I reckon we should change this thread into "How Pink Floyd changed my life"...
For me it was "Relics". I was 16 (1970/71), had f'all money, at College, and someone said I might like it, and it was cheap - summat like 99p

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I got it home, stuck it on the rekkid player, and almost from the 1st note I was hooked. It wasn't just that - it had the capacity to disturb me in a way I can still hardly describe. Suddenly I was transported to an inner world. It was something I'd normally associate with 'rug use, without the 'rugs. Talk about altered perceptions. I didn't know what had hit me. It was beautiful, weird, strange, disturbing, raunchy (just listen to Biding my Time), etherial, rocky, not rocky.
It was a rollercoaster for my mind....
And yeah, I did the usual cheesy thing. I started writing the lyrics down. Remember a Day. Forgive me as I repeat them here :-
Remember a day before today
A day when you were young.
Free to play alone with time
Evening never came.
Sing a song that can't be sung
Without the morning's kiss
Queen - you shall be it if you wish
Look for your king
Why can't we play today
Why can't we stay that way
Climb your favorite apple tree
Try to catch the sun
Hide from your little brother's gun
Dream yourself away
Why can't we reach the sun
Why can't we blow the years away
Blow away
Blow away
Remember
Remember
F*ck me or what!!!!!!!!
Just think of the songs on that album :-
Arnold Layne
See Emily Play
Remember A Day
Paint Box
Julia Dream
Cirrus Minor
The Nile Song
Biding My Time
Bike
For me, brought up in the old protestant style and sheltered in the extreme, it was totally life changing. It sewed the seeds for who I am today by challenging my perception of the world. I thought and questioned so much of what I'd known, so much of what had gone before.
I remain deeply grateful to them all, and always I remember the sacrifice Sid Barrett made - even if he didn't realise it at the time.
These guys re-wrote the rulebook. They were that rarest of things - original. They were unique then, and remain so today. No one else comes close, and I guess no one ever will.
Without doubt, my life's so much richer - directly because of them. Thank you so very, very much....
Hugs,
Barclay