PINK FLOYD

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PINK FLOYD can be considered as one of the leading bands in progressive rock from the seventies, together with YES and GENESIS. Their first line-up consisted of guitarist Syd BARRETT, bassist-singer Roger WATERS (who left the band in 1983), drummer Nick MASON and keyboardist Rick WRIGHT. Their early material was mostly written and sung by BARRETT, at that time the central figure of the group. The first album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" of 1967 contains come catchy pop songs, together with more experimental and longer instrumental pieces. They even reached the Top-20 in England with the song "Arnold LAYNE". In the beginning of 1968, guitarist David GILMOUR joined the band to replace BARRETT in live performances. But BARRETT had to leave the group because of mental instability. In 1970 the band recorded some songs for the cult movie Zabriskie Point including an alternative version of 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene'.

PINK FLOYD became even more successful, whilst playing psychedelic progressive rock with a touch of classical music. 1971 saw the release of "Meddle" (a clever mix of short mellow jazzy tunes and lengthy experimentaltracks) and the soundtrack for the film "La Vallée" ("Obscured By Clouds") was released in 1972. But their most successful album was definitely "Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973), cosmic rock produced by an excellent sound engineer Alan PARSONS. This album is a milestone in progressive rock, great songwriting with lots of special effects and including saxophone and great female vocals. The successor "Wish You Were Here" included the well-known epic song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". "Animals" is a dark and underrated gem, featuring scathing lyrical accounts on humanity.

End 70's, Roger WATERS influenced both musical and lyrical the albums of the band. In 1979, they released "The Wall", a double album rock opera. After the release of "The Final Cut" in 1983 the band split up for a while. PINK FLOYD released a few albums afterwards without Roger WATERS, but they never reached their previous status. "Echoes", The Best of Pink Floyd, was released in 2001. To celebrate this 30th anniversary a new version of "Dark Side Of The Moon" has been released. This release is a must have for all music lovers young and old. Highly Recommended!

(Claude Bpl)

See also: Zabriskie Point - Original Soundtrack

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PINK FLOYD Albums (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette)


3.94 | 340 ratings
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
1967

3.72 | 258 ratings
A Saucerful Of Secrets
1968

3.19 | 154 ratings
More
1969

3.50 | 245 ratings
Ummagumma
1969

3.88 | 368 ratings
Atom Heart Mother
1970

4.27 | 452 ratings
Meddle
1971

3.32 | 198 ratings
Obscured By Clouds
1972

4.55 | 856 ratings
Dark Side Of The Moon
1973

4.62 | 808 ratings
Wish You Were Here
1975

4.50 | 591 ratings
Animals
1977

4.02 | 503 ratings
The Wall
1979

3.17 | 264 ratings
The Final Cut
1983

3.04 | 217 ratings
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
1987

3.80 | 296 ratings
Division Bell
1994

PINK FLOYD Live Albums (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette)


3.16 | 43 ratings
The Delicate Sound Of Thunder
1988

3.83 | 92 ratings
P-U-L-S-E
1995

2.54 | 11 ratings
Live 66-67
1999

4.13 | 59 ratings
Is There Anybody Out There?
2000

PINK FLOYD Videos (DVD, Blu-ray and VHS)


4.82 | 31 ratings
Live At Pompeii
1981

3.86 | 64 ratings
The Wall (The Movie)
1982

3.70 | 17 ratings
In Concert - Delicate Sound Of Thunder
1989

3.63 | 4 ratings
La Carrera Panamericana
1992

4.36 | 67 ratings
P-U-L-S-E
1995

2.73 | 11 ratings
London - Live 66-67
1999

4.52 | 139 ratings
Live At Pompeii
2003

4.04 | 17 ratings
Classic Albums: Dark Side Of The Moon
2003

3.00 | 1 ratings
Inside Pink Floyd
2003

3.20 | 3 ratings
The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story
2003
not rated
The World's Greatest Albums - Atom Heart Mother
2005

3.00 | 1 ratings
Inside Pink Floyd Volume 2 - A Critical Review 1975 - 1996
2005
not rated
The Ultimate Review
2005

