He was so cool looking. Everyone else who dressed in that flamboyant psychedelic style looked like an idiot but Syd made it work and he always looked super cool, even today.
I remember when I was 14 I got my first acoustic guitar and called it Syd! I also wrote 'shine on' in permanent marker on it. I still have it aswell even though it was crap guitar!!!
Fellow Syd fans take a minute to check out my song its called "the majority" i wrote it a while ago but i uploaded it the other day. id appreciate your comments its on my profile favourites.
I'm 14 and I know what good and underrated music was. This is. I have just ordered 'Opel', 'The Madcap Laughs' and 'Barrett' becuase I want to make people hear how good he was.
My copy of the biography "Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head" by Rob Chapman arrived in the mail today. Quite a fitting date to receive a Barrett gift, or what? :P
Syd was never underrated,everyone from that era knew what a talent and influence he had on how floyd progressed namely thru Guilmore,who kept him alive! Shine on you Crazy Diamond!
He was NOT crazy. And he did not go to an asylum either. I almost feel like it was an image he was trying to project for some reason (His first solo album was called "The Madcap Laughs", the "madcap" obviously referencing him) I think, however, that he was well aware and scared of what the drugs were doing to him. That's why he "retired". He just wanted to live a normal life, and I suppose I can't blame him for that.
@MagiKpeople And his lyrics are not all about LSD.
By looking at them, one might be tempted to say that his lyrics were nonsensical because of his "craziness". But they are not nonsensical. Of course they are not as straight-forward and simple as most songs you hear on the radio, but that's just what makes them great.
The guy seriously was a lyrical genius. Just look at the lyrics for this song. They might seem somewhat nonsensical at first (or at least drug-induced) but they really
@MagiKpeople ...but they really are a bunch of reference to both English poems and classic works of litterature and his childhood. It is very brilliantly written.
If you are interested by the meaning behind the lyrics of this particular song, I suggest you read the essay called "Untangling the Octopus", I believe the author made three versions of it, each adding on the previous one.
It is really interesting and really makes you appreciate the beauty of Barrett's poetry!
Let's enjoy the music if you like it and leave the discussions about illness or PF or Roger Waters or whatever out please. Thanks for the upload btw ;)
I wanted say he wasnt into fame,he was confussing when PF became famous,it wasnt for him,as true fan I cant want that he stayed there and was unhappy,business hurted him a lot,and I am glad he went,he had normal life,like others people,sorry,I am glad he went and saved his life ,
please dont disrespect syd this was a phase of his life starting one of the greatest rockbands eveer MY FAV but listen hes a awsome fellow MADCAP LAUGHED AT THE MAN ON THE BORDER..............he tapped into the future with that LSD <3 SYD Wish you were here shine on ,you crazy diamond
he wasnt even diagnosed by schizo,cuse he never visit any docs, he was no schizophrenic and had no symptoms of schizophrenia in his life. He suffered from severe emotional issues - couldn't handle stress of any kind very well at all and would virtually shut down (on some rare occasions he'd freak out) when any emotionally demanding situation presented itself.and then there was his mental break down,and weird behaviour,his sister told he hadnt mental ill,but he wasnt even normal
@bibi5027 What you're saying makes no sense. If someone has "severe emotional issues" or "wasn't even normal" then obviously they have a mental disorder, whether it's bipolar disorder, schizophrenia etc. etc. You don't need a diagnosis to know something is wrong with you. And by the way, I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with people who have mental disorders, because I myself have a few problems... I'm just saying there's no point in denying it.
@bibi5027 no man he was schizo for sure. he didnt eat acid every now and again... he ate it alot. even with good acid there will always be times of paranoia. theres always a point in every trip where you have to stop for a second and level out. maybe things gotta little too fun or just gotta little too wierd and you have to pause yourself to bring it back together. take those moments and add pressure from the band, the lable, your friends and society. what do you get? schizo
@bibi5027 no man he was schizo for sure. he didnt eat acid every now and again... he ate it alot. even with good acid there will always be times of paranoia. theres always a point in every trip where you have to stop for a second and level out. maybe things gotta little too fun or just gotta little too wierd and you have to pause yourself to bring it back together. take those moments and add pressure from the band, the lable, your friends and society. what do you get? schizo
@bibi5027 that makes sense. i only assumed shcizo because i had a friend that was really crazy on acid and other shit to a point where it changed his behaviour. he went from the calmest guy you ever knew to an angry person. he was depressed, got mad easy and acted like he hated everyone. he eventually got some help and stayed at a shepards hill for awhile where he was diagnosed schizo. thats the only reason i assumed it was. im sorry about your condition, all the best my friend.
