(07-11-2016, 11:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Astronomy Domine is great, and it's on my top 400 (Ummagumma version is the one I know best), but my favorite of course is the pioneering psychedelic space music gem, Interstellar Overdrive.
It takes a motif from a rock song by Love ("My Little Red Book") as a theme with which to blast off and land.
I have the album Relics, which included See Emily Play and the Overdrive and other early hits and cuts from Piper.
They used to play that number all the time at a place called the UFO club in London when they were starting out, if I remember reading correctly. I think this is the 1966 recording of this song, and a cool video to go with it, with clips from their early performances.
Edit: Not sure about the date of this sound recording, might have been 1967, but it is not the one on the album.