Pink Floyd

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

THE BIRTH OF PINK FLOYD!!

Review Score:

(8/10)
You could tell there was LSD involved in making Pink Floyd's first album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. PATGOD is filled with playful lyrics, chaotic instrumentals, hippie sound effects of the time like space travel, fantasy, and natural sounds, and British whim.

Syd Barrett, the main guitarist and vocalist, wrote the songs on PATGOD. A lot of people think today that if Syd Barrett hadn't had to leave Pink Floyd after PATGOD due to emotional breakdowns, that Pink Floyd would have been better off. I have to disagree. David Glmour was a great replacement to Barrett, who probably would have kept Pink Floyd from reaching it's popularity and Hard-Psychadelic Rock genre, instead keeping the band's Pop-Psychadelic Rock genre. But, there is no doubt that PATGOD is a very special and fantastic album.

"Astronomy Domine" begins with a crackling radio and builds up to a well played, crazy, sound effect-galore, outer space song. "Lucifer Sam" is a fun track with cool guitar riffs. "Flaming" is a childish song with obvious British whim. "Pow R. Toc H." is filled with odd vocal noises and percussion. "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk", with funky guitar, is an undescribable highlight of PATGOD. "Interstellar Overdrive", my favorite track on Piper, is a crazy freak-out of a song. "The Gnome" is a short child song. "Chapter 24" is a nice relaxing song containing a lot of synthesizer. "The Scarecrow" is yet another child song. "Bike" rounds off Piper with magical sounds at the end of it.

This is not a must-have CD, but it makes a good element of your Pink Floyd collection if you have it. I have it and give it 4 stars.
-Tabucky

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