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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: August 26 2014 at 00:56 | ||
Definitely Pink Floyd for me, one of the defining psychedelic albums that sounds like nothing else before or since. I have fond memories of a good mate and I just overdosing on this one over many years, even buying about three reissues of it during that time!
I also have vague recollections of us in a rubbish attempt at a psychedelic band writing a song about meeting Syd Barrett who was sitting in a shopping trolley in the supermarket... I like the cool noisy playing on the Soft Machine debut, but (as Sagi well knows!) I cannot stomach Robert Wyatt's flat weezy pained vocals! It frequently means I cannot make it more than half way through the albums. |
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octopus-4
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 01:52 | ||
Syd was a genius. That's all.
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Svetonio
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 01:53 | ||
Soft Machine by a country mile.
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Svetonio
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 02:27 | ||
He certainly was a genius, but I personally prefer The Madcap Laughs and Barrett a lot more than The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Edited by Svetonio - August 27 2014 at 02:36 |
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octopus-4
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 02:50 | ||
The Piper has Richard Wright, too.
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Svetonio
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 03:17 | ||
Also, during recording of The Madcap Laughs, Soft Machine were contribute to do overdubs for a few songs. At the same time, Syd Barrett played guitar at Kevin Ayers' song Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:13 | ||
Floyd, and it ain't even close.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:37 | ||
For me, this is a definite IMPOSSIBLE. I just can't vote. I absolutely worship both of these, quirky and colourful debut albums equally. Add to that Caravan's debut and there's one helluva selection.....
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:48 | ||
I'm actually surprised to find such a heavy slant towards Floyd. Of course Floyd are the more widely known band, but there seem to be so many people who like that band that cannot stand `Piper', so I figured this poll might have been a bit closer.
Good call, Tom! Man, that Caravan debut is a doozy...definitely one of the defining psych albums to my ears! It's strange, as much as I love it, I don't listen to it as much as the above two albums... Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - August 27 2014 at 05:49 |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:58 | ||
^Me too Kangaroo. I thought most people into Floyd largely were because of what happened with Meddle and afterwards.
These people are of course all wrong, as they're forgetting masterpieces such as Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother (Not to mention More). Edit: I have no idea on how to vote in this poll Love both and for quite the same reasons actually. I guess it's the young energy and naiveness about the two that really make them what they are (at least to me).
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 06:08 | ||
Dave, I love (and 100% agree! ) with your `These people are all wrong'! All those early precious psychedelic spacey gems!
The truth is, there's even that other bunch of the `mainstream' Floyd fans that will generally ignore that entire early period, arrive for `DSotM', `Wish You Were Here', skip `Animals', come back for `The Wall', drop off for `The Final Cut', and then show up one final time for `Momentary Lapse of Reason'...Hello commercial radio fans! Crap, now I'm ranting! So, in closing, my point is - go `More'! |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 06:12 | ||
I know those Floyd fans......I used to be one, but luckily I've been cured. -Maybe not entirely - I still detest Final Cut with a vengeance. ....and yes, go More!!!
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 06:41 | ||
It's all good, baby, you've seen the light, drunk the Kool Aid and got the psych flowing through your veins like a wonderful sickness! The same that has me overdosing on Embryo's `Father Son and Holy Ghost', `If 2' and Janus `Gravedigger' at work tonight!
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 06:45 | ||
Aahhh m'lud! I thought I was the only one who was into that Embryo album. I absolutely adore it to be honest. I also happen to think it holds one of their best (if not THE best) tunes they ever put to record in King Insano. I don't know what it is about this one, but it never seizes to amaze me with it's spastic drumming, psych fusion and those wonderful swirling sections.
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MonsterMagnet
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Posted: August 27 2014 at 08:11 | ||
This question can be meditated for a good while... yet I think Soft Machine's work is better conceived
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Sinful
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Posted: August 30 2014 at 19:40 | ||
Which is my feelings too, However. I just read a book about Syd Barrett (A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman), and he basically says just the opposite, he fell in love with the band with Syd writing and was never able to enjoy the Waters stuff later. It is a different type of lyrics that basically make the difference, because really as far as music there is stuff like Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive that shows what was to come later musically. Obviously he knows he is in the minority, but that never means much when you love something like music.
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The Path is clear
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proggman
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Posted: September 02 2014 at 18:43 | ||
Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. |
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