The Sergeant or The Piper, who do you prefer?

(still trying to process why you didn't use "The Pepper or The Piper" as the title of the thread...)

It didn't come to me, shocking lack of imagination.

I don't really know that Piper album per se. But off hand, I prefer Pink Floyd over The Beatles so that unknown (with possibly known songs) gets my vote.

The Piper. Pepper as a whole hasn't aged well.

I would have said you'd opt for the sergeant, shows how much I know.

The Piper full album is available on youtube.

Early Pink Floyd was more Syd Barret lead, while the later stuff, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here etc are all Roger Waters.

Wish you were here is about Syd Barrett who at the time had walked out of a recording session and disappeared.

It turns out he was sleeping on a relative's floor in a flat in Loughborough.

John Lennon famously slagged off jazz, saying it was men in beards sat around talking, or something like.

You can't say that about Floyd, despite Piper being a very psychedelic album the jazz influence is apparent.

The piano on Pow R. Toc. H could have come from an Art Blakey set.

listening to Piper.

i owned it at one time, but honestly don't remember most of the tracks.



for early Floyd, i prefer Relics...

Relics was one of those records that was released on a discount label.

These were sold in lots of places, places that didn't sell records, and I think a lot of record shops wouldn't stock them.

By and large they were cheap rubbish, some band you'd never heard of singing Beatles songs in the style of Glen Miller or something like that.

They were a lot cheaper than standard records because of that, but for some weird reason a few good bands had one of their records on that label, and Relics was one of them.

It meant Relics was about a quarter of the price of every other Pink Floyd album.

I love the Beatles, but I always thought Pepper and at least half of the White Album and one side of Abbey Road was a bit trite. I mean, Careful with That Axe Eugene vs Rocky Raccoon, Astronomy Domine vs Martha My Love?

I am a major Floyd fan, even if I also love Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, Meet the Beatles, Beatles '65, one half of Abbey Road, Revolver, Meet the Beatles, Beatles for Sale, Let It Be, Hard Day's Night, Help!. Floyd's Meddle, Saucerful of Secrets, Umma Gooma, Obscured by Clouds, Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here, Lapse of Reason, Dark Side, Division Bell all stand up to the Beatles easily. I own at least 80% of that list on vinyl, and all of it on MP3.

Beatles are my sentimental favorites and Floyd is what I listen to at night.