syd barrett solo stuff
 

just wondering what people think of his solo albums i've been listening to the madcap laughs a lot lately and i have to say i love it

he's a mental dude, very cool though.

I love those records so much.
Been a fan a long time. I'm glad I didn't have to work with him at that time, though! Sounds like the sessions were super difficult.

Yeah, he is awsome, I've got a best-of called Wouldn't You Miss Me, and it's great. Effervescing Elephant, Golden Hair and Octopus are songs that pop up rigth now.

great stuff indeed & too often overlooked probably

Yeah, I've read that he would forget a song just as he came up with it, so they always had to record them rigth away, or Syd would just forget them,.

Wonder what he's up to now?

opel, madcap laughs, barrett all wonderful, baby lemonade is one of my favourite track

Yeah basically everytime he would do a take of a song it would be completely different. And I think hes one of the most influencive muscians of all time. Folk, Pyschedelic, Noise. And his nonsensical lyrics definetly were a new idea at the time....

syd barrett is a genius.
that's a fact.
his solo albums are extremely good, and also they provide an insight into a man in the process of a breakdown, which is pretty scary.
Apparently after each recording session Barrett would turn left if he was going to come back the next day, and right if he wouldn't.
The last session he ever did, he turned right and that was the last the studio ever saw of him.
I think this story sums up the unpredictability of working with him, but his songs come straight from his heart, and I like the way he was obviously at the lowest possible point in himself but his songs are so sweet and joyful.
he is a hero

Those records are glorious.....been a huge fan since I was in middle school.

Oh where are you now
pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?
When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart
my head kissed the ground
I was half the way down, treading the sand
please, please, lift a hand
I'm only a person whose arm bands beats
on his hands, hang tall
won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?

As my screen name suggests, I love the man and his music.
Truly original, listen to the Piper's guitar playing, no one was playing like that in 67'. And the lyrics, oh the lyrics..! Out Sargent Peppered the beatles in my opinion.
I love his solo stuff as well. It just hits
you smack dab in the right place. I don't know, like the heart or
something.

terrapin is one of my favourite songs ever. I love the way you can hear the plec hitting the strings

I love Syd. Pink Floyd has never interested me as much without him.

indeed

I like Pink Floyd up to The Wall...and yeah I like Barrett's solo stuff. They need to stop re-releasing it every few years in a new form, though.

I love Syd Barrett's work and think he is a real unique kind of genius. His solo records are good, but uneven.Piper at the Gates of dawn is probably one of the best pyschedelic records ever made! There's a PF video from 67 showing him improvising a take of intersetllar overdrive that goes on for seventeen minutes thats simply amazing.

Some of my favorite solo songs by him are Octopus,dark globe,late night, baby lemonade,milky way, bob dylan blues, gigolo aunt, silas lee. It's a shame he wont release anymore material but i think its really uncool that people still chase him and stalk him. Let him live his life !

Barret was a true musical genius. Pnik Floyd just wasn't the same without him. I don't like the Gilmour years all that much. Too mellow. It reminds me of that worthless burn out who still works at the local record store and you look at him and realize he probably spent an accumulated total of 6 months tripping out and thinking that Dark SIde of the Moon meant something.

I often wonder what he thinks about the wall and dark side of the moon and how HIS band became so popular after he left.
I know a lot of people who like pink floyd, but have no idea who Syd is.

I dig his stuff a bunch!

sonic sphere, get a book too about his!

Baby Lemonade is my favorite too, terminal pharmacy. Gigolo Aunt & Effervescing Elephant are standouts as well. As one can tell, I'm partial to Barrett.

i found that on vinyl today ("Barrett") in a charity shop. Best find ever

no good trying is also one of my faves and terrapin

In fairness to the masses, he was only around for 1.1 albums. I know of people that have never heard of Brian Jones, Peter Green, or even that didn't know Peter Gabriel was in Genesis.

I love this guy, The Madcap Laughs & Barrett are fucking great.

I also love the album with Pink Floyd : The Piper at the Gates if Dawn.

Yes, however, he was the founding member. Pink Floyd wouldn't exsist without him.

pink floyd have existed for a very long time without sid

Look again at the names in my post.

I bought an exclusive dvd a while back of original 8mm footage showing sid eating magic mushrooms in an english forest (late 60's) and then running around tripping and laughing. It lasts about half an hour and the video ends with him and the rest of the band outside the Abbey road studios in London getting ready to do recordings for Piper at the gates of dawn... I think. Very rare and intimate footage.

ah yes, fair play, i was half asleep when i wrote thatpost
sorry
tom

I love Syd Barrett but I love "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish you were here" and "Animals" more. It does make you wonder how he feels about the whole Pink Floyd thing. I just hope he knows that he is so well loved and that is music will be timeless. There was always something missing in Pink Floyd After Syd left (not musically) they had a great composer and a great guitarist but it always seemed like they were missing a frontman. Syd always remained their phantom frontman even lyrically as most of the songs were about him in someway

Bumped for further discussion of my all-time favourite album. 'ave it.

I'm not sure I've seen this. I'd be interested to see it, does anyone have a link?

I will never tire of listening to No Man's Land, never.

i would love to see that too. syd barrett is probably my favorite songwriter of all time. that reminds me, i have to get my biography of him back from the cook at my work beore i move.

Yeah I started a thread about No Man's Land being the first British studio 'noise rock' track. It didn't go down too well, though no one stated any convincing earlier tracks. It is utterly wonderful, I've heard some early demos where the feedback was far higher in the mix, shame it was lower in the final cut, but it's still incredible. I love the way the last verse is completely incomprehensible over all that noisy goodness. Madcap's second best track, beaten only marginally by Here I Go.

Wouldn't Interstellar Overdrive qualify, at least?

hmmmm, perhaps, but I've always thought of it as an experimental peice which layers several elements in no structure. Love it as I do, it doesn't really reach noise territory on any of the recordings I've heard.

If we're going to look at Pink Floyd tracks, I personally think Vegetable Man is a pretty noisy affair for what it is. But that could be because the recording is very poor...

Syd is the best. Piper is probably my favorite albums. actually its tied with the 2nd VU record for favorite album.

When he was in Floyd, they where different. when he left they became boring and uninteresting.

RIP Syd