I put this on the jukebox as I leave the bar.

@sourisvoleur4854

Ай бұрын

You're a sick and twisted man. And I'd like to buy you a beer.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Ай бұрын

That’s the spirit

Imagine as a stoned teenager hearing this for the first time. I always loved this track and Grantchester Meadows.

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

I can only imagine how crazy it felt to hear this back in the day 🤣🤣🤣

@glenndespres5317

Ай бұрын

Grantchester Meadows is sooo good, Lee. Hit it!

The ending phrase. "And the wind cried Mary" is a reference to Hendrix's song of the same title.

Exellent reaction, brave man! This used to be Sunday Morning Music, when you wanted to empty the house of last nights party. Worked well each 'n every time...

@louise_rose

Ай бұрын

Haha, yes, I can imagine! (certainly if you put it on a loop). It's one of Roger's more special outings, but also a station on the road towards the "descent section" in Echoes.

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

What a 5d chess move lol

@Hartlor_Tayley

Ай бұрын

I definitely would have stayed.

My parents were worried I was losing my mind, too, as I LOVED this album, and this piece.

And the wind cried Mary

@neilwoodley530

Ай бұрын

Brilliant!!!

Been there!! I promise you, my first acid trip, back in the early '70s, was indeed accompanied by this very album.

Being super-advanced, I purchased this album at a Revco fresh from the oven, largely on the weight of the display of instruments on the back, and trippy hipgnosis on the front cover. When I got it home I immediately knew that I had discovered a new world that I would be long in exhausting. A few years later, in '74, while hitching America, and finding myself staying on the second floor of a nice two-story home in a leafy neighborhood of Des Moines, on the 4th of July, and it was all Norman Rockwell out of doors. Best to share some Pink Floyd with the neighborhood. After all, Kelly, who let me crash there, had fine speakers AND Ummagumma. On goes Grantchester Meadows, with acoustic guitar, voice, and dog occasionally barking. Neighbors must have thought we were on the porch playing. All fine in hood. All change. Everyone going apeshit, even animals, as Several Species fills the air. Surprised it wasn't on the news.

@SnoopySnoops1

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

this is the only Floyd album I own. congrats for taking this on. I don't think any reactor has done this yet.

The best way to hear this song is right after “Grandchester Meadows“. It flows right into it. Such a contrast.

Grantchester Meadows, the other Waters song from this album, is totally different. It's the most peaceful, calm and relaxing song ever written, with beautiful accoustic guitar from Gilmour

@thomasmacdiarmid8251

Ай бұрын

I get the feeling that they are a single scene - a dude hanging out in his apartment on some sort of trip, probably acid. In Grantchester Meadows you hear the whole description of the meadows and its animals, but Roger sings that he is seeing this while 'in my city room.' Then the fly comes in distracting and annoying him, so he stops the guitar, gets up and hunts down the fly to swat it. The annoyance of the fly and the aggression of swatting it puts him into a different but related headspace, still full of the animals and nature, but now they are running, frenetically making their way to the cave to hear the Pict (for whatever reason, it doesn't have to make behavioral sense).

I blew my Scottish friend’s mind when he heard the Pict, it was awesome

No one does a soundscape like Pink Floyd! One of my favorite album cuts. Thanks for making my day! Have you done Bjork's "Human Behavior"? Are you hip to Harry Partch? Partch is reaching back to the 1950s, but he composed music that required inventing the instruments to put it on. Like Captain Beefheart, Partch had to teach non musicians how to play his music his way. Partch was more 'formal' in his approach, but experimented with very unusual time signatures. It's an acquired taste, but well worth acquiring the ear to hear it.

I suggest "Paintbox" from Relics. Great early tune, cool rhythms. Written and sung by Richard Wright.

It's a pretty funky track actually. I'm surprised no one has sampled it. 😅

This is their experimental album where they learned the sound effects they used in future albums. I hear a lot of these sounds in DSOM. Thanks bro!!

@louise_rose

Ай бұрын

Yes, and what's especially impressive is that this was made long before modern samplers existed, and when London studios only had like 16-track machines. You had to use multiple tape loops to build up these crypts of repetitive, rhythmic sound.

@curtadams7406

Ай бұрын

Many phases of experimentation may seem silly after the fact, but they are the foundation on which later successes are based. The fact that some (admittedly myself included) are not particularly fond of "Small Furry Animals" matters not, what is important is the PF catalog that followed.

