Curious to know what you guys think/like about Pink Floyd's early work

Since you are referring to their early work then you mean the Syd Barrett era. Much of it isn’t nearly as accessible to listeners as their much better known great later works like Wish You Were Here, but I have come to love their early works just as much. For me, they are much more introspective and psychedelic. My first introduction as a kid was Echos. I continue to come back to that incredible long cut regularly throughout the years. For me, I’m transported to a massive underground cavern where musical notes drip into a deep placid pool like water off of stalactites. I had the incredible fortune of seeing Nick Mason & his band at The Tulsa Theater October of last year and was seriously impressed. They only performed Nick Mason/Pink Floyd’s early works and I was mesmerized. See him if you can before the opportunity is gone forever. It was an absolutely magical show!

I listen pretty much only to early Floyd, up to and including DSOTM, but especially Meddle, Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma. I don’t listen to their later work as much.

 I loved Pink Floyd's early albums. Umugumma was definitely out there, my favorite and much underrated was Atom Heart Mother, very different and a classic. Echoes was another outstanding album, then they went for a more commercial sound and lost IMO, much of their innovative work.

A little late to this party but: +1 @unreceiveddogma, @bishop148 and some others - when I have Pink Floyd in heavy rotation it will be pre-Dark Side 6 days out of 7. I love the greater variety of musical styles in the early stuff and the shorter pieces that populated many of those albums. While I still enjoy their later works, especially the sonics, to me there seems to be an increasing tendency toward bombast.

and @drbb, thanks much for the great concert link - I hadn't run across that one.

Delicate Sound of Thunder definitely the best Pink Floyd recording and it was without Waters. But if he is saying that we have no business in Ukraine  I agree. Two Russia dictators fighting it out bores me.