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- Posted: 02/26/2019 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2996): The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
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Today's album of the day
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1967.
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Overall rank: 153
Average rating: 82/100 (from 1565 votes).
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1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. The Scarecrow
11. Bike
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
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- #2
- Posted: 02/26/2019 21:36
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Like most, I grew up with Dark Side/WYWH/The Wall (and in my case I didn't overlook Animals). It wasn't until much later that I fully explored the back catalog. Imagine my surprise when I threw this in and it was completely different.
But still as good in its own way. And shockingly progressive for 1967. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's no doubt it is a seminal album.
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StreakyNuno
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- #3
- Posted: 02/26/2019 22:39
- Post subject: Album of the day 2996
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with 52 years old ... In a time of the beatles and Rolling Stones ... the Pink Floyd made this complete marvel of music ... better than mozart... picasso... salvador dali ... etc...
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craola
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 00:31
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i've tried to understand the "genius" of this, but for the life of me, this sounds like an average jam with the band. i mean, i've been in jams that sounded no different than this album. i'm obviously missing something.
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CharlieBarley
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 03:05
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This is an awesome debut album. I love Syd Barrett and the rest of the gang. I like that it has trippy space rock extended jams and also nursery rhyme-like shorter songs and all sorts of experimental stuff going on.
It was a very original album for 1967 and it's interesting to contemplate how Pink Floyd would have developed had Syd not become so ill. Imagine if he had been a part of their later output!
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RoundTheBend
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 03:20
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| craola wrote: | | i've tried to understand the "genius" of this, but for the life of me, this sounds like an average jam with the band. i mean, i've been in jams that sounded no different than this album. i'm obviously missing something. |
It's the apex of extreme emotion and cognitively is greater than the theory of relativity...
Just kidding... idk other than some Sid Barret love, I don't see why this is heralded so highly either.
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 18:54
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| sethmadsen wrote: | It's the apex of extreme emotion and cognitively is greater than the theory of relativity...
Just kidding... idk other than some Sid Barret love, I don't see why this is heralded so highly either. |
Me too, and from what I've seen in other BEA charts, it seems to be higher ranked by non-Pink Floyd fans than by Pink Floyd fans (generally, I am sure there are exceptions). I guess the music style is very different and it appeals to another audience.
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 19:32
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Agreed with most of what's said here. It's a good and somewhat groundbreaking album, but I think the praise coming mostly from the Barret nostalgia.
I think the next album was already considerably better than this one.
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- Posted: 02/27/2019 20:42
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Think of the strange visions and expressiveness of Heironymous Bosch (Lewis Carrol too) ... the surreal, medieval + otherworldly/fantastical (plus sci-fi) characters and environments ... and you'll be on its wavelength and it will start to come together.
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RoundTheBend
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- Posted: 02/28/2019 02:19
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| AfterHours wrote: | | Think of the strange visions and expressiveness of Heironymous Bosch (Lewis Carrol too) ... the surreal, medieval + otherworldly/fantastical (plus sci-fi) characters and environments ... and you'll be on its wavelength and it will start to come together. |
See I and I feel DSOTM and The Wall actually are realistic expressions of what you are getting at, and Piper tries to but fails. But maybe that's just me. DSOTM and The Wall have believable versions of what you mention above and it's like the uncanny valley suffers on piper.
| Quote: | | In aesthetics, the uncanny valley is a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object's resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object. |
For me it's not the level of oddness that is at question, rather the ability to relate to that, and therefore have a more powerful emotional response. If a few can have that emotional response, but a majority can't... in my book that actually defeats the ability for art to be meaningful in it's purpose. Some kind of quote I'm probably making up (I wanna say Emmerson) said something like: the mark of true genius is that complex thoughts can be conveyed clearly and easily.
But alas... it might be because those have melodies/let the art breath and I don't feel piper does.
By the way I really think that's a key difference in where the aesthetic differs. Tonal vs non-tonal music. It's makes the gap make a lot of sense when you see it through that lens. At least this gap I've been trying to understand. Pipe is a much less tonal album in comparison.
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