A Saucerful of Pink (2 CD edition)

This is a very unusual collection of tracks by not-so-well known bands covering the Floyd catalogue. There are some people who say don’t bother with this, because the selections permutate too far from the originals, but this is not (!) a copy disc. These are only offerings from a variety of recording artists who have obviously been influenced by Pink Floyd’s music. The material succeeds to different degrees, but without exception, every track is interesting, whether one actually likes what they hear or not. And look at the names of these performers: EXP, Pressurehead, The Electric Hellfire Club, Alien Sex Fiend, Penal Colony, Psychic TV, etc…some of this is WAY out there. If you want different, you can’t go wrong here.

Some of these tracks take the classic Pink Floyd audio experience to a different level, like the version included here of “Wots..Uh The Deal,” the original simply a nice-sounding song played on basic instruments, no flourishes, and it adds a surreal quality that could have been done by Floyd themselves if they had chosen to do so.