Sound Track from the Film "MORE" Album Description:
Pink Floyd's "Soundtrack from the Film More" is one of those 1969 records that still feels slightly illegal to own in polite company. It is the band stepping into the post-Syd world with both feet, no training wheels, and a soundtrack brief that basically says: "Make it beautiful, make it bleak, make it move." Collectors love to mythologize it, sure, but it also did something simple and real - it put Pink Floyd in the UK Top 10 and proved they could build atmosphere on command without turning into background wallpaper.
Released in the UK in June 1969, it was written for Barbet Schroeder's film "More" - sun on Ibiza, romance turning sour, and that slow drift into heroin trouble. The music doesn't narrate the plot like a tour guide. It hovers, nudges, punches, then backs away with a smirk.
Sonically it is a gorgeous mess in the best way: airy and pastoral one minute, then suddenly it is boots-on-the-floor loud. "Cirrus Minor" opens like warm haze through a cracked window. "The Nile Song" comes barging in with teeth. "Cymbaline" is the late-night comedown, all unease and echo, the kind of track that makes you check the room even when you're alone.
The band produced it themselves (with Norman Smith usually sitting above it as executive producer), and you can hear that freedom - quick decisions, strange textures, little left turns that would never survive a committee. Some pieces feel like they were sketched fast and left gloriously unpolished. Good. A soundtrack like this should not sound overworked.
Collector's note: the fun part is how many countries ended up with their own sleeve variations - a small rabbit hole, if you're the kind of person who thinks that counts as a relaxing evening. I do.
Bottom line: "More" is Pink Floyd before the monument-building years - still human-sized, still curious, still willing to get a little ugly for the sake of a mood. And if that bothers someone who only wants "classic albums," well... they can go buy a poster.
