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Day 6 of 2022: Thursday Throwback Album

 

 

Thursday Throwback Album

You see a lot of people doing the Thursday Throwback to some point time in their life. I thought I would do this every Thursday with a record that meant a lot to me when I was younger. I had planned to get a record player and dig out my old vinyl and then do a YouTube reaction to various records. The story behind why I had bought it, fave tracks and the like. I had hoped to do this with another old friend of mine. I could never get organised enough though. One day I will!



I was reading an article about Syd Barret the other day. It was one making of his 2 solo albums, and this made me think about the first only Pink Floyd album he played on. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. He appeared on the second album fleetingly at the end. He did some guitar, but for all purposes, he was already out the door by the time they cut the second album.


I first heard Piper when I was 12 or 13. I knew of Floyd from their "Another Brick In The Wall Part II'. Which resonated with a lot of children as yelled along with the "We Don't Need No Educhaaashunnn" lyric. My older brother had the other albums. So one day when he was not looking I snuck into his record collection and lifted the copy of an album called " A Nice Pair". It was the first two albums packaged into a double album. I did not know this of course.






I remember picking the first record and putting it on to my record player and putting the headphones on. At the time I had not realised I had put on side two of the first album by mistake. The opening track was the psychedelic instrumental romp "Interstellar Overdrive". Quite an introduction to the early sound of the Floyd.


It blew the musical doors off my mind, listening to that album. Strange time signatures, weird sounds, muffled voices. Opaque and whimsy lyrics bounced around my ears. I was still young and my musical exposure was that of 80's mainstream music. I know a lot of people have rather a rosy view of this era, I don't. Even then I thought the vast majority of it was terrible. Don't get me wrong there was some good stuff, you did not hear on mainstream radio. Anyway, as soon as the record had finished I put it back on again, to see if I had actually heard what I heard.

So here is one of my favourite tracks on the record. It's Lucifer Sam. Syd singing about his girlfriend's cat




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