Dark globe (Syd Barrett cover)

[jkinshela]

How dare you...REM, means only to pay the greatest of respect to Syd Barrett, you IDIOTS!!@! What an amazing cover he did too...!!!!!!!!!!!

[stormcrow7878]

The people attacking this cover amuse me. The guys in REM are obviously reverent of the material, and Michael certainly give this song it's best vocal version ever. Just because you don't like the band covering the song, doesn't mean they didn't do a great job.

[omgbetch]

This is really lovely

[scooternjinx]

stupid you tube, i prefer michael stipe's version!

[zourza]

you should post it again under a different name just to tick of youtube!

R.I.P. Syd.....

[chevrotyne]

yep, im gonna trie..

[chevrotyne]

yeah! booo youtube booo!

[j3rmz0r]

boooooo

[mayuu28]

damn! sorry guys!

[jakubltm]

"This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by WMG. The audio has been disabled."

realy great, thanks youtube nerds staff!

[faceofpo]

Yeah, that is pretty ridiculous. Just about every music video on here is authorised. If they're planning on removing sound from every one of them, good luck.

[HashFloyd]

Love REM..

[xaladolokiyo]

dont make no sense

[sydbarrett5]

I think it's cool that they decided to play it on piano. I like Michael's voice too

[TheNavajosBand]

Ick, I don't like this at all, it's completely taken out of context when sung by someone else. The thing that made this song good was the fact that you knew you were listening to insanity, and when sung by someone else it's completely lost in translation, regardless of how good the cover is. In short this song should not be covered by anyone, except maybe David Gilmour who actually understood Syd Barrett.

[Hibbleton666]

I like this cover version,unfortunately Syd flew too close to the sun and his mind melted,note that Stipe also covered "I walked with a Zombie"by Roky Erickson (13th floor Elevators)Erickson also had a few problems in the effervescing elephant department!

there's a fine line between sanity and madness,creativity and just going along with the crowd.....

manicured hand gesture? would you rather have New Kids on the Block cover it ?

[buerosso]

grande barret ....... sei  in cielo con gl'altri

[hounddig]

rem turned a heartwrench into a fucking

manicured hand gesture.this sucks

[skinnynorris85]

I think it totally meets syd's standard.. he' d like like it for sure

[Gameraflames666]

i this this is a very interesting cover it was a nice take of what SYD wrote.But i wish the words were the same.

[Tumadrede4]

its very good very good...but listen robyn hitchcock, its very good too, i think is greatest, real , chickenskin on the backs

[katie2531]

placebo´s version is the best! it´s so beautiful...how else could it be..

[matholton]

I don't care what you all say - I love this version.

I also love and prefer Syds version though.

[PINKalessioFLOYD]

thank you REM... syd would be proud of you... but i think that dave gilmour's cover is better better better than this one.... REST IN PEACE SYD

[pottypete24]

Fantastic i love r.e.m and Syd Barrett was simply a genius and his music will never die!

[rondex777]

great voice! a lot of emotion

[crimplemania]

Actually it was a b-side from Green. Not Automatic.

[Kanwulf123]

it SUCKS!

[bigup13]

Aside from not getting the words right it is for me the best most heart felt cover of this song I ever heard. Maybe REM could do it again with the same intensity, and this time get it right.

[Hatchetboy9011]

Wow that was really bad.

[PeartLifesonLee]

Wow, that's a damn good cover.

[ldlprotti]

please please if somebody can send me this song in mp3 or tell where i can find it, it would be great-- its a great cover..love syd and rem also... please let me know

[neilno1]

its on the automatic for the people B sides which you could get a torrent of off mininova or something lovin the cover

[sevenfour]

For me is beautiful.

[DragonTheArtist]

Not bad at all, but Im gonna have to agree with GunslingerZYX, on this 1.

[GunslingerZYX]

I *love* R.E.M., but I can't say I'm a huge fan of this cover. It's not awful, but it just doesn't touch the strange (perhaps fleeting, but potent) briliance and melancholy of Syd Barrett's original.

[Gaz0175]

I have a soft spot for this cover - it was originally released on a flexidisk in a magazine when I was in the 9th grade - it's because of my love of the cover version that I found Syd Barrett, and ended up tracking down everything I could - boxed sets and bootlegs and all of it...

[elizicw]

:) - that Sassy Magazine edition was how I first heard it too. I think this is a really beautiful version -

[Gaz0175]

Yeah - I remember a friend was a regular Sassy reader and she gave me the flexi out of it because she knew how much I loved REM... good times. : )

[ldlprotti]

hi im a big fan of syd.. i had the 2 cds he made.. but nothing else(i also have his work with the floyd).. can you tell me if theres more songs of cds that i can find of him??? and where can it find it... thanks and hello from costa rica...

[12190205]

There is a compilation of rough tracks on "Opel," which was released around 1990. This one has the song "Opel," which is a masterpiece. Another compilation is called "Wouldn't You Miss Me at All: The Best of Syd Barrett." Really there are only two new tracks on it. You can probably find both on Amazon.

