Pink Floyd
BBC Archives
1967-71

BBC Archives, 67-69
(HRV CDR 008)
Total Time 76:56

Recorded September 25, 1967
BBC Playhouse Theater
Broadcast October 1, 1967 (Top Gear)

  1. Flaming 2:37
  2. Scarecrow 2:02
  3. Mathilda Mother 3:20
  4. The Gnome 2:09
 
Recorded December 20, 1967
BBC Maida Vale Studios
Broadcast December 31, 1967 (Top Gear)

  5. Pow R Toc H 2:58
  6. Vegetable Man 3:06
  7. Scream Thy Last Scream 3:32
  8. Jugband Blues 3:50

Recorded June 25, 1968
BBC 210 Piccadilly Studios
Broadcast August 11, 1968 (Top Gear)

  9. Let There Be More Light 3:41
10. Murderistic Women 2:18
11. Julia Dream 2:24
12. Massed Gadgets of Auximenes 6:51

Recorded December 2, 1968
BBC Maida Vale Studios
Broadcast December 15, 1968 (Top Gear)

13. Point Me At The Sky 4:21
14. Embryo 3:27
15. Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major 3:55
16. Interstellar Overdrive 8:38
 
Recorded May 12, 1969
BBC Paris Cinema
Broadcast May 14, 1969 (Night Ride)
June 1, 1969 (Top Gear)
17. Daybreak 3:36
18. Cymbaline 3:29
19. Green Is The Colour 3:11
20. Beset By Creatures Of The Deep 3:06
21. The Narrow Way 4:25

BBC Archives, 70-71
HRV 007)
Paris Cinema, London

Disc 1 (July 16, 1970):
59:47
  1. John Peel Intro (0:28)
  2. The Embryo (10:42)
  3. Fat Old Sun (5:51)
  4. Green is the Colour (3:23)
  5. Careful with that Axe, Eugene (8:27)
  6. If (5:48)
  7. Atom Heart Mother (25:08)

Disc 2 (September 30, 1971):
65:41
  1. John Peel Intro (0:42)
  2. Fat Old Sun (15:01)
  3. One of These Days (7:43)
  4. The Embryo (10:46)
  5. Echoes (26:32)
  6. Blues (4:57)





The 70-71 are almost a given as the best pre-Dark Side Floyd recordings. The sets are amazing with songs like Fat Old Sun and The Embryo seeming much more epic in scale than they were in their album releases (as if The Embryo had a REAL album release), both of which sound beautiful.

It's a rare treat to see If anywhere and this performance is very nice. The sound quality on this entire release is very nice. The only point where theres any trouble is the Blues number tacked on at the end. Obviously Harvested didn't have a source for Blues that's quite as good as the other songs in the set, it seems that the beginning of Blues is also missing.

This is also my favorite performance of Echoes with beautiful vocals all around. If you are even slightly interested in 1970-1971 Floyd, I greatly recommend this release as a good suppliment to the albums.


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