April 25, 2017 Playlist

"The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" by Pink Floyd (1967)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Pink Floyd "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"  1967 (UK)
This week is the 12th anniversary of the Kosmik Radiation show going on the air, so CAOTW #524 is one of the most classic psychedelic albums which has not yet been a classic album. Furthermore, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of this record's release, and the band has just put out a massive box set of material from 1965-1972 including many outtakes from early albums like this one. Piper was Floyd's debut and is the most unique album in their discography, because it is the only one they made under the leadership of their original singer/songwriter/guitarist, the legendary weirdo Roger "Syd" Barrett. He basically took too much acid and became unreliable, so was booted from the group in 1968 to be replaced by his old shoolchum David Gilmour, establishing the classic anonymous-no-frontman lineup that recorded so many classic albums in the 1970's. Barrett is often compared to his contemporary John Lennon; though I don't think you can argue that Barrett could write songs as catchy as Lennon's pop hits, they both contributed some of the most incredibly unconventional psychedelic songs of 1967. Syd was also a very original guitar player, as shown most clearly on the ten minute instrumental "Interstellar Overdrive" which is this record's centerpiece: a chromatic riff halfway between surf-rock and heavy metal which devolves into pure psychedelic freakout reverie. 
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
Sir Lord BaltimoreHard Rain Fallin'Kingdom Come1970USA
CactusOne Way . . . Or AnotherOne Way . . . Or Another1971USA
The Upper Crust Only A Lowly LackeyDelusions Of Grandeur (N)2017 (Upper Crust)USA
Hooton Tennis Club Lazers Linda
Big Box Of Chocolates (N)2016 (PIAS)UK
Lee Fields & The Expressions Make The World
Special Night (N)2016 (Big Crown)USA
 
 
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Nuclear FusionFlying Mictrotonal Banana (N)2017 (ATO)Australia
The Moonlandingz Black HanzInterplanetary Class Classics (N)2017 (Transgressive/PIAS/Hostess)UK/USA
Damaged Bug Liquid DesertBunker Funk (N)2017 (Castle Face)USA
R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner Don't You Just Know It (Huey Piano Smith)Make It Be (N)2017 (Lost Colony Music)USA
The Mothers of InventionLater That NightCruising With Ruben & The Jets1968USA
   
 
The Mothers of InventionReturn Of The Son Of Monster MagnetFreak Out!1966USA
   
 
Pink Floyd Lucifer Sam The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967
UK
Pink FloydBikeThe Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967
UK
Pink Floyd John Latham (sections 2 & 3)
The Early Years 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation (N)rec. 1967 (2017 Pink Floyd)UK
Pink FloydPow R Toc HThe Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967
UK
Pink FloydAstronomy Domine (live)Ummagumma 1969
UK
   
 
The Luck Of Eden Hall Make Way For The Mighty Machinesweb single (N)2017 (self release)USA
A Tribe Called Quest Ego
We Got It From Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service (N)2016 (Epic)USA
A Tribe Called QuestExcursionsThe Low End Theory1991
USA
   
 
Moon Duo White RoseOccult Architecture, Vol. 1 (N)2017 (Sacred Bones)USA
MV & EE Feel Alright
Root/Void (N)2016 (Woodsist)USA
Six Organs Of Admittance Threshold Of LightBurning The Threshold (N)2017 (Drag City)USA
Snarky Puppy Big Ugly
Culcha Vulcha (N)2016 (Ground Up Music)USA
 
  
Laraaji & Sun Araw Leipzig, part 2
Professional Sunflow (N)2016 (W. 25th/Superior Viaduct)USA
      
   
   
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