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KnightWriter
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6/18 11:25pm
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The next regular Pink Floyd LP: A Saucerful of Secrets. This is the only album that David Gilmour and Syd Barrett both actively contribute to.
1.Let There Be More Light
2. Remember A Day
3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4. Corporal Clegg
5. A Saucerful Of Secrets
6. See Saw
7. Jugband Blues
The last track, Jugaband Blues, is something of a strange one, and was Barrett's last contribution to the Pink Floyd canon (other than his later being the inspiration for some of their greatest work). The band is still much more like its 1960s beginning than what it became a few albums later.
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Gonk
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6/19 4:25am
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True; although this album still contains the first song you'd possibly still find in any modern Floyd setlist for a given concert, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/19 7:20pm
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Haven't heard anything on this album, unfortunately.
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Gonk
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6/20 10:41am
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Well let's see if we can't help you out in the department, Zaz. Although let's not build this up too much -- this is early Floyd and although I think the stuff here is a fair amount better than the first album, it's not exactly the completely groundbreaking stuff that would come later. Corporal Clegg sort of has Water's mark over it as well, if you think about it.
Let There Be More Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPnQ-125Vw
Remember A Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzeTqlflkt0&feature=related
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA
Corporal Clegg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHcmtXDtxw&feature=related
A Saucerful Of Secrets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EaxfVFiNvs&feature=related
See Saw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDIk8VMIrpE&feature=related
Jugband Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAdmaps9m4&feature=related
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KnightWriter
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6/20 7:24pm
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They were still much more experimental than they would later be, though it may just be that the form of experimentation changed. They used the albums of this time period to get themselves together, find their footing and then move forward in a big way.
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Zaz
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6/20 8:17pm
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Thanks, I'll have a listen...
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Next up ("More" aside for now) is Ummagumma, Pink Floyd's third regular LP. The album is a two CD set, featuring both live and studio work.
Released in 1969, Ummagumma represents where the influence of departed founding songwriter Syd Barrett began to fade in favor of the rather less whimsical and pastoral visions of Roger Waters. Ummagumma is a double album, divided into live and studio halves. The live cuts--"Astronomy Domine," "Careful with That Axe, Eugene," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," and "A Saucerful of Secrets"--established the Floyd's predilection for gloomily atmospheric and faintly preposterous sci-fi bombast that would turn them into such a successful stage act. The kindest that may be said of the studio compositions--by and large interminable avant-prog rambles in search of the lost chord--is that they haven't dated terribly well. --from Amazon
It's safe to say that Ummagumma is not like the others, particularly what came later (particularly much later). Each of the band members had some tracks that were their own, and could respectively be called their personal playgrounds. Nick Mason gets The Grand Vizer's Garden Party, and so on. Gilmour's soaring guitar was not yet on display.
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Gonk
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6/24 3:42am
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That said, Floyd was to turn "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" into one of the best songs, IMO, that they ever did.
The album version lacks a quite a bit, but by the the time '73 rolled around, they had changed a lot of it up and arrived at something that truly belonged 100% on thier later albums. Gilmour was really allowed to get his teeth into it and let the track really open up. Unfortunately it's a very hard song to play -- rather, it's hard on Roger's vocal chords, so it hasn't been properly heard since the 70s.
However, this outstanding version is available on youtube here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o
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Up for more.
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Zaz
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6/26 11:40am
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Can't say I like *that* title. It sounds like a muttered aside.
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Gonk
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6/26 12:58pm
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No, that's true. The title isn't exactly thier best.
Frankly, if I were living and a teenager back in '69, I probably wouldn't be listening to Floyd.
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Next up:
Atom Heart Mother:
1. Atom Heart Mother
2. If
3. Summer '68
4. Fat Old Sun
5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
This is the album I've heard the least from (i.e. nothing, really), and is probably the least-favorite album for quite a few Floyd fans (not counting the post-Waters work). Nothing was taken from it for Echoes, the Best Of album released earlier in the decade. David Gilmour called this album "garbage" in so many words in an interview once.
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General Kenobi
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7/2 8:52pm
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Actually, Gilmour performed AHM with a tribute band last month. Watch here.
I love AHM, the suite is just so "out there" , truly progressive rock music. The songs on side two are nice as well.
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It's just hard to believe that the same band went on to do stuff like Animals and The Wall.
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AMH is awesome. The rest isn't great, but the title track is legend.
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