)
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" concert screen film (in stereo and 5.1 surround)
"Welcome to the Machine" animated clip
Storm Thorgerson short film (2000)
Other contents
40-page book designed by Storm Thorgerson
Exclusive photo book by Jill Furmanovsky and Hipgnosis
Exclusive Storm Thorgerson Art Print
Five Collectors' Cards featuring art and comments by Storm Thorgerson (in envelope)
Replica of Wish You Were Here tour concert ticket (in envelope)
Replica of Wish You Were Here tour Backstage Pass (in envelope)
Storm Thorgerson designed scarf
Three clear marbles (with pouch)
Nine exclusive coasters featuring early Storm Thorgerson design sketches
12-page credits booklet
The Wall[]
Discovery[]
Discs 1 & 2 – The Remastered Album
Discs 1 and 2 make up the original double album.
Discs 5 & 6 – Unreleased Demos
Discs 5 and 6 expands on the contents of those included on Disc 3 of the Experience version, containing two discs worth of unreleased demos by both Waters and the band:
Disc 5
The Wall Work In Progress Part 1, 1979 – 71:00
Programme 1, Excerpts from Roger Waters' Original Demo
"Prelude (Vera Lynn)
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
"Mother"
"Young Lust"
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
"Empty Spaces"
"Mother"
"Backs to the Wall"
"Don't Leave Me Now"
"Goodbye Blue Sky"
"Don't Leave Me Now"
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3"
"Goodbye Cruel World
"Hey You"
"Is There Anybody Out There?"
"Vera"
"Bring the Boys Back Home"
"The Show Must Go On"
"Waiting for the Worms"
"Run Like Hell"
"The Trial"
"Outside the Wall"
Programme 2, Roger Waters Original Demo and Band Demos
Prelude (Vera Lynn) – Roger Waters Original Demo – 0:56
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" – Band Demo – 4:48
"The Thin Ice" – Band Demo – 3:31
"Goodbye Blue Sky" – Band Demo – 2:22
"Teacher, Teacher" – Band Demo – 2:50
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" – Band Demo – 1:31
"Empty Spaces" – Band Demo – 1:53
"Young Lust" – Band Demo – 4:26
"Mother" – Band Demo – 4:38
"Don't Leave Me Now" – Band Demo – 4:34
"Sexual Revolution" – Band Demo – 5:00
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3" – Band Demo – 1:25
"Goodbye Cruel World" – Band Demo – 1:13
Programme 3, Band Demos
"In the Flesh?" – Band Demo – 3:25
"The Thin Ice" – Band Demo – 2:35
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" – Band Demo – 3:41
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives" – Band Demo – 1:44
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" – Band Demo – 1:57
"Mother" – Band Demo – 4:33
Disc 6
The Wall Work In Progress Part 2, 1979 – 57:00
Programme 1, Roger Waters Original Demos And Band Demos
"Is There Anybody Out There?" – Roger Waters Original Demo
"Vera" – Roger Waters Original Demo
"Bring the Boys Back Home" – Roger Waters Original Demo
"Hey You" – Band Demo
"The Doctor (Comfortably Numb)" – Band Demo
"In the Flesh" – Band Demo
"Run Like Hell" – Band Demo – 3:06
"Waiting for the Worms" – Band Demo
"The Trial" – Band Demo
"The Show Must Go On" – Band Demo
"Outside the Wall" – Band Demo
"The Thin Ice Reprise" – Band Demo
Programme 2, Band Demos
"Outside the Wall" – Band Demo
"It's Never Too Late" – Band Demo
"The Doctor (Comfortably Numb)" – Band Demo – 3:15
Programme 3, Band Demos
"One of My Turns" – Band Demo – 2:29
"Don't Leave Me Now" – Band Demo – 4:04
"Empty Spaces" – Band Demo – 0:51
"Backs to the Wall" – Band Demo – 1:33
"Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3" – Band Demo – 1:22
"Goodbye Cruel World" – Band Demo – 1:05
Programme 4, David Gilmour Original Demos
"Comfortably Numb" - David Gilmour Original Demo
"Run Like Hell" - David Gilmour Original Demo
Disc 7 – DVD
Various videos relating to The Wall (total: 72:00):
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives" live from Earls Court video – 1:24
"Another Brick in the Wall" promotional video (restored in 2011) – 3:20
Poster displaying all of the album's lyrics, hand written by Gerald Scarfe
Vinyl and SACD[]
The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall have also been released as heavyweight vinyl formats. Each is 180g vinyl with stickers and a pass to download the albums for free, as 320kbit/s mp3 format.
The Wall vinyl also contains a new poster containing all of the album's lyrics, handwritten by Gerald Scarfe. The Wish You Were Here vinyl comes sealed in a black polythene bag as the original did in 1975.
Wish You Were Here is also released as a SACD version; a dual-layer CD containing the 2011 remastered stereo audio and the 2009 5.1 surround sound audio. The SACD set also includes:
Deluxe case bound book.
6 post cards.
8-page booklet including newly designed artwork by Storm Thorgerson.
