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Not their best, though I do love these guys.
All right. Not my favorite Floyd for sure
A mad album. Original Psychedelic
Tried to like it, too experimental with little pay off. 3/5
Lord knows how many drugs were consumed in making this. Had its moments and could see them reaching for latter stuff but bit too left field to score higher
Det slår mig altid når jeg hører den her plade hvor lidt det minder mig om det jeg forbinder med Pink Floyd. Der er nogen gigantiske bangers på, men også en del fjollet filler
Pretty trippy. By far the weakest Pink Floyd album I've ever heard.
I’ve always found this to be an extremely frustrating listen. I’m not sure I can think of another album that dips in such a severe way. It starts off amazingly. ‘Astronomy Domine’ is one of my favourite songs of the 60’s, and from there you get a run of some really really great and endlessly creative garage psych. There’s then a load of freak-outs, which whilst are all individually good are a bit much to have one after the other. Post this the whole thing falls apart, as you’re met with a load of Syd Barrett’s more whimsical and fairy tale like songs, which generally do absolutely nothing for me. In the midst of that ‘Chapter 24’ seems to go on forever for no real end, making the whole thing end on a confused whimper that has none of the things going for it that appealed to me in the front half. It’s hard with Barrett era Floyd, as it’s essentially a different (and in some regards better) band than the one they’d become later. Between ‘Astronomy Domine’, ‘Lucifer Sam’ and songs not on this album like ‘See Emily Play’ you have all the hallmarks of something I should whole heartedly love, and yet ‘Piper at the Gate of Dawn’ always leaves me cold. It’s a bit too all over the place and of it’s the time. Not that many bands of the era nailed their debut album though, so maybe this was just the prelude to something better had things turned out a bit differently. Oh well, still miles better than ‘The Wall.’
History!
The Gnome: easy 5 outta 5. Everything else on this album? Ehhhh
Ok album. For the time it was original but now quite dated.
I love Pink Floyd but Their early stuff isn‘t my Cup of Tea. While some tunes Sound Melodic and interresting, others make me Wonder If they Are serious or Not.
A couple of good tracks on here but far from their best album
Thoughts before listening: Early Pink Floyd when Syd Barrett was still in the band. More psychedelic than the prog rock epics they'd go on to release. Review: Well it's safe to say that I prefer the prog years. Like a lot of the 60s psychedelic bands these songs are more interesting than good. Little pop rock ditties with weird lyrics mixed in with a bunch of weird noises. "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive" are the best of the bunch here which makes sense cause those are the only tracks I recognized coming in. Both are also spacey jams as opposed to the rest of the album's whimsical tracks. Floyd would go on to release much better music, but I'm glad to have listened to their roots...even if I don't particularly love that sound. 3-stars
Just because Pink Floyd made some great music, doesn't mean that ALL the music they made is great
I put this on and my wife left the room mumbling something about musical masturbation. I on the other hand sat and enjoyed the whole thing. Much more akin to jam band than the later Floyd's conceptual and then pop structured stuff. More youthful and a bit more edgy. I heard a lot I liked, but still can't get higher than a 3, though. My wife was not entirely wrong.
Some unique sounds and melodies separate this from the usual psychedelic crap that’s found on a lot of these 60s albums.
Pura psicodelia. Mejorarán mucho.
Not the best Pink Floyd for sure. 2.81
Not my Favorite
The early stages of greatness. Its crazy what they where destined to be and make. Its more an interesting listen than entertaining to me. It has so many flaws and early influences which will be found later on. I liked it and it had a good length. I don't feel that it is a album i would casually listen to but it has its moments. (3.0/5.0)
Detta är ett historiskt debutalbum, ett av de album som var avstamp för den progressiva rockens bana tillsammans med typ Sgt Peppers och Freak out! Detta är långt ifrån mitt favoritalbum med PF men det håller fortfarande. Jag är inget stort fan av hur mycket de leker med panorering i mixen, det går lite över styr här. Det finns några lite svagare spår men för det mesta uppehålls mitt intresse. Blir nog en 3/5, det är bra men inte jättebra eller fantastiskt.
Interesting early Pink. Less complicated than the later stuff
Not as great as their later albums imo, but still pretty good, especially considering it's a debut
Interstellar Overdrive is a killer track but that stereo channel switching can fuck right off.
Very much of its time. You can feel the late 60s and early 70s in every bar. That said there's some great tracks here, they're just not as timeless as their later works. Definitely worth a relisten or two. But for now, just a 3.
Just because a band is influential doesn't mean you need to put everything they've ever created on this list. Anyway, album is fine
Er was een periode waar ik dit 5 sterren had gegeven, maar toen was ik 17 ofzo en zat ik soms in hogere oorden. Nu ben ik 25 en zit ik vooral aan mijn bureau op kantoor, relatief dicht bij de grond dus. Op zich geen slecht album, maar sommige dingen klinken nu wel echt heel experimenteel. Pas op, er staan wel een aantal goede nummers op, zoals Lucifer Sam, Astronomy Domine en Matilda Mother, maar Pink Floyd heeft veel betere albums gemaakt. 3.1
6.5/10 Vec duze vrijeme mi psihodelija nije neki weapon of choice, ali ovaj album mi hajde prolazi, valjda zbog svog kultnog statusa, ali prvenstveno zato sto su Floydi. Pow R. Toc H. mi je favorit, a ostale si realno ne bi pustao doma, a ni izabrao za tripanje. Ok mi ga je bilo cuti u komadu nakon 10+ godina ali to je sve.
