MORE (OST)

I bought this album expecting to find an experimental and initial work, as the one reflected in "Ummagumma". I can say it is more listenable than "Ummagumma", because it's more accurate for those who aren't used to this band, but it lacks the deepness of "Ummagumma's Live Album" and the psychaedelic stuff put out at Gilmour's revealing performance in "The Narrow Way", at "Ummagumma's Studio Album".

I think the comparison between both albums isn't absurd, since both creations were released at the same time (1969). I'm not saying either that "More" is an "out of the line" Floyd album. There are some very pretty and mellow, yet not so elaborated, lyric- songs:

1.-Cirrus Minor. -You can hear the singing of several birds (echoing "Grantchester Meadows", of Ummagumma), afterwards the voice of Waters reaching a very strange tone when saying: "saw a crater in the sun", and Rick Wright's organ that concludes softly this piece (there's nothing in common with his gratness in "A Saucerful of Secrets"). 2.-Nile Song. -Probably the only "hard rock" you can find on Floyd's records. 3.-Crying Song. -A very "high" song, although it's repetitive. 4.-Green is the colour. -A nice romantic song, but pretty "western". 5.-Cymbaline. -Maybe in this song you can appreciate Water's talent as a "music poet". The best lyrics at all. This is a great metaphor of those (artists or not) that are being destroyed by critics, managers, fans or even drugs. Probably Waters is remembering to the fans what happened to Syd Barret and it can be easily compared to "The Wall" (DVD), when the main character is sitting in a chair, with the doors shut and people outside yelling and screaming. "The ravens all are closing in there's nowhere you can hide". 6.-Ibiza Bar. -Follows the same path of "Nile Song", but no so "hard", because of the slighter and better performance of Mason with the cymbals.

Among these themes are settled some instrumental songs that disappointed me. Nevertheless, there are some exceptions: 1.-Up the Khyber. -It's a good combination of two genious: Wright and Mason. Wright here is amazing with the piano sounds, which made me remember his great "Sisyphus Part II" at "Ummagumma". Highly recommended. 2.-"Party Sequence". -A waist of record. 3.-"Main Theme". -Lacks the psychaedelic higness of "Up the Khyber", but it's more spatial and sounds a little bit like Alan Parsons. 4.-"More Blues". -It seems like if this song had not been completed. 5.-"Quicksilver". -A fucking mess, without the amusement and planification of the masterpiece "Echoes". All shadow is an incomplete and imperfect realization of the "idea" that imitates. Not even a shadow. That's the relationship between these two pieces. (Moreover, at some time (2:18) you can notice that the recording sounds terrible). 6.-"Spanish Piece". -The most stupid thing done by Gilmour. 7.-"Dramatic Theme". -I can "save" this piece from drowning with the other, because it's a great way to finish an album.

So, in main lines, a very shallow perfection with the lyric-songs and a crazy maze of the instrumental ones, although the exceptions I mentioned in each one of them. If you don't own yet albums such as "DSOM", "Meddle", "Animals", "Piper at the Gates...", don't even dare to buy it.