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Here be dragons. Dragons, and dust from the bones of kings and traitors. Stonehenge. The funk of 4,000 years. Spacemen and madmen.
Your mental movie may vary. Hear in it what you will, but English psychedelic music peaked here, courtesy of the sonic beast that was Pink Floyd circa 1969 — captured live and in full throat on disc 1 of “Ummagumma,” the band’s polarizing third album.
“Ummagumma” could have been the greatest live psychedelic music album of them all, and perhaps it still is, by default.
But before that discussion we must dispense with disc 1’s sad-sack sibling, a studio vanity project that gave each member of the quartet his own album side to flail about. Consider that one the “Ummagumma” bonus CD, odds & sods for hardcore fans. A record to be played once a decade, if that. Even the band hated it. Onward.
The “Ummagumma” live disc consists of four spellbinding tracks, easily thought of as a piece if not a song cycle:
They are Syd Barrett’s “Astronomy Domine” from the first album; Roger Waters’ B-side “Careful with That Axe, Eugene”; Waters’ “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” from the second album, “A Saucerful of Secrets”; and the song “A Saucerful of Secrets.”
None of the CD versions, unfortunately, added a live “Interstellar Overdrive,” which had been in the works for the original double LP but was dumped when the second record was dedicated to the studio tracks.
The live tracks were recorded in Birmingham, England, on April 27, 1969, and in Manchester on May 2. All four are, arguably, definitive versions, surpassing their studio originals.
The shows caught Pink Floyd almost exactly a year after the loss of Barrett, a genius and acid casualty. Guitarist David Gilmour had been fully integrated but had yet to step into his fluid signature sound. The Brit pop touches of the band’s first incarnation had been discarded in favor of whisper-to-a-scream dynamics and muscular hard rock, heavy on the bass and drums.
“Stars can frighten,” Barrett warned in the first verse of “Astronomy Domine.” His ex-bandmates carried on with the sci-fi paranoia, true to the time of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Space rock began here, many say. The 8:33 live version is less frantic than the studio original, but more menacing. Like most of Barrett’s work, it’s borderline catchy — dance music for the demented. Gilmour takes over on high-end vocals while replicating much of Barrett’s original guitar playing, but adds some of the slide for which he’ll later become famed.
“Careful With That Axe, Eugene” continues the spooky vibe, with Richard Wright’s electric organ work bringing to mind a funeral Hammer Film soundtrack. Three minutes of creepy foreplay erupts into the screaming of an ax murderer’s prey. Gilmour serves as henchman, a butcher working six steel strings. Repeated listening doesn’t lessen the impact of Waters’ shrieking middle section, which mercifully slows to several minutes of what the impressionistic mind could see as post-carnage twitching and gurgling. A horror film, wordless and Bible black.
Despite the title, Waters’ “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” doesn’t qualify as space rock — the lyrics refer mostly to Earthly plant life and were lifted from ancient Chinese poetry — yet the song’s whispered singing and timpani drumming evoke Stanley Kubrick’s extraterrestrial chill. Keyboardist Wright takes over midsong, his sci-fi effects whirling up sonic solar winds. Tribal drums and Arabic instrumental accents. Remarkable.
Drummer Nick Mason gets the era’s obligatory drum solo spot in the 13-minute instrumental “A Saucerful of Secrets.” The thumping ultimately elevated by the audio freakouts of Gilmour and Wright. An elegiac passage segues into something out of a spaghetti western, starring the guitarist’s anthemic wordless vocals. (We’ve somehow gone from Kubrick to Leone.) The number has four parts and has been described by Waters as a chronicle of a battle.
Intentional or not, the live “Ummagumma” succeeds as a conceptual piece, with a continuity interrupted but not compromised by some brief audience applause. Four songs. Forty minutes. Pink Floyd would go on to global acclaim for its “concept album” rock, but none of the works exhibited the grace, control of chaos and primal mystery of what was assembled here.
Liner notes: Three of the four songs played live on “Ummagumma” turned up in the concert film “Live at Pompeii” (1972), another essential document of Pink Floyd before the “Dark Side of the Moon” era. … The 2011 remaster of the double album greatly enhanced sonics on the studio section of “Ummagumma,” but didn’t do much for the famously muddy live tracks. … The Pink Floyd tours of 1968 and 1969 were heavily bootlegged; some fans believe these boots hold even better versions of the “Ummagumma” live tracks. The presence of lengthy versions of “Interstellar Overdrive” argues for its inclusion on “Ummagumma.” … Be happy with four, however: Cassette versions of “Ummagumma” cut some of the live tracks for space. … And what, exactly, is “Ummagumma”? Tempting to link it with the ancient word Ummah, for spiritual community, but it’s just some roadie’s term for fucking.
