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Hey everyone!

This was an exciting one - listening to the FIRST ALBUM of a band we've both adored individually and since we've started dating. 

Neither of us had gone back to the roots of Floyd to listen to Syd Barrett-era stuff! It was absolutely LIFE CHANGING and mind opening for sure!

Thank you all for this channel that has changed our lives forever!

Love always,

Nick, Lex & Marley

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FULL ALBUM: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

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Michael Malone

That was really enjoyable my friends!! Once again your honesty shone through. I found a couple of the tracks chaotic! Manic !! Brian May's favourite pink Floyd album.It was so groundbreaking at the time. Anyway Nick and Lex thanks so much as always... much love from Michael.

Dale Dekker

Can't wait until you get into Obscured by Clouds. My brother Tim never had that one and I never knew when it came out in comparison to Dark Side. I got into it later on in college and after. It makes sense to me now, knowing that it came out just before Dark Side and serves as the transition from the really experimental early stuff and the more classic Pink sound that came later. Gilmour's guitar work on Obscured is pretty great.

Dale Dekker

On Lucifer Sam when there's a solo, it's actually roger on bass picking very fast. With Syd's lyrics I feel it's very child-like in that its based on childhood memories, dreams and books, sights and sounds, & Syd's clever word play and how certain words sound together and the images they create. I've often thought about throwing some solo Syd at you or songs from Obscured by Clouds but we have a huge kitchen re-do project in the works and can't afford making requests right now.

Dale Dekker

You do have to put it in the context of the times in England, 1967. Concerts became sight and sound freak outs with a lot of improvising. This was all in defiance of what they were hearing on BBC radio stations. I believe this was being recorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time the Beatles were doing Sgt. Peppers.

David Edinborough

Man this and 2112 this week, we’re spoiled. This album was a huge shock to me, I started with The Wall and worked my way back as far as darkside (of course), I remember not liking it much upon first listen because of the differences in eras but now it’s up there with one of my favourites, Barrett was an interest songwriter.

Rolling Ronnie

It's an album for which context is really important. By the end of 1966 Pink Floyd were at the heart of the counter-culture in London and with Soft Machine became the house band at the short-lived UFO club. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Club. All these bands (PF, SM, Incredible String Band etc) were treading completely new ground musically and, for this album, were defined largely by Syd Barrett, so although the elements of later Pink Floyd are there in the background, the lyrical and musical influences changed during the recording of A Saucerful Of Secrets.

Richard Dobson

Wow Nick and Alexia, you are going to have lots of interesting things to say on your path through the earlier years of Pink Floyd. No spoilers from me, but I can't wait for your arrival at Ummagumma (double album, so strap yourselves in) and Atom Heart Mother! I think they only started sounding like the band you know and love on Meddle, and that's despite David Gilmour joining towards the end of 1968. On your query as to why the community haven't requested Pink Floyd, I think it's because you often talk about how you know and love the band, so the folks steer clear and point you in different directions. Much like no-one asks for Led Zeppelin. I could write for pages on the music scene in England in 1967, I was 13 going on 14, and my formative ears could hardly get around all the wonderful stuff that was coming out then. Floyd were the ultimate 'underground' band, and 18 year old kids would pour scorn on 14 year olds like me. 'You're too young to understand this' they would say, and I definitely had no access to the psychedelic enhancers they were all consuming! I did understand and love the 2 singles (not on the albums) 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play' that reached the Top 20 and they were my initial gateway into the Floyd. Look.ng forward to the next chapter

Lee Haskin

This was fun! I know very little Pink Floyd (aside from the Wall album, the Wish You Were Here album and the DSOTM album). A few tracks here and there of their later songs (Learning to Fly, Not Now John, Momentary Laspe of Reason). I used to have the Ummagumma album but ever only listened to one track which was highly recommended by a high school friend. I recently heard See Emily Play, and even though it didn't sound like any Floyd I was familiar with I somehow knew it was them and I fell in love with it. Since then I've been wanting to explore earlier Pink Floyd so THANK YOU for this opportunity. Personally I found the album to be very enjoyable, something about that psychedelic 60s sound that makes music exciting when it otherwise may not be. I really got into the chaos of these tracks, the mood, the vibe, etc. And I must say the best part of the whole thing was when Lex was doing her imitations and Nick looks at her, in all seriousness, and says "They're English!' OMG I almost fell out of my chair. Great reaction guys, can't wait to hear more of them!

MiketheG745369

Most vocals during this time are Syd and Richard Wright....Richard sounds a lot like David. You can see them harmonizing on Echo's on the Pompeii concert