A SAUCERFUL OF PINK: A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD

Tribute albums are very hard to talk about. You have bands of different genres covering perhaps some of your all-time favourite songs. However, it's always interesting to hear someone else's vision of a masterpiece. Gathered here are groups of different music types performing songs of the one and the only, Pink Floyd. It's nice to hear this when you get tired of the originals (is that possible?!!).

There are lots of electronic bands here, probably the most. You get to hear synth and rhythm machine more often than guitar and drums. That doesn't make it less interesting. Speaking of such groups, I should mention: - Psychic TV (Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is a pleasure to listen to) - Din (their rendition of On the Run sounds like a longer cut of the PF version) - Furnace (though not necessarily electronic, Hey You still sends chills with its vocals and lyrics)

But of course, none of the tributes can work without at least 2 blasphemies. This one is no exception. Controled Bleeding's Another Brick in the Wall is so extended, you'll have a really hard time listening to it. Right after it, Spahn Ranch come in with a techno boredom and ruin One of These Days. How can someone destroy a legendary song like this is beyond me.

As of more common rock formations, they are primary on the second half. There's: - EXP (A Saucerful of Secrets is 1 of 3 best re-designs here!) - Helios Creed (both parts of Pigs on the Wing put together, yet with an intolerable vocoder-or- something-like-that voice) - FarFlung (the heaviest track, The Nile Song)

I have to mention a certain song, psychedelic to its core. It's called To Roger Waters, Wherever You Are written and performed (???) by his former colleague Ron Geesin. If you're a fan of Ummagumma (if you have the stomach for the psychedelic visions of the mentioned album), you'll find this piece very exciting.

A Saucerful of Pink covers pre-Dark Side of the Moon era mostly. We all know Pink Floyd were very experimental at the time. Arguably the fans of this period are too, and apparently this is made for them. I ain't complaining! Much ...