Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
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Artist: Pink FloydEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Let There Be More Light
- Remember A Day
- Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
- Corporal Clegg
- A Saucerful Of Secrets
- See-Saw
- Jugband Blues
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Free Music Review: PINK FLOYD WANTS YOUR FACE!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album for a long time was one I always passed off, but over the years it has steadily climbed its way to the top of my Floyd pile. Syd leaves his legacy on just one track. The closeout JUGBAND BLUES. Syds style itself has gone from being a type of pyschedelic pop on the previous album, to the revealing twisted personal accounts that he would write for his two solo albums. In a way I see this song as Syd saying :Thanks and F off: To his former band mates. Creepy and beautiful songwriting, and an excellent close out.
The rest of the material leading up, is the rest of the band, with new guitar Dave Gilmoure, finding an identity. Theres no psychedelic pop here. Most of this set is out to attack your mind from the inside out. Floyd is in your face! Like space. LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT just sets the album off. They don't fool around, this is one of THE absolute best Floyd tracks there is. Soaked in atmospheric madness, and folky space like vocals. REMEMBER A DAY is more mellow, as is SET THE CONTROLS. CORPRAL CLEGG is weird underground british psych. Then the title track. Its kind of a nightmare. This was the attempt at an Interstellar Overdrive, only I think the band beefed it up a little to make up for the shortage of Syds pen. Its one of the darker Floyd instrumental space outs for sure. This insanity is bridged into the Syd track with SEE SAW, another smooth folk offering from Rick Wright, with a little of the albums trip vibe on it for good flow.
All together Saucerful is yet another Floyd gem, that just gets better every time you hear it, with some fine identity all of its own. Its freaky trippy good... just make sure you hold onto your face, they may just snatch it away from you when your not aware.
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A Saucerful of Secrets is an uneven album that could glibly be called Pink Floyd's sophomore jinx, though it's a bit more complicated than that. The problems behind the band's second outing can be summed up in two words: Syd Barrett. Or rather, the absence thereof. The creative force behind Floyd's first distinctively baroque collection is credited with just one track here ("Jugband Blues") and the occasion marked the beginning of his decades-long withdrawal from public life, battles with mental illness, and burgeoning cult legend. What's left is essentially the first album by the "classic" Floyd lineup, though they're understandably a long way from their focused 1970s prime (as witnessed by the 11-minute title track); the dense sound and effects collages that are mere seasoning on later Floyd records are too often the whole point here. Roger Waters barely hints at his later glories on "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," a would-be stellar journey that's ultimately rather pedestrian. An album that seems alternately driven by a genuine experimental spirit one moment and creative panic the next. --Jerry McCulleyPop Music CDs
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