Hey guys, today we're starting our series for the Ummagumma album, we are going to be doing the entirety of the album, posting videos for this album every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Thanks for watching and let me know below how you felt about this live recording!!!
THE live song that resonates the most in my mind to this day. Transports me way off this planet. Only Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor played live in ST Stephen's Basillica Budapest also managed to achieve that. But that organ has hundreds and hundreds of pipes. This is just four guys. Incredible.
I turn 70 this year. This song brings back fond memories of my senior year in high school when I first started dabbling in pot and psychedelics. It was the go to album to put on, kick back amongst the glow light posters in a room illuminated with black lights and just dissolve into the music for hours. Those were the days my friend, as the saying goes.
Bought this double album at Caldors ( or maybe it was Grants) for $3 when most record albums were running about $5. It was my second PF vinyl right after DSOTM and before Wish You Were Here came out..
Here's my parody of this song, called "Gastronomy Abomine": Slimy pimple cream A single bean Alight the face that Once compelled you Bloating round the gown that's found Around the mousey hound to whom you're bound Goofier and fatter Overweight, a bladder filled with batter Gnashin', bitin' Stretch-bands tighten Find a magazine That's lodged between The massive chasm Of her rear view Mounds astound, the sound of pounds Abounding as she flounders all around Goofier and fatter Where she sat, the cat is looking flatter Sausage hidin' Wide load widen Grinding slabs, flab floppy floppy floppy Blab, bow wow Hair shave, Nair, beware, break chair Finding when she sits around the house She really sits around the Finding when she sits around the house She really sits around the house
Great reaction! This album is the wildest and weirdest of them all- extremely experimental, very avant-garde and quite raw. Also my favorite album cover art by them haha. The studio side consists of completely solo recordings of all 4 members, "Sysyphus" by Richard, ""Grantchester Meadows" and "Several Species..." by Roger, "The Narrow Way" by David and "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" by Nick. Some real gems on this album especially with David and Roger's compositions. You can feel how all the weird experimentation led to their later masterpieces by listening to this album.
@@andyandalex Astronomy Domine is one of the definitive concert openers . The flickering organ intro seats you in your capsule and fastens the seatbelt and as soon as Nick's drums kick in your off to outer space..... After that your capsule drops into the deep sea, where you have to linger your way through creatures not known to normal men, in a strange environment for humans. ( Careful with that Axe was titled "Beset by Creatures of the Deep" in the Man and the Journey suite which they performed in 1969) right before Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun kicks you right into the desert where you hover above the sand slowly getting right into an intensifying sandstorm. After you managed all of these scenarios you end up in space again and witness the Battle of two alien factions in a saucerful of secrets, which clash with each other mercilessly and it all ends with the moaning of the fallen. Call me over dramatizing but it's just so much more fun to listen to the live side with such storys in mind, and it all fits...
Wow Andy you're going way back. Thank you for taking the time. I am to glad see you hearing what I have know for 40 years? Maybe more. I hope you love it, I hope you will remember it, I hope you will carry it forward. If I could meet someone in a hundred years from now I hope they could love this music as much as me. As much as you? That's why I count on you to pass it down through the generations.
Hey Andy "Mothers" (where one side of this album was recorded) is a legendary club in Erdington a suburb of Birmingham England which is where I was born and spent my youth. I was a member of that club and this brings back so many memories. I saw so many unknown bands there. Try listening and reacting to May Blitz (first album) who also appeared there and the owner said that not many bands had the effect that May Blitz had on him (this was on the album cover as a quote!) Love the fact that you have travelled through the Pink Floyd albums, its allowed me to go back and relive my past memories. Cheers Andy
When I had first heard of Pink Floyd back in the day, I bought the Ummagumma album. At first I didn't really know what to think about it since they were before their time and they had a slightly different sound thanks to Syd Barretts collaborations. Of course it grew on me and woke me up to all of the Pink Floyd that came after
When I first listened to it around 14 or so I just could not fucking believe that 4 human beings could play music like that. That Gilmour solo is epic and the middle section with Rick playing the Farfisa makes me trip. What about some Zappa? If you want try “Inca Roads” by him 😉
InsHaine It’s awesome you were exposed to Floyd at a young age, I was 18 when I discovered them, ever changed I am! And I’ll add it to the list man thanks for the suggestion! 🔥😁
Here's the story. Btw the reason I like a certain kind of music or better I like good music with no boundaries is my dad and his records, so when I was a kid, my dad exposed me to floyd, to purple, to zeppelin and so on. Once my dad told me this story from when he was young: a friend of his was totally into deep purple and repeatedly said to my dad how good the solo from child in time was (of course it is one the best of all time as we know) but this dude saw nothing but deep purple. So my dad played to him "time" by floyd: "listen to THIS solo" ehehehe. On his original record bought back in the day there is a sign written by my dad that says " '74...emozioni mai provate", which in italian (I'm Italian) means " '74...I never felt such emotions". Incredible music.
