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It's not really among my favourite Floyd albums... though of course that still makes it at least a good album. Astronomy Domine is indeed among my favourite songs from them, though, and I do like some other songs on it. Interstellar Overdrive has been a rather frustrating one, because I do love that opening riff, but most of the song is just psychedelic jamming that I can't fully get into... however, one of the live versions on the new early years box-sets really fix it for me... slightly changed, but just enough to make me enjoy that middle passage very well indeed (and just about the same applies to Por R Toc H, which I hadn't been able to get into until I found one of the live versions on those albums).
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About Interstellar Overdrive I was really surprised it was actually a mix of two different takes. Before I read about that I had always thought they had played it whole through and just overdubbed some parts into it.
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^ I didn't know that. But I guess that's not so surprising given the oportunities that studio tech give the bands. Actually, I have read about this sort of things being done with live recordings too.
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

 
 
What all the others think about this Floyd-debut?

for the longest time my least favorite classic Floyd album.. the MTV Nostaligia driven sh*t they did post Roger doesn't count. I simply never got the 'englishness' of it. The whimsy and silliness of it. Where they let the instruments do the talking.. and just played hell yeah man.. I could dig it.

Still really don't today.. but listenable.. and Lucifer Sam really is a killer little song...and did finally get bumped by The Final Cut for least favorite Floyd album.
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I love this album. For a long time Animals was my favourite Pink Floyd album but in recent times I've developed a new appreciation for Piper at the Gates of Dawn to the extent that it challenges Animals as my favourite Pink Floyd album.
 
 
 
 
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It has a very good title aslo, very mystical and fairytale like. Is the piper, the pied piper of Hamelin
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^ Indeed. Too bad they play no pipes in the album.
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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

It has a very good title aslo, very mystical and fairytale like. Is the piper, the pied piper of Hamelin

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

^ Indeed. Too bad they play no pipes in the album.

Actually, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is a chapter title of Kenneth Grahame's children's book The Wind in the Willows. Unfortunately, Mr. Toad does not make an appearance on the album either. 
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to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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But anyway itīs great title, really now think itīs kind of childrenīs music as most of the psychedelic music is although children canīt understand it (at least I didnīt when I was a child).
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I always had More down as Pink Floyd's weakest album.
Syd's songwriting improved on his solo albums but they were hamstrung by woeful production.
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn listened to out of context is ok. I can leave a lot of stuff off the second side. But the first side is an accomplishment. Further than The Beatles did.
If it had actually been released when it was recorded (and produced by a more attentive producer) Soft Machine would have been regarded as having the better debut.
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Like many, I didn't disccover early Floyd until after becoming enamored with Dark Side/WYWH.  Knowing this was a significantly a different group/different sound, and not being specifically a psychedelia fan, I had no expectations going in.  I rather took to it though.  And while it's not one of my faves, it's still a worthy part of my collection.  
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Discovered this gem back in ‘87 as a stoned 15 y.o. !! Still lovin’ it as a sober 46 y.o. Man, Rick’s Farfisa is magnificent.
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Having seen Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets on Monday evening (lots of fun!) I was reminded that actually Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive are really a major source of what I see as "my kind of music"; apart from the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows, nothing did more for my taste historically than these two songs; this marvellous combination of experimentation, sound exploration and solid rock, rhythmic structure and chaos brought together in new unique ways. Astronomy Domine is such an iconic opener. For this alone Piper already cannot be praised enough. I also love love love Pow R Toc H, so that's the three longest tracks then. I couldn't connect well to many of their shorter more flimsy songs for a long time but I warm up to some of them over time, for example Lucifer Sam and Bike were just such delights in Nick Mason's show, and I appreciate the versatility of that album.
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^ Ah, another closet psychedelic junkie! Welcome to the club! Big smile
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