It was never on a LP - just the B-Side of the "Careful with that Axe"-single It was my favorite song before I ever heard about Pink Floyd ( 67 ? ) . I heard it in german Radio "Schlagerbörse" in Frankfurt ;-)
@PinkFloydGooner Dave sings the verses and chorus, Rog sings the pre-choruses ("dropped into his plastic glider") and coda ("and all I've got to say to you is goodbye!"), and Rick does falsetto backing vox in various places. Rog presumably does backing vox for the chorus too, but it doesn't really sound like him...
@chrismarshall1950 "for if you are stout, you will have to breathe out, while the people around you BREATHE IN BREATHE IN BREATHE IN!" thats a great line very trippy
Seems accurate, mainly because the Beatles stopped touring with the release of Revolver. Just wasn't worth trying to reproduce the automatic double tracking and backing tracks on stage, and they were tired of touring anyway. Both are great psychedelic bands, and both are great to stone to.
As far as I know theres this live version of the song and the studio version. Unfortunately I don't think you can get this version, or indeed the studio version, on any CD. Although, I have seen the studio version on an early vinyl Pink Floyd compilation, I can't remember what it was called though, but its out there. Hope this was helpful.
I love Pink Floyd, its my favorite Band, but i have to say that this song especially the refrain sounds extremely like "Help!" from the Beatles. "Help!" released in 1965 and this one here only 3 years later in 1968. Please listen to both of the songs and think about it!
The Crying Song on More is also kind of wonderful, it seems to be the first mention of The Stone from Roger too.... if you listen closely you'll also notice that the chord sequence is the same as the beginning of Watching T.V. on the Amused To Death album
That's funny seeing as this song was influenced by the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (seriously, just listen to it). Beatles influenced, Floyd, not the other way around.
Hey I don't think that it is fair to compare. No offence, But I think both Pink Floyd AND The Beatles are legends because they deserve to be. At least for me, There cannot be any comparison 'cause they are so different, yet they intersect and form this amazing spectrum of music that makes you wish you were born in that time.
Years ago,I heard an EARLY AND RARE Floyd song on FM radio and FEW people offered title suggestions for this song. This studio bootleg track: 1. Came out around'69,was 6-7 minutes long and sounded like it was sung by Roger 2. It featured an upbeat renissance-like organ melody with a trippy middle 8 guitar solo with wah-wah and distorted sound effects. This tune sounded like a psychedelic WALTZ 3. The lyrics were of one's reminiscing of a young love with movements captured in time and still flowing in his mind It wasn't "summer of'68" It was pretty rare. I came across the title ,"waltz of mediration" which probably isn't the right title to this song. If anyone knows what song I'm talking about,please feel free to share your title ideas with me. Thanks!
No but I actually heard a very loose chord JAM of it from the video;" PINK FLOYD-odds and allsorts,1968-1977".It comes up at the 8 minute mark of the video and goes to 12:20. The first minute of this is how the OUTRO of the song sounds. Years ago when I heardt the actual song,there were some lyrics,a renissance like organ melody and a trippy guitar solo
@@calliopivogiatzis2235 Might be one of the tunes from one of the movies they did soundtracks for. There's the one off type recordings they did....."corrosion"...." Moonhead"....maybe something off of Ummagumma....
Nice song but no. I have a GOOD LEAD though. I accidentally heard a snippet of the song starting at around 8 minutes of the video,PINK FLOYD-odds and allsorts-1968-1977. The chord JAN is the structure of the song but this chord sequence stands out in the OUTRO. If you put these chords in the background and add an organ melody and some lyrics, that's the song! P.S. There's also a psychedelic middle 8 guitar solo
Mm ok sorry, my comment was just stupid. I don't understand some parts of the song (i'm no native english) and I dind't even imagine was related to the lyrics. Thank you for info!
Wouldn't it be great if the Floyd would either release a new, remastered version of early singles which includes this or at least tack it onto one of the reissues?
@magicalmermaid204729 How come they didnt put this in Echoes? I really like the rythem from 0:43-0:53 and 3:00-3:10. It sounds waybetter than Sgt Pepper.
does anybody find it quite ironic that he sings "if you survive till 2005 i hope your exceedingly thin"... Syd passed in 2006 and he wasnt even close to being thin.