2.82 | 2 ratings
Rock Milestones Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
2005
not rated
Reflections And Echoes
2006

4.00 | 1 ratings
Rock Milestones Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
2006
not rated
Total Rock Review
2006
not rated
Rock Milestones: Ummagumma
2006
not rated
Music Box Biographical Collection
2006

2.00 | 1 ratings
The Dark Side - Interviews
2006
not rated
Meddle: A Classic Album Under Review
2007

4.00 | 1 ratings
Retrospectives
2007
not rated
The Early Pink Floyd - A Review And Critique
2008
not rated
Comfortably Numb
2008

3.00 | 1 ratings
A Technicolor Dream
2008

3.00 | 1 ratings
Live Anthology
2008
not rated
The Great Gig In The Sky: The Album By Album Guide
2008

PINK FLOYD Boxset & Compilations (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette)


1.73 | 6 ratings
The Best Of The Pink Floyd
1970

3.59 | 78 ratings
Relics
1971

2.89 | 16 ratings
A Nice Pair
1973

2.45 | 7 ratings
Masters Of Rock Vol. 1
1974

2.00 | 49 ratings
A Collection Of Great Dance Songs
1981

2.05 | 32 ratings
Works
1983

3.15 | 15 ratings
Shine On
1992

3.67 | 3 ratings
The Early Singles
1992

3.03 | 12 ratings
1967: The First Three Singles
1997

3.20 | 60 ratings
Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd
2001

3.66 | 8 ratings
Oh By The Way...
2007

PINK FLOYD Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette, MP3, Digital Media Download)


3.00 | 2 ratings
Arnold Layne
1967

3.00 | 3 ratings
See Emily Play
1967

3.00 | 1 ratings
Apples and Oranges
1967

3.00 | 1 ratings
It Would Be So Nice
1967

2.55 | 26 ratings
Tonite Let's All Make Love In London
1967

4.14 | 3 ratings
Point Me at the Sky
1968

3.00 | 2 ratings
The Nile Song
1969

5.00 | 2 ratings
"One of These Days"
1971

5.00 | 2 ratings
Money
1973

5.00 | 2 ratings
Time
1973

5.00 | 2 ratings
Have a Cigar
1975

5.00 | 2 ratings
Comfortably Numb
1979

3.67 | 3 ratings
Another Brick In The Wall
1979

4.33 | 3 ratings
Run Like Hell
1980

4.00 | 2 ratings
When the Tigers Broke Free
1982

1.70 | 7 ratings
Not Now John/The Hero's Return (Part 2)
1983

2.24 | 7 ratings
Learning To Fly (promo single)
1987

4.00 | 1 ratings
On the Turning Away
1987

4.00 | 1 ratings
One Slip
1988

3.14 | 8 ratings
High Hopes/ Keep Talking (single)
1994

3.59 | 11 ratings
Take It Back (single)
1994
not rated
Interview Disc
1995

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 Ummagumma by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1969
3.50 | 245 ratings

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Ummagumma
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by mscbox

3 stars Ummagumma is one of the albums that is special. Special, because it is a unique album, in a style not done by others, certainly not before. It is also an album that creates a specific atmosphere, a specialty that belongs to Pink Floyd anyway. But is the music exceptionally good? Are there songs on this album that ask for special attention? I am afraid that my answer is no. It is nice to listen to, but it is not the music that you often listen to. I have to say that especially the "solostic" parts on the original second lp weaken the album to a rating of only a 3. That is a pity because the first LP is maybe not excellent but at least essential due to the uniqueness.

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 Atom Heart Mother by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1970
3.88 | 368 ratings

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Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Marty McFly
Collaborator Errors and Omissions Team

5 stars We have to differ good from bad guys and girls, men and women, ladies and gentlemen, prog night addicts and daytime embracers, am I right ? When something quite good gets very good rating, we have to either adjust rating for even better album, or fix first one to more fit to each other.

