Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
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Artist: Syd BarrettEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-08-07
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Terrapin
- No Good Trying
- Love You
- No Man's Land
- Dark Globe
- Here I Go
- Octopus
- Golden Hair
- Long Gone
- She Took a Long Cold Look
- Feel
- If It's in You
- Late Night
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Hit: 2 Stars
Being a Pink Floyd fan in the 60's (and still am today), I immediately bought this album when it first came out. Syd Barrett was THE man behind Pink Floyd, or so I thought. On playing it, and giving it many plays, I was very disappointed. It was obviously a noble effort by his former bandmates to prop him up. There are a couple of interesting songs, but aside from some historical value, it's not worth the pain to listen to. After nearly 40 years since it's release, I thought I'd give it another shot and borrowed it from the library. My opinion hasn't changed. I still love Pink Floyd, but this Syd Barrett solo effort, even with the help of his talented friends, is just plain awful. My advice is to rent it or borrow it before buying.
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Track List: 1. Terrapin 2. No Good Trying 3. Love You 4. No Man's Land 5. Dark Globe 6. Here I Go 7. Octopus 8. Golden Hair 9. Long Gone 10. She Took a Long Cold Look 11. Feel 12. If It's in You 13. Late NightHaving left Pink Floyd in 1968 after a daily LSD habit had taken its toll, Syd Barrett's first solo album finally appeared two years later with ex-Floyd sidekicks David Gilmour and Richard Wright riding shotgun with him in the studio. The Madcap Laughs is a brilliant but brittle album, with every strum of the electric guitar seeming to take its toll on Barrett's increasingly frayed nerve strings. On songs such as "Love You," his state of mind is well concealed beneath the sort of jolly jangle-pop Blur would later indulge in. On "Dark Globe," however, the strain is palpable: "Please lend a hand ... won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?" he pleads, ominously. The best tracks are "Octopus," which possesses all the controlled mania of early Floyd, and "Golden Hair," a still moment of musical rapture whose lyric is taken from a James Joyce poem. --David Stubbs
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