Agree. Some think it's "trash". Remarkable. I'm sure I'm not the first with the fly in Grantchester Meadows causing my cat to chase the sounds around the room, then terrified by the stomping down the stairs (this actually mimicked perfectly the steps down the basement where this occurred!), then be confused by the swatting, then horrified by the final "swat!"+tweeting at the end :) A wonderful experience from my youth! Only wish I could've recorded it for posterity 😂
This takes me right back to lying in the sun, baked, in the garden when I was 19 listening to Ummagumma. Man. Those really were the days. ❤ Rick Wright RIP 😢
Ummagumma….yes I was a similar age when I bought it, and listened to it throughout the summer. It gets some bad press from critics, but the live album is really good…”Astronomy Domine’, and “Careful with that Axe Eugene”…and “Grandchester Meadows” just epitomises summer…cool acoustic, running water, and the swam taking off…..oh the memories of youth, lying back in the sun, toking and listening to music
Ummagumma... One of my favorite albums from the early 70's. Very spacey and for it's time way ahead of any other rock bands of the era. And as the previous commentator says " The real Pink Floyd ". Keep up the great work L33. Your reactions are a must watch for me.
This whole concert was/is a masterpiece of music, visuals and atmosphere, it's hands down my favourite live performance by Pink Floyd or any other band come to that. This is who Pink Floyd were, and it's this sound that i fell in love with when i was about fourteen in 1978, and i still love listening to it after the best part of fifty years, check out 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' Nick Mason's drum work is second to none, you'll love it.👌✌
You hear that crazed Roger scream briefly in the transition between "the happiest Days of our lives" and "another brick on the Wall part 2" off The Wall album. It is iconic. Roger not only brought the lyrics, he brought that creepy and spooky element to the band as well. 👻
It didn't make it on either of the soundtrack cds that i have. Heart Beat, Pig Meat (misspelled as Heat Meat on one), Crumbling Land, Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up are on the single. The double add Country Song, Unknown Song, and Love Scene-Version 6 and Love Scene -Version 4 Edit to add, reading the booklet in the double, Number 51 was a remake of Careful with that axe
Meddle is a great choice, Obscured by Clouds is one of my favourite albums. Not just Floyd, but overall. I'm old, I've been listening to them since getting The Wall on vinyl for my birthday. About four months after it was released. Collected all their albums I could find on vinyl (it was pretty challenging back in the day), then got all of them on cassette, then again on CD... the only band I've replaced the discography again and again. I like seeing you young guys appreciate some of the music I grew up with. Sub added.
I feel like you would be one of the only people your age who would have the patience and opened mind to watch and understand Stanley Kubricks’s 2001 A Space Odyssey.
from the Pink Floyd lalbum, Ummagumma, you and everyone else, would love the song "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" Seriously No Floyd fan should miss it. Belongs in a catagory by itself
That piece of music was what made me a Floyd fan. My local radio station back in the day did an hour long Pink Floyd Special. They mostly played the earlier music, including that one. After hearing that show, I went out the next day and bought seven Pink Floyd albums and never looked back. Fan for life!
I bought Ummagumma on it's release and with a couple of mates drove to a big old beach house nestled in the sand dunes. We started to play the album on a sound system wherethe speakers were the size of fridges, we smoked a couple joints and were listening in the dark when the scream came we all ran to each other and hugged each other in terror. Awesome experience!
Great reaction as always Lee. And welcome to Uma! An album so far ahead of its time, we’re still waiting for it. However, for your next album foray, I would go with Meddle. Probably the first album where their pop sensibilities merged with their trademark prog sound. There’s a lot more going on there than Echoes, the studio cut of which is also worth a listen. Happy Spring all!
Heard this at the free concert in Hyde Park, awesome then still awesome now. My friend had this basement apartment he shared with his brother in his parents home. I remember we had just bought the album and listened to it with our girlfriends. It scared the shit out of the girls, we did turn the volume up full blast the scream hit. Great memories.
Roger's scream is him INHALING, not exhaling. I've done it when my band played Comfortably Numb. Kinda cool vocal trick. Actually doesn't roach your throat at all. At least not mine. Crowd always loved it.
Great reaction Lee!! This is an amazing version. Careful With That Axe was actually a B-side to the 'single' release of Point Me At The Sky - so not on any album (until the later compilation 'Relics' and further released on 'The Early Years 1965-1972' collection, with the box set). Ummagumma is a live version on there (similar in sound to the Pompeii version) It occurred around the same time as A Saucerful Of Secrets album though - 1968. Such a trippy, psychedelic song! Love it. Cheers.
First time I heard this song was a late-night PBS show. At the time TV was far from high fidelity so I hooked a good speaker into the earphone jack. Turned off all the lights. When the scream arrived I jumped up and turned them back on. 😅
The original studio version of this track can be found on the 1971 compilation album, "Relics". There are tracks on here not on any other album, at least at the time of its release, including, "Julia Dream" and "Biding My Time". An album worth checking and one that never gets mentioned !. The "Ummagumma" version is great though, as is the live version of the track, " Saucerful..." on the same album. This is my preferred era of PF and your reaction mirrored my own when I and no doubt countless others first heard it. It's great stuff! 😺
My first 'rush' trippin (mescaline) was to the scream in the studio version of this song, so I have a special affinity for it! LoL! Thanks for your reaction!
Nice pair was the first LP I bought from PF. No one compared to them. They shared an incredible journey with us, and I remember eagerly looking forward to each new release to continue the journey. I'm not surprised that you are taking the journey too. You should be happy that you don't have to wait years between releases, but also kinda sad, because you lose the anticipation that we felt wondering where they would take us next.
Love your Pink Floyd reactions. This instrumental is a bedrock of early Pink Floyd live music with a long history. Careful WTAE was originally released on the B-side of the single 'Point Me at the Sky' in 1968. The song was written shortly after the departure of Syd Barret as the band sought a new direction and was originally titled Keep People Smiling, then change to 'Mudererotic Woman', then 'Muderistic Woman', before finally being called 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene'. The original recording was released on the 1971 album 'Relics'. The song was used as part of Pink Floyds earliest attempt to develop a 'concept album' during the live performances of 'The Man and The Journey' in 1969. It was re-titled 'Beset by Creatures of the Deep'. It was recorded live for the 'Ummagumma' album in early 1969. The song (in a different key) we re-recorded for the 1970 movie Zabriskie Point, and re-titled 'Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up'. Careful was a mainstay of their live performances and a fan favourite. It was often paired with 'Green is The Colour' from their 3rd album, 'More' with one song flowing beautifully into the other. It was performed up to the French Summer Tour of 1974 where it was drop half way through the tour. It was performed for the final time in Oakland USA during the 1977 In The Flesh World Tour. The song was the 9th most performed track by the group, a total of 343 times, (1 more than Comfortably Numb). I have heard many of these live performances which range from around five minutes to over 15 minutes in length. While the song has structure, there is a fair bit of improvisation taking place which makes each version unique, making searching them out a real treat!
I've always heard it pronounced as "Oooma-Goooma." An older boy that I'd played with went into the Army and was stationed in Germany. He came back home when I was about 13. He gave me the first Pink Floyd album and said "Listen to this... you'll like the keyboards!" I found "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" to be very eye-opening! I noticed that he had changed quite a bit while overseas...his mind had expanded, as had his taste in music. A couple of years later he said that he'd probably spent too much time in Amsterdam.
I think this song and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun were recorded at some ancient church in Pompeii, the other songs werre recorded at the iconic amphitheatre.
Ummagumma but beware the Studio disc, I love the Narrow Way and Granchester Meadow but there is some real experimental stuff here and I need to be in the mood to listen to it. The Live is disc is legendary and beyond awesome, this was how I was made a Pink Floyd fan, listening to it until the grooves wore out. I love Meddle primarily for One of These Days and Echoes, though some of the lighter stuff is very good. Flip of the coin, do one and then the other, you need to hear both. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
OMG !!! I just remembered doing "stop action" performances in my friends bedroom to this song!!! We used white xmas lights that flashed off and on ~ like a strobe light!!! It was AWESOME! we were 12 years old!!! 🤣🤣🤣
fun fact. a ton of people think this song is about jerry garcias brother chopping his finger off... its not at all, idk where it came from but ive had a ton of people say it to me lol. jerrys brothers name is tif. also this is one of my favorite pink floyd songs. nick mason is one of the most solid drummers of all time (pun intended). on echos at Pompeii he drops a stick and you can hardly hear a missed beat if you weren't looking for it. ❤
Hands down IMHO - the scariest piece of music of ALLLLL Timmmme. Quite closely followed by the live version of Astronomy Domine - Dave's outer space guitar work in it is something else and transports the listener to far away, well below zero, frightening worlds. Nick is truly the unsung hero of PF. Always supremely capable of introducing the right degree of tension in any song at just the right time.
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oh wow---this is one trippy tune. I remember when I first heard this and was knocked out by the haunting feel, the musical impressionism, to this whole song!
