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The music is coated with an almost gloomy atmosphere, and its lyrical content conveys a much more adult tone.
11y
70
A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett's relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy instrumental passages. Barrett's influence is still felt, and much of the material retains a gentle, fairy-tale ambience.
11y
60
"I'm full of dust and guitars," Barrett once said. By A Saucerful of Secrets, he was down to the disturbing "Jugband Blues," with Waters providing the other standout track, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."
60
Syd goes mad, Gilmour joins, band ventures further into the cosmos (and away from the song).
Wow Pink Floyd, you finally did it. You got something above a 5 out of me. 2021 is already an unhinged year.
Probably the best record from them pre-Atom Heart Mother
REVIEW REPOST #082. I repost my old reviews, which got no attention, with updated thoughts. Posted this review in early 2021, but I'm posting it again.
A very solid early Pink Floyd album. I'd say out of their 60s albums (Piper, Ummagumma, More), this is my favorite or second favorite one. Piper was the debut and while it was good, it wasn't personally my thing, it sounds dated, you know that album came out in the 60s, while Saucerful ... read more
Actually great! I saw the rating for this and I expected something worse than their debut, but this is actually really good!
track ratings:
- Let There Be More Light: 7/10
- Remember a Day: 6/10
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: 6/10
- Corporal Clegg: 7/10
- A Saucerful of Secrets: 3/10
- See-Saw: 7/10
- Jugband Blues: 7/10
some nice exploration of sound done by pink floyd in a saucerful of secrets
kinda felt like the beach boys if they went rock, and i absolutely loved it
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Track List
| 1 | Let There Be More Light 5:37 | 86 |
| 2 | Remember a Day 4:33 | 82 |
| 3 | Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 5:28 | 83 |
| 4 | Corporal Clegg 4:12 | 74 |
| 5 | A Saucerful of Secrets 11:56 | 74 |
| 6 | See-Saw 4:36 | 76 |
| 7 | Jugband Blues 2:59 | 82 |
Total Length: 39 minutes
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3mo
if the organ were not in the last minutes of the title track it would be much more low rated
Added on: January 6, 2013