The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Psych rock ain’t really my thing

Sweet Jesus this is a load of noodly bollocks

Soooo yea... wtf was that? That was definitely acid fueled 60s songs.

Most song are too psychedelic and experimental for me

Might be interesting from a historical or production perspective, but I didn’t really connect with any of the songs, and they didn’t really seem to be trying to say anything. It’s like they weren’t committed to the vision either. It felt almost like a satire, like Spinal Tap recorded this as a way to make fun of prog/psych rock. Cool cover art though.

No entiendo más de la mitad de lo que ocurre en el disco. No me llega. No lo he disfrutado absolutamente nada

Sorry, but this is way too far down the 60's experimental rabbit hole for me. I hated it.

p112. 1967. 1 star. This might have been tolerable if you were out of your head on a decent tab of LSD. As it is, it's just twee 60's hippy noodling.

Crap

É complicado... Adoro Pink Floyd, uma das minhas bandas favoritas, mas essa fase do Syd Barret não me desce. É tudo muito chato, sem sentido, sem ligação. Já tinha escutado esse álbum a muitos anos e quase pulei quando veio aqui na lista, mas resolvi dar uma chance, mas não valeu a pena. As melodias não são boas, nem consigo lembrar delas, depois de ouvir o disco. As linhas de guitarra não me ganham, a bateria é sem sentido, só salvo os teclados e olhe lá .. Astronomy Domine parece que todo mundo tava loco de ácido e resolveu bater a cabeça nos instrumentos e ver o que sai kkk Enfim, respeito quem curte, mas essa fase do Syd Barret pra mim é péssima. Pior álbum até aqui (do Pink Floyd, infelizmente).

Not my style.

noodlin'

Aburrido

Holy shit this ducking sucked ass

I always thought of Pink Floyd as a 70's band and never cared for them much. Never knew they were starting right around the Sgt Pepper time and man, it didn't help my opinion of them. Feels like what I would think a bad knockoff of psychedelic music would be

What. Truly not what I expected from this album. This is a very strange, almost psychedelic album, but has a very different vibe than I've come to expect from Pink Floyd. It is VERY MUCH a product of the 60s. Perhaps important to get this context on what Pink Floyd used to be like, but it's a very weird album and I can't say I enjoyed it.

its old English music ideas from the era with the seeds of psychedelic rock 1.5

No. Pink Floyd failing at psychedelia. They would have faded into obscurity if they had continued on this path.

Halverwege gestopt. Rare muziek, begrijp niet waarom mensen dit zo geweldig vinden.

So weird...experimental sounds and pub sing along quality vocals. Not ready to release but they did anyway. Not good. Apples and oranges!

Pretty terrible. Not a fan of Syd Barrett. 1.5/5

Sounding like a ren fest sound track from space.

Before I started this challenge I had no idea just how much I dislike psychedelic music. But it turns out it’s my least favourite genre! Dreadful stuff. Horrible vocals and screeching instrumentation. Happy when it ended. No thank you. And good God, what are these lyrics: “I’ve got a clan of gingerbread men Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men Take a couple if you wish They’re on the dish” …. followed by a never ending minute of discordant sounds for no reason????? Get me out of here.

Torn. dont like, it, but objecitvely I cna admire what it does. I see it as an interesting historical curiosity - probably breakthough stuff at the time, and shows how far PF developed in their distinctive mastery. I remember int he 80s as a big PF fan trying hard to listen to this but really not liking it. Not much has changed.... I appreicate the originality, interesting stylized stuff (I could really do *without* the painful, oddly nauseating and saddening spacey 9 minute synthesizer trip - very out there, ok done, glad its over! ). But overall, its not that engaging, also think this music would make for an unpleasant terrifying acid trip if this si what was playing in the background. where is the joy and uplift. its not what "wonder" sounds like to me. However, I persisted, and then came to the final tracks.. needed comic releif is provided in the form of THE GNOME which is fun and sounds very stoned & playful. I think teenage stoners of the 80's much have been quoting this, and i didnt understand... So, PF; they have achived a high quality window into distorted perception in this album which experiments a LOT with new sounds, and they had relaitvely little to work with as tools, so well done... Hoorah. also "bike" has some perfect auditory echoes which are hallucinatory (NOx-like) , this would have been very new then. and maybe not understood. But as an album, happy to leave it again for abother 40 years, TBH.

Niet te doen

Blij dat ik al dat oude vinyl van Pink Floyd aan de snaveldraaier heb gegeven; met dit soort bagger in huis kan je jezelf als muziekliefhebber toch niet serieus nemen...

