More (soundtrack)

More
Studio album / Soundtrack album by
Pink Floyd
Released13 June 1969 (1969-06-13)[1]
RecordedJanuary–February 1969
StudioPye, London
Genre
Length44:57
LabelEMI Columbia
ProducerPink Floyd
Pink Floyd chronology
A Saucerful of Secrets
(1968) 		More
(1969) 		Ummagumma
(1969)
Singles from More
  1. "The Nile Song"
    Released: July 1969

More is the third studio album and first soundtrack album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records.[5] The soundtrack is for the film of the same name, which was primarily filmed on location on Ibiza and was the directorial debut of Barbet Schroeder. It was the band's first album without former leader Syd Barrett.

The album was a top ten hit in the UK, but received mixed reviews. Several songs were performed in Pink Floyd concerts over the following years.

Background

Pink Floyd recorded several pieces of film music before this album. In December 1967, they were featured on the BBC's Tomorrow's World, playing along to a light show, and the following year recorded some instrumental music for the film The Committee.[6]

The film More featured a young hitchhiker in Ibiza who had succumbed to heroin abuse with party scenes and drug taking. Director Barbet Schroeder was a fan of Pink Floyd, and brought a rough cut of the film to London for them to work with.[6][7] Instead of typical background music, Schroeder wanted the songs to feature in the film, such as a record playing at a party. The group also speculated they could branch out into a career as film composers if their recording and touring career did not work out.[6] Drummer Nick Mason later said the film was "ideally suited to some of the rumblings, squeaks and sound textures we produced on a regular basis".[7]

Recording and songs

The album was recorded at Pye Studios in London, in late January and early February 1969 with engineer Brian Humphries.[8][9] The album was the first to be produced by Pink Floyd without assistance from Norman Smith, who retained an executive producer credit, and the first full album without Syd Barrett, who had been ousted from the group in 1968, during the recording of their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.[10][11]

Pink Floyd worked out most of the music in two weeks, with material put together quickly and semi-improvised.[12] They did not use a dubbing studio due to budget constraints, and simply timed sequences in the film with a stopwatch so they knew how long the music had to be.[7] Bassist Roger Waters wrote most of the lyrics during breaks between recording backing tracks. Schroeder was impressed by how quickly the group created and recorded the material.[12] Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright co-wrote the instrumental "Up The Khyber", the only time the pair were credited as sole co-composers.[13] Barrett's replacement David Gilmour handled all lead vocals on the album.[14]

More features a mixture of styles. Songs such as "Green is the Colour" were acoustic folk ballads, a genre not often explored by the group.[12] Mason's wife Lindy played penny whistle on the track.[15] The album also contains hard rock, such as "The Nile Song" and "Ibiza Bar",[12][16] as well as several instrumental tracks such as "Quicksilver" and "Main Theme", featuring their experimental and avant-garde approach.[12] "Cymbaline" criticised the music industry, with lines such as "your manager and agent are both busy on the phone".[17] The version on the album is different from that in the film. Gilmour sings lead on both versions, though Waters is sometimes wrongly credited as singing lead for the film version.[18]

"Green is the Colour" was played live frequently after release, as a medley with "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", as part of a live suite called "The Journey". It was a regular feature in the set for two years afterwards.[19] "Quicksilver" was played under the title "Sleeping" as part of the 1969 live show called "The Man", while "Cymbaline" was entitled "Nightmare".[20] The latter remained part of the group's repertoire until the end of 1971.[19] In live performances, the group left the stage partway through the song while the audience listened to a tape of quadraphonic sound effects including footsteps travelling round the venue, and doors opening.[21] "Main Theme" was briefly played live in 1970.[22]

Two songs can be heard in the film which were not included on the album: "Hollywood" and "Seabirds".[23][24] The latter was published in 1976's The Pink Floyd Songbook.[24] Both songs, as well as two other songs from those sessions, "Theme (Beat Version)" and "More Blues (Alternative Version)", were released on the 2016 box set, The Early Years 1965–1972. The set in which these tracks appear, 1969: Dramatis/ation was made available as a standalone release in 2017.[25] The track called "Seabirds" in the box set is not the original song, but an alternative take of "Quicksilver".[26]

Tracks like "The Crying Song" and "Cymbaline" play on female lead Mimsy Farmer's transistor radio as she's in her apartment room, and "Ibiza Bar" (as the title implies) plays in the background in a bar. These differ from tracks such as "Up The Khyber" that plays to the action of the film, in which the band are actual composers, or tracks such as "Cirrus Minor" and "Green is the Colour" that play to orchestrate the mood of the scene, and these tracks (and others), unlike "The Crying Song" and "Cymbaline", are not heard by any of the characters.