This is under-estimated masterpiece. Orchestral parts forced to work together as slave labor to Pink Floyd's band members (except Nick, he gets sunshine most of the time). Of course, in this case, when counting out Mason, it's Gilmour who's most prominent, but that's standard situation here, so no raised eyebrows this time. First epic, or if you want, suite. I first heard it about six years ago, when my father was (intentionally) presenting me Pink Floyd's music. I remember two things: I didn't like it much and second one: it was ancient Roman like (these trumpets), it reminded me something like Quo Vadis, or simply these old Rome films. I've returned to this album again when I saw one certain thread about epics. Someone (thanks) said that AHM is in fact first epic. So I took this as a little push-forward and tried it.

5(-), I don't regret. It's one of these albums where you can enjoy every part of it and you're still smiling wide. So high rating because it's Pink Floyd = guarantee of quality. And so it works, it's a very good one. I've said it, I've said it.

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 Atom Heart Mother by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1970
3.88 | 368 ratings

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Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by progrules
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4 stars Pink Floyd was still right in the middle of their psychedelic era at this point and delivered quite an interesting piece of prog here. Especially the title track has always intrigued me a lot. Tremendous variation lasting for 23 minutes, this one is pretty challenging to say the least. And yet there were already the first signs of a straightforward melodic Pink Floyd with this epic. Especially in the first half of the song there are hints to their later master piece epic SoyCD. And it's actually because of this that I manage to have the greatest respect for this epic. In fact it scores higher for my personal taste than the more praised Echoes from the later album Meddle. For I don't mind if a song gets complex and a little weird at times (challenging is a better word really) as long as there is also real music to be enjoyed. And that's what Pink Floyd did very well here. It's a great mix of all sorts of prog in all kinds of tempo and moods.

And this epic alone will determine my ultimate score for the larger part. Because it's so significant and essential in prog history. I mean, this is 1970 and to produce something like this at this moment in time is really a breakthrough and a milestone in progressive rock. Same as KC's debut also here I have ultimate respect for what is achieved with this track and album.

The b-side contains a couple of short songs and a mini epic to conclude with. If is a pretty ballad and quite famous of course. Nothing psychedelic here. Summer '68 is also fairly normal and quiet with dominant piano. Fat Old Sun is third in a row in this more or less same style. This time guitars accompany the restrained vocals.

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is a very interesting mini epic. In fact this is one of my earlier prog experiences as I bought the vinyl in the early eighties and after more than a quarter of a century (I just bought the disc and my pick up doesn't work anymore for a long time) I still remember the typical breakfast sounds in the song. Funny that this is actually the moment I remember most of the entire song. The rest is less psychedelic than the large epic I believe but all in all not as attractive if I may say so. Still very intriguing and original.

Leaves me the task to rate this album. It's not a masterpiece for me since it's too far from perfect. But rating it with three stars would be selling it short big time. So that leaves 4 stars as only possibility mainly due to great significance for prog history and also to sheer greatness. After Animals and WywH this is my most favourite PF album.

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 Take It Back (single) by PINK FLOYD album cover Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 1994
3.59 | 11 ratings

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Take It Back (single)
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Malve87

3 stars I bought this single at a local record flea-market and paid it pratically nothing. "Take it back" is a song from "The division bell" album released in 1994 and it's a very good uptempo track with a superbe arrangement which features Gilmour's delayed guitars, Wright's grandious hammond organ and female choir sections: in other words every possible Floyd trademark so far. The song deals with human beings relationship with Nature and with the Earth, which in the end will make us pay for every crime against environment "taking it back...someday". The Single also contains a live version of "Astronomy domine", later on avalaible also on "Pulse" and a mini poster depicting Pink Floyd on stage. Ignorable the radio-edit version of the first song.

Good music, not essential release (it's just a single after all).

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 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1987
3.04 | 217 ratings

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A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Marty McFly
Collaborator Errors and Omissions Team

4 stars Too much bad blood here, too much envy, retribution and hate, which blindly smashes hopes. But maybe it's just "temporary", as after this, Nick and Rick would become regular buddies on gigs (famous Thunder and Pulse). Don't know why, but I don't feel so good listening this. Whereas "The Final Cut" became Roger's work, this seems to be David's. Like two small boys fighting each others for pretty girl (audience). Almost, except they create quite good music. However, where Waters was at least a little bit crazy (who knows how much), so his music wasn't so mundane (even it followed some patterns - noise/calm singing), Gilmour is more rock. And certainly influenced by 80's, even not so much. Repertoire from this album would become standard ammunition of their concerts, but is it worth of ? Mostly melodic, sometimes more pop, but there are experimental (not so much, but they are at least a little bit) pieces.

