The Floaters

20 December 2008

The Floaters made a few fantastic full LP’s in the seventies. I am particularly fond of Float Into The Future. No complete albums have been reissued on CD as far as I can tell, just a few OK comps.

The group’s best known track remains “Float On”, a song which if I was to believe everything my computer tells me, went to #2 in 1977. They edited a 11 + minute album track to a radio single edit and scored. Very impressive. Equally impressive is this video of “Float On”, which is actual live footage of them, not lip-synched. And thanks to their nebulous effects tastefully employed, they appear to be actually “floating”. They are not though – you cannot dance that good on a cloud. I have tried.

Ralph, Charles, Paul, Larry…….

also, a vinyl shop in London playing the 12″ version: