tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post6667463818810868925..comments2024-03-19T21:45:45.731-07:00Comments on Albums That Never Were: Pink Floyd - The Shape of Questions to Heaven (1968)soniclovenoizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07361210247154655351noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-3667673843982634492019-12-01T17:26:25.092-08:002019-12-01T17:26:25.092-08:00Could you reupload part 2 of the FLAC, please?Could you reupload part 2 of the FLAC, please?FunkIthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18190061432452766280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-86398556814155958052018-05-26T01:28:29.995-07:002018-05-26T01:28:29.995-07:00ThanksThanksCarlos dos Santoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067185106090316256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-76081981515642067092017-03-13T05:24:18.836-07:002017-03-13T05:24:18.836-07:00See my blog for an album cover and new track listi...See my blog for an album cover and new track listing for `Rhamadan'<br />:-)ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-40212970762205196092017-03-09T04:33:08.508-08:002017-03-09T04:33:08.508-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-45321315090602371932017-03-08T07:16:40.272-08:002017-03-08T07:16:40.272-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-49726817088829118712017-03-07T00:00:06.627-08:002017-03-07T00:00:06.627-08:00I kind of remade Rhamadan... heheh... now it's...I kind of remade Rhamadan... heheh... now it's a double album. (I really should make my own blog...)Doctor Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02885225117462571449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-67067813091138005182017-02-27T04:12:22.408-08:002017-02-27T04:12:22.408-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-44080709708432324442017-02-27T04:11:34.257-08:002017-02-27T04:11:34.257-08:00I put together Rhamadan and i must say it works ve...I put together Rhamadan and i must say it works very well,<br />:-)ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-14089012408780533382017-02-27T04:09:55.409-08:002017-02-27T04:09:55.409-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-58489085093737513372017-02-12T06:12:47.521-08:002017-02-12T06:12:47.521-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.ernestmannerismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072282229865257985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-40293503867953332692016-10-31T11:20:11.861-07:002016-10-31T11:20:11.861-07:00I think there should have been space for "See...I think there should have been space for "SeeSaw", (maybe truncated to remove a verse). IMO "Remember A Day" (Side 1 Track 2) was part 1 and "SeeSaw" (Side 2 Track 2) was part 2 of the same song, or at least they were companion pieces. I also thought that “Jugland Blues” was Syd saying goodbye to the Floyd, (with that great sign out “what exactly is a joke”?), yet in our “what if” vision he is still around in 1969s, “Vantage Point” album. Still this is a great “what if album” ~ well done.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07157314981335019600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-34242014492363479572016-10-31T11:04:04.996-07:002016-10-31T11:04:04.996-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07157314981335019600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-71473575459888046232016-07-30T04:00:06.110-07:002016-07-30T04:00:06.110-07:00Thank-you for this 'lost' album.Thank-you for this 'lost' album.x0xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614801497477404635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-69842902773701883182016-07-30T03:59:30.587-07:002016-07-30T03:59:30.587-07:00Nicely, and poetically, speckulated. Where's t...Nicely, and poetically, speckulated. Where's the door to this wonderful universe?x0xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614801497477404635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-8293757319829976912016-02-11T11:07:49.166-08:002016-02-11T11:07:49.166-08:00(Part 2)
Album Two: Rhamadan
Side One (21:43)
L...(Part 2)<br /><br />Album Two: Rhamadan<br /><br />Side One (21:43)<br /><br />Let There Be More Light<br />Late Night<br />See-Saw<br />Golden Hair<br />Julia Dream<br />Octopus<br /><br />Side Two (19:55)<br /><br />Rhamadan<br /><br />My Reasoning/AU Stuff: Sometime in late 1967, the band decides they could use a second guitar player. Syd brings his childhood friend David Gilmour on board, the later possibly even contributes to tSoQtH (though with a better-off mentally Syd, this may not be needed). In any case, by early '68, they were a five piece ready to record their third album. Third Album Syndrome hits the Floyd much like most bands (sometimes it's the second... and sometimes the band is called The Beatles and they don't have a problem like this (unless you count Beatles For Sale but I digress)). They nonetheless record Roger's "Let There Be More Light" and "Julia Dream," Rick's "See-Saw," and Syd's "Golden Hair." They also start recording "Late Night" and "Clowns and Jugglers" but the later is unfocused and needs work. The months tick by as "Late Night" is finished but "Clowns and Jugglers" refuses to improve much. In a desperate need to express, Syd and the band spend a session improvising a long jam piece called "Rhamadan." Satisfied with getting some free-form jamming out of his system, Syd modifies "Clowns and Jugglers" into "Octopus" and otherwise changes the arrangement. The album is finished off by May. "Julia Dream" and "Late Night" are released as a double-A side (in theory) to modest success in April and "Octopus" is chosen as the lead single when the album is released in June. Though it is a strange decision at the time to release a song that took up an entire album side, Syd manages to push his way through the Evil Record Company. The album becomes very popular with the emerging FM and Album-Oriented-Rock stations in the United States, alongside another album with an entire side devoted to one song: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. <br /><br />Singles of the period:<br /><br />Late Night/Julia Dream (April)<br />Octopus/Let There Be More Light (June)<br /><br /><br /><br />(... I had no idea this would be this long when I started it. Maybe I should make my own musical blog....?)Doctor Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02885225117462571449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-46565815264791426382016-02-11T11:07:12.564-08:002016-02-11T11:07:12.564-08:00My biggest problem with Saucerful (and this for th...My biggest problem with Saucerful (and this for the same reason though it is brilliant) is the fact that it's basically a compilation of two different PF eras; the late Syd stuff and the early Dave stuff. I spent a lot of time listening to all the material (outtakes and releases) from late 1967 and early 1968 and found the late '67 stuff has a different feel than the '68 stuff... and that Syd's '68 stuff fits a little easier with PF's '68 stuff.