The BBC’s Chris Jones put it a little more succinctly: “this is Edward Lear for the acid generation.” With Syd Barrett, it never felt like an invention. I don’t think I ever found another record which that type of dichotomy worked so well. He important thing about The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was the music’s strange juxtaposition – sometimes whimsical and pastoral, but simultaneously desperate and sad. Sadly departed singer Chris Cornell remembers discovering their first record, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in the mid-80s, and meeting a very different Pink Floyd than the one he’d come to know: “It could almost have been a British indie-rock record of the time.” Indeed, Syd Barrett’s work, including the solo albums he recorded after leaving the band, left a long, lasting impression on indie rock.
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