MSN Music Editor Sean Nelson has named Pink Floyd‘s debut album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” one of the best albums of 1967.
As media attention focuses on the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” MSN’s article “Summer of Love’s Greatest Hits” singles out 10 albums as the year’s best.
“Piper” comes in at #9.
“‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ is the only existing record of (Syd) Barrett firing on all cylinders before aggressive LSD intake and looming mental illness combined to render him first unreliable, and then basically vacant,” Nelson writes. “It’s also the most ’60s-sounding record of the ’60s that also sounds good.”
EMI Records plans a three-CD remaster of “Piper” in August.