<br /><br />So, making a TL;DR short, I was able to make two albums for this period and they don't sound too bad!<br /><br />Album One: The Shape of Questions to Heaven (because I couldn't think of anything better)<br /><br />Side One (20:15)<br /><br />Vegetable Man<br />Remember a Day<br />Apples and Oranges<br />In The Beechwoods (cleaned up the best I could)<br />Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun<br /><br />Side Two (17:01)<br /><br />Reaction in G (The Copenhagen version. Again, cleaned up as best as I could)<br />Paintbox<br />Scream Thy Last Scream<br />Jugband Blues<br /><br />My reasoning/AU stuff: In an alternate universe where Syd is a little more together (or where he doesn't lose heart in PF or if Roger Waters isn't such a jerk (why am I opening that Pandora's Box? ...anyway)), the group record this album mostly in October of 1967. They finish off "Remember A Day" and "Scream Thy Last Scream" at this point (started earlier in the year). Vocals are recorded for "In The Beechwoods" (you'll have to use your imagination for that one) and a studio version of "Reaction in G" is produced (again, your imagination is a wonderful thing, you know). "Vegetable Man" is selected by the band as the single for the end of the month (seeing as The Kinks' "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" basically has the same subject matter, I don't think it was as far-fetched to put this out as is supposed). It's a modest success (#40 on the charts, let's say). The album is put out in early December with "In the Beechwoods" as the glorious follow-up the Evil Record Company wants to "Emily" (probably edited a bit too). The album is loved in the underground as a dark, wintery bit of psychedelia but the general public finds it a little hard to swallow.<br /><br />Singles of the period:<br /><br />Vegetable Man/Remember a Day (October)<br />Remember a Day/Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (US Only) (Either November or early '68)<br />In The Beechwoods/Reaction in G (edit) (December) (Emily-sized success)<br /><br />(Note: I don't think "Scream Thy Last Scream" or "Apples and Oranges" would be singles in this scenario. The former is just too weird for teeny-boppers in 1967 and the later feels to me like a great album track but not a great single. Syd does manage to stuff "Reaction in G" onto a b-side, just to poke his fans.)<br /><br />(End of Part 1)Doctor Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02885225117462571449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-27410955082629671412016-01-13T08:41:28.554-08:002016-01-13T08:41:28.554-08:00Mine goes like this (follows Piper's format an...Mine goes like this (follows Piper's format and clocks at 39:22)<br /><br />Side A<br /><br />1.Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun<br />2.Vegetable Man<br />3.Apples & Oranges<br />4.Paintbox<br />5.Lanky (pt 1)<br /><br />Side B<br /><br />6.Scream Thy Last Scream<br />7.Sunshine/In The Beechwoods<br />8.Candy and a Current Bun<br />9.Remember a Day<br />10.Jugband Blues<br /><br /><br /><br />Side BGlarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05951810624544985243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-53198730379377921902015-11-04T22:16:48.066-08:002015-11-04T22:16:48.066-08:00I've only just discovered your blog and find i...I've only just discovered your blog and find it amazing. I really like your attention to detail and the quality of your recordings, all accompanied by your detailed notes. It's really fascinating. I'm looking forward to your next project - you've got me hooked!Mr B. Normalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01699163369825671630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-86810542833323792732015-07-14T12:35:35.801-07:002015-07-14T12:35:35.801-07:00I love these "What if?" albums.I love these "What if?" albums.barrett39https://www.blogger.com/profile/08435365879785207924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-67617987544073785072014-12-10T08:01:42.774-08:002014-12-10T08:01:42.774-08:00Stealing your tracklisting hahaStealing your tracklisting hahaTangledHangershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586835996969146429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-58363026233373755042014-11-24T16:52:37.501-08:002014-11-24T16:52:37.501-08:00Great job on this! I'm sure if it had been of...Great job on this! I'm sure if it had been officially released, it would be recognized today as a dark psych masterpiece. johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363991787039569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-42981604245603302922014-11-12T14:50:03.760-08:002014-11-12T14:50:03.760-08:00How about this tracklist
1.Apples & Oranges
2....How about this tracklist<br />1.Apples & Oranges<br />2. Vegetable man<br />3.Remember a Day<br />4.Set Controls for the heart of the sun<br />5.Paintbox<br />6.Nick's Boogie<br />7.Scream thy Last Scream<br />8.Jugband Blues.<br /><br />Bonus Tracks:<br />9.Beechwoods<br />10. Untitled (sunshine)<br /><br />This makes way more sense, because its all Pink Floyd recordings. No solo or post Barrett PF recordings here, and the Nick Mason intro on Beechwoods lets you know the album is finished and that your about to hear some bonus tracks. So this is the closest to a Piper follow up as anyone can get right now, not some weird mash up/compilation of solo Syd and Pf.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824940558576789104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-25583607861236666762014-11-12T14:12:17.063-08:002014-11-12T14:12:17.063-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824940558576789104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-44285766937089335952014-10-11T23:30:30.874-07:002014-10-11T23:30:30.874-07:00Better than what they actually released.Better than what they actually released.99bottleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12304318487314232281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817053733086438907.post-10397476234217582662014-08-08T06:01:22.066-07:002014-08-08T06:01:22.066-07:00do you pay licensing to BMI, ASCAP, SESAC to share...do you pay licensing to BMI, ASCAP, SESAC to share these official tracks? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com