Syd Barrett - Opel
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Free Music Review: Great because he's mad
Hit: 4 Stars
It's sad to me to read some of these reviews that long for "what could have been" with Syd Barrett. The man was little off and that's what made his music, his singing and his lyrics so great and original. If he'd been like the other glam-pop acts of the seventies, he would've just written shallow overproduced radio cotton candy crap that melts in your brain as soon you hear it and sticks, not because it's sincere, but just because it's intentionally catchy, and ultimately without much heart and soul. That is one thing that Barrett had in spades without really seeming to try, yet very evidently paying for it. Listen to the end of the title track "I'm trying to find you," repeated over and over and tell me you don't feel his sincerity and anguish. I've listened to a lot of music in my days, and I don't hear that kind of heart anywhere. Barrett pours out his soul and it makes you want to cry for him, for yourself for the whole bloody doomed race of man. He remains one of the most original singer-songwriter, artist, musician, mystery, tragedy whatever you want to call him and he's always a consideration in my mind. Opel is a great collection of rough tracks - the best way to hear any musician - with great gems like Clowns and Jugglers (aka Octopus); Rats; Wouldn't You Miss Me (a thorazine-laden version of Dark Globe); and Milky Way. Also on this collection are just plain weird songs like Dolly Rocker, Word Song and Birdie Hop. "Birdie hop, he do, he hop along." That always makes me bust out laughing. You're only as mad as you don't realize. Maybe Barrett wasn't so crazy after all. Maybe he just had real artistic integrity.Free Music Review: Syd's Dead Letter Office
Hit: 4 Stars
Much like the REM album Dead Letter Office, Opel is the scrapings of Syd's unpublished studio career, for the good or the bad. Songs like Opel and the lower take of Dark Globe were more haunting than most of Cobain's later Nirvana pieces. Other interesting songs like Word Song (a string of unconnected, barely rhyming words that seem perfect together), Birdie Hop (a great sing-along song), and Milky Way are pieces of vocal mastery, showing the range of Syd's post-sanity music. Also, the stripped-down version of Wined and Dined is probably Syd's best solo. But with all of this treasure, there is a mound of trash. Cows and Jugglers is barely listenable (especially if Octopus is one of your favorite songs), Lanky is like a toned down Stoned Alone from earlier PF times, and Swan Lee's Native American story simply doesn't sound right coming out of a very British Barrett. The rest of the songs are tolerable and enjoyable.
Syd is one of my heroes, and my favorite musician, so I am a bit biased toward his outtakes, but some of these songs were just the wrong flavour.
Free Music Review: Syd couldn't Bear-it
Hit: 4 Stars
I'm nearing sixty myself so I easily remember the crazy 1960's
Schizophrenic psychedelics!! Defined as a little LSD mixed together with creative genius which sits quite nicely upon the shoulders of madness!! All this Allowed Syd to see what most of us boring normals could not. Syd was in touch with what the rest of us could not possibly imagine or envision!! His musical integrity traveled with equal ease through darkness and light with whimsical twists of child like endeavor-Brilliant but troubled yes indeed!! Hence "CRAZY DIAMOND"!! Syd was constantly struggling with his own inner escape but alas could not" THE WALL" "Opel" speaks to all of this and more, his troubled musical genius will be felt for generations to come
Free Music Review: Interesting odd and ends collection of Syd Barrett's work.
Hit: 4 Stars
Opel is a collection of unreleased recordings from Syd Barrett, they're either demos, alternate versions or unfinished tracks. Syd was one strange dude and very unperdictable. He would wander into the studio and start playing and would quit without warning. While he was in the studio, the backing members of Soft Machine would hang around and try to play along. But Syd would change chords or notes so often that it became virtually impossible to keep up with him. A collection of Syd Barrett's material was released a few years ago and it uses tracks from all three albums, a definitive collection of music world's most eccentric individual.
Recommended for psychedelic music fans.
Free Music Review: Moderation is the key to understanding
Hit: 4 Stars
Syd is a very interesting case and blown out of perportion. While I don't like all the songs on the cd rats being an example, I find that the cd is worth the money. I've been likened to Syd but with no drugs. that's how I discovere him. the cd is dark light beautiful ugly and a glimps into the mind of Rock and literary figures. It's not the greatest piece of work but it's also not the worst.