Comments on: Pink Floyd – Celestial Voices (Rover Records RR CD002)

By: strummerville

strummerville — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:07:13 +0000

This is indeed a phenomenal sounding release. However, there is a digital glitch at the beginning of Grantchester Meadows, which is not present on disc 2 of Sigma’s “The Pink Jungle” (both discs are otherwise identical). If you’re a perfectionist, go for the Sigma.

By: LedMan

LedMan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:14:34 +0000

This was a pleasant surprise from a new label and compared to some of the earlier releases, a definite upgrade. I kept this one in the player for several days and sure I’ll be pulling it out again in the near future. Get it and PLAY LOUD!!!

By: D.Lee

D.Lee — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:13:42 +0000

Comment: The Rover’s 1-CD Celestial Voices is quite an outstanding gem. The sound quality is absolutely superb – it can’t possibly get any better. The artwork is pretty cool too. Whatever the reason(s) for the vocals being pretty much non-existent on the Amsterdam show, the fact that each song doesn’t have them makes them rare versions worth having in one’s personal collection. It’s quite unfortunate that “Interstellar Overdrive” isn’t complete and that only approx. 4:18 of it is present, as the segment that’s present is good enough to make us wish that we could have the rest of it, but of course, beggars can’t be choosers and therefore we’re quite fortunate to have any of it at all to begin with in the first place. The BBC sessions have already been previously released on numerous other Floyd recordings, but never before in such outstanding sound quality, which is a pleasing upgrade over the older versions. In fact, “Daybreak”/ “Grantchester Meadows” and “Nightmare”/”Cymbaline”, which I think I previously had only on the 2-CD The Complete Top Gear Sessions 1967/1969 (Great Dane Records GDR CD 9206), are so much better on Celestial Voices than they are on the old GDR release that instead of just being upgraded versions, it seemed as if they were completely new versions being heard for the very first time. Celestial Voices is highly recommended.

By: Rover Records

Rover Records — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000

Addendum: Regarding the May 12th, 1969 tape: “Those ’sources’ are definitely incorrect. The paperwork corresponding with the BBC 7-1/2 i.p.s. master reels states the programme they were recorded for was Night Ride. Unfortunately there are no recordings of the Radio One Club show from April, but the performance from late 1968 has thankfully survived.”