They are Syd Barrett’s “Astronomy Domine” from the first album Roger Waters’ B-side “Careful with That Axe, Eugene” Waters’ “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” from the second album, “A Saucerful of Secrets” and the song “A Saucerful of Secrets.” The “Ummagumma” live disc consists of four spellbinding tracks, easily thought of as a piece if not a song cycle: A record to be played once a decade, if that. Consider that one the “Ummagumma” bonus CD, odds & sods for hardcore fans. “Ummagumma” could have been the greatest live psychedelic music album of them all, and perhaps it still is, by default.īut before that discussion we must dispense with disc 1’s sad-sack sibling, a studio vanity project that gave each member of the quartet half an album side to flail about. Hear in it what you will, but English psychedelic music peaked here, courtesy of the sonic beast that was Pink Floyd circa 1969 - captured live and in full throat on disc 1 of “Ummagumma,” the band’s polarizing third album. Dragons, and dust from the bones of kings and traitors.