What I love about Pink Floyd songs like this is they're so cinematic and atmospheric. I think they influenced the music in early 1970s sexy Vampire, Monster, Suspense and Horror movies coming out of Amicus and Hammer Studios UK as well as studios in the US and Europe. There's even a 70s HK Kung Fu movie that used " One of These Days" ! An Aussie Surf movie " Crystal Voyager" 1973, was given permission by PF to use the whole of " Echoes" to end the film which is stunning and trippy. It's filled with fantastic images of waves and surfers plus a cool Oz Rock soundtrack. Look for the version whose thumbnail is a painting of the Earth with windsurfers flying over the ocean and that is 1hr 18 min long. Cheers Lee and stay well.
Many, many years ago, someone gave me a VHS tape with X-rated footage of a bunch of hippies "greatly enjoying each other's company". As the film progressed, I was dumbfounded that the music they had decided to use was all Pink Floyd! It just cracked me up. Couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing together. 😅😂
Yes, this was shot in studio, in Paris I believe. Still live, but not Pompeii live. This a good version but imo a very tame one. There are versions on bootlegs back in the day where they extend the song and go much harder.
L33 - Just a bit of info... The whispery vocals are David's... matching the sound of them to the sound of his guitar... And yes they have SO many albums before Dark Side don't they. As always, it's great being part of you discovering the depth of their discography... And not only do we have regular albums but 2 soundtrack albums too.... Deep man, deep...!! Keep on Rocking young sir.
This is from the Pompeii movie, but was shot as additional footage in Studio Europasonor, Paris, December 1972. Guess you are ready for "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" now?. A middle eastern-tinged space ride, written over ancient Chinese poetry. As they said back then: "Far out, man".
Let‘s go. And, the Pompeii version is the best. BTW, like your channel. And I respect your fight to chase away the demons. My oldest son is just your age, he had some rough years many years ago, but not that serious. @@L33Reacts
Wow you are on the way back train. 1969 I bought this album and took it to my buddy's house for our Saturday bring your newest album listen, Oh yeah black lights black light posters. They thought I had lost my mind. I was 13. P.S. I'm still friends with Chris I'm 67. Peace ✌I'm enjoying your musical adventure. I think you need to check out some of Band Maid's new releases.
I tripped to this the first time I heard it. I remember being surprised the world was still moving in like nothing happened when I walked outside afterwards!
(Starts with a tile mosaic) It blows my mind the things they found buried dozens of feet underground. So much awesome art recovered from a terrible disaster scene. Arguably the most out-there song PF ever made. The Pompeii video is the best of the best. Yep, the more popular, the more often you get blocked. Copyrights can be both good and bad.
So sad, that you didn't choose the live version from "Ummagumma". The visual aspect is missing, but I find the version a bit darker and more intense. For me it is their best interpretation of this song.
No one ever gives Nick Mason his due. Before The Wall, where Roger controlled every instrument Mr. Mason's drumming was so tribal, so original. Without Rick Wright and Nick Mason Pink Floyd does not achieve the heights of musical pantheon that they did - together, Roger! (sorry, that was directed at Mr. Waters.) I love Live At Pompeii, actually giving us the opportunity to see how four musicians, with their individual sound (and personality) styles came together to become one of the most formidable musical foursomes in the 70's.
Ummagumma was the first Pink Floyd album I heard, I think in early 1971, and it was like nothing I’d ever heard before. It’s a double: the live album, and the studio album. The live album is the main course, the studio album is an optional extra. On the studio album, the Roger Waters tracks are eccentric but OK, you could give them a listen; the other tracks are frankly not recommended.
@@Humb7757The live tracks on Ummagumma are great. My only doubt is about the screaming on Careful With That Axe, which doesn’t quite work for me; it seemed to go better at Pompeii.
@@Humb7757I’m not complaining that the song contains screaming; just saying that the performance of the screaming leaves something to be desired on the Ummagumma album.
Should have dropped something😂 There was a lot visuals growing on "funky dung" in them days. 🍄 Umaguma album would be much of the same. It is the album we have listened to the most when on trippy camping trips. Was always interesting to watch reactions while listening late night.lol Several species of small free animals Gather in a cave to groove with the Pickett. Grantchester Meadows will make you feel as if your there. But then Meddle is another Masterpiece so...
Come on Eugene, buddy...be cool with that thing!" At least the lyrics are easy to remember. Re: Pompeii, once the pyroclastic flows rolled down the mountain, the people below were dead before they knew what hit them.
UMMA GUMMA - still one of my favourite albums the live versions on that are extraordinary - all the tracks except the extremely weird SEVERAL SPECIES OF FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED IN A CAVE AND GROOVING WITH A PICT … that is one of the weirdest ever and hard to love. GRANCHESTER MEADOWS is a thing of beauty. There’s also some odd Nick tracks … but sides 9ne and two of the double album were smokers paradise back in the day. The album was also a great rolling surface …
There's an earlier version of the actually had a bonfire on stage and hot girls in minni skirts back up singers it's out there somewhere good luck finding it.
Ah, yes! Roger Waters' blood curdling Scream! In my opinion, the best version of this song is, in fact, the live version from Ummagumma. It's a longer version, which let's them build up the ominous atmosphere even more. Then that bone chilling scream hits. Not too many rock bands delve into horror, especially from this era, but Pink Floyd did it right and proper!
Careful with that bug Eugene. You might accidentally swat a moth into your ear canal and that happened to me. I wouldn’t recommend it. I was literally sleeping in my bed. It was like a helicopter, trying to dig its way through my brain. What was so ironic about it was, that we had a lot of moths in Colorado, and I used to kill a lot of them every day, retribution? I don’t know maybe.
This song is on "Ummagumma",... not my favorite Floyd period, no doubt they were still trying to find themselves in the late 60s. I'm much more of a post 1970 Pink Floyd fan myself, from their 1971 "Meddle" album on. Pink Floyd post Roger Waters is also a great Floyd period, more so than their extreme psychedelic period in the late 60s in my view. When they first came out in 1964/65, they were a Blued based band, just like virtually every other Rock & Roll band to come out of England in the 1960s.
I saw them live about this time in a fairly small town hall concert room ,The whole performance you could hardly see them, No light apart from the psychadelic bubbles at back of stage and under face light for any who stood forward, Not much sung just long session with plenty of this kind of material ,.
curiously one of the worst versions of careful...you should listen to the 12-13 min live versions...especially the one in zurich or new york absolutely fantastic.
@barbarjinx3802 the band admitted they were lost without Barrett. It took them awhile to find a direction. Gilmour calls the time from Ummagumma to Meddle the lost years. I still like quite a lot from these years
ummagumma such an under rated album , it's a blue print for album construction. EVERY THING is in there .
Agree. Some think it's "trash". Remarkable. I'm sure I'm not the first with the fly in Grantchester Meadows causing my cat to chase the sounds around the room, then terrified by the stomping down the stairs (this actually mimicked perfectly the steps down the basement where this occurred!), then be confused by the swatting, then horrified by the final "swat!"+tweeting at the end :) A wonderful experience from my youth! Only wish I could've recorded it for posterity 😂
This takes me right back to lying in the sun, baked, in the garden when I was 19 listening to Ummagumma. Man. Those really were the days. ❤
Rick Wright RIP 😢
ahhh the good ol days.... how i miss them too my friend.
Ummagumma….yes I was a similar age when I bought it, and listened to it throughout the summer. It gets some bad press from critics, but the live album is really good…”Astronomy Domine’, and “Careful with that Axe Eugene”…and “Grandchester Meadows” just epitomises summer…cool acoustic, running water, and the swam taking off…..oh the memories of youth, lying back in the sun, toking and listening to music
A lot of people forget Rick's influence on PF's music at this point in their career!!!
Childhoods End from Obscured by Clouds is a Floyd hidden gem...its a must.
Congratulations on your sobriety !
Their will be some dedicated Floyd fans who havent heard Childhoods End.
You will get a lot of...where has this song been all my life !
I like it when it goes right into Free Four.
I love that song so much. "All the iron turn to rust, all the proud men turn to dust..."
Indeed. Obscured by Clouds is a real joy.
The real Pink Floyd🤘
Ummagumma... One of my favorite albums from the early 70's. Very spacey and for it's time way ahead of any other rock bands of the era. And as the previous commentator says " The real Pink Floyd ". Keep up the great work L33. Your reactions are a must watch for me.
This whole concert was/is a masterpiece of music, visuals and atmosphere, it's hands down my favourite live performance by Pink Floyd or any other band come to that. This is who Pink Floyd were, and it's this sound that i fell in love with when i was about fourteen in 1978, and i still love listening to it after the best part of fifty years, check out 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' Nick Mason's drum work is second to none, you'll love it.👌✌
You hear that crazed Roger scream briefly in the transition between "the happiest Days of our lives" and "another brick on the Wall part 2" off The Wall album.
It is iconic. Roger not only brought the lyrics, he brought that creepy and spooky element to the band as well. 👻
A version of this song is in the Art movie Zabriskie Point. One of the greatest movie sequences ever.
