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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Space rock meets psychedelia, 22 Dec 2006
With Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd's original frontsman) becoming more and more unstable, Pink Floyd seemed on the verge of collapse. After all, he had penned all their singles and all but one song from their debut album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'. So, when he 'left' (read sacked) in April 1968, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that they wouldn't last long. How wrong they were.
'A Saucerful Of Secrets' did indeed reveal secrets; Roger Waters and Rick Wright could write songs! And great songs, too. Hypnotic beats and bizarre lyrics showcased in one heck of an album, which does feature one Barrett composition, 'Jugband Blues'. New guitarist David Gilmour doesn't contribute any material here, bar a little on the title-track, so you could argue that this is the most disjointed Pink Floyd album, as Barrett, Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason can all be heard; the only Pink Floyd album that can boast that.
Let There Be More Light - space rock riff, weird lyrics, great song
Remember A Day - brilliant. Probably the best song on here
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - a mouthful and-a-half! But another great song
Corporal Clegg - Decent song, not bad, not great
A Saucerful Of Secrets - actually, this is the best song on here. Betters 'Interstellar Overdrive' as far as I'm concerned.
See Saw - good song, perhaps best appreciated in a cloud of incense and blue smoke
Jugband Blues - goodbye Syd. Very good song with haunting last line ('And what exactly is a joke?')
Not so much for the casual listener as the Floydian. However, 'A Saucerful Of Secrets' delivers everything its cover promises.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great second album, 15 Jun 2004
I listened to this CD this morning on the way to work during a foggy drive with the sun only just starting to get above the horizon, and it was the perfect CD for the journey! It is a slice of spacy psychedelia where the band are starting to find their direction, but going through the transition of guitarists.Roger Waters makes a bigger impact on this album than on 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn', and gives us a great opening track in 'Let There be More Light', and two tracks later we get the epic 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun'. In between is a chilled out, drifting 'Remember a Day' from Rick Wright before the first of Roger Waters' recorded anti-war songs - the gloriously kazoo-driven 'Corporal Clegg'. The title track is a very crude version of what the band were to become in the 70's, but with a far heavier psychedelic lean than anything later. The last two tracks have Syd Barrett written all over them, but they are not the strongest tracks. It's goodbye to Syd and hello to Roger on this album, and it makes the transition pretty well.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best Floyd albume.......?, 27 Jan 2002
I must say that, this is one of the best Pink Floyd albums. If you like a little psychedelic touch, this is a " must have"!! I love most of Pink Floyd's work, but there is something special about this album. Maybe it is just the lack of commercial pressure, but there is a sense of peace over the whole creation. Roger Waters`s first song about his spite of the military in "Corporal Clegg" is one of my all time favourite songs performed by Floyd, or anyone else. "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" is a lovely song whit a wonderful melody, and appear both on "Echoes, the best of Pink Floyd" and "In the Flesh" Waters`s last solo album and his world tour. And the opening track "Let there be more light" has a marvellous psychedelic shape witch I love. If you are one of those who just think "Another brick..." is a nice song, and have heard "Whish you were here" in a rap version (crappy, I might add!) you will probably be disappointed, and should by on of the newer Floyd albums first, but for the rest of us this album belongs in the collection.
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