Pink Floyd - More

Concocted for director Barbet Schroeder's dystopian hippie road flick, this album marks Floyd's first venture into film "scoring," a task they undertake with a verve that overshadows their lack of formal training in the field. With just a handful of cuts echoing the trippy, atmospheric space-rock that was so much a part of their early career, there's a surprisingly familiar dedication to songcraft evident here, especially for a soundtrack. Roger Waters's acoustic ballads ("Cirrus Minor," "Crying Song," "Green is the Color"), dark and dirge-like, are familiar predecessors to music that would highlight Wish You Were Here and The Wall, while Dave Gilmour's slashing riffs on "The Nile Song" also foreshadow greatness to come. Moody and surprisingly eclectic, More has rightly earned its place as a Floyd cult fave. --Jerry McCulley Amazon.com

Pink Floyds silly film soundtrack

First of all its a pretty good film. Perhaps the best film the Floyd were involved with (haven't seen Crystal Voyager, but did see Zabriskie Point, and it wasn't great)

Some of the music isn't on this soundtrack (Seabirds, theres a different version of Cymbaline that plays in the film)

Its a very good soundtrack I think. Although the band took soundtracks less seriously than regular albums, and would spend less time on them (I think the soundtrack for La Vallee was recorded in a week at Elton Jones studio, and thats one of their best albums!)

Although they were taken less seriously, a number of tracks would pop up on Floyd "best of"s like Relics (like the rocking Nile Song

Its a great album, but there is some crap. Gilmour does one song in Spanish. Don't recollect if that was in the film (all of the music in the film is the Floyd btw)

Crying Song is great (first mention of "the stone" that would later feature more prominently in Animals)

Cymbaline's the best track - it was performed live a bit too (when doing it live on PBS there were footsteps during it - the Floyd using sound effects to great effect, culminating in "On the Run" on Dark Side). Gilmour was a great singer, and he sings this and on the acoustic track "Green is the Colour" - on the BBC take of Green he does a great scat singing at the end. The studio version has more of a piano coda

Very interesting album. Not mainstream in the least. Very interesting sound. Hearing an album like this in 1969, you would not recognize it as the Floyd. First, there are no Barrett songs, Syds not singing any songs at all. Also, a few of the tracks are instrumentals, with blues a definite influence (check out Gilmour doing the blues on Quicksilver!)

Be patient with it though. I think this one is a grower. These days I tend to listen to this Floyd album rather a lot however. I think its up there with Animals and Piper as one of their best. Its certainly one of their most obscure

Now if the band would only release "Household Objects"! October 19, 2008

hey ho here a we go?

to begin with I absolutely abhor all the so called commercial stuff they did. Meddel and Dark slight of the moon and beyond were all atrocious LPs and cds.
This one, and the zabrisky point soundtrack and atomheartmutha and oomagooma are good staff also obscurred by clothsis an okay album yes?


Wendell Thudd August 29, 2008

The true beginning of the "Floyd" sound.

Pink Floyd does movies? Well, that explains the whole "soundtrack" sound they had. More is a movie about heroin that came out in 1969. Don't bother watching it, it's extrememly dated with some bad acting and a dumb story. The music, however, is not so bad, but the band is still unsure what they want to do. This is probably the most diverse Pink Floyd record ever, ranging from folk to heavy metal to trippy keyboard/bass freakouts to spanish guitar passages. This album demonstates that, for the first time, the band can make some great songs if they really worked at it. Roger Waters finally blooms as a song writer, though a lot of his songs are very...folky. Yup, folky. Cirrus Minor, Crying Song, Green Is The Coulor, they have the Floyd treatment, don't get me wrong, but they're all very beautiful songs that owe something to Simon and Garfunkel. The best one of these being Cymbaline, with it's quiet foreboding verses and defiant choruses. Lovely. The songs are not all joyful though, but it's quite suprising if all you ever thought that Pink Floyd go do was write mournful dirges. However, I can't stand Quicksilver. Energy-less keyboard/drum noises? No thanks. Back to the goodies, Main Theme is pretty groovy, and More Blues is (suprise!) the Floyd doing blues. And they're quite good at it. Well, as good as Floyd could get at playing blues. This is the first good Floyd album, though I wouldn't reccomend it as your first buy. That would come later. August 27, 2008

misunderstood classic

Some people consider More just a passable (or forgettable) soundtrack album in the legendary career of Pink Floyd. Not me. I believe the music on here is highly memorable and filled with exciting (and bizarre) musical ideas. Some of them really give me the creeps! It's NOT an album filled with pointless atmospheric ideas. No, there's plenty to like about this one. I'd say it's really just as exciting as one of Floyd's more popular albums such as Meddle. "Cirrus Minor" will certainly go down as one of the most eerily bizarre songs that was ever created. There's plenty to like about this album, so give it a chance.


May 8, 2008

2.5 stars

A difficult album to rate, in that it was written to score a film and, if any limits can be imposed on Pink Floyd, this one has been. Again, flashes of future greatness, with Roger Waters doing most of the writing, but possibly their weakest overall effort. February 3, 2008

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