Pink Floyd
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Topic: Pink Floyd
Posted By: Okocha
Subject: Pink Floyd
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 03:00
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Choose and explain.....
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 04:05
The piper at the gates of dawn, is just amazing  ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: paloz
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 05:56
Both lovely, but saucerful is truly a masterpiece. From the beginning "Let there be more light"  to the "jugband blues"... And the title track is an experimental 10/10...
And also corporal clegg is amazing..
Is it enough?
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 06:06
| Both great albums indeed, but IMHO "Saucerful" has the edge. Though Syd Barrett's songs are lovely and entertaining, I have a definite preference for stuff like the title-track or "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 06:21
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The piper at the gates of dawn is a psychedelic masterpiece.
A saucerful of secrets is very good, but not on the same level. ------------- 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 06:27
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Piper was a good first effort but saucerful is almost a perfect album. See-Saw is the only track that is not brilliant.
Let there be more light has just about the best intro ever which leads into a magnificernt bit of space-prog
Remember a day is a beautiful and under-rated bit of psych by Wright
Set the Controls is a prog-rock icon
Corporal Clegg is another lovely bit of psych with some beautiful melodies and vocal harmony
The title track is absolutely classic and challenging prog from the start to the spine-tingling finish.
Jugband Blues is Syd Barretts swansong with Floyd and a fittingly fine song with prophetic lrics.
To me its a toss-up between this and Dark Side for the best Floyd album.
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Posted By: seamus
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 07:57
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Both great albums! tPatGoD is IMO the most beautiful acid-pop album in the rock history and without doubt one of the most important for the start & development of prog-rock! aSoS is a fondamental brick in the development of the Floyd sound of the '70,but if we're talkin' about history there's no doubt...tPatGoD is the winning album!  |
Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 08:32
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Astronomy Domine tips it in favour of Piper... for me -------------  |
Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 09:37
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Piper At the Gates of Dawn because it sounds better with or without the aid of hallucinogens. ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 09:43
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A Saucerful of Secrets.
Mainly because of the title track. Piper is OK. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 10:11
| Both are equal in my opinion...but I just have a personal preference to choose Saucer. |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 10:48
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Can SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS be considered as a BARRETT era album???
He wrote ONE short song ..the last one that don't flow with the rest of the album and if my memory is right, he even doesn't play on SAUCERFUL at all.
I think PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN has gotten overinflated praise through the ages; yes, it was an important album historically with some great songs on it.....
.....but frankly. who can listen to it in its entirety in 2007 and found the whole thing great..
....some very childish songs and a few ''experimental '' tracks, just noise for me...
So i go with SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
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Posted By: kingdhansak
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 14:11
| Piper by a mile. I do like SFOS a great deal, but for me Piper was ultimate UK psych album. It was never topped by any other albums of that genre. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 19:20
I also go with Saucer
I believe Syd played on 3 tracks, including Set The Controls and it is considered a Barrett era album because it is essentially still Barrett's Floyd - their style hadn't changed that much from Piper and Gilmour was still not a full member at the time the recording started.
The title track is almost a lost Floyd epic and is their first non space rock epic, giving glimpses of what they would later produce on AHM.
Jugband is a fitting swansong for Barrett with Floyd and ends the album perfectly (I don't care if the sun don't shine ... come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine)
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febus wrote:Posted By: efoman
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 01:29
| I have to say Piper because it is really the only Syd era album. Saucerful is Sydless except for Jugband Blues. Otherwise I'd say A Saucerful of Secrets. The title track for me was a precursor to The Gates of Delirium. Frantic, near cacophonous motion of music....then a beautiful, peaceful resolve. |
Posted By: Malve87
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 06:31
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I'll go with A saucerful, I find Piper terrible. ------------- ] 
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Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 09:14
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Very difficult to decide! But since I had (?) to I went for Saucerful Of Secrets, because it has Set the Controls... on it - and I absolutely love that piece. But it's almost a tie vote! ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 19:14
| Piper is an incredible piece of psychedelic superultra-gold. |
Posted By: Flucktrot
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 12:08
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Piper for historical purposes...and because of Astronomy Domine
Neither is a masterpiece in my book though. Not even close actually... ------------- Thank you, God of Rock, for this chance to kick ass |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 12:15
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My vote goes for "Piper." No album shows the genius of Syd Barrett's psychedelic songwriting style--in terms of lyrics, instrumental arrangement, vocal style--like "Piper" does. While "Saucerful" has many great moments, "Piper" is amazing from start to finish. The album is a masterpiece of psychedelic rock. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 15:25
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Impossible choice. For me, they're both five star material. I won't vote.
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Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: September 14 2007 at 17:05
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Piper is a masterpiece of psychedelic rock, but I had to go with Saucer. "Let There Be More Light" (that bass intro beats "Money"!), "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", etc. etc. etc. Can Saucer be considered a Syd Barret-era album? Only one song had him on it....meh, it can. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: September 14 2007 at 17:21
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I think Piper for Astronomy Domine and See Emily Play (although Emily wasn't actually on the original UK release). I do like Saucerful as well 'though. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |