Re-Actor



Format: CD
Catalog: BIG 097 Big Music
Produced: 1995
Date: 680625
Cover: Front: Nighttime picture of moon over ocean, with front view of a jet engine substituted for the moon. Pink writing with "Pink Floyd" across top, and "Re*actor" (*=atomic symbol). Clear CD tray, with pink-tinged picture of the Floyd foursome (early 70's) and the CD title again. CD: Picture disc with centered jet intake, and "PINK FLOYD" and "RE-ACTOR" in pink. Back: Closeup of jet intake, with song titles radiating like spokes from the center. Some prankster printed "ddd" under the "p. 1995" copyright. Insert: Long folded sheet, with digitized/pixellated pics of the band in concert circa '71, and repeat of tray liner photo. The part facing the disc has the jet intake (again!) and brief description of the band's status as of the start of the '71 tour. Text reprinted below.
Sources:
25 Jun 1968, +others Claims Europe '71. Mostly not. "Top Gear" 25 June, 1968 (tracks 4, 5, 8 & 9) "Top Gear" 14 Jan. 1969 (track 6) "Top Gear" 12 May 1969 (track 7) Paris Theatre, London 13-15 Sept. 1970 (1-3) Paris Theatre, London 30 Sept. 1971 (10-11)

Tracks:
1. Embryo 10:04
2. Green Is The Color 3:30
3. Careful With The (sic) Axe, Eugene 7:21
4. Let There Be More Light 3:43
5. Murderistic Women 2:19
6. Point Me At The Sky 4:28
7. The Narrow Way 4:16
8. Julia Dream 2:26
9. A Saucerful Of Secrets 7:13
10. One Of These Days 6:49
11. Echoes 21:54

Band:
  • Roger Waters
  • David Gilmour
  • Rick Wright
  • Nick Mason

    Comments: Track times are from CD player; total time is just over 74 minutes.
    The only really notable thing about this disc is the Top Gear material, which has been available elsewhere, but I don't think it's ever been this clean-- sounds like the master. Some fake crowd noise is mixed in, but not intrusively. It's too bad the rest of the TG material wasn't on this disc rather than what is. The first three tracks seem to be exactly the same source as BIG 095. The last two tracks are inexcusably poor quality; certainly listenable, but there are several discs of that material that are better