I… um… I dunno, a 3? This is Pink Floyd’s studio debut – I gave a lot of love to The Wall, and it’s a brilliant album deserving of its acclaim. I figured this wouldn’t be like The Wall, simply because that’s a gargantuan album, and this is only a 41 minute debut. I was fully expecting some good, solid rock, and that’s what I got through the first 5 tracks. Side 1 of this album is a really strong basis for the melodies and soundscapes they’d choose to explore in the future, without Syd Barrett in the group. Side 2 of this album is a journey that I don’t think I can fully put into words. I don’t know if it’s my brain being slightly tired, or my expectations being sent into a different dimension, but once the brakes go off the rails and Syd Barrett’s LSD-inspired brain takes over this album during “Interstellar Overdrive”, it is… certainly a fucking experience. I can’t tell what the prerogative of the album became over the course of its final 20 or so minutes, but from the ‘18 different Classic Doctor Who episodes playing at the same time’ experience of the final 5 minutes of “Interstellar Overdrive”, to the strange strange epiphanies of Grimble Grumble on “The Gnome”, the invasion of Syd’s meditation space during “Chapter 24”, the awkwardly morbid fate of “The Scarecrow”, and the complete breakdown of a nice happy bicycle-based love story in “Bike” (which ends in what I can only describe as ‘the first time seeing Sid’s toys from Toy Story, but in audio form’ (i.e., mildly terrifying). I truly do not know what to make of the back half of the album. It pretty much erased my memory of the first 5 tracks, all of which are really good, but… sometimes it’s about how you finish, and this album finishes in such a way that I feel like *I’ve* somehow done LSD for the first time. If the intention was that sort of feeling, then they nailed it, to a degree perhaps only matched by “Locust Abortion Technician”. It’s just not at all what I was expecting from a Pink Floyd album – it doesn’t make it bad at all, but it’s just so far removed from my expectations that I’m not sure WHAT to rate it. I guess I’m at a 3, if only because I don’t really feel like I enjoyed the second half of the album as much as I was an unwilling participant on Syd’s version of the Willy Wonka boat ride. Perhaps it’ll click for me another day, but I do admire this album for being… whatever the hell it is. An enigma, perhaps, but for my current mindset, a 3. It could totally go up, though.
Man. This is the first time I've listened to Pink Floyd, (or at least an album of theirs), so this was pretty eye opening for me. I'm very conflicted on what I should rate this. I would give it about a 3.5 so I'll think about it more later. I know this is their debut album so I would not be surprised if I like the next album I get more than this! Great stuff.
Astronomy Domine 3.4 Lucifer Sam 3.3 Matilda Mother 3.2 Flaming 3 Pow R. Toc H 3.3 Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk 3.1 Interstellar Overdrive 3.4 The Gnome 3.1 Chapter 24 3 The Scarecrow 2.8 Bike 3 Score: 3.145454545
It was a bit all over the place, some was good, some wasn't.
i like them and all but especially the second part of the album is a bit dull and sounds like a monthy-python ethno-hippie doodle-doo improv live record...
It was Ok. I prefer some other album of theirs
Would rank higher if Roger Waters wasn’t a Nazi
Psychedelic rock/pop that's just ok. Liked Songs Added: Astronomy Domine
I actually don't hate some Pink Floyd? Reminds me of Spinal Tap.
huh... not what I was expecting. I thought this album was trying way too hard to be psychedelic and different from everything else. I mean, it's better than a lot of the brit-pop of the era but I had to listen to Dark Side of the Moon after this to be sure that Pink Floyd weren't wildly overrated. They're not, they just had a slow start. 2.5 rounding up.
I have come to a realisation that I am a David Gilmour era pink floyd fan. While there were some good songs to listen to, there is nothing really that excited me about this album at all. I cannot see myself selecting this to play when other pink floyd albums are available
This is the third Pink Floyd album I've gotten out of 85 generated albums: I got the last one three albums ago. I don't really think this needed to be on the list. It was OK, but a bit scattered. I think the other two Pink Floyd albums I've gotten ("The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall") were better, but I'm not even a tenth through this list and feel a little Pink Floyd-ed out already.
Pink Floydin debyyttilevy. Huomaa kyllä Pink Floydin elementtejä mutta on kyllä vielä tosi erilaista verrattuna myöhäisempään tuotantoon. Ja myöhäisempi parempaa. Ollut varmaan aikaansa edellä kokeellisuudessa, mutta kappaleet ei niin hyviä. Parhaat: Matilda Mother
3.5
Weird psychadelic fantasy rock, this ticks all the boxes of things I dont like. Its interesting to see how much better they got after this. I bet this is some Pink Floyd hipsters favorite album.
Nerdy folk rock by a band that would make great albums… later
# Playlist track - Astronomy Domine # Notes - It's kind of interesting to listen and to ponder what Pink Floyd could have been with Syd Barret. - Having said that, this isn't a great album. It's interesting, and noisy, but it is not quite there yet. - Worth a listen, but just move over to the other albums after.
reak psyldelic
The Syd Barrett age of Pink Floyd was an interesting one. Heavily psychedelic-forward rock. It's definitely not my favorite or even top 3 albums from the Floyd Boys, but it's got its place on this list for a reason.
Trippy
I can never decide on my feelings about this album. So much of it just feels like alright psychedlic pop, but then stuff like Interstellar Overdrive comes on and you realise they had some insane stuff hidden inside them. Just wish they let it show on here more, most of it is a little bland honestly.
Was happy when I saw it was a Pink Floyd album, but confess it left me disappointed. Their debut album, hailed by many, leaves me wanting the “real” Floyd that would come about under Waters. This album really needs the LSD to be appreciated and sober a lot of it is kinda - well I’ll go with weird.
Despite the general wavy nature that is quite irresistible, I found the bulk of this album, with its pacing and structural fade ins and fade outs, to be like an under carbonated fizzy drink. The bubbles are there, but are there enough of them?
Primeiro álbum do pink floyd. Bem parecido com o The who
REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES
It is clear that pink floyd was still finding their sound with this album with more pop influence than in the future along with the classic abstract sounds they are known for. The songs are somewhat chaotic and clunky but is still enjoyable to listen to 3/5
it is ok
Not as good as their later work
following dsotm, i had very high expectations for this album, failing to realise that it came much before. i can appreciate that this was floyd’s first record, and probably a record where they weren’t trying to be too out there with the sound so as to gain a following, but i found it quite bland after dsotm. there were some high points, and i enjoyed the final 3 or 4 tracks more than the start, but for me, this isn’t prime pink floyd. im looking forward to getting more floyd albums to come…
I'm glad they got better at making music later on. RIP Syd Barrett but maybe recording your psychedelic freakouts wasn't the best idea.
Some moments of real brilliance here wrapped in a bunch of acid-soaked weirdness. Not a fair marker of what Pink Floyd would become.
A fun album but nothing major. I’ve given it a handful of listens throughout the years but I can never fully get onboard with the vision, which seems to me split between the psychedelic, childlike, and astronomical, elements that don’t combine in reverberating ways.
Too psychedelic for my tastes
Not their best but not bad either
3.0 More "out there" than I was expecting. Besides a couple songs I don't think it will find a regular rotation in my library but overall interesting
It’s nice to listen to this album…so I can baseline how far Pink Floyd advanced from here to their classic 70s albums. Psychedelic _________ is not a great genre description. It’s just too out there and lacking structure. Interstellar Overdrive was hard to take.
