Clicked so fast upon seeing this in my feed. Lex's reaction was priceless. You have to take this track for what is. A fun 😊experimental goof in the studio. Ummagumma has long been one of my favorite Floyd albums.
A huge thumbs up to anyone reacting to this track! The best title ever. And while I wouldn't exactly call it music, I do enjoy listening to it from time to time.
This one got lots of play when our group of friends came together on weekends. Other songs from this album that were popular in those pre-Dark Side days included 'Astronomy Domine' and 'Careful with That Axe, Eugene'.
Pink Floyd at their strangest. Ummagumma is one of my favourite albums, with "Grantchester Meadows" (a place they knew well in Cambridge) being a standout track on the Studio album and more Simon & Garfunkel than Simon & Garfunkel. Ummagumma was a double vinyl album with disk 1 being live recording and disk 2 being Studio recording.
@@brentfreeland5834 You are correct, Ummagumma is the fourth album by Pink Floyd. It is a double album and was released on 7 November 1969. The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester, while the second disk contains solo compositions by each member of the band recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road). I was lucky enough to see at least 1 gig from every tour they did after 1972.
Synchronicity placed me in front of a fresh copy of Ummagumma, in 69 or 70, as I was in grade nine, and in conjunction with "In Search of the Lost Chord" was fully into mind expansion and the hippie flower child vibe, happening among people unsatisfied with the status quo at the time, and so I took to the experimental and far out ululations of the boys, like salmon to rosewater. By far, the coolest use for this song was whilst on a hitching journey to look for America, and soul brothers and sisters. In a quiet suburb of Des Moines, on the 4th of July in '74, I was at a new friend's upstairs window which was behind a huge oak tree which obscured the window. Speakers to window. The song before "Several Species" is a quiet guitar ballad, even with a barking dog, and the sound of water. The beautiful Grantchester Meadows. The neighbors must have thought we were playing guitars on the porch and had a dog. But when Several Species got going, and very loudly, all the dogs in the hood were going apeshit. And people were rustling. I was frankly surprised anyone would have the album in Iowa. Good times.
Hi guys, this is unexpected and brilliant. Sooo funny your reaction to this. Love it. The entire album is brilliant. I bought it on double vinyl in the 70's. This track cracked me up as well. I have my own take on what you hear. I imagine lots of Disney animal characters in a cave with a large dog gruffing, panting & howling, and moving deeper into the cave passing more weird creatures along the way, to finally enter a section in the cave where there is a drunk Scotsman in a kilt with a Claymore ... [ A large wooden axe like weapon but the head is more like a large wooden hammer ] ... So what is this drunk Scots talking about ? .... I believe he is ranting on about William Wallace [ Braveheart ] ... and how he defeated many a foe in battle....and had gathered an audience of these furry animals. His language is pure Scottish Gaelic which is a Celtic language, that does contain English words, but the strong accent makes even those words difficult to catch. Great fun to listen to with a group of friends after a few drinks. Byeee Jim X
This was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard. 1971 FM radio would play the first half of the album go to commercial and play the second half. It was about midnight and was listening on headphones. This blew my mind because I never had heard anything like this before
Ummagumma is one of my favourite PF albums. In the original vinyl format one disc was four live tracks while the other disc was four tracks, each created by a different member of the band. This track is part two of Roger’s composition, the first part being a relaxed acoustic song called Grantchester Meadows. First time I heard this I was tripping so you have to imagine my reaction.
I take this as intended to be of a whole with Grantchester Meadows. GM begins with a very gentle guitar and throughout s underlain with meadow sounds; in the lyrics, you hear a description of all the lovely things of the meadow, but then Roger sings that he is really in a city room and you realize that he is imagining/remembering the meadow while on a drug trip (probably LSD), but toward the end, you hear a fly start to buzz, and then there is some stomping and the sound of swatting at the fly several times until a killing swat is made. Then the acid trip is shifted from the gentleness of the meadow and goes into this, still naturalistic sounds, but more intense, directed, and frenzied.
When I was 19 years old, in 1990, my friends and I would listen to this often... and we'd laugh. So great to fall into. Such a great way to spark your imagination. We would all see the animals grooving, and we'd see the human interruption. So fun. Love it.
That was so good. I didn't think I'd see anybody reacting to this, great reaction I haven't listened to that in so long. Usually with some special effects, it's even crazier. Very cool guys.
The accent of the human is of the far north of Scotland. Picts are a tribe that lived in Scotland in Roman Britain time (50BC-~390AD) before the Celtic people (Irish) and Norse (Vikings) moved in. I hope you will do "Obscured by Clouds" particularly because the album is songs used in a movie.Most of the dialog of the movie is French or Indonesian local, so the movie wasn't' well-known. Aside:["Sorcerer" by Tangerine Dream (a band you haven't explored yet) is also a movie soundtrack]
That's an English guy doing an impression of what a highlander sounds like, Picts wouldn't have sounded anything like that, you're about 2000 years out.
It is music. it's music that requires the listener to accept that 4/4 isn't the be all and end all. Take into account the limitations of the electronic instruments at that time and that a band.or bands, had the freedom to experiment and be as free thinking as they wished and in the main record company executives had to 'suck it up' . Is it for everyone? no of course it isn't, but yet another remarkable piece released in 1969, possibly the greatest ever year for album releases that certainly I can think of. I was just 16 when I bought this on its release, it's wonderful and reading some of the other comments, no, I've never taken drugs to listen to it, or anything else for that matter. Good work giving it a listen all the same
The first time I listen to Pink Floyd was Ummagumma in 1969. I was a freshman in high school and on a hit of window pane acid (aka LSD). That howling dog only had three legs, was purple with w red collar and long tongue. Listen to the whole album, nothing was the same after that.
Unusual yet pretty funny! Nice change . It was fun! I think it is great idea to do little videos reacting other things! Jim Gaffigan is my favorite standup comedian btw! ❤️
That's so cool that you mentioned Jim. I just asked Alexia if she would like to do a Jim reaction. I like him cause he doesn't curse at all and is amazingly funny.
This is the reason the Romans built Hadrian's Wall across the border of England and Scotland, to keep those weird Scottish Picts out! Seriously though.. and apologies to any Scottish people reading, Roger's deranged Scottish accent is brilliant, and I just love the furry animals grooving around at his feet. I have loved this track for over 50 years now, and I have never wanted to read the lyrics, not that we could back in the day as they weren't printed on the album sleeve. I prefer to close my eyes and imagine what's going on in that cave, and put different interpretations to the Pict's ranting depending on my mood on the day. One thing though, I have always believed the final words were 'And the wind cried Mary...' from the Jimi Hendrix song. Listening to it again now with you Nick and Alexia, I don't hear 'back', I hear 'Mary'. I'm so pleased you've both heard this essential piece of experimental music now guys. Great fun!
I Remember listening to this when I listened to Ummagumma when it first came out. I was stoned and it was a trip listening to the double album on my turntable.
Roger’s vocals have always been so strange but amazing. There is another band called Comus that did something similar but pretty sure it was after it. It obviously is not one of their greatest works, but it shows so much how they were experimenting, trying to find what they were about. As a historical document of this band, it is hugely important. Is it on my Pink Floyd playlist? Ummm no. But I have a weird appreciation for it nonetheless. You guys should do some Monty Python!
You haven't listened to Obscured by Clouds yet? That's one of my top 5 Pink Floyd albums (top two are DSotM & WYWH, top 5 would also include Meddle & Division Bell). It came out between Meddle and DSotM, but it's not really between them. They had already written DSotM, began to perform it live, and had started work on it in the studio before they took a break for several weeks to write and record a movie soundtrack that became Obscured by Clouds. Then they went back to work on DSotM. So obviously the two big differences between DSotM and ObC is that DSotM has the unified big theme throughout and all the sound effects and spoken bits in the segues between songs. But the music for both albums seems very similar to me - I think of it not as a predecessor to DSotM but a companion piece to it. They're individual songs created by the same band at the same time as the big concept album.
Ummagumma is two sides live (two songs each from first two Floyd albums) and two sides studio, with each of the four members writing half side of extremely psychedelic studio music. Brilliant experimentation that gave them the tools to make the sounds they made on the classic 70s albums in a pre-computer era of recording music. The end of SSOSFA is not really lyrics, but more just additional recorded stuff that Floyd adds in at the end. It is not a member of Floyd talking. Uncredited. If you want to try something similar, listen to More than Seven Dwarfs in Penis Land from the Music from the Body Soundtrack by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin.
You guys have got to get on to the really early Syd Barret era of Floyd as well...Gnomes, Scarecrows, and choruses of rubber ducks await you...as well as the sublime craziness of 'Interstellar Overdrive'. Re this track a Pict is a Scotsman, so as well as the Disney animals you can take your Pict...and you get exactly what it says on the label including the cave.
Pure psychedelic silliness! The definition of "trippy", I would love to have this remastered to 5.1 surround and listen to it with a head full! I've always loved it
After the Pict goes "Aye", the furry animal that replies is, if you slow it down, Roger saying "That was really avant-garde wasn't it?". The picture on the cover is a type of fractal, the last picture being the cover of "Saucerful of Secrets". A lot of the music on the album is likewise fractal, if you slow it down, there seem to be several layers. They've always been a very clever and tricksy band. Lots of fun.
I had the awesome experience of seeing Pink Floyd on their Meddle tour in, I believe, '72. Quadraphonic sound was new at the time and the band had a quad sound system. They played songs from 'Ummagumma' and when they played 'Careful with That Axe, Eugene' with the sound spinning around the music hall, it was a trip. When the album came out, I played this song and my Mom came into the room and gave me such a look. She didn't understand my Yes albums either. ☮❤🎶
Say what you will, but they were definitely grooving, and then that angry Scotsman drove those adorable furry animals out of the cave. I think some of the guys must have been listening to Steve Reich and John Cage and other purveyors of 'found' sounds and did their take on it. My solid group of three friends and I were listening to this and "Weasels Ripped my Flesh" and other stuff, but I will not disclose what else we were doing while listening. Thanks for the upload.
Pink Floyd were definitely into music concrete (aka found sounds) after Barrett and up through Dark Side, and even in The Wall. Think of the clocks, the cash registers, and the spoken word portions of Dark Side. In Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, you hear the sounds of breakfast being made, and in concert they would actually have the kitchen devices needed and would make breakfast. There's the dog howling in Seamus, and the airplane in Goodbye Blue Sky.
I can sing large swathes of this song, particularly that that part with breathing that ends in the "hoo", that y'all perfected. We should jam on it someday. I'll fetch a Pict.
This song was the reason I went out and bought the Ummagumma LP by Floyd.....I was a massive stoner back then and this impressed me no end! I will confess I haven't actually played the album a lot over the years.😂
This is a good example of what is called concrete music, which is characterized by using everyday sounds instead of musical notes. Listening from the perspective of a musical composition, it is evident that some sounds play the role of a rhythmic guitar (such as "come back a miiii") and others whose frequency is comparable to other rhythmic resources. Above them, other more free and fluid cries emulate the song or the instrument that carries the melody. Compare this piece to "We have Heaven" by Yes. On this one, it is Anderson's overdubbed vocals that are used instead of bird songs and cries, but again both rhythmic and melodic elements are perceived. This search for new musical horizons leads us to the American John Cage and even the maestro Frank Zappa appeared, very young, on a television program showing some concrete music resources with various gadgets. It's good that you are interested in this album... in my opinion, the best and most progressive of Floyd. From there, listen carefully to Wright's "Sysyphys" suite. It's magnificent too. Greetings.
Hi. I heard this for the first time when I was 10 in 1970 when my brother brought this double album home. Still pretty weird after all these years!! No one that I can recall was recording this kind of experimental non musical stuff in those days besides The Beatles doing Revolution #9 on the White album. Both were in Abbey Road Studios at that time too. It is fun to see both of your reactions!!
I haven't listened to this in decades - Thanks! You guys are fun. Yeah, it's gotta be Roger (he did the voice: "If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?!!" from The Wall). With the album "Ummagumma," they were still figuring out who they were, as a group. I liked David Gilmour's song, "The Narrow Way." Back then, and even later, when Dark Side of the Moon was first released, few people - except stoners and acid-heads, go figure - knew about Pink Floyd (yeah, I'm that old)!
There's a hidden message in this song - at about 4.32, if played at approx half speed, Roger Waters can be heard to say 'That was pretty Avant Garde, wasn't it'
Since y’all have listened to “Small Furry Mammals….”, maybe y’all can listen to The Stranglers’ songs back-to-back “Waltzinblack” and “Just Like Nothing On Earth”. Or you may try early 1970s Gong songs like “Radio Gnome Invisible” or “Flying Teapot”.
I've never heard this song before, guys, and it was a trip. I guess Syd wasn't the only one who did too much @cid in the band's early years 😂haha! But seriously, if I had to choose between two weird AF songs(?), I'd rather listen to Revolution #9 by The Beatles. ❤✌
If you play the album version of this on an old-fashioned record player at 78, 45, 33 1/3 and 16 RPM - and also backwards using your finger - you will find out how Roger Waters did it. For instance, after the Pict gives his big sigh there is a little chirrup, which when played at 16 RPM is Roger saying "that was a bit avant-garde, wasn't it?" Must have taken him forever to do this with 1960s studio technology.
Other trips better happenings along the lines of Yoko Ono Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and Pow R. Doc H. Obsoured By Clouds is film music for La Vallée, a commissioned work. During the long sessions for Dark Side, PF flew to the south of France for a change and recorded these short songs, some of which were interesting, but musically little developed. Unfortunately, often when I've stumbled into a song, it unexpectedly fades out, a collage of songs, a very special album.
I noticed that you didn’t mention The Final Cut in your list of Pink Floyd albums. Guys, this is something you have to listen to! Don’t react to it, listening to the lyrics is critical to get it. A concept album with deep personal meaning for Roger, I think it’s far better than The Wall. Roger sings his heart out on it.
Thanks so much Phil! We have heard the Final Cut many times. Its amazing. One of my coming of age music that I would listen to as a child. We have one Final Cut reaction and I loose it and cry.
As tyrannical, misanthropic and self-righteous as he could be at times, Roger Waters has a brilliant mind and an uber British sense of humor. He's the one who came up with the idea to put out questions on a music stand at Abbey Road and have random people record their answers, which were then used throughout DSOTM.
Clicked so fast upon seeing this in my feed. Lex's reaction was priceless. You have to take this track for what is. A fun 😊experimental goof in the studio. Ummagumma has long been one of my favorite Floyd albums.
A huge thumbs up to anyone reacting to this track! The best title ever. And while I wouldn't exactly call it music, I do enjoy listening to it from time to time.
It's pink floyd
This one got lots of play when our group of friends came together on weekends. Other songs from this album that were popular in those pre-Dark Side days included 'Astronomy Domine' and 'Careful with That Axe, Eugene'.
If you have ever tripped or even just had some smoke you would be laughing so hard especially when he talked!!! Lol!!!!
Loved Grantchester Meadows off Ummagumma. Stoned, looking out a 6th floor dorm window wondering “ Where the hell are the geese?”.
Pink Floyd at their strangest. Ummagumma is one of my favourite albums, with "Grantchester Meadows" (a place they knew well in Cambridge) being a standout track on the Studio album and more Simon & Garfunkel than Simon & Garfunkel. Ummagumma was a double vinyl album with disk 1 being live recording and disk 2 being Studio recording.
Right, I still have it.
For the studio release each band member was given a quarter of an album to do their own ideas. ✌️
@@brentfreeland5834 You are correct, Ummagumma is the fourth album by Pink Floyd. It is a double album and was released on 7 November 1969. The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester, while the second disk contains solo compositions by each member of the band recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road). I was lucky enough to see at least 1 gig from every tour they did after 1972.
@@joolz4848 I have a friend that saw them earlier in 69. They also performed a number of tunes that would eventually be included on D.S.O.T.M. ✌️
This goes very well with Grandchester Meadows. A wonderful contrast. I enjoyed your reaction, thanks.
This “Song” always makes me
Smile 😁 It’s been a while
Since I’ve heard it!
The Drunk Scotsman is
Priceless.🤪
James Joyce's Finnigan's Wake reads entirely like this - one almost has to yell the book like a drunk Scotsman in order to understand it.
Synchronicity placed me in front of a fresh copy of Ummagumma, in 69 or 70, as I was in grade nine, and in conjunction with "In Search of the Lost Chord" was fully into mind expansion and the hippie flower child vibe, happening among people unsatisfied with the status quo at the time, and so I took to the experimental and far out ululations of the boys, like salmon to rosewater.
By far, the coolest use for this song was whilst on a hitching journey to look for America, and soul brothers and sisters. In a quiet suburb of Des Moines, on the 4th of July in '74, I was at a new friend's upstairs window which was behind a huge oak tree which obscured the window. Speakers to window. The song before "Several Species" is a quiet guitar ballad, even with a barking dog, and the sound of water. The beautiful Grantchester Meadows. The neighbors must have thought we were playing guitars on the porch and had a dog. But when Several Species got going, and very loudly, all the dogs in the hood were going apeshit. And people were rustling. I was frankly surprised anyone would have the album in Iowa. Good times.
Hi guys, this is unexpected and brilliant. Sooo funny your reaction to this. Love it. The entire album is brilliant. I bought it on double vinyl in the 70's. This track cracked me up as well. I have my own take on what you hear. I imagine lots of Disney animal characters in a cave with a large dog gruffing, panting & howling, and moving deeper into the cave passing more weird creatures along the way, to finally enter a section in the cave where there is a drunk Scotsman in a kilt with a Claymore ... [ A large wooden axe like weapon but the head is more like a large wooden hammer ] ... So what is this drunk Scots talking about ? .... I believe he is ranting on about William Wallace [ Braveheart ] ... and how he defeated many a foe in battle....and had gathered an audience of these furry animals. His language is pure Scottish Gaelic which is a Celtic language, that does contain English words, but the strong accent makes even those words difficult to catch. Great fun to listen to with a group of friends after a few drinks. Byeee Jim X
This was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard. 1971 FM radio would play the first half of the album go to commercial and play the second half. It was about midnight and was listening on headphones. This blew my mind because I never had heard anything like this before
Ummagumma is one of my favourite PF albums. In the original vinyl format one disc was four live tracks while the other disc was four tracks, each created by a different member of the band. This track is part two of Roger’s composition, the first part being a relaxed acoustic song called Grantchester Meadows. First time I heard this I was tripping so you have to imagine my reaction.
I take this as intended to be of a whole with Grantchester Meadows. GM begins with a very gentle guitar and throughout s underlain with meadow sounds; in the lyrics, you hear a description of all the lovely things of the meadow, but then Roger sings that he is really in a city room and you realize that he is imagining/remembering the meadow while on a drug trip (probably LSD), but toward the end, you hear a fly start to buzz, and then there is some stomping and the sound of swatting at the fly several times until a killing swat is made. Then the acid trip is shifted from the gentleness of the meadow and goes into this, still naturalistic sounds, but more intense, directed, and frenzied.
When I was 19 years old, in 1990, my friends and I would listen to this often... and we'd laugh. So great to fall into. Such a great way to spark your imagination. We would all see the animals grooving, and we'd see the human interruption. So fun. Love it.
That was so good. I didn't think I'd see anybody reacting to this, great reaction I haven't listened to that in so long. Usually with some special effects, it's even crazier. Very cool guys.
Doug Helvering, about one year ago.
Obscured by clouds is superb.
So experimental, Syd influence can be heard here and also Echoes. Thanks for having discourage to react to this.
My favorite song title of all time.
I prefer Crash test dummies "mmm mmm mmm mmm".....
The accent of the human is of the far north of Scotland. Picts are a tribe that lived in Scotland in Roman Britain time (50BC-~390AD) before the Celtic people (Irish) and Norse (Vikings) moved in. I hope you will do "Obscured by Clouds" particularly because the album is songs used in a movie.Most of the dialog of the movie is French or Indonesian local, so the movie wasn't' well-known. Aside:["Sorcerer" by Tangerine Dream (a band you haven't explored yet) is also a movie soundtrack]
That's an English guy doing an impression of what a highlander sounds like, Picts wouldn't have sounded anything like that, you're about 2000 years out.
So creative...required listing for anyone into Prog.
I give you guys credit for reacting to this one
When it comes to weird stuff from huge bands, nothing compares to this
Love it!
A pict, dear ruffians, is...
A Scottish accent😂😂😂😂😁
This was our goto in the early 70s. New to Floyd's bizarre music, new to dope and the trips it could take you on..
Bisogna amare veramente i Pink Floyd per apprezzare questo brano . Chi non ci riesce passi oltre e ascolti qualcosa più " easy "
Out of the blue and out of the past break out the black light again. Thanks for the fun reaction and the sonic flashback.
It is music. it's music that requires the listener to accept that 4/4 isn't the be all and end all. Take into account the limitations of the electronic instruments at that time and that a band.or bands, had the freedom to experiment and be as free thinking as they wished and in the main record company executives had to 'suck it up' . Is it for everyone? no of course it isn't, but yet another remarkable piece released in 1969, possibly the greatest ever year for album releases that certainly I can think of. I was just 16 when I bought this on its release, it's wonderful and reading some of the other comments, no, I've never taken drugs to listen to it, or anything else for that matter. Good work giving it a listen all the same
The first time I listen to Pink Floyd was Ummagumma in 1969. I was a freshman in high school and on a hit of window pane acid (aka LSD). That howling dog only had three legs, was purple with w red collar and long tongue. Listen to the whole album, nothing was the same after that.
Unusual yet pretty funny! Nice change . It was fun! I think it is great idea to do little videos reacting other things! Jim Gaffigan is my favorite standup comedian btw! ❤️
That's so cool that you mentioned Jim. I just asked Alexia if she would like to do a Jim reaction. I like him cause he doesn't curse at all and is amazingly funny.
@@NicknLex exactly he is mostly clean and so funny! Thanks for everything! I love you guys! Look forward to the future of your channel
This is the reason the Romans built Hadrian's Wall across the border of England and Scotland, to keep those weird Scottish Picts out! Seriously though.. and apologies to any Scottish people reading, Roger's deranged Scottish accent is brilliant, and I just love the furry animals grooving around at his feet. I have loved this track for over 50 years now, and I have never wanted to read the lyrics, not that we could back in the day as they weren't printed on the album sleeve. I prefer to close my eyes and imagine what's going on in that cave, and put different interpretations to the Pict's ranting depending on my mood on the day.
One thing though, I have always believed the final words were 'And the wind cried Mary...' from the Jimi Hendrix song. Listening to it again now with you Nick and Alexia, I don't hear 'back', I hear 'Mary'. I'm so pleased you've both heard this essential piece of experimental music now guys. Great fun!
PICTs were people who lived Pre- Viking, during the Middle Ages.
British dialect
Pure trippy FUN ! Thanks 😜👍
I Remember listening to this when I listened to Ummagumma when it first came out. I was stoned and it was a trip listening to the double album on my turntable.
The Picts were a the inhabitants of Scotland when the Romans invaded, Roger is doing his best Scottish accent representing the Pict of the song.
Roger’s vocals have always been so strange but amazing. There is another band called Comus that did something similar but pretty sure it was after it. It obviously is not one of their greatest works, but it shows so much how they were experimenting, trying to find what they were about. As a historical document of this band, it is hugely important. Is it on my Pink Floyd playlist? Ummm no. But I have a weird appreciation for it nonetheless. You guys should do some Monty Python!
You haven't listened to Obscured by Clouds yet? That's one of my top 5 Pink Floyd albums (top two are DSotM & WYWH, top 5 would also include Meddle & Division Bell). It came out between Meddle and DSotM, but it's not really between them. They had already written DSotM, began to perform it live, and had started work on it in the studio before they took a break for several weeks to write and record a movie soundtrack that became Obscured by Clouds. Then they went back to work on DSotM. So obviously the two big differences between DSotM and ObC is that DSotM has the unified big theme throughout and all the sound effects and spoken bits in the segues between songs. But the music for both albums seems very similar to me - I think of it not as a predecessor to DSotM but a companion piece to it. They're individual songs created by the same band at the same time as the big concept album.
Ummagumma is two sides live (two songs each from first two Floyd albums) and two sides studio, with each of the four members writing half side of extremely psychedelic studio music. Brilliant experimentation that gave them the tools to make the sounds they made on the classic 70s albums in a pre-computer era of recording music. The end of SSOSFA is not really lyrics, but more just additional recorded stuff that Floyd adds in at the end. It is not a member of Floyd talking. Uncredited. If you want to try something similar, listen to More than Seven Dwarfs in Penis Land from the Music from the Body Soundtrack by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin.
You guys have got to get on to the really early Syd Barret era of Floyd as well...Gnomes, Scarecrows, and choruses of rubber ducks await you...as well as the sublime craziness of 'Interstellar Overdrive'. Re this track a Pict is a Scotsman, so as well as the Disney animals you can take your Pict...and you get exactly what it says on the label including the cave.
This song was very much lots of college fun with friends, drinks and something to smoke. Thanks for reaction!
Pure psychedelic silliness! The definition of "trippy", I would love to have this remastered to 5.1 surround and listen to it with a head full! I've always loved it
After the Pict goes "Aye", the furry animal that replies is, if you slow it down, Roger saying "That was really avant-garde wasn't it?". The picture on the cover is a type of fractal, the last picture being the cover of "Saucerful of Secrets". A lot of the music on the album is likewise fractal, if you slow it down, there seem to be several layers. They've always been a very clever and tricksy band. Lots of fun.
