The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Oh fuck off Pink Floyd. Most overrated band of all time. Gave it a track and a half and then listened to something good. Trash!

I think if you take into account this came out in 1967 and not 1973, it’s an impressive psychedelic album ahead of its time, but compared to DSOTM it feels very dated very soon. But I think there is an argument for this being included on the list.

Given the hype around this band I was looking forward to giving this album a go but unfortunately it was largely unlistenable tripe!

Way short of their better later works, sounds like a band finding their feet but still trying to fit in with what is popular at the time. Syd may have been a genius, but there's not much evidence of it here!

Not an album for me. Wanky middle class pop music. The lyrics are odd, there is no real stroy telling at all.

I do think I am biased and hate most things that Floyd have done.

Favourite song: None
Least favourite: Flaming
Album artwork: Not a fan

Some excellent stuff but also has the worst kind of silly prog rock which I hate

If you invited people by your house to listen to Pink Floyd and then only listened to this, you could ruin a lot of friendships.

Piper is lacking a lot of what would later make Pink Floyd a household name; it’s just as exciting as most of their post Dark Side-releases.

It’s a psychedelic trip through the weird wonders of early Floyd. It’s unclear if they knew what they were doing at all times, but it almost always works - even though the mixing will make you fear for the condition of your stereo.

Sorry, I know I'm supposed to worship the tortured genius of Syd, but Floyd's debut does nothing for me. I have little patience for the precious British whimsy of it all, especially combined with severely undercooked psychedelia that's not nearly on the same level of other artists coming out around this time. I will continue to give out other high scores for Floyd, but this won't be one of them.

2/5

I'm surprised I liked this so much. I don't care for later Pink Floyd albums, and this is so much less polished, but as a result far more interesting.

I’ll always love this demented clown show of a record.

Such a mystical meandering of mysterious music from the late 60s, from a band that would morph into something (equally splendid, btw) that would sound nothing like this. This is a conjuration of psychedelic musical spirits caught in the organ and the dreamy guitar. The drumming and the laughter--at times quite tribal in feel. Like a religious ceremony. And then they turn around and sing silly songs about gnomes, gingerbread men, and aging mice named Gerald. Splendid!

I know there is a lot of Pink Floyd I haven't listened to and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one I know I need to listen to. What a cool name for an album.

So not my favorite Pink Floyd album but it was cool to hear for the first time. Next time I'd like to be on LSD and really get into the Syd Barrett mindset. Also cool to learn this was produced at Abbey Road at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper. I heard a lot of similarity to the Beatles here so who (or what) influenced who? Maybe Syd and John were taking LSD together. Who knows. Cool album but I probably won't listen again sober.

Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, so super simple rhymes over psychedelic swirls and overdubs that makes it sound like the most transcendental shit ever laid down on tape. It shouldn't work, but it does...

Not as good as some of the later works but just as great as I’d expect

Very very different from their work I'm more familiar with but flawless none the less

No surprise that their first album is generic British psychedelic pop of the era. Trippy!

Pretty terrible. Not a fan of Syd Barrett. 1.5/5

I like older Pink Floyd, but not as much on this album

(not first listen) HLs off the top of my head: “Lucifer Sam”, “Bike”, “Flaming”
HLs apart from those: "Astronomy Domine", "Chapter 24", and sure "Interstellar Overdrive" in all its excess

Love this album, though it has had time to grow on me in the decade or so since I became aware of it (& the Syd Barrett days of Pink). This listen, I reflected on how rough & grungy(? there has to be a better word for that) the album sounds, yet the manic beauty of Syd's songwriting shines through

I was expecting something different from what I received listening to this album. This is not the Pink Floyd I know and like to listen to sometimes. It's something different but recognizable at the end. It's strange but also familiar somehow.

It's not easy, but the 50 minutes are not annoying. For sure, this is an important thing that will remain with me for some weeks.