Pink Floyd

[Simon Buttle]

I like the more obscure psychedelia. In my opinion, these two are near the top of the best ever psychedelic songs :






Of no interest to anyone except me is :

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/psychedelia-hammond-organ.74426/

Piper at the Gates of Dawn was named after a chapter in Wind of the Willows.

Favourite Floyd ?

Path Through The Forrest is a piece of pure genius especially considering The Factory were just a bunch of kids. A few years ago there was an album released of stuff they had recorded but that had never seen the light of day, it had some great stuff on it Red Chalk Hill is a favourite of mine.


John Pantry who wrote all their songs has a huge body of work from the sixties for many artists, he was a seriously talented bloke who never got the recognition he deserved. He is now the resident minister on Christian FM in the mornings.
As for Arzachel, well Steve Hillage did some great stuff and that album has some really far out psych on it and really pushes bounderies, there is even a track on it with a slightly hip hop beat too it.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Great Gig & Money are so good there's no words to properly describe them.

And Us and Them is one of the greatest anti-war songs of all time.

Saw them at Wembley Stadium in 1988, flying pigs appearing overhead etc, great show.

One of my favourite bits of their stuff is the instrumental part of A Saucerful of Secrets, truly astronomical.

 

[summerisle]

Path Through The Forrest is a piece of pure genius especially considering The Factory were just a bunch of kids. A few years ago there was an album released of stuff they had recorded but that had never seen the light of day, it had some great stuff on it Red Chalk Hill is a favourite of mine.

John Pantry who wrote all their songs has a huge body of work from the sixties for many artists, he was a seriously talented bloke who never got the recognition he deserved. He is now the resident minister on Christian FM in the mornings.
As for Arzachel, well Steve Hillage did some great stuff and that album has some really far out psych on it and really pushes bounderies, there is even a track on it with a slightly hip hop beat too it.

The original of Path through the Forest is also a stunner, written and sung by Cliff Ward. Not sure when he added the T.

 

[Simon Buttle]

The original of Path through the Forest is also a stunner, written and sung by Cliff Ward. Not sure when he added the T.

Wow, i hav'nt heard that for ages, listening to it makes me feel like i should be dropping LSD or at least smoking a joint lol, that video is just crazy!

 

[summerisle]

Wow, i hav'nt heard that for ages, listening to it makes me feel like i should be dropping LSD or at least smoking a joint lol, that video is just crazy!

Would love to hear it in a club blasting out.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Would love to hear it in a club blasting out.

Yeah that would be awesome, there was a club near me in Brighton a few years back that used to have a good psych night, they played proper stuff like The Factory and lot's of the more rare stuff. This also sounds good on a proper sound system in a club:

 

[summerisle]

Yeah that would be awesome, there was a club near me in Brighton a few years back that used to have a good psych night, they played proper stuff like The Factory and lot's of the more rare stuff. This also sounds good on a proper sound system in a club:

Banned by the Beeb, love it.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Banned by the Beeb, love it.

This was the first song that got me into the whole psych/acid rock thing. Years ago when i was still in Liverpool i remember going into Probe Records one day and it was playing and it just blew my head off, and when i asked the guy what it was i could'nt believe it was from the 60's.

 

[dholliday]

Someone earlier mentioned Miles Davis - his Kind of Blue album influenced not only future "jazz" artists, but a lot of rock artists as well...

Aye, the influence also went both ways: Miles enjoyed spacey proggy rock so incorporated some of that sound during his fusion-jazz phase of circa 69-74, especially with studio decisions he made like reverb on the trumpet and things like that.

Bitches Brew is a top 10 album for me, the perfect marriage of proggy rock/funk/jazz. Some people call the album difficult & inaccessible, but I was enthralled from the first notes I heard many moons ago, which were from the title track:

One of my favourite bits of their stuff is the instrumental part of A Saucerful of Secrets, truly astronomical.

I like the more powerful live version of that on Ummagumma...sounds like Syd wailing along at the end.

 

[dholliday]

on the subject of jazz-fusion inspired from proggy space-rock...this is up there:

 

[Simon Buttle]

on the subject of jazz-fusion inspired from proggy space-rock...this is up there:

big fan of anything jazz related tbh, in particular jazz fusion, id have loved to have gone and seen these guys, this is an awesome LP

 

[verreauxi]

Big fan of them back in high school, then I trailed off of them, but I still think they are amazingly creative.

Animals and Wish You Were Here are my two favorites.

 

[verreauxi]

on the subject of jazz-fusion inspired from proggy space-rock...this is up there:

Saw Sun Ra back in the 80s. Amazing show!

 

[dholliday]

big fan of anything jazz related tbh, in particular jazz fusion, id have loved to have gone and seen these guys, this is an awesome LP

Tim Berne's Science Friction is also pretty good, more contemporary too.

 

[canuckblue]

Didn't become a fan until I was in my late 40s (I'll be 56 in a few days). Always have one album in the truck at all times.