Great reaction, Lee! Roger is having a nutty time in the studio (no doubt most of this was done late at night), but they would return to some of these tricks when they did "Echoes" and "On the Run" a few years later... :) I remember hearing this when I was fourteen or so, it didn't make much sense to me either (even though I was already a major fan of the band) but it felt cool that they had managed to get it released on an album by EMI. It was as defiantly non-commercial as early albums by Captain Beefheart, Kraftwerk or Leonard Cohen.

Its always great when someone comes in and says "What the fuck are you listening to?"

The Grand Viziers Garden Party is interesting, although I found it took a few listens to understand. We scared the heck out of my sister’s cat with this song. The Grand Chester Meadows caught her attention. The Pict started to speak and she was across the street in an eye blink. A wonderful listen when the head is right ! Thanks for the reaction.. G

They were warned about the brown acid but they didn't listen. Needless to say this didn't get much airplay. One of my fave PF "songs" and more effective when preceded by Grantchester Meadows the previous cut

Back when they had a sense of humor

roger waters contribution to ummagumma's studio album. it's a double album,the other being live versions of older songs. for the studio album each member got 1/4 (half a side) to experiment and do what they wanted. roger chose to blow our minds. fun fact: when the scottish guy (roger) is ranting,the voices under him are the same chant sped up and reversed. you can only hear that if you have the vinyl to spin backward (yes i've done it). being a drummer you would like nick mason's portion of the album "the grand vizier's garden party". all percussion except flute intro and outro.

I posted on a previous video that you would probably listen to this at some point. This is Waters experimenting with Musique Concrete. I don't think he's ever said that but all the elements are there.

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

I definitely see it. It's certainly something. I had a great time with it. Such vivid imagery from a throwaway track

Man I was exposed to this in high school and I just fell for it totally. I mean who didn't know songs off of Dark Side of the Moon and stuff like that. But this really tickled my fancy at that age.

I Love the madness of this & used to insist friends listened to it all. Best after "Granchester Meadows" A beautiful journey. Their tribute to Jimi, "And the wind cried Mary".

😂 Right before this you have the lovely pastoral acoustic song, Grantchester Meadows, with sounds of birds and insects, then immediately into this bit of insanity. It's brilliant. An unexpected filler of Roger having a gas in the studio but is exactly what should be there.

So crazed...and so well done.

I was in Budapest in 87 or 88 when the Cold War was petering out and went to the planetarium for a Pink Floyd laser show along with an American friend and two Norwegian women we had met the night before. We expected the standard show one got in North America heavy on Dark Side and a "greatest hits" package but we were in for a shock. The material was mostly pre-Dark Side with nothing at all from The Wall and mixed in was Several Species: at that point our minds were officially blown.

It's well worth hearing the whole studio half of Ummagumma 'in the privacy of your own head', sometime. Richard and Roger's tracks are more popular (probably rightly), but Nick and Dave's bits vibe in their own way, too, and, of course the production is mint all the way through.

One of my first favorite albums

"What the fuck just happened?" Yeap

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 gotta love it

"They ARE grooving...." Awesome reaction. Rock on, Lee!

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

The title wasn't a lie! They were getting down! 🤣🤣

I'm not going to fact check myself but my understanding at the time way back then was that a pict was like a Scottish Warrior

Love it! I need to see if you've done any Syd Barrett Floyd.

Transition in was the swatting of a fly IIRC. Quite subtle.

Well, that was fun 😄. Waters' fake Scottish accent..." Neverrrr!"

Wow I haven't heard that in so long, and it's interesting now that I'm so much older to listen to it again with an open mind and wow it's so creative for the time. They did so much stuff that happened later alright then. But this was one of those songs that grabbed us when we were all like 17 or 18. I don't know man, now that I've listened to it freshly again, it's even better than I Remember by far. I'm a much more advanced musician than I was back then.

This is Roger's demented mind creating a head trip with recently invented studio processing at the time. The Picts lived in the Scottish Highlands. They preceded the Celtic civilization.