4(-) perhaps. Let's be fair. Even three plus would be maybe more sufficient. However, because of mentioned repeats on gigs, this is quite well known album, just another reason to give more.

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 Wish You Were Here by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1975
4.62 | 808 ratings

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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Marty McFly
Collaborator Errors and Omissions Team

5 stars I'm sad that some people, even they'll never admit it, voted "against" (which means 3 stars here) Pink Floyd, just because it's overrated album. Being it some other group, releasing just this album, they would give more. Or at least that's how I see it. I'll not name, no no.

So what to say about actual music ? That everything fits (PF's stereotype), it has original ideas (you can find them on most of PF's albums), dark lyrics (another cliché of PF), possible Waters influence (even we'll never find out exact percentage of his reign), long concept-like tracks (well, haven't you heard this one before ?) and some other factors that makes successful Pink Floyd music. I've waited, waited and was rewarded by "Shine" main theme, if we can use this term. Welcome's weirdness and interesting last 50 seconds. Yes, these "sounds" can be considered as interesting, as we're somehow released from dark satanic magic ritual music that can cause severe mental problems on more labile individuals. Let's have a cigarette, oh, I mean cigar is somehow flagship of their, even sometimes repeating itself (which annoys a little bit). Nicely transits into Wish You Were Here, I don't have to talk about this one, do I ? It's beautiful in a more ways than just one, even fails on prog side. In this case, and I'm saying it for the first time in my life, "To the hell with prog for this time". Don't quote me here (I know you will anyway). I can just recommend youtube video with changing pictures to this song, it's nice piece of work. And last track, together with first one makes solid piece. When you shut down your brain during "empty" scenes (because they're sparse - I mean beginning's wind for example), you get strong body of music that lives, very persuasively to be honest.

5(-), But I don't care about repeating of schemes. Because ideas are new, music is great and pompously big (you can feel how full the music is) and it all works perfectly, so no one gets hurt, everyone's happy, we are live happily ever after and the work is done. Interesting enough to note, wikipedia provides very detail info on whole album and Shine track (different layers, where stats what etc).

minus point because of "emptty" parts that works far worse than in case of "Echoes" song.

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 Meddle by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1971
4.27 | 452 ratings

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Meddle
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Marty McFly
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5 stars I'll paraphrase Hugues (Sean Trane) in one point: If there is one formula that's here about Pink Floyd, then it must be giving 5-star rating to their albums. Tracks are as following:

1)ranging from psychedelic roots, typical "stoned" track, works greatly for example on Live in Pompeii, but here too, simply not as much.

2)Nice guitar work on rather "mundane" song than some weird exploration, even the sound isn't usual (disharmony in harmony I would say)

3)Football chanting with cleverly combined repeated guitar riff (you know which one) and some nice brickwork (what?). A song with phases of slow and even slower pace.

4)With Roger Waters beautiful voice (which really fits here, does not sound like squeaky floor like usual) with jazz nostalgia longing, Marty says just: Oh yeah.

5)So, what do you want to hear, it's a blues song, ain't it ? However, dog's growling isn't annoying for me (I can imagine animal lovers and sensitive, or simply people with certain standards to be annoyed) and adds something more to this otherwise "normal" song.

6)Well, here we are talking about one of the first prog epics, aren't we ? Simply wonderful, beautiful, full of imagination, harmonic (virtually everything fits in the right place and over the years, I developed sense of liking "the middle piece"). Lyrics are monster. They're mostly nonsense as far as I understand whole sense of this song (and this is not like other epics, where it's more songs altogether, joined only by clever transitions, here it really works as one big track - yes, there are parts, but all about one thing, all in similar style and you can imagine how they work together, what's their purpose). Very interesting concept and again, works perfectly In Pompeii (everything is simply better there, it's like paradise, except it's burned place). Imitating raven's (and other birds perhaps) on synths is nice piece of work from Mr. Wright.

