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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Post-Waters Floyd isn’t my thing but I still wouldn’t toss it out on a desert island. I can get something out of it.
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Yeh, I just can't. I understand the contribution he made to the band, that he was one of the founders and all, but I suppose the fact that my first album of theirs was
DSOTM perhaps colours my perception. I went on from there, and though I have heard all the albums, and
Piper and
Saucer both have great tracks, for me, personally, and I realise this is not a popular view but it is mine, the Barrett songs such as "Arnold Layne", "Bike" and "Jugband Blues" are the ones that let the albums down. I suppose, given that you have tracks such as "Astronomy Domine", "Set the Controls" etc, I wouldn't drop the albums but I would be skipping the abovementioned Barrett songs. In fact, I'd pass on most of
Piper other than "Astronomy", "Interstellar" and "Take Up Thy Stethoscope", while
Saucer I'd listen to most of it except for "Jugband". Just don't get or like Barrett. At all.