Pink Floyd - More
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Free Music Review: misunderstood classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Some people consider More just a passable (or forgettable) soundtrack album in the legendary career of Pink Floyd. Not me. I believe the music on here is highly memorable and filled with exciting (and bizarre) musical ideas. Some of them really give me the creeps! It's NOT an album filled with pointless atmospheric ideas. No, there's plenty to like about this one. I'd say it's really just as exciting as one of Floyd's more popular albums such as Meddle. "Cirrus Minor" will certainly go down as one of the most eerily bizarre songs that was ever created. There's plenty to like about this album, so give it a chance.
Free Music Review: 2.5 stars
Hit: 3 Stars
A difficult album to rate, in that it was written to score a film and, if any limits can be imposed on Pink Floyd, this one has been. Again, flashes of future greatness, with Roger Waters doing most of the writing, but possibly their weakest overall effort.Free Music Review: More
Hit: 3 Stars
Cirrus Minor from Pink Floyd's More was my introduction to Quadrophonics. I understand it is now called something else but back in the late 60's, it was something special to listen to what appeared to be a bird flying all around the room. More Blues took blues to a different level. Forget the drug stuff. This is innocent compared to much of the music one hears today. Just let the music carry you to exotic lands.Free Music Review: Great early Floyd
Hit: 4 Stars
For most Pink Floyd fans this is probably a relatively obscure release (along with the aptly named "Obscured by Clouds"). The French loved this band in the late 60s and it's probably fortunate for everyone since soundtrack projects like this helped sustain them in the post Syd, post hit singles formative years. Plus it allowed them creative freedom to develop and mature their craft as songwriters and musicians.
"More" may sound dated, especially Rick Wright's keyboards (this is the pre-synth era so he was limited to piano, Hammond, and Farfisa) and the material is split roughly 50/50 between vocal songs and instrumental music. The pastoral and laid back feel of the vocal pieces give the album a warm, hazy glow while the instrumental music has an exotic flair. It all combines to create a relatively relaxed and inviting vibe with a definite late-60s post-psychedelic aftertaste.
Not everyone will enjoy this album, but it captures one of my favorite periods in Pink Floyd's history. Two thumbs up.
Free Music Review: Pink Floyd's first album length soundtrack is still a masterpiece years later
Hit: 5 Stars
English art rockers Pink Floyd's third album Soundtrack From the Film More, was released in July of 1969.
More was Floyd's second film score. Their first was for a movie called The Committee in 1968, which was not ever released until recently (only on DVD). Then, French film director Barbet Schroder (whom would go on to direct Single White Female, Reversal of Fortune, Barfly and La Vallee, which was another movie Pink Floyd would do the film score for and release as the Obscured by Clouds album (see review)) approached the band to do the film score for his film More.
More was a story of love and betrayal set on the then hippie island of Ibiza. The band went to Abbey Road Studios in London to record the score to the film and emerged with 13 tracks (half with vocals and half instrumental) in a week.
Five of the tracks were written by bass player/singer Roger Waters, and are all excellent songs. All of those tracks had guitarist/singer David Gilmour on lead vocals (More was the first full album with Gilmour on all tracks).
The somber but beautiful "Cirrus Minor" opens the album. Next was "The Nile Song", which was the closest that Pink Floyd got to performing heavy metal. The light and somewhat breezy "Crying Song" follows and is good as well. Drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright's aggressive and powerful drums-and-piano workout "Up the Khyber" follows. The next Waters penned track was the superb "Green Is The Colour", which would be in Pink Floyd's set list throughout 1969 and 1970 and is a great song. The exquisite "Cymbaline" follows and is one of my all-time favorite Floyd songs, that song was also a staple of their live shows during their 1969, 1970 and 1971 tours. The brief but superb percussion piece "Party Sequence" ends the first half.
Most of the second half is instrumentals. It starts with the trippy space-rock of "Main Theme", which musically predates the sounds on Shine on You Crazy Diamond by six years. "Ibiza Bar", which is basically the sister rocker to The Nile Song, is the only song with vocals on this half but is very good. The equally-brief blues riff of "More Blues" is next and Floyd would play a variation of this live in their shows in 1971 and once on their 1977 tour. The wild sounds of "Quicksilver" follows and features just Rick's keyboard work at its best. Gilmour plays a mighty classical guitar with goofy Spanish dialect on the classic "A Spanish Piece". The album concludes with "Dramatic Theme", another great instrumental with great Gilmour guitar work.
This album was justly unlooked when released although it did hit the British Top 10. Then, after the success of Dark Side, Harvest/Capitol reissued this album in the summer of 1973 and peaked at #153. However, I didn't discover this album until January 9, 1988 (two weeks before my 12th birthday) when I got it on cassette and loved at first listen (no lie) but the remastered CD, released in 1996, buries it. Doug Sax and James Guthrie did a great job with the remastering on this album. This album has aged well over the last 38 years.
Highly recommended!