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Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor (1969)
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Originally published at YouTube on July 1, 2015, deleted by me later, and then re-published at YouTube on May 18, 2017.

"Cirrus Minor" was originally released in June 1969 as the first track on the album "Soundtrack from the Film More." More itself, directed by Barbet Schroeder, became a popular cult film in the 1970s due to the fact that the entire soundtrack was recorded by Pink Floyd and also because of the story's counterculture appeal. I watched the film several times on all night weekend Canadian television back in the late 1970s (during what was still a pre-cable TV period in our region). The soundtrack LP was the third studio album by Pink Floyd. For those who did not see the film around the time of its 1969 release and shortly after, both "Cirrus Minor" and track two, "The Nile Song," later appeared on the Pink Floyd compilation Relics in 1971 to the delight of many (this fan included). Written by Roger Waters, with vocals by David Gilmour, Richard Wright shines on this song, using two different organs, a Hammond and Farfisa, the latter lending to a surreal, slightly eerie effect through echoing. The song is pastoral, evoking themes of Nature, but with an overall surreal quality unlike later Pink Floyd melodies of this kind. In my video I apply both definitions of "pastoral" as I can hear strong elements of both.

PLEASE NOTE: this was rejected at Dailymotion today and I discovered a stolen copy of this video by someone named Pink has been there for four years ... perhaps as long ago as when I originally uploaded it to YouTube on July 1, 2015. It may have been stolen the same day for all I know. Later I deleted it from YouTube when Pink Floyd blocked all their early music from being uploaded for over a year. When they allowed their early music to be uploaded again, I uploaded it once again to YouTube on May 18, 2017. I can't accuse the thief of stealing my video because I can't claim copyright ownership of it because it uses copyrighted material (music and visual footage, when visual footage is not public domain). So I can't make a counter-notification that my video has been stolen. And of course I can't complain to YouTube as they unjustly terminated my account in August 2019.
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Rock
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60's, Montage, Retro, Classic rock, Space rock, Progressive rock, Collage, Psychedelic rock
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