Actually is the other way. Sgt peppers album is thanks to Pink Floyd Piper at the gates of dawn. of course Syd was a big fan of the beatles, but in that year Pink Floyd and The beatles had the same sound ingenier, They were at the same studio at the same time, thats why Sgt pepper is psychodelic thanks to Pink Floyd recordind his original Psychodelic music. the big Sgt peppers albums is influenced in the even more big Piper at the gates of dawn album.
i hate seeing comments like this because i like both artists... and the beatles had more varied music than pink floyd imo ( not that it makes them any better though )
Richard Hickling I think it was a flop single called "It would be so nice" since Barrett played on Apples and Oranges. Book called Pink Floyd FAQ Everything left to know and more Stuart Shea
the Beatles influence to Pink Floyd may have been Present at the early years of Pink Floyd, but most of there albums after the 60s have very little to no influence from the Beatles. I think it is safe to say that Pink Floyd has more talent put into there later albums than in the early ones, and clearly Pink Floyd is famous for the Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You where Here, The Wall etc...
Completely right, beatles are the greatest an(and more around those years) and influenced to The Pink Floyd Sound. Right, Pink Floyd were practically amateurs, is impossible to think that Beatles known them. But one thing to say is "being influenced by" and other is to say is "who performs better". Beatles were the more experimental psychedelia, but using recording tricks, they couldn't reproduce that by themselves. Common, Pink Floyd were performing psychedellia, not session psychedellia
todos uds no mamen x q lenon los fue a ver en unatocada q dieron en el 66 o 68 i hasta el los admiraba aunqe no tubieran exito en ese momento como ellos cheqenlo
that's your opinion. and i don't see how the beatles are for 'children'. please explain that part of your comment. i want to see you make more fun of yourself, it's funny.
Hey there Eugene, what are you doing? Careful with that axe... Oh, you destroyed my glider for my own good, you say? Yeah, I suppose you are right. I probably would have crashed after shoving off of the cliff and broken my neck in that thing.
Please this isn't even close. Sgt. Pepper was released two months before Piper (released June 1, 1967 and Aug 5, 1967, respectively), and recording started almost two months earlier. And just because they recorded at the same studio doesn't mean the Beatles were sitting in on their recording sessions and looking to them for influences. I'm pretty sure the biggest band in the world wasn't looking at small-budget amateurs who hadn't released a single album for ideas.
the band dident really like the song its condsiderd a floyd embarssment there wasent even a stereo mix thats how much they disliked it they only liked the flip side careful with that axe eugine but the songs really good anyone else agree
I am surprised this song did not get more attention back then. Its pretty well produced.
one of my favorite pink floyd tunes ever, been a fan since 1979 and only heard this recently on a download of bootlegs, just amazing .
Lucyyyy in the Skyyyy
Brillant! It proves that each time they performed a song, they did it in a different way!
The best version of this nice pink floyd song.
It was never on a LP - just the B-Side of the "Careful with that Axe"-single
It was my favorite song before I ever heard about Pink Floyd ( 67 ? ) .
I heard it in german Radio "Schlagerbörse" in Frankfurt ;-)
I am a huge fan of Floyd but I just discovered this song few days ago...it's W O N D E R F U L
It reminds me of my childhood... Great song!!
Jimi said it best: "Not necessarily stoned, but...beautiful."
Amazing song .
This song is one of the hundreds of reasons why Floyd pre-dark side will always be best
That was bloody incredible. Better than most " session " versions lol!
An excellent song.
This is GOLD
I completely agree with you. I love them in different ways, because they are different bands. I can't like one more than the other.
love this version--longer spacey instrumental in the middle, they should have done that in the studio version.
great song am dancing like crazy :)
@PinkFloydGooner Dave sings the verses and chorus, Rog sings the pre-choruses ("dropped into his plastic glider") and coda ("and all I've got to say to you is goodbye!"), and Rick does falsetto backing vox in various places. Rog presumably does backing vox for the chorus too, but it doesn't really sound like him...
This is Awesome!
it also nice to know Roger and David are on good terms again
> lucy in the sky with diamonds
@chrismarshall1950 "for if you are stout, you will have to breathe out, while the people around you BREATHE IN BREATHE IN BREATHE IN!" thats a great line very trippy
lucy in the sky with diamods
Story of my life
@galaxyuno1 It is on the Early Singles release and I think attached to the double disc Piper album remasters...
Seems accurate, mainly because the Beatles stopped touring with the release of Revolver. Just wasn't worth trying to reproduce the automatic double tracking and backing tracks on stage, and they were tired of touring anyway. Both are great psychedelic bands, and both are great to stone to.
As far as I know theres this live version of the song and the studio version. Unfortunately I don't think you can get this version, or indeed the studio version, on any CD. Although, I have seen the studio version on an early vinyl Pink Floyd compilation, I can't remember what it was called though, but its out there. Hope this was helpful.
I love Pink Floyd, its my favorite Band, but i have to say that this song especially the refrain sounds extremely like "Help!" from the Beatles. "Help!" released in 1965 and this one here only 3 years later in 1968. Please listen to both of the songs and think about it!
The Crying Song on More is also kind of wonderful, it seems to be the first mention of The Stone from Roger too.... if you listen closely you'll also notice that the chord sequence is the same as the beginning of Watching T.V. on the Amused To Death album
i hate seeing comments like this because i love both pink floyd AND the beatles... i can't really pick one over the other, you know.
sounds good!
"If you survive till 2005"
The Live 8 reunion was in 2005.
That's funny seeing as this song was influenced by the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (seriously, just listen to it). Beatles influenced, Floyd, not the other way around.
I like the chorus
I'd have to put this one, "Wots... Uh, The Deal?" and "The Narrow Way: Part 3" as my 3 favorite Pink Floyd songs.
kinda nice they did survive to two-thousand and five and gave us that last night at Live 8.
Wasn't "Careful with... " a b-side to this song?
1968 Floyd with Dave having only joined for a few months, and even then they sound amazing, although Syd's influence is still strong.
Holy fuck I have to try and remember to watch this video next time I decide to trip.
i agree
Hey I don't think that it is fair to compare. No offence, But I think both Pink Floyd AND The Beatles are legends because they deserve to be. At least for me, There cannot be any comparison 'cause they are so different, yet they intersect and form this amazing spectrum of music that makes you wish you were born in that time.
@BrokenChair88 haha what video was that original comment on
world population 1968: 3.556 billion, 2010: 6.891 billion
it's a very trippy song, sounds like see emily play without syd barrett. i love the psychedelic keyboards!
"You will have to breathe out so the man next to you can breathe in...."
and let it fly ~
Years ago,I heard an EARLY AND RARE Floyd song on FM radio and FEW people offered title suggestions for this song. This studio bootleg track:
1. Came out around'69,was 6-7 minutes long and sounded like it was sung by Roger
2. It featured an upbeat renissance-like organ melody with a trippy middle 8 guitar solo with wah-wah and distorted sound effects. This tune sounded like a psychedelic WALTZ
3. The lyrics were of one's reminiscing of a young love with movements captured in time and still flowing in his mind
It wasn't "summer of'68" It was pretty rare. I came across the title ,"waltz of mediration" which probably isn't the right title to this song. If anyone knows what song I'm talking about,please feel free to share your title ideas with me. Thanks!
Was it the song called " Biding my time" ? Or a song from one of the films?
No but I actually heard a very loose chord JAM of it from the video;" PINK FLOYD-odds and allsorts,1968-1977".It comes up at the 8 minute mark of the video and goes to 12:20. The first minute of this is how the OUTRO of the song sounds. Years ago when I heardt the actual song,there were some lyrics,a renissance like organ melody and a trippy guitar solo
@@calliopivogiatzis2235 Might be one of the tunes from one of the movies they did soundtracks for. There's the one off type recordings they did....."corrosion"...." Moonhead"....maybe something off of Ummagumma....
Cymbaline ....
Nice song but no. I have a GOOD LEAD though. I accidentally heard a snippet of the song starting at around 8 minutes of the video,PINK FLOYD-odds and allsorts-1968-1977. The chord JAN is the structure of the song but this chord sequence stands out in the OUTRO. If you put these chords in the background and add an organ melody and some lyrics, that's the song!
P.S. There's also a psychedelic middle 8 guitar solo
Mm ok sorry, my comment was just stupid. I don't understand some parts of the song (i'm no native english) and I dind't even imagine was related to the lyrics.
Thank you for info!
Funny this and Apples are two of my favorite Pink Floyd songs and they flopped. Great stuff though
An excellent version of a very underrated song. 'Point Me at the Sky' is a bitchin' Pink Floyd song, one of my favorites. Very stony vid.
Wouldn't it be great if the Floyd would either release a new, remastered version
of early singles which includes this or at least tack it onto one of the reissues?
Yes several
@bitjezeverpeisek its a great song why did u mention it?
I think this is the version I have on "Rhapsody In Pink"
@magicalmermaid204729 How come they didnt put this in Echoes? I really like the rythem from 0:43-0:53 and 3:00-3:10. It sounds waybetter than Sgt Pepper.
unfortunately the music of the future is not like pink floyd imagined it back then...
"And if you survive till 2005"...their last reunion was in 2005 :-(.
If you survive till 2005..
does anybody find it quite ironic that he sings "if you survive till 2005 i hope your exceedingly thin"... Syd passed in 2006 and he wasnt even close to being thin.
