The Piper at the Gates of Dawn cover

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Released

Before they were every dorm room’s heroes, The Pink Floyd were young John Peel’s favorite, a paisley bunch of psychedelic punks. More concretely, before David Gilmour, the main songwriter was lunatic genius Syd Barrett, and that cat’s something you can’t explain. The band stretches out the way they would later, sort of. They’re mostly a very exploratory and freaky version of the bands down on the High Street, selling singles and seeing visions in the wake of The Beatles cracking open the heavens. Shit is goofy and elevated and wild and dumb and fantastic.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Xantharmony cover

Xantharmony

Silvia Kastel
Con-Struct cover

Con-Struct

Schneider TM, Conrad Schnitzler
Super-Sonic Jazz cover

Super-Sonic Jazz

The Sun Ra Arkestra
Ke I Te Ki cover

Ke I Te Ki

Aki Onda, Akio Suzuki
Stadium cover

Stadium

Eli Keszler