5(-), because of some less prog songs (you know), but it doesn't matter much.

"Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air"

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 Obscured By Clouds by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.32 | 198 ratings

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Obscured By Clouds
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Malve87

3 stars "Obscured by clouds" from a certain point of view is like a rich man dressed in rags, or to say it in other words: not a concept album,but a soundtrack for "La vallèe" movie, ok, interesting song writing, perfect, raw and unconvincing production, bad. The album contains some very very good moments like the unusual rock "The gold is in the..." which sounds more like The Who than Pink Floyd , the touching "Wot's...uh the deal", played again during Gilmour last world tour in 2006 and the suggestive "Stay", written by Wright. Too bad that the production low level spoils up what could have been a much better number :"Mudmen". Some point in common with "St. Tropez" and "Fearless" on the track "Free Four", in which Waters sings about Floyd recurring themes: weight of success, death, loss of his father, all subjects which later would have been developed in other ways giving birth to masterpieces as "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall". Very useless and boring the "ethnic" chants in the end of "Absolutely Curtains"

In the end the album is average, a less complex work by Pink Floyd, than the usual, anyhow inspired, with highs and lows, suffering from the approximate production level and by being blown away by their next release: nothing less that "Dark Side Of The Moon".

Song writing : 4 stars

Production: 2 stars

Results 3 stars.

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 Dark Side Of The Moon by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1973
4.55 | 856 ratings

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Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by Malve87

5 stars Writing a review of "Dark side of the Moon" is very hard, but easy. I'll try to explain, it's hard because everything has already been said and it's easy, because there are so many evident signs of grandness on this record impossible not to notice; let's point out some of them:

1) the song writing is simply Floyd at their best: the four individuals are collaborating, so there is an undeniable equilibrium that gives strenght to it.

2) The arrangements are innovatives, they own a lot to PF previous albums, especially Meddle, but however they are enriched by the live rehersal of the whole project they had done back in 1972, when they played it in front of the audience (the piece was still called "Eclipse- a piece for assorted lunatics").

3) The production level is simply STUNNING, it sounds like if it had been recorded yesterday. Apart from these considerations the song flux is perfect, everything is in the right place.

It is an incredibly solid and flawless dark work which deals with negative aspects of human life, which potentially push people to get mad : time, money, carelessness for other persons, greed, fear etc... in the proposition of these themes the work is always pervaded by a deep sense of drama and it's really theatrical.

What makes a Shakespeare's piece actual? The choice of themes which are already intrinsically eternal : a troubled love (Romeo and Juliet) jealousy (Othello) and so on; this peculiarity can be found also on "Dark side of the Moon". What probably makes this record immortal and so adored by people is also the unique atmosphere that it creates, thanks to its numerous changes of moods, right from the first heartbeat to the last notes of the majestic closing track "Eclipse"; The sound of the band is ethereal, surreal, visionary, elegant, psychedelic yet jazzy in some bits..incredible.

Timeless, a milestone in rock history and one of the most important art statement of the 20th century.

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 A Saucerful Of Secrets by PINK FLOYD album cover Studio Album, 1968
3.72 | 258 ratings

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A Saucerful Of Secrets
Pink Floyd Psychedelic/Space Rock

Review by ExittheLemming
Prog Reviewer

3 stars Freshly Minted Clichés With No Sell-by Date in Sight

Let There Be More Light - You have to take a step back on excavating this gaudy fossil after so many years to appreciate just how resilient early Floyd DNA truly was. Water's elastic and circular bass riff which allows Wright's overlying implied organ harmonies to move neurotically around it has been borrowed by everyone and their dog ever since. Similarly that particularly Floydian take on oriental tonality and eastern inflected phrasing, has come to represent our idea in the west of what Indian classical music might actually sound like. (It doesn't but that's not the point, ethnic forgeries fetch more than the originals in this marketplace) The lulling and sensual derangement of Barrett is never far from the surface and as to what his practical contribution to the album may or may not have been, his spirit nevertheless permeates every track here.

Remember a Day - Floyd revisit the softer poppier psychedelia of Piper on a song worthy of anything of a similar hue contained on the latter. They splice together very appropriately the childlike and the sinister elements that coexisted so effortlessly in Syd's oeuvre.

