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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: EMI Europe Generic
Salesrank: 345275
Released: February 23, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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More Track Listing:
1. Cirrus Minor
2. Nile Song
3. Crying Song
4. Up the Khyber
5. Green Is the Colour
6. Cymbaline
7. Party Sequence
8. Main Theme
9. Ibiza Bar
10. More Blues
11. Quicksilver
12. Spanish Piece
13. Dramatic Theme
Editorial Review:
Concocted for director Barbet Schroeder's dystopian hippie road flick, this album marks Floyd's first venture into film "scoring," a task they undertake with a verve that overshadows their lack of formal training in the field. With just a handful of cuts echoing the trippy, atmospheric space-rock that was so much a part of their early career, there's a surprisingly familiar dedication to songcraft evident here, especially for a soundtrack. Roger Waters's acoustic ballads ("Cirrus Minor," "Crying Song," "Green is the Color"), dark and dirge-like, are familiar predecessors to music that would highlight Wish You Were Here and The Wall, while Dave Gilmour's slashing riffs on "The Nile Song" also foreshadow greatness to come. Moody and surprisingly eclectic, More has rightly earned its place as a Floyd cult fave. --Jerry McCulley
More Reviews:
Perhaps decent with the film, but it doesn't entertain as an album 
2009-11-15 - Pink Floyd recorded this soundtrack for Barbet Schroder's film MORE in 1969. In exploring the band's output chronologically, I enjoyed greatly the psychadelic rock of their 1967 debut PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN and its eerie 1968 follow-up A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS. In 1969, however, the band got bogged down in a mediocre groove. The musique concrete and ambient compositions on the second disc of UMMAGUMMA appalled me, and I was disappointed to find that this soundtrack is generally along the same lines.
The opening "Cirrus Minor", with its lyrics softly spoken over a background of synthesizer and bird calls, does portend great music. But from there we find only a succession of sonic noodling broken only by extremely weak rockers ("The Nile Song", "Cymbeline"). Some of the songs, like "Quicksilver" sound like sketches for something more substantial, and they may well have functioned well in accompanying the visuals of the film, but I can't manage to get much enjoyment out of this soundtrack album at all. I'd say pass this by unless you are a Pink Floyd completist.
Smooth And Hazy 
2009-11-14 - It's almost midnight and my girl is asleep. I just found an original, mint U.S. pressing of this album on vinyl at a used record store and am now giving it a spin. I can honestly say this is an excellent nighttime album.......the music is best heard when by yourself and in an introspective mood.
This is an excellent album, despite the fact that I hated it when I first heard it. Then again, when I first attempted to listen to this years ago, I put it on right after playing the first live disc of Ummagumma. None of these songs really capture the same level of energy of those live versions of "Astronomy Domine" or "Careful with That Axe...." In any case, there still is not a weak moment on this album if your in the right mood. The only real weakness if that there is no cohesion between all the great moments on the record.....it swings from British folk to avant jazz in the blink of an eye. But the individual moments are great......"Green is the Color" is a beautiful folk ballad with some very nice acoustic work from Gilmour that is a precursor to "Wish You Were Here." "The Nile Song" is a rip roaring rocker with an abrasive sound that is just great. "Main Theme" shows them at their early avant garde best (this one could have been on "Saucerful of Secrets").
This is not Pink Floyd's best album but it certainly isn't their worst. It's a picture of a band experimenting and attempting to find their sound following Syd Barrett's departure and it is great. If you like their early sound and are in the mood for some moody British pop with some very dark Sun Ra jazz lurking around every corner then don't hesitate to buy this album!!
Pink Floyd More 
2009-08-24 - Phillip Snyder summed it up as best as I could ever have. Bought this album from the dollar reject rack and listened to it. Hit and miss with the good music on it. Listened to 25 years later and loved it. This was after I had gotten to know more abouth the band and where they were at at the time. Do a doob, put on the phones and enjoy. Seriously not recomended for anyone under 50. :)
Excellent
2009-08-12 - This is part of that "other" Pink Floyd you buy, after The Wall, Wish You Were Here, and Dark Side of The Moon. Until Darkside broke Floyd in 1973, they were a cult band, and still deciding their sound.
More is one of three soundtracks they did for Europian art films during their gestation period. (The other two are Obscured by Clouds and Zabrisie point) This is filled with psych organ experments, some jazz, and Floyd's best hard rock, "The Nile Song." If Pink Floyd had remained an art band with a small following, this would have been one of their staples.
I like the loose, uncertian expermentalism of 1967-72 Pink Floyd. The sounds were smaller, but the scope of their work was larger: more styles versus more streemlined.
Obviously, with Dark Side of The Moon, Rodger Waters wanted to get the band into American private jets and arenas as opposed to driving around England in a tour truck with Henry Cow and Soft Machine. Smart artsitic and career move. Who can really blame him, especially when Floyd's music remained solid after Dark Side.
But being a cult digger, I'll throw in with the young underground Floyd. More is ample reason why.
Disappointing Remaster 
2009-07-01 - I just bought this remaster of a very good overlooked work.
Overlooked for a reason - horrible sound quality.
From what I can tell not much attention was paid to the remastering.
Sound levels are still all over the place from cut to cut. Still making it impossible to listen to this without having the remote in hand the entire time. Worse of all, the cult fave The Nile Song sounds even worse than the original CD. This cut is a horrible recording to begin with (I doubt this was recorded at Abbey Rd studios). The remaster only brings out even more distortion and the bass (once deficient on LP) now overwhelms the cut and everything else on the remaster.
Using my trusty old Roxio 5, I manually altered the sound levels from cut to cut (#8,9,12 and 13 didn't need any enhancing) and instead of using the remastered Nile Song - I used the cut from the original CD and boosted the volume a little to make everything fit. Only now I can put down the remote when listening to it.
If you were thinking of getting this I would wait for yet another remaster and maybe then they will get it right.