Wacky. Zany, even.
I love Pink Floyd, but I much prefer the later work after Syd left. This was exciting, interesting, experimental and challenging, but I think some of it was just a bit to over-indulgent knob twiddling
I think if you take into account this came out in 1967 and not 1973, it’s an impressive psychedelic album ahead of its time, but compared to DSOTM it feels very dated very soon. But I think there is an argument for this being included on the list.
Was about to give this a four star then there was an awful song about a bike
3-
Torn on this. To have made this is in 1967 is unreal. Released only a month or so after Sgt Peppers. On the other hand it's really not very good in places. Prog rock really finding it's feet and stumbling many times along the way. Flaming, for example, sounds like someone taking the piss out of early prog. That entire track 3-5 section is very poor. But then there are some good moments, like the opening track and the majority of Interstellar Overdrive. Difficult to score. 1* if it was released today, 4* as it kicked off a genre, extra points for it being Pink Floyd. 2.5*, but rounding up.
This one was random, started off pretty good then turned Into what felt like early Beatles songs
Fun silly trippy mystical stuff.
Diciamo che sono migliorati col tempo
... astronomy domine- 6 lucifer sam- 4 matilda mother- 3 flaming- 3 pow r toc h- 5 take up thy stethoscope and walk- 4 or 5 interstellar overdrive- 4 the gnome- 7 for gnomes. not many people sing bout gnomes anymore. STOP WHISPERING YOURE SCARING MEEE chapter 24- 3 the scarecrow- 6 bike- 6 what
I used to think I liked this album and hated the rest of Floyd’s catalogue. However this list has already forced me to realise that ‘Wish you were here’ is, well, OK. Re-listening to this has forced me to admit it’s a bit of a mess of an album. Yes there’s some great bits in patches e.g. interstellar’s intro riff and the organ parts are generally excellent. But there’s far too much filler experimentation, and Syd Barrett’s lyrics are rather childlike in all honesty. You can imagine this being a pretty awesome live show, particularly if you were mashed, and it has a certain charm about its dreamlike quality (albeit not a favourite dream). But it’s not really something to sit down and listen to for any great enjoyment, so it’s more something of a curiosity to wheel out occasionally for amusement.
Okay SO… whilst I am a fan of classic rock, I’ve never really been exposed to Pink Floyd much. That being said, this album grew on me quite a bit. I slowly embraced the quirks of their style and… I mean…. ‘I know a mouse, he hasn’t got a house, I don’t know why I call him Gerald’ is peak lyricism lmao. Cracks me up every time.
Nice start to their careers
incontestável a importância de pink floyd para a música mundial, em especial o rock, tendo influência em muita coisa que gosto, como o rock que ouço hoje em dia, a exemplo do TOOL. Porém, esse álbum é uma miscelânea de experimentação que, obviamente quebrou barreiras à época mas soa incômodo hoje em dia e exige paciência e compreensão do contexto. Parece, sinceramente, uma boa trilha sonora para alice no país das maravilhas. Repito, entendo a importância, mas prefiro, sonoramente, a era de David Gilmour, sem a presença do "Crazy Diamond" na banda.
Never been a big fan of the late 60s psychedelic LSD-laced Pink Floyd. This was fine, but nothing here elevated past a 3/5 in its rating.
It's fine.
It's funny to listen to this and anticipate the many other albums this band has on the list. It's still weird, intricate, and full of fantasy, but it is heavily rooted in the blues and folk of England at the time as Pop and Rock were just getting off the ground with the Beatles and Stones.
nonostante mi sembri di commettere un crimine contro l'umanità, questo album è davvero troppo psichedelico. troppo. sempre bravi eh, ma ho fatto veramente troppa fatica a finirlo.
Diciamo che sono migliorati col tempo
Very good 60s psychedelic rock album, but not a great Floyd album. I've never been a fan of Barrett era PF mainly because I grow up with the seminal Gilmour era 70s and onward LPs. Overall I enjoyed it, but would have liked to have had Animals on the list instead. 3.5/5
pretty good but producer gotta chill with the pan dial holy shit
Very beatles influenced, but still very left field and what I expect from them. Syd Barret def creative as hell but I prefer Roger. 3.25 Not a bad listen
Of its time
Liked, didn’t love
Kinda overrated.
Rock psicodélico. Ni fu ni fa.
60's psychedelic rock that reminds me more of the Yardbirds than Pink Floyd. Not a bad album, but after two listens, I probably won't return to it. 3/5
Way short of their better later works, sounds like a band finding their feet but still trying to fit in with what is popular at the time. Syd may have been a genius, but there's not much evidence of it here!
more beatles and king crimson than the pink floyd you think of but cool to hear their start
I’ve heard plenty of references to Syd Barrett and ‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’-era Floyd in my time, but I don’t think I expected it to sound like this. It’s full of Kinksian/Small Faces-esque British whimsy (I assume this is mostly Syd’s input) but at the same time it’s very much at the space-rock end of the 60s psychedelia spectrum (presumably at the behest of the rest of the band). Both facets have their moments, though both can get tiresome after a while. While I’ve heard the individual elements done better elsewhere, this particular blend might well be unique, and surprisingly cohesive. They threw a lot of experimental sounds into the mix yet retained some sense of accessibility, so for that maybe this album is worth hearing before you die, at least once.
oh another pink floyd,, im not high enough for this band or this album i think idk. the SOUNDS are very interesting though to say the least. very unique as always
It was good but not my favorite pink floyd album
3.5/5. I wanna call early Pink Floyd mid but I can’t help but feel pity and sympathy toward Syd Barrett.
Some excellent stuff but also has the worst kind of silly prog rock which I hate
Beetje wacky
For a 1967 album that saw an integral member lose his mind, never to recover, this sonic tapestry is appropriately psychedelic. They have some great sound collages, experimental effect treatments, and left field approaches to songwriting throughout. Ultimately, this "super-British-quirk" approach to psychedelia isn't my favorite form of the genre but there are some great and memorable moments.
Very experimental, but a lot of the tracks sounded good/interesting enough to keep me entertained. It's a wholly unique experience. Like watching a indie movie or something. I understand why druggies would like this.
Bara konstig och megaflummig, men lite rolig gör att den ändå får tre
I'd never previously heard anything off this album, though I've listened to plenty of Pink Floyd. This doesn't sound anything Iike Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall. This is 60s psychedelic rock, reminiscent of Jefferson Airplane, and other acts. It wasn't bad, just not what I expected from their debut album.
Mostly too psychedelic and jammy for me. Was very happy to see a reason to listen to Pink Floyd's first album with it's inclusion on this list, but it wasn't terribly great. Half of this record is long noisy jammy bits, mixed with a little silly british man telling stories about gnomes and the like.
Can tell the time the album was released. If you are expecting the popular sound of Pink Floyd you will be disappointed but here the foundation of the Wall and Money in places.
I loved this album back when it was newer, but don't like it nearly as much as I do the later albums, like Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon.
not my favorite Pink Floyd album, but I can see how they evolved into what they did
Generell ist Pink Floyed überbewertet. EIgentlich kann man nur die Experimentierfreudigkeit loben. Rest is nix besonderes.
Well, it's certainly a unique one. Not sure how much I actually liked it though. I didn't hate it... This seems like the right rating, I dunno.
Ah, the Barrett years. I appreciate the debut album in its psychedelia, but it doesn't hit me the way the other classic Floyd albums do.
Not a big fan of early Floyd but it’s still unique and experimental so points for that. Rating: 3.1
Good
Pink Floyd on LSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_az91rgENc Fave Tracks: Pow R. Toc H., Take Up The Stethoscope and Walk, The Scarecrow 2.8/5
Cool but not that cool
First ever listen to Pink Floyd, I think I’d need to listen a few more times to fill appreciate.
A decent debut from Pink Floyd, especially for the time — and an important mark in the history of Psychedelic Rock for sure — but it’s just not as interesting, engaging or unique as any of their catalogue that would come later. It’s hard not to be biased, and I’m glad I got this as my first Pink Floyd album of this project, but I just had hopes for more. It IS interesting to see the work of Syd Barrett and his influence on Pink Floyd, but what a sad life he led.
I should be giving this a 2 stars just on the principle of this list containing over three Pink Floyd albums. Putting that aside. Today we get to learn about artistic foreshadowing! Syd Barrett sings about whimsical gnomes and leads the band into wild vocal/instrumental passages, surely foreshadowing is imminent mental spiral! Fun!
I know there is a lot of Pink Floyd I haven't listened to and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one I know I need to listen to. What a cool name for an album. So not my favorite Pink Floyd album but it was cool to hear for the first time. Next time I'd like to be on LSD and really get into the Syd Barrett mindset. Also cool to learn this was produced at Abbey Road at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper. I heard a lot of similarity to the Beatles here so who (or what) influenced who? Maybe Syd and John were taking LSD together. Who knows. Cool album but I probably won't listen again sober.
its ight?
Too whimsical for me
Reminded me of Cream, Beatles, hints of future Pink Floyd. A delirious mixture of enjoyable, strange, and all in the middle. Some songs got a little excited about newish stereo mixing experimentations and “Interstellar Overdrive” almost had me taking out my headphones. Good experimental stuff though! 3.5 star
Not bad for on the road. However my mom kept thinking things were wrong w the car bc of the noises in the music.
I didn’t really like most of it, it was a bit to chaotic at points, I liked the ones with lyrics a bit better 5.5/10
As I said previously, I'm not a fan of psychedelic music, or a fan of any music created by Syd Barrett. And although few songs on this album can be linked with their later style, overall it was filled with Syd's quirkiness and unique sound. It's not terrible, but certainly not enjoyable to listen to. Just another brick in the wall.
Screwy to say the least, its not something I will go back to, I do like some of Syd's solo work so I thought I may appreaciate this more than I did. Spawned alot of indulgent music but tha doesn't make it bad either.
#135 The description says this was only Pink Floyd album led by Syd Barrett, and I think that's probably for the best, because this is nowhere as good as their later stuff. 3/5: alright
Pink Floyd is always fun to listen to.
Still not a big Pink Floyd person
Totally tracks that this came out the same year as Sgt Pepper’s. I think this is what Todd Rundgren was shooting for, but he missed the mark. This album requires one’s attention. I don’t like that about it. Overall, it’s too trippy for me to fully enjoy, but there are some interesting things going on throughout. 3.2
When I first got into Pink Floyd, I think (?) I listened to this or at least I listened to the popular songs. I really love Lucifer Sam, and Astronomy Domine is pretty good… in fact, the first few songs are quite nice, but I’m indifferent to the rest of the album. The best for the band was definitely to come. LOVE the album artwork though. One of my favorite of their many iconic covers.
I stopped listening a couple songs in nothing really gripped me.
When this popped up my first thought was why this album, rather than Dark Side of the Moon or the Wall. Then I listened to it. A psychedelic trip far removed from what the band would become. I can understand why it's here now. The question now is, is it good? From a historical perspective it's a ground breaking record that pushed boundaries. From a modern perspective it lacks focus and the lyrics are infantile. This is one of those albums I will need to listen to a few times and sleep on before I can decide on a star rating.
Can’t say it’s my favorite genre; Psychedelic and experimental rock generally sounds off putting, jarring, and immature. I think there is something here though. It would take the right mood and more listens to enjoy this album.
Hard to think past a strict historical time frame when listening, but obviously a major stake in the ground. The traditionally structured singles don't really grab. "Interstellar Overdrive" has the desired effect, one supposes, but one never craves to hear it. Not exactly "In A Gadda Da Vida" in that sense, now is it? Yes, it's more artful than say Moby Grape, and cooler, but also more considered and even contrived. One finds it easy to envision the lads thinking, "How clever and out there and psychedelic are we!" Perhaps the more important question is whether it's any more historically significant than say, A Final Cut (a moment of time in the '80s that has held up better? This child of the '80s says indubitably no, even accounting for one's personal weak spot for AFC? Is Meddle a better record straight up? One thinks, yes. Is Animals? Again, indubitably. This is a curiosity only worth caring about because of what was to come.
Favorite Tracks: Matilda Mother Astronomy Domine Chapter 24
No. 84/1001 Astromony Divine 3/5 Lucifer Sam 4/5 Matilda Mother 4/5 Flaming 4/5 Pow R. Toc. H 3/5 Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk 3/5 Interstellar Overdrive 2/5 (2x) The Gnome 4/5 Chapter 24 3/5 Scarecrow 4/5 Bike 2/5 Average: 3,17 Mostly I thought this was a good experimental psychadelic rock album. Interstellar Overdrive was a bit too experimental for me.