@Prymer55 but he never was diagnosed by schizo,Doc said he is weird but not mental ill and people with fragile mind act at stress this way,but nopt because of mental ilness,it is bifggest stupidity,Roger was at docs and they never found any ilness,he was normal,so that people with fragile nature me too acting this way,but we are not crazy or so ,he was pretty much normal,and whanted be famous,he wanted play in small clubs,but other members wanted be famous there was problemSyd made best he went
@bibi5027 I have no idea if he was schizophrenic or bioplar or whatever. He was clearly unwell however for much of the time post floyd. But to badly mangle and misquote french phillosopher Giles Deleuze, better to be a happy schizophrenic skipping down the path, than an unhappy sane person.
Odpovedať na toto video... and what I think about Watters,I dont say cuse I stard swear,he was first what started make nonsenses he is schizo,even he never listen about it,schizo cant diagnosticated thro your chairm,and buble this 30 years in every int. how he was mad and bla,bla,that friend doesnt act to friend ,and only think he make he make nonsenses,and myths,he went,and good cuse he saved his life,he wasnt happy he was at stress in PF,he found calm,any recluse,he looked at himself
I heard Syd would show up to rehearsal with his eyebrows shaved off. He would say "I have a song" and the band would say well what's it called? It's called "Have You Got It Yet?"
He would start playing and the band would follow but in the middle of the song he would change it. The band would look at eachother. Then he would change the song again. Everybody would shrug and try to follow again. Then he would change it again. Then the band would stop like WTF? Then Syd would
Haha! He is in no way underrated, he was a genious who unfortunately got carried away by his lsd trip, but people still see him as one of the founder of 60's underground music in London.
actually lived in (exactly 100 years later)- the 1960s. In that decade there was still innocent movement of ideas. By the 70s, people had become more cynical and materialistic. It's reflected in Dark side of the moon. That wasn't for Syd - he was possibly too ethereal for rock posturing, even in one of the more intellectual bands. He understandably returned to the source of his childhood imagination- Cambridge- and seemingly lived a quiet life. A handsome, gentle, particularly English, man.
@Picnicl you say "particularly english man" what do you mean, there are 25+ million "englishmen" so how are all exactly the same :D...he definitely aint no northern stereotype :P...but anyway my point is I subscribe to individualism which was a brythonic celtic thing (but thats all corrupted now like everything else :( )
@3tangle3 Well for me it's not the 'British Bulldog' , goths, heavy metallers, disco fans. It's someone in touch with something much older and with the spirit of the age that they gained popularity in. People have made comparisons about him being a kind of English fairy / faery. If you call people a fairy nowadays they think it's an insult! Englishness in the way I think of it - like Monty Python -has to look eccentric, has to look 'above its station' to some people, and is sometimes reclusive.
@Picnicl I have studied genetical history of briti isles....so all these terms amuse me...cos the so called brit bulldogs have no idea of history/origins
@ThanksDoctorThoctor I just think syd barrett was a truly individualistic character that you cant really group into any particular grouping or prejudice :)....RIP
I think that when people concentrate on the acid thing they look at it in a very simplistic way. I am currently reading Syd Barrett- A very irregular head (an uinfortunately unsympathetic title I think for what is generally a sympathetic book). I think that Syd Barrett would have probably been a recluse even if he hadn't taken drugs. This is someone who was brilliantly Lewis Carroll-like. Not only were some of his sources of the 1860s but I think that he disliked the ending of the time he
People always see bad things. Keep in mind it was the whole Syd Story which actualy made Pink Floyd. Syd, his mental illness and the fact, that David & co were his friends led to one of the greatest bands ever.
I am sure Syd would have grown himself. His heritage instead IS real and we have to be thankful for that.
Wow, that is super effing lazy "nosral1990". With any luck your poor fingers won't drop. There is something to be said for realizing that the really good stuff isn't so readily available. If this lack of popular awareness is so under your skin, please research and post more of these gems. Sorry, I only meant avoid Hate.
@musicdork4ever or composing amazing songs together with his musical soulmate Rick Wright (who was deeply depressed of what Roger Waters did to Syd in 1968 - I have read that he was ready to leave PF too, if Syd formed some new band, as Peter Jenner advised him to do)...
Syd is so cool . I got a comic book about him .. it's AMAZING, But the only thing is ; it was one of the most expensive comic books in the store ... Eh , it was worth it . This song is really cool , i love it
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My favorite Syd line is "With ekimo chain, i've tattoed my brains all the way...won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me at all?" Eskimo chain is a type of pattern much like Celtic knot artwork. If that's what's all over your brain then you know you've gone and got some good shit...
@iscream22 , Hi there, I have no clear picture of what you are getting at, although I suspect it's interesting. I like pot, but I don't like sitting on pots and pans. I went for a walk yesterday and was flabbergasted when I suddenly heard a vulgar cry for the end of the world that didn't come that would have come if it were not for the placement of the beginning. And then I sat on the grass and counted widgets.
@FuckngBastard you can say what you will about syd barrett, because its obvious youre completely wrong. if you look through hitchcocks influences among them youll find syd barrett. also syd barrett stopped close to the late 70's while robyn started playing in 1976. even if barrett were to have stolen his material, syd is a huge pioneer in psychedellic rock and created the amazing sound that is pink floyd. like roger waters would say youre just another brick in the wall and a fucking bastard.
He was gifted with the ability to see past the veil that shrouds the perceptions we experience and draw our truths from. He was not the type of person who could comprehend greed and corruption as a way to promote humanity and was tormented by it to the point that he decided to unwittingly percolate his gray matter with Lysergic until it didn't matter anymore. I'll bet it was a lot of fun.
why does everyone talk about Justin Bieber on every you tube page? just be glad that his career will be over in a few months unless he keeps taking the hormones or gets castrated ;) this is quality music here...
@Excogitant because everybody hate him which is bad to hate people. Its weird. Why they dont compare Syd Barrett with I dont know something thats legendary as him like, for example Paul Mccartney.
@ FB "Hitchcock's musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Syd Barrett." and began his recording career 10 years later.... Sure, that's plagiarism if you have a time machine.
@Fucking Bastard, Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys came out in 1980.
Barrett was long dropped out when Hitchcock came along. Hitchcock highly influenced by Barrett's Pink Floyd stuff and solo stuff in 60's and 70's. The person who came before cannot ripoff the artist which comes later, unless time travel involved.
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Not only did Syd Barrett deliberately plagiarize Robyn Hitchcock, he was not very original with the "look at me, I'm nuttier than the 100 sacks I bagged at boarding school" pose.
Slacker Brian Jones drowned himself with honor, rather than growing fat and old like Barrett. Justin Bieber would opt for drowning, or O.D. like Hendrix and Joplin, because Bieber is cool. As Bieber is well-balanced, he'll see himself in the RARHOF.
Syd Barrett was a dead weight Robyn Hitchcock impersonator.
Brian Jones drowning was a terrible accident (regardless of him being a jerk or not) and so was Hendrix' and Joplin's death. Barrett was a great artist, why would you a. say something terrible about the poor guy and b. bring up stupid justin beiber! Beiber will be forgotten in 3 years time (he has no talent and I'm sure he is actually a girl), while Barrett will still remain to be remembered as a great artist.
STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! SYD BARRETT DID NOT PLAGIARIZE ANYBODY, EVERYBODY PLAGIARIZED HIM!!!!!!!! BIEBER, is just some suck up who acts cooler than he is, has no musical talent, and then disney found him and took his songs and put them through hundreds of voice-enhancement machines. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE CRAP RIGHT IT SOME WHERE ELSE!!!!!!!
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theshaqman88 12 hours ago
He was so cool looking. Everyone else who dressed in that flamboyant psychedelic style looked like an idiot but Syd made it work and he always looked super cool, even today.
peoman2 6 days ago
woke up with this song in my head...
earinsound 1 week ago
Trip trip to a dream dragon !
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search for...PanEgil - ZSRIN (live Depo)
Improvisation Overdrive live at rock club!
kubiksahara 1 month ago
lsd
Jferreir4 1 month ago
Syd was the only who had named a mouse "Gerald", so it's a genius.
EchoesOfficiel 1 month ago
I remember when I was 14 I got my first acoustic guitar and called it Syd! I also wrote 'shine on' in permanent marker on it. I still have it aswell even though it was crap guitar!!!
Thanks for the brilliant music Syd!
ihatemondays971 1 month ago
Fellow Syd fans take a minute to check out my song its called "the majority" i wrote it a while ago but i uploaded it the other day. id appreciate your comments its on my profile favourites.
bryancranstoncrand 1 month ago
1:11+ lol
88Cortex 1 month ago
Great video. Awesome tune obviously.
billyswebsitevideos 1 month ago
Awesome...love his solo songs.
Ramtinch 1 month ago
Finally a Syd Video without some asshole cutting in and telling us his opinion just when were digging the song
mummylips 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Syd Barrett
Acid made Syd crazy it fucked with his genius.
ycoby28 1 month ago
I'm 14 and I know what good and underrated music was. This is. I have just ordered 'Opel', 'The Madcap Laughs' and 'Barrett' becuase I want to make people hear how good he was.
ForeverTreesGreen 1 month ago
Happy Birthday, Syd! We're still listening to and enjoying your music. Thanks.
Wormtongue13 2 months ago
Happy Birthday Syd, The legend will live on
icedmoon83 2 months ago
My copy of the biography "Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head" by Rob Chapman arrived in the mail today. Quite a fitting date to receive a Barrett gift, or what? :P
DoctorPencilK 2 months ago
Today is Syd's birthday! Happy Birthday and Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
karictomi 2 months ago 3
great video! This should've been a number 1 hit single.
M1t20 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Syd Barrett
SYD IS THE MAN!
PetCemetaryDude 2 months ago
IS THE BETTER FOR ALL TIMES... HE'S PINK FLOYD...!!!
Carlomagno1970 2 months ago
Syd was never underrated,everyone from that era knew what a talent and influence he had on how floyd progressed namely thru Guilmore,who kept him alive! Shine on you Crazy Diamond!
keefyd5 2 months ago 4
a sad story, really sad
RVBeEtZ 2 months ago 2
Syd always reminds me of Clockwork Orange, just me? But yeah love Syd he knew a mouse named Gerald
666qwerty1 3 months ago in playlist Good Stuff to Listen to 26
@666qwerty1 hahaha reminds me of them too! :)
RumbleFiish 3 months ago
@666qwerty1 he also knew a clan of gingerbread men :D
NickCheVaBene 1 month ago in playlist Pink Floyd/ Syd Barrett
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same here, always thought i was the only one. Especially in Bike
TheCrashesshit 1 week ago
A masterpiece
dashaftaway 3 months ago
ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ(*^_^*)
kyuudojinnhogohou 3 months ago
Shine on you crazy diamond. :'(
wtfbarf287 3 months ago
Yes Syd, it is good to be lost in the wood. I love Lucifer Sam, thanks Syd. :)
Skaramoosh5 3 months ago
Airwaves lost in the labyrinth? Another vegetable uploaded as a slideshow. Hope you like it
The Man and the Journey is the name of a unreleased conceptual music piece by Pink Floyd - We have our The Vegetable Man & The Journey
AirwavesOfficial 3 months ago
Syd tge start of something so great
deansusky 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Syd Barrett
excellent slideshow work!
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actually the FIRST generation X'er dies
YES Survival dragon receipts shining tentacle teat suckerfish lampreys they call them...
i have seen these lamps hanging off of led zoso's thoughts
ephemeral pain or true pain
dying bye guys
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the Gaga 2011 GeFilter sent me here about wanting an Eskimo Pie.
leave that sea serpent on the ice tentacle
the narwhal hall poke it's upper lung gill
than all is under over water the bridge then there's jesus again and the 9 cats that it's holding oh that's vishnu
lol this another generation x-er dies in 2011 crimony
SuperMegaUberGenius 3 months ago
o _o No one brings out the amateur psychiatrists like RKB seems to.
"And I'm not anything you think I am anyway." Roger "Syd" Keith Barrett.
TheElusiveBish 3 months ago
fucking genius......
LofiCactus86 4 months ago 8
He was NOT crazy. And he did not go to an asylum either. I almost feel like it was an image he was trying to project for some reason (His first solo album was called "The Madcap Laughs", the "madcap" obviously referencing him) I think, however, that he was well aware and scared of what the drugs were doing to him. That's why he "retired". He just wanted to live a normal life, and I suppose I can't blame him for that.
MagiKpeople 4 months ago
@MagiKpeople And his lyrics are not all about LSD.
By looking at them, one might be tempted to say that his lyrics were nonsensical because of his "craziness". But they are not nonsensical. Of course they are not as straight-forward and simple as most songs you hear on the radio, but that's just what makes them great.
The guy seriously was a lyrical genius. Just look at the lyrics for this song. They might seem somewhat nonsensical at first (or at least drug-induced) but they really
MagiKpeople 4 months ago
@MagiKpeople ...but they really are a bunch of reference to both English poems and classic works of litterature and his childhood. It is very brilliantly written.
If you are interested by the meaning behind the lyrics of this particular song, I suggest you read the essay called "Untangling the Octopus", I believe the author made three versions of it, each adding on the previous one.
It is really interesting and really makes you appreciate the beauty of Barrett's poetry!
MagiKpeople 4 months ago
Why were/are all the men in Pink Floyd so attractive?
DanikaJadeee 4 months ago
Let's enjoy the music if you like it and leave the discussions about illness or PF or Roger Waters or whatever out please. Thanks for the upload btw ;)
henkn2 4 months ago
I wanted say he wasnt into fame,he was confussing when PF became famous,it wasnt for him,as true fan I cant want that he stayed there and was unhappy,business hurted him a lot,and I am glad he went,he had normal life,like others people,sorry,I am glad he went and saved his life ,
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please dont disrespect syd this was a phase of his life starting one of the greatest rockbands eveer MY FAV but listen hes a awsome fellow MADCAP LAUGHED AT THE MAN ON THE BORDER..............he tapped into the future with that LSD <3 SYD Wish you were here shine on ,you crazy diamond
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smiffyuk111 5 months ago
I wanna lick Syd's balls, they would probably be laced in LSD too, so its a win win situation
smiffyuk111 5 months ago
@smiffyuk111 Hahahahahaha this made my day!
paulbarrettable 4 months ago
Deep thinkers, are mostly jealoulsy missunderstood
blasvida68 5 months ago
he wasnt even diagnosed by schizo,cuse he never visit any docs, he was no schizophrenic and had no symptoms of schizophrenia in his life. He suffered from severe emotional issues - couldn't handle stress of any kind very well at all and would virtually shut down (on some rare occasions he'd freak out) when any emotionally demanding situation presented itself.and then there was his mental break down,and weird behaviour,his sister told he hadnt mental ill,but he wasnt even normal
bibi5027 5 months ago
@bibi5027 What you're saying makes no sense. If someone has "severe emotional issues" or "wasn't even normal" then obviously they have a mental disorder, whether it's bipolar disorder, schizophrenia etc. etc. You don't need a diagnosis to know something is wrong with you. And by the way, I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with people who have mental disorders, because I myself have a few problems... I'm just saying there's no point in denying it.
DanikaJadeee 5 months ago
@bibi5027 no man he was schizo for sure. he didnt eat acid every now and again... he ate it alot. even with good acid there will always be times of paranoia. theres always a point in every trip where you have to stop for a second and level out. maybe things gotta little too fun or just gotta little too wierd and you have to pause yourself to bring it back together. take those moments and add pressure from the band, the lable, your friends and society. what do you get? schizo
Prymer55 5 months ago
@bibi5027 no man he was schizo for sure. he didnt eat acid every now and again... he ate it alot. even with good acid there will always be times of paranoia. theres always a point in every trip where you have to stop for a second and level out. maybe things gotta little too fun or just gotta little too wierd and you have to pause yourself to bring it back together. take those moments and add pressure from the band, the lable, your friends and society. what do you get? schizo
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@bibi5027 that makes sense. i only assumed shcizo because i had a friend that was really crazy on acid and other shit to a point where it changed his behaviour. he went from the calmest guy you ever knew to an angry person. he was depressed, got mad easy and acted like he hated everyone. he eventually got some help and stayed at a shepards hill for awhile where he was diagnosed schizo. thats the only reason i assumed it was. im sorry about your condition, all the best my friend.
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@Prymer55 but he never was diagnosed by schizo,Doc said he is weird but not mental ill and people with fragile mind act at stress this way,but nopt because of mental ilness,it is bifggest stupidity,Roger was at docs and they never found any ilness,he was normal,so that people with fragile nature me too acting this way,but we are not crazy or so ,he was pretty much normal,and whanted be famous,he wanted play in small clubs,but other members wanted be famous there was problemSyd made best he went
bibi5027 4 months ago
@bibi5027 I have no idea if he was schizophrenic or bioplar or whatever. He was clearly unwell however for much of the time post floyd. But to badly mangle and misquote french phillosopher Giles Deleuze, better to be a happy schizophrenic skipping down the path, than an unhappy sane person.
MrShayneOneill 4 months ago
@MrShayneOneill he had psychosis induced by psychedelics similar but not schitzophrenia
tylerleeward 4 months ago
Odpovedať na toto video... and what I think about Watters,I dont say cuse I stard swear,he was first what started make nonsenses he is schizo,even he never listen about it,schizo cant diagnosticated thro your chairm,and buble this 30 years in every int. how he was mad and bla,bla,that friend doesnt act to friend ,and only think he make he make nonsenses,and myths,he went,and good cuse he saved his life,he wasnt happy he was at stress in PF,he found calm,any recluse,he looked at himself
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I heard Syd would show up to rehearsal with his eyebrows shaved off. He would say "I have a song" and the band would say well what's it called? It's called "Have You Got It Yet?"
He would start playing and the band would follow but in the middle of the song he would change it. The band would look at eachother. Then he would change the song again. Everybody would shrug and try to follow again. Then he would change it again. Then the band would stop like WTF? Then Syd would
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amickrocker 5 months ago
Shine on you crazy diamond we miss you.
metalfreak4677 6 months ago 2
Can you just take 5 minutes? Take in the poetry of a true pioneer of our time? Shhh listen.
mlwttkk11 6 months ago 4
Dude! Syd was underrated. :(
Johnnywasherefirst 6 months ago 29
@Johnnywasherefirst
Haha! He is in no way underrated, he was a genious who unfortunately got carried away by his lsd trip, but people still see him as one of the founder of 60's underground music in London.