I had the awesome experience of seeing Pink Floyd on their Meddle tour in, I believe, '72. Quadraphonic sound was new at the time and the band had a quad sound system. They played songs from 'Ummagumma' and when they played 'Careful with That Axe, Eugene' with the sound spinning around the music hall, it was a trip. When the album came out, I played this song and my Mom came into the room and gave me such a look. She didn't understand my Yes albums either. ☮❤🎶
And the wind cried Mary.
Say what you will, but they were definitely grooving, and then that angry Scotsman drove those adorable furry animals out of the cave. I think some of the guys must have been listening to Steve Reich and John Cage and other purveyors of 'found' sounds and did their take on it. My solid group of three friends and I were listening to this and "Weasels Ripped my Flesh" and other stuff, but I will not disclose what else we were doing while listening. Thanks for the upload.
Pink Floyd were definitely into music concrete (aka found sounds) after Barrett and up through Dark Side, and even in The Wall. Think of the clocks, the cash registers, and the spoken word portions of Dark Side. In Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, you hear the sounds of breakfast being made, and in concert they would actually have the kitchen devices needed and would make breakfast. There's the dog howling in Seamus, and the airplane in Goodbye Blue Sky.
you included the lyrics so we could understand Water...yet I read the lyrics and am still lost, lol...Great react, many would not go there! Thanks!
I can sing large swathes of this song, particularly that that part with breathing that ends in the "hoo", that y'all perfected. We should jam on it someday. I'll fetch a Pict.
HAHAHA. 😂😂😂 This was always worth a laugh in high school.
I had just turned nine years old when this album came out, and I have always loved this. My older brother bought it shortly after it was released. ✌️
Hi Guys,
That's definitely Scottish....
Old Scottish.
Keep Rockin'🎸
RONNIE
SCOTLAND 🏴
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Obscured by Clouds and More were actually movie soundtracks
I do love when people experience this song. You may be different after this.
Ummagumma - yep, you should add this album to your library.
Was running a mushroom trip for some people , played this song and it caused one of the group to freak out so be careful! Lol.
This song was the reason I went out and bought the Ummagumma LP by Floyd.....I was a massive stoner back then and this impressed me no end! I will confess I haven't actually played the album a lot over the years.😂
Saw this title and had to laugh! This is pre-watching btw. This should be good
I warned you about this one, LOL!
Props to you. Have you done Careful With That Axe Eugene?
This is a good example of what is called concrete music, which is characterized by using everyday sounds instead of musical notes. Listening from the perspective of a musical composition, it is evident that some sounds play the role of a rhythmic guitar (such as "come back a miiii") and others whose frequency is comparable to other rhythmic resources. Above them, other more free and fluid cries emulate the song or the instrument that carries the melody. Compare this piece to "We have Heaven" by Yes. On this one, it is Anderson's overdubbed vocals that are used instead of bird songs and cries, but again both rhythmic and melodic elements are perceived.
This search for new musical horizons leads us to the American John Cage and even the maestro Frank Zappa appeared, very young, on a television program showing some concrete music resources with various gadgets.
It's good that you are interested in this album... in my opinion, the best and most progressive of Floyd. From there, listen carefully to Wright's "Sysyphys" suite. It's magnificent too. Greetings.
Hi. I heard this for the first time when I was 10 in 1970 when my brother brought this double album home. Still pretty weird after all these years!! No one that I can recall was recording this kind of experimental non musical stuff in those days besides The Beatles doing Revolution #9 on the White album. Both were in Abbey Road Studios at that time too. It is fun to see both of your reactions!!
The War cry of William Wallace?
Speaking Pictiish. The ancient gaeliac language of Scotland
Cool, always good to hear this one.
I do like to listen to Umagumma not everyone's favourite should listen to the Narrow way or even Astronomy Domine live absolutely stunning
You should listen to this with the lights off for sure 😂
Shows what having studio time and LSD does
This is raw, but I feel and hear the concept refined in Echoes.
Sonic torture for the severely stoned or beautiful noise 🔊🤯💥
Have fun.. 😊
I haven't listened to this in decades - Thanks! You guys are fun. Yeah, it's gotta be Roger (he did the voice: "If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?!!" from The Wall). With the album "Ummagumma," they were still figuring out who they were, as a group. I liked David Gilmour's song, "The Narrow Way." Back then, and even later, when Dark Side of the Moon was first released, few people - except stoners and acid-heads, go figure - knew about Pink Floyd (yeah, I'm that old)!
