Pink Floyd's "A Saucerful of Secrets": Who Could Be Writing This Song?

Review and discussion on Pink Floyd’s A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).




Relevant links:

The Claypool/Lennon Delirium post that prompted this post: An older post on Syd Barrett

Fall 2019 Album Overview Part 2: Something Old, Something New

Overview of recent listening for late Fall 2019, Including:

Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1985)

Daniel Johnston – Is And Always Was (2009)

The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Lights (2019)

Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (2019)

M83 - DSVII (2019)

Jakub Zytecki – Nothing Lasts, Nothing’s Lost (2019)

Relevant links:

Fall 2019 Preview Part 1

Jason Falkner / Daniel Johnston

South of Reality: Claypool and Lennon's Delirious Collaboration

Background, discussion, and review on The Claypool/Lennon Delirium’s South of Reality (2019)

Relevant Links:

A very early posting on Sean Lennon’s Friendly Fire

A post on Oysterhead

Some thoughts on The Monolith of Phobos

Other favorites from 2016, including The Monolith of Phobos

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Buchla and The Kid

Discussion and review on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s 2017 album The Kid, as well as a little background on her instrument of choice, the Buchla synthesizer.

Links of interest:
A written review of 2016’s EARS

A little more exposition on Moog synthesizers

The Jellyfish Family Tree Part 10: Falkner and Johnston at the Mohawk

A anecdote that looks at Jason Falkner’s I’m OK, You’re OK (2007) and Daniel Johnson’s Is And Always Was (2019) along the way.

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Part 2: Spilt Milk at Lunch

Part 4: Falkner Knocks Me Down

Part 7: Falkner’s Mercurial Fortunes

Frank Zappa's Roxy & Elsewhere: Troubling Fills in the Air

Discussion on Frank Zappa’s 1974 album Roxy & Elsewhere, as well as some speculation on its influence.

Fall 2019 Preview: Light on Dark Corners

Discussion and previews on a few albums that have been in rotation:

Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch - Twin Peaks: Season 2 Soundtrack and More (2019)

The Knells – The Knells (2013)

Herbie Hancock – Thrust (1974)

Sevish – Harmony Hacker (2017)

Bombay Groovy – Odysee (2019)

Tool – Fear Innoculum (2019)

Relevant Links:

Twin Peaks Then and Now: Autonomy and Association

The Knells: Earthen Riffs, Celestial Voices

Escaping the Undertow: Tool’s Lateralus