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hairymarx1
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- #11
- Posted: 06/14/2013 21:36
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This is a really great and highly influential record - fresh, imaginative, clever and playful - comprising some outstanding musicianship and brilliant production. A landmark album.
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junodog4
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Location: Calgary
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- #12
- Posted: 06/14/2013 22:21
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Before I get jumped all over for this - disclaimer: I want to emphasize that my statement only applies to SOME people. Many people like Piper because it's great.
Piper is a great album, creative and influential. However, it's in danger of becoming a calling card for those who want to seem deep or sophisticated about their musical taste. Want to seem like you really 'get it' with music? Tell people how much you like Piper, even if you know squat about it. How do I know this? I was one of those wankers. Further, these people are still around - at coffee shops, indie record stores, at the pub. You may even be friends with one.
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MrFrogger
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Location: Oakland
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- #13
- Posted: 06/14/2013 22:31
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| junodog4 wrote: | | Want to seem like you really 'get it' with music? Tell people how much you like Piper, even if you know squat about it. How do I know this? I was one of those wankers. Further, these people are still around - at coffee shops, indie record stores, at the pub. You may even be friends with one. |
What if you just actually like it?
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- #14
- Posted: 06/14/2013 22:54
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| Norman Bates wrote: | Ah, ready for a good ol'-fashioned pointless fight? OK.
Best Pink Floyd album by very very far. Their only very good record, actually. |
This.
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Happymeal
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- Posted: 06/14/2013 23:01
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| MrFrogger wrote: | | What if you just actually like it? |
Someone didn't read the disclaimer 
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nutso42
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- Posted: 06/14/2013 23:03
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Love this album. There's (I think) two songs I don't much care for, but the awesomeness of the rest of the album overshadows those flaws.
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MrFrogger
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Location: Oakland
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- #17
- Posted: 06/14/2013 23:06
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| Happymeal wrote: | | Someone didn't read the disclaimer |
That's my claim to fame
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drakonium
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- Posted: 06/14/2013 23:09
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| junodog4 wrote: | Before I get jumped all over for this - disclaimer: I want to emphasize that my statement only applies to SOME people. Many people like Piper because it's great.
Piper is a great album, creative and influential. However, it's in danger of becoming a calling card for those who want to seem deep or sophisticated about their musical taste. Want to seem like you really 'get it' with music? Tell people how much you like Piper, even if you know squat about it. How do I know this? I was one of those wankers. Further, these people are still around - at coffee shops, indie record stores, at the pub. You may even be friends with one. |
I agree that liking Piper makes you look cool. I also admit that looking cool was why I gave it so many chances. But in the end, it's not my favorite PF album because it makes me look cool, it's my favorite because it's my favorite. I don't think people who claim to like it to appear cool are a majority.
That said, I have a (honest) friend whose favorite PF album is Atom Heart Mother, so I'm not really impressed by people claiming to prefer early PF anymore xD
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- #19
- Posted: 06/15/2013 01:03
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I think I should write something about this album.
To me, it is a great exclamation of wonder. Just listen to how earnestly Syd sings, "A movement is accomplished in six stages...etc." in Chapter 24. It's as if he had just finished reading the I-Ching and leaps up to go recite what he had just read, like he is flaunting a new toy. In Astronomy Domine, he conveys the wonder and terror of the firmament, as if he had just been stargazing and suddenly felt so very small, and then went to go recreate that in song form. In Scarecrow, it is as if just saw a scarecrow in a field when passing by in his car and fell into reverie. In Bike, it completely describes the enthusiasm of the beginnings of love. There is an overwelming eagerness, and excitement for life which is much too rare in music, and in people in general. Cynical people will doubtfully enjoy this album, and will probably scoff at the childishness of it...But what is wrong with childishness?
And I've only covered the lyrics of the album, but I can assure you the instruments convey the same wonder. Interstellar Overdrive is a wonderfest of what instruments can do. Wonder, wonder, wonder. Meow.
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SingingPeasant96
Coming-of-Age
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Age: 27
Location: In the aeroplane (maybe it's over the sea)
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- #20
- Posted: 06/15/2013 01:56
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Simply masterpiece, one of best from 60's
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