Why can't we stay that way ?, climb your favourite apple tree Try to catch the sun,hide from your little brother's gun Dream Yourself away, why can't we reach the sun ? why can't we blow the years away ?

A song so dreamily trippy that every copy of Saucerful should have shipped with a complimentary set of finger cymbals.

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Notwithstanding the hedonistic spacey abandon that this track celebrates, there is a nihilistic darkness at the heart of the Floyd critter as evidenced by the title and a somewhat ambiguous lyric:

Who is the man who arrives at the wall ? making the shape of his questions at asking Thinking the sun will fall in the evening, will he remember the lesson of giving ?

Waters clearly believes that the eternal cycle of sun nourished life would be much better off without the meddlesome questioning of any kind of sentient middleman.

Had Apocalypse Now had a European director and been set in the failing British Empire of India, you have in your paws a much better soundtrack than the otherwise excellent one provided by the Doors.(and arguably more consistent with the spirit of Joseph Conrad's novel on which Coppola's movie is based)

Corporal Clegg - The best song John Lennon didn't write. Surface amusing but thick with irony and a snarling critique of the exploitation of war heroes who lay their lives and mental health on the line for a patriotic idealism not shared by their lords and masters. Almost a sister song companion to I Am the Walrus:

He's never been the same, no-one is to blame Mrs Clegg you must be proud of him, Mrs Clegg another drop of gin ?

Like so many innovative facets of this album, it is all too easy to forget that caustically bitter triumphant fanfares had their painful birth throes here. Ditto for the cackling distortion applied to the vocal to imbue same with an unnerving menace. If you wish some sort of litmus test for true originality, you might be well served to start with artists like these, who invented clichés.

A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd at their least cuddly i.e. a glacially drawn out and heavily padded exercise in how to fill space with yet more space. Perhaps even more tiresome than Interstellar Overdrive as this is shorn of even the mitigating uber riff of the former. Perfect opportunity to get some finger cymbal practice in though. Things do perk up significantly after 4 minutes (or has it been days ?) with a rippling tom groove from Mason over which the BBC Radiophonic Workshop get to earn royalties for their vast but hitherto untapped library of Weird Random Shit Volumes 1 through 57. The emptiness is now full to overflowing. Circa nine minutes you will be rewarded for your industrial strength patience with a deliciously ethereal organ chord sequence that simply blows the likes of the heavily saturated 'Margarine' Dream out of the flotation tank.

See Saw - Mercifully, a welcome return to economy and melodic intent albeit on a rather convoluted 'Syd by Numbers' appropriation which proves if nothing else that Barrett's apparently whimsical creations had an unforgiving internal logic that his imitator's and wannabes sorely lack. It might just be me but I always detect a whiff of incest on this cryptic tale of a brother and sister ?

Another time another day she'll be selling plastic flowers on a Sunday afternoon Picking up weeds she hasn't got the time to care all can see he's not there She grows up for another man and he's down.

Jugband Blues - Heart rending that it had come to this. A very fine and memorable song but one I find hard to listen to without being saddened by the demise it precipitated in its author. Perhaps this represents Syd's first disoriented steps beyond the cusp of 'wholeness' on a composition that you could be forgiven for thinking is the product of a bicameral mind. It's doubtful if Syd would even have remembered writing, performing or recording this number.

And I'm wondering who could be writing this song I don't care if the sun don't shine and I don't care if nothing is mine and I don't care if I'm nervous with you I'll do my loving in the winter and the sea isn't green and I love the queen and what exactly is a dream ? and what exactly is a joke ?

Despite the inexorable advance of Syd's deteriorating mental condition, he continued to be able to produce work that carries the indelible mark of true greatness on two solo albums before the muse, without turning its back, left silently and forever leaving the piper alone at the gates of delirium.

From this point onwards, Floyd's output was of very little interest to me. I don't consider what followed any less accomplished than the first two albums but for this rodent, Pink Floyd were a brilliant pop group with a song-writing genius on board. Once the latter had disembarked that vessel at the behest of a mutinous crew, they became just an incredibly talented and innovative rock band. Greedy ? Not me.

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