4. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM From the Album: Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) At the start of their illustrious career, Pink Floyd were a band who orbited around the otherworldly mind of talismanic frontman Syd Barrett, a singer/songwriter, composer and artist who fearlessly explored the sonic possibilities of dissonance, distortion and feedback. "Astronomy Domine" utilises all of Barrett's mind-bending techniques to take the listener on an out-of-body trip around the solar system subsequently cementing Pink Floyd's position as a world beating, boundary-smashing band who precious few would rival. If space had a sound, it would sound like this. Creativity simply oozes from "Astronomy Domine's" every pore and buried within some of the strangest noises and off-kilter phrasing ever put to tape lies a fiendishly wicked song with unashamed Pop sensibilities, somehow it remains catchy despite its purposeful quirkiness and experimentation. "Astronomy Domine" is Space-Rock, Psychedlia and Art-Rock encased in just over 4 minutes of mind-blowing, planet-fragmenting experimentation and its originality and bravery remains undiminished 47 years after its release.
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I love Heavy Metal, and generally anything that involves a guitar and loud noises, so I figured it was about time I put all the useless information in my head to good use and start writing a few things. Most of the time I'll be writing nonsense but occasionally I may surprise myself and appear half-way knowledgable.....but you can be the judge of that. Thanks for your fleeting attention!
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