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Ummagumma by Pink Floyd

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Astronomy Domine (Live) (1994 Digital Remaster) 8:27 326
2 Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live) (1994 Digital Remaster) 8:48 327
3 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live) (1994 Digital Remaster) 9:10 294
4 A Saucerful Of Secrets (Live) (1994 Digital Remaster) 12:45 233
1 Sysyphus (Part 1) (1994 Digital Remaster) 1:08 426
2 Sysyphus (Part 2) (1994 Digital Remaster) 3:29 290
3 Sysyphus (Part 3) (1994 Digital Remaster) 1:49 285
4 Sysyphus (Part 4) (1994 Digital Remaster) 6:57 245
5 Grantchester Meadows (1994 Digital Remaster) 7:24 339
6 Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With… 4:58 226
7 The Narrow Way (Part 1) (1994 Digital Remaster) 3:26 279
8 The Narrow Way (Part 2) (1994 Digital Remaster) 2:52 237
9 The Narrow Way (Part 3) (1994 Digital Remaster) 5:56 234
10 The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Entrance) (1994 Digital Remaster) 0:59 224
11 The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Entertainment) (1994 Digital Remaster) 7:04 278
12 The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Exit) (1994 Digital Remaster) 0:38 230
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About this album

EMI UK (2003) Released: 1 Mar 2003 16 tracks (85:50)
Ummagumma is a double album by Pink Floyd, released in 1969 by Harvest and EMI in the United Kingdom and Harvest and Capitol in the United States. Side A is a live album of their normal set list of the time, while side B contains individual compositions by each member of the band recorded as a studio album.

The album’s title supposedly comes from a Cambridge slang word for sex, commonly used by one of Pink Floyd’s friends and occasional roadie, Ian “Emo” Moore, who would say ‘I’m going back to the house for some Ummagumma’. However, some band members have since stated that the word was “totally made up and means nothing at all”. In footage of the band rehearsing for a Royal Albert Hall appearance in 1969, one of the band members can be heard, off camera, quietly chanting the word “ummagumma”.

Although the sleeve notes say that the live material was recorded in June 1969, the first disc of Ummagumma was recorded live at Mothers Club, Birmingham, on 27 April 1969 and the following week at Manchester College of Commerce, on 2 May 1969; the second disc included four solo segments, one half-side of vinyl each by, in order: Richard Wright, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason.

The band had also recorded a live version of “Interstellar Overdrive” (from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), intended for placement on side one of the live album. The track was dropped at the last minute, some say to maintain the sound fidelity of the record, but numerous test pressings with the original track list were given to friends of the band, including John Peel.
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  • PazuzuSKOM

    The Live part <3 ..

    last month

  • silverlage

    I ignored PF all my life cause I was sick of seeing so many Pink Floyd shirts on just about every kid back in the day. Wow! I guess the wait was worth it. I can't believe how experimental they were. Love the experimental stuff the best....t7b

    last month

  • SpiritOfYetaxa

    Gilmour's and Wright's compositions are masterpieces. Grantchester Meadows is beautifully pastoral, and Several Species... is weird and fun. As for Nick Mason's 7 minute drum solo, however...

    last month

  • Cezarek98

    Terrible underrated masterpiece [6]

    last month

  • PabloFromPoland

    Live disc is perfect, maybe even better than "Live at Pompeii". Versions of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "A Saucerful of Secrets" are awasome and show a pure genius of Gilmour, Mason, Waters and Wright. Studio disc is strange, but it's not bad. It's high quality avant-garde music. "The Narrow Way" is good sond and also "Grantchester Meadows". I really don't like "Several Species...", but in fact - who's like it?

    last month

  • Icedmoon

    So underrated.

    March 2012

  • lauta91

    Live disk is 10/10 [2] And "A saucerful of Secrets" on that version is 11/10

    January 2012

  • thaynalmeida

    I love this album, great work! =]

    January 2012

  • gabiioiq

    The Narrow Way <3

    December 2011

  • selrigu

    ...and I have never heard of Radiohead being the most experimental rock band ever. That is just flat out the dumbest thing i've ever heard.. and small furry animals is the best track on this album imo but there's songs that are way more experimental out there in the rock genre...

    December 2011

  • selrigu

    Second best release after Piper at The Gates of Dawn.

    December 2011

  • pablo323

    Terrible underrated masterpiece [5]

    October 2011

  • Soundservant

    I don't think I can enjoy this without being high.

    October 2011

  • DamianTanuki

    I think the live versions of the songs on here are better than the older studio versions. While I'm not all that keen on the second disc, I kinda think it was worth a listen for the first at least.

    September 2011

  • AmbientGhost

    This album`s ace, I used to enjoy listening to it stoned when I was a young man.

    September 2011

  • KingCrimsonMac

    I prefer the live section to the studio.

    August 2011

  • Badscaremonger

    One of the most experimental album

    August 2011

  • Akayz7

    Top 5 of their most Psychedelic. so good.

    July 2011

  • maidenmetal1

    The worst Pink Floyd album. [4]. It is not bad, i like Sysyphus,Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way. It is just too experimental for me

    July 2011

  • TWCFan1014

    For those who think Radiohead is the most experimental rock band ever, listen to Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict. Or maybe this entire album. You'll be surprised when you see how experimental and psychedelic this album is.

    June 2011
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