Pink Floyd "P•U•L•S•E (DVD)"

Pulse (stylised as P•U•L•S•E) is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the 20 October 1994 concert at Earls Court, London, England in The Division Bell Tour. It was originally released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995.

There was considerable delay in the release of the DVD edition of Pulse, with new features announced with each setback. The cause of the delays was reputed to be the continued modifications and additions to produce a high-quality release. The previous planned release date of 22 September 2005 for the two-disc DVD set was changed to 10 July 2006 for the UK and Europe, and 11 July 2006 everywhere else.

In 2019, a newly restored and re-edited original-length version was released in Blu-ray and DVD discs as parts of a box set The Later Years. This Blu-ray disc is the first package release of Pulse in HD format although it is upconverted from the original SD video recording and scaled in the 4:3 ratio screen size.

DVD track listing

Concert

Disc One

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Concert version)
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes"
4. "Take It Back"
5. "Coming Back to Life"
6. "Sorrow"
7. "Keep Talking"
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
9. "One of These Days"

Disc Two

The Dark Side of the Moon:

1. "Speak to Me"
2. "Breathe"
3. "On the Run"
4. "Time"
5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
6. "Money"
7. "Us and Them"
8. "Any Colour You Like"
9. "Brain Damage"
10. "Eclipse"

The encores:

1. "Wish You Were Here"
2. "Comfortably Numb"
3. "Run Like Hell"

Songs #10 to #19 on disc two are a complete performance of Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Special features

Bootlegging the Bootleggers:

1. "What Do You Want from Me"
2. "On the Turning Away"
3. "Poles Apart"
4. "Marooned"

Screen films:

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes"
4. "Speak to Me" (graphic)
5. "On the Run"
6. "Time" (1994)
7. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (wave)
8. "Money" (1987)
9. "Us and Them" (1987)
10. "Brain Damage"
11. "Eclipse"

Alternate versions:

1. "Speak to Me" (1987)
2. "Time" (Ian Eames)
3. "Money" (Alien)
4. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (animation)
5. "Us and Them" (1994)

Music videos: "Learning to Fly" and "Take It Back"

Behind the Scenes Footage: "Say Goodbye to Life as We Know It"

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, USA 1996, including "Wish You Were Here" with Billy Corgan

Other:

Photo gallery

Cover art

Pulse TV advertisement [1995]

Tour maps

Itinerary

Stage plans

VHS track listing

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes"
4. "Take It Back"
5. "Coming Back to Life"
6. "Sorrow"
7. "Keep Talking"
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
9. "One of These Days"
10. "Speak to Me"
11. "Breathe"
12. "On the Run"
13. "Time"
14. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
15. "Money"
16. "Us and Them"
17. "Any Colour You Like"
18. "Brain Damage"
19. "Eclipse"
20. "Wish You Were Here"
21. "Comfortably Numb"
22. "Run Like Hell"

Laserdisc track listing

The 1995 Sony Laserdisc featured the concert spread out over three sides of a two-disc set.

Due to space contraints, for continuity, and to permit the complete performance of The Dark Side of the Moon on side two without interruption, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" and "One of These Days" were moved to the beginning of side three.

Side One

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes"
4. "Take It Back"
5. "Coming Back to Life"
6. "Sorrow"
7. "Keep Talking"

Side Two

1. "Speak to Me"
2. "Breathe"
3. "On the Run"
4. "Time"
5. "The Great Gig in the Sky"
6. "Money"
7. "Us and Them"
8. "Any Colour You Like"
9. "Brain Damage"
10. "Eclipse"

Side Three

1. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
2. "One of These Days"
3. "Wish You Were Here"
4. "Comfortably Numb"
5. "Run Like Hell"

The DVD release saw some re-edited footage of the original 1995 release. During The Division Bell Tour the word(s) "Enigma" or "Publius Enigma" would be visible on part of the stage (sometimes it would be written in lights, or on the back screen). These were connected to the Enigma competition surrounding the album and tour. On 20 October 1994, during "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" the screen displayed the word "Enigma" instead of "E=MC2" which is what was shown at other shows, this is shown on the original 1995 release. The DVD, however, has an altered back-drop displaying "E=MC2", although if the DVD is paused at the correct moment the word "Enigma" is still visible. This portion has been replaced with band members shots on the 2019 Blu-ray version.

Both 1995 original and 2006 new edit were done by Dave Gardener, the 2006 new edit features more shots of David Gilmour.

The 2019 re-edit available on the Later Years box set was done by Benny Trickett and keeps few shots from the original 1995 version (mainly film screens are replaced, The Great Gig In The Sky doesn't feature at all the screen film for example, which was present on the original vhs). It replaces them with closer shots of all band members at key moments of their playing (Richard Wright at the start of Shine On You Crazy Diamond or The Great Gig In The Sky ; Gary Wallis breaks during Any Colour You Like; Nick Mason using the fluorescent sticks on Time, etc). This version is the only one (as of 06.02.2020) available in HD.