IMHO, studio part of Ummagumma is the Mt. Everest of progressive rock music. It has much more sense if you listen to it as a whole, because it actually has a concept, especially if you have a wide "imagination", ;) . At parties we used to start to listen to it right at the Midnight, try it, you won't regret it, :) . If you want weird stuff, try Jefferson Airplane. To me, everything by them is good, but for you, 2nd, 3rd, 4th album and the "Bark" will do. 'Comin' Back to Me' from the 2nd album is one of the best songs ever. Want something really weird? Try 'Never Argue with a German If You're Tired or European Song'. The idea of rooftop concert is actually theirs. Jean-Luc Godard shot a movie with them on a rooftop in New York, 19 November 1968. The Beatles' rooftop concert is the exact copy of this, shot 30 January 1969. And yes, the only people who aren't crazy are psychopaths. Those people aren't crazy, they are handicapped, born without the ability to feel emotions, this is why they aren't crazy. Instead, they are pure evil. Every person should learn about psychopaths, because psychopaths are doing harm to others, and you cannot recognize them because while doing evil things they behave completely normally, they will be your best friends before they stab you in the back.

@MarioPetrinovich

Ай бұрын

Oh yes, how about one of the best albums that only old folks know about it, White Noise - An Electric Storm (1969.). There were legends about people who only had this one record in their record collection, and no other, this one was enough. Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of electronic music ("Dr.Who" music), an absolute legend, was involved in making it.

Love this album. My personal favorite from the studio side is The Narrow Way by David Gilmour. Also, Richard Wright's song is downright terrifying. Just amazing.

Only a band like Pink Floyd and ONLY in that special time could record such a song, let's say it's not a song, it's a sound collage, or as you correctly said, an audio painting. Imagine the record company executives listening to "Small Furry Animals." In this day and age they would say, "Take that out! It doesn't make any money!" And then there's "Grantchester Meadows." The absolute contrast. Waters at its best. He is responsible for songs two and three on side one of the studio LP.

This was some of the first music the posse and I listened to after we started getting into psychedelics. And UmmaGumma had just come out and was one of the goto albums we would throw on the turntable. Imagine, your 17, your just discovering what psychedelics can do. The folks are out of town so the posse comes over to party. Everyone drops and you throw this on. Talk about a mind-fuck. Careful with that ax Eugene, Grantchester Meadows were some other of the favorites. Fun times. The whole UmmaGumma album is good. I would recommend all of it.

Most Floyd fans pan this - I enjoy it. Similar feeling about Beatles Revolution 9

I always forget that this is not a Ron Geesin track... I assume Roger Waters already knew Geesin's stuff, which it kind of resembles, since they collaborated on the soundtrack for "The Body" not long after this and Geesin later did the arrangements for Atom Heart Mother. He was a pretty interesting one-man tape manipulation act and confrontational poet/social commentator. I do have a couple of his albums but they don't get played much since his "comedy stylings" haven't aged particularly well.

Oh, this is going to be interesting, we'll Lee rode out The Beatles- Revolution #9, so we shall see how he reacts.🙂

@louise_rose

Ай бұрын

This is one of their strangest/most trippy tracks, along with "!Absolutely Curtains". :) Also, I hope Lee will one day take on Nick Mason's seven-minute drum solo track that finishes the album! 😀 (though Ginger Baker's live "Toady" is arguably a better song, and more visually interesting) 😬 Ginger Baker's Air Force: Toady (live with brass on West German TV, 1970): kzread.info/dash/bejne/mH2IsqxrnM67o9I.html

I've heard of this song but never listened to it, even though I'm a Floyd fan. By the end, I half imagined that the Monty Python comedy troupe were about to start singing "The Lumberjack Song." Interesting tune(?)

And thats what happens when you consume waaaaay too much! 😂😂😂 The weird part is they recorded and released it!

?…Critter choruses? “song title isn’t wrong” lol “like their Revolution 9” haha! What’s he saying? Pink Floyd?!? Roger did “vocals”? “the animals and chipmunks were gettin down” 😀 “wasn’t like Echoes…” 😂 That was a fun reaction, Lee! I’m glad to have been so enriched. 👍🏼! Let yourself rest a little, though

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 glad you enjoyed, my friend. 😌

@theeloquentbaby

Ай бұрын

@@L33Reacts❤️

In order for this song to be fully understood, the previous track Grandchester Meadows must be employed. Otherwise it’s shot with no chaser.

