Pink Floyd
A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd's second album the critic called mediocre
Released in the UK on 28 June 1968. A contemporary hostile review, alongside chart results with their dates.
The verdict at the time
Miller dismissed A Saucerful of Secrets as 'not as interesting as their first' and 'rather mediocre', finding the post-Barrett material boring and routine, the title track 'psychedelic muzak', and concluding Pink Floyd rested its reputation on 'a music of effects'.
Chart peaks
European positions are listed by country. Later chart entries are labelled separately.
Sources & context
One critic's opinion, summarised from Jim Miller's original Rolling Stone review of 26 October 1968. The album marks the transition from the Syd Barrett era to the David Gilmour era in Pink Floyd's history and is now recognised as a key document in the band's evolution from psychedelic rock to progressive rock.
