4.17 AM - Before The Dawn

Advantages: Some wonderful tracks and hilarious lyrics...
Disadvantages: Some very weird ones too...

...Gosh, I am being candid with you this week! This time, I have decided to let you in on a secret about my love life. But more on that later. Read on. I have a penchant for cheesy pop. I love Steps, Hear’say, Kylie, Atomic Kitten, Abba, Darius and Will Young. But I also have a darker side to me too and a lot of that is satisfied by the wonderful Pink Floyd. I first discovered Pink Floyd back in 1986 when my First Love (yes, him again) lent me a load of his records. These included a large helping of the Floyd. I listened to The Wall and Comfortably Numb remains my all-time favourite song. Another of his records that he lent to me was this one – Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It must have worked, I currently have fourteen Pink Floyd albums, although most are on tape and so far, I only have three on CD (Echoes, Momentary... Read review

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Advantages: Great music, great energy
Disadvantages: Experimented... the experiment didn't work

...is perfectly good. This is probably the only album of theirs that anyone really needs in order to "get to know" the band that should have been huge but instead somehow didn't quite make it. They produced a clutch of albums and EPs over the next few years, culminating in 1983's "Canterbury" which was a flop. They then disappeared only to briefly regroup for a concert with Metallica and Megadeth at the Milton Keynes bowl in 1993. They regrouped again a few more times more recently an produced some more albums, but "Am I Evil" remains their greatest hour. The track listing is as follows: (with times) Am I Evil 7:48 Heat of the Night 5:57 Don't You Ever Leave Me 5:43 Borrowed Time 6:53 To Heaven From Hell 6:37 Dead Reckoning 6:30 Lightning to the Nations 4:17 Sucking My Love 9:32 And even if you don't fancy... Read review

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Advantages: Dreamy melodies, druggy keyboard melodies, creepy sound effects,Syd's beutiful vocals/lyrics, dream yourself away.
Disadvantages: NONE

...into space by Barrett's enginuity.Richard Wright's wonderfully intoxicating melody's and organs pick the listener up and launch his imagnation into a deep and soothing dream, the band were special, the band was magical, the band was mystical and of course the band was Pink Floyd. 1967 was the era of mystical perfection Floyd released a barrad of beutiful songs including 'See Emily play','Remember a day' and 'Paintbox' before finalising their debut which would mark the peak of the 60's just grew taller,the moment Barrett released this album he stuck a Pink Floyd flag ontop of mount Everest, because their success would escalate into the heavens.The distinct elegance that their debut was devised could only result in awe and marvell. 'The Piper at the gates of dawn' the name of Pink Floyd's debut album was taken from one of the chapters... Read review

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