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Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There: Wall Live 80-81 CD $49.98	This lavish, two-disc set is culled from the performance at Earl's Court and is essentially the best document of Pink Floyd live available legally (a particularly mind-blowingly psychedelic 1970 bootleg of a Fillmore West performance, however, marginally edges it out). The crisp and vivid sound here makes you feel as if you've been thrown into the first 10 rows dead center, sitting before Roger Waters as he dynamically orchestrates his alter ego's pulpit of hate on "In the Flesh Pt. 2." Most of the songs here benefit from the live setting: Check out how David Gilmour's voice becomes one with his guitar on "Goodbye Blue Sky" or how much expanded versions of both "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. II" and "Young Lust" soar with Richard Wright's improvisational Hammond B-3 fills, or the gorgeous reading of "Nobody Home" that quite simply blows away the original. The inclusion of two tracks previously available only on the film mix of The Wall, "What Shall We Do Now?" and "The Last Few Bricks," only adds to the value of this package. Some elements of the album may be so similar to the studio version that you feel as if you're listening to a basic remaster, particularly the "One of My Turns"/"Don't Leave Me Now"/"Another Brick in the Wall Pt. III" segue, but that's only if you're gonna nitpick. The genius of The Wall Live is its success in bringing the larger-than-life experience of conceptually tuning in, turning on, and dropping out before a live arena audience. Reunion anyone?
Roger Waters In The Flesh Live CD $17.48	First off, it isn't surprising that the newly recorded "live" renditions of this familiar-to-well-worn material by principal Pink Floyd songsmith Roger Waters are, uh, faithful to the originals, as well as aurally stunning. Pink Floyd’s multi-, multi-platinum track record from the '70s through the early '90s definitely earned the band the eternal good will of its record label, and its loyal fan base has even accepted occasional regroupings of this dissension-ridden, bickering band of jealous gods. It's therefore also not surprising that hoary Floyd-isms are everywhere on In the Flesh, from front to back. The cover sports forbidding barbed wire, an apocalyptic vision of crumbling high-rises, the silhouette of a pig and (in a nod to the eternally selling Dark Side of the Moon) a solar eclipse. Twenty-three of the 24 tracks here are essentially retreads, save for the gaseous debut of "Each Small Candle." In the Flesh is/is not a Pink Floyd record. A talented group of hired guns -- including Doyle Bramhall II (as D. Gilmour), the mercurial Andy Fairweather Low (as the ghost of Syd Barrett Past), and vocalist Katie Kissoon -- fill out the sound more than ably, but only diehards will note variations in the arrangements.

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