Ummagumma
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Topic: Ummagumma
Posted By: condor
Subject: Ummagumma
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 14:33
| Careful with That Axe, Eugene. |
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Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 14:52
Yep... ------------- He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore |
condor wrote:Posted By: O666
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 15:36
| Meadows for me. I love this unique naturalistic song. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 15:41
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I love the Ummagumma version of "Astronomy Domine". In the midsection how all the instruments fall back leaving only the keyboard. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 15:51
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Careful With That Axe, Eugene ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 16:01
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A Saucerful of Secrets from the live side and either Several Species... or The Narrow Way for the studio. Let me get back to the forum on this...
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 20:40
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I really love this version of A Saucerful of Secrets ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 21:03
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ASOS over CWTAE ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 22:04
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Live: "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" Studio: "The Narrow Way" ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 22:45
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That's the best version of Astronomy Domine |
Posted By: frajo99
Date Posted: October 09 2015 at 23:00
| "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" on account of Rick Wright's Egyptian-esque keyboards. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 01:23
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Several Species for the Waters' fake Scottish accent...I love the whole album and I have voted one of the two tracks still with no votes. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 03:46
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Why are these polls so difficult....?? Possibly Set The Controls.....from the Live half, Sysyphus from the studio half. Do I really have to choose ?? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 05:12
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The Narrow Way, onr of my favourite Pink Floyd tracks. ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 05:12
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The Narrow Way, one of my favourite Pink Floyd tracks. -------------
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Posted By: aliano
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 05:50
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Heart of the Sun Heart of the Sun . . . |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 06:30
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Several Species -------------  
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 17:36
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If only the demos that comprised the studio albums had been done by Pink Floyd (as a band). The Narrow Way was nearly terrific, needed the band touch and Waters was a bit mean (not just to DG) but to the devoted public - us!) for not ensuring a quality experience when DG asked for a helping hand. Meadows however is terrific. Species is real outtake land. Poor old Nick Mason. Half an LP to fill up and he had to cheat by getting his Missus to improvise a melody over a drum solo. Sysyphus is the best complete suite but Meadows my most enjoyable listen on the album. Shame they didn't do The Man / The Journey as well. Or even instead. Put all the pieces into concept context. Now the Live album. Set The Controls should be... now... unedited not faded early. Grr. But I have to go with this classic version of Saucer. Knocks the studio version into demo land. Great vocal at Part 3 and all round terrific performance, Rick Wright at his finest and you get that mesmerising improv (RIO) section. Not that Astronomy Domine and Eugene are lesser. It just needs expanding, mind expanding perhaps. They should have done a separate live album really. One of the more interesting among the odd experiments from the Abdabs. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 18:53
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the one with the very long title in it........don't judge me...... ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:55
I do like The Narrow Way just the way it is... my favourite part of the studio album. Though I guess if it had been played by the whole band it should have been better. Perhaps if I heard some of the live versions I would have a better idea. Actually, I did order some BBC albums I didn't know existed... I don't remember if one of those has The Narrow Way, specially since one of those albums has some of the names changed. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 03:48
Yes, I know what you mean. The Narrow Way is excellent just... well, DG did say he'd "bullsh*tted" his way through it. Perhaps it needed a gestation period because it could have been the most accessible suite on the studio album. Ah well it's there now and has been for a while. What next - Ummmagumma Immersion box? Expanded lie album with Interstellar Overdrive, The Mn The Journey and a few others. Oh by the way, Amusing Notes Dept. There's a bootleg of PF playing Meadows at the beginning the show, start of a UK tour. The compere strolls out and talks to the audience " Would the owner of a yellow Cortina licence plate [etc] please come that front desk as you are about to be towed away." Or words to that effect. Compere then strolls off and leaves the Floyd to continue on... (Some of the details may be awry but the story's straight. He probably wouldn't have tried that with The Who...) |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 04:31
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I have a live vinyl bootleg I picked up in Geneva that captures the band around this point 1. Astronomy 2. Cymbeline 3. Embryo 4. Set the Controls 5. Saucerful. The studio albums did not really capture the transition from 'Saucerful' to 'Atom Heart' - an incredibly creative period for the band. |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 14:41
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I was going to laugh at everyone who chose Species but then realized that it's my favourite too. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 14:58
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Posted By: frajo99
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 19:09
Yeah, but David Gilmour doesn't get to decide when he sounds good. That's for the rest of us.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 11 2015 at 22:06
I guess the studio album would have been better if they didn't stick so strictly to the only one member per side... that limited what they could do too much. The Narrow Way is great (specially part 3), but I guess it would have been better if the other band members, who were each of them better at their own instruments (well, perhaps not Waters on Bass, though), had played as a whole band. I mean, surely drums would have been much better... and the textures Wright could have given the song with his keyboards are beyond whatever Gilmour could try by himself... once again, I bet live versions of this song must be the definitive ones. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 12 2015 at 04:44
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A Saucerful of Secrets ------------- |