LSD slikken en dan een plaat maken: #fail

???

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No it’s ridiculously boring and not gonna be a difficult one to forget. Favourite song: didn’t have one

Fuck off Pink Floyd. Wankers.

Not good

I'm glad they got better after this

Musiikillinen vastine sillee tunteelle, kun joku vittuilee leikillisesti, ja ymmärrät täysin, että tällaiselle pilailulle pitäisi vain kaverillisesti hymähtää, mutta et yksinkertaisesti voi olla vittuuntumatta.

Nah, would give this 0/5 if I could

Not really my thing

So here's the deal. I'm gonna do what the editors of this book failed to do, and trim some of the fat. What we got here in this book is 4 Pink Floyd albums. Not as over-done as some of the other artists, but still a bit much. Something has got to go, and this album is the one, as it's just bog standard psychedelia that probably 100 bands were making at the time. And listening to this while not on drugs, is like being completely sober and watching a bunch of strangers tripping out, you feel sad for them, and awkward for yourself. Now for the question of what I would replace this with. The late 60's and the psychedelic rock genre are already absurdly over-represented in this book, but I think a good replacement would be Gal Costa. Let's go with her self-titled sophomore album from 1969. You still get a heavy dose of psychedelia with a lot more mellowness, a lot less self-indulgence, a sweet Brazilian vibe, and infinitely better vocals. And you don't need drugs to enjoy it. As for this wank-fest, I give it one absentminded garden gnome warbling obnoxiously while being panned too aggressively from left speaker to right and back again. 🧙🏼

Astronomy domine- Kinda crazy this came out before man stepped on the moon. Honestly pretty obvious production for a grand space song, but I have to assume this is pioneering👍 Lucifer Sam- gives off anti cat vibes Matilda Mother-this feels like a precursor to Queen, a little more laid back but an interesting instrumental nonetheless. Doesn’t really pull together as a track Flaming- Pretty uninteresting LSD track Pow R Toc H- god this is as boring as you can get More boring (almost) instrumentals (Take Up thy stethoscope, interstellar overdrive) The gnome- This is the worst LSD song I’ve ever heard Chapter 24- Not quite sure how this is an example of genius, randomly taking a chapter from an important Eastern book but ok The scarecrow- This is fine, quiet catchy👍 Bike- outro is interesting, rest is twee nonsense I’m not sure I even like good Pink Floyd 1/5

Holy crap is The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn bad. PF are hit and miss for me but this is terrible and nowhere near them at their best. Syd Barrett was a fucking rubbish musician off his tits on all sorts and we're meant to appreciate it? No. 1/5.

Oh God. I fucking HATE this album. Very thankful Syd underwent his drug-induced mindfuck so they could get Gilmour on board and begin the REAL PF musical odyssey. Any joker who says they actually like this is a poseur assclown that you do NOT want in your life.

Sounds like carnival music. Don't like this Floyd album at all.

absolute drivel

As boring as every other Floyd album, even more so than the wall… shocking. If you need class A drugs to listen to music, is the music really that good? Not all psychedelic rock is bad but all Pink Floyd is pretty boring

Not my type of rock - very distracting and was giving me a headache

Love Pink Floyd. This was not for me.

No le veo algo que me guste

this kinda sucked, tbh

Do people listen to this when they aren't on hardcore mind altering drugs? Because I tried and it sucked.

Okay album didn’t really like it

No thank you. Never again. Really, I’m good.

As good as Pink Floyd became I’m not sure how this album got on this list. I liked some bits of some songs but not one song was worth listening to again.

This was just a cacophony of sounds. It bothered the dogs, it bothered me. Not a fan.

Not my bag at all

Not a fan of the Sid Barrett era

Turned it off. Not sure who would listen to this. Maybe you needed to be there 🤔

Absolute drivel. Idiotic themes and mostly just a jumbled mess.

Stink Floyd

Eh. I don’t like psychedelia. I tried.

Easily some of pink floyds worst. I guess I understand the importance but its a very boring listen.

I did not like it, very weird

It as ok

Didn't chime with me.

not my thing, couldn’t get in to it

Don't rate the early stuff, sorry Syd.

No me gusta Pink Floyd

pour ecouter au complet impossible a jeun faut etre tres peté....non fonctionnel

I think I need drugs to even begin to appreciate this album.

I’ve just never been a Pink Floyd fan. Their songs just don’t seem to grab me.

Not for me.