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I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, that's the dog, was outside.
Well, I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, my old hound, was outside.
Well, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound just sat right down and cried.
Seamus, that's the dog, was outside.
Well, I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, my old hound, was outside.
Well, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound just sat right down and cried.
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Track duration: 02:15
"Seamus" as written by Wright Waters
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When Meddle was recorded there were no CD's. It was planned out as a vinyl LP. Bands like PF that liked the songs to flow together had to use the last song on side one as an ending to side one. I'm an old geezer so I listened to this album for years that way before I got the CD and I always thought Seamus worked great as an ending to the first side of the album. Just as Great Gig in the Sky was a great ending for side one of DSOTM. Then you had to flip the album over for side two. And the first song on side two had to be a strong opening song. So they planned out the albums more like two halves than one complete album.
Unlike most Floyd songs, I don't think Seamus has any real meaning at all. Just a cool ending for the first half.
As for what it means, for me it is an image. An image that creates a feeling that I really love.
Either the dog howled a perfect blues, or they wrote a perfectly natural-sounding blues to fit a recorded howl, or they spliced and pitch-shifted a recording of a dog to form a blues solo while leaving it sounding as if it had come naturally out of the dog's mouth (without getting pitch-shifted or off-timed guitar sounds into the mix). So there's an air of mystery, and just the suspension- of- disbelief fact of a song that plays as if a dog had sung a blues. I'm not sure what more you need out of a song.
Wolf and dog packs howl in chorus, with quite finely tuned harmonies, and Nick Mason's book "Inside Out," while apologizing for the song, says that Seamus had been trained "to howl whenever music was played," and that "It was extraordinary." If Seamus truly just barked and howled that thing along with the guitars, that is something that had to be documented.
This was in 1971, the days of analog magnetic tape, not digital signal processing and sampling keyboards. I don't hear any evidence of slowing down or speeding up. One spot might be a splice. Obviously the producers of Meddle knew some tricks with a tape deck, but...?
Listen one more time and tell me either you don't hear what I mean, or if you do, how it happened.
I mean I only like the songs, "A Pillow Of Winds" and "Echoes". The other songs are all the same. Especially, "Fearless" and "San Tropaz". I thought that the album was always boring sometimes.
"Seamus" was all kinda messed up. It had a slow arcoustic blues guitar playin' with David Gilmour's short slow lyrics. And his voice is really quiet. You can hear the barking louder than the vocals. It's kinda one of the strangest songs of their's in my opinion. And the song is only like, two minutes and fifthteen seconds.
This is probably the second worst song of their's i've heard yet.
All in all this song alone is rediculously cute though
It is kind of boring for me and i always skip right over it. Floyd has done a lot better on this single album and i don't even think it really should be their.
Id give it a 4/10 just becuse it gets stuck in my head quickly and i think it might be able to grow on me, BUT i dont think id let that happen, we not now at least....
(in a few months ill probably regret this post!! )