Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1968

I've already posted Pink Floyd stray tracks for 1967 and 1968. Then I posted an album of BBC performances from 1967. That's because BBC performances are so key for Pink Floyd in the late 1960s and early 1970s, due both to sound quality issues and the fact the band would play songs for the BBC they would rarely or never play in normal concerts. So I'm continuing that trend by posting an album of BBC performances from 1968.

As it so happens, all of the BBC performances from 1967 made up one normal length album, and it's the same for 1968. I love how nicely that works out.

Note that starting around this time, it can get confusing figuring out what Pink Floyd songs are what, due to the band using more than one name for a song. It some cases, they had an early name and then changed it to something else entirely by the time they officially recorded it. Whereas in other cases, they already had a recorded version, but then gave it a new name in order for it to fit into a new project, such as a concept album. Three of the songs here fit into either of those cases, so I've added the other names the songs are known as in parentheses in each title.

The first four songs aren't from the BBC, but are from a French TV show called "Bouton Rouge." It's basically the same though, because they were done live in studio, without an audience. You can find the video of the performances on YouTube. One of the songs, "Let There Be More Light," was also done later in the year for the BBC. Normally I don't like including two versions of the same song on one album, but for the sake of completeness I've included both versions.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
02 Flaming (Pink Floyd)
03 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
04 Let There Be More Light [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
05 Instrumental Improvisation (Pink Floyd)
06 Murderotic Woman [Careful with that Axe Eugene] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 The Massed Gadgets of Hercules [A Saucerful of Secrets] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
08 Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)
09 Let There Be More Light (Pink Floyd)
10 Point Me at the Sky (Pink Floyd)
11 Embryo (Pink Floyd)
12 Baby Blue Shuffle in D Minor [The Narrow Way, Part 1] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
13 Interstellar Overdrive [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)

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For the cover art, I found a publicity photo of the band in 1968. I'll bet Roger Waters would be chagrined to see himself in that fur coat. ;)