The Gnome
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| Single by Pink Floyd from the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
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| A-side | "Flaming" | ||||
| Released | August 5, 1967 | ||||
| Recorded | March 1967 | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | ||||
| Length | 2:13 | ||||
| Label | Columbia (EMI) (UK) Tower/Capitol (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Syd Barrett | ||||
| Producer | Norman Smith | ||||
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"The Gnome" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. It was written by the band's first leader, Syd Barrett. After the first few seconds that fade out of "Interstellar Overdrive," the song tells the tale of a gnome named Grimble Gromble. It appears on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
The song also appeared on the b-side of the U.S. Pink Floyd single "Flaming" (Tower 378). This single was never released in the U.K.
[edit] Alternative and Live versions
The British actor Nigel Planer recorded this song under the name and pretext of Neil, his character in the UK sitcom The Young Ones, in 1984. It appeared on his eponymous Heavy Concept album.
[edit] Meaning and Themes
The concept for the song was originally directed towards Aldous Huxley's reported DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) usage. The visions he frequently saw under the drug's influence were Gnomes. Pink Floyd's songs with these overtly drug-suggesting themes like this were later credited to the rise of psybient music artists such as Shpongle.
[edit] Personnel
- Syd Barrett - Acoustic guitar, lead vocals
- Roger Waters - bass
- Nick Mason - percussion
- Rick Wright - vibraphone, backing vocals
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