Ahaha yes! Time has an amazing solo, I can play it on guitar pretty good and will do a cover for you guys when our journey leads to reviewing DSOTM, glad your dad had a good time introducing others to amazing artists, it’s always good for us to broaden our horizons! 😁
From their era of playing in small halls rather than the extreme stadium concerts that would eventually become their norm. The live material on Ummagumma also allows the listener to hear/feel the actual acoustics, ambience and reverb of the room itself. Notice how dead quiet and attentive the audience is, allowing the number to finish before applauding or cheering.
their live performances are the best. check out the PULSE concert. pink floyd fans regard it as the best live concert by anyone, any time, anywhere. including me. it doesn't include echoes. i've already mentioned that the Gdansk concert is best for that. david gilour's return to pompeii in 2017 is a great concert, too. check out the tracks, 'sorrow' and 'in any tongue' from that concert. amazing guitar work.
rob allen Thanks for the tips man! I’m gonna go through all the studio albums in order first and then we’re gonna bring it back and do a bunch of live shows I think, so I’ll keep that in mind! 😁🔥
I was at the Pulse Tour in 94. Luckily not on the night the seating collapsed. Brilliant show. I'm also saw them in Hyde Park in 2005 at the Live 8 concert. My favourite band since a child in the 70s
Doh-mee-nay would be the correct pronunciation, but I've heard people say something like "Domminy" over the years, so that the words end up rhyming. I love this version. This was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard, and I've been a hardcore fan ever since. The studio version never lived up to this one, at least for me.
Walking Wounded Yes, the thing with Floyd is, a lot of the time they can do their songs even better live! Which is crazy, and yes that was indeed Roger on the bass! 🔥😁
I'm hooked now! I mostly heard, Yes, King Crimson and Genesis. Hawkwind was a good progressive band that played well live too (Lemmy Kilmeister on bass, before he started MotorHead.)@@andyandalex
Yeah there are tons of amazing groups from this time period, I’m more than excited to explore them, and yeah Floyd is for sure one of the bands that seems pretty easy to get hooked on! Ive heard this album is extremely weird and moreover a studio experiment that got weird criticism, nonetheless, we’re going to check it out! 😁
All four of the live songs from Ummagumma are like that, being longer songs, played raw and swimming in ambience and dynamics. Prime versions of those four songs.
Best live Floyd album - this and Careful With That Axe are as good as it gets. I listen to this for the genius of Rick Wright - the defining sound of early Floyd in the 60s.
I prefer the live and studio versions with Syd Barrett. I feel David simplifies the playing. There's a couple live recordings with Syd playing, one of them video, and one on an audio bootleg.
@@andyandalex It'd be cool if you reacted to the live video on the official Pink Floyd RUclips channel. There's a Roger Waters and Syd Barrett interview that follows the performance. I'm sure you'll find it really interesting. ruclips.net/video/K3tJzu-nBzI/видео.html
my request.... Venus in Furs, by the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed is the man in the band you may have heard of... This song and album (The Velvet Underground and Nico)were around the same time as Early Floyd, late 60's. Well worth your time, IMO....
Ummagumma time! OK, ear wig - now I'm counting down the days til Sisyphus! Rick's cadenza is wonderful. But also, on this, you can certainly hear the different approach Gilmour brought to the band - even though the wah-wah action also suggests a Zappa influence (the two would of course share a stage later that year). Btw - InsHaine's suggestion should be seen as well as heard, so here's a link ruclips.net/video/wqp71DOJ3aY/видео.html (note: the "album" version of the song is a composite with most of its material coming from this particular live performance)
Have you seen the BBC interview of PF and their performance of astronomy (with Syd)? ruclips.net/video/uTfDUyUkVYE/видео.html It may give you insight into how their music was perceived at the time. Also. how its psychedelic aspects were enhanced with lighting etc in performance. I only saw it for the first time recently when I went down the Piper memory lane trip for myself on youtube. what a gem!
Honestly I know people will say I’m crazy, but I honestly prefer Barrett’s version. There’s just something both whimsical and spacey about it, like he’s combing Shakespeare and Space.
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Hey guys, today we're starting our series for the Ummagumma album, we are going to be doing the entirety of the album, posting videos for this album every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Thanks for watching and let me know below how you felt about this live recording!!!
