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- Posted: 08/15/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1720): 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.
Country: 
Overall rank: 135
Average rating: 83/100 (from 917 votes).
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Tracks:
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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Applerill
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 20:03
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It's always bothered me that so many fans of this album are so vehemently against the rest of Pink Floyd's work. It's fine to not think Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album ever made (which it basically is), but you shouldn't take it as a badge of uncool shame to find value in those mid-era concept albums.
That being said, though, this album is amazing, and definitely one of the most important releases of 1967.
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HazeyTwilight
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 20:21
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Best Pink Floyd album by miles and miles. Interstellar Overdrive is still getting rotation from me.
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HoldenM
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 20:21
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I go back and forth between liking this and loving it. I mostly love it, because when it hits, it blows me away. "Astronomy Domine," in my opinion, is the strongest guitar work of anything the group ever did.
Track picks
1. Astronomy Domine
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
7. Interstellar Overdrive
11. Bike
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manurock
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 20:57
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Yeah, many people who like this album dislike the rest of the discography and vice versa. I am of the second team. I find this their worst album of their classic period. I guess it depends on the type of music you like. At least this makes more people like Pink Floyd one way or another.
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 21:13
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my brother made me a cassette copy of Piper at the Gates when I was really little. It was one of the first albums I ever heard and loved. A couple decades later and it's still among my all time favorite records.
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Satie
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 21:20
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| Applerill wrote: | | It's always bothered me that so many fans of this album are so vehemently against the rest of Pink Floyd's work. It's fine to not think Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album ever made (which it basically is), but you shouldn't take it as a badge of uncool shame to find value in those mid-era concept albums. |
i think there's a difference between disliking the rest of the discography because it's "uncool" and disliking the rest of the discography just because you happen to dislike it. i think it's very clear that this album is sonically very distinct from the rest of the discography. there's a playfulness here that goes away on the other records; the spacey sections feel like journeys with multiple stops and not just extended, static atmospheres; etc. thus, it makes perfect sense to me that, as the poster above me mentioned, many people like this and dislike the discography and vice versa. i think it's really cynical to constantly assume that people who have the flip side opinion of many of a band's acolytes are doing it for attention. all the reasons the majority of the fanbase has to dislike the album might be reasons it's enjoyable for others.
oh to disclose my bias, i don't like any Pink Floyd, but this album is the least bad one, in my eyes.
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 08/15/2015 21:47
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| permafrost wrote: | | i think it's very clear that this album is sonically very distinct from the rest of the discography. |
As much as I'm a Pink Floyd fanboy, I can mostly agree with this. Syd was a very unique presence that wasn't really replicated without him. Although Saucerful of Secrets really isn't that far off sonically, and Syd did play on 3 of the songs.
I always find it odder when people only like Umma Gumma and then call the rest of Pink Floyd's stuff pretentious.
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LAF2
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- Posted: 08/16/2015 03:27
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Great album. Interstellar Overdrive, Astronomy Domine, and Matilda Mother are my favourites on here.
Lucifer Sam is a track pick for this album, and that kind of pisses me off. It's one of the album's weakest points.
All that said, I like Saucerful of Secrets more.
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eyezayzay
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- Posted: 08/16/2015 03:53
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| HazeyTwilight wrote: | | Best Pink Floyd album by miles and miles. |
Agree with this.
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