The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
 

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I've been wanting to purchase this for a while. I've heard it's a must own, and sheer brilliance.

Thoughts?

You know what else would be cool would be a monthly album discussion. You know, have a group all listen to the same album and then talk about our opinions of it?

my favorite pink floyd album by a long distance---excellent production---syd barret was amazing--i would supplement piper at the gates of dawn with "relics" to get some of the singles that i do not think are on it. by the time you get to saucerful of secrets, barret is already kinda out of it. i understand that david gilmour did most of the guitar work on it.

i dont imagine other folk who listen to pink floyd will agree with this, but i prefer barrett to gilmour--this based not on my initial reaction, but over the long haul, listening to the records far too many times, barrett's stuff seems more inventive--gilmour is basically a great blues guitarist. barrett is from a different place altogether.

Syd Barrett Pink Floyd is utterly different than anything post "Piper". Though the songs are trippy and psychedelic, they are also mostly radio type singles as opposed to long musical pieces. "Interstellar Overdrive" is the exception to this, and thus I think it stands out as the album's best track.

one of the most important pieces of psychedilia. but anything from it is rarely heard when talking psychedelic music.

"The piper at the Gates of Dawn is calling you his way" - The Wicker Man, by Iron Maiden.

I'm buying it as soon as I can afford to.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. :)

Just don't expect it to sound anything like any other Pink Floyd album you may own.

Yea, its a great album, havn t heard it forever,
I beleive it was their first album. is that right?

Okay, I won't. Thanks.