THE live song that resonates the most in my mind to this day. Transports me way off this planet. Only Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor played live in ST Stephen's Basillica Budapest also managed to achieve that. But that organ has hundreds and hundreds of pipes. This is just four guys. Incredible.
I turn 70 this year. This song brings back fond memories of my senior year in high school when I first started dabbling in pot and psychedelics. It was the go to album to put on, kick back amongst the glow light posters in a room illuminated with black lights and just dissolve into the music for hours. Those were the days my friend, as the saying goes.
Bought this double album at Caldors ( or maybe it was Grants) for $3 when most record albums were running about $5. It was my second PF vinyl right after DSOTM and before Wish You Were Here came out..
Pink Floyd live. There is no comparison in modern / rock music.
Ford Prefect
For sure, nothing like it.
Wait till you hear "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict", a real masterpiece.
J.
Haha, it’s coming!!! Thanks for watching! 😁🔥
First 'Careful with that axe, Eugene'!
MrLightning59
You’ll get that on Wednesday! 🔥
Richard Wright was a Genius of all keyboards, synthesizers, and piano. Genius. RIP Rick
My favorite musician of all time. We all have one :) The 'Blanket of Sound'.
Here's my parody of this song, called "Gastronomy Abomine":
Slimy pimple cream
A single bean
Alight the face that
Once compelled you
Bloating round the gown that's found
Around the mousey hound to whom you're bound
Goofier and fatter
Overweight, a bladder filled with batter
Gnashin', bitin'
Stretch-bands tighten
Find a magazine
That's lodged between
The massive chasm
Of her rear view
Mounds astound, the sound of pounds
Abounding as she flounders all around
Goofier and fatter
Where she sat, the cat is looking flatter
Sausage hidin'
Wide load widen
Grinding slabs, flab floppy floppy floppy
Blab, bow wow
Hair shave, Nair, beware, break chair
Finding when she sits around the house
She really sits around the
Finding when she sits around the house
She really sits around the house
LOL!
Great reaction! This album is the wildest and weirdest of them all- extremely experimental, very avant-garde and quite raw. Also my favorite album cover art by them haha.
The studio side consists of completely solo recordings of all 4 members, "Sysyphus" by Richard, ""Grantchester Meadows" and "Several Species..." by Roger, "The Narrow Way" by David and "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" by Nick.
Some real gems on this album especially with David and Roger's compositions. You can feel how all the weird experimentation led to their later masterpieces by listening to this album.
Mzed!
That’s a fantastic description, can’t wait to share more of my reaction with you guys on Wednesday! 😁
@@andyandalex Astronomy Domine is one of the definitive concert openers . The flickering organ intro seats you in your capsule and fastens the seatbelt and as soon as Nick's drums kick in your off to outer space..... After that your capsule drops into the deep sea, where you have to linger your way through creatures not known to normal men, in a strange environment for humans. ( Careful with that Axe was titled "Beset by Creatures of the Deep" in the Man and the Journey suite which they performed in 1969) right before Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun kicks you right into the desert where you hover above the sand slowly getting right into an intensifying sandstorm. After you managed all of these scenarios you end up in space again and witness the Battle of two alien factions in a saucerful of secrets, which clash with each other mercilessly and it all ends with the moaning of the fallen. Call me over dramatizing but it's just so much more fun to listen to the live side with such storys in mind, and it all fits...
@@Schwertfisch13 What a great description of imagery. I hope others find this comment.
@@cadencooper1828 Thank you my friend
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Wow Andy you're going way back. Thank you for taking the time. I am to glad see you hearing what I have know for 40 years? Maybe more. I hope you love it, I hope you will remember it, I hope you will carry it forward. If I could meet someone in a hundred years from now I hope they could love this music as much as me. As much as you? That's why I count on you to pass it down through the generations.
@governmentflu81
Yes! Have to keep the torch lit! 🔥😁
I think this is among the best versions of this song. Glad you enjoyed it:)
Trevor Ayton
It was definitely amazing! I love that the first side of Ummagumma is all live tracks! 😁
Hey Andy "Mothers" (where one side of this album was recorded) is a legendary club in Erdington a suburb of Birmingham England which is where I was born and spent my youth. I was a member of that club and this brings back so many memories. I saw so many unknown bands there. Try listening and reacting to May Blitz (first album) who also appeared there and the owner said that not many bands had the effect that May Blitz had on him (this was on the album cover as a quote!) Love the fact that you have travelled through the Pink Floyd albums, its allowed me to go back and relive my past memories. Cheers Andy
Enjoyed that! I will definitely be looking for the rest of your "Ummagumma" reactions. I am one of the ones who really enjoys that LP.
thegalaxybeing
Awesome, and yeah I’m digging it so far! Posting the Saucerful of Secrets live track reaction from Ummagumma on Monday! 🔥😁
you aint the only one who enjoys Ummagumma Galaxy. done a lot of acid with this album
First time I heard this song, i did not know it was live, until the crowd came in at the end... blew my mind
I always said that even though it isn't my favorite PF album, that track was worth the cost of the 2 CD set
jim james
Hell yeah man
When I had first heard of Pink Floyd back in the day, I bought the Ummagumma album. At first I didn't really know what to think about it since they were before their time and they had a slightly different sound thanks to Syd Barretts collaborations. Of course it grew on me and woke me up to all of the Pink Floyd that came after
This is so fucking good! I named my daughter Miranda after this song
shane mccormick
That’s awesome! And yes, they play a lot of their songs even better live! It’s crazy! 🔥😁
When I first listened to it around 14 or so I just could not fucking believe that 4 human beings could play music like that. That Gilmour solo is epic and the middle section with Rick playing the Farfisa makes me trip.
What about some Zappa? If you want try “Inca Roads” by him 😉
InsHaine
It’s awesome you were exposed to Floyd at a young age, I was 18 when I discovered them, ever changed I am! And I’ll add it to the list man thanks for the suggestion! 🔥😁
Here's the story.
Btw the reason I like a certain kind of music or better I like good music with no boundaries is my dad and his records, so when I was a kid, my dad exposed me to floyd, to purple, to zeppelin and so on.
Once my dad told me this story from when he was young: a friend of his was totally into deep purple and repeatedly said to my dad how good the solo from child in time was (of course it is one the best of all time as we know) but this dude saw nothing but deep purple. So my dad played to him "time" by floyd: "listen to THIS solo" ehehehe.
On his original record bought back in the day there is a sign written by my dad that says " '74...emozioni mai provate", which in italian (I'm Italian) means " '74...I never felt such emotions".
Incredible music.
Ahaha yes! Time has an amazing solo, I can play it on guitar pretty good and will do a cover for you guys when our journey leads to reviewing DSOTM, glad your dad had a good time introducing others to amazing artists, it’s always good for us to broaden our horizons! 😁
the whole album (especially the live part) is an intergalactic trip, a voyage full of constellations and solar systems.
From their era of playing in small halls rather than the extreme stadium concerts that would eventually become their norm. The live material on Ummagumma also allows the listener to hear/feel the actual acoustics, ambience and reverb of the room itself.
Notice how dead quiet and attentive the audience is, allowing the number to finish before applauding or cheering.
Montag Alexis
Yes I loved how respectful the crowd was for the art form they were witnessing, simply amazing! 😁
Best version period
That song was an always is total trip..... there is a film clip for this song too ….
There's also a video on RUclips of the Syd-era band playing this live.
Best intro ever. One of the best tripping albums.
their live performances are the best. check out the PULSE concert. pink floyd fans regard it as the best live concert by anyone, any time, anywhere. including me. it doesn't include echoes. i've already mentioned that the Gdansk concert is best for that. david gilour's return to pompeii in 2017 is a great concert, too. check out the tracks, 'sorrow' and 'in any tongue' from that concert. amazing guitar work.
rob allen
Thanks for the tips man! I’m gonna go through all the studio albums in order first and then we’re gonna bring it back and do a bunch of live shows I think, so I’ll keep that in mind! 😁🔥
I was at the Pulse Tour in 94. Luckily not on the night the seating collapsed. Brilliant show. I'm also saw them in Hyde Park in 2005 at the Live 8 concert. My favourite band since a child in the 70s
fun to see the American youth discover music of Englishmen who were themselves influenced by black American rythym and blues. full circle
Mind blown........
jim james
Exactly
Doh-mee-nay would be the correct pronunciation, but I've heard people say something like "Domminy" over the years, so that the words end up rhyming.
I love this version. This was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard, and I've been a hardcore fan ever since. The studio version never lived up to this one, at least for me.
Listen to the band Can, album Tago Mago, track Aumgn.
The band didn't like this album but it was my intro to Pink Floyd and Astro Domine was the first song I heard so I loved it.
Yeah, your first exposure to the live sounds of PF!
Dude, that was awesome! That was the first I've heard that too! Thanks. Bass killed me, Roger Waters I guess?