A bit of a mixed bag with some psychedelic gems (Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive) some whimsical ditties and a few throwaway tunes. Listening to it now what particularly impresses is Richard Wright's spectral keyboard work, floating above the thrashing guitars and drums.
Not bad dude
Astronomy Domine Lucifer Sam Chapter 24
Man this is some goofy shit. The gnome has sentimental value to me for being the first song I listened to the very first time I did LSD but otherwise, half the tracks here are almost TOO silly. The highlights here though (Lucifer sam, Flaming, and interstellar overdrive of course) are some top tier 60’s psyche.
this is the kind of prog that gets to me. dribbles the doormouse
Quirky and fun in places, with some good dark descending rock riffs in other places and a slew of psychedelic noodlings. Not as awful as I was expecting.
Here it is. Here's the proof that not everything Pink Floyd does is great. Because this is not. It's just too damn weird and disjointed to be enjoyable.
It's just Ok. 3.0.
Some of the 'whacky psychedelia' is not to my taste. A listening group member referred to it as "funhouse/haunted house bullshit" haha Pink Floyd is a bit weird because they have these tremendous high points in their careers (Dark Side, The Wall) and then pretty much everything else is almost hard to listen to sometimes. Stepping stones and building blocks on the way to greatness - sure. Fun? no Still there is some cool stuff on here and it's an interesting part of history - Syd Barrett leading the band and no David Gilmore yet....
Même étant grand fan de Pink Floyd, c'est clairement l'un de leurs moins bons albums. 6/10
Interesting to hear but not as impressive as later works.
My journey begins with Pink Floyd!
gutes album, aber hat mich nicht soo abgeholt, wie erwartet, vl muss ich es nochmal hören
Not my vibe
Not their best. 6.5/10
Not Pink Floyd's best, a little to faux psychedelic for me
I like Pink Floyd and I understand that this is a debut but it didn't do much for me. I feel like I felt a little lost while listening to this and I even felt some boredom. Admittedly I might not have been in the right head space to fully enjoy this and I think sometimes this list will give you an album that requires that. Didn't dislike it, and it's a middling 3/5 for me.
I love their 70s stuff, but were very hit and miss in the 60s for me.
This isn’t my favorite Floyd. Understand its place and significance in psychedelics music, but it’s not super easy listening for me. But nice to where they started, with Syd.
The polish and vision had yet to become ingrained so an album of experimentation, wit and some decent songs.
I want whatever Syd is on. Looks up what happened to Syd… ah never mind. Found most of this hard to listen to but Gnome and Scarecrow at the end were fun. Some better Pink Floyd albums missed the list like Meddle, Animals, and Atom Heart Mother
Were it not for the Revolution 9-like forays into atonal noise making, this would sound exactly like every other British psych record from the era. Forgettable but I still prefer it to their other more popular albums.
Psych, great and awful and great again
Mushrooms
It's fascinating listening to the morph from 60s bands to what they released in the 70s
like it
I don’t really know what to make of early Pink Floyd. The band members revered Syd in a way that’s hard to relate from the outside. Sure there was a lot of LSD but this is a mess of sound. I guess it gets a bit of kudos for being part of the psychedelic movement and if it’s time and probably people should listen to it. So it’s going to get far more from me than it deserves on music alone.
more like parping at the gates at the gates of yawn, amirite
Still an interesting album, but not one I would put on repeat or often return to. Interstellar Overdrive is a bit too much psychedelic craziness for me. Bike is still my favourite song.
There are several hints to proper songs alongside too long drug-inspired jams.
Their best work is yet to come
não é exatamente a minha praia, mas cai bem pra compor uma trilha sonora de filme setentista onde os personagens chapam o coco de ácido e dirigem com o cigarro na boca
FINALLY, a Pink Floyd album. I've listened to a lot of Pink Floyd over the years, well, "Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," and "The Wall," but this is my first time listening to this album. I knew going into it that it was different than their work that I was familiar with, but having already suffered through Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs, I approached this album with somewhat low expectations. Thankfully, this album was better than what I expected. The vocals were good, and the overall sound was experimental and unique. This was a great album to listen to over headphones, as there was so much going on instrumentally. I'd still prefer to fire up "Wish You Were Here" any day of the week, but I'd be willing to give this one another listen since I know there are some things that I missed this time around. Going into this list, I really thought I liked psychedelic rock. Now, I think I had just managed to find a handful of psychedelic rock songs that I'd liked, and those were the only ones I'd listen to.
Wasn't really my thing. It had a very unconventional sound but did contain some very good tracks.
I’m sure if I were a young acid user living in London in 1967 this would have been the best album ever. In my reality, I have a hard time getting my head in the right space to listen to this. This album does show tremendous creativity that continued post Syd and this requires me to have a 3 level of respect for Pink Floyd’s first album.
Although Syd Barrett's fate was unfortunate, I can't help but be glad that he only participated on this album because their sound changed dramatically for the better after he left the band. Admittedly, this was probably leading edge psychedelic rock in the late 60s but its still a bit goofy sounding to me. Interstellar Overdrive is probably the best song on the album and it drops hints of their coming of age starting with Meddle in the early 70s. Pow R Toc H is also decent because it doesn't have those goofy vocals that I find so distracting. I'll round this 2.5 up to 3 just because we know where these guys are going.
pink...pink band..60 luvun albumeista piti tämä valita jaha, kaikista kaikista mitä on niin tämä... lunatic on the f ucking grass right now syd (so yolo deranged) noh debyyttialbumina varmaan pääsi sitten. ja tajusin että senkö takia niin paljon paskaa täällä..famous band must put debyt album!! influemtial,...cause ffirst... from fame band... eipä kuppaa atom heartti tällä sivustolla mathilda mother
slightly nostalgic rubbish
Rating: 6/10
As someone who is not that big of a psychedelia fan I was not the biggest fan of this album. There are great songs on this album which should be expected by a band as great as Pink Floyd but songs like "Interstellar Overdrive", "Bike", and especially "Pow R. Toc H." were a little too off-putting for me. It's not like they were bad songs they just had some element that made it unenjoyable for me. My least favorite song probably was "Pow R. Toc H." and even that had great guitar and drums throughout but they were ruined for me by the weird screeching and yelping at parts of the song. Also "Interstellar Overdrive" was just way too long of a song for how uninteresting it was at times. I once again enjoyed aspects of it like the drums and the guitar at parts but then they randomly decide to do something weird that to me does not pay off. Also was not the biggest fan of "The Scarecrow" because I am just not that big a fan of that sort of intentionally eccentric vocal style. Overall not my favorite album like a 7/10.
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Pink Floyd is a psychedelic masterpiece that marked the band's debut and the peak of Syd Barrett's creative influence. Released in 1967, it's a kaleidoscopic journey into a world of sonic experimentation. Tracks like "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive" epitomize the album's mind-bending soundscapes and Barrett's whimsical lyricism. The album's production, driven by Barrett's innovative guitar work, creates an immersive and unpredictable sonic experience. However, the album's eccentricity might not be fully accessible to all listeners, and its unevenness occasionally leads to moments that feel disjointed. "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" remains a cornerstone of psychedelic rock, a testament to Pink Floyd's early artistic vision and their contribution to pushing musical boundaries.
While this is a whacky and trippy debut, I wouldn't put this in the top of my Pink Floyd albums no matter how hard all those fellas stare at me on the cover. There were a few songs I enjoyed but it felt more like a concept album (and maybe all of them are) more focused on rhythms and exploring different sounds. That's all well and good, but it just didn't stick with me the same way their others have.
Early Pink Floyd, well before the big ones we've gotten so far. I was ready to write some angry review about how we don't need these proto-band albums, like the Bee Gees before the disco, but then I got to "Interstellar Overdrive," which I recognized immediately as the sample in Death Grips' "I Want It I Need It." What a massive, massive riff. I stand by the fact that this isn't as essential as albums like Dark Side of the Moon or Let's Start Here; I'm not sure if it NEEDS to be on this list. But I can't in good faith advocate for axing after hearing that track. Though a good chunk of it is like generic '60s psych rock, it's still quite good. Favorite tracks: Interstellar Overdrive, Lucifer Sam, Pow R. Toc H., Bike. Album art: Kaleidoscopic view of the bandmates, they look quite scuzzy here. I'm pretty sure I recognize Roger Waters in the top left. 3.5/5
I love pink Floyd and enjoy most of their discography. This one, their debut, is not as enjoyable as their later albums. Some artists their debut is their best, others get better with time. Pink Floyd got significantly better with time. The psychedelic experimental sound exists in this one but it’s a little convoluted. Overall it’s okay and still decent but not as good as it could be. 6.5/10
Rock psicodélico. Ni fu ni fa.
While I very much prefer Roger Waters’ Pink Floyd, there’s some thing beautifully raw about Syd Barrett’s. The early days of psychedelic rock were shining throughout this album and we got some of the best sonic experiments of the era, as well as some lengthy duds too, however.
It is rather a difficult listen for a first time around. As a remarkable band, you can hear the evolution. And the 60s had a sound that maybe they're asking back.
I'm offering credit here as this is a very interesting genesis of Pink Floyd and the Syd Barrett influence. At this time, it is a curiosity... as this psychedelic sound is dated and songs like Bike the Gnome are just odd. Enjoyed Astronomy Domine the most. Pretty fascinating album.
I love Pink Floyd but this one was a bit too strange even for me
For a debut album it’s not that bad, but of course you can’t help but compare it to their best album, and in that regard it comes up lacking
A charming entry from the early Pink Floyd, some songs are unbridled nonsense but isn’t that part of the fun?
Pretty good, not the sound I was expecting
A little too 60s for me. Production is great, especially the vocal harmonies, but the psychadelia is not for me.
Surprisingly catchy psychodelic album that already gave a good idea of the talent this band had and the big things it would go on to create
This album definitely feels like a debut album from Pink Floyd, all the elements of their style are there already but it really has this rough feel to it, maybe the experimental part is a bit too present to my taste. I liked it but not all of it. I think Interstellar Overdrive, although well titled, was a bit too much for me ahah There are some parts of some songs where mixing behaves in weird way in both, like one hear glitching or being muted or such and I although it is surprising, I like the surprise effect that it brings. Not too big of a fan of the album overall but there are some good sides I guess. Favorite Tracks : Mathilda Mother, The Gnome Rating : 3 / 5
Okk I am a bit disappointed zith this album... With a headset the stereo makes a really bad impression.. I won't take points away but defintly not to hear again with headset! On the music, it is surprising. Definitly out of any genre, defining itself in away... It is psychedelic by time but in a same way it does not go all in and maybe that what is lacking.. I was expecting more from Pink Floyd but in a way it is not a bad neither a good album.... 2.5/5
I was hyped to see this but then it wasn't really the Pink Floyd style I like. Didn't really get it tbh. I was in a bad mood this day perhaps that didn't help my open mindedness
Not the good Pink Floyd stuff. Nice to hear their very early stuff and see where they are started off and hear the influences to their later stuff though.
Way more rock way less psychedelia, makes sense as it is earlier. But not as good.
Not the best Floyd
Stylistically all over the map and very much of its time, but psychedelic-era Pink Floyd is never boring. This is a twisted, strange odyssey of a listen. Musicianship is a little uneven, with some well crafted songs, and others that sound like the band is just off on some creative lark (See: most of side 2). There is a silliness and sing-songiness that's a little hard to take, but it's fortunately mitigated somewhat by the fact that most of the songs are pretty brief. That said, "Interstellar Overdrive" is just way too long and just feels like 9 minutes of funhouse music. The laughter at the end of "Bike" is kind of a perfect way to end it, but also leads one to wonder if we haven't all just been had in some kind of massive musical joke. Not something I see myself coming back to, but it's incredibly creative and adventurous music and for what it's worth, pretty fun to listen to. It's not hard to see how this album must have been vastly mind-opening and influential on artists who would be making music 10-15 years down the line. Fave Songs: Lucifer Sam, Astronomy Dominé, Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk, Matilda Mother, Pow R. Toc H.
kind of worn out of this style but i know they were pioneers of said style so points for that. i did like the psychedelic parts and the small portions of singer/songwriter and bluegrass piqued my interest.
sometimes very good, sometimes gave me a headache
Some of the songs such as Lucifer sam and interstellar overdrive are really good but others are a bit too much out there for my taste.
On their first album (the only one to feature Syd Barrett), Pink Floyd make it clear from the outset that they aren’t interested in playing by anyone’s rules; their psychedelia is especially weird and dissonant. Rough in spots and not especially compelling in the second half, but proof enough that the Floyd would really start cooking down the line once they’d gained a bit more experience.
