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| 1- Astronomy Domine Written by: Barrett Running Time: 8:29 From: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Best Version: Ummugumma (live album) Rating: ***** Comments: From the very beginning of this four-track, incredibly short live album, you know that it is a very unique piece of music. This song starts it off, a very different version from its original form, as far as Pink Floyd song variations go. This version is without the heavy sound effects, and is softer than other versions, yet it is much more powerful somehow. It's impossible to tell that there is an audience on this album, but the live versions here are the best versions of every song on it, and this song is the perfect example. Lyrics: lime and limpid green a second scene a fight between the blue you once knew floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters underground jupiter and saturn oberon, miranda and titania neptune, titan, stars can frighten lime and limpid green a second scene a fight between the blue you once knew floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters underground jupiter and saturn oberon, miranda and titania neptune, titan, stars can frighten blinding signs flap flicker flicker flicker blam pow pow stairway scare dan dare who's there lime and limpid green the sound surrounds the icy waters under lime and limpid green the sound surrounds the icy waters underground |
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| 2- Careful With That Axe, Eugene Written by: Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour Running Time: 8:50 Best Version: Ummagumma (live album) Rating: ***** Comments: The first very haunting song by Pink Floyd is this epic instrumental, which is packed with power. It starts off very mellow, with a great yet simple beat, then begins to build until it suddenly erupts into heavy drums and loud screaming. Afterwards it falls back into a steady, mellow rhythm, and leads you out. This is a very original song, hard to find anything else like it. It definitely tells a story, but what that story is exactly is up to you. (no lyrics) Words: careful with that axe, eugene... |
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| 3- Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Written by: Waters Running Time: 9:12 From: A Saucerful Of Secrets Best Version: In The Flesh Rating: ***** Comments: This is a very slow and haunting tune, much longer and deeper than its original version, and therefore a bit better. There is an annoying hiss on this track though, for some reason, but it's easy to get past that and appreciate the beauty of this song and its very deep, almost philosophical lyrics. The pace gets faster and the music more psychedellic, and then returns to its soft beat, while producing incredible images in your mind throughout. Lyrics: little by little, the night turns around counting the leaves which tremble at dawn lotuses lean on each other in yearning under the eaves the swallow is resting set the controls for the heart of the sun over the mountain, watching the watcher breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine one inch of love is one inch of shadow love is the shadow that ripens the wine set the controls for the heart of the sun the heart of the sun, the heart of the sun... witness the man who raves at the wall? making the shape of his question to heaven whether the sun will fall in the evening will he remember the lesson of giving set the controls for the heart of the sun the heart of the sun, the heart of the sun... |
| 4- A Saucerful Of Secrets Written by: Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour Running Time: 12:48 From: A Saucerful Of Secrets Best Version: Ummagumma (live album) RANKING: #19 ****** Comments: This is an absolutely incredible instrumental, packed with power and emotion. It is one of the best instrumental pieces ever recorded. Starting off rather slow and with a choppy melody, then building and building and finally bursting into a powerful drum solo. The drums solo continues until it finally gives way to a new melody, which is incredibly beautiful, and builds onto itself as well. This version of this song is much better than its original form, mostly because of the very ending. Instead of soft voices of a choir humming in the background near the end, you hear David Gilmour burst in with vocals, and continuing them through the end of the amazing song. The vocals are highly emotional and inspiring, and they make this one of the best tracks Pink Floyd has ever produced. (no lyrics) |
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| Released: 1969 by Harvest Records Running Time: 39:19 Ranking: #4 out of 5 live albums Album Highlight: A Saucerful Of Secrets Album Weak Point: (none) Average Song Rating: ***** Comments: This is a fabulous album, the only flaw being that it only contains four songs. Each song, with the exception of "Set The Controls..." is the best version. The album is consistent from beginning to end, without a single tedious moment to listen to. The last two minutes of the album are the best, with a spectacular level of emotion and intensity. It is worth buying the Ummagumma package just to get this amazing album. |
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