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Music CD - Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets
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Music CD: A Saucerful of Secrets
Artist: Pink Floyd
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $5.75
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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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
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077774638326
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Capitol
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Summary: Progressive rock
Comment: Pink Floyd evolved to a super group over the years, but I love to go back to the early years. They were way ahead of their time. I remember when I was first introduced to Pink Floyd in Spring 1968, when I saw a video of "Let There Be More Light" on TV. That got my attention, and I've been a fan ever since.
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Summary: do you know what distraughts me
Comment: Syd Barrett literally went sick in a six month period march67-aug67...SIX MONTH PERIOD...That messed him for the next 28 years till he died. And his band become the most popular band in the whole world. Did Syd know this. He died very well off. Dave Gilmour owed him enough.
It took me 20 years before I got to my vegetable man state.
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Summary: a classic period piece
Comment: It's important to keep in perspective when albums are released and the culture from which they arise. Reviewers who knock this album as being uneven -especially when compared to their later work- are missing the point.
This music was of it's time and very inspiring to the young music enthusiast of the late 60's. I would still rate the title track, "A Saucerful of Secrets" as one of the most psychedelic songs of all time. "Let There be More Light" is wonderful if for nothing else than the opening base line by Roger; but it also has that soaring Gilmore vocal line on the hook, and of course the spacey ending. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun will always be a classic Floyd song from the early daze. Corporal Clegg was actually an underground FM radio favorite back then in my hometown (Kansas City), and while it was never my favorite, it definitely has it's own charm- an early Water's composition.
The post Syd band was experimenting with sound and atmosphere, and more often than not, they succeeded. This is a classic album from this period and a must for any self respecting Floyd-O-Phile. Recommended for any fan of late 60's psychedelic/ underground art rock.
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Summary: Remember the Day
Comment: I read today that Richard Wright has passed away. Fare thee well, musician soul.
I always thought that his "Remember a Day" was one of Pink Floyd's most haunting songs:
Remember a day before today
A day when you were young.
Free to play alone with time
Evening never comes.
Sing a song that can't be sung
Without the morning's kiss
Queen you shall be it if you wish
Look for your king .
Why can't we play today...
Why can't we stay that way...
Climb your favorite 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...
With deeply evocative singing, amongst a waxenly-flowing jazz-tinged deep-space sound, these lyrics reach toward musical transcendence.
Thank you for this special song, Mr. Wright. It is, to my ears, enduring Art.
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Summary: Part 2: A hint of later glories.
Comment: Syd went crazy somewhere in 1967, so they had to get rid of him, and doing so, got the immensly more talented David Gilmour on guitar. Good choice, guys. Their sound was never the same after that, but they still had a long way to go before Meddle and Dark Side. This is the beginning of what I call the "finding ourselves" phase. The band tried to make a better album than Piper, which is fine by me, but it only succeeds in a few tracks. Let There Be More Light has a really cool bassline (Wow, Roger can play), but it degenerates into a noodling pointless jam. Remember A Day and See-Saw are both romantic hippie songs that really don't go anywhere. The good tracks, however, such as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun and the title track, point towards the right direction. The former being a space mantra that would border on the intense level live (flaming gongs and all that), and the title track basically being orchestrated noise with an uplifting ending. These 2 tracks are the saving grace of the album, and it's almost worth the price. Jugband Blues, though, really sucks. This is Syd at his most scizophrenic, and he can barely play the melody through without changing the time signature. I guess it was a nice gesture though. On the whole, not that great, but it's a foreshadow of things to come.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A Saucerful of Secrets is an uneven album that could glibly be called Pink Floyd's sophomore jinx, though it's a bit more complicated than that. The problems behind the band's second outing can be summed up in two words: Syd Barrett. Or rather, the absence thereof. The creative force behind Floyd's first distinctively baroque collection is credited with just one track here ("Jugband Blues") and the occasion marked the beginning of his decades-long withdrawal from public life, battles with mental illness, and burgeoning cult legend. What's left is essentially the first album by the "classic" Floyd lineup, though they're understandably a long way from their focused 1970s prime (as witnessed by the 11-minute title track); the dense sound and effects collages that are mere seasoning on later Floyd records are too often the whole point here. Roger Waters barely hints at his later glories on "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," a would-be stellar journey that's ultimately rather pedestrian. An album that seems alternately driven by a genuine experimental spirit one moment and creative panic the next. --Jerry McCulley
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