PINK FLOYD

A Saucerful of Secrets A
Genre: Rock

Release Date: 1968

Formats: CD, Cassette, LP
Label: Capitol
Track Listing:
1.Let There Be More Light
2.Remember a Day
3.Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
4.Corporal Clegg
5.A Saucerful of Secrets
6.See Saw
7.Jugband Blues

Re-written review coming soon.

Ummagumma C-
Genre: Rock

Release Date: 1969

Formats: CD, Cassette, LP
Label: Capitol
Track Listing:
1.Astronomy Domine
2.Careful With That Axe, Eugene
3.Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4.Saucerful Of Secrets

Ummagumma Vol. II
Genre: Rock Release Date: 1969 Formats: CD, Cassette, LP
Label: Capitol
Track Listing:
1.Sysyphus, Part 1
2.Sysyphus, Part 2
3.Sysyphus, Part 3
4.Sysyphus, Part 4
5.Grantchester Meadows
6.Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict
7.The Narrow Way, Part 1
8.The Narrow Way, Part 2
9.The Narrow Way, Part 3
10.The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Entrance
11.The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Entertainment
12.The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Exit

Re-written review coming soon.

More B -
Genre: Rock

Release Date: 1969

Formats: CD, Cassette, LP
Label: Capitol
Track Listing:
1.Cirrus Minor
2.The Nile Song
3.Crying Song
4.Up the Khyber
5.Green Is the Colour
6.Cymbaline
7.Party Sequence
8.Main Theme
9.Ibiza Bar
10.More Blues
11.Quicksilver
12.A Spanish Piece
13.Dramatic

Re-written review coming soon.

Atom Heart Mother B +

Released:1970
Formats: CD, Cassette, LP
Genre: Rock
Label:Capitol

1.Atom Heart Mother Suite: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funk
2.If
3.Summer '68
4.Fat Old Sun
5.Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise and Shine/Sunny Side up/Morning GL

Meddle A
Released:1971
Formats:CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.One of These Days
2.A Pillow of Winds
3.Fearless
4.San Tropez
5.Seamus
6.Echoes

This is one of my favourite albums and i would have given this a clear A+ but for 'Seamus'.It's a huge step up for Pink Floyd specially the 23 minute long 'Echoes'which has got to be their best song after 'shine on you..'.This epic is much better than the Atom heart mother epic with almost no boring parts except when they start screaming in between.The album starts off with 'One of these days' .This one kicks ass to the moon, baby.Can this be Pink Floyd!?

A low mean guitar driven thrasher with someone saying something inaudible?Infact I think it was a vocal synthesizer they used.He says someting like "one of these days i'm gonna cut you into little pieces" and then the song really kicks off making me want to bang my head more than all of your idiotic heavy metal bands of nowadays( the key word being nowadays,i really bang my head on listening to Black Sabbath's Paranoid)And then the mood changes with 'A Pillow Of Winds'.Everything slows down.In fact in my opinion they overdid it bringing the album to fullstop in 'Seamus'which is a country song with a dog howling et all.And it's boring.Very boring with 'San tropez' only being a little less boring.

All in all a good album with a terrific B side.And there something like a football crowd singing at the end of 'Fearless'.And if you don't like Echoes go and listen to Britney Spears.Yeah I know that is rather extreme but so is Echoes,damn it all.

Relics A
Released:1971
Formats:CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.Arnold Layne
2.Interstellar Overdrive
3.See Emily Play
4.Remember a Day
5.Paintbox
6.Julia Dreams
7.Careful With That Axe, Eugene
8.Cirrus Minor
9.The Nile Song
10.Biding My Time
11.Bike

A compilation containing 2 singles 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play' and let me tell you Syd Barrett was a genius.It suddenly struck me after listening to 'Arnold Layne' and 'Interstellar Overdrive' in succesion and after that 'See Emily Play'.There some aura about the songs that makes them sad.Where will you hear the guitar so haunting and queer?The tunes on first listen sound bad.Yeah, but that is on first listen.They sound off-key.

What I meant to say is that Syd Barrett is for die-hard rock fans.

I did not describe 'Interstellar Overdrive' properly but that was my first review.

I said it was weird.Well it is.I thought that my headphones were not working properly when i first listened to it.

But it is weird in a good way.Syd does make some forgettable noises but that was his mental instability coming through.It starts off okay but then it comes down to Syd sliding ball bearings up and down his guitar(maybe..maybe how the hell does he make that weird noise,please somebody let me know) and twanging it to make noises to scare you.I mean to say that this kicks ass.Serious ass.

Like the rest of the album.But why only one song from the 'Saucerful of Secrets' album?And they could have included something better than 'Bike' from their first album.But I totally agree with the song selection from 'Ummalummadumagumma'.

Oh,and a correction.In my 'More' review I mentioned the birds chirping on 'Main Theme.Well it was not 'Main..'

they were making the racket but on 'Cirrus Minor' on here which is one of my favourite songs from'More'.

The only bad song selected by them for this album was 'The Nile Song'.

