Pink Floyd Discography
A Saucerful of Secrets
TRACKS
Let There Be More Light (Waters) [05:29] Vocals by Waters ("now, now,
now..."), then Wright.
Remember a Day (Wright) [04:23] Vocals by Wright.
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Waters) [05:18] Vocals by
Waters.
Corporal Clegg (Waters) [04:06] Vocals by Gilmour and Waters (Mrs.
Clegg part); Mason mumbles at the end.
A Saucerful of Secrets (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)
a. Something Else [00:00]
b. Syncopated Pandemonium [03:57]
c. Storm Signal [07:16]
d. Celestial Voices [10:14] [11:50] Vocals on Celestial Voices by
Gilmour.
See-Saw (Wright) [04:28] Vocals by Wright.
Jugband Blues (Barrett) [03:00] Vocals by Barrett.
Total Playing Time: 37:54
INFO
Release date: June 29th, 1968
The successes of Pink Floyd led to the release of their first two
singles and first LP release, Piper proved to be too much for Syd
Barret. The group decided that they would need an additional person to
take over for Syd and play guitar. Enter David Gilmour. Then in 1968,
and Syd was in a diminishing state of being due to excessive drug use
and was decided for the benifit of the band they should go on without
him. One night they simply didn't pick him up on the way to a show
probably because he was too stoned to realize. So on March 2, the
decision was made to break up the management partnership of Blackhill
Enterprises which would remove Syd from the band
The press wasn't informed until April 6th. Incorrectly sensing the end,
managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King jumped off the ship.
QUOTES
Peter Jenner: "It was really stressful waiting for Syd to come up with
the songs for the second album. Everybody was looking at him, and he
couldn't do it. Jugband Blues is a really sad song, the portrait of a
nervous breakdown. The last Floyd song Syd wrote, Vegetable Man, was
done for those sessions, though it never came out. He wrote it round at
my house; it's just a description of what he's wearing. It's very
disturbing. Roger took it off the album because it was too dark, and it
is. It's like psychological flashing."
Rick Wright: "I did the title track and I remember Norman saying, You
just can't do this, it's too long. You have to write three-minute
songs. We were pretty cocky by now and told him, If you don't wanna
produce it, just go away. A good attitude I think. The same reason why
we'd never play See Emily Play in concert."
David Gilmour: "I remember Nick and Roger drawing out A Saucerful Of
Secrets as an architectural diagram, in dynamic forms rather than in
any sort of musical form, with peaks and troughs. That's what is was
about. It wasn't music for beauty's sake, or for emotion's sake. It
never had a story line. Though for years afterwards we used to get
letters from people saying what they thought it meant. Scripts for
movies sometimes, too."
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