The Nile Song
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| "The Nile Song" | |||||
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| Single by Pink Floyd from the album Music from the Film More | |||||
| B-side | Ibiza Bar | ||||
| Released | 1969 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | March 1969 | ||||
| Genre | Hard Rock Heavy Metal | ||||
| Length | 3:26 | ||||
| Label | Harvest | ||||
| Writer | Roger Waters | ||||
| Producer | Pink Floyd | ||||
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| Music from the Film More track listing | |||||
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"The Nile Song" is the second song from Pink Floyd's 1969 album More. Many consider it one of the band's flirtations with hard rock, along with the 1979 track "Young Lust" (from The Wall) and 1983's "Not Now John" (from 1983's The Final Cut). It is written by Roger Waters and it is one of the few Pink Floyd's songs not featuring any keyboard. The track "Ibiza Bar" in the same album reprises almost the same theme. Andy Kellman of All Music Guide describes "The Nile Song" as "one of the heaviest songs the band recorded".[1] The harmonic progression gives a strain of modulations, beginning at A, and then going through eleven different keys, ending on G sharp.
"The Nile Song" was covered by the Necros on their 1986 album Tangled Up, by Dreadnaught on their 2002 One Piece Missing EP and by Voivod on their 1993 album, The Outer Limits.
[edit] Personnel
- Roger Waters – bass
- David Gilmour – electric guitar, vocals
- Nick Mason – drums and percussion
- Richard Wright – handclapping and additional vocals
[edit] References
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