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Ypperlig psychadelica forut sin tid. Hvis 70-talls punk floyd hadde vært halvparten så lekne som dette hadde det kanskje ikke vært så jækla overvurdert
meh pink floyd hasn’t done much for me in this experience
Suffering an acute lack of tunefulness 2.5
Not a huge Floyd fan but kinda enjoyed this one. 3.5 stars
Forgettable, but not offensive.
Being groundbreaking for it’s time isn’t necessary condition for being a good album. 2/5
Bit too abstract for me Fave track: Matilda Mother
Pink Floyd’s first album is a bit of a blueprint of what was yet to come. A couple of outright nonsense tracks bring the score down a tad. 3.5/5
Psychedelic/acid rock that is interesting to listen to. Otherwise though, I'm not sure what to write about this one. This is the only Pink Floyd album where Syd had significant influence. You can hear what's to come, but you have to wonder what Floyd would have sounded like if Syd would have been able to stay with the band. This is not my favorite Pink Floyd album, but it's worth listening to.
Another album I've never heard of by an artist I consider one of my dad's favorites and with whom I thought I was familiar enough to recognize the titles or artwork of any of their albums. Listening to this, I can sort of see why I don't know it. I'm not a fan of long, psychedelic, structureless instrumentals. This is filled with them.
Het 1001-boek is best leerzaam. Zo leer je bijvoorbeeld dat Pink Floyd voordat ze van die toffe meesterwerken afleverden, eerst een album hebben volgejengeld met over het paard getilde piepjanknormuziek. Zittend op een eenhoorn zweeft men langs Saturnus, er klinkt een koekoek, en verder orgelt met wat ins Blaue hinein. Ik werd er zelf ook een beetje koekoek van, en dat kan nooit de bedoeling zijn van muziek.
Schrijf ik net over Fever Ray, dat ik er onder andere Pink Floyd in hoor. Krijg ik die ter toetsing gelijk de volgende dag op mijn bord. Eerder al wat albums van de band afgeserveerd wegens ontoegankelijkheid, maar ook een 5 aan hen uitgedeeld. Met name de meer toegankelijke rustige donkere klanken deden het voor me. Dus wat krijgen we deze keer van hen? Het blijkt wat meer toegankelijk, met soms een onaangename onderbreking a la de afgeserveerde albums. De bijzondere kenmerkende sfeer hoor ik deze keer maar weinig terug. Zonder het stukjes ontoegankelijk geklooi, zou het vaak net zo goed een andere band kunnen zijn. De zang op bijvoorbeeld Lucifer Sam zou net zo goed van tijdgenoten kunnen zijn. Dus tja, we hebben weer een overbodige 3 te pakken.
Het is dat er Pink Floyd boven staat, want anders zou ik dit niet herkennen als een Pink Floyd-album. Dit was natuurlijk het enige album met notoire mafklapper Syd Barrett en zonder het zoetgevooisde stemgeluid en dito gitaarspel van David Gilmour. En dat laatste is hetgene wat ik altijd het gaafste vind bij Pink Floyd, David Gilmour. Ik mis het hier gewoon. Sowieso zitten er niet echt liedjes in, het voelt meer als een grote, maffe jamsessie. Voor mij is dit veel te veel Syd Barrett en (uiteraard) veel te weinig David Gilmour. Ik merk dat ik meer fan ben van David Gilmour, dan van Pink Floyd. The Wall, waar Gilmour ook naar de achtergrond is gedrukt, vond ik ook maar matig. Stel je voor CCR met David Gilmour. En Pink Floyd met John Fogerty. Dan zou ik ineens fan zijn van CCR gok ik. Dit album is daarom niet voor mij weggelegd. Te oud, te gedateerd, te wazig. Leuk dat het het debuut was van een van de belangrijkste bands aller tijden en wellicht dat dit nodig was om hierna die pareltjes van albums en tracks te maken, maar dit is niet aan mij besteed. Zeker als je het dus vergelijkt met Dark side of the moon of wish you were here, dan geeft dit zoveel minder plezier, dat ik niet hoger dan 2 sterren kom.
3+ Stars (9/15)
syd barrett era lo mejor del pink floyd temprano y en verdad te hace preguntarte qué habría sido de ellos si el sid no se hubiera perdido en las drogas
Siempre quedará la duda si canciones como Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam e Insterstellar Overdrive fueron el techo de Syd Barrett o si dejó pendiente un prime musical. Dicho esto, aún así es un gran disco.
es de persona cool que te guste más el pink floyd de syd barrett que el pink floyd post-syd barrett. pero no soy así de cool. tal vez algún día lo sea. lo que sí, imagínate que la primera canción de tu primer disco sea astronomy domine, qué cabrón
So different from what was to come. A psychedelic rock tour de force. Favorite track: Astronomy Domine
The debut album of one of the most iconic bands in modern music. When this project gives me an album that I’m intimately familiar with, I usually use it as an opportunity for a fresh listen. However, in cases like this it is impossible for me to decouple the listening experience from personal nostalgia and the album’s historical importance. Piper at the Gates of Dawn creates a wonderfully bizarre mix of dark spirals into the abyss and whimsical jaunts into the fey. Either way, the imagery of just about every tune on the album is intense. There is no need for mind altering substances to embark on these musical adventures, but it certainly helps. For me, psychedelics were integral to breaking free of a repressive religious childhood and developing my own spiritual ontology. The album was an integral part of the soundscape of that metaphysical journey. Even today, this music resonates with my soul. Personal perspective aside, this is an essential album and is absolutely a listen that everyone should have at least once before they die. The album is not Floyd’s best, but it remains a classic that still holds up almost 60 years later. "I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house, I don't know why I call him Gerald, he's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse."
Pink Floyd has always struck me as a curious phenomenon — not so much the band itself, but its fans. Ever since I first encountered a devout Floydian in high school, I’ve noticed how absolute the devotion often is. For many fans, Pink Floyd doesn’t just sit alongside other great bands; it seems to eclipse them entirely, as if it offers access to some higher musical plane. And within that already select group there’s an even smaller inner circle: those for whom real Pink Floyd only exists with Syd Barrett. Approaching this album as something of an outsider, I have to say: this is a remarkably strong debut. Not quite perfect — it’s a little too chaotic and uneven for that — but it comes very close. And opening your first album with “Astronomy Domine” takes either enormous confidence or a certain level of madness. Possibly both. This record is psychedelia in its purest form. If someone asks what psychedelic music actually sounds like, you could do far worse than play this album. Barrett’s presence dominates everything, and knowing what would soon happen to him — his mental collapse under the combined weight of talent, pressure, and drugs — is sadly audible throughout. The music feels unfiltered, playful, experimental, and occasionally unhinged. There are plenty of highlights. “Astronomy Domine” is a phenomenal opener, while “Interstellar Overdrive” — an intense instrumental eruption — is one of the most unforgettable tracks here, even if it would have made more sense as the album’s closer. “Matilda Mother” is rich and melodic, “Pow R. Toc H.” flirts with jazz abstraction, “Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk” veers wildly between pop, surf, and psychedelia, and “Lucifer Sam” rides a wonderfully sly, almost James Bond–like guitar line. The album ends in near-chaos, and not entirely convincingly — another sign that this brilliance came at a cost. I don’t worship this record, but I absolutely admire it. It’s a fantastic debut, full of ideas and imagination, and one can’t help wondering what Pink Floyd might have become had Barrett remained healthy. Then again, it’s entirely possible that the band’s later, almost absurd commercial success only happened because they didn’t stay up that particular tree.
Good, but sometimes a bit crazy.
Very psychedelic.. interesting to see how they progressed in such a short time. Great album.
Crazy atmospheres to fall into, but not necessarily something to dance to. Partly reminds me of St. Peppers.
It’s always cool to the start of something legendary. I can hear them trying to figure out their identity. It’s crazy they went from this to what they did in the 70s. It started off cool for me then once they started getting deep into their experimental noises they lost me. Good effort just inconsistent.
Sure, it's essential. However it is not a 5 star album.
I love Pink Floyd but I do not really care for this album. I hate the nursery rhyme songs and I don't think Syd Barrett was that great. I like Bike I guess. There's a reason they only played astronomy domine and interstellar overdrive live once Dave joined. Lucifer Sam is cool too. But overall, I'm glad enough people liked it so that they could make better records.
I appreciate how weird this is showcasing Pink Floyd’s ambitions. That being said I don’t enjoy listening to most of it minus a couple tracks like interstellar overdrive, flaming. The opening track. Some of these tracks are straight up annoying like bike.
Boring
Too spacey n weird. Saved a song: N RYM: Y (#811)
I love Pink Floyd and I appreciate Syd Barrett but it’s not my favorite Pink Floyd era.
I'll probably lose some credibility as a "true" Pink Floyd fan, but I have never truly enjoyed the early works with Barrett at the same level as Gilmourean Floyd. Like I get that these early records were, on the whole, more experimental and genre defining, but they sound so much more a mess. This album in particular basically has two great songs -- Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive -- and a bunch of filler that have a mixed success rate. Among the better of the rest are Flaming (featuring some great psychedelic mixing), Lucifer Sam (which finds its greatest success in its looseness), and Take Up Thy Stethoscope (love the docta docta and jam session in the middle). And if I'm being completely honest, Bike has always been a goofy fun one that holds a special place in my heart. This is a tough one to land a rating for. As a whole album I feel like its messiness and spottiness drag it downward, but the space rock aesthetic of Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive are such powerful entries and the otherwise songs noted above are wonderful capsule entries in the psychedelic rock cannon. At some level I feel like a 4 is right, but more objectively I feel like this falls closer to a high 3 for me.
