| More |
 |
| Released: 1969 by Tower Records Running Time: 44:56 Ranking: #14 out of 14 studio albums Album Highlight: Cymbaline Album Weak Point: Quicksilver Average Song Rating: *** Comments: This is the least essential Pink Floyd studio album, and one of the weakest overall. Most of the songs aren't good enough to make the album worth listening to repeatedly. However, the songs aren't all that bad. There are just no stand-outs or great songs that you would want to listen to again for any good reason, except for "Cymabaline". The album serves best as background music, without any signifigant level of emotion to keep your attention. |
|
| 1- Cirrus Minor Written by: Waters Running Time: 5:18 Rating: *** Comments: The music doesn't even begin until you are a minute into the song, and until then you can relax to the sounds of birds chirping. The lyrics are simple, but sung very well, and it's certainly not a difficult song to listen to. Lyrics: in a churchyard by a river lazing in the haze of midday laughing in the grasses and the graves yellow bird, you are not long in singing and in flying on in laughing and in leaving willow weeping in the water waving to the river-daughters swaying in the ripples and the reeds on a trip to cirrus minor saw a crater in the sun a thousand miles of moonlight later |
|
| 2- The Nile Song Written by: Waters Running Time: 3:26 Rating: *** Comments: This song is a heavy rock n' roll song, in great contrast to the previous track. The music isn't bad, but the quality is low, and the lyrics, all of which are shouted, do not seem to have much meaning behind them. Lyrics: i was standing by the nile when i saw the lady smile i would take her for a while for a while like tears that like a child how her golden hair was blowing wild then she spread her wings to fly for to fly soaring high above the breezes going always where she pleases she will make it to the island in the sun i will follow in her shadow and i'll watch her from my window one day i will catch her she is calling from the deep summoning my soul to endless sleep she is bound to drag me down drag me down |
|
| 3- Crying Song Written by: Waters Running Time: 3:33 Rating: ** Comments: This is a boring song with the simplest lyrics you could imagine, and hardly anything else to it. Their is nothing special about the melody or the music, and the only thing positive is how it's sung. Lyrics: we smile and smile we smile and smile laughter echoes in your eyes we climb and climb we climb and climb foot falls softly in the pines we cry and cry we cry and cry sadness passes in a while we roll and roll we roll and roll help me roll away the stone |
|
| 4- Up The Kyber Written by: Mason, Wright Running Time: 2:12 Rating: ** Comments: This is a very short instrumental that features the most amateurish piano improvisations over what can be considered some fairly good, although hardly innovative drumming. (no lyrics) |
|
| 5- Green Is The Colour Written by: Waters Running Time: 2:58 Rating: *** Comments: This is actually a fairly good song, featuring some excellent acoustic guitar strumming and a wind instrument in the background. The lyrics show some sign of actually having meaning. All the elements combined in this song make it easy and enjoyable to listen to. Lyrics: heavy hung the canopy of blue shade my eyes and i can see you white is the light that shines through the dress that you wore she lay in the shadow of a wave hazy were the visions overplayed sunlight on her eyes but moonshine made her blind every time green is the colour of her kind quickness of the eye deceives the mind envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned |
|
| 6- Cymbaline Written by: Waters Running Time: 4:50 Rating: ***** Comments: Out of all the songs on this album, this is the one that sticks with you in the most pleasant way. The lyrics are sung wonderfully, and a beautiful melody carries throughout the whole song. It's enjoyable from the first listen, but it grows on you each time you hear it. This is a tremendously good song, one of the best by the Early Pink Floyd. Lyrics: the path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high the ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby apprehension creeping like a tube train up your spine will the tightrope reach the end? will the final couplet rhyme? and it's high time cymbaline it's high time cymbaline please wake me a butterfly with broken wings is falling by your side the ravens all are closing in there's nowhere you can hide your manager and agent are both busy on the phone selling coloured photographs to magazines back home and it's high time cymbaline it's high time cymbaline please wake me the lines converging where you stand they must have moved the picture plain the leaves are heavy round your feet you hear the thunder of the train suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range and doctor strange is always changing size and it's high time cymbaline and it's high time cymbaline please wake me and it's high time cymbaline and it's high time cymbaline please wake me |
|
| 7- Party Sequence Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason Running Time: 1:07 Rating: ** Comments: This is not a very bad song, but there's nothing good about it, other than the fact that it's short. It's an instrumental featuring nothing but some drums and a wind instrument playing in the background. There is no real melody or rhythm, but it's actually not too tedious to hear. (no lyrics) |
|
| 8- Main Theme Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason Running Time: 5:28 Rating: **** Comments: It sounds like it's going to be a tedious five and a half minutes when this first song begins, with nothing but a faint melody and some wind sound effects, but once the drums set it, it gets into a nice beat. Then another instrument comes in over the drums and sound effects, and it sounds quite good. The song just builds from there, and actually turns out to be a very good instrumental, and one of the better songs on the album. (no lyrics) |
|
| 9- Ibizia Bar Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason Running Time: 3:19 Rating: *** Comments: This song sounds a lot like "The Nile Song" before it, but it's just a little bit better. The sound is of a slightly higher quality, the lyrics aren't shouted, and it has a nicer melody. Other than that, the songs are about the same. Lyrics: i'm so afraid of mistakes that i've made shaking every time that i awake i feel like a cardboard cut-out man so build me a time when the characters rhyme and the story line is kind i've aged and aged since the first page i've lived every line that you wrote take me down take me down from the shelf above your head and build me a time when the characters rhyme and the story line is kind i live where i'm left on the shelf like the rest and the epilogue reads like a sad song please pick up your camera and use me again and build me a time when the characters rhyme and the story line is kind, yeah |
|
| 10- More Blues Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason Running Time: 2:12 Rating: *** Comments: This begins the series of instrumentals that make up the rest of the album. It's not very good, but not quite bad either, with some good guitar playing and drumming. It's not very powerful, but it comes close to that level, and sounds all right in comparison to other instrumentals on the album. (no lyrics) |
|
| 11- Quicksilver Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason Running Time: 7:13 Rating: ** Comments: This is the longest song on the album, beginning only with some very strange sound effects, and then slowly fading into the very faint music, which at first can hardly be heard over the sound. There is no melody, no beat, and absolutely no flow to the whole thing. This is one of the worst instrumentals of any Floyd album, and is very tedious to listen to. It's not absolutely horrible, at least not the second half, but this song is too boring and uninspired to be worth the length. (no lyrics) |
|
| 12- A Spanish Piece Written by: Gilmour Running Time: 1:05 Rating: ** Comments: This is not really a piece of music at all, but merely a soliloquy making fun of a spanish person listening to some background music. The scriptwriters wrote the words, and they may be offensive to some, but they are kind of amusing. (no lyrics) Some Words: bottle of tequila, manuel...listen, gringo...i kill you...i think...ah this music sets my soul on fire...lovely senorita... <unclear mumbling> |
|
| 13- Dramatic Theme Written by: Waters, Wright, Gilmour Running Time: 2:15 Rating: *** Comments: The last piece of music on this album is kind of groovy, with a nice steady rhythm and good beat. The notes of the guitar echo a lot, making a nice effect. Just like the rest of the album, there isn't much to this song, but there's nothing especially wrong with it, either. A short and pleasant song brings this album to a weak but enjoyable close. (no lyrics) |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |