The Nile Song

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"The Nile Song"

Single by Pink Floyd
from the album Music from the Film More
B-side(s)	Ibiza Bar
Released	1969 (Europe, except UK)
Format	7"
Recorded	March 1969
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:26
Label	Harvest
Writer(s)	Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Point Me at the Sky" (1968)	"The Nile Song" (1969)	"One of These Days" (1971)
Music from the Film More track listing
"Cirrus Minor" (1)	"The Nile Song" (2)	"Crying Song" (3)

"The Nile Song" is the second song from Pink Floyd's 1969 album More. Many consider it one of the band's few flirtations with hard rock, along with the 1979 track "Young Lust" (from The Wall) and 1983's "Not Now John" (from 1983's The Final Cut). It is written by Roger Waters and it is one of the few Pink Floyd's songs not featuring any keyboard. The track "Ibiza Bar" in the same album reprises almost the same theme.

Some people even refer to this song as the first metal song. Its having of metal elements (such as loud vocals, driving drums and riff, and it also has that little extra edge) and the time period for which it came out have people considering this song plus Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to be the first showings of real metal.

The Nile Song was covered by the Necros on their 1986 album Tangled Up, by Dreadnaught on their 2002 One Piece Missing EP and by Voivod on their 1993 album, The Outer Limits.