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The 10 Best Album Reissues & Box Sets of 2011

Since new music doesn't sell like it used to, labels are repackaging and remastering just about every classic album ever made. Our panel of music writers nominated 73 different reissues, best-of collections and box sets, which we narrowed down to 10 absolute must-haves.  read more

Paste's Holiday Gift Guide for Music Lovers

As the holidays rapidly approach and you realize you need to think of something better than Justin Bieber's new Christmas album to give your music-obsessed friends (assuming they already have subscriptions to Paste), we're here to help.  read more

8 Subpar Albums by Bands with Otherwise Solid Discographies

Some music can affect an individual so powerfully that it can seem as though the people making it are somehow supernatural. But even the greatest artists have moments when they lose the plot and prove they're indeed human.  read more

The 20 Best Pink Floyd Songs

With the remastering campaign _Why Pink Floyd?_ now fully underway, we wanted to celebrate the mind-melting individual highs of this unique, profound and relentlessly adventurous band that has given us so much strength and inspiration over the years.  read more

Assessing a Legacy: Why Pink Floyd? Reissue Series

EMI just reissued all 14 albums from Pink Floyd, and we asked writer Stephen M. Deusner to take a look back through the entire four-decade catalog, album-by-album.  read more

Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds ("Why Pink Floyd?" Reissue)

Obscured by Clouds isn’t just another Pink Floyd soundtrack. It’s another Pink Floyd soundtrack to another obscure Barbet Schroeder film: 1972’s La Vallée, about European’s exploring their sexuality while exploring the rainforests of New Guinea  read more

Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother ("Why Pink Floyd?" Reissue)

Roger Waters and David Gilmour have spent forty years playing this 1970 album down, labeling it pompous, overblown, embarrassing—a low point in the band’s creative history. They’re not exactly wrong, but they’re not exactly right either. Yes, the album stretches its six-part title track across an entire LP side, and yes, that suite meanders wildly and seemingly without purpose.  read more

Pink Floyd: Meddle ("Why Pink Floyd?" Reissue)

Following the excesses of Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd retreat to simply being a band on Meddle, with no distracting orchestras, choirs, or wildlife noises. All but one of the songs is credited to multiple members of the band, suggesting a conscious effort to work as a unit instead of as four individuals, and the change in mission is immediately evident on “One of These Days,” arguably their best opener. Roger Waters’ rumbling bass sutures the song together, generating a sinister momentum that recalls some of their earlier, more streamlined instrumentals. Of course the 20-minute closer doesn’t need...  read more

20 Songs About Selling Out

“Selling out.” Artists and music fans everywhere bristle instinctively at the mere mention of these two words, which inevitably come loaded with personal perceptions of what constitutes a true sellout.  read more

Pink Floyd: Ummagumma ("Why Pink Floyd?" Reissue)

Nobody ever mistook Pink Floyd for modest, but their fourth album is rock excess of the worst kind. Ummagumma is a double, of course, with the first disc comprised of live cuts recorded in Birmingham and Manchester and the second devoted to one composition from each member.  read more