See Emily Play

Glad I remembered this video, a few years after I first saw it on the BBC’s Seven Ages of Rock series. A brilliant rendering of the English psychedelic aesthetic, the video is the song in visual form, a blend of the bucolic and the bizarre. This is Pink Floyd at their best; like many others I prefer the experimental pop of their early work to the comparatively measured sensibility they later exhibited. "See Emily Play" and their albums up until roughly Ummagumma have much more character than the stilted social commentary of their prog rock output.