THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

The first (and best) Pink Floyd album transports you (with a little imagination) to 1967 London Town with things getting weirder by the day.The album is dominated by 2 spacerock epics Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive which lets face it,formed the basis of a full career for many other lesser bands (no names mentioned , oh ok just one then ... Hawkwind).The rest of the album is lyrically extremely odd , although it still makes more sense than any Yes album you could name.The man responsible for most of these tracks Syd Barrett soon became a casualty of the excesses of the sixties and consequently he never equalled these songs.The band continued without him and the rest of their albums owe little to the influences on show here.In my opinion they never bettered this.