The industrial band Rx covered "The Scarecrow" on their album Bedside Toxicology. Part of this film has been featured in Waters' live performances of " Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".Ī second promo was filmed in 1968 in Brussels, Belgium, with David Gilmour replacing Barrett, and Waters lip-syncing while playing his Rickenbacker bass with a violin bow. It shows Roger Waters falling down as if he were shot, and Nick Mason exchanging his hat with the scarecrow's. Each time it failed to duplicate its UK success.Ī promotional film for the song, made for a Pathé newsreel and filmed in early July 1967, features the band in an open field with a scarecrow, generally fooling around. The US single (Tower 356) was released by Tower Records three times between July 1967 and late 1968. Reflecting the experimental nature of many of the band's early psychedelic pieces, all instruments are panned to the extreme left hand and right hand sides of the stereo, with two vocal lines, one spoken and one sung. Experience Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles Disney+. The song contains a baroque, psychedelic folk instrumental section consisting of 12-string acoustic guitar and cello. Pink Floyd - Us And Them (Official Video) - YouTube Music. Of these concept albums, Dark Side of the Moon resonated strongest, earning new audiences year after year, decade after decade. Such thematic content would later become a mainstay of the band's lyrical imagery. Pink Floyd grounded that limitless sound with exacting explorations of mundane matters of ego, mind, memory, and heart, touching upon madness, alienation, narcissism, and society on their concept albums of the '70s. 'That was the longest two hours of my life', Waters. Pink Floyd's post-'Double O Bo' version of stereophonic spy music, tense and alluring, about the coolest cat that Syd Barrett knew - in this case, an actual cat, his pet Siamese. According to Rolling Stone, the lyrics came from Roger Waters experience when he was injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the bands 1977 In The Flesh tour. The song contains nascent existentialist themes, as Barrett compares his own existence to that of the scarecrow, who, while "sadder" is also "resigned to his fate". This song has to do with Pinks battle to handle the world.
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