It didn't make it on either of the soundtrack cds that i have. Heart Beat, Pig Meat (misspelled as Heat Meat on one), Crumbling Land, Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up are on the single. The double add Country Song, Unknown Song, and Love Scene-Version 6 and Love Scene -Version 4
Edit to add, reading the booklet in the double, Number 51 was a remake of Careful with that axe
I guess Eugene wasn't careful enough.
Meddle is a great choice, Obscured by Clouds is one of my favourite albums. Not just Floyd, but overall.
I'm old, I've been listening to them since getting The Wall on vinyl for my birthday. About four months after it was released. Collected all their albums I could find on vinyl (it was pretty challenging back in the day), then got all of them on cassette, then again on CD... the only band I've replaced the discography again and again.
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I feel like you would be one of the only people your age who would have the patience and opened mind to watch and understand Stanley Kubricks’s 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Ummagumma, oh my. I'm so into this around the age of 20 years old.
The first Floyd song I ever heard back in 72. I was hooked.
from the Pink Floyd lalbum, Ummagumma, you and everyone else, would love the song "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" Seriously
No Floyd fan should miss it. Belongs in a catagory by itself
That’s my default ringtone. 😊
I'll make sure to write that one down lol sounds awesome
That piece of music was what made me a Floyd fan. My local radio station back in the day did an hour long Pink Floyd Special. They mostly played the earlier music, including that one.
After hearing that show, I went out the next day and bought seven Pink Floyd albums and never looked back. Fan for life!
Just for the record, Roger was recently asked if he could still do the scream and he said “no” Oh well, it was great when it was great.
Love this version. Roger's screams and Dave vocalizing to the guitar solo
I bought Ummagumma on it's release and with a couple of mates drove to a big old beach house nestled in the sand dunes. We started to play the album on a sound system wherethe speakers were the size of fridges, we smoked a couple joints and were listening in the dark when the scream came we all ran to each other and hugged each other in terror. Awesome experience!
Great reaction as always Lee. And welcome to Uma! An album so far ahead of its time, we’re still waiting for it. However, for your next album foray, I would go with Meddle. Probably the first album where their pop sensibilities merged with their trademark prog sound. There’s a lot more going on there than Echoes, the studio cut of which is also worth a listen. Happy Spring all!
Heard this at the free concert in Hyde Park, awesome then still awesome now. My friend had this basement apartment he shared with his brother in his parents home. I remember we had just bought the album and listened to it with our girlfriends. It scared the shit out of the girls, we did turn the volume up full blast the scream hit. Great memories.
Roger's scream is him INHALING, not exhaling. I've done it when my band played Comfortably Numb. Kinda cool vocal trick. Actually doesn't roach your throat at all. At least not mine. Crowd always loved it.
Great reaction Lee!! This is an amazing version. Careful With That Axe was actually a B-side to the 'single' release of Point Me At The Sky - so not on any album (until the later compilation 'Relics' and further released on 'The Early Years 1965-1972' collection, with the box set). Ummagumma is a live version on there (similar in sound to the Pompeii version)
It occurred around the same time as A Saucerful Of Secrets album though - 1968.
Such a trippy, psychedelic song! Love it. Cheers.
First time I heard this song was a late-night PBS show. At the time TV was far from high fidelity so I hooked a good speaker into the earphone jack.
Turned off all the lights.
When the scream arrived I jumped up and turned them back on. 😅
I would have done the same. That was terrifying in the moment for a split second hahaha
The original studio version of this track can be found on the 1971 compilation album, "Relics". There are tracks on here not on any other album, at least at the time of its release, including, "Julia Dream" and "Biding My Time". An album worth checking and one that never gets mentioned !. The "Ummagumma" version is great though, as is the live version of the track, " Saucerful..." on the same album. This is my preferred era of PF and your reaction mirrored my own when I and no doubt countless others first heard it. It's great stuff! 😺
The best way to get the full effect of this song is to listen to this at night in the woods.
How great they are to bring life back to the victims through music. Pink Floyd ❤️🔥❤️
Love that you’re listening to some of their more trippy music, this song is brilliant, love your reaction ❤
I wonder how much of Syd's nightmares are reflected in this album.
Great reaction as always. Greetings from Porto, Portugal
My first 'rush' trippin (mescaline) was to the scream in the studio version of this song, so I have a special affinity for it! LoL! Thanks for your reaction!
Nice pair was the first LP I bought from PF. No one compared to them. They shared an incredible journey with us, and I remember eagerly looking forward to each new release to continue the journey. I'm not surprised that you are taking the journey too. You should be happy that you don't have to wait years between releases, but also kinda sad, because you lose the anticipation that we felt wondering where they would take us next.
A great track way ahead of it's time and one again and important part of pink Floyds catalogue
Always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd tracks. Every performance of it is different. Love it.
Love your Pink Floyd reactions. This instrumental is a bedrock of early Pink Floyd live music with a long history. Careful WTAE was originally released on the B-side of the single 'Point Me at the Sky' in 1968. The song was written shortly after the departure of Syd Barret as the band sought a new direction and was originally titled Keep People Smiling, then change to 'Mudererotic Woman', then 'Muderistic Woman', before finally being called 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene'. The original recording was released on the 1971 album 'Relics'. The song was used as part of Pink Floyds earliest attempt to develop a 'concept album' during the live performances of 'The Man and The Journey' in 1969. It was re-titled 'Beset by Creatures of the Deep'. It was recorded live for the 'Ummagumma' album in early 1969. The song (in a different key) we re-recorded for the 1970 movie Zabriskie Point, and re-titled 'Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up'. Careful was a mainstay of their live performances and a fan favourite. It was often paired with 'Green is The Colour' from their 3rd album, 'More' with one song flowing beautifully into the other. It was performed up to the French Summer Tour of 1974 where it was drop half way through the tour. It was performed for the final time in Oakland USA during the 1977 In The Flesh World Tour. The song was the 9th most performed track by the group, a total of 343 times, (1 more than Comfortably Numb). I have heard many of these live performances which range from around five minutes to over 15 minutes in length. While the song has structure, there is a fair bit of improvisation taking place which makes each version unique, making searching them out a real treat!
This isn’t from Ummagumma. It’s from Saucerful of Secrets. Umma has a live version which is great.
You are mistaken sir.. Careful with that Axe, Eugene first appearance on an album is Ummagumma. It was a b side to a single before that.
I've always heard it pronounced as "Oooma-Goooma." An older boy that I'd played with went into the Army and was stationed in Germany. He came back home when I was about 13. He gave me the first Pink Floyd album and said "Listen to this... you'll like the keyboards!" I found "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" to be very eye-opening!
I noticed that he had changed quite a bit while overseas...his mind had expanded, as had his taste in music.
A couple of years later he said that he'd probably spent too much time in Amsterdam.
I think this song and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun were recorded at some ancient church in Pompeii, the other songs werre recorded at the iconic amphitheatre.
Ummagumma but beware the Studio disc, I love the Narrow Way and Granchester Meadow but there is some real experimental stuff here and I need to be in the mood to listen to it. The Live is disc is legendary and beyond awesome, this was how I was made a Pink Floyd fan, listening to it until the grooves wore out.
I love Meddle primarily for One of These Days and Echoes, though some of the lighter stuff is very good. Flip of the coin, do one and then the other, you need to hear both. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Different version on Ummaguma, audio only, hear it as well.
OMG !!! I just remembered doing "stop action" performances in my friends bedroom to this song!!! We used white xmas lights that flashed off and on ~ like a strobe light!!! It was AWESOME! we were 12 years old!!! 🤣🤣🤣
fun fact. a ton of people think this song is about jerry garcias brother chopping his finger off... its not at all, idk where it came from but ive had a ton of people say it to me lol. jerrys brothers name is tif. also this is one of my favorite pink floyd songs. nick mason is one of the most solid drummers of all time (pun intended). on echos at Pompeii he drops a stick and you can hardly hear a missed beat if you weren't looking for it. ❤
The version of this on Ummagumma is easily the best. My favourite album after Meddle ❤
Best assolo david gilmour
Brilliant contrasting of music and events of Pompeii Lee. Never thought of the similarities. Excellent.
Hands down IMHO - the scariest piece of music of ALLLLL Timmmme. Quite closely followed by the live version of Astronomy Domine - Dave's outer space guitar work in it is something else and transports the listener to far away, well below zero, frightening worlds.
Nick is truly the unsung hero of PF. Always supremely capable of introducing the right degree of tension in any song at just the right time.
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Did you realize that David mimicked his entire guitar solo with his mouth? He actuals plays and sings every note simultaneously...
oh wow---this is one trippy tune. I remember when I first heard this and was knocked out by the haunting feel, the musical impressionism, to this whole song!
