Pink Floyd : Under Construction

Pink Floyd : 

Under Construction 

The recordings on these bootlegs

 appear to come from an 

intermediate working rough cut 

created sometime later in 1979

 around the time of the

 third official production demo. 

It’s a mix of tracks 

that’s mostly comprised of

 working versions

 of songs from the 

second and third production

 “demos” 

but also includes

 some tracks which 

could only have been recorded

 after the August 1979 demo.

 For instance, 

“Run Like Hell (instrumental)”

 is a different, 

later take

 than the 

version released

 on the

 Work In Progress

 discs of

 the Immersion set. 

Here it sounds

 less like a

 jingly disco single 

and closer to the 

release version. 

Although it lacks vocals,

 you can hear that

 this version is the

 music bed of the final take

 with its overall sound, 

urgency, and menace. 

The final mixdown 

hasn’t been completed here

 and you can hear

 subtle differences 

throughout the mix. 

The versions of

 “Is There Anybody Out There?” 

are from the earlier

 second band demo. 

“The Trial” 

is the piano version

 from the 

second band demo

. “The Show Must Go One” 

is a mostly-finished version

 from the final take.

 “Nobody Home” 

is missing altogether

 from this recording 

as it was the last track 

written for the album 

and wasn’t recorded

 until October.

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