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[gangsterdog38]

1:41 HES PLANKING LOL

[zeravla65]

5 years have been passed still... I will always remember you as the heart of Pink Floyd.... RIP Syd, I know... "The Madcap Laughs" ;-)

[dalgroves10]

R.I.P Syd. 7th July approaches :-( Such a loss, such a sad way to have ended your life after what you did for music and for Pink Floyd.

[melissarozel]

"Growing up could be good fun if you get to be in a band, jumping arround on a beach with a mannequin!" Noel Fielding about Syd and this video, 2 great people, R.I.P Syd. x

[DavidMRyanMD]

Is this the Original or the Album version??? I recently read that they had recorded this as a single before they did their first album for EMI??

[melitosse]

@DavidMRyanMD This is their first single, it's not on the album. The song was recorded at Joe Boyd's with Candy and a currant bun, the B side. The album was recorded a few months later by Norman Smith at abbey road. Both records have been realesed on EMI.

[zoso11]

my fave floyd song!

[willbgood65]

It's too bad follow up singles "Apples & Oranges" and "Jugband Blues" didn't sell as well.

[handyguy007]

damn, there is great difference between this pink floyd, dark side of the moon pink floyd, animals and wish you were here floyd (between last two, not SO much) and the wall /final cut floyd!!!!

[elisaloba]

trop beau!!!!

[SigHolm]

I miss Sid

[boltedankle]

Syd was a genuis. Its a shame acid did to him what it did. I wish I could have met him.

[swaimb]

Most classic Pink Floyd!

[farelaspesa]

es una chingoneria de Video... Syd sos genial!!

[PearlJammer07]

I am assuming this is a different cut of the video?

[Sanisaninja]

is it just me...or do Albarn's Blur at point mimick floyd?

[Lysimachus]

There are some influences evident.

[Lornalamorte]

I know someone like that. Enjoy the panties jerk!

[DallasKass]

What did Syd in was lsd and huge doses of it given to him almost every morning by this couple that he knew in his tea. What friends they were! Its been said that when Syd would be high on acid, even an orange would appear like planet earth to him...talk about a trip!

[wildenfree]

Anyone out there know what beach this is?

[IndependentGeorge76]

contains best ingredients of the 1960's, pscyhedlic and seedy in a uniquely british way...

worth noting that syd was one of the first english singers to sing in a non american accent...

[vintagezigg]

You hit it on the head IndependentGeorge 76

[GoodByeBlueSky79]

Brilliant Song, R.I.P. Syd

[be5tial]

wow!! O.o

mi pussy is dripping ua

[mauvetys]

I like this song!!

Thanks M for offering me!

[astralhed]

...i'm really happy you enjoyed my offering! ;)

[ledzeppelinzoso92]

i love this song, Barrett is amazing(:

RIP Syd

[youtubbeisshit]

barrett,waters,right and mason are the original pf

[mikal9000]

THE best song ever written about an underwear fetishist! Seriously, the Floyd were ahead of their time on both the song and the video. R.I.P. Syd.

[Morr40]

So, we meet again...I agree with your comment. :)

[Morr40]

I love this song! Syd's voice, the lyrics, the drums, the organ...My favorite.

[mrfantastic407]

I agree, the combination is addicting for some reason.

[spaceshotstd]

chech out = when pinkey came home=

[gilamusiks]

fantastic song!!

[rvolfreak]

Sorry for my lack of knowing i love pink floyd but im a young pink floyd fan.

Who were the original members while syd was still there?

[TheFerretMenace]

Wikipedia is your friend ;)

[DWYLBTZLE]

syd barrett

roger water

nick mason

richard wright

were the four original members

david gilmour was syd's friend before the group was formed

he joined about the time syd left

[AcrossTheUniverseluv]

love the song. the story if this song is so funny.

[SydShines4ever]

oh,I just noticed;"smells like teen",w/out the "spirit",sounds kinda gross huh.

[Virgo34]

Haha-that's true.You really need to have the"spirit"in there.

[AlbertMondback]

Aye.

[southwicklion]

pink floyd without syd barrett is like drinking wine without any alcohol in it

[isidro7667]

Syd had issues which chafed at the rest of the band (anyone know the story of "Have You Got It Yet?") The bottom line is, Syd didn't adapt well to the role of rock star, and the others did. Whether Syd's behavior was intentional or pathological is moot. It posed grave risk to the Floyd's future, and so one day they didn't bother to pick him up for a gig. Business is business. Hippie bands, unlike Beats, could think of nothing but fame and fortune.