We'll never forget you Syd.

[DEPARTMENTofPEACEusa]

Pussy Willow who Smile HONESTLY - Not- "On my Sleeve". They also left out an entire verse. Horrible cover.

"My HEAD kissed the ground , I was half the way down, treading the sand.not- "Strumming" the sand

REM obviously sees Barrett as a lame joke.

[chevrotyne]

you're wrong too , it's :pussy willow that smiled on this leaf! nevermind!

[elizicw]

LOL! I thought it was pussy willow that smiled on my sleep...

[elizicw]

I think this is a pretty faithful cover. Why is it not okay to slightly shift or change a lyric or word (which is sound in the song too - just like the music), but ok to shift or change some of the music/tones(which is what covers do generally)?

[jamesa66]

It was very bad. Several lyrics are wrong. "Tattered" should be "tatooed." David Gilmour's cover is much better. By the way, I'm an REM fan. The feel of the song/phrasing is off.

[elizicw]

I have an attachment to this version for a few reasons, but I see your point. Still though, I don't think changing some lyrics/words automatically makes it bad - cover versions often change the instrumentation too (as this one does - the original was guitar right? and this one is piano?)- but I don't think that change makes it "off." I will check out the Gilmour version though - don't think I've hear that one.

[bigup13]

great cover thanks for posting

[pundude]

Syd lives with Elvis and BigFoot

[penndraegon]

The numerous UNSUCCESSFUL attempts of bands to cover this frustratingly evasive lyric proves that Syd Barrett was meticulously 'exact' in crafting a melody. He wasn't just 'writing music'. He was carefully constructing original theory oriented modern compositions. They don't flow in a usual way and yet they're suberbly musical. They are so nuanced that you can't just listen to them a few times and be able to sing them to yourself later on. In short, he was a compositional genius.

[bigup13]

The most beautiful comment I have read. Hope theres more....

[bigup13]

beautiful....

[LYMBO2006]

I dont really see the geniousity in Syd BArretts original composition of "Dark Globe": melodically it is ok, even beautyful, but the background is basically three major chords of G, C and D, it doesnt get any simpler in terms of structure,not to say arrangement, because there isn't an arrangement at all.Performance is not so good eaither: his voice is weak and dry and very off tune, his sense of rythm is unaccurate and there is a totally awfuly tone-def chord right at the ending line.

[LYMBO2006]

No offense intended, just a critical approach. In the other hand i do acknowledge the great quality of the lyrics. They are deeply moving and beautyfully crafted.

[chevrotyne]

I think that he does not need hundred of chords there, to make a very nice song, I mean, you speaks from a professionel point of view, just lets the emotion come, i prefer lesson ''Satie'', that of the ''mozart'', because the emotion is much more intimist, not need of orchestra

[chevrotyne]

The band Placebo do another version of dark globe.

[chrisedelic77]

Wow, I almost bought this flexidisc on ebay....

[feelingverypink]

Travesty--no one does Syd like Syd. but I guess it's cool that REM can appreciate the genius of Syd, but at least get the words right--it's tatooed my brain, not tattered.

[ideapazza]

straordinaria canzone una delle piu belle di questo secolo

syd for ever

[sydbarrett40]

I'm crying

[EzequielPais]

Syd is not dead!

Still alive in his music.

[BluesVeins]

4 sure better then the soundgarden version, Stipe can stand it.

[TomGreenUK]

This is OK. The tribute is appreciated.

[Rabidsenses]

Wow, awful version.

No doubt that David Gilmour's is the definitive remake . . . as it should be.

[Rabidsenses]

Listened to it a ninth and tenth time. I suppose if one forcefeeds it it becomes more acceptable.

Michael Stipe is okay with it.

It's just, well you know, the musical majesty of David Gilmour versus REM/Stipe is not so fair.

Definitely check out the 2006 Gilmour version. Given that he produced the song originally (and played the music for the song on Syd's album) I'm sure it warrants his office to play this song.

[rohanmw]

this is disgusting, does not capture the essence of the song AT ALL.

[cattycakes64]

Great to see a cover of one of Syds all time best....but I got to say it doesn't quite work. With Syds version you really feel his sense of remoteness and alienation from both himself and the world.

[myshkin]

Interesting.

[GeddyYeti2112]

Eh, this isn't a good cover.

[chevrotyne]

what you mean by ''this is not the good cover'' dude?! this is the good cover! don't worry!

[CtrlRm]

yes it is

[PinkFloyd47]

O.o This is one of my favourite songs, I never knew R.E.M, my second favourite band, covered it :O Thanks so much.

[chevrotyne]

Voici la reprise acoustic de Dark globe (chanson de Syd Barrett) par REM

[chevrotyne]

This is the REM version of dark globe, a Syd barrett song, in acoustic.

[ldlprotti]

Thanks.. im gonna look for it now... really thanks.. and cheers from costa rica...