Vinyl Record
Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd At Pompeii
Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd At Pompeii on 2LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2025
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Pink Floyd At Pompeii, issued in 2025 as Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII, turns one of the band's most mythic screen documents into a standalone audio object. The performance belongs to the pre-Dark Side era: filmed in the empty Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii in 1971 and released as Adrian Maben's 1972 concert film, it captures Pink Floyd without crowd noise, spectacle or arena mythology. Echoes frames the experience in two vast parts, while Careful with That Axe, Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, One of These Days and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun reveal the band as a live laboratory of bass throb, organ mass, guitar sustain and ritual dynamics. The 2025 restoration and Steven Wilson audio remix gave the material a new public life and, crucially for collectors, an official vinyl presence after decades in which the film's sound lived mainly through screenings, home video memory and partial archival circulation. It is Pink Floyd just before worldwide transformation, playing to ruins, cameras and themselves.
Pink Floyd At Pompeii matters because it captures the band at a rare threshold: after the psychedelic 1960s, before The Dark Side Of The Moon, and outside the normal concert economy. The 2025 standalone release makes that liminal performance available as an album-length listening experience in its own right.
For collectors, this is a major modern Floyd archive title because it gives official vinyl form to a performance long central to the band's mythology. It belongs beside Meddle, A Saucerful Of Secrets and Dark Side as a live document of the sound world that connected those eras.
Pre-Dark Side live Pink Floyd with cavernous echo, organ-heavy psychedelia, slow-burn dynamics, spacious guitar, ritual percussion and the eerie focus of a concert played without an audience.
Recommended for: Pink Floyd collectors interested in official archival live releases; Fans of the Pompeii film and the pre-Dark Side era; Listeners drawn to Echoes, One of These Days and Set the Controls live; Progressive-rock shelves focused on performance history.
What is Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII? It is the 2025 restored and remixed release connected to the band's 1972 concert film, presenting the Pompeii performance as an official standalone audio album. Was the Pompeii performance filmed with an audience? No. The central amphitheatre performance was filmed without a conventional audience, which gives the music its stark, ritual atmosphere. Which songs are included in the Pompeii era set? Echoes, Careful with That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, One of These Days and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun are central to the performance's identity.