The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Yeesh I much prefer what Pink Floyd ended up becoming in their later work. If there's anything this list taught me it's that I strongly dislike pysch rock; mostly because it all sounds exactly the same and there were so many people doing it. I will say this was especially disappointing... good god. 2/10

Psychedelic und experimental Rock, which was a torturous listening experience. At times, I was checking my surroundings for Bad sounds because I found the experience to be that atrocious.

point8.

I’m officially sick of this band, thanks “1001 Albums…” authors!

it's just not very good is it? In this project I've learned without a doubt that Pink Floyd got better after Syd was gone. Discordant, droning, and with some pretty bad vocals at times. Unfortunate for such a well loved band

I asked my dad how this became one of the biggest bands in the world and he said “we were smoking a lot of weed” the weed was like 90% dirt that doesn’t explain anything. This was dreadful. A bottom ten experience here in the 500s

This album occasionally had music on it

Turn down the suck! In all honesty, this makes their later records even more amazing. How did they get from here to Dark Side of the Moon? Kudos

This is much more straight 60s psychedelica than what Pink Floyd would become. I like it much less. Lucifer Sam sounds like the theme song for a British TV show of the era. This is like bad, corny Beatles psychedelic rock. Pow R. Toc H.'s chattering is annoying. This reminds me of something I can't place. The switching audio channels is giving me a headache, like when the front windows in a car are rolled up but the rear windows are rolled down. This is like if Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sucked. Give me 70s Floyd any day over this. And to end....some found sound. Just like the Beatles, what a terrible rip off. I just realized some of this album sounds like Robert Wyatt....no thanks.

A load of stupid hippy junk

I'm so tired of the 60s, folks. I'm just so done.

Not for me

late 60s Floyd is not my personal favorite Floyd. Interstellar Overdrive is just 60's noodling and I am not into it.

I'll just say, not a fan of this one. I also was very confused at first, because my spotify apparently glitched out and it was playing everything in super slow motion and at a lower pitch, so at first I thought it was just a terrible album, but really it was normal, but I just don't really love it.

This album confirmed that I can't stand Syd Barrett's "music". While there were some ok tracks in the beginning, the second half was utterly horrible. A lot of tracks towards the end felt aimless and lacked any structure. As someone who enjoys Pink Floyd's well-known works, I am disappointed to rate it this low. I even listened to this album twice in case there was anything remotely positive. Unfortunately, there wasn't.

Honestly, I'm embarrassed for them.

wanky

Absolutely terrible. Just plain odd. I’m sure that anybody using the same drugs as the band might be on the same wavelength and appreciate it. I can’t help wondering if they hadn’t have gone on to record their better work later on, would anybody care enough about this to make the list? I’m sure it was groundbreaking at the time but that doesn’t stop it from being a steaming pile of 💩

Had no idea Pink Floyd made hippie noise rock. Not a fan. Like Sgt Peppers without the songs.

There comes a pont where I feel I just want to hear a song. And I love pink Floyd!

I absolutely hated this

grating most of the time, surprised its this bad

Didn't know pink Floyd sounded like this at one point, maybe they a small amount of praise for evolving their sound through the years. This particular album sounds like the Beatles if you took out all the actual good songs. Sort of semi-classical folk music with toxic levels of whimsy, all gnomes and mice and rhyming silly words cause we're all so spaced out and groovy. Chuck in a few minutes of random noises likely under the guise of being experimental and it's got to be a 1.

The sixties are odd to listen to. There’s some banging stuff, like Sam Cooke, Otis Reading, CCR, and Fairport Convention. And then there’s some absolute tripe like this. I appreciate that it’s historically significant. I quite enjoyed Astronomy Doctrine, which felt a bit like a Sea Power number. But the rest was meh at best and awful at worst - that’s really not whimsy for me. And, of course, we’re just discovering stereo recording so let’s play with it and produce something clever. Which sounds so dated. I toyed with a 2 for a bit, but I never want to hear this again.

Kind of interesting. That said, it is the typical babbling late '60s psycedelia, with self-indulgent prog rock sections. Some good bits of music though.

They actually get better

Oh fuck off Pink Floyd. Most overrated band of all time. Gave it a track and a half and then listened to something good. Trash!

I was looking forward to this when I saw it was Pink Floyd. Some tracks are so strange, but all of them are boring. It's as if they found whatever objects they could in the studio and started banging them together and whatever noise came out ended up on the record. Is it genius and I just don't get it? Am I taking it too seriously? Or is it just really crap? I actually gave it a second listen and I do genuinely think it's just a bad album. I can certainly hear a lot of early Beatles and Bowie in this, it's just a shame that those two artists do it so much better. Take 'The Gnome' for example. Bowie's 'The Laughing Gnome' is a fun, whimsical tune and he gets away with it because that was his whole shtick back then, it wasn't too serious. However I do think that Pink Floyd wanted this to be taken very seriously, like they thought they'd written a masterpiece and we should all sit up and listen. The lyrics are laughable. Take 'Bike': 'I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like / It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good / I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it' Then it's all about red and black cloaks, a mouse named Gerald in a house and gingerbread men clans. And then the second half is quite literally 'just noise'. Creepy alarm clock is the only way I can describe it. Genius or crap? Whatever the answer is, I don't get it. Take some hallucinogenic drugs and you'll probably have a better time than I did listening to this. Let's just hope that when they pop up on this list, their other albums are better than this.

I was never a huge Floyd fan, yes there is some talent here, but this is not an album that I would purposely listen to.

Terrible

I did not enjoy this collection of randomly panned noises and nonsense songs

I eat wrong kind of mushrooms, can't understand this.

God I hate the British (and will be using this exact review several more times)

lol Tur att Syd försvann. Men ärligt, att anno 2024 digga detta är trots. Ok, smaken är som baken, men jag har väldigt svårt att se hur man på allvar kan tycka att detta är bra musik. Jag förstår att man där och då kunde digga, det skilde sig från annan musik och man kunde vara hög på lsd. Men nu, idag, så är den chansen förbi. Skivan påminner lite om en konstnär som tröttnat på att måla realistiska motiv och börjar med kubism eller surrealism istället. Kul för dem. Men inte för mig. Jag tror faktiskt inte ens musiken blir bra på lsd. De sporadiska partier av "bra" musik räddar inte helheten.

ho hum

Not an album for me. Wanky middle class pop music. The lyrics are odd, there is no real stroy telling at all. I do think I am biased and hate most things that Floyd have done. Favourite song: None Least favourite: Flaming Album artwork: Not a fan

Boring. Like, let's be the Beatles with no fun.

This is one of the worst albums I have ever heard

1.5

Holy crap what a waste of time.

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.