Candy and a Currant Bun
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| Song by Pink Floyd | ||
| Released | March 11, 1967 (UK) April 24, 1967 (US) |
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| Recorded | January 29, 1967 Sound Techniques Studios, London February 27, 1967 EMI Studios, London |
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| Genre | Psychedelic rock | |
| Length | 2:38 | |
| Label | Columbia (UK) Tower (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Syd Barrett | |
| Producer(s) | Joe Boyd | |
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| Arnold Layne (A) |
"Candy and a Currant Bun" (B) |
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"Candy and a Currant Bun" was the B-side to Pink Floyd's first single, Arnold Layne. It was performed live in 1967, and known as "Let's Roll Another One" before the record company forced Syd Barrett to rewrite it without the controversial drug and sex references.
This song contains several recurring elements from Barrett's Floyd output: childhood images (often associated with the girl/woman to whom the lyrics are addressed), here placed disturbingly alongside unusually explicit sexual come-ons (such as the verse "It's true, sun shining very bright/ It's you who I'm gonna love tonight/ Ice cream tastes good in the afternoon/ Ice cream tastes good if you eat it soon"), and apparent references to Barrett's own mental state ("I'm feeling frail") which increase their intensity throughout the song.
Like other Pink Floyd songs from this period like "See Emily Play," it features an intense instrumental section in the middle which shares little musically with the parts of the song before and after it.
It is interesting to note that when Syd re-wrote the song due to the controversial nature of the original version, he replaced the verse "please just walk with me" with "please just fuck with me" making it an early occurrence of "fuck" in a hit single (even though technically, this side of the single was not a hit).