3ig3ang 2 months ago
He played a mean guitar...
7Saburo 6 months ago
@7Saburo Ziggy?
polopstereo 6 months ago
It's the way these words and terms of sound and matter with his voice and the melody of music Syd Barrett matters... Period
gnativerson 6 months ago
England is itself a kind of reclusive country- every home a castle, bordered more by sea than by other countries.
Picnicl 6 months ago
actually lived in (exactly 100 years later)- the 1960s. In that decade there was still innocent movement of ideas. By the 70s, people had become more cynical and materialistic. It's reflected in Dark side of the moon. That wasn't for Syd - he was possibly too ethereal for rock posturing, even in one of the more intellectual bands. He understandably returned to the source of his childhood imagination- Cambridge- and seemingly lived a quiet life. A handsome, gentle, particularly English, man.
Picnicl 6 months ago
@Picnicl you say "particularly english man" what do you mean, there are 25+ million "englishmen" so how are all exactly the same :D...he definitely aint no northern stereotype :P...but anyway my point is I subscribe to individualism which was a brythonic celtic thing (but thats all corrupted now like everything else :( )
3tangle3 6 months ago
@3tangle3 Well for me it's not the 'British Bulldog' , goths, heavy metallers, disco fans. It's someone in touch with something much older and with the spirit of the age that they gained popularity in. People have made comparisons about him being a kind of English fairy / faery. If you call people a fairy nowadays they think it's an insult! Englishness in the way I think of it - like Monty Python -has to look eccentric, has to look 'above its station' to some people, and is sometimes reclusive.
Picnicl 6 months ago
@Picnicl I have studied genetical history of briti isles....so all these terms amuse me...cos the so called brit bulldogs have no idea of history/origins
3tangle3 6 months ago
@3tangle3 what does this even mean
ThanksDoctorThoctor 6 months ago
@ThanksDoctorThoctor I just think syd barrett was a truly individualistic character that you cant really group into any particular grouping or prejudice :)....RIP
3tangle3 6 months ago
I think that when people concentrate on the acid thing they look at it in a very simplistic way. I am currently reading Syd Barrett- A very irregular head (an uinfortunately unsympathetic title I think for what is generally a sympathetic book). I think that Syd Barrett would have probably been a recluse even if he hadn't taken drugs. This is someone who was brilliantly Lewis Carroll-like. Not only were some of his sources of the 1860s but I think that he disliked the ending of the time he
Picnicl 6 months ago
wow he really was crazy
ZOSOrulz1 6 months ago
wow 5 years
jaapbond 6 months ago
People always see bad things. Keep in mind it was the whole Syd Story which actualy made Pink Floyd. Syd, his mental illness and the fact, that David & co were his friends led to one of the greatest bands ever.
I am sure Syd would have grown himself. His heritage instead IS real and we have to be thankful for that.
qubiq3 6 months ago 4
Wish you were here Syd :(
AmiZya2 6 months ago 100
@AmiZya2 The world's not good enough to house people like Syd. Heaven is the perfect place for geniuses :3
ShineOnCrazyDiamond1 4 months ago
I had this stuck in my head when i was swimming.. :)
TheDilligan 7 months ago 3
@TheDilligan Somehow that is an absolutely perfect comment :)
AlyssaGoesToItaly 6 months ago
Syd r.i.p.
AlyFloyd666 7 months ago
Wow, that is super effing lazy "nosral1990". With any luck your poor fingers won't drop. There is something to be said for realizing that the really good stuff isn't so readily available. If this lack of popular awareness is so under your skin, please research and post more of these gems. Sorry, I only meant avoid Hate.
gracealone420 7 months ago
robert wyatt is tasty. big factor in this song for me. he's an amazing artist + quite willing to indulge Syd in his vision.
philipperholland 7 months ago
i like Syd's solo stuff more than i like his work with Floyd.
AbagOfonions 7 months ago 3
First song I heard from Syd's solo career. Awesome!!
mathewrodgersrocks 7 months ago
Syd Ruled The Scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrBillybob800 7 months ago
Incredible........I can't believe the size of Roger's nose booger throughout the whole magnum opus......
