HT Giveaway: Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Bake a cake made of crazy and decorate it with scarecrows and gnomes and bicycles: It’s time for a Syd Barrett celebration. On September 4th, EMI Records will honor the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd by releasing special edition two- and three-CD sets of their debut album, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
Now, as part of our recurring Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return We’re Offered Free Shit To Give Away Contests, we’re happy to offer up a free copy of the two-CD special edition to the lucky commenter that best answers this simple query: Piper, The Wall, Dark Side, Animals, or one of the other classic albums — which is the best Pink Floyd album from top to bottom? Explain your answer in 10 words or less (bonus points for Barrettesque insanity).
- Streaming Video: Arnold Layne
- Streaming Audio: Bike
- Pre-order Info: The two-CD set and the three-CD set
Read on after the jump for the full details of the special edition releases…
The 3-CD packaging, designed by longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book with the original Vic Singh photo on the front, and holds 3 CDs, along with an 8-page reproduction of one of Syd Barrett’s notebooks. Newly remastered by James Guthrie, Discs 1 and 2 will contain the full ‘Piper’ album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Disc 3 includes bonus tracks, including all of Pink Floyd’s singles from 1967 (”Arnold Layne,” “See Emily Play,” and “Apples And Oranges”), plus the B-sides “Candy And A Current Bun” and “Paintbox.” Other tracks include an exclusive edit of “Interstellar Overdrive,” previously available only on an EP released in France, and the 1967 stereo version of “Apples And Orange,” which has never before been officially released.
The current single-disc version of The Piper At The Gates of Dawn will be replaced with a new two-disc version that will feature the mono and stereo versions of the album. This package will not include the Syd Barrett booklet or the third disc of extras.
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (Special Edition):
(all songs written by Syd Barrett , except where noted)
Pow R Toc H (Syd Barrett/Roger Waters/Rick Wright/Nick Mason)
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (Roger Waters)
Interstellar Overdrive (Syd Barrett/Roger Waters/Rick Wright/Nick Mason) – 9:41
Animals
Dogs, Pigs (Three Different Ones), and Sheep. What more could you want?
Definitely Animals: Reminds me of how I like to have sex…in dirty places.
there is no correct answer to best Floyd album
that being said, I discovered PAtGoD the summer before my senior year in high school. My parents refer to that summer as “your summer of love”. First dead show, first floyd show, first experience with syd, etc. PAtGoD was my theme album for the summer. Looks like the new re-issue will contain a number of the songs of the Early Singles disc form the box set, which is nearly as awesome as Piper.
The Wall
An awesome movie and even better album.
Meddle
Oh my god, Echoes! St. Tropez!! Fearless!!! Pink Floyd!!!!
Animals:
from hogs to dogs, this album drops the biggest logs.
Dark Side of the Moon
Money. Sickest bass line EVER!
Atom Heart Mother
Stare at the cow & listen & you will understand.
Best Floyd album? Depends on you psychosis, and best diagnosis.
Meddle is SPOT ON! That album meddle’s with the listeners’ physique, emotion, and reality in the time/space continium!
Meddlehead as well.
You want crazy? Best is “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”.
An appropriate album title for an appropriate answer.
Piper:
Arnold Layne: Beloved by cross dressing marmots.
I think Waters is wearing the same blouse that Jermaine was wearing when he wanted to “look like Prince when he goes to the zoo or the grocery store.”
“Meddle” is best. Echoes and the occassional acid flashback. Albatross!
(10 words.. nice!;) )
Meddle
A lack of verbal boredom offers swirling adventures.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn, because Pitchfork said so.
Saucerful of Secrets is a meddlesome hodge podge of hedonism at its finest.
The Wall; smells like it tastes. sounds like fornicating pilgrims.
Piper: I know a mouse and he hasn’t got a house.
Meddle is best, no Animals, no shut up, shut up
Animals. Best album ever, duh.
The best one is piper, as everyone knows.
Wish You Were Here–Syd’s all over it, in absentia. Dig those crazy A minor chords!
Animals Haiku
To Me, Dogs Pigs Sheep
Headphones, Vinyl, What Happens
I know that you care
Meddle.
I poop on Floyd, yet this makes me pee on myself.
The Wall is probably the greatest album of all time.
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Saucerful of Meddle on the Moons Dark side with Ummagumma