Point Me at the Sky
While making dinner last night I was listening to the first cd of a 4 disc Pink Floyd retrospective called Total Eclipse. I got it many years ago and it attempts to use unreleased (live, studio, etc) versions of as much of
the music as possible as well as hitting a lot of the really obscure stuff. The first cd is the earliest stuff, startin around 1965. There's a song on it calld Point me at the Sky that is described as follows at the above link:
Point Me At The Sky (Waters) Their fifth single, released on December 17th, 1968 was produced by Norman Smith. It failed so badly in the charts that the Floyd did not release another single until "Another Brick In The Wall - Part II" in 1979. The promotional film for "Point Me At The Sky" features the Floyd flying in a yellow biplane, and photos from this promo film appear on the double compilation album "A Nice Pair". As he did with "Apples and Oranges", Roger Waters defended the song, blaming its failure on the poor production.
There's a line in the song that goes "and if I survive till 2005..." I'd never really noticed it before as 2005 approached and was left behind but Syd Barrett's death last week made it really stand out. The song is done by Roger Waters but I still found it very poignant.
Shine on, Syd.
