[pro libertate]

I really enjoy "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," but have to disagree about their 2nd album, "A Saucerful of Secrets."
Barret is credited with only 1 track and he was starting his slide. "Let There Be More Light" is a great opening track and there are other tracks of note on the album, but it doesn't seem to flow as a whole. I wouldn't call it bad, but it's not as good as some of the other early albums in my opinion.

If stuck to choose one album, I'd have to go with "Meddle."

[gawatchman]

Yes, while I think "Piper" was a brilliant album, "Saucerful" seemed rather fragmented and came at a time when Floyd was redifining itself, but it was still very good in my opinion, esp the title track. Syd's one song on that album "Jugband Blues" seemed to me to be a commentary on his own demise, and departure from the group. But, Syd wrote and recorded some other material with Pink Floyd that sadly, never made on any Floyd albums save for bootlegs such as "Vegetable Man", and "Scream Thy Last Scream". Wish I had those recordings.

[sully777]

My sister was a big Floyd fan. What a character my sister was: she used to look at me with crazed eyes and yell. "Watch out for that ax Eugene," then scream at the top of her lungs. Good times. But we were close because of it (sarcasm).

She told me Barrett lost his mind on LSD and that Roger Waters obsessed with his crazy friend, kept writing songs about Barrett in all the later albums. She thought The Wall was solely dedicated to Barrett. Someone played the backmask on The Wall and it seemed to say, "Welcome to the funny farm."

But I'm inclined to think it said, "Join free republic." What can I say? Waters was a visionary.