Pink Floyd - Fictional Second Album with Syd Barrett

I don't post the sleeves in the public there. It's just a pic archive to post them here in the forum.^^

 

My earlier version of The Pink Floyd included 'See Emily Play', too.
The setlist was:
01 Arnold Layne
02 Interstellar Overdrive
03 See Emily Play
04 Nick's Boogie
05 Candy And A Currant Bun

But to make it more chronological I omitted 'See Emily Play' because it wasn't recorded yet at Sound Techniques, it was cut during (or after) Piper was completed. Maybe I'll put it into the successor album of Piper.

 

The CD also contained a download code for the legendary 'Rhamadan', which has since also seen release as a bonus track on the recent 'Madcap' SHM CD reissue.
The 'Introduction to Syd' vinyl was a RSD release only, I believe.

 

Somewhere I read the download service for the bonus track (for Introduction) is not running anymore.

 

That (crappy MP3) download has been deleted long time ago, and since then the Barrett website has changed owner as well, it is now maintained by the Barrett family (as infrequently as before).

 

At least YouTube still got 'Rhamadan'.

 

Anyone own the Madcap SHM CD with the Rhamadan bonus track? Curious about sound quality. I believe the CD is already OOP btw...

 

I don't know whether it is authorized to place it here. If it is permitted, listen to an album as SHM-CD, including Rhamadan. https://mab.to/uPCLPNfKb

 

Nice! although I gotta say Rick would be upset you didn't credit
him with vocals even if he didn't have any on this set. Not one to
(b)itch in public, he finally expressed his annoyance at not being
granted the honor on "Piper ...", where he's all over the place.

 

The credit on my designed back cover is a cut I used from the original Piper sleeve. Tell EMI they did it wrong.^^

 

Side A:
Let there be more light
Scream thy last scream
Remember a day
Set the controls...
Corporal clegg
Side B:
Vegetable man
A saucerful of secrets
See saw
Jugband Blues

 

I nearly finalized my version of a second Syd/Floyd album. I named it In The Beechwoods, after the album's opener.

Slightly changed the tracklist and I think it will stay that way now:

side one:
In The Beechwoods
Vegetable Man
Remember A Day
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

side two:
Apples And Oranges
Paintbox
John Latham
Scream Thy Last Scream
Jugband Blues

I will replace some audio when I have the Cambridge St/ation box/book. Though I made mono and stereo (re)mixes for my created album already. It flows very well, I think...
Also, here's new artwork I made, including a backcover. I mentioned David Gilmour as a "guest" on guitar in the credits for 'Set The Controls'.

 

Really like this tracklist. Some very different order choices than I'd make, and they work really well. Which Latham edit(s) do you have in mind?

Here, then, is the follow-up third album (to precede the excellent fourth album of later '68/early '69 misfits):

I.
1. Sound of Change instrumental (soundstage Mar 68)
2. Let There Be More Light
3. Julia Dream
4. It Would Be So Nice
5. Committee main theme (slow)

II.
1. Corporal Clegg
2. Committee main theme (fast)
3. See-Saw
4. A Saucerful of Secrets

 

That's beautiful! Two thumbs up! Always liked those two photos of the band. Which part of John Latham did you use? (I'd imagine Version 9, as it stands apart from the rest somewhat).
Small quibble: if you're not familiar with their faces, you'd think Nick is Rick, and vice-versa... ;-)

 

Thanks guys! I made thousands of variants for the sleeve but I think I'm finally satisfied how it looks like.
I can't say exactly from which part I took the 'John Latham' audio. Months ago I asked @Surferghost for hearing his album creation and I used the Latham snippets he took from the Early Years box set.
When I have Cambridge St/ation I will take a look which portion of the session I would take. But the content in my current album mix sounds great already.

Haha! Actually there were some original releases, I think a single sleeve of 'Arnold Layne' for example, where the names' order didn't fit to the faces.^^

 

Looks interesting! While I was working on the second Syd/Floyd LP I also made a third album (the "first" with Mr Gilmour).
I changed the content and cover of it a lot as well. The name is simply A Saucerful Of Secrets, like the original. I tried to give 'It Would Be So Nice' and 'Point Me At The Sky' some stereo mixes. But the full mono album mix is satisfying.



side one:
Let There Be More Light
It Would Be So Nice
The Embryo
Corporal Clegg
Song 1 (Hollywood)
Point Me At The Sky

side two:
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Julia Dream
See-Saw
A Saucerful Of Secrets

 

Yes, that quintessentially early '68 photo session in the trees My "cleanup" album of late '68-69:

side one:
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Point Me At the Sky
Roger's Boogie
Song 1
Theme (Beat Version)

side two:
Behold the Temple of Light (live Amsterdam)
The Embryo
Biding My Time
Hollywood

Obviously, the "real" Seabirds is sorely missed here. And sound quality on Moonhead is just not up to par. "Autumn 68" can be inserted between Biding My Time & Hollywood (or somewhere else), but does have some modern guitar overdub....

 

Some of those albums feature small tracks of Syd and David jamming, if you know their style, then you know one from the other.

 

Beautiful, When you have it, pass the download link please.

 

I actually didn't plan to share it.^^

 

Yeah, no reason to. Anyone who owns the box set or the tracks from HD Tracks can make their own and stay within compliance of forum rules.

 

That fat old sun, David wails there, heck pick up Animals he smokes there too. Bottom line Pink Floyd rocks!

 

I took a different approch to this - trying to gather all officially released studio recordings of the 1967 Pink Floyd.


The first album (LP or CD) is a bonus to the mono Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, with all tracks in mono:

1. Candy And A Current Bun
2. Arnold Layne
3. Matilda Mother (early lyrics version)
4. Interstellar Overdrive (take 6)
5. See Emily Play

6. Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun
7. Remember A Day
8. Jugband Blues
9. Paintbox
10. Apples And Oranges


The second is a bonus to the stereo Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, all tracks in stereo:

1. Matilda Mother (extended mix, early lyrics)
2. Scream Thy Last Scream
3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4. In The Beechwoods

5. Remember A Day
6. Vegetable Man
7. Jugband Blues
8. Paintbox
9. Apples And Oranges


The third collects the long instrumentals: (a bit too long for an LP unless edited...)

1. Interstellar Overdrive (Tonight Let´s All Make Love In London) mono
2. Nick´s Boogie mono
3-11. John Latham stereo

It is also possible to add Interstellar/Nick´s to the mono album,
and John Latham to the stereo album -
thus making all this a 2-CD set.


I didn´t include the 2010 remix of Jugband Blues,
anything else missing?

 

Mine comes about from the idea that the record label gets impatient in early/spring 1968 and makes the band put out a Piper follow up that includes the singles they'd released to that point + whatever else they had in the can...So it's kind of a compilation feel but has plenty of "new" material at the time, then that changes what Saucer ends up becoming. What you end up getting is two more PF albums with more healthy doses of Syd than just a Saucer cameo...I enjoy the playlists I've made, and they are as follows:

THE PINK FLOYD SOUND (Spring '68)

side 1
1. Arnold Lane
2. Candy and a Currant Bun
3. Apples and Oranges
4. Vegetable Man
5. In the Beechwoods
6. See-Saw

side 2
7. See Emily Play
8. Remember a Day
9. Golden Hair
10. Paint Box
11. Introduction (live - Sweden)
12. Reaction in G (live - Sweden)


A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (Fall '68)

side 1
1. Let there Be More Light
2. Scream Thy Last Scream
3. Corporal Clegg
4. Point Me at the Sky
5. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

side 2
6. Jugband Blues
7. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
8. A Saucerful of Secrets
9. Effervescing Elephant

 

I think I've just ODed! I only made up two CDs of everything not on the first two albums and Relics... and this, is an alternate universe... I might want to go there now and reeemember a day before todaaaay...