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Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, The (Remastered) (CD)

By: Pink Floyd (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, The (Remastered) (CD) Album By Pink Floyd (Artist)
1   Astronomy Domine
2   Lucifer Sam
3   Matilda Mother
4   Flaming
5   Pow R. Toc H. - (instrumental)
6   Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7   Interstellar Overdrive - (instrumental)
8   Gnome, The
9   Chapter 24
10   Scarecrow, The
11   Bike
 
DISC 2 for Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, The (Remastered) (CD) Album By Pink Floyd (Artist)
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   Gnome, The
9   Chapter 24
10   Scarecrow, The
11   Bike
 
DISC 3 for Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, The (Remastered) (CD) Album By Pink Floyd (Artist)
1   Arnold Layne
2   Candy And Currant Bun
3   See Emily Play
4   Apples And Oranges
5   Paintbox
6   Interstellar Overdrive - (Take 2, French Edit)
7   Apples And Oranges - (Stereo Version)
8   Matilda Mother - (Alternative Version)
9   Interstellar Overdrive - (Take 6)
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (12/9/99, p.82) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...a masterpiece of the [psychedelia] genre....the golden achievement of Syd Barrett....a milestone in what soon would be called 'head music'..."
Q (8/99) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time
Q (6/00, p.69) - Ranked #55 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
Q (1/95, p.275) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN is, even counting SGT. PEPPER, possibly the defining moment of English psychedelia and Syd Barrett's magnum opus; strange, sad, and a record that all should own..."
Mojo (p.48) - Ranked #40 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Thirty eight years on, there's nothing like it..."

Review

Rolling Stone (12/9/99, p.82) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...a masterpiece of the [psychedelia] genre....the golden achievement of Syd Barrett....a milestone in what soon would be called 'head music'..."
Q (8/99) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time
Q (6/00, p.69) - Ranked #55 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
Q (1/95, p.275) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN is, even counting SGT. PEPPER, possibly the defining moment of English psychedelia and Syd Barrett's magnum opus; strange, sad, and a record that all should own..."
Uncut (p.101) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hese Edward Lear-ish messages from the mind of Syd Barrett served as a reminder to even The Beatles...that pop is at its best when it's headed into the unknown."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.48) - Ranked #40 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Thirty eight years on, there's nothing like it..."

Product note

Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett (vocals, guitar); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Rick Wright (piano, organ); Nick Mason (drums).
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England.
Pink Floyd's debut was its only recording based on the vision of founding singer/guitarist Syd Barrett, an art student whose world revolved around music, mysticism, and liberal doses of hallucinogens. The band's moniker was taken from the first names of Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (an album of theirs was a favorite of Barrett's), and the album's title came from a chapter of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (also a staple of Barrett's library).
Recorded at Abbey Road at the same time The Beatles were cutting SGT. PEPPER, PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN is an avant-garde pastiche of trippy improvisation and snappy pop snippets--a blurring of musical borders that went far beyond what the Fab Four were doing a couple of rooms away. (Producer Norman Smith had been The Beatles' chief engineer for much of the early '60s.) Instrumental space-jams like "Pow R. Toc H." and "Interstellar Overdrive" smashed the conventionality of the pop mainstream by opening up traditional song structures, as bits of Rick Wright's reverb-soaked Farfisa organ and Barrett's scratchy guitar float in and out of the mix. The other side of Barrett's musical expression was an ability to write shorter "pop" songs that were similar to traditional fare only in length--acid-fueled observations of a Siamese cat on "Lucifer Sam," and child-like tales on "The Gnome" and "Bike."

Title Note

Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett (vocals, guitar); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Rick Wright (piano, organ); Nick Mason (drums).

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England.

Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett (guitar); Richard Wright (organ); Roger Waters (bass guitar); Nick Mason (drums).

Pink Floyd's debut was its only recording based on the vision of founding singer/guitarist Syd Barrett, an art student whose world revolved around music, mysticism, and liberal doses of hallucinogens. The band's moniker was taken from the first names of Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (an album of theirs was a favorite of Barrett's), and the album's title came from a chapter of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (also a staple of Barrett's library).

Recorded at Abbey Road at the same time The Beatles were cutting SGT. PEPPER, PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN is an avant-garde pastiche of trippy improvisation and snappy pop snippets--a blurring of musical borders that went far beyond what the Fab Four were doing a couple of rooms away. (Producer Norman Smith had been The Beatles' chief engineer for much of the early '60s.) Instrumental space-jams like "Pow R. Toc H." and "Interstellar Overdrive" smashed the conventionality of the pop mainstream by opening up traditional song structures, as bits of Rick Wright's reverb-soaked Farfisa organ and Barrett's scratchy guitar float in and out of the mix. The other side of Barrett's musical expression was an ability to write shorter "pop" songs that were similar to traditional fare only in length--acid-fueled observations of a Siamese cat on "Lucifer Sam," and child-like tales on "The Gnome" and "Bike."

Album Description

'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', the debut album from Pink Floyd, epitomises the genre of psychedelic rock. Guitar and organ experimentation is taken to extremes on tracks like 'Interstellar Overdrive', while Syd Barrett's whimsical and often humorous lyrics have an undertone of darkness, aided by the use of eerie vocal and instrumental effects. Originally recorded in 1967, it was Barrett's only full album with Pink Floyd, and this 40th anniversary edition contains stereo and mono mixes of the release alongside a third disc that includes B-sides and unreleased rarities.

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