Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49346 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-18
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Colour, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, PAL, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 53 minutes

DVD Description
The band have long since dismissed the album as a disaster, but for many fans Ummagumma is the true essence of Pink Floyd. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Bob Harris and drawing extensively on rare television footage of the Pink Floyd in performance of material from Ummagumma this powerful and penetrating film brings together the impartial and forthright views of the band and insiders such as producer Norman Smith and sleeve designer Po Powell, contrasted with the views of a leading team of critics and working musicians. Step outside the sanitised world of official releases and take along hard analytical look at the Pink Floyd legend. This hard-hitting film critique pulls no punches and deals frankly with the thorny issue of the overall quality of the work of Pink Floyd in the late sixties and re-opens the debate surrounding Ummagumma. In order to ensure editorial freedom the film has not been censored, viewed or approved by past or present management or members of Pink Floyd. This is the long awaited critical review of the album, featuring rare live performances alongside analysis from a leading team of rock journalists and critics. Features rare archive performances of Interstellar Overdrive, Astronomy Domine, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Saucerful Of Secrets and Grantchester Meadows .

Customer Reviews

ITS A DOCUMENTARY
ONLY ONE HALF OF A DOUBLE ALBUM.LITTLE MUSIC MOSTLY TALKING.IF YOU HAVE AN HD PLAYER .ITS CRAP.

Am I the only one...
who thinks they went to hell starting with the 3,000 years in the top 200 album charts, DSOTM?
It is insane to adopt a 'now were grown up-that 70's prog music is a disaster' attitude
THAT MUSIC was a document of the times-and thus valid-further-it was very much more non commercial than DSOTM.
They DID become boring, I dont care how many how many pyramid/prism-ed tee shirt adults scream "Heresy!"
I remember the halarious scene where I played UMMAGUMMA to someone weaned on DSOTM and after-they nearly freaked out.
Sure DSOTM got them from a step-van, herbal tea and brown Rice to 10o foot long-all the comforts of home Tour Buses, Champagne and Caviar, 100-hectare countryside spreads with 30 room mansions, and a different coloured Rolls Royce for each day of the week.
-all the while writing songs about the trials, tribulations and the horrors of being multimillionaire rock stars. Ironic
But I stopped taking them seriously at DSOTM-. Some later albums came close-but lets face it-they became one of the many bands tied to a record -per year contract-even if they have nothing new or original to say.
Certainly THE WALL had nothing NEW to say-we knew the educational system was nothing but a machine way back in the late 1960s. It took PF well into the 1980's to discover this?

Very poor documentary
Very poorly botched documentary where 60% of this 53 minutes video is spent on opinions not related with the album. It seems that the producer tried to fill in time since they had not much to say about the album. The rest of the video is spent on stating that the album was bad and nothing more than a prelude before Pink Floyd became Commercial and Boring.

Funniest thing is that, of the 8 songs analyzed on this dvd documentary, only 3 are actually on the Ummagumma album. Even worst, the 3 songs presented during the discussion are not the ones present on the album, but earlier versions. Nothing is said about the intricacy of the cover or where the live section was recorded, nor how and why the studio section was composed in such in that fashion. It would seem that the producers at Sandbeach Studios, Nassau simply didn't do their homework.

Now, if this album was that bad, how come Pink Floyd basically played it Live from 1969 up to November 1971 (including the Pompei DVD and a dozen of published bootleg cds), up to the release of the Meddle album.

Don't waist your time, don't wait your money, don't even rent it.
All unanswered questions can be found on the Pink Floyd archives.

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