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Featured Song: Astronomy Domine
Offset track on Pink Floyd's starting time anthology, 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' (1967)
Genre: psychedelic stone, pop stone
Length: four:12
Label: EMI Columbia (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland), Tower (U.s.a.)
Writer: Syd Barrett
Producer: Norman Smith
Lyrics
Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight betwixt the blue y'all one time knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters secret.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
Lime and limpid dark-green, a second scene
A fight between the blueish you in one case knew.
Floating downward, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars tin can frighten.
Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare, Dan Cartel, who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds effectually
The icy waters nether
Lime and limpid dark-green, the sounds effectually
The icy waters underground.
Full of mystery and flickering intensity, "Astronomy Domine" is ane of the finest moments of Syd Floyd. Arguably the first-ever space-rock song, the opening track of the band'due south debut 1967 Piper At The Gates Of Dawn album pulled the listener into a darker identify than the flower power visions of the fourth dimension.
Some say that the song was the nascence of space rock and, whilst it leaves some pretty upfront clues for this in its lyrics, it perhaps stretches out to a much higher state than that. The Latin championship translates as 'an astral dirge to the Lord' equally it reaches out to the gods in one of those beautiful acrid-drenched moments when nature, life, god and the mysteries of space all connect and brand sense and the beauty of darkness and the emptiness of everything combine into one white rut whole.
Perhaps Syd was playing with many meanings – his playful songwriting was and so full of shapeshifting levels that its brilliance captivates decades later. Any song that intros with band manager Pete Jenner intoning the moons of Uranus and a handful of planets down a megaphone is e'er going to exist quite easily muddled up with being something about the beyond. The bleeping space-comm and the clipped descending guitar that travels through unconventional but brilliantly effective chord changes have always suggested the barren beauty and spectral mystery of space to me.
The guitar holds the tension and whilst the song never explodes into a cliched frenzy it's full of taut electricity, an electricity that would be the boulder of much of punk rock a decade later. Many of the first wave bands of that scene embraced Syd'south idiosyncratic genius and his maverick nature and innate cheekbone dandy in the underworld cool was a prime number influence. This multi-genre magnetism is all there boiled down into this i song. It's psychedelic because the music creates the trip, it'south punk because it's total of tension, it'due south prog because it was progressive and information technology's and so beautifully English and full of wild innocence that only Syd could have dreamt information technology up.
It was late 66/early on 67 when the song was written and recorded, the tiptop of popular optimism when it felt like song and trip the light fantastic could change the globe and the just boundaries were out there in deep space. Immature groups with foreign names similar Pink Floyd were fast condign the new currency trading in the Beatles beatific glow and the summer of beloved was on the horizon. Syd was in his brief songwriting prime. The music was pouring out of him and he was at the epicentre of London cool. His songs were full of whimsical back to babyhood visions conjured past the LSD or these darker visionary pieces that meant everything or anything you wanted.
Syd before long bailed out, leaving the tantalising vision of a genius who exited the phase far likewise soon. Songs like "Astronomy Domine" hint equally one of the many unlike directions a Syd led Floyd could have taken, possibly they took that route anyhow after their architect had floated away. It'south the ifs and buts of Syd that are office of the eternal fascination of the pied piper who danced away like Pan playing his pipes and dorsum into the only world his brilliant still jumbled heed could understand.
His withdrawing abroad from the razzmatazz of tardily sixties London and into his own inner earth created an enigma that songs like "Astronomy Domine" but add to. Syd left few clues but a vivid and cursory flurry of songs and a tousled haired dark-eyed ghost-like presence over the pop scene. The mystery of Syd and the song are part and parcel of this intoxicating story.
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