For sure, this was floyd trying to make singles with out Syd. I enjoy this song
@ancasilviana thats roger fool
Is it a first PF recorded song sung by Gilmour ?
Are there different versions of the song? I am a bit confused
@SilverDollar79 so they say, but we are dying
Actually is the other way. Sgt peppers album is thanks to Pink Floyd Piper at the gates of dawn. of course Syd was a big fan of the beatles, but in that year Pink Floyd and The beatles had the same sound ingenier, They were at the same studio at the same time, thats why Sgt pepper is psychodelic thanks to Pink Floyd recordind his original Psychodelic music. the big Sgt peppers albums is influenced in the even more big Piper at the gates of dawn album.
I surprised they diss this song, their quality control must have been so strict.
i hate seeing comments like this because i like both artists...
and the beatles had more varied music than pink floyd imo ( not that it makes them any better though )
Damn, what a great song. Never heard it. If the mixing was better, this song would have been a great addition to Saucerful of Secrets
This is from Syd Barrett
@bzt464 Including Syd who died the next year.
It was the 2nd attempt at a single post Barrett in 68 in Mono
What was the first attempt post Barrett via a single?
Richard Hickling
I think it was a flop single called "It would be so nice" since Barrett played on
Apples and Oranges. Book called Pink Floyd FAQ Everything left to know and more Stuart Shea
Thanks Mike Brown
i cant belive gilmour is singing this i always thought it was wright
Amazingly, this single flopped. I would love to hear one of today's groups cover it.
Why don't you all just enjoy the song and the band and forget about comparing groups?
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the Beatles influence to Pink Floyd may have been Present at the early years of Pink Floyd, but most of there albums after the 60s have very little to no influence from the Beatles. I think it is safe to say that Pink Floyd has more talent put into there later albums than in the early ones, and clearly Pink Floyd is famous for the Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You where Here, The Wall etc...
Made me want to be a spaceman
Incorrect, Sir. Syd was most certainly departed by this time.
"if you survive till 2005" :(((((((((
Fuck; I am angry that EMI took down "Saucerful of Secrets" and "Obscured by Clouds." This makes me feel better, though.
Pink Floyd wrote "Dogs".
Completely right, beatles are the greatest an(and more around those years) and influenced to The Pink Floyd Sound.
Right, Pink Floyd were practically amateurs, is impossible to think that Beatles known them.
But one thing to say is "being influenced by" and other is to say is "who performs better".
Beatles were the more experimental psychedelia, but using recording tricks, they couldn't reproduce that by themselves. Common, Pink Floyd were performing psychedellia, not session psychedellia
@magicalmermaid204729 A notable failure as a single.......which it was...Dunno why though. Such a great, GREAT tune!!!!!!
@magicalmermaid204729 I think that the actual single was poorly mixed and sounds downright shitty. but is it actually a good song? hell fucking yes
You are right !
Sorry
I think I can hear why
todos uds no mamen x q lenon los fue a ver en unatocada q dieron en el 66 o 68 i hasta el los admiraba aunqe no tubieran exito en ese momento como ellos cheqenlo
Roger called it a failure because of it's commercial unsuccessfullness, not because he didn't think it was a good song.
that's your opinion. and i don't see how the beatles are for 'children'. please explain that part of your comment. i want to see you make more fun of yourself, it's funny.
Hey there Eugene, what are you doing? Careful with that axe...
Oh, you destroyed my glider for my own good, you say? Yeah, I suppose you are right. I probably would have crashed after shoving off of the cliff and broken my neck in that thing.
cus this song is far less popular than lucy.. but much better IMO
sounds a lot like tangerine dream
Coincidence (?)
WTF? What is the relation of that with this video¿?¿?
They took too much the Syd aproach, they should of stayed the Echoes, Eugine Methology!
Unfortunately, without Syd. :/
Who the fuck is Cid?
Please this isn't even close. Sgt. Pepper was released two months before Piper (released June 1, 1967 and Aug 5, 1967, respectively), and recording started almost two months earlier. And just because they recorded at the same studio doesn't mean the Beatles were sitting in on their recording sessions and looking to them for influences. I'm pretty sure the biggest band in the world wasn't looking at small-budget amateurs who hadn't released a single album for ideas.
the band dident really like the song its condsiderd a floyd embarssment there wasent even a stereo mix thats how much they disliked it they only liked the flip side careful with that axe eugine but the songs really good anyone else agree
Sounds liek Corporell Clegg, Syd tounch, Not so attractive after time.