Vinyl Record
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets on LP vinyl. A 1968 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1968
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1968 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
A Saucerful Of Secrets is Pink Floyd's 1968 second album, the strange hinge between Syd Barrett's psychedelic leadership and the exploratory group language that would carry the band into the 1970s. Recorded from late 1967 into 1968, it is the only studio album to contain both Barrett and David Gilmour, which makes its instability historically central. Let There Be More Light and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun point toward hypnotic, modal space; Remember a Day and See-Saw keep Richard Wright's dreamlike melancholy close to the surface; Corporal Clegg turns war memory into crooked pop theatre; Jugband Blues is Barrett's devastating farewell, at once comic, cracked and almost unbearably lucid. The title piece pushes beyond song form into a multi-part instrumental ritual, with chaos, percussion and organ glow replacing the bright London whimsy of the debut. In 1968, while psychedelia was already mutating into heavier and more progressive forms, A Saucerful Of Secrets caught Pink Floyd in the act of becoming another band without fully leaving the first one behind.
A Saucerful Of Secrets matters because it preserves Pink Floyd's most fragile transition. It is not simply the second psychedelic album; it is the sound of authorship, personnel and musical ambition changing at once, with Barrett's last studio presence giving way to the longer, darker architecture of the band's future.
For collectors, this is a crucial early Pink Floyd title because it contains a lineup and emotional situation that never happened again. It belongs beside Piper for Barrett context and beside Meddle for the first signs of the extended, atmospheric Floyd that would soon dominate the catalogue.
Late-1960s psychedelia with organ haze, modal bass movement, surreal pop fragments, proto-progressive instrumental scale, martial oddness and the haunted contrast between Barrett and post-Barrett Pink Floyd.
Recommended for: Pink Floyd collectors focused on the Syd Barrett transition; Fans of British psychedelia turning into progressive rock; Listeners who want Set the Controls in its original album setting; Shelves documenting 1968 as a year of musical mutation.
When was A Saucerful Of Secrets released? A Saucerful Of Secrets was released in 1968 as Pink Floyd's second studio album. Why is the lineup important on this album? It is the only Pink Floyd studio album to feature both Syd Barrett and David Gilmour, capturing the band during a decisive personnel shift. Which songs define A Saucerful Of Secrets? Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Jugband Blues, Remember a Day and the title instrumental show the album's mix of farewell, dream-pop and emerging long-form experimentation.