mussman717word. When Warren Zevon (Werewolves of London) was dying, an interviewer asked if he had any last words for his fans. Response, "Enjoy every sandwich..." Guess he meant it might be the last. Funny part is I was listening to this song when I read that interview. Ha ! RIP WZ ps.- Have you met Bob Dobbs?
a lot of the music of this decade...the 2000's or whatever they call it, is very much like syd....he seems to get lost in his songs though....forgets words or doesent have words....thanks for uploading
@yerkil28 There's this one musician, he's not really similar to Syd (mostly folk, not much psychedelic though), but he's kind of similar to the stuff you hear on meddle and softer floyd (Fearless, Pillow of Winds, Green is the colour etc.). His name is Sufjan Stevens, he's modern and severely underrated. You should check him out (I figure if you have good enough taste to like Syd you might like him). Check out the album Seven Swans first if you do.
I do a Syd revue , here in greater Roswell New Mexico, my band is "the Nashes" and we do the songs like Syd did, same disjointed sound , he was a genius, you, ve got to allow for eccentricitys,
kurt cobain was a big syd fan. can't you you just hear the way nirvana were influenced ( to say the least ) by this beautiful song? love syd so much. thanks for posting.
I love the arrangement on this! Your sound quality is really good - I'm picking up all kinds of ear candy I never noticed before. Cheers You...n Syd of course!
I'm no "fan girl" I am passtionetly inlove and if you can't except that than just leave me alone and don't read my comments, I was never directing them at you anyway.
ME TOO. I thought myself to be the only seemingly sane female out there tremendously in love with Barrett to the point of it being a consuming and driving passion. I thought something to perhaps be a bit the matter with me. But it is rather reassuring to come on Youtube and find so many others just as obsessed! Haha! I don't know HOW in the hell chicks like Iggy the Eskimo could have EVER left this stunningly brilliant and beautiful adonis!!!
That's what I meant, Tar..belle, if someone is mentally affected by a DRUGS problem, going on and on publicly about it won't help, will it!!!!! What responsibility did anyone else have in NOT helping him at first, then making effing SONGS about it, perhaps the wiser man in all this was the one who withdrew, have you ever thought of that, with all your academic studies on mental illnesses? How MANY People suffer NOW from drugs? What's done about it?
iam really proud, just learned this song. its quite easy on guitar, still shows how simple but yet smart the chordprogression is. i think syd was never mentally ill, how could he, we musiclovers love him so much for being such an original. most often when we use terms like disturbed or crazy or even genius or IQ we try to protect ourselves to show us that we can't reach that far... i guess syd was just ignoring the reality but what is reality anyhow?! its slow and lonerlifestyle. so art is cool
@Tabstarbelle That's if you assume that he was "mentally ill"... who exactly depicted him as such? Someone in the Pink Floyd band. Ask yourself if someone "crazy" could come out with good songs like he did after 1968. What proof have you got of your accusations? Any or do you merely go with the flow? Is any artist on drugs crazy? He to me was the precursor of underground/ grunge/ else, the make up was copied by The Cure and many others way after him.
@Tabstarbelle True, I have searched since and when I saw a photo of him with shaved eyebrows and after reading more, I realised that it must have been true, it's the drugs that did this to him i.m.o., but the band (Pink Floyd) and others should have more respect, even now that he has passed away, he has family and it's not nice saying that he was 'crazy', someone in the band said it on interview. May he rest in well deserved peace.
@Tabstarbelle just go dig a little deeper and you might find out that in fact syd's music will last forever and "dark side of the moon" will not ^^ there is a difference between talking about insanity from a perspective of not being insane himself, so in fact presenting an image of what they claim how it looks like there and being "insane" and being true to yourself. syd was giving it all away. but thats heroic: he's a martyr for beauty, someone to look up to. better be barrett than obama!
@checkoutniandra Compare how many listen and view Pink Floyd compared to how many know of or even listen to Barrett's music. The only place you find it these days is on YOUTUBE put there by those wishing to exalt him to some level of diety. It's a pity. Let him rest in peace. His life was tragic.
@Tabstarbelle i think it isn't about how public something is... i dont think the guys on american idol will be remembered very long. they are not authentic. they are not originals. syd barrett is like a myth. pink floyd is one hell of a band of course even without syd. good music taste you have there, but the walls concept you understand after first listen. its capable to just thinking little deeper... if you think way more deeper there comes syd. there comes aesthetic, there comes beauty...
i think syd barrett is more a kind of being to look up to. instead of a human to feel sorry for. He isn't a poor guy who took accidentally too much acid. He is the kind of guy who sat at home painted all the time and was in contact with art. has his "Thing" in which he rose each day just like others have their work and instead of regreting he had nice laugh about people amusing themselves about him because he was just for art and not for the will of entertaining. i really cant get your point.
check, i couldn't agree more - i have never felt sorry for syd, i've always just assumed syd knew something most people didn't - it's pure speculation of course, but what i like to think is this: i think syd ventured out into the world against his will - he had his art and that's all he wanted, but art requires some human interaction - and i think his few brief years as a huge rock star gave him all the human interaction he'd ever need, then he retreated to his art again
@MultiNickDanger yeah right. it was a decision he made. this decision in the wake of this modern society seems so unselfish that it must be mentally sick and stupid to so many people nowadays. but it isn't at all! he found his peace. people think you are there at the finish line when you becomes famous and the rest of their life`s they should reap what they once sew. go for the groupies, drive big cars and entertain those people who already fell in love with your music. but it isnt about that.