Walking Wounded
Yes, the thing with Floyd is, a lot of the time they can do their songs even better live! Which is crazy, and yes that was indeed Roger on the bass! 🔥😁
I'm hooked now! I mostly heard, Yes, King Crimson and Genesis. Hawkwind was a good progressive band that played well live too (Lemmy Kilmeister on bass, before he started MotorHead.)@@andyandalex
Yeah there are tons of amazing groups from this time period, I’m more than excited to explore them, and yeah Floyd is for sure one of the bands that seems pretty easy to get hooked on! Ive heard this album is extremely weird and moreover a studio experiment that got weird criticism, nonetheless, we’re going to check it out! 😁
@@andyandalex Cool!
All four of the live songs from Ummagumma are like that, being longer songs, played raw and swimming in ambience and dynamics. Prime versions of those four songs.
Nobody does Space Rock like the Floyd
Brilliant version. More heavy than the original, better.more hard hitting. A classic from umma gumma.
Best live Floyd album - this and Careful With That Axe are as good as it gets. I listen to this for the genius of Rick Wright - the defining sound of early Floyd in the 60s.
I was in Mothers, the Birmingham club where this was recorded. The place sells carpets now.
On the favorite list for just chillin with a hit of acid!
I prefer the live and studio versions with Syd Barrett. I feel David simplifies the playing. There's a couple live recordings with Syd playing, one of them video, and one on an audio bootleg.
psychedelicpiper
I can understand that, I loved the studio version of this song a lot too! 😁
@@andyandalex It'd be cool if you reacted to the live video on the official Pink Floyd RUclips channel. There's a Roger Waters and Syd Barrett interview that follows the performance. I'm sure you'll find it really interesting. ruclips.net/video/K3tJzu-nBzI/видео.html
Great song.
Jack Cerro
Yes I really enjoyed it! 😁
Have you done Piper At The Gates of Dawn yet? The very first PF album, although I think a couple of singles predated it.
Check out "The Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis, and of course Alan Parsons Project (engineered DSOTM)
my request.... Venus in Furs, by the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed is the man in the band you may have heard of... This song and album (The Velvet Underground and Nico)were around the same time as Early Floyd, late 60's. Well worth your time, IMO....
dgp397
Thanks man!!
Dah-min-ay
geofflip
Thanks man! 😁🔥
@@andyandalex pleasure bro, keep it up, love it!
Astronomy Doh-me-nay😊
Ford Prefect
Thanks! 🔥😁
Ummagumma time! OK, ear wig - now I'm counting down the days til Sisyphus!
Rick's cadenza is wonderful. But also, on this, you can certainly hear the different approach Gilmour brought to the band - even though the wah-wah action also suggests a Zappa influence (the two would of course share a stage later that year).
Btw - InsHaine's suggestion should be seen as well as heard, so here's a link ruclips.net/video/wqp71DOJ3aY/видео.html (note: the "album" version of the song is a composite with most of its material coming from this particular live performance)
Grithron2
Thanks for your thoughtful comment, and thanks for the link I’ll have to check it out!! 🔥😁
Try Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed. If you mange to listen to the whole album I am impressed.
Have you seen the BBC interview of PF and their performance of astronomy (with Syd)? ruclips.net/video/uTfDUyUkVYE/видео.html It may give you insight into how their music was perceived at the time. Also. how its psychedelic aspects were enhanced with lighting etc in performance. I only saw it for the first time recently when I went down the Piper memory lane trip for myself on youtube. what a gem!
I have not seen it, I'll have to watch it sometime soon, thank you! :)
@@andyandalex Glad I could be of help! :-)
A classic example how the Pink Floyd would take a studio song and make it 100% better live.
steve bennett
I believe it’s what they do best, playing it live! 😁😁
Its astronomy dom in ey
YES!! Dom in we rhymes w/ Astronomy. . .
Honestly I know people will say I’m crazy, but I honestly prefer Barrett’s version. There’s just something both whimsical and spacey about it, like he’s combing Shakespeare and Space.
this song is with barret? hi andy ... the guy who loves the real music ...
@nicolas
😁😁
I think this song is sooooo sloooowwwwwwww maybe I can listen to it to fall a sleep
ummagumma is an old british college slang term for sex.
I have the poster
shane mccormick
I love he album art for Ummagumma, so creative! 😁
@@andyandalex ruclips.net/video/Mf_kIDMTM6A/видео.html
@@andyandalex ruclips.net/video/y-mGcfWXe0Y/видео.html
@@andyandalex here's a couple of gems very rare videos of the original four it took me a long time to find these
Thanks man I appreciate that shit! 😁🔥
Wait til you eat a handful of shrooms and listen reeeeeeeeeeee