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A Saucerful Of Secrets: Have At It! |
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SteveG 
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 Topic: A Saucerful Of Secrets: Have At It!Posted: February 12 2020 at 09:57 |
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I's either great or just meh, depending on the Floyd fan. Which camp are you in?
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 10:10 |
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you mean "A Saucerful of Secrets"? My favorite psychedelic PF album, along with More and Ummaguma Live. TBH I always found the Barrett song as the weakest song on the album. |
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 10:12 |
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Damn spellcheck!
 
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 10:35 |
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Ummagumma was my first Floyd lp....smoked some weed with some college friends and heard Ummagumma. Went back to hear the first 2....some decent tracks on both ,but they never really captured my interest as much as the ones after Umma.
I guess just an ok lp then...but really like Set the Controls.
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 10:35 |
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Side one is really solid, side two is pretty boring
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 11:44 |
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Love all those early albums, cos there is pros and cons but who cares, it music history at is best.
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 11:54 |
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I love it. I heard A Saucerful of Secrets for the very first time yesterday and it's now on my list of albums to go out and buy.  I'm not so keen on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album though, mainly because of Syd Barrett's influence on it.
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Barrett’s influence is still strong on this album. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun was performed as a five piece quite a bit before the album was released, and his footprint is all over the album, even though his writing credits are extremely limited. Indeed, I would argue that they never really broke free of Syd until at least Meddle. Others, of course, would argue it was even later. He was most certainly on their minds in the recording of WYWH.
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 12:49 |
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I love it. I bought the Vinyl in 1968...
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 12:57 |
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Great album. That said, for me PF could just as well have called it a day after DSOTM. Division Bell is my next stop after DSOTM. That said, there are some real gems on The Final Cut, which I still listen to on occasion. Ironically, I love all of Rogers solo albums, I just can't stand his PF control freak albums.
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Posted: February 12 2020 at 13:30 |
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A Secret Full of Sauces.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: February 20 2020 at 01:26 |
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Absolutely great, the greatest Floyd album after Atom Heart, even slightly greater than Piper!
It was the last 67-79 Floyd album I got as vinyl, it was really hard to find from Finland in eighties. Edited by Mortte - February 20 2020 at 01:27 |
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Posted: February 22 2020 at 13:13 |
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It's a nice album, though yet not among their greatest. I love Let there be more Light and Remember a Day. And of course I also love Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and A Saucerful of Secrets, though I like much more their live versions (Ummagumma and Live at Pompeii). Jugband Blues deserves some attention too, but mostly because of the almost prophetic... or perhaps just preceptive, lyrics it's got.
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Posted: February 22 2020 at 15:18 |
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the era of Floyd which I prefer began with Saucerful and ended with Meddle. I love Piper but it inhabits a different part of my heart for very different reasons.. as does post DSOTM Floyd
 . There are some fantastic bootlegs of live and session versions of material from that earlier period.. There was still some pressure to produce singles so 'Point me at the sky' and 'Julia Dream' came from that late Syd/ early post Syd period.. also great proto version of 'Careful with that axe' called 'Murderistic Woman' along with early versions of 'The Embryo', 'The narrow way' and 'Green is the colour'. And of course there was some great stuff buried in the Zabriske point soundtrack..
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