Single and Songs
The album's only single was "There's No Way Out of Here" which flopped in Europe, but the song is still played on US FM radio today, on stations with an AOR or classic rock format—stations most likely to play Pink Floyd. The song was originally recorded by the band Unicorn (then titled "No Way Out of Here") for their 1976 album Too Many Crooks (Harvest Records, US title Unicorn 2), which Gilmour produced. The song was also covered later by New Jersey stoner metal band Monster Magnet on their Monolithic Baby! album.
One unused tune he wrote and demoed at the time would evolve, via collaboration with Roger Waters, into Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" from The Wall. However, a song included on this album, the piano ballad "So Far Away", uses a chorus progression not unlike the chorus to "Comfortably Numb", albeit in a different key.
A slightly different version of the song "Short and Sweet" can also be found on collaborator Roy Harper's 1980 album, The Unknown Soldier. Musically, "Short and Sweet" can be seen as a precursor to "Run Like Hell" (also from The Wall), with its shifting chords over a D pedal point, using a flanged guitar in Drop D tuning.
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