Cover

The album cover was, like A Saucerful of Secrets, designed by Hipgnosis. It uses a shot from the film of two characters playing around a windmill in Ibiza, processed in a dark room to make it look like a psychedelic trip.[12]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[27]
The Daily Telegraph[28]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[29]
MusicHound1/5[30]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[31]
Tom HullB−[32]

More reached number 9 in the UK[33][34] and, upon re-release in 1973, number 153 in the US. This was the last of three Pink Floyd albums to be released in the United States by the Tower Records division of Capitol Records.[35] "The Nile Song" was released as a single in France, Japan and New Zealand around the same time.[36][37] The track, along with "Cirrus Minor" appeared on the 1971 compilation Relics.[38]

A 1973 US reissue was released on Harvest Records.[35] It was certified gold in the US on 11 March 1994.[35] The album was reissued on CD in 1985, with a digitally remastered version following in 1995.[35] In 2016, it was reissued on Pink Floyd Records.[39]

More received mixed reviews from critics. Record Song Book said the album was "always extremely interesting ... quite weird in parts too".[40] The Daily Telegraph was favourable, describing it as starting to "define experimental instrumental identity."[28] MusicHound and Rolling Stone were less positive with the former giving the album a rating of one out of five and the latter calling it a "dull film soundtrack".[30][31]

Legacy

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic gives a mixed overview, saying key tracks such as "Green Is The Colour" and "Cymbaline" developed into stronger pieces when played live.[27]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cirrus Minor"Roger Waters5:18
2."The Nile Song"Waters3:26
3."Crying Song"Waters3:33
4."Up the Khyber" (instrumental)Nick Mason, Richard Wright2:12
5."Green Is the Colour"Waters2:58
6."Cymbaline"Waters4:50
7."Party Sequence" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, David Gilmour, Mason1:07
Total length:23:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Main Theme" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason5:27
2."Ibiza Bar"Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason3:19
3."More Blues" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason2:12
4."Quicksilver" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason7:13
5."A Spanish Piece"Gilmour1:05
6."Dramatic Theme" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason2:15
Total length:21:32

All lead vocals by David Gilmour.

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

1969 weekly chart performance for More
Chart (1969) Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[41] 14
UK Albums (OCC)[42] 9
1973 weekly chart performance for More
Chart (1973) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[43] 153
2011 weekly chart performance for More
Chart (2011) Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP)[44] 128

Certifications

Certifications for More
Region Certification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[45] Gold 100,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

Citations

  1. ^ "1969". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  2. ^ Kristopher Spencer (14 May 2014). Film and Television Scores, 1950-1979: A Critical Survey by Genre. McFarland. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-7864-5228-6.
  3. ^ "How Pink Floyd Moved on from Syd Barrett with 'More'". 9 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Ranking: Every Pink Floyd Album from Worst to Best". 29 May 2017.
  5. ^ Povey 2006, pp. 110, 343.
  6. ^ a b c Blake 2011, p. 132.
  7. ^ a b c Mason 2004, p. 126.
  8. ^ Mason 2004, pp. 126, 129.
  9. ^ Povey 2006, pp. 87, 105.
  10. ^ Blake 2011, pp. 114–116.
  11. ^ Mason 2004, p. 119.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Blake 2011, p. 133.
  13. ^ Wild 2017, p. 66.
  14. ^ "50 years Ago: Pink Floyd Moved On From Syd Barrett With "More"". Ultimate Classic Rock. 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  15. ^ Guesdon & Margotin 2017, p. 227.
  16. ^ DeRogatis 2003, p. 123.
  17. ^ Mabbett 2010, p. 76.
  18. ^ Manning 2006, p. 261.
  19. ^ a b Mabbett 2010, pp. 76–77.
  20. ^ Wild 2017, pp. 67–68.
  21. ^ Popoff 2018, p. 41.
  22. ^ Mabbett 2010, p. 77.
  23. ^ Manning 2006, p. 226.
  24. ^ a b Mabbett 2010, p. 71.
  25. ^ Dramatis/ation (Media notes). Pink Floyd Records. 2017. PFREY3.
  26. ^ Wild 2017, pp. 69–70.
  27. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Pink Floyd – More". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  28. ^ a b McCormick, Neil (20 May 2014). "Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums rated". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  29. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  30. ^ a b Graff & Durchholz 1999, p. 872.
  31. ^ a b Sheffield, Rob (2 November 2004). "Pink Floyd: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media, Fireside Books. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  32. ^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: pink floyd". Tom Hull - on the Web. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  33. ^ Povey 2006, p. 87.
  34. ^ "PINK FLOYD | Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  35. ^ a b c d Povey 2006, p. 343.
  36. ^ Wild 2017, p. 65.
  37. ^ Guesdon & Margotin 2017, p. 216.
  38. ^ Wild 2017, pp. 64–65.
  39. ^ "Pink Floyd to launch massive vinyl reissue campaign". Rolling Stone. 6 May 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  40. ^ Povey 2006, p. 110.
  41. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Pink Floyd – More" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  42. ^ "Pink Floyd | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  43. ^ "Pink Floyd Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  44. ^ "Lescharts.com – Pink Floyd – More". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  45. ^ "French album certifications – Pink Floyd – More (B.O.F.)" (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 2 June 2022. Select PINK FLOYD and click OK. 

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