[motormaskineriet]

DWYLBTZLE, that's rather mean. They had to drop him so he could rest. He was going insane and instable.

Rest of the band didn't wanna leave him. And they tried to contact him, but they didn't get to.

I think Dave, Rick, Nick and Roger would slap you across the face.

[DWYLBTZLE]

bottom line is syd went to the trouble to go visit them

and then no-one visited him

if a sick friend of mine was mentally ill and holed up in some basement

and his sister and his mommy said to leave him alone forever

i'd still show up and knock on his window

AT LEAST ONE FRIKKIN' TIME IN 35 DANG YEARS!

[dontmesafrusciante]

@DWYLBTZLE yes i feel ya man

[MyBluSk2]

I hold it against Kurt that he never acknowledged Syd as a partner in crime. Look at Kurts first In Bloom video- black and white beach footage- lazy goofing off- the use of minor chord progressions to complete the melody- I know Syd was a heavy influence on Kurdt.

[SydShines4ever]

That's what I've said and people are like;"How dare you!". Have they never listened to Wined and Dined? OMG, anyone who doesn't acknowledge that Cobain took parts of Syd's music,and called it his own,is in denial. As I see it,this is "sampling" and Syd's estate is owed payment for it( but Courtney Love deserves it more I suppose).

[SydShines4ever]

And doesn't "smells like teen.." sound kind of(very!) like the beginning of "Otopus"? Interesting.

[DWYLBTZLE]

pink-floyd(dot)org/barrett/

here ya go, child

maybe you can learn something

if you think before you misread people's comments

all anxious to spew yer 7th rade insults

like a DORKBREATH

in this website I helped with

you will find interviews with syd

after he WAS KICKED OUT OF floyd wherein he is more lucid and sane sounding than most dave gilmour interviews i've read

[DWYLBTZLE]

AND you will read where when an old schoool chum approached him

in a store

(OR TRIED)

but his sister jumps in and says: "syd doesn't wanna speak with or see anyone he ever knew in the old days"

and syd never even knows the guy was there!

how much "mental illness"

is really sis induced isolation?

how much "upset" over the past is yer friends seemingly never trying to contact you?

HE WENT AND VISITED THEM

[batman123133]

you dont know what your talking about. good lord get a life man. what the fuck are you talking about?? is the bed thing a joke?? your a douche arent you? not many friends? tell your mom hey for me!

[DWYLBTZLE]

Right, they kicked him out

and then spent thirty years writing albums about him

wishing they WERE him

and never visited him

or spoke to him

[SydShines4ever]

D.-I read the a

[batman123133]

they kicked him out because he was going fucking crazy on stage. god your stupid.

[anarchistyes]

This really made my day. I had a cat, named after Syd, who was killed on Wednesday, August 1. To put it frankly, that cat's something I can't explain...I loved him and am still devastated. Yet seeing the person Syd so happy and in his truest-bluest form...it really does something for the spirit.

[DWYLBTZLE]

and maybe you can ask them all why no-one visited syd once HE VISITED THEM ONCE IN THE STUDIO in '76 and otheR than that not one word was exchanged between them roger heard what i said and i stand by it tell him to read this HEY ROGER I THINK I ALREADY KNEW WAR WAS A DRAG OK? THANKS FER YER NIGHTMARE FER 30 FRIKKIN YEARS

[batman123133]

the reason they never visited after the visit at abbey road was because after that syd requested not to see anyone from his youth because it upset him. and i heard nick say once, "i sent him a christmas and birthday letter every year. with no letter in return." and as for your comment about roger...i wont call anyone to tell them what you think. its long distance and your not worth the money.

[DWYLBTZLE]

i already told roger what i think

and yer opinion is worthless to me

dork breath

[DWYLBTZLE]

how did syd tell them he didn't want to see them?

a letter?

a phone call?

after the studio visit

he died thirty years later with no contact

a visit?

[DWYLBTZLE]

he made the effort to visit them

and then

the guys who kicked him out of HIS band

ne'er showed up

[DWYLBTZLE]

HIS SISTER would always say "syd wants nothing to do with anything in his past" mom didn't approve  ok excuse for the rest

but dave was his friend before the band

no sis woulda kept me from my friend just came here to tell a funny story

[batman123133]

his sister said that because he really did say that. remember man, your the 50 yr old in midlife crisis arguing with a teenager over the internet...and your story was as pointless as your entire life. oh and go down stairs and ask your mom for money, since you do live with her. and go buy another dildo to stick up your ass.

[DWYLBTZLE]

well

since you know what he said to HER ALONE (supposedly)

since no-one talked to Syd

i'd have to advise you

to quit jerking off under syd's siter's bed

evesdropping on her conversations

dorkbreath

[DWYLBTZLE]

oops

i means SISTER's bed

a "sighter" woulda been you spying on them

you got a video of Syd saying that

(while you were under there?)

[DWYLBTZLE]

THIS IS THE ARNOLD LAYNE VIDEO ROGER WATERS SHOWED, ON A BIG SCREEN, DURING HIS 1988 RADIO K.A.O.S. TOUR at the end of this video in oakland, california (the only show, of the whole tour, that sold out) some asshole screamed: "TOO BAD YA CAN'T WITE 'EM LIKE THAT, ANYMORE, ROGERRRRRRRRRRR!" it was just after the music died and the screaming ovation died down.... you could hear it throughout the whole auditorium GUESS WHO IT WAS... (HE HEEEE HEEEEEEEEEE!)

[batman123133]

dude, i bet you looked like jackass considering Roger Waters didnt write Arnold Layne. Syd Barrett did about a guy sniffing girls underwear...

nice one, get back to tossing your salad.

[DWYLBTZLE]

I meant the bass-line

dorkbreath

[batman123133]

suuuurrreee you did. dorkbreath? what are you in the 50's? why didnt you call me a 'wyno' or 'rascalface'...douche.

[DWYLBTZLE]

how about batman

[DWYLBTZLE]

and you look like a jackass trying to explain to someone who was listening to this song in 1967

what it's about and who wrote it i know who wrote arnold layne-ok? did i say roger wrote it?

I SAID "YOU can't write 'em like that"

no "band" roger has been in

from dsotm on

has come up with any positive song all dreary, horrid, depressing and nightmarish

over yer head?

you appear to be 12-14

too cool for school

and too stupid for the real world

[batman123133]

haha. over my head...im related to nick mason. ive met most of pink floyd, except syd ofcourse. and friend, just a misunderstanding, you should be more clear when insulting great musicians.

and it depends on your take on the song to decide if its nightmarish. Roger writes a lot of deep lyrics, he tries to have songs that are relavent for his life and everyone elses. i think he has done a great job.

[DWYLBTZLE]

bro i clearly said: "some asshole yelled out..." if i didn't love the way roger USED too write songs like JULIA DREAM and STETHESCOPE etc I wouldn't be pissed at his fine (but dreary-depressing, and nightmarish) songs after and including dsotm after syd phase II floyd was cool till dsotm then they let roger take over and he went dreary it wasn't an enjoyable band after that for me i had to let roger know how i felt

[katycoyote]

it's called imagination..p[ink floyd become anal; retentive arseholes- look how they fell out with eah other...

[bubbleboyblue]

Does it matter if one likes psychidelic or experimental rock better? Early Floyd was simply different, not better, not worse. Which is which is just a matter of mood and taste.

Now damn, look at Syd go! He was brilliant lad and a might playful to. He was the early predisesor to punk or dare I say emo. Watch, "learn" & enjoy!

[Stratman78]

This was the song & the video that got me into Pink Floyd back in the summer of 2001. I bought "Echoes-The Very Best Of Pink Floyd" just for that song. I ended up destroying it!

One of the first 'concept videos' along with The Who's "Happy Jack."

[robe890]

i think u can tell that everyone there was having fun making the video

[turkishdagger]

RIP Syd, sold Syd by the friends

[xnerg]

i can't think of anyone who would disagree w/joshsirjoshules.

[topraman517]

I disagree. I like the progressive Pink Floyd better.

[joshsirjoshules]

This version of the song is faster than the usual one. I like this one better. I think a lot of people would agree with me if I said Pink Floyd was a much better band when Syd was with them.

[SlugThumper]

yeah. totally right

[astronomydomine22]

I love watching these classic floyd vids on this site, ive never seen any of these before and the fact that you can find them all on you tube is just awesome. I wish music was still like this...

I always wonder how floyd would have been if syd had stayed in the band, how amazing the music would have been, considering how amazing it is without him, and then considering the wonder that is syd barrett. R.I.P.

[bbarz]

kind of like hard daze night on acid

[jpd66]

Brilliant...just brilliant...you are truly missed Syd...RIP.

[Fairyqueenie]

Is there an official dvd containing those videos? I really want it! Fantasic stuff! :D

RIP Syd! :(

[itchybana]

I agree with spidersue.

[spidersue]

I think this is one of the best videos of all time, its arty, its funny, its macabre, its so pink floyd!

[supersonyk]

nobody sounds like this now!awesome