Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn [3CD] (1967)

Year: 4 August 1967 (CD Sep 11, 2007)
Label: EMI Records (Europe), 50999-503919-2-9
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 42:15, 41:58, 32:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 273, 274, 194 Mb

Charts: UK #6, FRA #15, GER #42, NL #46, SWI @87, US #131. UK: Gold.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 4 August 1967 by EMI Columbia. It is the only Pink Floyd album made under the leadership of founder member Syd Barrett (lead vocals, guitar); he wrote all but three tracks, with additional composition by members Roger Waters (bass, vocals), Nick Mason (drums), and Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals). The album followed the band's influential performances at London's UFO Club and their early chart success with the 1967 non-album singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play".
The album was recorded at EMI Studios in London's Abbey Road from February to May 1967 and produced by Norman Smith. It blended Pink Floyd's reputation for long-form improvisational pieces with Barrett's short pop songs and whimsical take on psychedelia. The album made prominent use of recording effects such as reverb and echo, employing tools such as EMT plate reverberation, automatic double tracking (ADT), and Abbey Road's echo chamber. Part-way through the recording sessions, Barrett's growing use of the psychedelic drug LSD accompanied his increasingly debilitated mental state, leading to his eventual departure from the group the following year. The album title was derived from referencing the god Pan in chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows, a favourite of Barrett's.
The album was released to critical and commercial success, reaching number 6 on the UK Albums Chart. In the United States, it was released as Pink Floyd in October on Tower Records with an altered track listing that omitted three songs and included "See Emily Play". In the UK, no singles were released from the album, but in the US, "Flaming" was offered as a single. Two of its songs, "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive", became long-term mainstays of the band's live setlist, while other songs were performed live only a handful of times. In 1973, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was packaged with the band's second album A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) and released as A Nice Pair, to introduce the band's early work to new fans gained with the success of The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
The album has since been hailed as a pivotal psychedelic music recording. Special limited editions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn were issued to mark its 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries, with the former two releases containing bonus tracks. In 2012, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was placed at number 347 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", moved up to number 253 in the 2020 edition.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn)

01. Astronomy domine (04:15)
02. Lucifer sam (03:09)
03. Matilda mother (03:05)
04. Flaming (02:46)
05. Pow R. Toc H. (04:24)
06. Take up thy stethoscope and walk (03:07)
07. Interstellar overdrive (09:41)
08. The gnome (02:14)
09. Chapter 24 (03:53)
10. Scarecrow (02:10)
11. Bike (03:27)

01. Astronomy Domine (04:12)
02. Lucifer Sam (03:07)
03. Matilda Mother (03:08)
04. Flaming (02:46)
05. Pow R. Toc H. (04:26)
06. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (03:05)
07. Interstellar Overdrive (09:40)
08. The Gnome (02:13)
09. Chapter 24 (03:42)
10. The Scarecrow (02:11)
11. Bike (03:24)

01. Arnold Layne (02:55)
02. Candy And A Currant Bun (02:45)
03. See Emily Play (02:54)
04. Apples And Oranges (03:05)
05. Paintbox (03:45)
06. Interstellar Overdrive (French Edit) (05:15)
07. Apples And Oranges (Stereo Version) (03:11)
08. Matilda Mother (Alternative Version) (03:09)
09. Interstellar Overdrive (Take 6) (05:03)

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Tiger B. Smith - Tiger Rock (1972)

Year: 1972 (CD 1997)
Label: Second Battle (Germany), SB 036
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Germany (21 August 1952 - 20 December 2016)
Time: 36:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 258 Mb

Five tracks comprise the album, and the Tiger bunch are nothing less than on the prowl for the bulk of it. Kicking off with “Tiger Rock” as roaring sound FX slyly open up the proceedings when Schmidt’s abrasive, near-antiseptic riffing intro cuts in to signal the band to break into a full-tilt, hardened boogie approximating the same pace and strength of Neil Young’s “Sedan Delivery” (Which is to say it’s not the usual ‘feel good at a mid pace tempo while we amp up slow and dumb down the blues like Humble fucking Pie and make you feel alllllll right!-in-the-process’ boogie nonsense but a far more streamlined and simple approach minus any fussy blues allegiance…Although THAT comes into play full force when the last track of the album derails an otherwise superb album with an obligatory and far too long blues exposition.) Tiger B. Smith just pummel it out so moronically forceful and insistently, it’s beyond mere standard blues-boogie — its savageness is far more bloodying a stomp-fest: mirrored by Schmidt’s repeated breakdown chorus of “Won’t do it!/ Won’t do it! / Won’t do it! / I will not do it! / I will not do it! / Just leave me alone!” and the abundance of double-time drum rolls which to the overall sense of abandon both fretfully defiant and willfully absurd at the same time.
The plodding, near-“Iron Man” sensibility of the rhythm guitar of “These Days” juxtaposes itself against a stoic drum pattern clipped with Dierks’ industrial effects which translates them into a sound at once deceptively hollow though thundering with hugeness and overall bass throttling from Klaus Meinhardt. Several times it collects into small, pounded-out mini-thrashes on the beat only to explode back into the even slower paced trudge ‘theme.’ A middle section picks up speed only to fall back with the added appearance of organ tones. Again and again the brief thrash sessions return as much to annoy as to excite and serve to break up the track’s otherwise super-drag quality as well as adding a sense of perfectly-timed stupidity.
(full version: headheritage.co.uk/unsung/the-book-of-seth/tiger-b-smith-tiger-rock)

01. Tiger Rock (05:16)
02. These Days (05:57)
03. Everything I Need (06:26)
04. To Hell (09:49)
05. Tiger Blues (08:56)

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