Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
An evening pause: The link calls this the official video, remastered in 2011. The style and look of the filming however fits the 1960s to a T.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
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Whoops!
BBC must have pulled down this version in just the past few weeks, cuz I downloaded the file in April.
Nifty little Floyd tune, harkens back to a simpler time in some respects, excepting the whole “lose your mind today..” motif, har.
(There were some other lower-quality & edited versions at youtube, no clue how vigilant the copyright-police have been.)
Unfortunately, I am on the road, so fixing this is difficult if not impossible. Oh well. If you can find this video on youtube and post the link as a comment, I might be able to fix the post. At a minimum this will provide people access to it.
I think this is an alternate link to Pink Floyd – See Emily Play.
That’s the song, but it isn’t the video that Wayne suggested. The video was a very 1960s avant-garde type surreal film, far better than this production which just shows the band hamming it up on a grassy field.
Have to try it on a VPN.
Don’t have one set up here but maybe I’ll have a chance in a few days.
Looks like the BBC has scrubbed them all —the particular version in question— off of youtube.
mpthompson:
Thanks for your effort!
If you notice, for the version you found, is the exact same background location for a number of short WHO videos, from that same time period.
Mitch S:
>Go for it!
Not sure if it’s just blocked in the USA, or “everywhere.”
Pink Floyd probably the best non-metal band ever, ‘See Emily Play’ http://lyricsmusic.name/pink-floyd-lyrics/relics/see-emily-play.html fantastic song from a classic album.