Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
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Artist: Pink FloydEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Astronomy Domine
- Careful With That Axe, Eugene
- Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
- A Saucerful Of Secrets
- Sysyphus: Part One
- Sysyphus: Part Two
- Sysyphus: Part Three
- Sysyphus: Part Four
- Grantchester Meadows
- Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict
- The Narrow Way: Part One
- The Narrow Way: Part Two
- The Narrow Way: Part Three
- The Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Part One (Entrance)
- The Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Part Two (Entertainment)
- The Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Part Three (Exit)
Free Music Notes for Ummagumma
Free Music Review: Underrated Gem
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1969, Pink Floyd released this monstrosity. Half live and half studio, it is really two albums, and it seems to fall into a "love it or hate it" kind of place with their fans.
STUDIO
Each member got half a side for their studio time. The result is a long instrumental that is more or less hookless, disparate mess of psychedelic noise, an 8-minute drum solo, and two bonafide songs establishing Waters and Gilmour as the songwriters in the band.
LIVE
Here is the real gem. We get four of their early classics played live, extended and more vibrant than their studio incarnations, and they leave their studio versions far behind in the dust.
Despite its faults, it grows on you if you have an open mind. If you like self-indulgant avant-garde noise rock, you'll be right at home on the studio disc, and if you like spacey trad jazz, the live disc is fine.
It is a pity that "Embryo" and "Interstellar Overdrive" were taken off of this album to make room for the studio parts. Perhaps since 2009 is the 30th anniversary, Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason, and EMI might get together and release a special anniversary edition CD with the two omitted live tracks included. "Embryo" live, for those who have only heard the version on "Works", is simply AMAZING, easily as good as "Echoes" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
Highlights: all four of the live songs, "Grantchester Meadows", "Several Species..." and "The Narrow Way".
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Released in 1969, Ummagumma represents where the influence of departed founding songwriter Syd Barrett began to fade in favor of the rather less whimsical and pastoral visions of Roger Waters. Ummagumma is a double album, divided into live and studio halves. The live cuts--"Astronomy Domine," "Careful with That Axe, Eugene," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," and "A Saucerful of Secrets"--established the Floyd's predilection for gloomily atmospheric and faintly preposterous sci-fi bombast that would turn them into such a successful stage act. The kindest that may be said of the studio compositions--by and large interminable avant-prog rambles in search of the lost chord--is that they haven't dated terribly well. --Andrew MuellerPop Music CDs
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