The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?

Syd Barrett - The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?

The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?
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Artist: Syd Barrett
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
  • BARRETT SYD THE BEST OF
Soundtracks:
  1. Octopus
  2. Late Night
  3. Terrapin
  4. Swan Lee (Silas Lang)
  5. Wolfpack
  6. Golden Hair
  7. Here I Go
  8. Long Gone
  9. No Good Trying
  10. Opel
  11. Baby Lemonade
  12. Gigolo Aunt
  13. Dominoes
  14. Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)
  15. Wined And Dined
  16. Effervescing Elephant
  17. Waving My Arms In The Air
  18. I Never Lied To You
  19. Love Song
  20. Two Of A Kind
  21. Bob Dylan Blues
  22. Golden Hair (Instrumental)

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Free Music Review: If one needs one Syd Barrett album, this is the one
Hit: 5 Stars

Original founding Pink Floyd guitarist, singer and main songwriter Syd Barrett passed away on July 7, 2006 at the age of 60.
It was seven years ago on September 11, 2001 (a dark day in US history) that a Syd Barrett compilation was released here in the States called Wouldn't You Miss Me: The Best of Syd Barrett.
The title, in retrospect, has been said "YES" to that as he was the man who created Pink Floyd and many who loved the band with him, like David Bowie and Alice Cooper and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, even attest to this.
This compilation takes the best of Syd's two albums he released after his departure The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, both released in 1970, and some songs from his 1988 rarities set Opel and a few unreleased gems make this compilation.
The songs that represent The Madcap Laughs on here are "Octopus" (originally titled Clowns and Jugglers), "Late Night", "Terrapin" (which Syd's closest friend and eventual successor in Pink Floyd David Gilmour has played at his 2001 Meltdown semi-unplugged Royal Festival Hall concert), "Golden Hair", "Here I Go", "Long Gone" and "No Good Trying". The choices are well picked from Madcap.
Syd's second and final properly recorded album Barrett is represented by "Wolfpack", "Baby Lemonade", "Love Song", "Dominoes" (which Syd's closest friend and eventual successor in Pink Floyd David Gilmour has played in solo shows in recent years and versions appear on his Remember That Night DVD and newest 3-CD/2-DVD set Live in Gdansk), "Gigolo Aunt", "Wined And Dined", "Effervescing Elephant", "Waving My Arms In The Air" and "I Never Lied To You". All great songs I may add.
The 1988 outtakes album Opel is represented by its classic title cut, "Swan Lee (Silas Lang)", "Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)" (the best version of the song IMHO and Gilmour covered this song in concert on his 2006 European On an Island tour) and the closing instrumental version of "Golden Hair".
Then there are two rare tracks. First is "Two Of A Kind", which appeared on The Peel Sessions EP (which was out of print at the time and was not available in the US). Lastly was an outtake from the Barrett sessions called "Bob Dylan Blues" which David Gilmour had in his possession for years and put on the compilation.
The remastering of the old Barrett classics were excellent and the booklet gives us great insight into Pink Floyd's lost "crazy diamond".
Recommended!
R.I.P. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett 1946-2006
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The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me? Poster

The haunting, cracked solo work of ex-Pink Floyd leader Syd Barrett has been anthologized elsewhere, but never so thoroughly on a single CD and NEVER with the unreleased track, Bob Dylan's Blues ! That alone oughta get tongues wagging among '60s psych collectors, but this 22-track collection also includes the hard-to-find Two of a Kind along with gems like Swan Lee; Terrapin; No Good Trying; Opel , and more.
Pop culture's fascination with the psychically damaged has inspired a pantheon of cult heroes, from Brian Wilson through Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson, and Kurt Cobain, whose enduring--if troubling--appeal could give a cultural psychologist a life's worth of study. Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett has long been one of the most obsessed over. Listening to this first-ever distillation of the "best" of Barrett's brief post-Floyd recording career (which essentially ended in 1970), it's not hard to understand why. Barrett's childlike side (displayed here on such Lewis Carroll-esque fare as "Octopus," "Terrapin," and "Effervescing Rhino") and almost painfully innocent love songs sometimes feel like the lost blueprint of alt rock, while his space-case vocal delivery and distinctly surreal sense of timing and rhythm give each cut a hypnotic sense of intrigue. It's all a far cry from the intricately baroque pop psychedelia of his brief tenure in Pink Floyd. Something (LSD? Insanity? Both?) clearly shattered Barrett's consciousness between the band's debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn (he left the band shortly afterward) and the spare, shattered acoustic ballad poems from his first solo album (The Madcap Laughs) featured here. The more accessible, pop-conscious ethos of its follow-up, Barrett (highlighted by "Baby Lemonade" and the amusing "Gigolo Aunt") were largely studio illusions conjured up by sidemen such as Floyd's David Gilmour and Richard Wright. Barrett fans should also note the presence here of the previously unreleased "Bob Dylan Blues," a wry, talking blues parody of the great Zimmerman and allegedly one of Barrett's earliest compositions. --Jerry McCulley

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