Syd Barrett - Opel
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Free Music Review: DON'T BELIEVE THE DISBELIEVERS!!! Syd B....
Hit: 5 Stars
...had more genius & greatness (o.k., maybe more acid as well) in his pinky than all your MTV award winners put together! Only a brilliant natural (a la Barrett) could prop himself up in front of a mike with an uneffected e. guitar & create a visionary gem of such transcendent breadth & depth as the cut "Opel", for instance....& the following cut "Octopus" I'm comfortable to declare to be the single greatest-strangest-best-lyrics-&-perfect-backing psych/rock/pop song ever! It holds up!Yes, Barrett had/has his problems with the drugs, the fame, the mad pressure, but I say he's at a similar approaching-superhuman level to a Jack Kerouac, a Nick Drake, a Bob Marley, a Miles Davis, an Edie Sedgwick: you gotta forgive such figures their foibles, focus on their achievements, hear THROUGH their shamanic slurs & hallucinatory goneness to the artist's communicating heart. -This from a listener who cannot bear any Pink Floyd unless it's the Syd cuts; i.e. their greatest album = THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN! & the Syd singles: Heaven! You wouldn't want OPEL to be the only Barrett album in your collection, but it is an important gem (a veritable Opal!) containing cuts of both breathtaking beauty ("Golden Hair") & savage strangeness ("Rats")...
Free Music Review: What Could Have Been
Hit: 5 Stars
Well,everyone knows the story already...after leaving(or being left behind - only the Floyd can say for sure)Syd went on to record two studio albums and leave some scattered songs and instrumentals in the vaults.For years most was available on bootlegs of various sorts,mostly of bad quality.I was very happy to see this disc come out and fell in love with it on the first listen...the title track is one of the most compelling songs he ever wrote(David Gilmour-who produced most of his recordings- did not remember this song and it probally just slipped through the cracks and ended up in the vaults at EMI)and is a testement to just how out there and alone he really was.
Yes, it has versions of songs already available on the first two discs but it`s the title track and the odd bits of instrumentals that make this disc stand out.
Given the state of our world it is great to know that even if it costs them everything,the really great artists will always find a way to shine.Syd isn`t gone...not really - he just got lost and shared with the world just how it really felt to be alone with no way back.Spooky,brilliant and worth adding to anybodys collection.
I just found out that Syd died July 7th.....rest in peace man.
Free Music Review: Different vision
Hit: 5 Stars
Fans of Syd Barrett will justly celebrate this collection of outtakes and previously unreleased recordings, culled from the last few years of Barrett's brief creative career. Known for his querly songwriting in Pink Floyd, this collection finds Barrett less self-consciously trying to wrestle a psychedelic vision, and just letting his inner world flow out. Syd's playing is often clumsy, but never insincere in these uncompromising yet good-humored numbers. The sound quality is excellent and pared-down, often merely Syd and his guitar feeling his way through the new material (though there are some fascinating experiments like the murky basses on "Swan Lee" and the vibraphone instrumental version of "Golden Hair.") It gives me chills to hear his quiet, accented voice gently intoning a series of random words on "Word Song" - some of them ("glaucous") quite nonsensical. There is a childlike purity to this work that defies proper description. For those who prefer stream of consciousness, visionary work to radio pandering, you will not want to miss this. Fans of Barrett's other solo work will enjoy the intimacy of this inclusion to the canon.Free Music Review: The last breaths of a genius
Hit: 5 Stars
Opel is a collection of left over tracks from Syd's solo career. The tracks range in quality from the much refined Opel and Wouldnt you miss Me to being able to hear them talking in the studio and syd playing his guitar pretty sloppy like in Word Song and Let's Split, which are really good anyhow. My advice is to buy The Madcap Laughs and Barrett or his Floyd work first before this album since this is the scraps of his music, but even the scraps are good. Let's Split and Milky Way couldve easily fit in with the madcap album and Lanky, which is really like a toned down version of Stoned Alone, is probally the closest Stoned ALone will ever be to being on an Album, and of course the title track Opel excellent, in ready condition to be put on a album, with no backround noise like in some of th other tracks which makes you wonder why it was never put on 1 of the orginal solo worksFree Music Review: Syd Barrett Fans
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the album that exposes the side of Syd barrett we all were so curiuos to experience for so long. Although to the average listener, it may not be fit for mainstream. The ideas and innovations can be heard in this album, sometimes sad reminding us what could have been. Although they are mainly outtakes, and one most remember that or he sounds even more out of it than he really is, which is saying a lot. It's great for the true Syd Barrett fans that wanted more after the last two albums finished up by Gilmore and friends. I know Syd barrett was a genious clouded by insanity. This album is very raw, and allows you to hear that, but also sad knowing that he is in there but unable to perfect his gift enough to make it totally comprehensible. Fives stars for the Syd barrett fans, but if your looking for Pink Floyd, it's not here, sorry to say.