Pretty trippy. Kind of a stark contrast compared to The Wall which was the last album.
It was interesting to hear this album. As the first one, And the only Sid album, It's pretty unique. It's also pretty terrible.
Ingen sanga eg like sånn kjempegodt, og The Gnome e heilt jævlig. Burde kanskje gitt 2, men
Cool to hear a different side of Pink Floyd. Very Byrdsie...
Beatles/Beach Boys sound, but a bit darker. Good listen, but not something I would go out of my way to listen to.
Reminded me more of the Beatles than the Pink Floyd stuff I'm used to
Cool, classic, Pink Floyd. Just not one of my favorite albums by them.
fine. at least the instrumentals were interesting.
Enjoyable enough, but won’t make it into rotation.
A couple of great songs and a lot of twee rubbish.
Average tbh.
I like older Pink Floyd, but not as much on this album
The early days, Syd Barrett led Pink Floyd is different than their work in the years to come, and not in a good way. I have heard of this album before but have never listened to it. When comparing this album to DSOTM or The Wall, it does not stand very tall. I will cut it some slack because it is the very early stages of Pink Floyd and it is interesting to see how far they have come. Best song: Interstellar Overdrive Worst song: The Gnome
Not the Pink Floyd I know. Sounds to me like it's the Hollies trying to be Iron Butterfly. I like Iron Butterfly and the Hollies but not Floyd trying to be them both.
Similar Pink Floyd vibes? Idk it’s honestly very confusing how their music makes me feel. I don’t hate it by any means but just don’t love it.
So here’s the deal I’m a complete Pink Floyd apologist so this will be a biased review, but for their debut album to be included in the pool of PF albums in this generator? The first third of Pink Floyd’s discography is heavily experimental - most of the times it isn’t catchy or memorable. Sometimes it’s downright frightening. As for this album it was pretty solid. I wasn’t expecting a great amount from it and there were some songs I’d go back and listen to again. It’s nice to hear a project including founding member Syd Barrett, who unfortunately got lost in the sauce after a permanent acid trip resulting in his premature removal from the band pre generational commercial success.
Not bad
ну далеко не такой психодел как я ожидала) просто милый рен фэр альбом
Great ambient tunes for the mad (like myself)
1967. Astronomy Domine, Matilda Mother, Bike
Early weird pink floyd
It's was fun listening to this album. Never listened to the whole thing before. Lots of cooky early psychedelia sounds with dashes of lovable 60's lyrics.
Kinda boring
Lots going on here. A little too deconstructed at times. Not a great listen while working. Would maybe try again in a different setting/mindset.
A little weird, easy to just let play
A bit of a confusing one this, like a hazy dream full of psychedelia.
Neat to hear where they started. Not quite as iconic or gripping as their massive albums to come later though. Listen with good headphones, the mix is cool
5/10 I don’t like this version of Pink Floyd.
An earlier one therefore with minimal weirdness and not quite as epic as the later ones, but still some really interesting moves on there.
2/3- Driving to school
Weird shit
Only significant for what they would do later. This is too much of its time to have much appeal today, though. "Interstellar Overdrive" might be historically interesting but it's not a cut many, or any, PF fans think of first (or even tenth or 20th) when they consider what to play. Meddle, Animals and The Final Cut would have been far better choices on the merits.
Not my favorite Pink Floyd, but still not bad. Just doesn’t have the same memorable songs that my favorites of theirs do.
Was surprised by this one, it's not the Pink Floyd I expected though admittedly my PF knowledge is nascent at best having only ever listened to a handful of their records.
Ya’ll sure this is Pink Floyd?
Bursting with ideas to the extent that a lot of them overflow and just kind of fall on the floor. Astronomy Domine is a great opener, and The Gnome is a lovely little ditty. The rest is just a bit hit and miss really, but full of promise
I have spent some time with other Pink Floyd albums, this one not so much. Syd Barrett was a tortured soul but I don't really see the brilliance. Listening with IEMs today and the weird stereo flip-flops were terrible in parts. Psychedelic - yes, enjoyable - I'm not convinced.
I had never heard this album before. I had to read up on it cuz I could tell it was early work. You can definitely tell they haven't found their voice yet. They sound like a lot of other groups from the time.
I had to listen to this one twice to gather my thoughts. They still didn't get gathered.
Stundtals väldigt bra. Stundtals inte fullt lika bra.
The debut Pink Floyd album dominated by Syd Barrett before he lost his mind to LSD. A (the?) key album of British psychedelia. Whimsical and very much of its time. (Erm.. it sounds dated....) Songs about flowers and bicycles and some guitar freakouts. 3
Good thing they grew up
Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands. Their earlier years though are definitely a bit more psychedelic, especially this album which I think was written mostly by Syd. Here they sound just like another young English band with some weirder more off-the-wall ideas. This album is definitely unique in that aspect, but novelty doesn't equal quality. I think this was overall an okay album, and a required stepping stone for the band to grow from
I'm not as big of a fan for this project compared to their later work, it just seems a lot more like an experimental stage and their sound isn't as refined yet
This album is weird at best and stupid at worst. The fact that this is on the list and Animals isn't is fucking criminal.
This is very bad timing for me. I’m currently going through the Pink Floyd discography and have already heard this, but not recently enough that I remember it very well, so I’m going to re-listen to it. I don’t have a lot to say about this. It’s very whimsical compared to their other albums. I liked it. Favorite song: “Bike” (also “Flaming”).
It’s not as great as what this band will become. Too psychedelic for my tastes and lacking some of the strong musicianship of later Floyd releases. Overall an entertaining if someone lifeless affair.
Och
LSD is a hell of a drug. Always super interesting to see where some of these legendary bands come from though
Sounds like a 60s rock album with vocal harmonies, plenty of production effects, and mystical lyrics.
Not my favourite era, I find the Syd years just too whimsy. But I think half the reason I like PF so much is that there's this album plus the next, then there's the pre-Meddle period, then there's the classic band years, then there's essentially the RW solo albums (The Wall, TFC), then there's essentially the DG solo album years (AMLOR, TDB). What a band!
Not as freaky as they'd become, but a good start.