I have never even heard of this album, makes sense that it's a debut. Not my closest listen, but not exactly what I would expect out of Pink Floyd. Maybe that's why I haven't heard of the album. Definitely a bit more random/noisy in a way. All in all, not my fav, but there wasn't much wrong with it.
Think i've listened to this album before, if not fully then at least a good amount of songs. This is a wild debut album because it sounds nothing like the rest of the Pink Floyd albums I am used to. I would honestly think this was the Beatles if asked. Had some incredibly crazy trippy things happening all over the place. My headphones were going crazy too with the sound switching from right to left all of the time. I think I liked this? A lot of things were really good some was almost too weird for me though. Probably a lower 4
As much as I can recognize that Syd Barrett had genius capabilities especially at this point in the world, I've never been able to completely fall in love with this early Floyd. It's not bad at all, it just pales in comparison to 70's Floyd. That being said, I love Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam, and especially Interstellar Overdrive (top tier Floyd song). Pow R. Toc H. is psychedelic af. Didn't love the beatboxing or whatever at the beginning but ended up sounding similar to some early Grateful Dead. Interstellar Overdrive is just batshit and I love it. Beginning of Scarecrow sounds like Magenta Mountain. Bike was one of my first Pink Floyd songs I fell in love with as a child. Remember specifically putting it on my mp3 player to listen to it while I actually biked to friends houses. This album has some classic psychedelic sounding 60's rock songs that aren't necessarily impressive, but the standouts really lift this up to a 4 for me.
Very nice.
What did I just listen to? A weird record. Funky, groovy, abstract, challenging, uncompromising, unconventional, unique. Vast soundscapes to dive in and drown in. This album feels suffocating. I can’t really cope with this. I feel alienated.
This is NOT pink floyd bro what the fuck. Actually an insane album, like I know people love Syd Barrett but genuinely there's not even the glimmer of potential here. There were small moments I liked but goddamn this really wasn't it.
Recently listened to the entire Pink Floyd discography, a new album each day, I already know this album is terrible and they only got good in the early-mid 70s (and by good I mean amazing). The 60s are awful in general though and so is this.
As much as Pink Floyd improved by orders of magnitude in the coming years, their debut is still an unforgettable experience that has so many really cool moments and ideas.
I have a bit of an aversion to psychedelic music, but I was hoping Pink Floyd being cool could win me round. Unfortunately they're much better at being prog nerds than at doing this.
That was so much worse than I thought it would be - I’m glad they moved away from this sound
man I dont know what they were smoking but the one about Gnomes would require some serious substances
Not that much elevator music like usually comes from Pink Floyd. But anyway sounds dated to me and is sometimes on the edge to annoying.
Far out, man. I actually really love this album.
My relationship with Pink Floyd's music seems to get more interesting by the day. Back in the day when "Another Brick in the Wall" hit the charts, I found it to be a very weird and rather scary song, probably because of the video with the marching hammers. Today, the song is a favourite of mine, as is the entire album on which it belongs, and I have come to really like much of Floyd's music, after eschewing it for many years... But, I had never listened to their debut album until today. My verdict on this one? Truly awful, and while I imagine most of their albums will be in the four and five-star range in my ratings, this one is getting just one lonely star. I honestly think that Syd Barrett's departure is the best thing that could have happened to Pink Floyd.
I can't believe there are people out there giving this a 1 star rating and calling it rubbish, and things I won't repeat. I say - go and take something for that!!! IT's a FIVE star album you idiots! So much here that the band built on, from the very first song Astronomy Domine to the last, Bike. Syd was a crazy genius, and set the 'controls' for the rest of the band. 5 stars on a premier album! and they just got better and better!
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is, unequivocally, an album very much of its time. Everything, from the iconic kaleidoscopic cover to the studio production, arrangements, and performances, captures the atmosphere of 1967 right at the forefront of the psychedelic rock movement. Sonically, it’s like 1967 captured in a bottle. For listeners new to Pink Floyd, or those only familiar with their later, globally renowned work ("The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall"), this initial listen can be quite jarring, it is certainly an eclectic and uncompromising debut. Having owned a copy since the early '80s and grown up with it, I find that while it doesn't quite match the conceptual heights of those 1970s epics, it is undoubtedly a fine listen and a very good debut effort (4/5). For a complete picture, I'd strongly recommend listening to "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in conjunction with the 1971 compilation album, "Relics"; this collects the non-album 'A' and 'B' sides from the period, which contain some equally brilliant tracks that flesh out Syd Barrett's creative tenure, of which this was his only full studio album, though he did contribute, in part, to their second album "A Saucerful of Secrets" in 1968. Standout tracks were: "Astronomy Domine": A magnificent album opener and one of my favourite early Pink Floyd tracks. It instantly drops the listener into a space-rock vortex. It begins with the spoken word introduction, echoing a spaceship’s inter-communications system, before a descending guitar riff and Richard Wright's organ lead the way. It’s simply brilliant. "Interstellar Overdrive": Just wonderful, though certainly not for everyone! This is an essential avant-garde track and one of the best psychedelic improvisations ever recorded. Starting with a simple, memorable riff, it quickly dissolves into nearly eight minutes of sustained, improvisational noise, feedback, and sound manipulation. It’s daring, ground-breaking, and brilliantly captures the frenetic energy of their early live gigs. While this track might well deter a lot of new listeners, it will undoubtedly win over others. "The Gnome": The immediate shift to "The Gnome" is delightful; a gentle, musical nursery rhyme that follows the sheer cacophony of "Interstellar Overdrive". "Bike": Quirky, peculiar, and utterly whimsical. A love song of sorts. This closer describes a bizarre list of gifts (a bike, a mouse named Gerald, a cloak, gingerbread men) offered to a girl, culminating in the infamous sound collage of ducks, clocks, and swirling effects in the "room full of musical tunes." To my mind, the track is clearly inspired by the surreal humour and poetry of figures like Spike Milligan, quintessentially British! Side One 1 "Astronomy Dominé" (5/5) 2 "Lucifer Sam" (4/5) 3 "Matilda Mother" (4/5) 4 "Flaming" (3/5) 5 "Pow R. Toc H." (3/5) 6 "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (3/5) Side Two 1 "Interstellar Overdrive" (5/5) 2 "The Gnome" (5/5) 3 "Chapter 24" (4/5) 4 "The Scarecrow" (4/5) 5 "Bike" (5/5) Total - 45 Average - 4.09 164/1001 91/164 albums reviewed were new to me.
This is horrendously twee. The worst offender is the Gnome song, but it's far from alone. Interstellar Overdrive had brief moments that reminded me of bands I like a lot more, like Can, but lost me with the drastic left/right audio panning.
This sounds like that bit at the beginning of Spinal Tap when they're an embarrassing flower power 60s pop act for some reason.
Really boring, surprisingly. It's no wonder boomers had to be on another plane of existence to enjoy this kind of repetitive, uncreative psychedelia slop.
Why yes, this does sound like it was conceived by three architecture and one art student in the late sixties, how did you know?
The genius of Syd Barrett.
Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn isn’t just a great debut and classic psychedelic album. It’s the spark that helped ignite the entire Space Rock sub-genre. With “Astronomy Domine” and “Interstellar Overdrive,” the band took psychedelia and pushed it into uncharted, cosmic territory. The album’s swirling sounds, experimental noises, and other-worldly atmosphere laid the groundwork for spacey rock,, looking at you Hawkwind!! It’s quirky, strange, and endlessly imaginative—exactly the kind of bold first step that made Space Rock possible. Yes I love space rock!!
This was a slog of a listen. Maybe psychedelic rock is best experienced on psychedelics. And The Gnome and The Scarecrow sound like they belonged on a music for primary schoolers album which tracks with the origins of the record name.
Didn't like it as much as some of the other Pink Floyd records on the list.
This is a strange album, but that doesn't mean it isn't good. It's out there, spacey, and sort of all over the place, but I enjoyed listening to it.
Didn’t like
okay
Probably a 3, nothing too exciting
This managed to be both weird and boring at the same time. Weird, I can accept - boring, I can’t. Favorite: Lucifer Sam 3.5
Groovy, sounds too much like Spinal Tap for me to not to be able to hear the parodies while listening.
Good if you would be high on drugs I guess.
I enjoyed this debut album from Pink Floyd! Surprisingly this is a Pink Floyd album that I’ve never listened to before. It felt different than their other more intricate concept albums but I was still digging the psychedelic/space rock vibes that were prevalent and popular at the time. Overall, this isn’t my favorite Pink Floyd album but I would still give it a thumbs up and another listen in the future!
An early entry from Pink Floyd. Wnjoyable, but certainly before they hones in on their signature sound. Some good songs, a lot of interesting instrumental solos, and a lot of silliness sprinkled in.
Fav album of all time. Started my journey of being a psych rock fan just cause of this album.
Pink Floyd is ok but this album is stretching it as a must-listen.
This could be the most psychedelic album ever. Syd Barrett Pink Floyd is a different beast to the 70's prog outfit that most of us are familiar with. I'm tempted to get this, but have always been put off in the past, primarily because I don't know when I would play it. However, if 'Arnold Lane' and 'See Emily Play' we're on the track listing, rather than separate singles, this would be purchase material. Heard before ✅️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ✅️ Nearly ★★★☆☆ (6/10)
Not as good as their others but still very solid
Un gros classique de mes débuts en tant qu'audiophile amateur. L'expérimentation et l'écriture psychédéliquo-fantaisie m'avait vraiment impressionné à l'époque. Malheureusement, en le réécoutant aujourd'hui, je ne retrouve plus la même flamme qu'autrefois. Snif snif snif et tout ça
Not connecting with me
Psychedelia permeates the album. Heavy Syd Barrett influences. Always been a fan of Scarecrow from the relics album. Some of these songs really don’t hold up but the album would create a foundation for some of the greatest music ever created.
Not their best work
Definitely prefer Pink Floyd’s sound with David hilmour but RIP says Barrett
6/10 I can’t help but get a vibe of the performative ‘look at me, aren’t I weird’ about Syd Barrett, like a man playing the Blue Peter theme tune on two recorders up his nostrils as some kind of busking ‘performance art’ in a provincial town centre. He was obviously a troubled man, but I feel like he definitely leans into it and tries to be kooky. Perhaps his real troubles started when he leaned further into being the real life version of the character we hear on this album. Who knows? Anyway, on to the album. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. There were rarely moments that I hated, but there were certainly moments where it did step a little too far over the line into self indulgent farting around. There were a load of really great ideas spread across the album and when I felt the thread of a song managed to maintain itself while they played around with sound it worked really well. Some of the vocal harmonisation and sound design were of particular note and a lot of the studio work they obviously did on this brought great results across the whole album. It did, on occasion, feel a bit like they were trying loads of ideas to see what stuck, and at times that lead to some odd decisions, such as the strange panning choices and some vocal takes that clipped the levels in quite an unpleasant way. But as the album went on, I kind of felt myself drifting into the zone of the album and it started to get its hooks into me just a bit more, although never quite enough for the more jarring elements to throw a spanner in the works every now and then. This was certainly an interesting one to hear, particularly as it’s so far away from what Pink Floyd would become, but I doubt I’ll be hurrying back to it very often. Astronomy Dominé - This is quite meandering. It’s one of those tracks that has lots of build up, but never really reaches a destination. There’s a collection of somewhat decent ideas and moments in there, but they’re stitched together in a fairly incoherent way. Lucifer Sam - This has got a good bit of drive to it and actually lands on some decent hooks here and there. Although it does stray quite close to sounding like the soundtrack from a 60s spy tv show in places. The mix is all over the place, with some sections being incredibly unbalanced to the right channel, which is odd. There are some really cool bits of effects use here and there that add a bit of extra depth and range to the sound, which I appreciated. Matilda Mother - This is more of a folksy number. There are some nice vocal harmonies in there and some interesting rhythmic approaches. While things do wander off in slightly odd directions, there is a general thread that holds things more or less together, which helps with overall coherence. Flaming - This has another little edge of folk about it. I mean it’s also twee and kooky, but it feels performatively so. It’s too coherent to be completely mental, but they try and stray off the rails and do get a bit too self indulgent in the middle where it drifts away into almost random tinkling. At least they wrap it back together again at the end. Pow R. Toc H - Another oddly right balanced mix to start off. This is a drifting, meandering piece, that seems to be all about the vibe. I actually quite enjoyed this one and there felt like a bit more purpose to the psychedelic soundscapes and effects they were using. It was hardly a conventional song, but it was a pretty good experience nonetheless. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk - This feels like it straddles a sound somewhere between The Kinks and The Doors. It does wander off into little avenues, but it’s quite an enjoyable journey and it does feel like there’s a central thread that holds it all together and it doesn’t ever get too thin and erratic. Interstellar Overdrive - There are parts of this that are really great. When they get the pace up and build a swathe of sound, it can be satisfyingly yet almost terrifyingly all encompassing, but they do collapse into fragmented moments that are a tad wanky and self indulgent. It’s a fine line to tread and at times they have a foot either side of it, but overall, as an audio experience it’s pretty good. Some of the effects work and sound design is just fantastic and I can imagine something like this sounding remarkable in 1967, whereas it may sound less otherworldly and strange to modern ears. The Gnome - This is another performatively mad song. I mean, it’s very silly, but some of the progressions are actually very nice. The production of the creepy whispering bit is very cool too. I ended up enjoying this more than I expected to. Chapter 24 - There are some really nice moments to this, particularly some of the harmonies, but it does drift off into a bit of a meandering wash at various points. It also clips really badly late on. Bit of a swing and a miss for me, this one. The Scarecrow - Another slightly meandering effort. I quite like the slightly unexpected pacing and flow of Barrett’s vocal, but as a whole, it just feels a little too twee and aimless apart from that. Bike - A suitably ‘listen to me being weird’ end to the album. But it’s also a pretty good song that blends nicely across different ideas and threads, which could easily be lost under the silliness of the vocal, but is actually well structured and pretty accomplished from a musical and atmospheric point of view. It does end with a fairly deranged sound collage, but in this instance, I quite like it as the closing act.
I really love me some Pink Floyd. I have actually spent a good amount of cash seeing an extremely good Pink Floyd cover band (what up Australian Pink Floyd) on more than one occasion. But I just cannot get down with the Syd Barrett and not David Gilmour version of Pink Floyd.
The whimsical psychedelia of posh boys messing around with hallucinogens. Sounds like Austin Powers but trippy, demented, unstable, a dream that inverts to nightmare and back- astral in theme but sometimes quite contained and tightly structured musically, baroque and sing songy, until it does descend into much shaggier looser spacier exploratory jams, before returning to songs that're short and tight and buttoned up nursery rhymes about gnomes. Extremely English.
Not my favorite Pink Floyd album.
It was a little slow to start, but I could see this album being good for slightly active background music.
Wow, I didn’t like that at all. Crazy how much I feel they changed from this first album to dark side or wish you were here.
Likely a spicy take, but Syd wasn’t doing them any favors. This was rough to get through. It got REALLY British at times.
Need to revisit
I am a big fan of Pink Floyd, but very specifically the 1973 to 1979 period of time (I guess I must prefer the Roger Waters led period-ugh). I have never been able to get into the albums from before then and after then. At all. I've heard songs here and there, and just don't really like them. As far as I can recall, I've never listened to this entire album before. I imagine I must've at some point, in the period of time when we'd hang out in someone's basement and just listen to albums non-stop (with the help of some substances as well). Listening today, I'm pretty sure this one would've sent me into a paranoid spiral, and it almost did today stone cold sober. This was not a good record, IMO. Way too pyschedelic for my tastes. I like weirdness, but I also like it to sound fun and have a point. I just didn't get this at all. I was prepared to give it a 2, just because I found my foot tapping at times, but then came the Interstellar Overdrive/The Gnome combination and I was done. From that point forward I was just irritated with what I was hearing.
Das Debütalbum der britischen Band Pink Floyd wurde 1967 in den Abbey Road Studios in London aufgenommen. Produzent war Norman Smith, zuvor Toningenieur bei den Beatles. Die Band bestand zu dieser Zeit aus Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright und Nick Mason. Musikalisch verbindet das Album psychedelischen Rock mit experimentellen Elementen und frühen Ansätzen des sogenannten Space Rock. Die Songs stammen größtenteils von Syd Barrett, dessen fantasievolle Texte eine kindlich-versponnene und zugleich dunkle Atmosphäre erzeugen. Stücke wie „Astronomy Domine“, „Lucifer Sam“ und „Bike“ zählen zu den markantesten Titeln des Albums. Mit „Interstellar Overdrive“ präsentiert die Band eine lange instrumentale Improvisation, die den offenen Klangansatz der frühen Pink Floyd deutlich macht. Im Gegensatz zu den späteren, konzeptionelleren Werken der Band ist dieses Album stärker von spontaner Kreativität geprägt und dokumentiert den Beginn ihrer musikalischen Entwicklung. Ein originelles, wegweisendes Werk des britischen Psychedelic Rock, das durch seine ungeschliffene Energie und die Präsenz von Syd Barrett eine besondere Stellung im Gesamtwerk von Pink Floyd einnimmt.
Maybe it will get better if you listen to it over and over, or maybe it's better when you are high? I find that I just really don't enjoy psychedelic rock at all, and while this adds a bunch of strange noises to switch it up it's just not enough Standouts Astronomy Domine Lucifer Sam The Scarecrow 3/5
Relics.
Надо чаще переслушивать. Барретовский Pink Floyd особенный.
...Lime and limpid green, the sound surrounds the icy waters underground... I love this shit! The sound of being the low man on the totem pole at the record store and always being scheduled to open the store on Sunday mornings. I might be not be entirely sober, either from the drugs a few hours before or the all-nighter drive from a gig somewhere farther away than a normal person would drive back from, or both. The store had a copy behind the counter for some unknown reason and it usually was the only thing that made sense in that mental state and that me and my co-worker Reiner, who more often than not was in a similar headspace, or maybe it was just because we would take turns getting high behind the dumpster in the parking lot, and we could easily agree on. We might play it 2-3 times in a row, until the owner came in around lunchtime and would make us play normal music that regular people and/or potential customers might like. Interstellar Overdrive. Lucifer Sam. Bike. Astronomy Domine. The Gnome. This is where it's at. This is the only Pink Floyd actually led by their leader, Syd Barrett, who still had his shit together enough to participate. Barely. Anyway, this is the sound of swinging psychedelic 1967 London - lightning in a bottle. Enjoy!
Although it seems inevitable that we'd get Pink Floyd's debut album (since debit albums are clearly a dominant theme of this collection), I'm bummed that we got Syd Barrett's far-less-interesting turn than another later Pink Floyd album like "Ummagumma", "Animals" or even the much later (but not nearly as good) "Division Bell". But I've never heard any of the tunes on this album, so I guess I'm appreciative of the chance to hear what Pink Floyd sounded like under Syd Barrett's sadly-deteriorating direction. I'm not sure any of the tracks really stood out for me, but it was interesting to have improv-heavy instrumentals next to clearly-structured songs. It's kind fun to hear too how much they embodied the psychedelic rock sound of the late 60s, and the production quality is definitely higher than many contemporary albums. Also pretty cool to read that they recorded this album next door to the Beatles as they record "Sgt. Pepper's".
While I was excited to hear Pink Floyd's first album, I wasn't all that excited by the music which didn't portend the great albums in their future. Still, happy to have heard it even if I doubt I'll listen again.
Okay
Havent listened to this album before. Track one and i thought this album was going to be a bit too psychedelic twee for me but track 2 is a banger. Dont get me wrong, i do like me some Syd Barrett but there is only so much trippy music i can ingest without having ingested a trip. Thats probably a bit unfair as i get more into the album. There is a fair bit of fuzzy garage rock feel to this as well (Barrett’s guitar sound on Interstellar Overdrive wouldnt be out of place on a Mudhoney album). I’m a bit confused by it but i like it. Think i will need to give this a repeat lesson or two. Actually i got to The Gnome and started to lose interest. This is only one of two tracks i know on this album and i dont hate it but i was enjoying the meandering bass lines, with straightforward drum beats where the rythm section are not exactly ‘in the pocket’ but still manage to drive songs on and then harsh guitar chord rhthms (almost percussive in parts) that dive in and oit of the beat , was enjoying all of this so much i was a bit disappointed at the gear change. Cut this album to tracks 2 to 7 and i’d almost give it 5 stars. Thinking about it, this would have been on vunil so perhaps up to 7 is side A? The bike is the other track i know and one of my favorite Syd Barrett tracks so enjoyed but again 2-7 stand out for me. I thought maybe it was non-Syd tracks i liked but he wrote all but 3 tracks and guided the recording by and large. I think its the chaotic clash of Barrett’s guitar against the freewheeling organ but kept rocking along by Roger Waters beautiful bass lines. I guess this is a debut album that showcases well what they would have been like live (long improvised instrumental pieces), some at the time technical innovation and Barrrett’s genius/madness knife’s edge. The track Matilda Mother is almost Spinal Tap/Rush like. At least PF had LSD as an excuse. A reluctant 3 stars as half the album not as captivating for me.
Some moments are really cool, Bike is great. Too much of the time, it’s not.
weird
rest of it was ok but then they sang about a gnome and it was crazy
Such a strange album. Very obviously inspired by the doors and Beatles and definitely not hitting the same highs as the music that inspires it. There is a looming sense of things to come from them throughout the album, but especially at the end of bike, as if to hint towards what they become. I truly didn’t know this existed, or any of the albums that come before dark side. I guess I just assumed they appeared with that but I guess they had a seven album run before it. I want to see the transition towards what is inarguably one of the best pieces of art ever but I do not have the time today. Hitting this with a 3, enjoyed the history lesson but didn’t love the songs.
9/10
Wow! If I did not know what I was listening to, I would not have believed this was Pink Floyd. I am no fan of Pink Floyd, but this was awful. I am glad they eventually found a different path.
Not really a Pink Floyd fan, but I really didn’t like this.
The version of Pink Floyd has never quite hit the mark for me. I did enjoy this album more than I remember though. For 1967, this had to be mindblowing. It's super experimental, and I respect how they really went for it. For me, this is a band that improves with every album leading up to Dark Side, and this is just the beginning of that journey.
I’m not mad about this album, I’m just mad at the list. If this Pink Floyd album of all Pink Floyd albums made it (it’s probably like their 6th or 7th on the list) then how many other well deserving albums with zero represented artists let alone genres didn’t make the list. What a poorly filled spot. Ig it was their debut or something. Buns debut though honestly, glad they got somewhere eventually.
The weird to focused ratio too far off
Nothing stood out enough for this to be a 4-5 like other Floyd albums.
Experimental and innovative for the time didn’t hold up imo
*listened before the project* Not their best
Oh G-word. Before playing this I saw a comment saying it was their best album and I was like "OwO better than dark side of the moon?????". But of course the "best album" meant they straight up copied the worst of The Beatles IT"S SO ASS
Weird and not real music
For how ubiquitous Pink Floyd seems to be, I surprisingly lack familiarity with their music (even despite being a poser and wearing a Dark Side of the Moon T-shirt all through middle and high school). That said, this was awesome. Super fun psychedelics rock with some basslines that almost sound grungy. Loved it.
When I thought pink floyd couldnt be worse...
I thought they were ripping off the Moody Blues, but it was the other way round, to go by the release dates. Half the bands in England were doing this faux-medieval naffing around until something better came along; some of it was even good. Some of this is good. But we’re all grateful they moved on.
Some fun flashes of brilliance with a lot of filler and silliness.
This left me feeling nervous and uncomfortable.
**Album Review: *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn* by Pink Floyd** *Rating: 4 out of 5* Pink Floyd’s debut album, *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn* (1967), is a wild, colorful trip through the early days of psychedelia. For those of us who grew up in the era of vinyl and lava lamps, this record captures that perfect mix of experimentation and innocence that made the late ’60s so electric. Syd Barrett, the band’s original frontman, is the heartbeat of this album. His lyrics feel like fairy tales spun on acid—strange, funny, and totally original. You can hear his creativity overflowing in every track, making it one of the most imaginative debuts in rock history. ### Highlights - **“Astronomy Domine”** kicks things off with a blast of cosmic energy. - **“Lucifer Sam”** is catchy and creepy in the best way. - **“The Gnome”** and **“Bike”** capture Barrett’s playful, offbeat side. - **“Interstellar Overdrive”** dives headfirst into chaos, a wild jam that defines 1960s experimentation. ### Art and Vibe The title, borrowed from *The Wind in the Willows*, fits perfectly—mystical and a little strange. The cover’s trippy photo collage matches the music’s vibe: dazzling, surreal, and unpredictable. ### Final Take *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn* is a snapshot of a band on the edge of genius, guided by Barrett’s brilliant, eccentric mind. It’s weird, it’s wonderful, and it still sounds ahead of its time nearly 60 years later.
Una completa mierda. Barret estaba metido al centro, drogado quizás veía y sentía sus almorranas. Una tortura.
Every so often I decide to try to listen to Pink Floyd and realise that I don't understand it. Maybe I should try some of their later stuff (once I am feeling brave)
Overall: 9/10 Hell yeah. I tend to love weird music made by absolute geniuses and this is no exception. Despite the fact that they would go on to make even better albums without Syd, it makes me wonder if they would have kept going down this strange route instead of becoming prog gods if he was capable of sticking around. It's one of my biggest personal "what if's" in music. He had a great voice and an overflowing imagination and his story overall just makes me sad. You can see on this album that he was truly gifted. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Fav Song: Bike
DOY DOY
Liked their 70's albums. This trip in to psychedelica no so much. May have been ground breaking at the time. Hasn't aged well in my opinion.
This was fine, but not memorable enough to really have much to.say about it
overhated
Not a Pink Floyd fan, and this album didn't change my mind. In fact, I think I liked it less than the usual popular albums. That said, kudos for not making every song 10 minutes long on this one.
Syd Barrett is a fascinating, but tragic story. Artistically brilliant and innovative, but lost to mental health issues exacerbated by heavy LSD usage. The stories are straight out of a Hollywood film: finding him sitting in a chair, staring into space with a cigarette fully burnt out from end-to-end in his hand. Going onstage, and standing motionless with a guitar hanging from his neck. Being replaced by his old time buddy David Gilmour, and when everyone thought he was lost to madness, coming out with the saddest, most poignant farewell song in "Jugband Blues". Disappearing for years, and turning up in the studio as Pink Floyd were recording "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a song written about him. It's a compelling, but tragic tale. Syd was clearly an artistic genius, but unfortunately we're limited to just the contents of this one album (and a couple of songs outside of it) to appreciate the creative output of this madcap legend. Luckily for us, Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a masterpiece. There are two types of songs on the album. Long, sprawling, improvised jams, very experimental in nature. Songs like Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive are the peak of these. Then, the shorter, more quirky pieces like The Gnome or The Scarecrow. The rest, generally speaking, go from quirky to experimental. The whole album feels like sneaking a glimpse into Syd's mind, where quirky, clever humour meets untamed, swirling madness. The songwriting and innovation is just one part. The musicianship is another. Richard Wright's keyboard creates an eerie atmosphere throughout these songs. Roger Waters' bass grooves and flies to unexpected places. And then there's Syd's guitar. It's so much at once. It's layered, creates texture, it's percussive, it's bluesy, and it's often so experimental that it doesn't sound like a guitar at all any more. Truly pushing the boundaries of what a guitar can do, and opening the door for future guitarists such as Joey Santiago, Graham Coxon and Jonny Greenwood, to name but a few. The production of this album deserves a mention too. Capturing the guitar tones so crisply, while balancing the layers of overdub, keyboards, bass and drums with Syd's quiet vocals for this type of expressionist music is quite a challenge, but done so well (especially for something recorded in 1967). And then there's the pioneering use of reverb and delay. Bands like Radiohead and Osees are still using versions of the same technique based on the blueprints set out here. But back to Syd's songs themselves. Astronomy Domine is an absolute classic, so far ahead of its time, yet fitting in so well as a representation of what was going on in the UK underground scene at the time. Interstellar Overdrive is still as much of a mind-melter as it was the first time I heard it. You come out of it after 9 minutes and 40 seconds, head spinning, feeling as if you'd just dropped acid. The "quirky" songs somehow don't come across as twee, but instead charming, and always tilting towards some manic dystopia of noise. The madness of "Bike" makes you smile (the little piano tinkle when he sings about knowing "a mouse but he doesn't have a house, I don't know why I call him Gerald"), verses and chorus punctuated with a drum sound that smacks you in the face, before descending into noises and laughter that still unnerves me today, even after hearing it half a million times. "Pow R. Toc H." starts off with the craziest version of beatboxing I'll ever encounter. I still don't know how Waters makes that sound with his mouth, but it's a sound that's not of this earth. The rest of the song goes into a jazzy jaunt, until it inevitably descends into madness. "The Scarecrow" is a particularly gorgeous song. Extremely minimalist, with lyrics that seem very fitting for Barrett's mental condition. "His head did no thinking, his arms didn't move..." / "The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me, but now he's resigned to his fate because life's not unkind, he doesn't mind..." The song ends with a gorgeous blend of strings and rising folk guitar. This album is a classic. A masterpiece. Innovative, experimental, inspiring. Syd didn't have the chance to continue making music, but his legacy is still felt today thanks to this album. Shine on.
I really like Pink Floyd but idk this isn’t what I want from them. It’s very much Pink Floyd but psychedelic instead of proggy but I feel as though neither their playing nor their writing were as good here as they would later become. The prog sound suits them far more than the psych sound. I really liked “Lucifer Sam” a lot though
A bit too pretentious for my taste, lacking guts
Enjoyed the druggy psych jams, less so the children's circus music
Never actually listened to this album before. Can say I definitely prefer The Wall or Dark Side to this, but this isn't bad either. Just not as good as the others. But hey its their debut album.
As much as I like later albums by Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn moves me the most with its whimsy and druggy wonders. The Syd Barrett era of the band is a special treasure!
trippy 60's psychedelic rock
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they were high when they made this... I know, Long Shot!
I'm sure this hits crazy if you're on LSD. Some cool stuff in there but yeah not something I'd throw on to listen to again any time soon.
Pink Floyd's four album run from Dark Side of the Moon through The Wall is as good as music can get and includes some of my favorite albums of all time. That's the Pink Floyd I know. I'd never listened to this album before, and I definitely won't listen again.
Awesome
Très hâte de mettre 4/10 à toute la discographie de Pink Floyd.
I believe this is before David Gilmore joins and it really sounds like a different band. I do not like this era of 60’s British bands. Everyone is trying to be whimsical and sing about Alice in Wonderland and other trippy bullshit.
Ooof. I understand the value of it, but No. The capital s Songs with their whimsical fairytale pop psychedelia aren't my shit and the aimless noodlings of Let's See What Weird Stuff We Can Do With Our Instruments aren't either. Or not yet, as presented here, in their infancy. I guess the childlike whimsy of this debut is a quality for some, but I'd much rather skip forward to when Pink Floyd had let that all simmer into "Saucerful of Secrets", "More" or one of my all-time favourite songs "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" (or the "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up" version). This here brought me no joy.
Short and wacky. My first of the Syd Barrett albums and fitting it was their debut. A sign of things to come, not my favourite and it felt very whimsical compared to later outputs. Sounded quite close to The Kinks. Any album with songs about Gnomes and little mice gets bonus points
Fuckin interstellar scarecrow gnomes, bruh!! 5
Hm. Seemed like they were already out innovating DSOTM long before it came out. Some's a bit much, the panning on the interstellar one almost hurts the soul with good headphones. Still cool stuff, some goes pretty hard.
Haven’t listened to early Floyd in a while. Holds up. Strange cool stuff
As a Pink Floyd album this kind of sucks, but as a psychedelic rock album by a new up and coming band it's fine. You can hear the sound that they're eventually going to figure out (especially in songs like "Interstellar Overdrive" and the end of "Bike") but a lot of the songs just sound like standard, kind of goofy psychedelic rock of the era. Why did Bowie and Pink Floyd both release weird gnome songs in 1967?
Loaded with goofy shit that doesn’t exactly rock, but this album undeniably kicked open some psychedelic doors that allowed other artists to explore. You can spot clear elements of influence straight out of this record over the following decades, even much more contemporary and heavier groups such as The Mars Volta wouldn’t exist without it. Overall, this album definitely isn’t going into my rotation, but I still respect it.
I've never listened to this album. I've listened to "Dark Side of the Moon" a thousand times, "The Wall" a hundred, and their other albums barely at all. I see this is their first album, that's exciting. "Astronomy Domine" is great. It's got so much classic Pink Floyd in it already. The chanted vocals are still a core of their sound 10 years later. "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" has sweet instrumentals. I'm not sure if I'm hearing a guitar or a synth but its jamming. The muffled talking underneath crazy instrumental is a funny thing to have as a signature sound. I might've thought they just did this on Dark Side, but it seems like they loved it the entire time. They're a little more Beatles sounding on the end of this song. I am not really loving the experimental noise taking up most of "Interstellar Overdrive". I'm surprised this song has some of the most plays on the record. "The Gnome" could not sound more like it's on Sgt. Peppers. You could put it on the album and nobody would blink. It's a great song. This was an interesting album. It was like a mix of Beatles style rock, and classic Pink Floyd. I liked it, but didn't love most of it. 6/10
I’m not a big fan of psychedelia so I didn’t expect to like this album but only two tracks crossed the tolerance line for me (Pow R. Toc H. and Interstellar Overdrive). I enjoyed most of the experimental sounds because they added atmosphere that related to the words. I liked the lack of structure - prefer it to forcing story or description to fit a verse, chorus format. There’s a bit of a folk style to this album and I loved that some of the songs (Bike for example) are very tongue in cheek. They reminded me of very early Bowie (possibly when he was still Jones) Really glad to have been introduced to this album
Sólo a la gente enferma le puede gustar esto. 1.5/5
Such weird music... so cool
As I've gotten older Pink Floyd has become one of my favorite bands. I listen to them frequently. Way above average psychedelic space rock. The Pink Floyd are easily in my top 10 bands all time. 5 stars all day.
soo many ideas
this album sounds like a bunch of dudes who got high as kites and thought making an album would slap, but when they sobered up they didn’t realise it didn’t slap
Better than I remember it being, but they definitely got better.
I hadn’t heard any of the early pre-David Gilmour Pink Floyd before, so I was very curious about this. I have to say, I didn’t care much for it, and was a bit disappointed. Two stars.
Fine
I’m guessing this album is here because of the experimental recording techniques used to produce it. If I was being harsh I’d say there’s really no other conceivable reason. This album bears somewhat little resemblance to the post-Barret Pink Floyd led by Roger Waters and David Gilmour. The album ranges from full of experimental psychedelic rambling songs to Donovan-esque British folk inspired songs.
3 stars
Love PF but not this album. 1/5
6/10 Contains the worst elements of prog (daft, childish lyrics, aimless widdling) that now makes it sound self-parodying. However, at times you can hear the weight of invention that was to have so much influence on rock music
I first delved into the Roger Waters deep end of the Pink Floyd pool, and then the late Floyd Gilmour years. I came to Syd late, and his music was most difficult for me to accept after the more lyrical Floyd. But this Floyd was the most psychedelic and this album the most perfect British-style psychedelic album existing. American-style tries to imitate the drug experience, while Brits psychedelia, at least in this early stage, re-create one's childhood memories. It took much longer for me to love, but love it I do and it might be the most innovative of Floyd albums. 5/5
I'll never have enough drugs in my system for this. 2.5.
Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5
When it’s good (Astronomy, Lucifer, Stethoscope, Interstellar), it’s really good. When it’s not, it still offers a decent glimpse into the psychedelic sound of the late 1960s. There are more consistently good albums from that era (and especially that same year) which capture the essence of psychedelic rock, but the highlights here are among the best in that genre. After Syd left, Pink Floyd wouldn’t sound this good again until Meddle.
Second Pink Floyd album in a row (yesterday was Wish You Were Here) and I still dont get it. It's fine, inoffensive.
Background noise jam session. 3/10
Totally get why it's here. That being said I fucking hated every minute. 3 stars is me being generous.
Portions of this are the sort of off-putting psychedelic silliness that might seem deep or fun if you're very into drugs, which I'm not. I'm thinking here of "Chapter 24" and especially "The Gnome" and "Bike." On those tracks I went from bored to genuinely irritated. Some of it, though, it's absolutely transcendent even if sober. "Interstellar Overdrive" is an all-time kickass jam that echoes throughout rock history. It's so far ahead of it's time it's almost difficult to conceive of it being released in 1967 were it not for, say, the Beatles experimenting similarly. "Astronomy Domine," "Lucifer Sam," "Matilda Mother," all whip. It's a bizzaro funhouse mirror of an album. It's tedious and trite at times, but overall I don't think I had properly appreciated it before. It's almost (pardon the play on another title) apples-and-oranges to the Waters-era concept run (Wish You Were Here, Animals, Dark Side, Wall), which I love, but this is great too. Curious what would've happened if Syd hadn't lost his mind. I'm skeptical it would've remained great, but who the hell knows.
Sounds good. It just sounds kinda abstract
Comme si les Beatles avaient écrit une version très longue de Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Finalement pas une écoute désagréable. Expérience peut-être altérée par la pluie battante sur le pare-brise.
As a young millennial who likes Pink Floyd, this was fine. I think I appreciate it more than I like it. For its time it was new and special.
Nowhere near my fav pink Floyd. Ok but so many better albums by them.
My thought three songs in: This is clearly an album that music critics love, for one of three reasons. First, they're on acid. Second, they can see something in it I can't. Or third, they want you to understand that they're not so basic that they only love Dark Side of the Moon, but no, see, if you haven't listened to Syd Barrett you can't *really* understand Pink Floyd... Probably the second. But maybe the third. By the end, though, I think this album has worn me down. I'm embracing its psychedelic innovation. My consciousness is open. The universe flows through me.
Maybe not their finest album but I always enjoy it. Speaks to some of the weird things you get with Pink Floyd off the beaten path.
While it is an important album, and Syd was very important at the beginning of Pink Floyd, that doesn't mean that I have to like it.
Listened this about 4 times through. Couldn't get into it as much as other Pink Floyd albums.
This is some odd bridge between the pop of the early and mid sixties and the psychedelic stuff of the late sixties. It got a little out there, but not so far and rambling that this straight, sober bloke can’t follow. Mostly. There are the progressive roots in there, but Syd Barrett era/pre-Gilmore Pink Floyd was a decidedly different band. All in all, I enjoyed it more than most other psychedelic rock that gets too far out. Favorite track is easily Astronomy Domine.
Really interesting as an artifact of psychedelic rock and remarkable considering the albums that came out around it. But while it’s great it feels more like a curiosity than a classic, or a classic example of a specific sub genre within a time. Three stars overall. Four stars if you’re a Pink Floyd fan. Maybe five within the world of psychedelic rock.
not a huge pink floyd fan but i was holding out hope that maybe this one would land better for me because i am a huge 60s psych guy. unfortunately, this album didn't really land for me. the pure psych stuff here didn't really excite me (i would've much preferred a lot of stuff along the lines of 'see emily play' than most of the stuff on here) and it had a lot of whimsical gobbledygook that i now know to expect from british psych music (gnomes and such). unfortunately not really for me.
Puh, da bin ich doch froh, dass ich für die Hippie-Drogenpartys mit Musik von Pink Floyd damals zu jung war. Daher lebe ich noch und kann jeden Mist der mir gerade durch die Rübe rauscht hier zum Besten geben. So kann ich z.B. ungestraft beichten, dass ich Alben von Pink Floyd im Regal stehen habe. Und jetzt weiß ich auch warum nicht dieses. Zu experimentell.
The only truly scathing thing about this album is that it is British. Otherwise, no critiques. They clearly drew a lot of inspiration from the Beatles and tried to turn it into their own sound. I think it worked great. Not the most refined Pink Floyd album, but I think there's almost some extra beauty in this album being a little rough around the edges. Almost feels like when you bring your friend who just turned 21 to the bar for the first time and they drink way more than they can handle. They have the time of their lives, but they pay the price for it. Using this as the example instead of childbirth because there is nothing beautiful about childbirth, despite what your parents tell you. I really couldn't ask for much better than this. I think my favorite track was The Gnome. It's a weird track to pick, but musically it is amazing. Edit: originally I rated this 5/5. I'm lowering it to a 4 as it doesn't meet the same level as the albums I've rated 5. I still want to rate it 5, but I'm lowering for consistency's sake.
So, this is not what I expected. I guess you can't go into a Pink Floyd album you've never heard and expect to know what it sounds like. There's actually a lot here that I don't like. Weirdly placed instruments that clash, interesting vocal choices and strange lyrics. However, altogether, it works well somehow. From the beginning, Pink Floyd knew how to experiment and put together albums that are not similar to anything that's ever been made before, but still be enjoyable. I don't think I can choose any standouts here because they all fit into the same category of "interesting, I'd listen again probably." So yeah. This album is strange and shouldn't work, but it does and I'd listen again probably.
Psychedelia. I think weird and unorthodox music like psych/prog rock is vastly more interesting than anything that's been on the pop charts for ages. I like nontraditional song structures, with strange chord progressions and time signatures. I really enjoy the 1967-1975ish era when rock musicians were really pushing the boundaries of music, creating cohesive mind-expanding albums instead of cheap radio pop singles
I feel like I needed to be on drugs to enjoy this.
Good thing they didn’t give up after this dud
It’s that horrible sixties sound again.
3.5/5 great mixing but really juvenile for pf
Unremarkable circle jerking.
Did not recall most of this album as I listened. A totally different experience from Dark Side. Definitely prefer Dark Side but this album is special and unique. I’m sure when it was released it was revolutionary.
Being Pink Floyd can't save you from a bad score. This was bland at its best and unlistenable at its worst. "Astronomy Domine" starts with annoying beeps; the obnoxious gibberish at the start of "Pow R. Toc H."; the fading in and out of the L/R audio at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive"; the buzzing/feedback in "Chapter 24"; and they finish the album off with a minute and a half of bullshit horns and bells in "Bike". There's a reason I had not heard of this album, and there was definitely an addition by subtraction situation with Syd Barrett leaving. This gets my first 1/5. It's garbage.
A little too weird acid 60s for me, kind of like that one Kinks album that was on here. But I do think this was pivotal for them as a band to push the envelope into more heavy, melodic psychedelic music, the Floyd we all know and love
was impressive for its time, but nothing like their more well known albums (dsotm, wywh, the wall) which are way better imo.
Bon...
Really enjoyed it
Escutar isso de fone é uma delícia
Bike’s a great and silly song. Didn’t listen completely, but I heard it’s a great debut album for one of the greatest prog-rock bands of all time.
Not a psych rock person, but fine for what it was. One star docked off for the really annoying quirky vocals (reminds me of Zappa, that is an insult, I hate him) and those stereo channel tricks everyone was doing at the time where the left and right channels randomly start flickering on and off, I'm sure that was cool on a set of nice speakers in the '60s but I listen to music on headphones and it genuinely pissed me off
Nice! I had only heard the entirety of Dark Side Of The Moon before this. Favourite songs: Lucifer Sam
Real fun. Love this band. Bike bike bike.
# Album Name: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn # Artist: Pink floyd # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Big fan of pink floyd......post Syd era. I've listened to this briefly before. it wasnt the pink floyd i knew and loved but i gave it a chance again with this listen. Honestly, its psychedelic nonsense. You need to be on drugs to connect with it. Maybe it would be great. But as someone sitting here with a cup of tea at 6.38am in the morning, it doesnt really appeal to me. Theres a couple of decent tracks - Astronomy Domine & bike. The breadown of sid becomes apparent as the album goes on. It sounds desperate. The only thing i can say is thank you to sid for what became one of the best bands of all time....without him. I'd be gutted knowing that as sid, but it is what it is. # Top Tunes: Astronomy Domine / Bike # Would I listen to it again? Dont think so
I gotta be honest y’all this one sucked like donkey ass. We can’t be putting every Pink Floyd album on this list just because they’re Pink Floyd. And here’s the thing, this isn’t me hating on PF. This project got me to finally listen to them and I REALLY liked their other albums. I got the hype! But this? This is plodding, tuneless nonsense. The worst type of psychedelic rock. Nursery rhyme lyrics and irritating noise. I’m glad they moved beyond this. Honestly it deserves one but I’m grading them on a curve because they’re Pink Floyd.
I love when the music is silly hehehaha
Shite.
I'm really glad they were given the chance to change their sound.
pink floyd was a big feature of my highschool era of listening to music. never fully got invested in them for the problem that this album has too- for me, the songs are too damn long. though i can acknowledge that's a me problem. it gave the who sell out meets sgt pepper's.
The only album they made with Syd. You can hear the beginning of his breakdown as the album goes on. That way, it's kind of a depressing yet worthwhile listen. I love Pink Floyd but prefer the Gilmour stylings over Syd's psychedelia. Still, a worthy addition to the book.
After three 5 star records, I had high hopes for this one. I had never listened to this before, but it let me down in a big way. At times I couldn’t even tell who I was listening to, and it was just strange. This one falls short but doesn’t change their legacy.
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This album is GREAT! All the textures on it are a delightful thing to explore, and to think of it as a debut is insane. There is so much creativity there. It's so experimental, and so interesting too. This may be my favorite psychedelic album that I have listened so far. This music is made for listening to it, to dive into the atmospheres it creates through the minutes, to get into it and enjoy it. And it's fantastic the music of this The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. It's not pretentious, it's genuine and wonderful, and smart.
Piper at the gates of mimsy whimsy
19/08/25 not my favourite of all pink Floyd ever but still good. Nothing will beat the dark side of the moon. 3/5
You can really tell how this sound was constant in much of Pink Floyd's post-Barrett era. But they needed time to refine it. Good listen overall.
Oddly enough I had Syd Barrett’s solo album earlier this week and now this one. Neither is anything I want to listen to a second time. But I now know a little bit of music history in learning about his sad story.
Sorry, Floyd, Renn faire was way overdone by everyone. I got a wall with that genre.
A good album to put on in the other room and shut the door. I would open said door to hear Bike, but shut it again around the 2 minute mark. If you're looking for something to listen to muffled, this may be the one for you!
this album is making it so hard to defend to my girlfriend that this group actually has bangers once you get past this gingerbread man ahh album...
this sounds like the beatles (derogatory).
Not their best
This is not the Pink Floyd I know at all which is super interesting. Definitely an LSD-fueled album, and the middle of the album is such a treat. Hard to connect with some of the other songs, but I am interested to return to it at some point down the line.
I used to like them, but they have not aged as well as I have
Weird experimental sounds. Not a fan. Thank god it was short-ish.
OK, this isn't my favorite Pink Floyd album although hardcore Floyd fans say it's amazing. I'm so glad they evolved into what they became, because this is like music you'd hear walking and dancing with hobbits. 2/5
Groundbreaking in many ways. The lyrics are pretty heady, but it's really the instrumentation that drives this album. A true pioneer in prog rock, this is a really, really great album.
Like where this is going and you can really see their potential but this is too british
banger psych rock love pink floyd
Wow this is so different than the more prolific PF albums. Barrett really provided a different vibe to the band, leaning more into classic psych. I have to say nothing really stood out, but it was fun to hear little themes in this album that would become the Pink Floyd sound.
Very English, often fragile, sometimes whimsical.
Very different from the Pink Floyd I’m used to, but still really good. Not sure I would seek it out, but I still really enjoyed the record.
Interstellar Overdrive rocks!
That's not my taste in music - I can't do anything with the music
Experimental psychedelic stuff, it was a first listen so hard to fully appreciate but this is nowhere near as good as some of their later albums.
A really good debut album. The song writing of Syd Barrett is very psychedelic and the playing is solid
What I imagine taking LSD feels like
Eerie and something they made while high after someone’s death
I like Pink Floyd, bit I did not really like this. It was interesting as I can hear the beginning of their sound. But this one just didn’t do it for me.
8/6/25. Interesting album. Because I'm so fmailiar with the popular Floyd albums of the 70s, I forgot about Syd Barrett's influence in the beginning. It sounded a bit generic 60s psychedelic to my ear, but the songs and instrumental pieces were engaging as the album went on.
Proto-Floyd sounding like a completely different band to the classics. Psychedelic and whimsical.
(listened before) I love early Pink Floyd records
Such a bizarre ride. Very important era to get to what they became!
An old fashion freak out
Infantile hippy early Prog Rock.
Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd is very different. I am a huge fan of Roger Watters/David Gilmour era Pink Floyd and you can hear glimpses of the sound that became so distinctive on later albums. However it is unfortunately overshadowed by Barrett's silly lyrics which makes it a bit of chore to get through.
Listened late teenager , early 20s . And I love Pink Floyd (discovered almost chronologically) . So a bit biased. I enjoyed the album a lot on that age of my life, travelling with InterstellAr Overdrive/Astronomy Domine... and the funny Bike/The Gnome, etc. I would put a 5. But to respect other more rounded 5-star albums, and trying to evaluate objectively this album, I'd put 3.5 , rounded to 4 for sentimental reasons.
Yowza! That was interesting. Definitely not the best album of theirs but it was very interesting.
Nakaradna gomila zvukova. Ali ne žalim se. Zašto? Zato što prvi put ikad ozbiljno shvatam Pink Floyd. To vjerovatno nema smisla, već sam im dala jednu peticu. Ali njihova muzika inače je najneutralnija stvar na svijetu. Toliko igraju na sigurno da se mora svima svidjeti. Ovdje se čuje srce i duša, pa koliko god poremećeno bilo.
More like the Gates of Yawn.
honestly this is such peak pink floyd, funky, a bit random.
Only a hair over forty minutes long, the most epic track is just under ten and there's no Dave Gilmour. If your familiarity with Pink Floyd is a little on the casual side, this might not be what you expect. Frankly, it's not the powerhouse that you'd soon listen to on later records but there are plenty of moments worth visiting. On the other hand, they're entirely recognizable -- something that is fascinating, given the degree to which Gilmour's guitar playing figures in their later style and how much Syd Barrett's contributes, here. Gilmour very obviously took inspiration from his erstwhile friend (in fairness, they did overlap, briefly). This is really it for Barrett -- he semi-voluntarily left the group in 1968, before the recording of A Saucerful of Secrets. If ever I get to write one of these about Wish You Were Here, we'll talk more about him then. This is very 60s British psych. The dreamy vocals (and lovely harmonies), combined with the mostly fairly clean guitars make this sound like the contemporary of the Beatles that it truly is ('Matilda Mother' could be by one of several bands). The interplay of Richard Wright on keys and Nick Mason on drums to start 'Pow R. Toc. H' is very catchy and also illustrates the fundamentals that underpin the more ambitious and weird (that is, "progressive") stuff that Floyd end up making. 'Pow R. Toc. H' also demonstrates the band's ability to slide into strangeness and back to something catchy and familiar; they're capable of luring you into something comforting, shifting to unsettling sounds (largely produced with instruments, some with samples) and then reassuring you. On later albums, their play with tension is much more musical and less jarring but the seeds are here already. Barrett's guitar playing is interesting. Fast and furious but sloppy at times. Obviously skillful but generally unrefined -- particularly by comparison to David Gilmour, who is one of the more polished guitar heroes of his period. Much of the writing about Syd Barrett has some element of focus on his struggles with mental health but it is terribly tempting to analyze his music through that lens: there's a certain franticness, possibly mania to his instrumental work but it's impossible to know whether that frame is there because I know of his difficulties or if I can really hear the sound of his musical talent trying to express his overwhelming feelings (just check out 'Interstellar Overdrive' for a peek). You can even hear the influence of the blues in his work -- something much harder to sift out of the later tunes from the band (especially in their concept album era). I wonder if Pink Floyd's later focus on concept albums had anything to do with the diffuse attention that Piper seems to display. You could listen to this album and wonder "What's this about?" all your life and never find an answer. With every record from The Dark Side of the Moon through The Wall, it's pretty easy to tell. Maybe they were relieved to have an answer. In the end, this is a pretty good entry in the oeuvre of English psychedelia but it certainly won't be for everybody. I just gave Funkadelic's One Nation Under A Groove a 3/5 because it was good but just didn't hit for me. By that standard, I should probably grant Piper the same -- it's good, and it's an important part of the history of a very important band but, overall, most of you will listen once and that'll be enough. 3/5
I bet this one blew some brain when it was released in 1967. Now, it is both enjoyable and laughable. Like a little kids show.
Needs more Floyd and less Sid.
Good but older pink floyd isn't my favorite but not a bad album
Give me things
A suitably weird album for the origins of Pink Floyd. It wasn't quite what I have come to expect from the band, I even detected some Beatles-esque elements to the music. This isn't quite as good as the band's later work, but I would say it certainly belongs on this list. Favorite track: "Interstellar Overdrive"
Early Pink Floyd. It's a bit out there. Totally crazy, too much so. Oh the panning and levels are so distracting.. Best track - Lucifer Sam (it's short and structured like a real song!) 3 stars
Flowy, spacey, I see why people like it. Their first album and the only one with Syd Barrett.
This was album 666 on my list. Not sure if that's good or bad. So ima be neutral and hopefully the drugs won't be transferred through my earbuds and make me lose my mind. Still solid 3.
Pink Floyd qui expérimente, encore un peu sage, encore un peu vert, mais déjà intrigant
big name, meh album
It's really funny to me that a before the songs about existential dread, depression , the effects of long use of drugs, they made a cute little psychedelic album. As psychedelic rock music was on the rise, there was a shit ton of it. Quite the amount of hits obviously, but a lot of misses too. So to stand out like this in that era is a pretty big deal in my opinion, and of course it did, it's not bad at all. Like I said, it's just funny that this is their debut. They had no idea the genius they will create later on.
I like See Emily Play and Arnold Layne, but I don't think the album effort worked out. There are some interesting, and even good, ideas here. Unfortunately they're surrounded by a lot of other, deeply annoying, ideas.
I just don't like 60's floyd, you can hear the pieces, but the 60's is still there and eh.
has potential for greatness but feels super unfocused. when this record hits it hits hard
The first album from Pink Floyd is, ostensibly, a psychedelic album. It is that but, also a proto-prog rock album. It has the extended jams of psychedelia but also the extended compositions and intricate musicianship of prog rock. Jams like Astronomy Domine live peacefully alongside intense 10-minute long sci-fi compositions such as Interstellar Overdrive. In between are shorter pop, psychedelia, and prog rock pieces such as Bike and Lucifer Sam. Alot of what is on the album seems like filler but, none of it is bad filler. They are more like a palate cleanser for the longer compositions. This is the original Pink Floyd too. The influence of Syd Barrett, pre breakdown, is felt throughout in the dreamy quality of most of the songs. This influence would only last one more album before Barrett's mental health declined. In later Pink Floyd, Roger Waters ideas became ascendant, and David Gilmour joined the band and became a force in his own right, leading to their arguably best material. On Piper at the Gates of Dawn, however, you see Pink Floyd version 1.0 at it's best.
