"Obscure" Pink Floyd songs

 

Never released with Nick Mason on lead vocals:

 

 

Never released but widely known:

 

 

Played live but never given a proper studio recording; a demo showed up on compilations:

 

 

I've always really liked Let There Be More Light

 

There was a single ... Point Me At the Sky ... or something like that ... the other ones I love dearly are Pow'r'Toch and Lucifer Sam ... but I think all 3 of these are a bit too obtuse for most folks here!

 

The album "Obscured by Clouds" is really just a bunch of songs and they don't make any more sense the way they are used in the film "La Vallee" ...  and I am not sure that the songs were written exclusively for each part or scene, since only one or two of them actually fit the film itself.

 

The film is a sort of Royal Shakespeare Company meets the French Academy kind of thing for acting and actors, with a massive mix that is rather unusual. In the end, the inclusion of the Magupa Tribe is rather unusual ... and it comes off as just another stone'y sequence ... but it was in keeping with the theaterical experiments and weirdness around the time, specially the likes of Peter Brook , Peter Hall that were just about busting London theater in color and costume and then some!

 

"...  Along the way through the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea and on the peak of Mount Gilowe, she and the small group of explorers make contact with the Mapuga tribe, one of the most isolated groups of human beings on earth, who inspire them to explore their own humanity, unfettered by their own subjective ideas of "civilization." The search becomes a search for a paradise said to exist within a valley marked as "obscured by clouds" on the maps. The film ends with their arrival at the valley, having endured much travail in the journey. ..." (From Wiki)

 

After what some folks in PF think is not a good film, but is a great concert film (Live in Pompeii), and another Barbet Schroeder experiment (More) -- which had a much better use of Pink Floyd's music ... the girl had all the music on the cassette player and she merely turned on the cassette player to trip off with the music, and it was nicely done, although the music then does not come off (Hollywood style) as important to the audience as it is to the person in the film! I think that Pink Floyd decided to make "their own film" ... and Dark Side of the Moon became that film ... and later they really blew it out with The Wall.

 

There was another film in the middle there, but Roger had problems talking to Anonioni, and the American Producers didn't like Pink Floyd that much, but it left the most memorable moment on the film in your mind, if you were not simply looking at the nekkid hoochies in the film! The rest ofthe film is totally screwed up and I wish that Antonioni had done a 2nd version of that film his way!

 

PF also had been involved in film before ... and they can be seen in at least two other films, even if in one of them it was just a taped sequence ... 1st was "Tonite We All Love in London" where you can see Syd Barrett playing the guitar. and the other is a Dutch Film called "Stamping Ground" and the PF piecein there was a filmed sequence that I am not sure was a part of the concert, but it is very Hipgnosis like dreamy weirdness inside bubbles. We never see the band if I remember correctly.

 

One of my all time favorite Floyd tracks.