By the time A Saucerful Of Secrets was released the Band (which now included David Gilmour, originally intended to replace Syd Barrett on his Musical functions and leave him as a Songwriter) had already parted ways with Barrett. The relations had really soured in the months prior to his exit, accordingly due to an excessive use of LSD, that ended up messing with his Musical capacities, and in a couple cases the Band just went on to play in concerts without him, using Gilmour as a replacement. It ended up being the only Album where all the 5 Members played in, even though Barrett appears in only three of them and Gilmour on five and also where Richard Wright sang more Lead-Vocals that any other Band Member for the first and last time. On the 6th of April, 1968, it was finally made official that they were now playing without their Founder Syd Barrett and that the new quartet would finish the Album by themselves. It is often regarded as a transition Album, between their Psychedelic Period to their best know Progressive Era.
Best Tracks - "Let There Be More Light", "Remember A Day", "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" and "Jugband Blues". You can start hearing the first examples of what was to come in "A Saucerful Of Secrets", long Instrumental Spacy Tracks in detriment of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, with short Psychedelic Tunes. It is neither this nor that and it has become a sort of downgraded Album, never being mentioned sometimes. Hipgnosis were responsible for the fantastic Cover, the first made by them for Pink Floyd (they went on to make numerous others).
Pink Floyd:
- Roger Waters - Bass, Percussion, Vocals.
- Richard Wright - Piano, Organ, Mellotron, Vibraphone, Vocals.
- David Gilmour - Guitar, Vocals, Kazoo.
- Nick Mason - Drums, Percussion, Vocals.
- Syd Barrett - Acoustic and Slide Guitar, Lead-Vocals.
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their best in my opinion,i remember the first time i listened to this album,quite an experience .
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Not the best in mine opinion but still a great album.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your blog, and I love that you're sticking with it after so long. But, with all due respect, you're missing out on the best Floyd. I'm not going to preach about The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon, though they're clearly master pieces, but come on. Saucerful of Secrets and Piper at the Gates of Dawn are their worst albums. Meddle? Amazing. Atom Heart Mother? Astounding. Syd Barrett was a terrible musician and he held them back. They took off when he got the boot. This is a transition album because it's when they started on the path to getting fantastic, they were still psychedelic after Saucerful. The Atom Heart Mother Suite is a trip and a half, and the last song on the album is literally titled "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Please dig into the better Floyd! And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to incredible music. I follow all of your posts!
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to post the less known Albums by them :) I've heard all those Albums, my first record was The Dark Side... and i must have listened to it more than two hundred times in my short life hehe.
DeleteI must say though, i really enjoy this Albums, especially Piper, and i always thought Atom was their worst. Meddle has some fantastic songs in it though, and it can be expected on this Blog in a couple weeks hehe
Even though there are some exceptions i want to provide the viewers with the lesser known works of the Big Bands and the Smaller ones, as getting the other Albums is extremely easy on the Internet, but there are Albums here, that you can only download from here.
I understand that, that makes sense. But I still find that the content of the first two albums wasn't up to their caliber. The lyrics aren't very meaningful and I'm not the biggest fan of lengthy free form jams. That's why I'd call my self a Grateful Dead fan but stick mostly to American Beauty. But I would enjoy reading your review of Meddle :) and I'm surprised you didn't care for Atom, it might be my favourite Floyd album, behind the obvious mainstream albums. And Obscured by Clouds is amazing too! Childhood's End is my absolute favourite Pink Floyd song of all time. The lyrics are incredible and the song itself is brilliant. But if you can appreciate the first two albums, all power to you! And you're right, you've supplied me with quite a few rarities I've only heard of here :)
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ReplyDeletePink Floyd held back by Syd Barrett?! Like saying the Jimi Hendriz Experience were held back by Jimi Hendrix. Barrett is without doubt one of the greatest geniuses in modern music & as for what he'd ahve done if he'd managed to stay more together . . . I'd say we'd have the most original & brilliant body of work by virtually anyone.
ReplyDeleteBarrett was consuming a whole lot of Psychedelics and was virtually incapable of performing new songs. The same thing that ended happening to The Rolling Stones and Brian Jones.
DeleteI completely agree, Barrett was a brilliant Musician, but he was fired from the Band for his completely abusive consumption of LSD. You just have to see the stories to understand that they wouldn't be able to become one of the greatest Bands ever if they hadn't fired him.
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ReplyDeleteMuchas gracias por tantas joyas.
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