I absolutely hate this. Not one note of this makes any sense to me, and it feels like it goes on and on for no good reason. On the plus side, Syd Barrett’s tendency towards whimsy saves this album from the full blown pomposity and conceit that Roger Waters will shower over Floyd. TPATGOD really is of its time. That’s not to say it’s dated necessarily, but it is a product of the psychedelic age. It was undoubtedly influential in its time. but that doesn’t necessarily make it good. For me it is the sound of a drug addled and confused mind, obvious Kinks influence notwithstanding.
I much prefer post-Syd Pink Floyd, but I’m glad to have found this album through the project. With Syd writing the majority of these tracks it’s easy to parallel this with his “Madcap Laughs” solo also part of the 1001 project - very weird and trippy, nonsensical. Really did not enjoy the hard panning back and forth in ‘I Terrell’s Overdrive’ but cool to discover they were pushing the boundaries of music production here. Overall enjoyed but looking forward to other later-era Floyd as well, 3.25/5
Kinda acquired taste, especially the instrumental pieces
This isn't their strongest work and they hadn't really begun to land on the sound they'd eventually be known for, but I still like this album quite a bit. Lots of whimsy and experimentation, and the influence of Barrett on the rest of the band's legacy is interesting
A classic album by one of the greatest psychedelic bands to exist. The Floyd lineup with Syd Barrett was much poppier and leaning toward the young teens of the era
I kind of hate Pink Floyd with Syd Barret. I don’t know why, it just is not something I can get into. 2 stars because it IS Pink Floyd, but that’s a stretch.
In some parallel universe, Syd Barrett did not lose his mind. He didn't take all the drugs (and I mean ALL THE DRUGS), no one slipped him LSD in his drink when he wasn't looking. He continued to be the main writing force of the Pink Floyd. And they continued doing weird psychedelic music throughout the 70s. And we wouldn't have gotten "Wish You Were Here" or "The Wall". The first album, in some ways, has moments which are so unlike what Pink Floyd would become. There's a lot of songs that, at first, seem very dated. But the arrangement and ideas Syd put into the songs was unheard of. Even so, some of the songs are so... weird. I think of "Matilda Mother", "Bike" and "The Gnome," and I just don't get it. Slightly before my time. But there is so much to like: "Astronomy Domine," "Interstellar Overdrive", "Pow. R. Toc. H," and even "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk". It's not a 5-star classic, but it's an important album. It doesn't hint at what they would become, but important nonetheless. Top tracks: "Astronomy Domine," "Interstellar Overdrive", "Pow. R. Toc. H," and even "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk".
Good lord this album is strange. And psychedelic - yuck. It's very 60's and British. I liked Syd Barrett's solo effort, it was quirky and fun. This was not as fun. Honestly, was this album essential for us getting to what Pink Floyd would eventually become? I think more pivotal to getting that Pink Floyd was Syd Barrett going off his rocker and leaving the band, and David Gilmour coming on board. To me, other than Interstellar Overdrive (which I didn't love), and maybe Astronomy Domine (a great song), this album has no real connection to their prog rock genius. It has more connection to the Davies brothers and the Kinks. It still says Pink Floyd on the album, so for that it gets a 3. But it's not as good or important as others make it out to be.
I'm a HUGE Pink Floyd fan...starting with Meddle. I can appreciate that this Floyd was necessary to get to the Floyd that I love, and I can appreciate how this is a landmark in psychedelic rock, but I've never been a huge fan of Syd Barrett era Floyd (and cringe any time I see someone say "Pink Floyd were never as good after Syd Barrett left." And, yes, occasionally some hipster will say that online). It's a shame that the two best Syd-era tracks are single only tracks: Arnold Layne and See Emily Play (my favorite Syd-era song). Overall, the album sounds like an LSD trip through fairy tales and down Alice's rabbit hole. I agree it belongs on the list for its historical significance, but it's no more than a 3.5 for me (I'll round up because without this album, we don't eventually get Dark Side of the Moon). Favorite tracks: Astronomy Domine, Bike. I'd add Interstellar Overdrive if it was shorter.
Hated every second of it. Dont care how original it is or that it’s 60 yrs old. I’ve heard so much better and worse music with this sound prior to listening to this that it really fails to impress. If you told me it was written in the 90s for a drug flashback scene in a shitty movie I would totally believe you.
Went into this thinking I'd hate it. The Wall is fine but, in my view, just not as good as people make out. It's not as bad, either - I find a lot of the critiques of it overwrought. But I actually enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. Would go back and listen to this *as an album* again, I reckon.
It's great to listen to something so familiar yet unknown. If you enjoy Pink Floyd, but want to get their most memorable songs out of your head, this is album is a good reccomendation.
In the parlance of their time - it was fine and funky and psychedelic and noisy.
That Gnome song is wild. Last track is a banger too.
You can really tell this is early work from a band that hasn't really found it's groove. I feel like they're trying too many things at the same time, but not all of them are really working for me.
Psychedelic Rock, 1967 -> 3
That was hot garbage
What are we doing here? Sincerely.
You can tell this is early Pink Floyd. The ideas are there for them, but they sound really unrefined, at least with hindsight. It does help set up a base understanding of the foundational sound of Pink Floyd. They're just slightly odd and unusual with some really long instrumental tracks that are heavily psychedelic. They're really a unique group, and that's showcased even on their first full album. I kind of wish I had more to say about the album, but my first sentence is really my biggest takeaway. It's a solid album, but two important things about it is its influence on psychedelic rock and its foreshadowing of what the group would do in the future. It still has some good songs and is definitely worth the listen! Favorite Song(s): Matilda Mother, Chapter 24
This psychedelic bullshit sucks. Not to be a hater, but I hated this. I am quite glad that Pink Floyd evolved in a different direction from this album. By the time I got to Bike I was almost angry at this.
Nice, quite experimental an cool to hear what it eventually would lead to for them
The kinks off their heads
This was Pink Floyd? You could've fooled me. This is their debut album and before they found their more popular sound, which brought me a lot of clarity. This album is still progressive and art rock, as their signature sound, but has more psychedelia than I anticipated. But this is not the Pink Floyd that crafted beautiful and soaring songs. It was a slog. Like lots of artists around this time, their debut or first few albums weren't remarkable. For many, they required several albums to find their footing. But why is this on the list? There's already a lot of progressive music here, and there's nothing much remarkable.
I can confidently say I have never heard Pink Floyd's debut album before, or any song from it. And I think I was okay with that. Yes, this is THE Pink Floyd, but this is several albums before they rose to power. The Pink Floyd that everyone knows is unique and a powerhouse. This early version of Pink Floyd is nothing noteworthy, in my opinion; they sound like every other psychedelic rock group from this time period. I just really didn't enjoy this.
Amazing
Didn’t think Pink Floyd could get worse. Unfortunately I was wrong.
2.5
There are some good songs but it's just a little bit tuneless at points. Really not Pink Floyd at their best.
If I could have given this no stars I would have. What an absolute joke. Probably the biggest load of rubbish I have ever listened to.
Pink Floyd at their best are magnificent, when they're not at their best it's like The Beatles at their worst.
Pure torture.
Semmosta alkusekoilua Syd Barretin kanssa...oli hetkensä
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Not the most prolific or iconic piece of psychedelic music surely. But it launched arguably of the longest and best selling runs of a band of all time. All analog, manually panned and paced the album flows naturally as to match a psychedelic journey. Is the best songwriting or structure of all time? No, but you can really hear the foundation of Pink Floyd being born. Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and Rodger Waters all gel harmoniusly into a soup a psychadelia. Whilst Syd Barrett provides the music and lyrics. Always and forever a fan, 4 stars on principle. Pink went on to change the world.
I love this album, but I’m very bias as a massive pink floyd fan. It’s a tough listen in the context of the rest of their work. I see this album as a vehicle for what is to come from the band. Wouldn’t have worked with syd Barrett and wouldn’t have worked without him. If you hated this - I totally get it!
I'm more of a 70s/post Gilmour Pink Floyd fan I think it was good to listen to it to understand the band history/background, but I found it a little all over the place and some of the lyrics were pretty out there. There's quirky and then there is just plain annoying with some genius sprinkled in and a prelude of what was to come. Probably won't get another spin from me though.
A rather curious debut album considering what Pink Floyd would become in later years. Some great stuff here, but also a few duds. All in all it's a decent psychedelic record, but not up there with the greats like the Zombies' "Odyssey and Oracle", the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" or the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper".
I like other Pink Floyd stuff, but not this. 2/5
And remember kids… don’t do drugs
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I think I'll give Piper At The Gates Of Dawn a 3/5. I really enjoyed Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive, The Gnome and Bike but the rest sort of mesh together in my mind
Although the album showcases impressive compositions and technical skill, I found it more irritating than enjoyable. Many of the tracks felt like a meaningless cacophony of sounds, and the lyrics didn't capture my interest at all. Perhaps I'm missing something, likely the LSD.