Unreleased Pink Floyd Material
The titles on this alphabetic list has NOT been released officially by Pink Floyd / band members.
BALLAD
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett
solo project (1974).
BLUES
Syd Barrett 1974 (?)
Syd Barrett recorded at least 3 versions of a blues, probably meant for
a third solo-album. Only on bootleg.
BLUES IMPROVISATION
Pink Floyd 1971
A Pink Floyd blues, performed at the bands concert in Falkonerteatret,
Denmark, September 25, 1971. A recording from the concert was made and
has been released on the bootleg albums:'Copenhagen' and 'Live In Denmark'.
Pink Floyd has performed quite a few more or less improvised blues songs,
which can be hard to differ.
CHOOKA-CHOOKA CHUG CHUG
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
CORROSION
Pink Floyd 1970
(Instrumental)
'Corrosion' was originally part of The Violent Sequence. 'Corrosion' is only to find on bootlegs. The Bootleg recordrings 'Circus Days' and 'Paradox' - both origin in illegal recordings from Royal Albert Hall February 6, 1971.
COUNTRY BLUES
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
DRIFT AWAY BLUES
Pink Floyd 1977
Improvised Pink Floyd blues played live and only available on bootleg recordings.
DON'T ASK ME WHAT I Say
Jokers Wild 1965
This song was released as a (very) limited single together with 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love' from the band Jokers Wild in 1965. Jokers Wild was Gilmours pre-Pink Floyd band together with David Altham, Clive Welham, Tony Saint, Wilie Wilson and Johnny Gordon.
I gave you all of my lovin
Everything I could
Now you say you don't love me
Well there's no reason why you should
But baby don't ask me what I say
Don't talk about it
You make my heart feel sad
Don't ask me what I say
Cause I might tell you
It was a low down trick
A low down trick
I must admit it (Don't you ask me)
You never told me no lies (Don't you ask me)
But you told me no truth (Don't you ask me)
Hey baby that you can't deny
Now girl don't ask me what I say (I don't know)
Don't talk about it (I don't know)
You make my heart feel sad (Don't you ask me)
Well don't you ask me what I say (I don't know)
Cause I might tell you
It was a low down trick
A low down trick
I asked my brother (Don't you ask me)
Will you tell me true (Don't you ask me)
What will you say (Don't you ask me)
If your woman done the same to you
You said don't ask me what I say (I don't know)
Don't talk about it (I don't know)
You make my heart feel sad (Don't you ask me)
Don't ask me what I say (I don't know)
I-iii might tell you
It was a low down trick
A low down trick
Early Morning Henry
Info coming
EXPERIMENT / SUNSHINE
Pink Floyd 1967
Non-released instrumental track from the 'Piper'-sessions.
FAST BOOGIE
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
FINGALS CAVE
Pink Floyd 1969
(Instrumental)
'Fingals Cave' was written for the film 'Zabriskie
Point', but not used. The track was recorded and has been released
on various bootleg albums ('Ahcid Atthak!', 'The midas Touch', 'Omay Yad'
a.o.).
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IF YOU GO, DON'T BE SLOW
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
Incarceration of a Flower Child
Roger Waters 1968
The song 'Incarceration of a Flower Child' is an old Pink Floyd song demoed in 1968, but never recorded by Pink Floyd. The song is written by Roger Waters but only released in a version by Marianne Fathfull in 1999. Waters plays the bass on her recording of the song. The song is apparently about Syd Barrett. Part of the verse tune and words (Do you remember me) were reused by Roger Waters for the chorus on Your Possile Pasts.
Do you remember me ? how we used to be helpless and happy and blind ?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap wine ?
Laying on the living-room floor on those indian tapestry cushions you made
Thinking of calling our first born jasmine or jade.
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.
You wouldn't listen, you thought you knew better, you just to had to speak to that man.
Please believe me, I'll visit whenever I can.
Laying in your little white room with no windows and three square sedations a day,
You plead with the doctor who's running the show,
"please don't take jasmine away and leave me alone."
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.
Do you remember me ? how we used to be helpless and happy and blind ?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap wine ?
Now in your little white room with no windows and three square sedations a day
You plead with the doctor who's running the show, "please don't take jasmine away and leave me alone."
JOHN LEE HOOKER
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
JUST BEFORE YOU DISAPPEAR
Officially unreleased, but can be heard on the bootleg: Melk Weg.
MERRY X-MAS SONG
Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics/Music: Nick Mason
Christmas song performed at a BBC-show in December 1975. The song was
performed by Nick Mason, recorded and
can be heard on the bootleg 'Survivor'.
MILLIONAIRE / SHE WAS A MILLIONAIRE
Pink Floyd 1967
Lyrics/Music: Barrett
The song was in July 1967 announced as the next single from Pink Floyd.
But the band was not satisfied with it and it was not released. Syd Barrett
recorded it again for a solo album in 1970, but again it was not used.
ONE IN A MILLION / RUSH IN A MILLION / BRUSH YOUR WINDOW
Pink Floyd 1967
Lyrics/music: Waters or Barrett(?)
Unreleased song. Performed live in at Star Club, Copenhagen September 13, 1967.
Would you like to be one in a million?
Would you like to be one in five?
Would you like to know all the hidden meanings?
Before they tell you that you've run out of time
Would you like to be one in a million?
