THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

The debut album by Pink Floyd, this is the only album to feature the legendary Syd Barrett, who was sadly a drugs casulty by the end of the 1960s, Syd would never be the same after this album, the album has a mix of Immature, 60s Britain lyrics mixed with Psychedelia and Avant Garde Experimentation.

The tracks I love on "PATGOD": The opener is "Astronany Domine" assumming Peter Jenner their manager provides the vocoder at the intro, according to source I read way back on the net, this track is has excellent percussion playing from Mason, great double vocals Wright/Barrett, Syd's guitar solo is excellent and is a great 4 minute avant pop track.

"Lucifer Sam" - 'Siam Cat :)' again one of those action hero sounding tracks and very flower power 60s London, the main line is "That Cat Something I can't Explain" I aalways have been blown by that line, completely unaware of it's defination.

"Interstaller Overdrive" - the first Progressive track to expand to nearly ten minutes, full of experimentation, guitar effects, eerie organ sounds, and belting percussions, and the bass effects all make this song a great track, and the first progressive track, without any pop or simplicity, this has to be the first Floyd track to feature complex and odd signiture tunes, check out the ending of the song, the sounds flows back and fore to the left and right speaker, still amazes me to this day.

"Bike" - will take time to get used to, but trust me a catchy numbe this one, great humourous lyris, my favourite line "I know a mouse and he hasn't got a mouse I don't why I call him Gerald" strange sound, quirky pop psych compostions and all of a sudden goes into this industrial sound in a clockwork place of some form, and then the song end's with these out of control ducks with the multi channel quacks, ahead of it's time.

A fantastic debut, but not the best IMO, the better would come into the 1970S era with the classics like "DSOTM" and "WYWH".