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Feb. 25th, 2007
Last weekend, while in Euston, I took the opportunity to finally complete my Pink Floyd collection, with the last three albums I didn't have on CD, two of which I had never even heard. mainly this is becauswe they are from the early phase, about which I am ambivalent at best (thank you Tompkins Minor, I know you think Piper is the only decent thing they ever did, and I don't care).
The three purchases, fro those keeping score, were A Saucerful of Secrets, More, and Oscured by Clouds. Two of these are arthouse soundtracks, which probably tells you that the bottom of the barrel is hoving into view...
I am currently listening to the least ancient of these, "Obscured by Clouds". Soundtrack to an almost forgotten film called "La Vallee", it is interesting, because it has the same sense of transition as Meddle (which it is more or less contemperaneous to), but where Meddle is beautifully put together and really quite spiffing, this is much rougher round the edges. It has some fine moments, but (like many soundtrack albums) it really doesn't hang together very well. In fact, what much of it reminds me of is Air's soundtrack to the Virgin Suicides, except with more guitars.
I am somewhat nervous of the More soundtrack, however, which I am widely informed is what is known in the trade as "crap". And frankly, with the exception of Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun, I suspect that A Saucerful of Secrets will leave me slightly cold.
Observation: just reached "Free Four". By gum, they've just turned into the Kinks...
The three purchases, fro those keeping score, were A Saucerful of Secrets, More, and Oscured by Clouds. Two of these are arthouse soundtracks, which probably tells you that the bottom of the barrel is hoving into view...
I am currently listening to the least ancient of these, "Obscured by Clouds". Soundtrack to an almost forgotten film called "La Vallee", it is interesting, because it has the same sense of transition as Meddle (which it is more or less contemperaneous to), but where Meddle is beautifully put together and really quite spiffing, this is much rougher round the edges. It has some fine moments, but (like many soundtrack albums) it really doesn't hang together very well. In fact, what much of it reminds me of is Air's soundtrack to the Virgin Suicides, except with more guitars.
I am somewhat nervous of the More soundtrack, however, which I am widely informed is what is known in the trade as "crap". And frankly, with the exception of Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun, I suspect that A Saucerful of Secrets will leave me slightly cold.
Observation: just reached "Free Four". By gum, they've just turned into the Kinks...