View Single Post
  #20  
Old 12-07-2006, 11:36 PM
Tower Of Faith's Avatar
Tower Of Faith Tower Of Faith is offline
Do you feel like we do?
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 631
Re: I actually like Ummagumma

I used to feel that generally the live tracks were good and the rest were dross.

Lately though, and by lately I mean the past couple of years, I've begun to develop an appreciation for the studio tracks as well. In rather atypical fashion for me, I actually don't like the Waters portion. Mason's portion is also a bit silly, but I imagine many of you feel the same way about that. I think the real meat of the album is "Sysyphus" and "The Narrow Way".

Gilmour's "The Narrow Way, part 3" is nice, and has a very interesting chord progression. I wish they'd printed the lyrics to it in my 1994 EMI remaster, but alas, only Roger's lyrics for "Grantchester Meadows" appear.

I think, however, that the masterwork of the album lies in Wright's mellotron work on "Sysyphus, part 4". It's hauntingly beautiful and I really wished he'd experimented more with the instrument.

Any thoughts?
__________________
"...Did we do anything after this?"

"I've a feeling we did..."
Reply With Quote