History Music / ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn

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* GratuitousPanning: "Interstellar Overdrive" - in the stereo mix, once the main riff of the song reappears about 8 and a half minutes into the track, the entire song starts rapidly bouncing back and forth between the left and right speakers.

''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' is the debut studio album by Music/PinkFloyd, released in 1967. Released ''long'' before the band developed the ProgressiveRock style that would come to define them in the public consciousness, this album is starkly representative of the PsychedelicRock sound that they had started out with in the early phases of their career, thanks in no small part to then-frontman Music/SydBarrett's knack for eccentric and esoteric sound and subject matter. That said, they weren't exactly unknowns when the album released; they'd already built up a mainstream following over the course of that year, and by the time ''Piper'' released they were already seen as an important enough act in the psychedelic scene to influence the likes of Music/DavidBowie years down the road.

* GratuitousPanning: "Interstellar Overdrive"

* PrecisionFStrike: On the bonus track "Candy and a Currant Bun" ("Please just fuck with me...")

* CutAndPasteTranslation: Keeping in line with American releases of British albums at the time, the original US release drops "Astronomy Domine", "Flaming", and "Bike", inserts the non-album single "See Emily Play", and rearranges the rest of the tracklist, adjusting the between-track segues as necessary. The UK version would first become officially available Stateside with the compilation ''A Nice Pair'' in 1973 (albeit with the live version of "Astronomy Domine" swapped in), and like other modified British albums from its era, it would become standard on both sides of the Pond when it was reissued on CD (with the studio version of "Astronomy Domine" this time around).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ''musique concrète'' section which ends "Bike" foreshadows the one which begins [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon "Time"]].

->"I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like\\

I’ll give you anything, everything if you want thing"

* CutAndPasteTranslation: Keeping in line with American releases of British albums at the time, the original US release drops "Astronomy Domine", "Flaming", and "Bike", inserts the non-album single "See Emily Play", and rearranges the rest of the tracklist, adjusting the between-track segues as necessary. The UK version would first become officially available Stateside with the compilation ''A Nice Pair'' in 1973, and like other modified British albums from its era, it would become standard on both sides of the Pond when it was reissued on CD.

This album is named after Chapter 7 of Kenneth Grahame's ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''.

* StalkerWithACrush: The protagonist of ''Apples & Oranges''....a guy who gets infatuated with a lady he first sees at the supermarket.

* TextlessAlbumCover: On the standard issue. The US version of the album added "Pink Floyd" to the cover.

** The once - unreleased single, "Vegetable Man" is basically straightforward ''punk rock''.

Despite being relatively overshadowed in popularity by ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', and ''Music/TheWall'', ''Piper'' retains a major following. In particular, it's generally regarded as one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made and is popular with those who dislike the later, more ArenaRock incarnations of Floyd. The album was listed at No. 347 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', later being bumped up to No. 253 in [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 the 2020 revision]]. A big-name fan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #11 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]]it was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later," but as it was the ''only'' time in his life he agreed to make such a list, it's as close to definitive as it can get[[/note]] when asked by the newspaper ''The Guardian''. [=AllMusic's=] editors named it an "album pick," meaning that they feel that the album is representative of Pink Floyd's work as a whole.

Despite being relatively overshadowed in popularity by ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', and ''Music/TheWall'', ''Piper'' retains a major following. In particular, it's generally regarded as one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made and is popular with those who dislike the later, more ArenaRock incarnations of Floyd. The album was listed at No. 347 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', later being bumped up to No. 253 in [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 the 2020 revision]]. A big-name fan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #11 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]]it was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later," but as it was the ''only'' time in his life he agreed to make such a list, it's as close to definitive as it can get[[/note]] when asked by the newspaper ''The Guardian''. [=AllMusic's=] editors named it an "album pick," meaning that they feel that the album is representative of Pink Floyd's work as a whole.

[[TheOneWith The One That]] started it all.

!! Interstellar Troperdrive:

[[TheOneWith The One That Started It All.]]

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Richard Wright sings co-lead vocals on "Astronomy Domine", "Matilda Mother" and "Bike", as well as full lead vocals on the bonus track "Paintbox".

* SanitySlippage: This is evident on Barrett's part from the bonus track "Apples and Oranges", as well as the ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' track "Jugband Blues" which is explicitly about Barret's experience suffering from this trope. There are other songs from the same era (such as "Scream Thy Last Scream (Old Woman with a Casket)" and "Vegetable Man") that display even more of this, but they have not been officially released as the other members of Pink Floyd feel they are too voyeuristic. They are available on bootlegs, however.
** Both tracks were eventually released on the "Pink Floyd: The Early Years" compilation in 2016, nearly ''50 years'' after they were originally recorded.

Despite being relatively overshadowed in popularity by ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', and ''Music/TheWall'', ''Piper'' retains a major following. In particular, it's generally regarded as one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made and is popular with those who dislike the later, more ArenaRock incarnations of Floyd. The album was listed at No. 347 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', later being bumped up to No. 253 in [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 the 2020 revision]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #11 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]]it was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later," but as it was the ''only'' time in his life he agreed to make such a list, it's as close to definitive as it can get[[/note]] when asked by the newspaper ''The Guardian''. [=AllMusic's=] editors named it an "album pick," meaning that they feel that the album is representative of Pink Floyd's work as a whole.

Despite being relatively overshadowed in popularity by ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', and ''Music/TheWall'', ''Piper'' retains a major following. In particular, it's generally regarded as one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made and is popular with those who dislike the later, more ArenaRock incarnations of Floyd. The album was listed at No. 347 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', later being bumped up to No. 253 in [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 the 2020 revision]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at #11 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]]it was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later," but as it was the ''only'' time in his life he agreed to make such a list, it's as close to definitive as it can get[[/note]] when asked by the newspaper ''The Guardian''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Candy and a Currant Bun" contains the line "Please, just [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with me". This was written as a WriterRevolt after the record company censored the drug references in the previous version of the song (it was entitled "Let's Roll Another One" and contained lyrics like "I'm high; don't try to spoil my fun"), but the record company failed to notice. [[note]]Likely due to the fact that the line follows "Please don't TALK to me...." and "fuck" is kind of slurred. The Suits probably wrongly-assumed he said, "Please just ''walk'' with me".[[/note]]

--> ''A gnome named Grimble Gromble''.

--> ''You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world''
--> ''I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things''.

--> ''I'm in bed''
--> ''Achin' head''
--> ''Gold is lead''
--> ''Choke on bread''
--> ''Underfed''
--> ''Gold is lead''
--> ''Jesus bled''
--> ''Pain is red''

--> ''The seven is the number of the young light''
--> ''It forms [[WordSaladLyrics when darkness is increased by one]]''

--> ''Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?''

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is taken from the title of the seventh chapter of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''.