I’m 55 years young L33 & your my kind of people. My good friend Mike would laugh his off knowing I loved this song. He would say Floyd could record themselves farting & you would still lay down hard cold cash for it. Joke was on him because later that year I came across RogerWaters solo album The Body. There’s a track titled Our Song with many sounds including farts. Sorry for the long message but I had to share that memory.

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

Hahaha thank you for that 😆 I love weird stuff like this. It makes my soul happy lol even for a throwaway track this was so creative and strange 😅🤣🤣

The real Pink Floyd🤘

New viewer and someone new to Floyd- " Pink Floyd are one of the greatest bands of all time"......... Fortunately i knew what was coming lol

Always love it when someone first experiences the strangeness of this track. Both this and the track bring a smile on my face every time. If you're a brave man "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed is a very special experience as well.

@thescrewfly

Ай бұрын

Agreed. I don't know why it gets so much shade. It's clearly a well thought-out experiment. Lou is known to be extremely serious about guitars.

CIA is an oxymoron, I remember listening to this back in the day this is a genre called "Musique concrète"

I think that was some crazy stuff 😳

The studio album of Ummagumma is pretty weird throughout. Each member of the band, separately, got about a quarter of the album to do his own thing, and that they did, for better or worse. After more than 50 years, I still listen to Roger Waters’s contributions (Grantchester Meadows and Small Furry Animals), but I long ago decided to discard the rest of the studio album as worthless. I think David Gilmour, at least, has publicly regretted his own contribution to it. The Picts were the inhabitants of northern and central Scotland in ancient and early mediæval times. It’s not clear that they painted themselves. Julius Caesar said that the Britons painted themselves blue, but he was referring to the Britons of south-east England: the people he came into contact with. The Pictish language is extinct and mostly unknown. The ‘Pict’ that we hear on this track seems to be speaking Broad Scots, a dialect of English.

When it first came out I only listened to thei album on acid.

Used to have a friend who would play this to freak out newcomers to our friend group... another example of audio abstract art.

Just so much fun! Mind fugg eeeee

It's music Jim, but not as we know it!

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

Its worse then that, he's grooving with picts Jim!

Used this song in college with a couple friends before going out to test, yup we are now indeed high. Let's roll!

Roger Waters didn't like this one, and has publicly regretted it ... but it is my favorite Pink Floyd song! This somewhat bridges the gap between Dada and more "normal" music - it has a pretty clear rhythm, and a skeleton of tonality, but not really a melody, and uses the "cut & paste of audio clips" method of construction ... 🙂

As a Zappa says, An air sculpture.

So there!! 😆

They were definitely tripping when they did this 😆 strange.

Loved it

Well, that was very different

Great choice for charades with non-Floydians: "Song. 16 words".

Church music, obviously.

this one goes hard

Is this music? Perhaps not. But I love it

The best and most tape manipulation in the world it funny

Are you going to sit back down or are you going to hover over that bench forever? Oh wow man, I thought I had sat down. The mind's alert but the body forgets. Congress of Wonders. Pigeon Park.

Works...😉

He's the Pict. Google it.

Ground breaking weirdness: Devo - Jocko Homo Flying Lizards - Money Art of Noise - Beat Box Cramps - She Said Pixies - Caribou

@neilwoodley530

Ай бұрын

Flying Lizards, "Money". YES!! Also: The Ting Tings, "That's Not My Name." And M, "Pop Music"

I HAVE OWNED PRETTY MUCH ALL THEIR ALBUMS CEPT FOR THE LAST TWO/LEE JUST SIT BACK CLOSE UR EYES FFS LOL!!!!ROGER WAS COOL BACK THEN YES!!!! I LOVE THAT UR GOING TO PRANK HER!!!! ANYTHING BY THEM IS FINE WITH ME!!!!

Which came first? This or Frank Zappa's, "Nasal Retentive Calliope". ?

lol well

Picts were Scottish, so you got the accent right, and its funny when you're tripping.

JUST FOR KICKS SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS VERSION TOO Pink Floyd - small species Furry animals (slow speed)kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5dqpbibdcfTlrw.html VERY TRIPPY

Back in my stoner days............................

Mate, just one bloke to another, you really are tired, it’s pretty obvious. Like in past the limit. Do something to get into another zone. Move! Selfcare is not a four letter word. If you don’t care for yourself, you can’t be there for anyone else either. Move, soldier!

If you like good music, why do you like Zappa and Steely Dan? I mean - those 2 are the epitome of bad music.