With so many good songs sitting there waiting to be put on the compilation one cannot forget and forgive.

But still good.An A.Recommended to people who do not have money or casual fans.Recommended also to rich people.

Not recommended for those who have the other albums and not too much money.

Obscured by Clouds
Released:1972
Formats:CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.Obscured by Clouds
2.When You're In
3.Burning Bridges
4.The Gold It's in the...
5.Wots...Uh the Deal
6.Mudmen
7.Childhood's End
8.Free Four
9.Stay
10.Absolutely Curtains

A soundtrack for a film 'Zabriskie Point'.Don't have it.Go and buy it if you want to.

Dark Side Of The Moon A+
Released:1973
Formats:CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.Speak to Me/Breathe in the Air
2.On the Run
3.Time
4.The Great Gig in the Sky
5.Money
6.Us and Them
7.Any Colour You Like
8.Brain Damage
9.Eclipse

What can I say about this album?Brilliant.Inspiring.Creative.Innovative.The best Progressive music alum ever.Lots of special effect which makes sense.The best concept album ever.Ain't met a person who hasn't heard it but has heard rock.Stayed on the charts for god knows how much time.Beatles started looking like fools.

Those were just a few of the adultations heapd on this album.Infact some people don't hear this because of the hype.But they are idiots.This not my favourite Pink Floyd but one of my favourite Pink Floyd albums.Infact i don't want to say too much about this album 'cause it's just a waste of time reviewing this album because no rock music lover is without it.And if somebody,some kid of 6 years has not heard it,go and get it.Now.You will find this thing in grocery shops dammit!

No,that was just an exaggeration.But no music shop calls itself a music shop without this album.

Seriously.

You might not like 'On the Run' on first listen but you will dammit.The hits are.. No wait,the non hits are songs 2,4,7,9.The rest all will be played on the radio till kingdom come.

Buy this, now.

Wish You Were Here A+
Released:1975
Formats:CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part One
2.Welcome To The Machine
3.Have A Cigar
4.Wish You Were Here
5.Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part Two

Well I might as well tell you that this is my favourite album of all time so you can except nothing but praise,praise and,yeah more praise from me for this album.And yes I consider this their best ever and Shine On You Crazy Diamond both parts their best song ever.I have been listening to this album for 8 years and I have never got bored yet.It's amazing that they came up with this album right after DSTOM.

Ok,so the radio hit mainly I have come to know through the many sources on the net was the title track which has got to be one of the saddest ballads I have ever heard.Read this now If you haven't read it somewhere before.

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell/Blue skies from pain/Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell?

I mean these guys really know how to write good lyrics.

(Sorry If I exaggerate a little bit,I just heard Backstreet Boys a few moments ago on Mtv)

I don't know how to describe Shine On You Crazy Diamond but the music is beautiful.There is someone called Dick Parry on the saxophone and he has done a good job .It starts of very slowly and I tended to get impatient the first few times i heard it but the start is as glorious as it is slow.And they say it is a tribute to Syd Barrett.A tribute to lost genius and all that and I can tell you nobody has had a better tribute song written for him.The song has many parts but is slower on the whole,slower than the part 2,which has to be one of the most underrated songs in history.

The second song again uses special effects and to good purpose as the sound effects again fit in very neatly indeed.

Well it is a song lambasting the music industry and that continues on the fastest 'normal' song 'Have a Cigar'.Gilmour's guitar playing is exemplary on this album.He uses his strong points ,his slow meticulous style .

to full effect on this album and specially on 'shine..'.

In fact this is the best buy on the Pink Floyd catalogue,and if you don't like this album you either hate music or reside in a lunatic asylum.

Specially recommended for 15 year olds.This will never leave your player.

If you listen to Pop and rap crap like M&M and Snoopy Doggy and 50.5 cents I quite understand.

ANIMALS A

Released:	January 23rd, 1977
Formats:	CD, Cassette, LP
Genre:	Acid Rock
Studio/Live?:	Studio
Label:	CBS Records

Pigs On The Wing, part one [1.25]

Dogs [17.04]

Pigs (Three Different Ones) [11.28]

Sheep [10.16]

Pigs On the Wing Part Two[1.25]

Ahh!Acidic!As acidic as Hydrochloric acid, this stuff.All about dogs and pigs and sheep and i agree on the last 2 descriptions but not with the dogs one.Dogs are good creatures.They don't stick a knife in your back like Waters is making them do.

