Talk:Let There Be More Light

Gibberish!
Here's the beginning of the article, as it stands today:

"'Let There Be More Light' is the first song on Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets and seems a sarcastic commentary on the more common perception of the '60s movement which spawned them, or a key figure in that movement. The reference to 'the mighty ship' might be best understood by comparing the Jimi Hendrix song, 'Up from the Skies', probably a metaphor for something else, not a spaceship, seeing as how the song later mentions 'Lucy in the sky'."

Not a lick of sense, does this make! And what little I can interpret appears to be POV or original research. --63.25.99.176 (talk) 16:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Waters singing lead? I think not.
"The first, gentler vocals are performed by Richard Wright with David Gilmour whispering, the following, harder refrain by Roger Waters."

I challenge the statement that Roger Waters sings the loud section ("Then at last the mighty ship..." and so on.) It sounds like Gilmour. A rough Gilmour, true, but it's him. It's a very powerful vocal, and Waters didn't develop his singing voice to that extent until Wish You Were Here.

In fact, the above quote contradicts the rest of the article. I think the writer just mixed up Waters and Gilmour, so I'm going to reverse them. That way, even if the article's wrong, it'll be uniformly wrong. --63.25.99.176 (talk) 16:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Obvious misunderstanding of 'influences'.
Whoever put this:

Roger Waters' bass riff is notably similar to The Chemical Brothers' 'Block Rockin' Beats' and 'Coup' by 23 Skidoo. The riff is nearly identical to alternative rock band Placebo's 'Taste in Men'.

Obviously doesn't know that this song was recorded in 1968, more than twenty years before any of the songs that are said to have influenced this one. The way the author words it, they seem to imply that Waters stole the song from these other artists.

I believe that I will omit this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sivishankari (talk • contribs) 20:32, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I don’t think there’s any implication in that quote that the riff was ‘stolen’ by Waters. Assuming that a reader of the article has a brain, it should be fairly obvious that the Pink Floyd track considerably pre-dates the other songs. I think it’s perfectly relevant for that information to be in the article and it should be restored. I’m going to put it back in (at some point, maybe) and attempt to make it a little more idiot proof. I do think, however, that 'Block Rockin' Beats' and 'Coup' is actually a sample of the latter used in the former so that's a kind of tautology there. Decampos (talk) 08:39, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Mysterious references
I'm familiar with Hereward. But what about the rest?
 * Mildenhall
 * Carter's father
 * Rhull
 * Hereward the Wake

"Carter's father saw it there and knew the Rhull revealed to him"

To me, this sounds like an H.P. Lovecraft story. Does anyone know?

Varlaam (talk) 02:37, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Try doing some research on that, as I've never got those lines either. 08:55, 26 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.180.107.42 (talk)

Pip Carter ran the band's lighting rig and was a friend of theirs from Cambridge, so he's one of a whole bunch of Cambridge references in the song.Chebghobbi (talk) 11:30, 24 January 2012 (UTC)