Delicate Sound of Thunder
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LP / Cassette

Side 1
  1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
  2. "Learning to Fly
  3. "Yet Another Movie"
  4. "Round and Around"


Side 2
  1. "Sorrow"
  2. "The Dogs of War"
  3. "On the Turning Away"


Side 3
  1. "One of These Days"
  2. "Time"
  3. "Us and Them" (cassette only, omitted from LP).
  4. "Money"
  5. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"


Side 4
  1. "Wish You Were Here"
  2. "Comfortably Numb"
  3. "Run Like Hell"

Songs Omitted from the Album

The 1988 tour also featured the following songs which were not included on the album:
  • "Signs of Life"
  • "A New Machine"
  • "Terminal Frost"
  • "On The Run"
  • "The Great Gig in the Sky"
  • "Welcome To The Machine"
  • "One Slip"

Some of which made it onto the video version
Delicate Sound of Thunder (film)
Delicate Sound of Thunder is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. It was largely filmed during the concerts running from August 19, 1988 through August 23, 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from June 21, 1988 and...

 instead.

Personnel

Pink Floyd
  • David Gilmour
    David Gilmour
    David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s, lead vocals
    Lead vocalist
    The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...

  • Nick Mason
    Nick Mason
    Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason is an English drummer and songwriter, best known for his work with Pink Floyd. He was the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Richard Wright
    Richard Wright (musician)
    Richard William Wright was an English pianist, keyboardist and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

    , lead vocals on "Time" & "Comfortably Numb".


Additional musicians
  • Jon Carin
    Jon Carin
    Jon Carin is a producer, artist and musician best known for his association with Pink Floyd, and more specifically its guitarist David Gilmour and former member Roger Waters over the last twenty five years. In the early eighties, he gained fame as the front-man for the band Industry...

     – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb"
  • Rachel Fury
    Rachel Fury
    Rachel Fury is the stage name of Rachel Brennock, an English singer, songwriter and actor most widely known for performing with Pink Floyd on three world tours from 1987-1989.-Biography:...

     – backing vocals
  • Durga McBroom
    Durga McBroom
    Durga McBroom is a singer and actress, born October 16, 1962 in California, who has performed backing vocals for Pink Floyd and was a member of Blue Pearl.-Biography:...

     – backing vocals
  • Scott Page
    Scott Page
    Scott Page is a multimedia entrepreneur whose primary recognition is as a musician and as founder of technology firms such as New Media Broadcasting Company .-Awards:Scott Page has received several acknowledgments and awards, primarily for his...

     – saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

    s, guitar
  • Guy Pratt
    Guy Pratt
    Guy Pratt is a session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. He is the son of actor Mike Pratt. In Kensington and Chelsea, London, in 1996, Pratt married Gala Wright, the daughter of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright...

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , backing vocals, lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell"
  • Tim Renwick
    Tim Renwick
    Timothy John Pearson 'Tim' Renwick is an English guitarist.-Career:Renwick started playing guitar in the 1960s. He performed with many bands, including Little Women, Wages of Sin, Junior's Eyes, The Hype, Quiver and Lazy Racer...

     – guitars, backing vocals
  • Margret Taylor – backing vocals
  • Gary Wallis
    Gary Wallis
    Gary Wallis is a drummer/percussionist trained at the London Symphony School of Music. He is known for having a massive percussion kit featuring many electronic drums and percussion. He is best known as the secondary percussionist for Pink Floyd in the post-Waters era for live performances...

     – percussion, keyboards on "Comfortably Numb"


Production
  • Doug Sax – mastering
    Audio mastering
    Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

  • David Hewitt – assistant engineering
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

  • Buford Jones – engineering
  • Dimo Safari – band photography
  • Storm Thorgerson
    Storm Thorgerson
    Storm Thorgerson is an English graphic designer, known for his work for rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Muse, The Cranberries, and Biffy Clyro.-Biography:...

     and Nick Marchant  – cover design and graphics

Sales chart performance

Year Chart Position
1988 UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

11
1988 The Billboard 200
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

11
1988 Norwegian Record Charts 2
1988 Swiss Charts 4
1988 Austrian album charts 15
1988 Dutch album charts 20
1988 Swedish album charts 14
1988 Australian album charts 4
1988 New Zealand album charts 4
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