No,sorry that was all a joke.Right .Lets get on with it.Firstly you can figure out what the animals here represent and it may make different meanings to different people.According to me the Dogs stand for capitalists (robbers),the Sheep stand for thr common folks and i can't make the Pigs out.Lot of special effects on this album as usual and they of course aren't out of place either.I mean Pink Floyd had become experienced by this time as far as special effects were concerned.There are dogs howling(not like the Seamus dog of course!)and Pigs grunting and what-not.Two fillers,one to start the album and one to end it and they both are the same and don't take much of your time.The three epics(well alright Sheep is nearly as long as Pigs.The best one arguably is Dogs.It starts of with more speed than you would expect from Pink Floyd and Hell ! Gilmour must have played the fastest on this one.It slows down before the end and that is kind of boring after you have absorbed the song .It doesn't hold like on DSOTM where you can listen to bells ringing cash registers chiming umpteen number of times partly because they are not drawn out like on Echoes and this one.But the whole song is great specially the end when Waters is shouting desperately "He was..!".Pigs begins with a odd grunting sound then that is drawn out and ultimately the song begins.Unlike Dogs this is not fast and i was a little dissapointed with it at first but as it is with rock songs after you have absorbed the songs you really enjoy them.(I'm not talking about people like Kid Rock and Limpbiskit)I like this one particularly when Waters sings 'Ha! Ha!'.

And then we have Sheep which is nothing notable though I liked it at first. You find yourself listening to Dogs and Pigs after you have listened to this album about 5 times.Fine stuff.Scarcastic,bitter,tense but fine.Antithesis to easy listening.Essential Pink Floyd though you don't want to listen to this too much.Heavy stuff and to be listened to in the night in some dark confined space.

THE WALL A

The Wall - Vol. I
Released:1979
Formats:2CDs
Genre:Rock
Label:Capitol
1.In The Flesh?
2.The Thin Ice
3.Another Brick In The Wall (Part I)
4.The Happiest Days of Our Lives
5.Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
6.Mother
7.Goodbye Blue Sky
8.Empty Spaces
9.Young Lust
10.One Of My Turns
11.Don't Leave Me Now
12.Another Brick In The Wall (Part III)
13.Goodbye Cruel World
The Wall - Vol. II
1.Hey You
2.Is There Anybody Out There?
3.Nobody Home
4.Vera
5.Bring The Boys Back Home
6.Comfortably Numb
7.The Show Must Go On
8.In The Flesh
9.Run Like Hell
10.Waiting For The Worms
11.Stop
12.The Trial
13.Outside The Wall

Well it's been a long time!Been engrossed with studies and all that crap,you know.Not that I'm free right now.I'm not.It's just that I'm feeling free.And that's enough to make one free.And I've got that urge again.This is the last Pink Floyd album I will review (that is,for the time being).The last Pink Floyd album ,unofficially is The Final Cut and I don't possess that.After that David Gilmour and Roger Waters had a court fight and David won so they decided to continue and the impression I get from various reviews on the net(Not the rolling shit mag)is that they all are at best tolerable. And as I do not want to buy a crappy album from my favourite band ,(Waterless too) you will have to do without those.

So what's The Wall like?It's the most bitter Rock Opera in history of good ole' R'n'R.The ultimate concept album.It is another thing that I have never understood what it is all about.Obviously it is to do with Waters 's life as he wrote all the lyrics,formed the concept and all that crap.Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 is something that every teenager sings 'cause well the lines go something like this

We don't need no education

We don't need no false controls

No dark scarcasm in the classroom(Is the spelling correct?)

I sang that a lot too once.(The video is awfully funny.(It starts with a guy listening to Us And Them.))Comfortably Numb is about drugs.(In fact it is all about the R'n'R lifestyle.)Young Lust is about the rocker and his wife breaking up,and ..what else as far as the concept is concerned?Lots.Every song is a brick in the wall so to speak.Every song has something,some concept behind it.

Enough of concept and all that piece 'a' crap.The album has lots of songs,short ones.It starts off with In The Flesh ,a really good song.In fact I get the feeling that some live concert has started on hearing that song and that is really what it is all about.It comes two times ,this one and to tell the truth it is not needed that many times.Useless addition.It ends with a baby crying which starts off The Thin Ice.Another good one which would have been made into a good length rock song by a mediocre rock band.But not Pink Floyd.And then comes the Another Brick in the wall.It's really about the chorus that keeps it going what with all the children singing and ends with a helluva riff.Then comes Mother a veeery scarcastic song.And....

No,No wait a minute.If I start telling you about each and every song you will get bored and won't have any surprises left(Oh, just remembered yesterday was the day when 32 years ago DSOTM reached No 1 on the charts and stayed on the charts for 741 weeks!15 years! (roughly))and I will be late for my damn Physics class.

The only bad song on record is Don't Leave Me Now.God,it drags!The best song ..well hard to say.There is Comfortably Numb,Hey You,Run Like Hell,Another...As I said lots of short good rock songs.The filler material is quite a lot.But it's the filler material that makes the album what it is.Without 'Don't Leave...'And The useless addition of In The Flesh II on the second side this would have been a clear A+.Go buy it if you haven't got it by now.And yes.Pink Floyd is the best band that ever existed.

When Outside the wall ends hear carefully and you will hear someone say softly "Is This where ?"And before In the Flesh you will hear "We came in?".Ha!I spotted something only 1 in a 10,000 notice!(Well allright ,I spotted that there was a noise at the very end and my friend deciphered what he was saying.Thank you,pal)

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