Pink Floyd Retrospective: Album 03- Soundtrack from the film 'More'

 

For the third album, Pink Floyd makes a soundtrack...

Album:  More (Film Soundtrack)

Year Released:    1969

Lineup:

 Pink Floyd

• David Gilmour – vocals, electric guitar (2, 3, 8–11, 13), acoustic guitar (1, 5), classical guitar (3, 6, 12), percussion (12)
• Nick Mason – drums (2–4, 8–10, 13), bongos (6, 7), percussion (11)
• Roger Waters – bass guitar (1–6, 8–10, 13), tape effects, percussion
• Richard Wright – Farfisa organ (1, 4–6, 8–9, 11, 13), piano (4–6, 9), vibraphone (3, 11), Hammond organ (1), backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Lindy Mason – tin whistle (5, 7)
• Brian Humphries – engineering
• Hipgnosis – sleeve design
• James Guthrie – re-mastering supervision
• Doug Sax – re-mastering

Track Listing:

Side one

No. Title                                                           Length

1. "Cirrus Minor"                                          5:18

2. "The Nile Song"                                  3:26

3. "Crying Song" Waters                          3:33

4. "Up the Khyber" (instrumental)                 2:12

5. "Green Is the Colour"                               2:58

6. "Cymbaline"                                             4:50

7. "Party Sequence" (instrumental)  1:07

Total length: 23:24

Side two

No. Title Length

1. "Main Theme" (instrumental)         5:27

2. "Ibiza Bar"                                 3:19

3. "More Blues" (instrumental)         2:12

4. "Quicksilver" (instrumental)         7:13

5. "A Spanish Piece"                                 1:05

6. "Dramatic Theme" (instrumental) 2:15

Total length: 21:32

Overall Thoughts:

The year after releasing "A Saucerful of Secrets", Pink Floyd created the soundtrack for a movie called More.  The movie itself sounds horrible and unpleasant- a pair of young adults meet, fall for each other, go to Ibiza, and destroy each other with drugs.  Umm, yay?  

But this is about the soundtrack.  Pink Floyd is a good band for soundtracks- the music works in the background.

Pink Floyd continued to be experminetal, adding non-musical sounds into their music.  They lead off the album with the bird chirps right off the bat on the first song, "Cirrus Minor".  "The Nile Song" is the hardest song the group had recorded, venturing into heavy metal.

The music is good.  Nick Mason does great at drums on "Up the Khyber", and Wright's piano and keyboards are excellent.  Half the songs are instrumentals.  

The album isn't bad (Okay, "A Spanish Piece" is awful, but it stands out for being so annoying)... but it's forgettable.  Much like "A Piper At The Gates of Dawn", it's fine to put on in the background, but it's not an album you go out of your way to listen to.  Pink Floyd would be a few more albums away from putting everything together.

Ranking of Pink Floyd Albums (adding as more albums are reviewed):

1. A Saucerful of Secrets
2. More
3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Top 10 Pink Floyd Songs (changing as more albums are reviewed):

1. "Let There Be More Light", A Saucerful of Secrets
2. "Set The Controls For the Heart of the Sun", A Saucerful of Secrets
3. "Remember A Day", A Saucerful of Secrets
4. "Cirrus Minor", More
5. "Flaming", A Piper At the Gates of Dawn
6. "Astronomy Dominé", A Piper At the Gates of Dawn
7. "A Saucerful of Secrets", A Saucerful of Secrets
8. "Crying Song", More
9. "The Nile Song", More
10. "Matilda Mother", A Piper At the Gates of Dawn