283. See Emily Play by Pink Floyd 1967

Originally I heard a version of this by David Bowie on his Pin Ups album of covers. At the time all I knew of Pink Floyd was Dark Side Of The Moon which I liked but I was no Pink Floyd fan. It was just too omnipresent, sonically blasting out of everyone's stereo speakers. A good test for the sound system. Music shops would put it on so you could hear how good the speakers were. Then I bought a book called The Best of NME and there was this article by Nick Kent about Syd Barrett. It was a fantastic read (as were a lot of the other articles in the book. NME was the go-to music bible)
One day at K-Mart I spotted a copy of Relics at Kmart for $1.99 so I thought I'd give it a go. Relics was kind of a cheap compilation of early Pink Floyd songs sold on the back of the newfound success. It was of course fantastic. As was the original version of See Emily Play. A terrific if slightly eccentric pop song of the late sixties. This was a Pink Floyd I could love and still do. Especially after I managed to pick up a copy of their Piper At The Gates of Dawn album a few years later. Later I would become a bit obsessive about the Syd Barrett phase of Floyd's career. I was listening to them day and night while in the outside world, everyone else was listening to Another Brick in The Wall.