Pink Floyd : Off The Wall: Special Radio Reconstruction ...and More

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WITH YOUR BUTTON DOWN LIPS

AND YOUR

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RARE !!

 EP 

released to 

radio stations 

only prior to the

 official release of 

"The Wall". 

Contains

 several different mixes 

to a few of the tracks.

Pink Floyd – Off The Wall: 

Special Radio Reconstruction 

is a rare 1979

 US eight track, 

radio-friendly 

white-label

 promo sampler LP 

for 

The Wall album

 that was distributed

 mainly to radio stations

 in 1979 

and the early 80’s. 

The album featured 

extended versions 

of several tracks, 

along with clean intros

 and outros. 

Rather than blended

 track-to-track,

 the album was 

banded with gaps between

 the tracks

 for precise cues 

and easier programming. 

A shorter overall 

running time 

allowed the vinyl 

to to be mastered

 with deeper-cut grooves 

for better sound quality.

Among the cool stuff 

contained in this sampler’s 

eight tracks 

were a longer version of

 “Run Like Hell” 

with a clean opening 

and cold fade 

without crowd noises, 

a version of 

“Young Lust”

 with a clean outro 

that’s missing the

 phone call dialog

 on top of it, 

and a version of

 “Goodbye Blue Sky”

 featuring a clean intro

 with no sound effects.

One of the FM stations

 Currently,

 it is one of the better

 Pink Floyd

 vinyl rarities out there. 

It’s always been

 Extremely Rare. 

Expect to spend at least $200

   (usually much more)

 when you find one.

What was different about this disc 

from any other?

 Here’s the

 track-by-track

 rundown:

Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 — The “hit.” Nothing special here. This version lacks the 9-second extended instrumental intro of the single version. It has the same ending as the single version — a fade out towards the end of David Gilmour’s guitar solo.

Goodbye Blue Sky — The acoustic guitar intro is clean for about the first 9 seconds and lacks the bird tweeting and other pastoral sound effects at the beginning of the track. On the album/CD version, sound effects of birds and bomber fleets could be heard until the synths kicked in. The outro here is a wash. On this LP, the song fades out completely at the same spot in the music where we would have heard the first notes of “Empty Spaces” on the CD.

Young Lust — The track starts with the same the pickup beat and goes straight into the vocal as the album/CD release. It clocks in at 3m 25s on this release. Basically, it has the same running time as the original LP version but the pick-up note at the beginning lacks the tiny bit of crossover sound from “Empty Spaces”. The outro is clean, lacking the dialog of phone call back home on top of the music. It also lacks the Roger Waters scream during the guitar solo that appears only in the rare 7″ single version.

One Of My Turns — A clean version of the track with nothing obscuring the beginning or the the end. The opening synth was unobscured and had a faster attack that faded in quicker. The first 6 seconds of the track was clean and lacked the dial tone sound effects of the album version. At the end of the track, the echo and reverb of Roger Waters’ vocal “Why are you running away…?” sustained for about 3 seconds longer than the album version.

Hey You — No different than the album version. Roger Waters’ echoing vocal of “…we fall, we fall, we fall….” fades out just before the opening sound effects would have started on the album version of “Nobody Home”.

Nobody Home — Essentially the album version with a clean outro. The final note sustains for about 8 seconds or so as on the album, but it is missing the sound effects from the beginning of “Vera”.

Comfortably Numb — No different than the album version but the grooves were cut a little deeper giving the track a better sound here.

Run Like Hell — This extended studio version of “Run Like Hell” has a clean opening and cold fade without crowd noises. This version has a longer intro, restoring an additional 4 bars which completed the full 8-bar intro. It also has a longer outro with the full guitar refrain repeating twice (instead of once) for the full 16 bars. All in all, this version restored about 19 seconds that were cut from the track. This track is one of the gems on this EP.

TRACKLIST

Another Brick In The Wall [Pt. 2]

Goodbye Blue Sky

Young Lust

One Of My Turns

Hey You

Nobody Home

Comfortably Numb

Run Like Hell

BONUS !!

Mother 

(Film Version)

Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now

  (Film Version)

Another Brick In The Wall (Pt1/Pt2/Pt3)

 (Ultimate Mix)

Comfortably Numb

 (Remix)

When The Tigers Broke Free 

(Single Version)

 (Vocal Mix)

Outside The Wall

 (Epilogue)

 (Just Vocals)

1980 Pink Floyd 

The Wall 

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