Ummagumma

Ummagumma

Publicado en octubre del 69

Curioso doble LP. Curioso porque el que el primero está grabado en estudio y el segundo en directo y curioso porque su canción Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict fué inscrita ese año en el Guinness Book of Records por ser la canción con el título más largo de la historia.
Curiosidades aparte, el álbum de estudio es una continua investigación por parte de todos sus miembros por abrir nuevas vías. Waters es el que más afinado está, Gilmour enseña los dientes de su guitarra, Wright es quizá demasiado grandilocuente y Mason es el que más arriesga.
En el otro álbum tenemos cuatro temas excelentemente interpretados en directo destacando un magistral Careful with That Axe, Eugene.

Canciones:

-Studio Album

Sysyphus:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Grantchester Meadows
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together
in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

The Narrow Way:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

The Grand Vizier's Garden Party:

Part One (entrance)
Part Two (entertainment)
Part Three (exit)

-Live Album

Astronomy Domine
Careful Whit That Axe, Eugene
Set the Controls for the Heart of The Sun
A Saucerful of Secrets

 

Ummagumma

1969

"Grantchester Meadows" (Waters)

"Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain"

In the sky a bird was heard to cry.

Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds

Belie the deathly silence that lay all around.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer

Making for the sea.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground.

Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground.

Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.

"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"

(Waters)

Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin

ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place

well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side

and I cried, cried, cried.

The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize and then Craig Marion,

get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket a' ran doon, doon the middin stain

picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet.

Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive

ye rotten hound of the burnie crew. Well I snatched fer the blade O my

Claymore cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet.

Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall

but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?

...and the wind cried back.

Thank you.

"The Narrow Way" Parts I,II, & III (Gilmour)

Following the path as it leads toward

The darkness in the north

Weary stranger's faces show their sympathy

They've seen that hope before

And if you want to stay for a little bit

Rest your aching limbs for a little bit

For you the night is beckoning

And now you can't delay

You hear the night birds calling you

But you can't catch the words they say

And you must you realize be on your way

Mystery swelling, creatures crawling

Hear the roar ger louder in your ears

You know the folly was your own

But the force behind can't conquer all you fears

And if you want to stay for a little bit

Rest your aching limbs for a little bit

For you the night is beckoning and you know

And now you can't delay

You hear the night birds calling you

But you can't catch the words they say

And you must you realize be on your way

Throw your thoughts back many years

To the time when love was life with every morning

Perhaps a day will come when the match for me the curlers past warning

And if you want to stay for a little bit

Rest your aching limbs for a little bit

For you the night is beckoning

And now you can't delay

You hear the night birds calling you

But you can't catch the words they say

And you must you realize be on your way

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