Would you like to be one in five?
When they tell you that you ain't going nowhere
When they tell you that you can't live your life
ONEONE
Pink Floyd 1969
(Instrumental)
'Oneone' was composed for 'Zabriskie Point', but didn't make it to the final soundtrack. 'Oneone' can only be heard on bootleg albums ('Ahcid Atthak!', 'Omay Yad' a.o.). .
OPENING TUNE
Pink Floyd 1967
...was obviously the opening tune at some Pink Floyd performances in 1967. Can be heard on bootleg recordings from Starclub, Copenhagen September 13, 1967 ('Mystery Tracks' and 'With/Without').
OVERTURE
Pink Floyd 1982
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Recording music for the film 'Pink Floyd - The Wall', Roger Waters composed an overture like the The Who's overture for 'Tommy'. The plans were changed again and the song was probably never recorded.
PINK BLUES
Pink Floyd 1971
Can only be heard on bootleg recordings. The bootleg albums 'Circus Days' and 'Paradox' were both recorded in Stadthalle Offenbach, February 26, 1971.
POEM by Roger Waters
Roger Waters, summer 1993
The poem below was written by Roger Waters. According to interviews he was inspired after reading the book "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy. Waters did not make music for these lines.
There is a magic in some books
That sucks a man into connections with
The spirits hard to touch
That join him to his kind
A man will seek the reading out
Guarded like a canteen in the desert heat
But sometimes needs must drink
And then the final drop falls sweet
The last page turns
The end
Not so with you my wife
My love, my life
I do not have to seek you out
I read you day and night
And drink and bathe
And share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows
From that distant age
And we will never
Taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page
RAIN IN THE COUNTRY / COUNTRY RAIN
Pink Floyd 1969
Based on The Narrow Way.
This version was originally made for Antonionis film 'Zabriskie
Point' - but not used in the final version. The original studio recording
has been released on the bootleg albums: 'Ahcid Atthak', 'The Midas Touch',
'Omay Yad' and 'Tower Of Babel'. The song is probably also the same as 'Unknown Song' released on the '2CD edition of Zabriskie Point'.
ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT
1966
Lyrics/Music: Barrett
The song has not been released.
With yellow, red and roomy food, and quivered
crouching on a golden cushion
undressed himself to disappear
through an infinity of pleasure
and smiled to free the running me
with "Am I my brother's keeper?"
his meek hand on devils gloves
shaping running blood.
The prophecy, to ricreate the truth
in visions of a seasonal mood
in truth, the only sight he saw
lay hidden in the bathroom door
and spat on the rug
as high is high, so low is low
and that's the end of it.
SINGING A SONG IN THE MORNING
Kevin Ayers 1969
Syd Barrett recorded a guitar track for this Kevin Ayers song in November 1969, but it seems that his contributions were left out of the final mix. Originally the song was known as Religious Experience.
SLOW BOOGIE
Syd Barrett 1974
Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).
STANLEY THE SIMPLETON
This song defeanitely sounds like an unreleased Syd Barrett song from the Pink Floyd period, but it is most likely a fake. The song has circulated as an mp3 file on the web. Original source unknown.
Stanley the simpleton
He's not to blame
Never be a genius
And it's quite a shame
Stanley the simpleton
Simpleton ways
Simpleton mind and
Simpleton brain
STONED ALONE / STONED AGAIN / I GET STONED
Lyrics/music: Barrett
Pink Floyd 1966
Could be the first song Syd Barrett wrote
for Pink Floyd. It was recorded as a demo in Thompson Private Recording
Studio, 1966. The song can be found on the bootleg: 'Stoned Alone', recorded
in Starclub, Copenhagen, September 13, 1967. The song later changed into
Let's Roll Another
One/Candy And A Currant Bun
UNTITLED WORD
Syd Barrett
Lyrics/music: Barrett
Can be heard on the Barrett bootleg 'Melk Weg'. Could be an early version
of 'Word song' (?)
THE VIOLENT SEQUENCE
Pink Floyd 1970
(Instrumental)
'The Violent Sequence' is a instrumental piece on with a duration of almost 20 minutes. It was made for the film 'Zabriskie Point', but not used. It was played live for the first time in Birmingham February 11, 1970. You can recognise parts of several songs, including 'Heart Beat, Pig Meat' and a part called The Riot Scene which would later become 'Us And Them'. Another part of the song was later played live and called: 'Corrosion'.
The recording of 'The Violent Sequence' can be found on the bootleg:
'Violence in Birmingham'.
WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE
John Lennon, the Beatles 1968
'What the New Mary Jane' was an unreleased Beatles song untill the release
of Beatles Anthology 3. An early version was titled 'What's a Shame Mary
Jane'. Beatles and Pink Floyd were both recording in the Abbey Road Studios
and it sounds like Syd Barrett had more
than a little influence on this song.
WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
Jokers Wild 1965
This song was released as a (very) limited single from the band Jokers Wild in 1965. Jokers Wild was Gilmours pre-Pink Floyd band together with David Altham, Clive Welham, Tony Sainty and Johnny Gordon. If you should have this single in your collection you could probably earn a good sum of money. See also 'Don't Ask Me Why'.
YOU're the reason why
Richard Wright 1965
Music and lyrics: Wright
Very early song by Rick Wright which was released as a single B-side by a band called "Adam, Mike & Tim".