A Saucerful of Secrets–Pink Floyd
Album 40 was A Saucerful of Pink one of the many Floyd tribute albums. This, however, is the real deal. The second Floyd album and the first without Syd Barratt, although he did write the track Jugband Blues, which features on this album.
It shows as early Floyd. Bizarre lyrics, lots of moog and weirdness. Just my cup of tea.
It’s also interesting to contrast albums from this era of Floyd to later eras such as A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
See, if it was this, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Ummagumma that was my introduction to Floyd, I would have gotten into them a lot earlier. It’s so far away from The Wall it’s practically down the garden path, across the road and under the tree in the neighbouring field. Right up my street.
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