My favorite, off the album, might be “Careful with that axe, Eugene!
@@MrRandyv Yeah, likely Roger's dark humor. Like: "One of These Days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces").
There's a hidden message in this song - at about 4.32, if played at approx half speed, Roger Waters can be heard to say 'That was pretty Avant Garde, wasn't it'
Since y’all have listened to “Small Furry Mammals….”, maybe y’all can listen to The Stranglers’ songs back-to-back “Waltzinblack” and “Just Like Nothing On Earth”. Or you may try early 1970s Gong songs like “Radio Gnome Invisible” or “Flying Teapot”.
This song can only be fully understood by hearing the song before it.
I've never heard this song before, guys, and it was a trip. I guess Syd wasn't the only one who did too much @cid in the band's early years 😂haha! But seriously, if I had to choose between two weird AF songs(?), I'd rather listen to Revolution #9 by The Beatles. ❤✌
Early Floyd is the best in LSD music
Doric scots. Very close to Middle English. If you ever watch Pixar’s Brave the big blonde laddie is speaking it.
you guys should check out the narrow way from the same lp
When Syd was there, it was a lot different!
This is very similar to Jimi Hendrix’ The Wind Cries Mary-1967.
If you play the album version of this on an old-fashioned record player at 78, 45, 33 1/3 and 16 RPM - and also backwards using your finger - you will find out how Roger Waters did it. For instance, after the Pict gives his big sigh there is a little chirrup, which when played at 16 RPM is Roger saying "that was a bit avant-garde, wasn't it?" Must have taken him forever to do this with 1960s studio technology.
Had to look up the meaning of Pict
When I was younger
A Scottish man
Younger viewers may think there are a lot of minions on this recording.
I think I hear some Ewoks in there, too.
From the Ummagumma album. Pink Floyd themselves have said that this album was a disaster.
Just so happens I'm fresh out of LSD. So cannot fully enjoy this marvelous track. Ah, early PF. None better.
I believe it's Scottish Gaelic language.
I thought you guys had heard most of PF already. One of their more commercial numbers LOL.
Other trips better happenings along the lines of Yoko Ono Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and Pow R. Doc H.
Obsoured By Clouds is film music for La Vallée, a commissioned work. During the long sessions for Dark Side, PF flew to the south of France for a change and recorded these short songs, some of which were interesting, but musically little developed. Unfortunately, often when I've stumbled into a song, it unexpectedly fades out, a collage of songs, a very special album.
A wee portion reappeared on the wall….these were the good old days when there was stuff that needed doing. Roger, Scottish school master ring a bell?
If you enjoy such weird things, then go for My Legs by IQ !
Most of Pink Floyd music, pre-Dark Side of the Moon album; always sounded like strange sound effects... maybe just me? Dunno....
Is it cockney? No Nick it is mostly definitely not 😂 wrong in of the island my friend
I think played backwards it might make sense
Grantchester Meadows should be next.
Honestly this should be listened with Grantchester Meadows together.
Understood all of it!Hmmm????
Is there anything else like this? Ha! I don't know what there might be. Pink Floyd/Roger Waters is incredibly creative.
I noticed that you didn’t mention The Final Cut in your list of Pink Floyd albums. Guys, this is something you have to listen to! Don’t react to it, listening to the lyrics is critical to get it. A concept album with deep personal meaning for Roger, I think it’s far better than The Wall. Roger sings his heart out on it.
Thanks so much Phil! We have heard the Final Cut many times. Its amazing. One of my coming of age music that I would listen to as a child. We have one Final Cut reaction and I loose it and cry.
@@NicknLex I’ll have to look for that reaction sometime. Actually, I think I need to dig the CD out soon, too.
Hope you enjoy them both!! :) Have a great weekend!
As tyrannical, misanthropic and self-righteous as he could be at times, Roger Waters has a brilliant mind and an uber British sense of humor. He's the one who came up with the idea to put out questions on a music stand at Abbey Road and have random people record their answers, which were then used throughout DSOTM.
You forgot to include the lytics.
May be the most weird song from Pink Floyd by far!😅
Play this song backwards it's creepy
Great to listen to stoned though...
Still better than his new version of Money.
LMAO
It's a very exaggerated Scots accent