You have to be kidding me.... Piper is not an over rated album, it's probably up there with Meddle has the most popular non-commercially successful albums but still even songs like, "Flaming", "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk", and "Pow R. Toc H", are overlooked tracks.

I wasn't really talking about here. Compared to The Wall, DSotM, Wish You Were Here, and later discographies I do think so, for many reasons. Including the success and attention to their concept work which eventually became a landmark of the band. They achieved the most commercial success at that point. Gilmour and Waters overshadowed Syd. Gilmour the most critically acclaimed guitarist compared to him.

Haha, its funny that this is a top 10 pink floyd albums thread when I'm not sure how many more than 10 pink floyd made.

favorite is definitely wish you were here!

It's on Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Albums Ever" list, it's on Mojo's "50 Most Out There Albums" list, it's on Q's "Greatest 100 British Albums" list. It charted at no.6 in the UK album chart and constantly gets hyped as one of the very best British psychedelic albums ever recorded. Does that sound like an overlooked album to you?

Well now you put it that way it's not, but my statement still stands.

Piper always gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wall, DSOTM and Wish You Were Here on anything that I've read about the band and on here it' s held in the same esteem as those albums, so I can hardly see it as being an "overlooked gem" Even the OP thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Of course Gilmour is going to be held in higher esteem, he's played on nearly all of the band's albums, whilst Syd only managed to play on one and a bit albums, before he was trollied off to the funny farm.

he never went to the funny farm

he was mostly at home lost in his own universe, occasionally going out to collect royalties to feed myself and baffle people by his behaviour until the day he died

Sounds like he was playing too much Skyrim.

Here apparently it's not, but if I am going to go by what I've seen... Other forums I used to visit with music sections mostly held their concept albums as the pinnacle of their career. There were mentions of Piper here and there but not often. I admit I haven't come by any reviews of the album, so I can't comment there. Only a few articles I've read about Pink Floyd, that's about it.

Presently here in big parts of social society being involved with, including the bar/pub scene which is pretty big, they off course have albums or tracks from DSotM, The Wall, or WYWH, not their earlier work. From what I gather Pink Floyd are mostly known for their conceptuality rather than their psychedelic artistry which is the most prominent in Piper. I'm pretty sure a lot of people today get to Piper after being introduced to these dominating albums... or anything earlier for that matter.

I guess obviously the albums I'm comparing it to are the most commercially successful albums. People tend to stick to them. That was my angle.

In the documentary "Inside Pink Floyd" they said themselves that their early albums are very stupid and boring and they even wondered how they had managed to sell them.