Take Up Thy Stethoscope..., the most reviled song in the Pink Floyd catalogue. The one song on their debut album Piper At The Gates Of Dawn not penned by Syd Barrett. I have no idea why no one likes this song. I personally love it, it's definitely my favorite song on the album.
Texans At The Drive-In covered it during a session at the BBC in 2001, and while it seemed fairly bland at the time, it's only gotten more interesting with time since it's in many ways a precursor to the realms singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-López would soon explore in their current band The Mars Volta.
In the much proggier and looser The Mars Volta they've more or less made it their specialty, especially in a live setting, to play song with a fixed and rehearsed opening, a wild jazzy free-form jam session in the middle, and then back to a fixed ending, as opposed to the more rigid and dull At The Drive-In.
A formula that's rather predictable in its unpredictability but it works for them.
(mp3) Pink Floyd - Take up thy stethoscope and walk (1967)
(mp3) At The Drive-In - Take up thy stethoscope and walk (2001)
2 comments:
These cover posts rock Brother David! I've gone through them all now and my favorites are the Nirvana cover of "Seasons In The Sun" and At The Drive-In Floyd cover. But all of them are pretty cool. This must have taken some great research to hunt these down. Good work and good blogging!
-David
Always glad to be at your service. :)
But I have admit these posts have required little to no research on my part, these are just covers that I've accumulated over the years and always wanted to share.
- Le Grande Snusgrop
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