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Pink Floyd - More Audio CD

A fair review of the Pink Floyd "More" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Pink Floyd reviews here, or go back to the Pink Floyd tabs.

Pink Floyd Band: Pink Floyd
Title: More
Rating:
Release Date: 1996-09-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Cirrus Minor 2: Nile Song 3: Crying Song 4: Up the Khyber 5: Green Is the Colour 6: Cymbaline 7: Party Sequence 8: Main Theme 9: Ibiza Bar 10: More Blues 11: Quicksilver 12: Spanish Piece 13: Dramatic Theme

Pink Floyd More
Bought this album from the dollar reject rack and listened to it. Phillip Snyder summed it up as best as I could ever have. Hit and miss with the good music on it. Listened to 25 years later and loved it. This was after I had gotten to know more abouth the band and where they were at at the time. Do a doob, put on the phones and enjoy. Seriously not recomended for anyone under 50. :).


Excellent
Until Darkside broke Floyd in 1973, they were a cult band, and still deciding their sound. This is part of that "other" Pink Floyd you buy, after The Wall, Wish You Were Here, and Dark Side of The Moon.

More is one of three soundtracks they did for Europian art films during their gestation period. (The other two are Obscured by Clouds and Zabrisie point) This is filled with psych organ experments, some jazz, and Floyd's best hard rock, "The Nile Song. " If Pink Floyd had remained an art band with a small following, this would have been one of their staples.

I like the loose, uncertian expermentalism of 1967-72 Pink Floyd. The sounds were smaller, but the scope of their work was larger: more styles versus more streemlined.

Obviously, with Dark Side of The Moon, Rodger Waters wanted to get the band into American private jets and arenas as opposed to driving around England in a tour truck with Henry Cow and Soft Machine. Smart artsitic and career move. Who can really blame him, especially when Floyd's music remained solid after Dark Side.

But being a cult digger, I'll throw in with the young underground Floyd. More is ample reason why. .


Disappointing Remaster

Overlooked for a reason - horrible sound quality. I just bought this remaster of a very good overlooked work.
From what I can tell not much attention was paid to the remastering.
Sound levels are still all over the place from cut to cut. Still making it impossible to listen to this without having the remote in hand the entire time. Worse of all, the cult fave The Nile Song sounds even worse than the original CD. This cut is a horrible recording to begin with (I doubt this was recorded at Abbey Rd studios). The remaster only brings out even more distortion and the bass (once deficient on LP) now overwhelms the cut and everything else on the remaster.
Using my trusty old Roxio 5, I manually altered the sound levels from cut to cut (#8,9,12 and 13 didn't need any enhancing) and instead of using the remastered Nile Song - I used the cut from the original CD and boosted the volume a little to make everything fit. Only now I can put down the remote when listening to it.
If you were thinking of getting this I would wait for yet another remaster and maybe then they will get it right.


Inconsequential meanderings
There is no consistency of style or sound. More is a soundtrack LP that sounds like a movie soundtrack rather than a collection of 13 songs. An atmospheric doodling like Main Theme is followed by Ibiza Bar, a more "conventional" Floyd creation. I bought the LP in 1969. As I didn't particularly care for it then the record has sat in a rack for about 40 years. I won't be reaching for it again soon. Now, if I had seen the movie and could relate the Floyd's tracks to scenes in the movie perhaps I'd feel differently. I really enjoy Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to the movie Thief. The music is meandering at times but suits the tone and content of the movie perfectly. I doubt that I'd appreciate that music if I wasn't so familiar with the movie. As it is, the inconsequential and aimless wanderings of Pink Floyd's soundtrack more than overwhelm any value offered by the couple of worthwhile tracks on the album.


Less
2 1/2

Floyd jam out a few decent tunes here but ultimately the laid-back vibe can almost double as an early career b-sides disc- in fact, you can actually hear them already borrowing from a few of their previous, more memorable freakouts.


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