I grew up in UK with this amazing band the best band LSD needed lol 😂
What I love about Pink Floyd songs like this is they're so cinematic and atmospheric. I think they influenced the music in early 1970s sexy Vampire, Monster, Suspense and Horror movies coming out of Amicus and Hammer Studios UK as well as studios in the US and Europe. There's even a 70s HK Kung Fu movie that used " One of These Days" ! An Aussie Surf movie " Crystal Voyager" 1973, was given permission by PF to use the whole of " Echoes" to end the film which is stunning and trippy. It's filled with fantastic images of waves and surfers plus a cool Oz Rock soundtrack. Look for the version whose thumbnail is a painting of the Earth with windsurfers flying over the ocean and that is 1hr 18 min long. Cheers Lee and stay well.
Many, many years ago, someone gave me a VHS tape with X-rated footage of a bunch of hippies "greatly enjoying each other's company".
As the film progressed, I was dumbfounded that the music they had decided to use was all Pink Floyd! It just cracked me up. Couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing together. 😅😂
Yes, this was shot in studio, in Paris I believe. Still live, but not Pompeii live. This a good version but imo a very tame one. There are versions on bootlegs back in the day where they extend the song and go much harder.
L33 - Just a bit of info... The whispery vocals are David's... matching the sound of them to the sound of his guitar... And yes they have SO many albums before Dark Side don't they. As always, it's great being part of you discovering the depth of their discography... And not only do we have regular albums but 2 soundtrack albums too.... Deep man, deep...!! Keep on Rocking young sir.
I love your opening-it's so cute; from a guy named Eugene
Yes! I was watching this last night hoping one day you’d react to it! Can’t wait!
Anymore Pink Floyd reactions and I’ll watch all of them lol
This is from the Pompeii movie, but was shot as additional footage in Studio Europasonor, Paris, December 1972. Guess you are ready for "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" now?. A middle eastern-tinged space ride, written over ancient Chinese poetry. As they said back then: "Far out, man".
ok, now you have my attention
Let‘s go. And, the Pompeii version is the best. BTW, like your channel. And I respect your fight to chase away the demons. My oldest son is just your age, he had some rough years many years ago, but not that serious. @@L33Reacts
Dude, if you enjoyed this version of “Careful With That Axe Eugene,” check out the the ‘72 live Brighton Dome version. It’s a 7 minute cosmic voyage.
Wow you are on the way back train. 1969 I bought this album and took it to my buddy's house for our Saturday bring your newest album listen, Oh yeah black lights black light posters. They thought I had lost my mind. I was 13. P.S. I'm still friends with Chris I'm 67. Peace ✌I'm enjoying your musical adventure. I think you need to check out some of Band Maid's new releases.
I tripped to this the first time I heard it. I remember being surprised the world was still moving in like nothing happened when I walked outside afterwards!
This is not in a studio. It was filmed at night in the same spot.
(Starts with a tile mosaic) It blows my mind the things they found buried dozens of feet underground. So much awesome art recovered from a terrible disaster scene.
Arguably the most out-there song PF ever made. The Pompeii video is the best of the best.
Yep, the more popular, the more often you get blocked. Copyrights can be both good and bad.
Ah! Someone set the controls for the heart of the Sun!
You have to do the whole movie. Set the controls for the heart of the sun to die for.
This is the Pompeii show I believe
On Relics its a Nov of 1968 recording
You need to play Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun from Pompeii. Nick Mason kills it$
"More" is more psychedelic album :D
Superb Floyd, Childhoods End from Obscured by Clouds soon please. Inspired by the Book Childhoods End by Arthur C Clarke, I think.
🔜🔜🔜 A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS ( BY LIVE AT POMPEII) full version 🔝🔝🔝
So sad, that you didn't choose the live version from "Ummagumma". The visual aspect is missing, but I find the version a bit darker and more intense. For me it is their best interpretation of this song.
Absolutely! 💯
No one ever gives Nick Mason his due. Before The Wall, where Roger controlled every instrument Mr. Mason's drumming was so tribal, so original. Without Rick Wright and Nick Mason Pink Floyd does not achieve the heights of musical pantheon that they did - together, Roger!
(sorry, that was directed at Mr. Waters.)
I love Live At Pompeii, actually giving us the opportunity to see how four musicians, with their individual sound (and personality) styles came together to become one of the most formidable musical foursomes in the 70's.
That head at the start was messing with my brain Lee. I know it was part of the video but still !!!
Someone on youtube took this song and added to a scene from The Shining. Awesome Mashup. Check it out of anyone is interested
The scream gets reprised in The Wall.
Released in 1969
Please react to Pink Floyd's song paintbox or remember a day both are remarkable songs
I always assumed those shots were at night, maybe not?