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Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: The Discovery Box Set
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: EMI
Genre: Rock
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Title: The Discovery Box Set
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: EMI
Genre: Rock
Quality: AAC, 256 kbps
Total Time: 12:05:53
Total Size: 1,5 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
1967 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (11 / 41:57)
01. Astronomy Domine (04:12)
02. Lucifer Sam (03:08)
03. Matilda Mother (03:09)
04. Flaming (02:47)
05. Pow R. Toc H. (04:27)
06. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (03:07)
07. Interstellar Overdrive (09:41)
08. The Gnome (02:14)
09. Chapter 24 (03:43)
10. Scarecrow (02:12)
11. Bike (03:22)
1968 A Saucerful Of Secrets (7 / 39:25)
01. Let There Be More Light (05:37)
02. Remember a Day (04:33)
03. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (05:29)
04. Corporal Clegg (04:13)
05. A Saucerful of Secrets (11:57)
06. See Saw (04:37)
07. Jugband Blues (03:01)
1969 More (Original Film Soundtrack) (13 / 45:02)
01. Cirrus Minor (05:18)
02. The Nile Song (03:28)
03. Crying Song (03:34)
04. Up the Khyber (02:13)
05. Green Is the Colour (02:59)
06. Cymbaline (04:50)
07. Party Sequence (01:10)
08. Main Theme (05:27)
09. Ibiza Bar (03:20)
10. More Blues (02:13)
11. Quicksilver (07:14)
12. A Spanish Piece (01:06)
13. Dramatic Theme (02:16)
1969 Ummagumma (2CD) (16 / 86:37)
01. Astronomy Domine (Live) (08:32)
02. Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live) (08:50)
03. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Live) (09:28)
04. A Saucerful of Secrets (Live) (12:49)
05. Sysyphus, Pt. 1 (01:08)
06. Sysyphus, Pt. 2 (03:31)
07. Sysyphus, Pt. 3 (01:50)
08. Sysyphus, Pt. 4 (07:00)
09. Grantchester Meadows (07:28)
10. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict (04:59)
11. The Narrow Way, Pt. 1 (03:29)
12. The Narrow Way, Pt. 2 (02:54)
13. The Narrow Way, Pt. 3 (05:58)
14. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 1: Entrance (01:00)
15. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 2: Entertainment (07:07)
16. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 3: Exit (00:40)
1970 Atom Heart Mother (5 / 52:05)
01. Atom Heart Mother Suite (23:42)
02. If (04:31)
03. Summer '68 (05:30)
04. Fat Old Sun (05:24)
05. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (13:00)
1971 Meddle (6 / 46:47)
01. One of These Days (05:55)
02. A Pillow of Winds (05:13)
03. Fearless (06:08)
04. San Tropez (03:44)
05. Seamus (02:15)
06. Echoes (23:33)
1972 Obscured By Clouds (10 / 40:30)
01. Obscured By Clouds (03:05)
02. When You're In (02:32)
03. Burning Bridges (03:31)
04. The Gold It's In the... (03:08)
05. Wot's...Uh the Deal (05:10)
06. Mudmen (04:18)
07. Childhood's End (04:34)
08. Free Four (04:17)
09. Stay (04:08)
10. Absolutely Curtains (05:51)
1973 The Dark Side Of The Moon (10 / 42:55)
01. Speak to Me (01:06)
02. Breathe (In the Air) (02:50)
03. On the Run (03:46)
04. Time (06:55)
05. The Great Gig In the Sky (04:44)
06. Money (06:23)
07. Us and Them (07:50)
08. Any Colour You Like (03:27)
09. Brain Damage (03:47)
10. Eclipse (02:11)
1975 Wish You Were Here (5 / 44:13)
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 (13:32)
02. Welcome to the Machine (07:32)
03. Have a Cigar (05:08)
04. Wish You Were Here (05:35)
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9 (12:28)
1977 Animals (5 / 41:43)
01. Pigs On the Wing, Pt. 1 (01:26)
02. Dogs (17:06)
03. Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11:26)
04. Sheep (10:20)
05. Pigs On the Wing, Pt. 2 (01:27)
1979 The Wall (2CD) (26 / 81:03)
01. In the Flesh? (03:19)
02. The Thin Ice (02:27)
03. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 1 (03:13)
04. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (01:51)
05. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 (03:59)
06. Mother (05:35)
07. Goodbye Blue Sky (02:48)
08. Empty Spaces (02:08)
09. Young Lust (03:31)
10. One of My Turns (03:37)
11. Don't Leave Me Now (04:16)
12. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 3 (01:15)
13. Goodbye Cruel World (01:14)
14. Hey You (04:40)
15. Is There Anybody Out There? (02:42)
16. Nobody Home (03:24)
17. Vera (01:34)
18. Bring the Boys Back Home (01:28)
19. Comfortably Numb (06:23)
20. The Show Must Go On (01:37)
21. In the Flesh (04:16)
22. Run Like Hell (04:24)
23. Waiting for the Worms (03:58)
24. Stop (00:31)
25. The Trial (05:19)
26. Outside the Wall (01:45)
1983 The Final Cut (13 / 46:18)
01. The Post War Dream (03:00)
02. Your Possible Pasts (04:27)
03. One of the Few (01:18)
04. When the Tigers Broke Free (03:13)
05. The Hero's Return (02:43)
06. The Gunner's Dream (05:19)
07. Paranoid Eyes (03:42)
08. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (01:17)
09. The Fletcher Memorial Home (04:10)
10. Southampton Dock (02:14)
11. The Final Cut (04:43)
12. Not Now John (05:02)
13. Two Suns In the Sunset (05:16)
1987 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (11 / 51:01)
01. Signs of Life (04:22)
02. Learning to Fly (04:53)
03. The Dogs of War (06:04)
04. One Slip (05:09)
05. On the Turning Away (05:42)
06. Yet Another Movie (06:13)
07. Round and Around (01:14)
08. A New Machine, Pt. 1 (01:46)
09. Terminal Frost (06:16)
10. A New Machine, Pt. 2 (00:40)
11. Sorrow (08:45)
1994 The Division Bell (11 / 66:26)
01. Cluster One (05:56)
02. What Do You Want from Me (04:22)
03. Poles Apart (07:04)
04. Marooned (05:31)
05. A Great Day for Freedom (04:18)
06. Wearing the Inside Out (06:50)
07. Take It Back (06:13)
08. Coming Back to Life (06:20)
09. Keep Talking (06:11)
10. Lost for Words (05:16)
11. High Hopes (08:32)