Syd Barrett - The Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?
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Free Music Review: Syd is a genius
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is great. Of course the material is not very new to hard-core Syd fans, who probably already own the Peel Sessions LP with 'Two of a kind' on it. But I would still recommend this CD to hard-core and wanna-be Syd fans alike. Those unfamiliar with Syd will be stunned by the lyrics if they pay attention. All titles have been remastered so they sound way DEEPER than the original recordings. Bob Dylan blues is a great and happy little song. Altough it's kinda hard to see if the lyrics of the song are based on admiration or irony; perhaps a mix of both. It shows a very different, more childish, Syd... since it was written in 1963 (the version on the cd was recorded in 1970). Sure it is a shame that Gilmour waited so long to make 'Bob Dylan Blues' available. But remember... royalties are now syd's sole mean of survival. That must be why new songs are brought in one by one... so that royalties keep coming as new CD's are issued. After all, Syd is a genius and he deserves it. Hopefully, somedays, we'll get to hear 'Living alone','Rhamadan', 'Rooftop in a thunderstorm', 'Lanky part 2' and songs probably recorded live with the 'sparks' or the 'twinks'. Also, sleeping in vaults somewhere, must lie more 196x to 1965 Floyd covers of rock'n'roll and r'n'b classics.Free Music Review: Wish You Were Here
Hit: 5 Stars
There have been many different descriptions of Syd Barrett in the past. They have ranged from misunderstood genius to a Psychedelic Paragon. I first heard Syd Barrett when I listened to Arnold Layne, the first single released by Pink Floyd in 1967. I knew it was different from the other Floyd Music of the Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and others. I wasn't yet acquainted with the influence of Syd Barrett. After I had heard some of his music with Pink Floyd and read a lot about him, I wanted to hear his solo efforts. I bought the Madcap Laughs a year ago and I wasn't disappointed, there was so much Barrett had to offer. Then I bought, Wouldn't You Miss Me, and I think its an all-around brilliant album. It combines songs of pure beauty, such as Late Night, Terrapin, No Good Trying with other ingenius works like Baby Lemonade and Bob Dylan Blues. Syd is an artist that I'm glad for having had a chance to enjoy but still wish for him to emerge and entertain again. So to answer the question posed on the album, We Would and do Miss YouFree Music Review: The genius of Syd Barret in a deligthfull compilation
Hit: 5 Stars
Is Amazing this man , so amazing that was impossible he were normal, impossible he could maintain his mind sanity, all that creativity made him go mental but before his insanity took all over him , he had the time to record for us awesome albums and this album includes the best of him , "Octopuss" is a funny travel across Barret s mind all kind of crazy ideas were expressed in that song, "here I go" is like his love statement for a girl with a sense of humor , "Bob Dylan blues" is about the admiration of Barret for the master of folk Mr Dylan , were he put in Dylan s shoes and he speak and describes about "himself", great songs wrotten by a troubled mind founder of the Pink Floyd concept and legend that never lost his good humor and now rather to keep its life in privacy out of the public eye, he is happy this way now and I think he deserves to end his life with only the companion of his close friends, after the incredible music he already gave us
HM
Free Music Review: Essential Listening
Hit: 5 Stars
This a superior collection of Syd Barrett songs especially considering that Bob Dylan's Blues (a hilarious parody) is not available elsewhere. It has almost all of the official songs and leaves out weaker ones. However, it omits a few songs that are classics, "She Took a Long Cold Look at Me" and "Milky Way" still hold up. Of course, it eliminates unreleased work Barrett did with Floyd (obviously for copywrite reasons) such as the disturbing classics, Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream (both of them repeatedly covered by neo-psychedelic bands. Still song lyrics like "I'm only a person with Eskimo chains. I tattoed my brain all the way" they seem document someone's mental breakdown whether that was intentional or not. Many of the songs are painfully removed from reality. However, they are effective, however eerily disturbing pop songs far superior than the general "guy with a guitar" genre.Free Music Review: Just A Sample Of Syd Barrett
Hit: 5 Stars
Syd Barrett as you was the founder of Pink Floyd and wrote most of the bands psychedlic masterpiece debut album, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", this album samples 22 of his greatest songs realesed during his short famed solo carrerr and is a musical adventure each and every time you listen to any of Syd Barretts songs or albums, all the songs on here are pretty simple but yet maintain a weirdness and psychedelic appeal to them which makes them facinating and interesting to listen too. Of course there's the people out there who think Barrett is underatted which is NOT TRUE I mean if it werent for Syd, Pink Floyd wouldnt be the same band they are today, he helped create that space sound they have, so if you loved The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn you'll also love the solo stuff he did, enjoy, and oh yeah did i say the songs on here are genius.