Pink Floyd - More, Soundtrack From The Film 12" Vinyl LP Album

- French 1978 reissue: the soundtrack where calm beauty meets sudden teeth

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A heat-haze orange sky hangs over a purple-blue shoreline where two small persons walk toward a tall windmill. The scene looks solarized, like a film still baked in chemicals, with the title “MORE” punching through the lower right.

Pink Floyd's "More" didn't smash the charts like the later stadium-sized monsters, but it mattered: a 1969 soundtrack that proved the post-Barrett band could still conjure worlds, not just wobble around in "experimental" fog. It sits at that late-60s psych-to-prog hinge, before they started selling you walls, where airy acoustics and uneasy drones share space with sudden grit. Drop the needle and you get sea-salt calm turning into a bad dream—"Cymbaline" floating, "Green Is the Colour" glowing, then "The Nile Song" barging in like a drunk amp stack. Hipgnosis gave it the right hazy stare, and crate-diggers still swear by it; the French reissue is a sweet, quiet flex.

"More" Album Description:

I always forget how strangely human "More" feels until I pull it from the shelf. Not the mythic, monolithic Pink Floyd people argue about at parties. This one is scrappier. Sand-in-your-shoes Floyd. And the 1978 French reissue (Columbia 2C 066-04096) makes that feeling even sharper, like you can smell the printing ink and the seaside drift off the sleeve.

Barbet Schroeder brought them a rough cut and they did what Floyd did best in that era: watched, timed scenes, then built sound in a hurry. Nick Mason later reckoned they were paid about £600 each for the work, which tells you everything about the scale of the job and nothing about the ambition. You can hear the deadline in the grooves. It moves, it darts, it shrugs, it lands.

The real hook for me is how "Cymbaline" refuses to stay “soundtrack-only.” It lived onstage into late 1971, complete with the band slipping off while the room filled with footsteps and door-slams. That kind of theatrical mischief doesn’t come from a committee meeting. It comes from a band still enjoying the prank.

Hipgnosis did the cover, lifting a film moment and twisting it in the darkroom until it looks like heat haze turned into colour. Then you get to the vinyl: that blue-gradient Columbia label staring back at you under the lamp, very French, very SACEM, and very much not Harvest. I like that. It’s a tiny visual argument with the “official” Floyd story.

And yes, "Made in France" matters to collectors, because collectors are like that (I include myself, obviously). But the bigger point is simpler: this record isn’t trying to be polite or perfect. It’s a bunch of ideas thrown into motion while the band was still learning what they could get away with. If you want neat and monumental, you already own the later albums. This one just grins and keeps walking.

References

Music Genre:

Psych, Acid, Prog Rock, Movie Soundtrack
 
Production Information:

The soundtrack was composed by Pink Floyd. The band was given £600 and complete ownership to all of the material for their work, and some of the songs on the album were still in their live set list by 1971. 

Album Production: 

Movie directed by Barbet Schroeder.

Produced by Jet Films. Starring Mimsi Farmer and Klaus Grunberg,

Music composed and performed by Pink Floyd .

Album cover by Hipgnosis. All Titles published by Lupus Music

  • Hipgnosis – British album cover art design group

    Hipgnosis is my favorite proof that a record sleeve can be a full-on mind game, not just a band photo with better lighting.

    Hipgnosis is the legendary London-based art design group that turned rock sleeves into visual myths. The core duo, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, were childhood friends of the Pink Floyd inner circle in Cambridge—a connection that allowed them to bypass the stiff mandates of EMI’s in-house design department in 1968. Their debut, "A Saucerful of Secrets," was only the second time in EMI history (after The Beatles) that an outside firm was granted creative control. The very name "Hipgnosis" was a piece of found art; Syd Barrett, during one of his more enigmatic phases, scrawled the word in ballpoint pen on the door of the South Kensington flat he shared with the duo. Thorgerson loved the linguistic friction of it: the "Hip" for the new and groovy, and "Gnosis" for the ancient, hidden knowledge. While Peter Christopherson later joined as a third partner in 1974, that initial Barrett-endorsed moniker defined a decade of surrealist mastery for bands like Led Zeppelin, Genesis, and 10cc, before the group dissolved in 1983.

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    Record Label & Catalognr:

    Gradient light to dark blue Columbia 2C 066-04.096 (06604096)

    Columbia is printed from the center hole to near 3 o'clock

    EMI and HARVEST Logo's are missing on the record label

    Media Format: 12" Vinyl LP Gramophone

    Year and Country:

    1978 Made in France
    Band Members and Musicians on: Pink Floyd More
      Pink Floyd Band/Musicians
    • Roger Waters
    • Roger Waters – Bass, vocals, songwriter

      Roger Waters is the guy I blame (politely) when a Pink Floyd song stops being “spacey vibes” and starts staring straight through you with lyrics that feel like a courtroom cross-examination.

