Udgivet 1969 Live album produceret af Pink Floyd
Studio album produceret af Norman Smith
Cover Design af Hipgnosis
Højest på den engelske hitliste 5.plads
Udgivet 1969
Live album produceret af Pink Floyd
Studio album produceret af Norman Smith
Cover Design af Hipgnosis
Højest på den engelske hitliste 5.plads
Umma Gumma skulle efter sigende være et slangudtryk for sex - men jeg kan nu ikke se meget sexet over denne plade.
Jeg læste i maj 2012 på Facebook at nummeret "Careful with that Axe Eugene", til at starte med havde mange andre alternative titler : "Keep Smiling People", "Murderistic Woman" og "Beset by Creatures of the Deep"...
Coveret er, som det nok kan ses, flere billeder
sat ind i hinnanden. Der er en lille forskel på CD-coveret og det gamle vinyl-cover. Med Cd'en følger der jo en poster
hvor billedet jo tydeligt kan ses. Også i indlægget til studie-cd'en får man forstørret billedet. Det er helt klart
at det billede fortsætter i det uendelige. Sådan er det ikke på vinyl-coveret.
Første billede er Gilmour (Barfodet),
Waters, Mason og Wright. Så bytter de ellers plads på de næste billeder. Det der så virkelig skiller CD-coveret fra
vinylcoveret, er det sidste billede, dét der hænger på væggen når det er Wrights tur til at sidde forrest. På vinyl-coveret
er det nemlig coveret fra "A Saucerful of Secrets"
Jeg har prøvet at scanne mit
vinylplade-cover. Prøv at klikke på det coveret øverst på denne side, så "zoomer" du ind.
Bagsiden af coveret er deres samlede udstyr linet op. Taget ved "Biggin Hill Airfield". En lille sjov ting ved billedet er, at den af de to roadies er Alan Stiles. Hvad er der sjovt ved det? Det er ham du kan høre på "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Nu når man har hørt det nummer så mange gange, er det da meget sjovt at få et ansigt på.
Nummeret "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" har altid været et af mine yndlingsnumre på denne plade. Mest af alt fordi det er nogle "vrøvle-ord" uden dybere mening. Bare det at titlen er på 76 bogstaver. Prøv at bladre ned og klik på sværdet...
Liveoptagelserne er fra Mothers Birmingham, 27.april 1969 og Manchester College of Commerge, 2.maj 1969
Numre på denne plade
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Live album
Astronomy Domine (Barrett) [8:31]
Lime and limpid green, a second scene, a fight between the blue you
once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters
underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune,
Titan, Stars can frighten.
Lime and limpid green, a second scene, a fight between the blue you
once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters
underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune,
Titan, Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap, flicker, flicker,
flicker blam.
Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime
and limpid green, the sounds surrond the icy waters underground
Lime and
limpid green, the sounds surrond the icy waters underground.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) [8:50]
(Instrumental)
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Waters) [9:26]
Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble
at dawn.
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning.
Under the eaves
the swallow is resting.
Set the controls for the heart of the
sun.
Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness
Waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is
the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
Witness the man who
raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.
Whether
the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the
heart of the sun.
A Saucerful of Secrets (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) [12:49]
(Instrumental)
Studio album
Part I 1:08
Part II 3:30
Part III 1:49
Part IV 6:59
(Instrumental)
Grantchester Meadows (Waters) [7:28]
In the sky a bird was heard to cry.
Misty morning whisperings and gentle
stirring sounds
Belied the deathly silence that lay all around.
Hear
the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
Gone to ground.
See the
splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a river of green is
sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless
summer
Making for the sea.
In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.
All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground.
Basking in the
sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city
room.
Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
Gone to
ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a
river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.
In the lazy water
meadow I lay me down.
All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground.
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of
yesterday into this city room.
Hear the lark harken to the barking of
the dark fox
Gone to ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher
flashing to the water.
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the
trees,
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the
sea.
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict (Waters) [5:01]
Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin
ran it doon by the
haim, 'ma place
well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side
and
I cried, cried, cried.
The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize
and then Cried Marion,
get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket a' ran doon,
doon the middin stain
picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma
feet.
Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive
ye rotten hound of
the burnie crew. Well I snatched fer the blade O my
Claymore cut and thrust
and I fell doon before him round his feet.
Aye!
That Was pretty
avantgarde, Wasn't it ?
A roar he cried frae the
bottom of his heart that I would nay fall
but as dead, dead as 'a can be by
his feet; de ya ken?
...and the wind cried back.
Thank you.
The Narrow Way Parts I,II, & III (Gilmour)
Part I 3:29
Part II 2:54
Part III 5:58
Following the path as it
leads toward
The darkness in the north
Weary stranger's faces show
their sympathy
They've seen that hope before
And if you want to
stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you
the night is
beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling
you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on
your way
Mystery swelling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar ger
louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind
can't conquer all you fears
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
and you know
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling
you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on
your way
Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when love
was life with every morning
Perhaps a day will come when the match for me
the curlers past warning
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you
can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your
way
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Parts I, II, & III (Mason)
Part I :59
Part II 7:06
Part III :40
(Instrumental)
