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Pink Floyd formed in 1965 is considered as one of the prime proponents of psychedelic art-rock that enthralled millions of fans worldwide with their contemplative lyrics, sonic experimentation, imaginative cover art designs and light-n-sound shows.
What makes the band so special is very hard to put on print unless one goes through their album songs as many a times it takes to count the leaves of an oak tree. Pink Floyd, is after all an experience - it involves the interplay of the five senses in a meditative silence.
The early albums of Pink Floyd from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) to The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) show a strong philosophical approach defining their concepts well supported by avant-garde music embellished with rumblings, tickling bells, gongs, oscillators, weird shrieks, chorus and maniacal laughter.
The early albums are romantic and beautiful, the songs have a breathing freshness in them and the titles have a degree of strangeness in them: Astronomy Domine, Matilda Mother, Lucifer Sam, Interstellar Overdrive etc. – they appeal to inner mind; they bring in inspiration and open the “gates of dawn”.
As Francis Bacon had said “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion”- a Pink Floyd album goes on the define the inner world of the mind of the individual who is constantly in search of beauty of the opposites that exist in contrapuntal harmony
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