Ummagumma was the first Pink Floyd album I heard, I think in early 1971, and it was like nothing I’d ever heard before. It’s a double: the live album, and the studio album. The live album is the main course, the studio album is an optional extra. On the studio album, the Roger Waters tracks are eccentric but OK, you could give them a listen; the other tracks are frankly not recommended.
All the live tracks on ‘Ummagumma’ are superior in musicality and solid… no exceptions!
@@Humb7757The live tracks on Ummagumma are great. My only doubt is about the screaming on Careful With That Axe, which doesn’t quite work for me; it seemed to go better at Pompeii.
@@jonathan.palfrey …it makes the song even more dramatic…
@@Humb7757I’m not complaining that the song contains screaming; just saying that the performance of the screaming leaves something to be desired on the Ummagumma album.
Listens to a song about the intensity of a murder, immediately kills bug after song. Am I the only one that sees a parallel here?
MEDDLE!
the screaming is easily explained. Read the title of the song
I get it. I was just overthinking it. Since it's Pompeii lol
Careful with that bugspray Lee
Since you’re a drummer and like Pompeii, check One Of These Days
Should have dropped something😂
There was a lot visuals growing on "funky dung" in them days. 🍄
Umaguma album would be much of the same. It is the album we have listened to the most when on trippy camping trips.
Was always interesting to watch reactions while listening late night.lol
Several species of small free animals Gather in a cave to groove with the Pickett.
Grantchester Meadows will make you feel as if your there.
But then Meddle is another Masterpiece so...
At 72, I might have been lying there with you.
Come on Eugene, buddy...be cool with that thing!" At least the lyrics are easy to remember.
Re: Pompeii, once the pyroclastic flows rolled down the mountain, the people below were dead before they knew what hit them.
Ummugumma is my favourite Floyd album, but some tracks are not a casual listen
just let the bug outside.
UMMA GUMMA - still one of my favourite albums the live versions on that are extraordinary - all the tracks except the extremely weird SEVERAL SPECIES OF FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED IN A CAVE AND GROOVING WITH A PICT … that is one of the weirdest ever and hard to love. GRANCHESTER MEADOWS is a thing of beauty. There’s also some odd Nick tracks … but sides 9ne and two of the double album were smokers paradise back in the day. The album was also a great rolling surface …
There's an earlier version of the actually had a bonfire on stage and hot girls in minni skirts back up singers it's out there somewhere good luck finding it.
Ah, yes! Roger Waters' blood curdling Scream!
In my opinion, the best version of this song is, in fact, the live version from Ummagumma. It's a longer version, which let's them build up the ominous atmosphere even more. Then that bone chilling scream hits.
Not too many rock bands delve into horror, especially from this era, but Pink Floyd did it right and proper!
Careful with that bug Eugene. You might accidentally swat a moth into your ear canal and that happened to me. I wouldn’t recommend it. I was literally sleeping in my bed. It was like a helicopter, trying to dig its way through my brain. What was so ironic about it was, that we had a lot of moths in Colorado, and I used to kill a lot of them every day, retribution? I don’t know maybe.
This song is on "Ummagumma",... not my favorite Floyd period, no doubt they were still trying to find themselves in the late 60s. I'm much more of a post 1970 Pink Floyd fan myself, from their 1971 "Meddle" album on.
Pink Floyd post Roger Waters is also a great Floyd period, more so than their extreme psychedelic period in the late 60s in my view.
When they first came out in 1964/65, they were a Blued based band, just like virtually every other Rock & Roll band to come out of England in the 1960s.
Now we're tumbling down the rabbit hole that's at the bottom of the rabbit hole! ❤
I saw them live about this time in a fairly small town hall concert room ,The whole performance you could hardly see them, No light apart from the psychadelic bubbles at back of stage and under face light for any who stood forward, Not much sung just long session with plenty of this kind of material ,.
curiously one of the worst versions of careful...you should listen to the 12-13 min live versions...especially the one in zurich or new york absolutely fantastic.
So creepy!
Ummagumma live disc is great. The recorded album disc is probably their worst stuff.
Agree. After all these years never listened to the studio sides
@barbarjinx3802 the band admitted they were lost without Barrett. It took them awhile to find a direction. Gilmour calls the time from Ummagumma to Meddle the lost years. I still like quite a lot from these years
Always loved this song however if you kill insects or any living creatures, you will start screaming like in the song, karma is a bitch
Bet I can tell you who's going to die from Malaria, or Swine flu, or Nile disease, or Lyme disease, or....
Nice!! Love Floyd before they were hijacked into The Roger Waters Experience.
Don't do Ummagumma. It's a waste of time. Nobody likes it, not even the Floyd members.