BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME 

Like all lists and top tens, top threes, top thirties etc they change over time (days, weeks, years) and this album has featured in my top three and top ten and always top thirty! It means a lot to me and I have mentioned elsewhere I was primarily a Syd Barrett fan and only after 'Meddle' I think, did I leave Pink Floyd behind. I hated 'Dark Side of The Moon' which is ironic I grant you but it's hokey schtick and cloying cliche riddled melodrama I detested. I couldn't stand The Wall either which was worse and it finally dawned upon me that my previous hero the bass player Waters was probably the cause of my distaste. I had previously thought him a great bass player and yet his song writing was truly awful. "WE don't need no education!"? please! 

David Gilmour however is another matter and I have always admired his musician ship and guitar playing. the rest too Nick and Rick I always enjoyed their musicianship but what WAS the drive to pen "Teacher leave them kids alone"?

I think Piper at The Gates of Dawn is my favourite Floyd album . . . of all time

 

This from joker and the thief weblog:

The first album by  Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), was named by former member Syd Barrett after chapter 7 of The Wind in the Willows,which contains a visionary encounter with the god Pan, who plays his pan pipe at dawn. It was one of Barrett’s favourite books, and he often gave friends the impression that he was Pan, that he was the Piper. The moniker was later used in the song Shine On You Crazy Diamond, in which Barrett is called “you Piper”. However, the songs on the album are not directly related to the contents of the book. Barrett came up with the album title The Piper at the Gates of Dawn; the album was originally titled Projection up to as late as July 1967.

 

 themusicismymaster

Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967)

 A movement is accomplished in six stages
And the seventh brings return
The seven is the number of the young light
It forms when darkness is increased by one
Change returns success
Going and coming without error
Action brings good fortune
Sunset, sunrise… 

Pink Floyd - Chapter 24                                                                             

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

Shine on you crazy diamond . . . . . . . . .