Interstellar Overdrive by The Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive is one of my all time favorite tracks. It's an instrumental but not in that background music sort of way. Interstellar Overdrive is a journey straight to the middle of the mind, and if you're lucky, you'll make your way back out.

It's the 7th track on the Pink Floyd 1967 masterpiece album Piper At The Gates of Dawn.

Interstellar Overdrive is the masterwork of this era of The Pink Floyd. Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. Barrett wrote this song and it's trademark otherworldly guitar sounds that drive the song into the stratosphere.

At 9 Minutes and 41 seconds long the song is both an epic in the sense that it is very long and also in the sense that it takes it's listener on a journey with it's many different sections.

I think it may just be the most psychedelic song I've ever heard.

This track has been covered by quite a few bands including Pearl Jam, Camper Van Beethoven, The Melvins, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Mars Volta.

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See this video of a live performance of this amazing song by The Pink Floyd at the UFO club in London on January 27, 1967: