Poll: Favourite Song on ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by A Saucerful of Scarlets, Mar 7, 2018.

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  1. Opeth

    Opeth Forum Resident

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    I remember discovering this CD in my voyage to hear pre 73 floyd. Was a young teen maybe 1990.. blown away by it never heard anything like it. First 2 tracks are still amazing and the rest is great but those first 2 !

    Would love live versions of these songs I think we should put a bug in claypools ear ..
     
  2. A Saucerful of Scarlets

    A Saucerful of Scarlets Commenter Turned Viewer Thread Starter

    The Pompeii versions of Saucerful and Set the Controls are must listens. I listened to the album for a year when discovering them thinking the Pompeii version was the normal album version since I used to rip the tracks off of YouTube. Now I'm not sure which I like better.
     
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  3. Opeth

    Opeth Forum Resident

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    I have the Pompeii DVD still :) there's an unofficial doc I saw that had snippets of the first 2 tracks live with video of DG on stage not sure if it was spliced together but it sounded amazing. I wonder if there's any good boots with them.
     
  4. A Saucerful of Scarlets

    A Saucerful of Scarlets Commenter Turned Viewer Thread Starter

    Don't know about bootlegs but the 2016 remixed Pompeii's on the Early Years, 1972 Obfusc/ation sounds phenomenal.
     
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  5. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

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    Set The Controls

    Actually did a song by song for this record, I definitely like this record.
     
  6. A Saucerful of Scarlets

    A Saucerful of Scarlets Commenter Turned Viewer Thread Starter

    A song by song?
     
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  7. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

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    Yes. Basically, you go Track by Track in discussing an album.
     
  8. EdogawaRampo

    EdogawaRampo Senior Member

    Absolutely classic album and I cannot vote. Years ago I mentioned here that the first three tracks are perhaps the best, eeriest set of psychedelic tunes ever recorded. I might vote Let There Be More Light, but ... but...Remember A Day...and then Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun...

    Does anyone have the back story to this part of lyric:

    Then at last the mighty ship
    Descending on a point of flame
    Made contact with the human race at Mildenhall


    I remember -- I think I remember -- reading that there was a military base at Mildenhall where there was a spate of UFO sightings, that's why "servicemen" are mentioned later in the lyric.
     
  9. gazeman1977

    gazeman1977 Active Member

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    I think that A Saucerful of Secrets is a good, but flawed album that is a disappointment, in comparison to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. However, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is an excellent song.
     
  10. Flippikat

    Flippikat Forum Resident

    My vote is for Let There Be More Light.

    Great intro, good 'soft, then loud, then soft again' dynamics, cool song idea about first contact with aliens, and a cracking good BBC sessions version as well.

    It really is one of those 'dark horse' albums in their back-catalogue that gets under-rated or overlooked, like Atom Heart Mother or Animals.

    If it had Paintbox, Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man in the tracklist (even if it was at the expense of the title track), Saucerful would've been a great dark-psychedelia counterpart to Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
     
  11. Flippikat

    Flippikat Forum Resident

    The songs from those sessions that were left OFF the album (released as singles, or kept in the vault) could've really added something.. I've long been an advocate for a deluxe Saucerful that sheds more light on that murky part of Pink Floyd's history.

    The Early Years box set is as notable for what it DOESN'T have, as much as what it DOES have... but that's drifting this thread elsewhere.
     
  12. InStepWithTheStars

    InStepWithTheStars It's a miracle, let it alter you

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    Love this album to pieces. Voted for "Remember a Day" but it was tough. The live take of the title track from Ummagumma is one of their best performances, but that's on Ummagumma.

    Unrelated, but "Let There Be More Light" on the recent Bernie Grundman LP remaster sounds unbelievably good. It sounds so visceral, so resonant. Possibly the most "real" thing I've ever heard. The rest of the LP, while good, sounds nowhere near that, and none of the other albums that I've heard have moments like that. It's like floating in space, except a space where you can hear, and what you can hear is transformative. In short, buy it.
     
  13. rjp

    rjp Senior Member

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    blatant honesty here: after 'set the controls" not a very good album at all.

    but i find syd barrett to be for all intents and purposes, unlistenable, ever.
     
  14. Crimson jon

    Crimson jon Forum Resident

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    Remember a day is favorite from the album and top ten Floyd track for me.

    Corporal clegg is awesome as is see saw.
     
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  15. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    Remember a Day. I also love See-Saw.
     
  16. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

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    A lower tier Floyd album but the opener is a gem and the next 2 are pretty good
     
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  17. Mr Sam

    Mr Sam "...don't look so good no more"

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    See-Saw

    then
    Controls + Corporal Clegg + Jugband Blues

    then
    Remember A Day
     
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  18. Somerset Scholar

    Somerset Scholar Ace of Spades

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    This album delighted my musical imagination as a kid. Especially as I loved reading sci-fi from writers like John Wyndham and Ray Bradbury. So for me it has to be STCFTHOFS. Spooky, hypnotic and mysteriously surreal. I want to be on that trip.
     
  19. Frozensoda

    Frozensoda Forum Resident

    Saucerfull of Secrets for the win!
     
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  20. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident

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    Tough call for me between "Set The Controls.." and "Let There Be More Light". I really like the latter, sets a great a tone for the rest of the record, and caught my attention right away. I went with "Light".
     
  21. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    set the controls for me. not my favourite floyd album
     
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  22. Oliver

    Oliver Bourbon Infused

    Great album-my favorite song is "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". I think I heard it first on the Pompeii movie and was like WTF. That was my exposure to that earlier era Floyd compared to only familiar albums like DSOTM, The Wall and WYWH.
    Later became a HUGE fan of pre-Dark Side Floyd.
     
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  23. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Can't choose one, love them all!
     
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  24. ShockControl

    ShockControl Bon Vivant and Raconteur!

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    "Jugband Blues" wins by default, because I've never bothered to play the rest of the album.
     
  25. Brian Kelly

    Brian Kelly 1964-73 rock's best decade

    Jugband Blues is an easy choice for me.
     
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