The Meddle Children: Pink Floyd’s Experimental Period｜Vinyl Monday
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Welcome everyone to the Vinyl Monday season 4 finale! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. To conclude season 4, I did a deep dive on the 4 studio albums of Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett, pre-Dark Side of the Moon period: Ummagumma (released 1969,) Atom Heart Mother (1970,) Meddle (1971,) and Obscured By Clouds (1972.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
research – 2:25
the man – 5:32
and the journey – 8:12
Ummagumma – 19:00
Atom Heart Mother – 54:13
Meddle – 1:36:50
Obscured By Clouds – 2:16:59
final thoughts – 2:50:10
thanks for watching! – 3:01:02
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@abigaildevoe
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
thank you for 4 incredible years of Vinyl Monday. it may have been a sh(kazoo)tshow, but it was OUR sh(kazoo)tshow. what albums do you want to see on Vinyl Monday season 5? comment below!
@stevemosco1375
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
you haven't truly lived until you've made yourself and your loved one breakfast while listening to Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast.
@Nikki-l5p9y
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
It was Roger who needed his bass tuned for him, and sometimes played for him, and I think the “whales” you are referring to are seagulls. Also, I didn’t think you liked Animals.
@chuckschillingvideos
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
These albums are NOT unloved, at least not unloved by me and many others.
@DjNikGnashers
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
I'm a long time floyd fan.
I always saw 'Meddle' as a bit of a bump in the road, I wanted to love it, but no matter how hard I tried to get into it, I just never 'loved' it. Apart from Echoes, that was mind blowing.
I thought the earlier Syd period was fantastic. Not the ultimate in production or sonic perfection, but the raw ideas and concepts were just ground breaking. Piper and Sourcerful were brilliant, Umma was good but one side was a bit of a chore, Relics, atom heart not my favourite but still good, and Syd's solo releases echoe'd this sound, which I also loved. More was a bit lame.
The post Meddle period was different but 'peak' post Syd era, the absolute best. Obscoured by clouds, Dark side, Wish you were here, Animals, even the later Momentary, all fantastic. Echoes era for me was the very best.
Then 'the wall', oh dear. I didn't like it, and still don't. Final cut was disappointing for me, division bell boring, pulse and anything after I have not enjoyed.
@MarkNicholson1977
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Thank you. Ive had to watch this in four lumps (together with listening to each album as has become my VM tradition) today (October 27) marks my 2 year VM anniversary. Again Thank you
@veryexciting
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
I keep hearing “Um a Gum a” and being confused, I remember Dave called it that and Roger called it “ooom a Goom a”
@veryexciting
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
This thumbnail is chef’s kiss
@romerocarvalho6712
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
the best reviews ever 🙂
@celestialteapot309
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
We were too young for umaguma in 1969, but we embraced the record with as much enthusiasm as we embraced actual ummaguma a few years later. I lived in Cambridge in 1976, unfortunately, my girlfriend at the time didn't think umaguma in Grantchester Meadows was a very good idea. Thank you for making an old man very happy.
@personanongratis
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
I like Several Species!In fact I put it up there with Echoes!
@Poseiden2
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Am I the only person on planet Earth that doesn't mind 'Seamus'? Not among the band's greatest achievements (like its immediate successor on 'Meddle', which I saw Nick Mason's band perform live recently), but in this era of everything being expected to break a glass ceiling' it was the first dog song to actually feature a canine on vocals and cleanses the palatte. Love 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' too, a far cry from the doom and gloom of later records – it was even performed live!
@mbacko1
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Wow, impressive episode. I'm definitely going to give Obscured by Clouds another chance. I'm a huge fan of More and Meddle, and I love Piper and Saucerful, but I generally neglect AHM and U. I'll have to revisit. If you choose to go down the rabbit hole on the movies of Pink Floyd you should see if Steven Wilson will talk to you about Pompeii. He just remixed/mastered it and Pink Floyd is his favorite band.
@richardstaley1776
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
I have to disagree with you on several species. It's my favorite piece on the album. I love the aural texture.
@leomilani_gtr
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
I don't know what Floyd is thinking when they say they don't like Atom Heart Mother…
@geraldschwartz1302
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Quadrophenia.
@stevegibbs3943
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Absolutely brilliant. Love the thought of you can't have Dark Side without the journey through Ummagumma, Atom Heart, Meddle and Obscured. Hadn't thought of it that way
@stevegibbs3943
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Meddle review and story of you at college, just wow!
@LPerezDancer
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
HELUVA warp on your AHM copy Abby! Whadya have the tracking force set to, 5 grams?! .. I've always liked Ummagumma, both discs, since I first heard it in the 70s. AHM is ambitious but the b'fast track is obvious filler. Meddle is excellent of course if only for Echoes. I can do without Seamus and San Tropez. Obscured is a mixed bag… still evaluating 50 years later. I've been a Floyd freeek for 50 years and Abby, you've brought out trivia I had no idea existed! TY … "crustless pie"? you meant "not the corner piece" but still, props to a GenZ person who knows great Rock music! and I know what I'm talking about. I have 5,000 LPs and 3,000 CDs all from the 60s-80s; with thousands of DLs as well. WYWH is Floyd's last album as a functioning band until The Division Bell. Animals was the beginning of Water's ego-maniacal takeover.
@tatemcilwain1775
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
You don't need to be a musician to say insightful things about music. Even if you're a musician, the gig is still 50% listening. 50% listening and 50% playing.
@tatemcilwain1775
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
40:20 Everyone can inhale scream, you just have to get the right technique. It's not like rolling your Rs where some people can and some people can't.
@chrisvonhelmst9935
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
This was enough detail where I felt satisfied, but not so much where I tuned out. This great balance of info is one of the things which makes your videos great!
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