They arrived in Rome to start recording in November ’69.Īntonioni’s 1966 movie Blow-Up had been a clumsy portrayal of Swinging London, and Zabriskie Point was a drama about US student radicals fighting ‘the man’, blowing stuff up and having lots of sex. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni had commissioned Pink Floyd to score his next film, Zabriskie Point. Then Funky Dung kicks in and it’s back to fucking jam time.An album that ended with a cow in a field in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire began more than a year before in Rome. Maybe that cow is the connection between our present and our future. We’ll see something like the cover to this album and we’ll too get this tingly feeling, that maybe there’s more to it than just being a far cry from their previous album covers. Maybe one day, if our species survives, we’ll look back on this time and think to ourselves “is this really the way an intelligent species conducted their world?” Maybe then we’ll be long gone from Earth, long passed will be the days where we cultivated cows for food, or dug mines for coal, or destroyed rainforests for wood. And the wearing down of the strings symbolizes things such as famine, disease, the power hungry leaders looking for personal gain over species-wide preservation, the destruction of our planet through use of fossil fuels, and everything else trying to bring us to a fall. Food, water, energy sources, habitable land to live upon, etc.
In fact, it is we that are the marionette, and Earth is the master, and the strings are these few vital resources that we supply ourselves with.
Only the strings are old and thin, and some of them are already broken, and some of them were never attached to begin with. We’re so reliant on things we think we have control of, but our control is akin to the strings on a marionette. Because if things like the cow, or oil, or clean water were to disappear, our society would collapse. And that it’s the cow that is truly the master, or say the mother, to our world. Almost like all of human society is based around consuming resources, and the genetically altered cow is a symbol for those resources that we consume at alarming rates and using immoral tactics to obtain them. But if I’m ever listening to the title track at night, in the midst of the Mother Fore choir section, looking at that cow gives me this dark tingly feeling.
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