WarrenPeece 8 months ago
R.I.P Syd
You'll always be remembered. Thanks for the awesome music! :)
MagiKpeople 8 months ago
RIP...shine on you crazy diamond
FloydTheBarbara 8 months ago
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Five years...
arzachel79 8 months ago
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arzachel79 8 months ago
R.I.P Syd, it's been exactly five years since you left us. I know you're creating amazing paintings in heaven :)
musicdork4ever 8 months ago 38
@musicdork4ever or composing amazing songs together with his musical soulmate Rick Wright (who was deeply depressed of what Roger Waters did to Syd in 1968 - I have read that he was ready to leave PF too, if Syd formed some new band, as Peter Jenner advised him to do)...
MichalFokt 7 months ago
@MichalFokt watch?v=4r4Ey8fEL2U
AbagOfonions 7 months ago
@musicdork4ever amen
AbagOfonions 7 months ago
@musicdork4ever Heaven does not exsist in the mind of the dead! Because they have no mind to think for heaven!
StoneHeartFull 5 months ago
Quality :)
larcybird 8 months ago
i love acid
bobbypin44 8 months ago
@bobbypin44 phrase that in the exact same manner in 15 years and i'll give you 50 bucks.
pectinmania 8 months ago 5
Super groovy!
greenplanet2400 8 months ago
Syd Ruled the whole Scene man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrBillybob800 8 months ago
what a crazy mind of his :)
aldogarcia2011 8 months ago
R.I.P Syd...your loyal fans miss you
dalgroves10 8 months ago 3
que groso tema
emanueldsds 8 months ago
where goes the song about???
luitenant22 8 months ago
@luitenant22 Drugs
hamajuggle 8 months ago
Syd is so cool . I got a comic book about him .. it's AMAZING, But the only thing is ; it was one of the most expensive comic books in the store ... Eh , it was worth it . This song is really cool , i love it
DamnCannibalCorpse 8 months ago
Very strange but strange in a weird way.
lewars1912 8 months ago
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@lewars1912 "Very strange but strange in a weird way."??????? as opposed to strange in a normal way??? hahahahaha
clashboy1977 8 months ago
Great job man, loved it.
treezrok 8 months ago
That is some great Barrett!!! What a genius that guy was.
TheNiceroad 8 months ago
fuck off drake bell
freemasones 8 months ago
wow thanx
emintham 8 months ago
one of the songs i mostly love of rock.
zetawxy 8 months ago
dude i love syd is the shit man rest in peace syd live long good trips
23taxer 8 months ago
one of the best Syd solo works, so many tempo changes... this Man was a genius...
MichalFokt 8 months ago
Funny how the album is called "The Madcap Laughs", but what he says in this song is "The mad cat laughed at the man on the border" and not "madcap"
In that line, syd was actually referencing Edward Lears's "There Was An Old Man on The Border".
Now the lyrics of the last line before the final chorus often also are pretty unclear.
I personnally think it is "So merrily trip and go to my side" (might be "at" instead of "to" ) and not "trip forgo my side" or "for good my side"
MagiKpeople 8 months ago
This is Syd Barrett's music...,why on earth you included pics of the other members of Pink Floyd?
danceflooroddities 8 months ago
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
they'll never put me in their bag
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Official5MTB 8 months ago
My favorite Syd line is "With ekimo chain, i've tattoed my brains all the way...won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me at all?" Eskimo chain is a type of pattern much like Celtic knot artwork. If that's what's all over your brain then you know you've gone and got some good shit...
kvkrob 8 months ago
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your the best dude syd love to bad you left to soon in your music trip love syd love everything
Louiemena1973 8 months ago
your the best dude syd love to bad you left to soon in your music trip love syd love everything
Louiemena1973 8 months ago
your the best dude syd love to bad you left to soon in your music trip love syd love everything
Louiemena1973 8 months ago
your the best dude
Louiemena1973 8 months ago
amazing .... epic guitar
MegaKarrer 9 months ago
fucking epic man....
MrJockstar1 9 months ago
SYD I LOVE YOU
LeeVaiM 9 months ago
"clowns and jugglers"
SlymmieFatts 9 months ago
rip syd. forever awake...
9Iamthewalrus 9 months ago
"Prisoms, Nasty Prisoms good sir"
WTF
countryandpivot 9 months ago 2
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i wish he didn't go crazy, then pink floyd wouldn't suck.
partyhardydardy 9 months ago
syd barrett, nick drake, kevin ayers, robert wyatt, the clash...... questa è l'inghilterra che piace a me
nomenklaturahippie 9 months ago
cats cats cats
fillmoreeric 9 months ago
badd ass voice ;D
aldogarcia2011 9 months ago
@mushroomagical if you're gonna drop at least do a moderate dose of cid. shit or get off the pot IMHO. To each their own though
iscream22 9 months ago
@iscream22 , Hi there, I have no clear picture of what you are getting at, although I suspect it's interesting. I like pot, but I don't like sitting on pots and pans. I went for a walk yesterday and was flabbergasted when I suddenly heard a vulgar cry for the end of the world that didn't come that would have come if it were not for the placement of the beginning. And then I sat on the grass and counted widgets.
