a little hit, but mostly miss

I read somewhere the Floyd recorded this soundtrack in about two weeks. Unfortunately it sounds like it. Worthwhile if only for Cirrus Minor ( a trippy psychedlic piece) and the Nile Song ( hard rock before hard rock was "hard rock" ) and More Blues ( a great blues number with an off-kilter, clipped, interupped beat ). What remains on this soundtrack is either pleasantly engaging ( "Green is the Colour" , and the pre-ambient/industrial "Quicksilver") or downright forgetable ( just about everything else) . Buy it if you LOVE Pink Foyd ( I do, and I did, and don't regret it at all ).

More is a delicious piece of Pink Floyd's catolouge.

Okay, in truth, the soundtrack to the film More is one more wonderful Pink Floyd album. Out of their many well-done studio albums (reaching into the 'teens) More is perhaps the least acknowledged of all. It doesn't have the cult status of their other film soundtrack, Obscured By Clouds, and it doesn't have the notoriety of Ummagumma, so this probably is the least known Pink Floyd album.



Despite what any may say against it, it's actually one of my favorite from Pink Floyd. I actually love all of their work, but this effort from them rivals the other excellent albums of that period such as A Saucerful of Secrets and Atom Heart Mother.



If what you're looking for is a very specific, structurally clear album of good songs, then this isn't the album for you. 'More' does in fact contain some incredible songs, but even the structured songs tend to have spacey sections before or after the main portion. But if you want a wonderful album, 'More' is worthy of consideration.



First of all look at the prime cuts from the album. "The Nile Song" and "Ibiza Bar" are essential Floyd tunes and both are as heavy as anything from the sixties - fine examples of proto-grunge or proto-metal. "Cirrus Minor" is a groovey Floyd tune that certainly fits in with the spacey-ness and 'out there' style of other classic Floyd songs. "Green Is The Colour" is a nice little acoustic song with beautiful high vocals. "Crying Song" is a charming bit of sorrow that contains the first mention of the classic Pink Floyd symbolism of "the stone" (also featured in Hey You and Dogs). "Cymbaline" is a haunting, wonderful, eerie song with a chorus that will be revisiting you later on due to its catchiness. The rest of the album is full of weird insturmentals and such - tribal party songs, strange guitar workouts, lots of organ and stuff. Not the most outwardly focusing songs ever, but they can be absolutely fantastic if you go about them the right way. Lay down in a comfortable spot and just listen to this stuff, or go out in the woods at night, get drunk and have a party with your friends while you listen to the album. There are plenty of ways to get the best out of those hypnotic tracks.



It's definetly a classic in my mind. Clearly not for everybody but for the ones that might be into this kind of thing I whole heartedly reccomend it. This isn't prog rock or hard rock or anything... it's Pink Floyd.

More...of a Saucerful Of Secrets

Have you listened to A Saucerful Of Secrets? Because if you have, you have had a free preview of MORE. Dramatic Theme=Let There Be More Light, Quicksilver=A Saucerful Of Secrets, and Main Theme is a combination of both. The Nile Song and Ibizia Bar have that hardrock edge to them resembling that of Corporal Clegg. But that does not mean that this album is not worth it...as you can see, I gave it f stars. And because I am such an expert (I mean that sarcastically), that means alot. It's a very cool, easy going (most of the time) album. I wish there were more "musicalish" instrumentals like in Obscured By Clouds. Most of them on this album are very percussion focused, but I guess that's cool. Anyways, it's one of my favorites. I like to think of it as More...of A Saucerful Of Secrets. Right.

Floyd's underrated third album

Pink Floyd's third album was the soundtrack to the film More released in June of 1969 in the UK and a month later here in the United States.

However, I did not hear this album until over a week before my 12th birthday in January of 1988 and needless to say, I was in for a treat after I opened the tape.

The More album was the band's film score to then-unknown director Barbet Schroder's movie about the 60s drug scene. In fact, it was their second film score overall their first was the 1968 movie The Committee.

The band produced the album themselves for the first time and recorded More at Abbey Road in an eight day span(although some sources say Pye Studios). How is it, read on.

The first half features five songs solely written by bass player Roger Waters and sung by guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour and they're all excellent songs which were proving Roger could write just as good songs as ex-Floyd Syd Barrett.

The sublime opener Cirrus Minor makes you feel like you are waking up at dawn to the birds chirping for a nice day. We then proceed to the proto-metal of The Nile Song which sounds like something Black Sabbath would do the following year. The light and breezy Crying Song follows. Then we have two songs which were staples in the Floyd's live set for three years which were the ballad Green Is The Colour and the best transitional Floyd era track entitled Cymbaline.

Drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright contribute the aggressive, powerful drums-and-piano instrumental Up The Khyber. David Gilmour plays a great Spanish guitar with his fine solo showcase A Spanish Piece with Dave ranting in a mock Spanish accent.

The band wrote the rest of the tracks starting with the wild Party Sequence whcih ended the first half of the album. Then, the second half starts with the Main Theme from More.

Another highlight was the somewhat sequel to The Nile Song entitled Ibiza Bar.

The rest of the instrumentals including More Blues(which would be played live in concert occasionally in later years), Quicksilver(which is mainly Rick's Farfisa Organ solo and some Gong from Roger) and the closing Dramatic Theme were brilliant.

When released, the More album quickly reached the UK Top 10 but stalled at #153 in the US. However, the album was good enough to warrant a re-release in 1973 after the success of Dark Side of the Moon.

In 1996, the album was re-released again with expanded artwork and a superb remastering job from James Guthrie and Doug Sax.

Then in 2001, EMI in Japan released More again with the same 1996 remastered CD but the artwork is more in tune with the original UK vinyl sleeve as it is packaged in a minature vinyl sleeve!

Highly recommended!

personal favorite

this the best floyd album i know of. every time i turn it on it takes me to another world and on a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. if you enjoy floyd, dont pass this up.