Is it bad to say that I prefer pompous Pink Floyd to this? (Actually, my favourite PF album is WYWH, so not quite. But I do prefer, say, The Division Bell to this.) Dunno, both from a historical and an artistic perspective, this seems neither avant garde enough to warrant a deep exploration, nor accomplished enough to endure 50 odd years. But this is me...
I really hated listening to this album but I was not in a good mood for Zappa-esque weird rock. I suspect that this album is actually pretty good, but I can’t give it any more than a 3
Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd is weird, just like him. Best track: Lucifer Sam
I prefer Pink Floyd without Syd Barrett. Would like to hear some live recordings from this era though, as I enjoy the instrumental numbers far more than Barrett's psychedelic nursery rhymes.
Early Pink Floyd seems to have a similar sense of humor to early Kinks, which I like, but this isn't an album I'll listen to often. I like that there's a song about Barrett's cat (Lucifer Sam) and I'm saving that one.
Half of it sounds creative and daring like other psychedelic bands of the time, the other half flops like David Bowie's first album
A cool psychedelic album that's a little aimless at times, which is probably intentional. Definitely a different Pink Floyd than what would come with Syd Barrett's departure. I tend to like a somewhat more focused psychedelia but this is a solid debut album and I like Barrett's songwriting. Standout Tracks: Lucifer Sam, Interstellar Overdrive, Bike
Hauska levy, vaikka Sydin kohtalo aina hieman surettaa.
Not my favourite Pink Floyd album, but special in it's own way. I only really enjoy 3 or 4 of these songs but do like some of the experimentation on a couple of the others. A couple of them are borderline unlistenable though.
Rating: 5.1 Best Track: Matilda Mother
Niet de Pink Floyd dat ik kende. Iets te psychedelisch vond ik
Your quintessential psychedelic rock album. Not the heavily produced, high concept Pink Floyd that was to come. Still a good listen.
15th September 2022 Listened mainly on my lunch break walking around Westfield having gone in to the office. Jen in Spain so chilled and watched Thor. Not quite the sonic, expansive Floyd that is popular - more of a folk edge to some of these but with hints of their later sound. Still very layered and boundary pushing though.
the sound of psychedelic rock going through puberty. plenty of tongue-in-cheek ideas, long cacophonous interludes, and mainstream rock foundations, but it all feels kinda jumbled and primordial.
Good album but not their best!
Yer was ok, fun little album
I listened a couple times. It sounds pretty cool...
Love pink Floyd, but too experimental on this one
TLDR: This is not the Pink Floyd album you were looking for. If you woke me up in the middle of the night to ask me who my favourite band is, the answer you'd get is Pink Floyd. However, the Pink Floyd I'd be referring to is the one with David Gilmour (and, preferably, with Roger Waters too); I was never able to attach myself to Syd Barrett's Floyd. Piper at the Gates of Dawn explains why: there's some good music there, yes (Interstellar Overdrive offers a fine example). But the whole thing is way too trippy, lacks cohesion, and frankly I don't understand what the band is trying to say. I don’t think they do, either. Piper is probably as fine a start as one could expect given the circumstances, but it's the landmark albums that came out during the seventies in its post Barrett era that gave Pink Floyd the power of its might.
This is a typical 70s atmospheric album that you would expect from Pink Floyd. You need to be in the mood to listen to it. I think me being in that mood will be rare. It's not bad, just not for me on a normal listening basis. Also, ending the album with Bike was an awful choice.
Well, what we can say is that Pink Floyd found it's sound eventually. This album isn't bad, but it is pretty uninteresting for a band that would put out so many iconic albums over the coming decades. It's also easy to see how the work being done here forms a bridge between the psychedelic movement of the 60s and the music that Pink Floyd would release in the 70s once Syd Barrett departed the band. It's a neat signpost in musical history, and the band was definitely experimenting with a lot here, but ultimately this album is not that interesting to listen to 3/5
I cannot enjoy this album and I think it's a bit noisy
Psykedelisk uten tvil
Very Disturbing
Pas le meilleur pink, trop expérimental
Interstellar was cool till the balance effects went a bit too far.
Omg ja älskar death grips!!!
Love me some Floyd, but I'm not the biggest fan of the really early stuff. Meddle is kind of the furthest back in their catalog that I've done most of my listening. This album was just ok for me. Nothing that turned me off, but it's not the record I would put on by choice; give me Animals any day, every day.
Pretty weird album. Some songs were really cool, but overall it was just weird. 3.49/5
I delightfully strange album, though not even close to their peak.
Still not big on the Floyd, and a lot of this is too esoteric and whimsical for my taste. But there’s some really cool psychedelic stuff here that almost makes me a believer. The production in particular is delightfully dingy, and fits their vibe perfectly. C
Some interesting songs but nothing particularly standout
Undecided. Think a little strange but maybe will reconsider after listening to Dark Side of the Moon (assuming that's on this list)
Ce n’est pas le plus accessible des albums. C’est pas mal la définition de psychédélique. C’est très expérimental et il faut avoir envie de vivre cette aventure pour apprécier son écoute. Malgré ces particularités, il y a des perles comme Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive, Lucifer Sam, Matilda Mother et The Gnome. À écouter pour connaître les débuts de Pink Floyd, mais ce ne sera pas l’album le plus populaire.
This album has a drastically different sound from anything Pink Floyd made after the 1960s and I’m assuming that that’s mostly due to the departure of syd barrett. This was mostly cool from the perspective of hearing what the band sounded like at the start before they found their footing. And that sound was a pretty standard psychedelic rock vibe
Classic and wierd
Experimental psychedelic rock debut album. Very late 60s. Probably only fully makes sense to a drugged up Boomer.
For Pink Floyd, not great, compared to every other band, good.
man can recognize the fact that they're going to be something extraordinary and they have a lot of potential and ideas to reform the music, but the album is not one of my favorites
Skemmtilega quirky plata, mikill Syd í henni.
Maybe I need to be in a certain state of mind to fully understand this album but it certainly is interesting to see where it all started. Faves: The Gnome, Bike
Very "experimental 60's"
Not a bad album just not as comparable to their other albums.
Early Pink Floyd is not like later Pink Floyd. Barret brought some whimsical songs to the table, some of them good some of them not so.
Odd album, very psychedelic. This wasn't really my vibe but there were some songs that were more listenable and I enjoyed those. Overall probably a good album for someone else.
Not exactly the most listenable overall. I can appreciate it for the influence it had on other bands and on psychedelic rock as a whole, and there are certainly some nice songs, but probably wouldn't revisit.