9/19/2023 0 Comments Atom heart mother artThe film soundtracks are More (1969), Zabriskie Point (1971) and Obscured by Clouds (1972), the last one of which they knocked off in an intense week, apparently. An example of this smoothness is See-Saw.īetween 19 the Floyd drifted, making a series of experimental albums and soundtracks to films. Conversely, other tracks sound much smoother and idyllic, and it’s notable how the lyrics fit smoothly into the songs instead of sticking out at unexpected angles, as they did in Syd’s songs. In its way it’s more experimental than their debut, with many more electronic soundscapes – witness the sustained weirdness of the title track, A Saucerful of Secrets. Only one of the songs is by Syd and all the others lack his rackety inspiration. You can hear the change in the second album – A Saucerful of Secrets. Nice middle-class boys from Cambridge who met in London art schools in the mid-60s, they formed a four-piece band based round charismatic front man, guitarist and songwriter, Syd Barrett, released a couple of singles and their debut album – dominated by their trademark composition Interstellar Overdrive – and headlined ‘scene’-defining ‘underground’ gigs in the Summer of Love.īut Syd took too much LSD, becoming wildly unreliable, so in 1968 the band gently dropped him and replaced him with their friend and lead guitar supremo, David Gilmour. You can learn everything you need to know and more from their Wikipedia article or the band’s own website. It follows last year’s big exhibition about the 60s ( You Say You Want A Revolution) and 2013’s David Bowie exhibition, which broke attendance records. This massive exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s first album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’, and debut single, Arnold Layne, way back in 1967.
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