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Ummagumma by: Pink Floyd List Price: $23.98 CD-Charts Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077774640428 Format: Live Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Capitol Sales Rank: 4500 MPN: 46404 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Mueller Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - "And By the Way, Which One Is Pink?"That line from a much later song could be an unintentional self-review of this album. What you're getting here is the last hurrah of a much earlier permutation of the band. Half of it is a four-cut live set that I think is their first live album, extended with a smattering of solo works. The live disc contains a version of "Astronomy Domine" that is described by another reviewer with some accuracy as too close to the studio version, but you're also getting "Careful With That Axe Eugene", a slash movie without picture. The intro eases in, someone whispers ominously the warning in the song's title, then guitars and voices start shrieking bloody murder. That track has a shorter studio version that never made either of the first two albums and is ... Read More: Rating:  - Pink Floyd Finding There FeetAround this time period Pink Floyd was a psychedelic band but more progressive rock band that had lost there original singer Syd Barrett, and then hired a new singer, David Gilmour and were bassicly at this time trying too become a successful band. There third album, Ummagumma is a double album with live tracks and experimental studio recordings. The live part of the album was recorded live in 1969 and shows Pink Floyd developing jams they would use later in there carrerrs, Careful With That Axe Eugene, and also still using some Syd Barrett material(Astronomy Domine) Then the album part of this is composed in sections each written by members of the band and is quite experimental. This album for anyone who craves early David Gilmour Pink Floyd ... Read More: Rating: - A Classic album from Pink Floyd from before they became so well knownThis is a CLASSIC album from Pink Floyd. I've loved it since it's release. Not only do you have live tracks of songs from their earliest albums (A Saucerful of Secrets, Astronomy Domine, etc.), but you have a suite of pieces each from Richard Wright (Sysyphus, Parts 1-4), David Gilmour (The Narrow Way, Parts 1-3), and Nick Mason (The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Parts 1,2, & 3). ...Ans don't miss Roger Waters' 2 pieces: Grantchester Meadows and the inimitable (not that any have tried, to my knowledge) Several Species of Small Furry Aninals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict! This album covers Floyd's gamut up to the time of its release (1969) and presages their future from that vantage point. A ... Read More: Rating: - should have been more popular because it's goodThe studio album of Ummagumma is VERY underappreciated. The "Sysyphus" suite is quite ununual the way it begins with a rather dark and intimidating riff that leads into an Emerson, Lake and Palmer piano melody. It's a peaceful and beautiful melody, that stays consistently good for the most part, until it reaches a point where two notes keep rambling back and forth, then the piano playing gets all messy for a minute or so. Not as good as the stuff ELP would do a few years later, but decent enough. The third part features WEIRD monkey sound effects with jungle-like sounds, and the fourth and final part is absolutely AWESOME because it has an eerie mellotron melody with soft sprinkles of keyboards building slowly, and ... Read More: Rating: - This Is Why I Used To Like Pink FloydThis album, along with Meddle, are the two best Pink Floyd albums ever, as far as I'm concerned (discounting the Syd Barrett albums, which were in a different category and great in their own right). I don't need to describe the two discs in this set as it's been done over and over again. What I'll say is I think this is when the band was the most creative, and Roger Waters had the least amount of influence on the outcome. I love it for the true experimentation, the originality, and the sheer psychedelic mood of it all. As I listened to it again after 30 years, it still rings true with me and despite what the band itself has said about it (and not all of it complimentary), I think this showed the band as a truly creative force. ... Read More: |
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