A long-awaited double DVD of Pink Floyd's stunning 1994 concert at London's Earls Court, recorded in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, is finally here. Marvelous! Tracklisting:

Disc One:                               Disc Two:
 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-V       1. Speak To Me
 2. Learning To Fly                      2. Breathe
 3. High Hopes                           3. On The Run
 4. Take It Back                         4. Time
 5. Coming Back To Life                  5. The Great Gig In The Sky
 6. Sorrow                               6. Money
 7. Keep Talking                         7. Us And Them
 8. Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)   8. Any Colour You Like
 9. One of These Days                    9. Brain Damage
                                        10. Eclipse

                                        Encores:

                                        11. Wish You Were Here
                                        12. Comfortably Numb
                                        13. Run Like Hell

Current distractions

Richard Wright's solo album Broken China is full of Pink Floyd's atmosphere and style, in some ways similar to The Division Bell or Meddle. It even includes some nice guitar solos. So I like it very much. The album cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson (btw, check out his wonderful web page). Tracklisting:

 1. Breaking Water
 2. Night Of A Thousand Furry Toys
 3. Hidden Fear
 4. Runaway
 5. Unfair Ground
 6. Satellite
 7. Woman Of Custom
 8. Interlude
 9. Black Cloud
10. Far From The Harbour Wall
11. Drowning
12. Reaching For The Rail
13. Blue Room In Venice
14. Sweet July
15. Along The Shoreline
16. Breakthrough

Next, the Red Hot Chili Peppers's double album Stadium Arcadium with 28 new songs! I listened to it only four times and I already very enjoy it. John Frusciante rocks. Tracklisting:

Jupiter:                          Mars:
 1. Dani California                1. Desecration Smile
 2. Snow (Hey Oh)                  2. Tell Me Baby
 3. Charlie                        3. Hard to Concentrate
 4. Stadium Arcadium               4. 21st Century
 5. Hump de Bump                   5. She Looks to Me
 6. She's Only 18                  6. Readymade
 7. Slow Cheetah                   7. If
 8. Torture Me                     8. Make You Feel Better
 9. Strip My Mind                  9. Animal Bar
10. Especially in Michigan        10. So Much I
11. Warlocks                      11. Storm in a Teacup
12. C'mon Girl                    12. We Believe
13. Wet Sand                      13. Turn It Again
14. Hey                           14. Death of a Martian

Yeah! FC Barcelona - the best team in Europe!

Two new album releases in only one week! Today Placebo released their fifth album entitled Meds. I luckily bought it last Friday and I can say it's really good -- well, at the same level as the previous ones. Tracklisting:

 1. Meds
 2. Infra-red
 3. Drag
 4. Space Monkey
 5. Follow The Cops Back Home
 6. Post Blue
 7. Because I Want You
 8. Blind
 9. Pierrot The Clown
10. Broken Promise
11. One Of A Kind
12. In The Cold Light Of Morning
13. Song To Say Goodbye

David Gilmour's new album On an Island... just beautiful! I love it. Tracklisting:

 1. Castellorizon
 2. On An Island
 3. The Blue
 4. Take a Breath
 5. Red Sky at Night
 6. This Heaven
 7. Then I Close My Eyes
 8. Smile
 9. A Pocketful of Stones
10. Where We Start

Today it is also David's 60th birthday and I wish him all the best.

I recently bought another great DVD, Deep Purple Live in Concert 72/73, also known as Scandinavian Nights (Live in Denmark) or Machine Head Live 1972. The picture is monochrome, but the sound has a good 5.1 quality. It is also very important to mention that this is the first and only film of the famous Mk II line-up. Tracklisting:

Copenhagen, March 1972 (90 minutes)
1. Highway Star
2. Strange Kind Of Woman
3. Child In Time
4. The Mule
5. Lazy
6. Space Truckin'
7. Fireball
8. Lucille
9. Black Night
      
New York, May 1973 (color) (27 minutes)
1. Strange Kind Of Woman
2. Smoke On The Water
3. Space Truckin'

This double DVD set provides nearly five and a half hours of the band's live performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, New York's Madison Square Garden in July 1973, London's Earl's Court in May 1975, and England's Knebworth Festival in August 1979. And it's all remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and DTS :). Tracklisting:

Disc One:                              Disc Two:
 1. We're Gonna Groove                 1. Immigrant Song
 2. I Can't Quit You Baby              2. Black Dog
 3. Dazed And Confused                 3. Misty Mountain Hop
 4. White Summer                       4. Since I've Been Loving You
 5. What Is And What Should Never Be   5. The Ocean
 6. How Many More Times                6. Going To California
 7. Moby Dick                          7. That's The Way
 8. Whole Lotta Love                   8. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
 9. Communication Breakdown            9. In My Time Of Dying
10. C'mon Everybody                   10. Trampled Underfoot
11. Something Else                    11. Stairway To Heaven
12. Bring It On Home                  12. Rock And Roll
                                      13. Nobody's Fault But Mine
                                      14. Sick Again
                                      15. Achilles Last Stand
                                      16. In The Evening
                                      17. Kashmir
                                      18. Whole Lotta Love