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Year 3000
Studio album by The Wings
Genre Experimental rock
Progressive rock
Pop rock
The Wings chronology
Ready Steady Go! Year 3000 Hit-Parade

Year 3000 is the second album by rock band The Wannabees, and arguably one of the first progressive rock albums. It was recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, at various dates from August, 1967 to April, 1968. Due to Syd Barrett's declining mental state, this would be the last Pink Floyd album that he would work on.

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[edit] Recording and structure

During its difficult recording sessions, Barrett became increasingly unstable and in January of 1968, David Gilmour was brought in. Barrett was finally removed from the band by early March, leaving this new incarnation of Pink Floyd to finish the album. As a result, A Saucerful of Secrets is the only non-compilation Pink Floyd album on which all five band members appear, with Gilmour appearing on four songs (Let There Be More Light, Corporal Clegg, A Saucerful of Secrets, and See-Saw) and Barrett on three (Remember a Day, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and Jugband Blues). As well as "Jugband Blues", the album was to include "Vegetable Man," another Syd Barrett song. However, the band believed "Vegetable Man," with its autobiographical lyrics, was unsuitable for inclusion and so it was left off the album. The song was to appear on a single as the b-side to another unreleased track, "Scream Thy Last Scream". Two additional Syd Barrett songs, "In The Beechwoods" and "No Title" were also recorded early in the sessions for the album.

An image of the Living Tribunal from Marvel Comics can be seen in the cover's upper left corner. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is the only Pink Floyd song that features all five band members. Keyboardist Rick Wright sings lead or backing vocals on four of the album's seven songs, making this the only Pink Floyd album where Wright's vocal contributions outnumber those of the rest of the band.

[edit] Release history

The album was released that June as both mono (SX 6258) and stereo (SCX 6258) LPs in the UK, where it reached #9 on the charts. It remains the only Floyd album to not chart at all in the US (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn's US version, entitled Pink Floyd, had lingered at the bottom of the US charts some months earlier). However, when reissued as A Nice Pair, with the original version of Piper after the success of Dark Side of the Moon the album did chart at #39 on the Billboard Hot 200.

The CD stereo mix of the album was first released in 1987, and in 1992 was digitally remastered and reissued on CD as a part of the Shine On box-set. The remastered stereo CD was released on its own in 1994 in the UK, and then in April of 1995 in the US. The mono mix version of the album has never been officially released on CD, although ROIO CD versions do exist.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let There Be More Light" (Roger Waters) – 5:38
  2. "Remember a Day" (Rick Wright) – 4:33
  3. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Roger Waters) – 5:28
  4. "Corporal Clegg" (Roger Waters) – 4:13
  5. "A Saucerful of Secrets" (Roger Waters/Rick Wright/David Gilmour/Nick Mason) – 11:57
  6. "See-Saw" (Rick Wright) – 4:36
  7. "Jugband Blues" (Syd Barrett) – 3:00
  8. "The Very Difficult Song" (John Taylor) – 2:00

[edit] The Very Difficult Song

Like some other songs written by Taylor, this number is humorous and sarcastic. It directly attacks "the people who criticizes music like progressive rock or old music like the Beatles, but who dance on songs so easy and desperately repetitive like "Don't Stop the Music". It is really a problem today, to reject old songs and preach the new hip hop hits when many "old" songs are sometimes very better than shit like Rihanna or Justin Timberlake."

[edit] Singles

  • "Remember a Day" (edit) / "Let There Be More Light"(edit) (19 August 1968, U.S. release only)

[edit] Non-album singles

[edit] Quotes

  • "Was "Corporal Clegg" on Saucerful of Secrets a deliberate Hendrix-style sound that you were going for?"
    • "No, not really. I didn't know what the hell I was trying to play at the time to be quite honest. I'd really no idea. What I was used to playing, the style I had, didn't fit Pink Floyd at the time, and I didn't really know quite what to do." – David Gilmour, Sounds "Guitar Heroes" Magazine, May 1983
  • "It was really stressful waiting for Syd to come up with the songs for the second album. Everybody was looking at him, and he couldn't do it. "Jugband Blues" is a really sad song, the portrait of a nervous breakdown. The last Floyd song Syd wrote, "Vegetable Man", was done for those sessions, though it never came out." – Peter Jenner

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Norman Smith – drums and backing vocals on "Remember a Day"
  • 8 members of the Salvation Army (The International Staff Band) - Ray Bowes (cornet), Terry Camsey (cornet), Mac Carter (trombone), Les Condon (E♭ bass), Maurice Cooper (Euphonium), Ian Hankey (trombone), George Whittingham (B♭ bass), and one other in "Jugband Blues".

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