[This Is Not Here]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

i think that piper will always be the "cool" pink floyd album because barret will always be this acid casualty hipster icon of sorts, making piper the accetable floyd album among the underground folk. but if you actually sat down and listened to all their albums, its not hard to see its much inferior to a lot of thier stuff. once again, not sayin i dont like it.

I agree with you, I'm just about the biggest Syd Barret fan to walk the face of the earth, and I absolutely adore Piper. However, though it gets me precisely no scenester points, I refuse to accept it is better than Dark Side of The Moon. Syd Barrett's music is wonderful, however he is the only thing thats vaguely rock n' roll or cool about Pink Floyd, and therefore people will always latch onto his work for hipster points...