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View Poll Results: Which is the best early PF album? (Counting any other album b4 Meddle as 'other')
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 45 38.14%
A Saucerful Of Secrets 19 16.10%
Ummagumma 7 5.93%
Atom Heart Mother 39 33.05%
Other 8 6.78%
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Old 11-19-2004, 02:48 PM
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I think it is Meddle that's the first great Floyd album.
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Old 11-19-2004, 02:50 PM
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Bollocks, it's AHM no question.
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Old 11-20-2004, 12:05 AM
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Now you are taking the piss.
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Old 12-10-2004, 06:29 AM
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Overall, Atom Heart Mother would be the best in the list.

Followed by Piper.


Albums with PARTS that outshine the above two, however, would be UmmaGumma (Narrow Way is, arguably, better than some AHM material), and some songs on Saucer surpass most tracks on Piper, but "Saucer" itself, is atrocious to my ears.
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Old 12-10-2004, 07:18 AM
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atom heart mother

also because atom heart mother is my favorite album of all of them
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Old 12-10-2004, 08:46 AM
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Atom Heart Mother, from that list. With Saucerful close second.
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Old 12-10-2004, 09:39 AM
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Originally posted by bad_acid
The best? Obivously their debut album. Sadly to say but it is true, the other floyd albums, not including A Saucerful Of Secrets practically failed in England and they didn't make as much money off them and people really did not enjoy listening to them(though they were still popular for their live performances). Ummagumma was a horrible record. The Live record is good but the studio is just awkward and not very satisfying to listen to because it is quite boring and does not have many catchy tunes. Though Atom Heart Mother was quite good compared to ummagumma it was not produced well and as seen in the earlier BBC biography(early 90s. not Omnibus)they say that they had to slow down parts of the tape etc. and they went through hell producing it.

Inaccurate.

PATGOD: UK #6
ASOS: UK #9
Ummagumma: UK #5 (doing better on the chart than PATGOD)
AHM: UK# 1 (The band's first #1 album)


Comparison to USA charts:

PATGOD #131
ASOS: No chart
Ummagumma: #74
AHM: #55


As far as where the line is drawn between the Early Floyd versus regular floyd, I believe the division is properly made at Meddle.

Meddle introduced the "new" sound of Pink Floyd...on One of these Days and Echoes. And even the soft middle was more reminiscent of Dark Side than anything that came before Meddle.


Before Meddle, we hear a few select tracks, bits and pieces, that contain the future Floyd sound. I think the first such example, though, is on the Narrow Way on UmmaGumma...which continues on AHM. but nothing really CHANGES Floyd like Meddle does.

as far as I know, the band agrees. They consider "Meddle" the first true Floyd album. Everything from Meddle on, therefore, is not in the category of "early floyd".
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Old 06-07-2005, 04:45 PM
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Re: no way
AHM = 9.5/10
Saucerful = 9/10
Piper = 8.5/10
Ummagumma = 7.8/10
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Old 07-28-2005, 09:31 PM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
Atom Heart Mother for me. Saucerful and Clouds were close seconds.

Btw, well put Dark_Blue .
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Old 07-28-2005, 09:37 PM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
Piper at the gates of dawn
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Old 08-05-2005, 01:20 PM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn wins this battle with A saucerful of Secrets in 2nd place.
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Old 08-27-2005, 09:04 AM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, of course!
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Old 11-10-2005, 05:57 PM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
Atom Heart Mother.
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Old 11-10-2005, 08:05 PM
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Re: Which is the best early PF album?
piper at the gates of dawn with other saucerful behind it
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