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

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Wouldn't You Miss Me: The Best of Syd Barrett
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Artist: Syd Barrett
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Capitol
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)

Free Music Notes for Wouldn't You Miss Me: The Best of Syd Barrett

Free Music Review: We Do Miss You Syd!!!
Hit: 4 Stars

Even though Syd had dropped out of the music scene around 1975, his presence and legacy continued on in his influence on so many musicians, including the band he helped to found, Pink Floyd.

This collection is a well put together sampling of some of his best solo works. There are a few parts that are a bit of a hard listen, partly because of Syd's penchant for off-beat lyrics and dissonant sounds, but also because, if you listen closely, you'll hear those hints at the troubles that plagued Syd's life.

There is a dichotomy also; witness the gleeful trippiness of "Octopus": ("...they'll never put me in their bag")/ ("The squeaking door will always squeak...").
Somewhere among the word plays- deadpanned with amusing poetic license- I am certain Syd is trying so 'say something' in his own inimitable way.
Then there's the trance inducing "Opel", with the loooong held vocal notes ("I'm tryyyyyyyyyy-ing..."), which is just plain spooky, but I love it.

As other's have mentioned, buy it also for "Bob Dylan Blues" and "Two Of A Kind" even if you have the rest of his works. The latter has an early Donovan feel, and the former is a left-handed compliment to its namesake ("...and the wind, you can blow it"---nice).
These are two excellent songs which I'd never heard before, and enjoy immensly. There's a nice progression in the song order and selection. Bottom line, this is put together really well and is a fitting tribute to one of the greats.

RIP Syd, you are missed.

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

UK collection featuring 22 tracks, the finest solo works from the eccentric original Pink Floyd co-founder. Compiled from his solo albums, the rarities and outtakes collection 'Opel', the box-set 'Crazy Diamond' and two previously unreleased tracks, 'Two Of A Kind' (BBC Session Track) and 'Bob Dylan's Blues'.
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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