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Pink Floyd — Cymbaline
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Snoopy2
(Radio Paradise)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 18:15
 
i really like this! But could we get some more up beat stuff... Just a couple songs! {#Bananajumprope}

linzie
Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 20:39
 
I too am a floyd fan and ive not heard this?? early gilmour vocals, 4 sure....
havent heard of the album either?                   1

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 20:35
 
I just love how the Pink Floyd spectrum is so strikingly varied...always worth a listen, always puts the mind somewhere far away...NICE!

Det
(Lower Saxony Germany)
Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 12:14
 
well it has been awhile .... good song still . I like it

trissi
(allupinya)
Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 07:54
 
I love that I keep discovering Pink Floyd, thanks to RP.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: May 08, 2012 - 13:15
 
 islander wrote:
When I played late night DJ on the college radio station in Durango, I had some completely stoned girl calling all the time requesting this song. It took me about a month before I figured out what song she actually wanted, but I kept it handy afterwards - there are so few loyal listeners at 3:00 am.
 
Play Misty for me.

Tosko
(Akron, Ohio)
Posted: May 08, 2012 - 13:12
 
 bam23 wrote:

Nonsense, I must say. I have an old bootleg LP with this tune as part of a live performance and it has always stood out as a fine example of what this band could do in concert in their early days, not in their bombastic period. This reminds me of their show in Cleveland in 1970; truly transforming music. Also, the alleged Moody Blues similarity is all in your mind.
 
I also thought this was the Moody Blues the first time I heard it!

Oidos
(Behind the Zion Curtain)
Posted: Apr 06, 2012 - 19:43
 
I don't remember this album but I like it.


kcar
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 11:18
 
 islander wrote:
When I played late night DJ on the college radio station in Durango, I had some completely stoned girl calling all the time requesting this song. It took me about a month before I figured out what song she actually wanted, but I kept it handy afterwards - there are so few loyal listeners at 3:00 am.
 
Was she stoned every time she called? That's dedication. 

This song sounds like the B-side to Traffic's "40,000 Headmen." 

chiguy
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 11:06
 
This is Pink Floyd? I love this.

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 11:03
 
This is Pink Floyd? I hate this.

bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 21:55
 
 crockydile wrote:
The years have not been kind to this piece. Big Floyd fan, this sounds like Moody Blues of the same period. Blech!
 
Nonsense, I must say. I have an old bootleg LP with this tune as part of a live performance and it has always stood out as a fine example of what this band could do in concert in their early days, not in their bombastic period. This reminds me of their show in Cleveland in 1970; truly transforming music. Also, the alleged Moody Blues similarity is all in your mind.

ofanansky
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 21:50
 
amazing, an old pink floyd song I've somehow missed all these years...

obstetricus
Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 13:56
 
Interesting time in PFs development; can't imagine having the floyd do your movie soundtrack

haresfur
(Bendigo Australia)
Posted: Mar 24, 2011 - 15:02
 
 jagdriver wrote:

Well, the LP I've loved since it came out. Just saw the movie in the last year or so, though, and realize that—bare breasts aside—I didn't miss a whole lot.
 
I'd like to see it again, if only for the scene near the begining where the American woman meet's our hero and makes him a margarhita.  When she licks the rim of the glass and dips it in the salt you know she's going to do him wrong!  IMO one of the most sensual movie scenes ever.


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 24, 2011 - 14:37
 
Terrific soundtrack, forgettable movie (except perhaps for the young lass who spends a good portion of the film topless).

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Oct 18, 2010 - 02:22
 
Again,,1969,the best of R&R year !

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 07:57
 
Still one of my most favorite old 'Royd songs - just love it! {#Music}


hbs47
(SE England)
Posted: Jul 14, 2010 - 09:34
 
"What is a Mellotron?"

From Wiki:-

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's firstsample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tape strips. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. Each of the tape strips has a playing time of approximately eight seconds, after which the tape comes to a dead stop and rewinds to the start position.

Very unreliable and almost impossible to tour with, needed continuous TLC.
Originally used to provide string sounds with out having an orchestra.
 

yodasan_magoo
Posted: Mar 09, 2010 - 10:35
 
After that Robot nonsense by Mangan put my auditory sensors in a full nelson, this is a welcome change.


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Mar 09, 2010 - 10:33
 

Thanks rcurrier.

The wiki-page has an interesting description.  I paste one paragraph:

 

Richard Wright's use of the Farfisa Compact Duo was integral to the sound of Pink Floyd's early albums, such as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. However, Wright came to more heavily utilize the Hammond organ on later albums, such as The Dark Side of the Moon. Still, Wright continued to use a Farfisa, even on David Gilmour's 2006 tour.



crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Mar 09, 2010 - 10:32
 
The years have not been kind to this piece. Big Floyd fan, this sounds like Moody Blues of the same period. Blech!

rcurrier
(San Juan Capistrano, CA)
Posted: Jan 05, 2010 - 11:53
 
 westslope wrote:

Is that a melletron?

 
I think it's a Farfisa organ through Leslie rotating speakers.

I always felt real sorry for the roadies who had to hump Leslies around on tour back in those days. They are big and heavy!

Personally, I don't associate the Mellotron with Floyd and Rick Wright; it was more popular with King Crimson, (Wakeman-era) Yes, and (early, good) Genesis.

DaveInVA
(In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA)
Posted: Jan 05, 2010 - 11:44
 
One of my favorite Royd songs..Just love it!{#Music}

Johray63
(The Lowlands)
Posted: Dec 05, 2009 - 03:12
 
Would be perfect for David Bowie/Brian Eno to cover!

BrokenArrow
(Green Mountains)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 18:54
 
 MickMan wrote:
Flashbacks to college. Really good flashbacks I might mention.
 

AMEN to that Brother!

Mari
(île de lesvos)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 17:58
 

{#High-five}


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 17:58
 

Lovely

 

P.S.  islander, that is an hilarious story!




islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 17:57
 
When I played late night DJ on the college radio station in Durango, I had some completely stoned girl calling all the time requesting this song. It took me about a month before I figured out what song she actually wanted, but I kept it handy afterwards - there are so few loyal listeners at 3:00 am.

nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 16:46
 
 dionysius wrote:
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

- Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2
 
Yes, that song from Cymbeline.  It was later highlighted in Sondheim's The Frogs, an hilarious musical takeoff on the original by Aristophanes.  In the modern one, none other than Dionysius stages a competition between Shakespeare and G.B. Shaw, who hurl quotes and invectives at one another taken directly from their plays.  Toward the end, Shakespeare breaks out the secret weapon and sings "that song from Cymbeline," which is the above poem beautifully set to music.  Shaw responds, "A hit, a very palpable hit!" (now quoting Shakespeare, from the death scene in Hamlet) and concedes defeat.

Great post, Dio.


Leslie
(Antioch, CA)
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 14:27
 
I've never heard this before!

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home)
Posted: May 29, 2009 - 14:25
 
I forgot this one! Thanks Bill!

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Apr 27, 2009 - 22:00
 

I probably already heard this once or twice on RP but didn't realize that it was Pink Floyd.

I like.  Is that a mellotron?





Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 09:23
 
 Jack_Jefferson wrote:
I sometimes put Pink Floyd in that category of bands that you should have gotten over shortly after high school (along with Led Zepplin and the Doors), but this is really interesting stuff being played now.
 
Actually, I did overlook PF and Zep in high school and college, and I truly regret it.  Now I'm going back and rediscovering all of their old stuff and realizing that I missed a hell of a lot.



Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 09:23
 
Again, thanks Bill. How I loved this album!

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 09:21
 
I tend to forget this CD. Good stuff.   Nice cover, too!

ajlept
(Athens, GA)
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 20:50
 
Used to have this record (vinyl), got married and thinned out my collection by selling away. The dude at Wuxtry Records here in Athens saw this one and put it in his own stash to buy. Marriage, in retrospect, turned me into a Dumbass. To quote another favorite band of mine, 10cc....."the things we do for love." I have since learned the error of my ways. My "remaining" vinyl collection is sacred! Oh, and Rick Wright doesn't get enough credit.

phlattop
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 20:42
 
 mandolin wrote:
...i adore hearing obscure floyd...
  AMEN!!!



Relayer
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 - 16:27
 
 mandolin wrote:
...i adore hearing obscure floyd...
 
Yes, I stopped listening to FM radio 6 years ago because all they would play is "Money" and "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2"....thank Radio Paradise!!!


RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Oct 20, 2008 - 13:41
 
MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm......

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Oct 20, 2008 - 13:41
 
...i adore hearing obscure floyd...

oscar_driver
(Planet Earth)
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 22:01
 
9!

jagdriver
(Auburn, CA)
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 10:58
 
 Mari wrote:
have i mentioned before, this is by far my favourite pink floyd album an' a wonderful movie to boot! trippy as all fuck!
 
Well, the LP I've loved since it came out. Just saw the movie in the last year or so, though, and realize that—bare breasts aside—I didn't miss a whole lot.



jagdriver
(Auburn, CA)
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 10:55
 
 More_Cowbell wrote:
This is the ONLY PF album/CD I do not have.  I do not think I am missing much.
 
Your loss!


ilof38musich
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 08:33
 
I love that Brit Rock...,.Especially P.F., Queen, and some others. It's so melodic.{#Clap}

More_Cowbell
(North of Chicago, IL, USA)
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 08:15
 
This is the ONLY PF album/CD I do not have.  I do not think I am missing much.

chasech5
(East Lansing, MI)
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 08:14
 
A very interesting and overlooked album in their catalog. Its nice to see this and Cirrus Minor on RP, although "The Nile Song" could easily rank with or above either of these tracks. It would be so nice to see someone upload that and give it a try in the LRC.

Mari
(île de lesvos)
Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 08:13
 

fav song off fav album of pf, luv it

MORE!



bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 16:58
 
It's one thing to hear the studio version, but I have a bootleg album on which this song almost induces out of body sensations. Anyone who does not see the LSD inspiration in this music has never been there. At their peak, Pink Floyd concerts were absolutely trance inducing. By the time they made it big in the US, those days were gone. If you had the great fortune to see them prior to their "success", it is possible to see what they were capable of accomplishing. The earlier shows were much more enjoyable than, say, those at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium full of horrendously drunken louts. The atmosphere had certainly changed by 1974/5.
Relayer
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 16:54
 
I love RP because you get to hear these more "obscure" PF songs....thanks RP!!!!