More (soundtrack)

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More
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Soundtrack album / Studio album by Pink Floyd
Released 13 June 1969
Recorded 1 February – 31 May 1969
Studio Pye Studios, London
Genre Psychedelic rock, hard rock, progressive rock, folk rock
Length 44:56
Language English
Label
Producer Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd chronology
A Saucerful of Secrets
(1968)A Saucerful of Secrets1968		 More
(1969)		 Ummagumma
(1969)Ummagumma1969
Pink Floyd soundtracks chronology
Tonite Lets All Make Love in London
(1968)		 More
(1969)		 Zabriskie Point
(1970)
Singles from More
  1. "The Nile Song" / "Ibiza Bar"
    Released: 1969
  2. "Main Theme"
    Released: 27 July 1969

More is the first full-length soundtrack album, and third studio album, by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 by Tower Records a subsidiary label of Capitol Records in the United States as Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the film More.[1][2] It is the first album by the band to be released by Capitol internationally. The film More was made in Luxembourg in 1969 and was directed by Barbet Schroeder.

Recording and songs

More contains some acoustic folk ballads, a genre that appeared sparsely on later works. It also contains some of the band's "heaviest" recordings, such as "The Nile Song" and "Ibiza Bar",[3][4] as well as several instrumental tracks, featuring their experimental and avant-garde approach.

This is Pink Floyd's first full album without founder member Syd Barrett, who was ousted from the group in early 1968 during the recording of A Saucerful of Secrets. It is one of the three Pink Floyd albums to feature David Gilmour as the sole lead vocalist, the others being 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason and 2014's The Endless River, and it is also the first album to be produced by Pink Floyd without assistance from Norman Smith. More was recorded at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, London and engineered by Brian Humphries.[5]

Two songs can be heard in the film that were not included on the album: "Seabirds"[6] and "Hollywood".

According to one source,[7] the original More reel shows the following track listing:

  1. Main Theme 1
  2. Main Theme 2
  3. Party Sequence 1
  4. Party Sequence 2
  5. Jukebox (Up the Khyber)
  6. Theme – Beat Version
  7. Spanish Music
  8. Blues – Slow
  9. Hollywood
  10. Seabirds
  11. Crying Song
  12. Waterpipe (Quicksilver)[8]
  13. Paris Bar

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 2/5 stars[9]
The Daily Telegraph 3/5 stars[10]
MusicHound 1/5[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2/5 stars[12]

More reached number 9 in the UK[13] and, upon re-release in 1973, number 153 in the US. In 1987, the album was issued on CD. A digitally remastered CD was released in 1995 in the UK and 1996 in the US.

Since 1995, the new edition changed the title to just Music from the Film More (US title: Music from the Motion Picture More).[1] This was the last of three Pink Floyd albums to be released in the United States by the Tower Records division of Capitol Records. The 1973 US reissue was released on Harvest Records. Although the CD restores the original United Kingdom title in all countries, it is represented differently on the spine (Music from the Film More) and label More. For the Pink Floyd Records re-issue, the name revert back to Soundtrack from the Film More which will be release at 3 June 2016.

Track listing

All vocals by David Gilmour.

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Cirrus Minor"   Waters 5:18
2. "The Nile Song"   Waters 3:26
3. "Crying Song"   Waters 3:33
4. "Up the Khyber" (instrumental) Mason, Wright 2:12
5. "Green Is the Colour"   Waters 2:58
6. "Cymbaline"   Waters 4:50
7. "Party Sequence" (instrumental) Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 1:07
Total length:
 23:14
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Main Theme" (instrumental) Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 5:27
2. "Ibiza Bar"   Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 3:19
3. "More Blues" (instrumental) Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 2:12
4. "Quicksilver" (instrumental) Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 7:13
5. "A Spanish Piece" (instrumental) Gilmour 1:05
6. "Dramatic Theme" (instrumental) Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 2:15
Total length:
 21:21

Personnel

Additional personnel
  • Lindy Mason – tin whistle on "Green Is the Colour" and "Party Sequence"
  • James Guthrie – re-mastering supervision
  • Hipgnosis – sleeve design
  • Doug Sax – re-mastering

Sales chart performance

Year Chart Position
1969 UK Albums Chart 9[13]
1969 French Albums Chart 2[14]
1973 Billboard Pop Albums 153[15]

References

Footnotes
Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-Soundtrack-From-The-Film-More/master/20679
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Relics, Pink Floyd: Review, AllMusic.
  4. ↑ J. DeRogatis, Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Milwaukee, Michigan: Hal Leonard, 2003), ISBN 0-634-05548-8, p.132.
  5. ↑ Nick Mason, Inside Out, first edition p129
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  9. ↑ Unterberger, Richie. Album review at AllMusic. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
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  14. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named infodisc
  15. ↑ Billboard chart peak position at AllMusic. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
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