mushroomagical 9 months ago
@rocksoul226 That's Nick Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer
xXSyDBiRdXx420 9 months ago
@FuckngBastard you can say what you will about syd barrett, because its obvious youre completely wrong. if you look through hitchcocks influences among them youll find syd barrett. also syd barrett stopped close to the late 70's while robyn started playing in 1976. even if barrett were to have stolen his material, syd is a huge pioneer in psychedellic rock and created the amazing sound that is pink floyd. like roger waters would say youre just another brick in the wall and a fucking bastard.
LinkinParkHIMFan 9 months ago
0:28. Who is the left man. He looks like Jimmy Page.
rocksoul226 9 months ago
Wow this is a great one! I very much enjoy listening to this on a very light dose of LSD. Works great. Highly recommended by mushroomagical.
mushroomagical 9 months ago
@mushroomagical what are your credentials?
guichoflo2 9 months ago
@guichoflo2 , my credentials? Hmmm...you have explain what you mean. Anyhow, Octopus is a fantastic song.
mushroomagical 9 months ago
this music takes you to an other diferent world that is not here anymore.not before so when'
zetawxy 9 months ago
2:00 Oh man, he really was fucked up by the end.
Deathshuck 10 months ago
Dude, I hate FuckngBastard! Let's all kill him!
Toasterman7642 10 months ago
He was gifted with the ability to see past the veil that shrouds the perceptions we experience and draw our truths from. He was not the type of person who could comprehend greed and corruption as a way to promote humanity and was tormented by it to the point that he decided to unwittingly percolate his gray matter with Lysergic until it didn't matter anymore. I'll bet it was a lot of fun.
MrJaybee61 10 months ago
why does everyone talk about Justin Bieber on every you tube page? just be glad that his career will be over in a few months unless he keeps taking the hormones or gets castrated ;) this is quality music here...
Excogitant 10 months ago
@Excogitant because everybody hate him which is bad to hate people. Its weird. Why they dont compare Syd Barrett with I dont know something thats legendary as him like, for example Paul Mccartney.
sakisrip 10 months ago
@ FB "Hitchcock's musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Syd Barrett." and began his recording career 10 years later.... Sure, that's plagiarism if you have a time machine.
Callaghan4n6 10 months ago 2
Just came here to listen to a Syd song.
@Fucking Bastard, Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys came out in 1980.
Barrett was long dropped out when Hitchcock came along. Hitchcock highly influenced by Barrett's Pink Floyd stuff and solo stuff in 60's and 70's. The person who came before cannot ripoff the artist which comes later, unless time travel involved.
Giselle62 10 months ago 2
in what is fucking bieber balanced? it has a pussy but no tits, that isn't well balanced.
and why go to a syd barrett video and say he's a bastard and that he impersonated
robin Hitchcock they are both good but you are a fuckng bastard as your name says.
MRklaasvaak1 10 months ago
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Not only did Syd Barrett deliberately plagiarize Robyn Hitchcock, he was not very original with the "look at me, I'm nuttier than the 100 sacks I bagged at boarding school" pose.
Slacker Brian Jones drowned himself with honor, rather than growing fat and old like Barrett. Justin Bieber would opt for drowning, or O.D. like Hendrix and Joplin, because Bieber is cool. As Bieber is well-balanced, he'll see himself in the RARHOF.
Syd Barrett was a dead weight Robyn Hitchcock impersonator.
FuckngBastard 10 months ago
@FuckngBastard
Your name fits you well
Brian Jones drowning was a terrible accident (regardless of him being a jerk or not) and so was Hendrix' and Joplin's death. Barrett was a great artist, why would you a. say something terrible about the poor guy and b. bring up stupid justin beiber! Beiber will be forgotten in 3 years time (he has no talent and I'm sure he is actually a girl), while Barrett will still remain to be remembered as a great artist.
Once again, your name fits you.
bluesandpinkfloyd 10 months ago 2
@FuckngBastard
STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! SYD BARRETT DID NOT PLAGIARIZE ANYBODY, EVERYBODY PLAGIARIZED HIM!!!!!!!! BIEBER, is just some suck up who acts cooler than he is, has no musical talent, and then disney found him and took his songs and put them through hundreds of voice-enhancement machines. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE CRAP RIGHT IT SOME WHERE ELSE!!!!!!!
stewerts400000000000 10 months ago
@FuckngBastard Justin Bieber??? On what retarded fucking planet are you experiencing existence?
aehedfuq 10 months ago