Pink Floyd – Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast

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Rise and shine
Oh, uh, me flakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, toast
coffee marmalade, I like marmalade, porridge any cereal
I like all cereals, oh God

Sunny side up
(Breakfast in Los Angeles, macrobiotic stuff)
Morning glory

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"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise and Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning Glor" as written by Mason Gilmour

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    General Comment:Amazingness.
    Flag XNeverMindon April 03, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Screw Mornibg Glory seeds that is not what the floyd means. Pretty sure they had enough acid and reefer that the didnt want to waste a day on pussy morning glory seeds.... Trip for reals guys
    Flag acidlevel36on October 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This 3 part suite was always an offbeat favorite of mine from this LP, though the band never gave it high regard. I like the gentle acoustic strumming with long delay and ambient background noises. Similar to Grantchester Meadows in regards to the concept. Use of background tapes and "theater rock" performances were part of the group's signature around this period. This piece amounted to not much more than a space-filler, IMO, to complete the 2nd album side for a timely release. Atom Heart Mother was their featured song, Dave's Fat Old Sun was strong contender, throw in a soft ballad from Roger (If), an OK effort from Rick, IMO, (Summer '68), and a struggle to come up with 10-12 minutes to close out the album. A relentless touring schedule didn't allow much time for inspiration.

    There hadn't been much to say about the track by the Floyd, since the piece didn't really deserve mention. One band member's comment was that the idea seemed to come from a bit of stage antics when Roger was throwing potatoes about and they made tea during a show. Also stated that this came off quite well on stage, but didn't really translate on LP. Given the band's history, this was almost certainly during a performance of "The Man and the Journey", performed during the previous year, in 1969. The third section of "The Man" has the band take a tea break on stage, and this idea must have carried on a bit to form this musical interlude for the closing few minutes of the LP. Incidentally, fast forward to Roger Waters 2006-2007 shows, during which he has most band members sit down for a card game during the effects section of Sheep, when most of them would have just been standing around waiting for the next musical verse to kick in.

    Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast was actually performed live for a few gigs right at the end of 1970, when there was an attempt to continue this theater experience developed during "The Man" performances. One or several band members fumbled about on stage making breakfast in between the spacey, long delay guitar strumming by Gilmour. This made it onto one boot recording from 12-22-1970 for historical preservation, and sounds quite mellow and nice. Apparently, not the direction the band wanted to go, and subsequent attempts of this bit were dropped heading into 1971, as they started putting together what would become "Echoes" in the studio.
    Flag jmkoonson March 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It's about Alan. Having Breakfast. It happens to be psychedelic.

    Also, the reason the LP version repeats infinitely at the end is because it has a lock-groove.
    Flag Wallamanageon November 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Were Not*
    Flag TrippinBillieson April 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Seriously, watch live at Pompeii and then tell me Waters, Gilmours, Mason, and Wright were under the influence of some serious psychadelics
    Flag TrippinBillieson April 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I love "Atom Heart Mother" album. I always loved each section of this song. I usually ignored most of the breakfast parts, but it is quite unique in a way.
    Flag Ummagumma69on March 05, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone who thinks that early Pink Floyd is not LSD influenced, is shall we say... a bit naive? LOL just watch Pompeii they are freaking wrecked throughout. And what about good old Syd? But then again anyone who has never taken LSD has no clue anyway. I'd advise trying it sometime before taking the dirt nap.
    Flag Watcher2on December 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:hmm. i've had friends take morning glory and precede to puke all over my apartment. maybe if i'd fed them a hardy breakfast first that wouldn't have happened. plus you should shave off the outside of the seeds, that's the worst part.
    Flag kara d.on November 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Man, this is the most un-psychadelic song in the entire album

    It sounds more like a balad... boo!
    Flag phasetransitionon July 21, 2007   Link

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