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I'm talking about The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Too many kids are too busy fussing over "Classic Floyd" (dark side of the moon/wish you were here/animals/the wall) to notice that their first album is hundreds of times better than those 4 put together.

Syd Barrett was the real genius of Pink Floyd. When he was the leader, the band played together. Once Roger Waters took complete control, everyone played only the way he wanted.


Piper at the Gates of Dawn is not easy to get into. It sounds like shit the first several times you hear it. It did to me. But once you hear it enough times to really understand it, you come to see how much more substantial it is than the dry, polished turds engineered by Waters.

Maybe the most psychedelic album of all time. Completely raw and unfiltered. Straight up genius.