Pink Floyd: More - POLL

Hmm, how long we got? 6 days?

will dig it up..

Cymbaline, now and forever. A much better record than most people think.

cirrus minor is one of my fave floyd tunes. it ... rules.

Those '70/'71 live versions of GITC and Cymbaline are a good gateway to this record.

a spanish piece

Sometimes get the Main Theme in my head, and spend hours trying to figure out what German band's tune it is.

Could listen to "Main Theme" on loop forever.

Jazz flautist Hubert Laws covers "Cymbaline" and "Crying Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvK_O3IiHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSWkb3SgLU

I forgot how much I like that version of "Crying Song."

This was probably the Floyd album that took the longest to love, or at least Side 2. Putting 5 songs on Side 1 and 1 on Side 2 was a strange bit of sequencing.

Green is the Colour

I had forgotten that Voivod had covered The Nile Song too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6XiGcod5tI

I guess this and Obscured By Clouds have the deepest cuts, I wonder how many Floyd fans would say 'wha?' if you said your all-time favourite track was Stay or Quicksilver.

I'm a Floyd fan and I would for one

Cirrus Minor, totally trippy.

i adore cirrus minor and cymbaline but will vote for the nile song as i had a very formative first experience while that song was playing. :)

come on, nobody's favorite track is quicksilver. "a spanish piece", sure, but not "quicksilver".

re: floyd covers, robyn hitchcock did a nice "cirrus minor" with jon brion on mellotron. hrvatski did a "cirrus minor" that's horrible IDM, on the other hand. some obscure project of a band i never heard of called "failure" did a version of "ibiza bar" that's nice and tremmed out.

while we're talking about "more", how about the different versions of the songs only in the movie? in the film (where the music is all diegetic) roger sings "cymbaline", and there's an unreleased song called "seabirds" included as well. the movie is completely awful, incidentally.

while we're talking about "cymbaline", i used to have some BBC session bootleg that featured, what is for me, the definitive version of that song. i sadly no longer have it and am wondering if anyone knows if it is available anywhere?

sure, here among other places, though this is mislabeled as from the '68 session when it's actually from the may 12 1969 "night ride" session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMkbGuCd8JQ

personally i prefer this version live in a church in '71... check that fab azimuth coordinator action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yGepLq77Oc

I kinda like this "Cirrus Minor" cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCV84ASNkyQ

"Cymbaline" from 1970-11-22 in Montreaux is a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3Y-gGuNmc

I love that Montreaux performance.

thanks rushomancy, that's the one, though oddly i remembered it being way longer. false memory syndrome, patently! the version in the church and the montreaux ones are great too. i didn't know matias aguayo & jorg burger (terrapin) had done a version of "cirrus minor". pretty good.

I'd forgotten how much "The Crying Song" nicks from Syd's "Opel"

I'm not up on Pink Floyd reissues, has this album ever been released with all the music recorded for the film included? The song, " Seabirds", Waters vocals of various tracks etc?

No, but I've heard that the 'Early years' box set idea has been revived, it was due to happen in the wake of the Immersion series but got sidelined when parts of EMI back catalogue got subsumed by Warner Music, but things are supposedly back on track.

At the time I heard talk of live performances and a remixed Obscured By Clouds so maybe some stuff in the vaults from that era will emerge, I'd like them to release the mono version of Saucerful.

What did you think of that "Albums that don't exist" second Floyd album with Syd?

Oh, he's gone

Heya Mark,
Is this the blog that you linked to on the main PF thread? I haven't had a look, but I'll check it out.

if we're talking cirrus minor covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9WTmaZ7go

xpost it is, indeed

i saw robyn hitchcock do a pretty amazing cirrus minor (w/ jon brion on keys) back in the late 90s -- don't know if he's done it since, but it was great.

thinking about it it's really pretty amazing how many half-assed songs pink floyd threw together in '69. during the same couple of months in early '69 they threw together the tracks for both "more" and "ummagumma", worked on syd barrett's first solo record, and completely overhauled their entire live set, as well as jamming on one-offs like "moonhead". it took them until maybe march of 1970 (when "atom heart mother" started taking shape and "the embryo" had turned into a proper song) to actually start making serious attempts at songwriting again. that's not a knock on this era by any means- though it was their least successful period, there's something oddly appealing to 1969's off-the-cuff hippie jams.

'69-'71 is my favourite era for some of the above reasons, a real eye opener was getting a copy of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Radio gig from '69 and hearing what they did with The Man/Journey suite, which is worth hearing if even just for the version of Biding My Time w/ Wright's wobbly Bonzo Dog trombone before it kicks into a full-on Roadhouse Blues style jam.

A good rule of thumb with Pink Floyd is if there is a piece of work they dislike, disown or are embarrassed by then it's almost certainly worth listening to.

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Ack, I can't recall what track I voted for. Although I guess that's a good sign.

The movie is awesome, by the way. Mimsy Farmer is incredible in it. Let's give some credit to Barbet Schroeder, who had the film completed before Pink Floyd ever looked at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KH6QWmhrU

The Nile Song is very cool. The closest Pink Floyd got to Hawkwind?

Something proto metal about this song.

Yeah, I probably would have voted for 'The Nile Song' if I'd caught this poll at the time. This and Obscured By Clouds = criminally underrated Floyd and are much better albums than some would have you think.

The Zabriskie Point soundtrack is fucking awesome too.

Green is the Colour deserves more love. the delicate falsetto & gently soaring vocal melody are quite lovely.

Totally agree and it really came alive when they played it in concert for that relatively short period.

I remember hearing green is the color in a blockbuster music when they would let you open cds and preview them. Had a real moment in that store. Such a beautiful song.

This is a great CD to put on at parties, just play "Party Sequence" in a loop. If someone asks to hear something else, play "Up the Khyber". When it's time to go to bed, play "More Blues".

nobody's favorite track is quicksilver.

Kluster fans, maybe.

I like it. Mind you, I'm a Kluster fan.