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Courtship of a woman means following her until she falls... But who the hell falls? Not her, you realize this after three days. Then, in 90% of cases, you're already thinking she's the one and that you'll have a family. You're already imagining having a child and start fantasizing about how beautiful and intelligent they'll be, top of the class, and surrounded by all the girls.
But it's just a feeling because you still don't have anything. It's like grabbing an ice cream and fantasizing about how good it will be until you bring it to your mouth and it falls off the cone, splattering on the ground, and you've only had a damn lick. You realize it's just potential energy. But if everything goes smoothly, you find yourself facing a little pink bottom, with a diaper in one hand and tissues full of crap in the other. And you still haven't figured out a damn thing about how you ended up in that situation.
The only thing clear to you is the starting point: that damn courtship, and you understand, maybe and finally, that the beginning has nothing to do with what will happen afterward.
There isn't a damn connection; it's like thinking of the first and second volume of Ummagumma. And truly, you don't know whether to choose the first or the second as better. And if all that experimentation in the second part is really what you want from life. Probably yes, the important thing is that, once you've well understood and digested all that experimental phase, you don't just put it on a shelf thinking you'll dust it off sometime later. That doesn't do life any good.
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The review uses a metaphor of courtship and life’s unpredictable outcomes to describe Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma. It highlights the album’s two distinct parts: a more traditional first half and an experimental second half. The reviewer reflects on the album’s unique structure and urges listeners to deeply engage with its experimental phase rather than dismiss it.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
01 Astronomy Domine (08:29)
Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
And Titania, Neptune, Titan.
Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.
03 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (09:12)
Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves a swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the chateau that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun...
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun...
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in Cambridge in 1965, known for pioneering progressive and psychedelic rock and for landmark albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall.236 Reviews
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By velvetunderground
Ummagumma is chaos! Disorder, genius and unruliness, it’s a drunken, clear sound that dances light and confused towards infinity.
Not suitable for those who believe that music is just a simple melody to hum!
By Torre Ste1
This is the first post-Barrett work, in which the band members do not deny the psychedelia of their predecessor, but do not refuse to experiment with new sounds.
David Gilmour manages to give the group a new sound that will characterize them for the rest of their career and make them a key band in the history of music.
By Bubi
"Ummagumma is chaos! Disorder, genius, and unruliness, it’s a drunken, clear sound that dances lightly and confusedly toward a light, toward infinity, toward itself, toward freedom!"
I am a great admirer of Pink Floyd, whom I consider the most important in Rock history, and I love almost all their works.
By floydsound95
"Ummagumma is an album worth listening to, even though it is not easy to do so."
"The album’s gem... foreshadows the subsequent Pink Floyd sound."
By 33giri
This vinyl support is miraculous and indescribable, as the artistic completeness is at its highest level.
There is the vital breath, the dedication, and the zeal of the imaginative, chimerical master from Cambridge: Roger Keith Barrett.
