Pink Floyd have been known to perform and/or record a number of songs and instrumentals which have never been officially released on a single or album.
Pink Floyd recorded the song at a concert at The All Saints Church Hall in London, England, on 14 October 1966.
[10] It features the original lyrics which were altered for the released single at the suggestion of Waters,[7] allegedly due to concerns about the acceptability of drug references, and the song can be found on bootlegs like "Feed Your Head".
The instrumental backing track was completed by Pink Floyd but the master tapes for the song most likely were erased.
[17][16][18] The discrepancies in the title stem from Roger Waters' misheard stage announcement on the poor audience recording of the show.
[19] A demo from the "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" sessions, as mentioned in David Parker's book Random Precision, a guide to the recordings of Barrett.
It was revealed that it was a song written and sung by Billy Butler, and Pink Floyd was used as the backing band.
At the time, David Gilmour had been asked to join as a fifth member and second guitarist, while Barrett, whose mental state was creating issues with the band, was intended to remain home and compose songs, much as Brian Wilson had done for The Beach Boys; however, this idea was soon abandoned.
However, as soon as the others attempted to join in and learn the song, Barrett changed the melodies and structure, making it impossible for the others to follow,[22][23] while singing the chorus "Have You Got It Yet?"
[26] In early 1968, Pink Floyd recorded several instrumental tracks to be used in the soundtrack to the Peter Sykes film The Committee, starring former Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones.
Syd Barrett had originally been approached to record music for the film, but his solo attempt was deemed to be unusable.
Per Glenn Povey's The Complete Pink Floyd, studio notes show Take 1 as 2:54 in length.
Per Glenn Povey's The Complete Pink Floyd, studio notes show Take 1 as 3:00 in length.
[28][29][30] The melody of the opening of the verses provided the chorus of "Your Possible Pasts", from the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut.
It began appearing in live shows in early 1970, initially along with a couple other Zabriskie instrumentals ("Heart Beat, Pig Meat" and "The Violent Sequence") that were soon dropped.
Early bootleg appearances list the song as "Oneone", sometimes thought to be a misspelling of the mythological character, but more likely a phonetic tip of the hat to Zabriskie Point's director Michelangelo Antonioni.
It is a very avant-garde piece, with eerie piano playing by Wright and scatting by Waters, reminiscent of the sounds on "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict".
Written by Waters, the song is about the bad experience Pink Floyd had after agreeing to appear in magazine advertisements for a French soft lemon drink called "Gini" originally from Perrier.
At one point, it was considered that a soundtrack LP should be released containing music heard in the obscure science fiction film The Committee, for which Pink Floyd recorded a handful of seemingly untitled instrumentals (and to which The Crazy World of Arthur Brown contributed the song "Nightmare").
Although bootleg soundtracks (both vinyl and CD) have been released by fans, the fact that the total running time of the material merely fills one side of an LP shows that this may not have been a commercially viable idea.
In 2011, a document[citation needed] was found regarding a scrapped Zabriskie Point soundtrack LP consisting entirely of Pink Floyd's score (much of which was rejected from the final film).
Following the success of The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd were unsure of their direction and worried about how to top that record's popularity.
Returning to their experimental beginnings, they continued a project entitled Household Objects, which would consist of songs played on hand mixers, rubber bands stretched between two tables, wine glasses and so on.
"[38] Two tracks – "The Hard Way" and "Wine Glasses" (the latter incorporated into the opening of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond") – were released on the Pink Floyd reissues in September and November 2011 on The Dark Side of the Moon (Immersion Box Set) and Wish You Were Here (Experience Version and Immersion Box Set), respectively.
In 2001, Simon Reynolds of The Wire described Household Objects as "a gambit that would have surpassed in advance PiL's Flowers of Romance, ATV's Vibing Up the Senile Man, Nurse With Wound, not to mention Matt Herbert.
"[39] Open Culture compared the project to similar found sound works, such as those from John Cage and composers of musique concrète.
The Final Cut developed into a new concept album based in part around rewritten versions of The Wall outtakes.
From 2004 onwards, Waters decided to incorporate the song into future CD pressings as the fourth track of the album.
In the 1990s, the engineer Andy Jackson edited unused material from the Division Bell sessions, described by Mason as ambient music, into an hour-long composition tentatively titled The Big Spliff.
[43] Part of The Big Spliff was used to create Pink Floyd's fifteenth and final album, The Endless River (2014).