      Roger Waters is, to my ears, Pink Floyd’s razor-edged storyteller: bassist, singer, and the main lyric engine who pushed the band from psychedelic drift into big, human-scale themes. His key band period is Pink Floyd (1965–1985), where he became the dominant writer through the 1970s and early 1980s, before leaving and launching a long solo career (1984–present). After years of public tension, he briefly reunited with Pink Floyd for a one-off performance at Live 8 in London on 2 July 2005—basically the musical equivalent of spotting a comet: rare, bright, and gone again. Since the late 1990s he’s toured extensively under his own name, staging huge concept-driven shows that revisit Floyd classics like "The Dark Side of the Moon" (notably on the 2006–2008 tour) and "The Wall" (2010–2013), because apparently subtlety is not the point when you’ve got something to say.

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    • Richard Wright
    • Richard Wright – Keyboards, vocals

      Richard Wright is the secret atmosphere machine in Pink Floyd: the guy who can make one chord feel like a whole weather system, and then casually add a vocal harmony that makes it hit even harder.

      Richard Wright (born Richard William Wright) is, for me, the understated genius of Pink Floyd: co-founder, keyboardist, and occasional lead vocalist whose textures are basically baked into the band’s DNA. His main performing period with Pink Floyd runs from 1965 to 1981 (including the early albums through the massive arena years), then he returned as a full member again from 1987 to 1994 for the later era tours and albums. In between those chapters, he didn’t just vanish into a fog machine: he released a solo album, "Wet Dream" (1978), and later "Broken China" (1996), and he also had a proper side-project moment with Zee (1983–1984), which produced the album "Identity" (1984). He passed away in 2008, but his playing still feels like the part of Pink Floyd that makes the air shimmer.

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    • Nick Mason
    • Nick Mason – Drums, percussion

      Nick Mason is the steady heartbeat I always come back to in Pink Floyd: the only constant member since the band formed in 1965, quietly holding the whole weird universe together while the rest of the planet argues about everything else.

      Nick Mason is Pink Floyd’s drummer, co-founder, and the one guy who never clocked out: his main performing period with Pink Floyd runs from 1965 to the present, and he’s the only member to appear across every Pink Floyd album. Outside the mothership, he’s had a very “I’m not done yet” second act: in 2018 he formed Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets (2018–present) to bring the band’s early psychedelic years back to the stage. He’s also stepped out under his own name with projects like the solo album "Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports" (released 1981), which is basically him taking a left turn into jazz-rock just to prove he can. And yes, he was part of that blink-and-you-miss-it full-band moment at Live 8 in London in 2005, when the classic lineup briefly reunited and reminded everyone why this band still haunts people.

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    • David Gilmour - Guitar, Vocals
    • David Gilmour – Guitar, vocals

      David Gilmour is the voice-and-fingers combo I hear whenever Pink Floyd turns from “spacey” into straight-up cinematic: he joined in 1967 and basically helped define what “guitar tone with emotions” even means.

      David Gilmour is, for me, the calm center of Pink Floyd’s storm: an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose playing can feel gentle and devastating in the same bar. His earliest band period worth name-dropping is Jokers Wild (1964–1967), before he stepped into Pink Floyd in 1967 as Syd Barrett’s situation unraveled. From there his main performing era is Pink Floyd (1967–1995), including the post-Roger Waters years where the band continued under his leadership and released "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987) and "The Division Bell" (1994), with a later studio coda in "The Endless River" (2014). Outside Floyd, he’s had a long solo run (1978–present) with albums ranging from "David Gilmour" (1978) to "Luck and Strange" (2024), and he even did a sharp side-quest in 1985 with Pete Townshend’s short-lived supergroup Deep End. And for one historic night, the classic lineup reunited at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London on 2 July 2005—one of those “you had to be there (or at least press play)” moments.

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    Complete Track Listing of: Pink Floyd More
    1. Cirrus Minor
    2. The Nile Song
    3. Crying Song
    4. Up the Khyber
    5. Green is the Colour
    6. Cymbaline
    7. Party Sequence
      Side Two:
    1. Main Theme
    2. Ibiza Bar
    3. More Blues
    4. Quicksilver
    5. A Spanish Piece
    6. Dramatic Theme
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