Syd WAS very sad about his music though and had little confidence in himself, especially after whatever happened that fateful week he spent at 101 Cromwell Rd. He said in several interviews in 1970 - 1971 that he was very unsatisfied with his music and wanted to create something much greater but that he found it difficult to motivate himself. He also said repeatedly that he would love the "luxurious life" so that he could provide for all of his friends. That was our Syd :(.
@Way2manydoses yes you're right, he is one from a few that speak honestly through his music,he doesn't care if others don't like it and that's just great,because there are many toughts that I would like to express,that are hidden in my head and through his music he speakes to me litteraly about the same toughts.It's such a nice feeling,Shine On Syd...
He is the kind of love i've never seen, I will always love him forever...even as I never meet(born to late) I've always felt that we all kind of involved, I saw a strange connection between us and in a way I find myself into his person, he is really special and will live forver
@Chio95nwfan I can really really relate to the way you find yourself "into his person", and I think that's because of the way syd wrote, unfiltered and honest, so a person is able to relate because all of us have those same feelings from time to time.
Very soft melodic masterpiece, the guitar slide up's (probably gilmour) sets the mood....I would love to see a good cover of this one, not to say I don't love the original.
I could play this song over and over forever! There truly is a God! And Syd is with He/She!I mean,whoever created Syd Barrett created a true genius! We all adore you Syd!Your friends are here on earth while you currently compose new songs in Heaven!
My favorite song of ALL time! A man is sure to get a lot of love from his girl by playing this song. Absolutely gorgeous.God knows how much I adore this song. Syd,R.I.P. We all love you,brother!
hey.. bigtig9.. do you have proof of that? I suggest it wasn't Dave good looking Gilmour that arranged that. If anything it would have been his other band mates out of pure GUILT
or did the rest of floyd not take enough? i think syd was the psychedelic element in pink floyd the band pink floyd is syds innovation...the rest were followers than thieves later on stealing it for theyre own.. but whatever
well, he isn't CREDITED for any of it. and the way he left the band was kind of unfortunate, I dunno if they would've been able to get over that anyway.
Well, he did write Astronomy Domine of course, but if you check Wikipedia you'll see he's not credited with anything else. (And I doubt they'd not credit him for something he wrote, considering they were all friends of his and had great respect for him and his writing).
I think good friends wouldn't leave you on the corner of a street. Of course, i wouldn't know how that feels since all the people i hang out with are not concidered my friends. Wiki is the worst web to get info from.
Name a better source than Wikipedia... You are incredibly ignorant to think that since "well anyone can edit it" means that it's consistently unreliable and disreputable... The fact of the matter is that it is often more accurate than a normal encyclopedia because it is constantly being fixed in a collective effort by thousands of intelligent people who know what they're talking about.
Either way, none of the album sounds like Syd Barrett's style... it's as simple as that.
No, only Astronomy Domine, which was on Piper at the Gates of Dawn as a studio track, not live like on Ummagumma. It was, in fact the other members of Pink Floyd, the ones who were still in the band, who wrote all the new stuff for Ummagumma.
Syd was no longer in the band when Ummagumma was made and has not wrriten any of the material for this album. He was left out of the Floyds by April 1968.
His last contribution to the band was the song Jugband Blues from the album A Saucerful of Secrets that was released in July 1968. However, Ummagumma ( released October 1969) is a double album which consist of the studio album, and a live recording in which Pink Floyd perform Astronomy Domine which was written by Syd.
I think I read that it was on the way to a PF gig at Southampton University, at this time, that they first chose not to pick Syd up, because he'd been so out of it on their recent gigs. Sad, sad loss for them - I wonder how much they really realised it?
he wasn't in the band anymore for ummagumma, but what they did in that album was HEAVILY influenced by what they had donde with syd, so it's only natural you thought he wrote it. actually A LOT of the material after syd left sounded like something he would have done.
@ghonzalo Yeah and after the heavily influenced albums that sounded like him, They started writing lyrics and making albums about him and his actual life. Enough to make anyone go into seclusion if they had issues and left the business because of it.
@Tabstarbelle Syd left them? incorrect boyo, he became a liability to the band because of his "Zombie stunts" as you put it and general erratic behavior. One day the boys were on their way to a gig and someone said "Shall we pick Syd up?" and the response was a resounding"No, lets not bother". So the legend goes. And for your information Barret was very upset by the way things went down and years after at the mere mention of "Pink Floyd" its said he'd go into depression for weeks at a time.
@Tabstarbelle Yes he was mentally ill, unbalanced and using heavy drugs. But I think Syd deliberately made an effort to sabotage the band during some of the live performances and was trying to prove a point with his famous "Have you got it yet" business. Perhaps a rejection to fame.How much was he in control of his behavior how much was drug inspired and how much was simply madness? I think lines all start to blur at a certain point. Far too easy to just write him off as a mentally ill lunatic.
@DaveS12382 But WHO did he start having drugs with? Bands are well known for not being choir boys, aren't they. Each time I see an interview with early Pink Floyd there is alcohol drinking within the group. That isn't much different than drugs. Sabotaging? if you're right, would he have had a reason?
His style after 1968 was completely different than Pink Floyd, who knows what really happened...?
@DaveS12382 it's true, David said this in an interview to a famous music magazine, I find it on Wikipedia today. David was the one telling the others not to bother, but... poor Sid was controled by drugs, it was his own fall, that's why I hate drugs so much, it's hell, so many nice People's Lives are wrecked by this and it hurts everyone around them too.Can't help thinking that someone in the band should have alerted his family before though..LSD was common but it didn't seem to hit the others..
@LaPieinsky LSD didn't seem to hit the others because they didn't eat it like candy like Syd did. And the most important thing, the others weren't schizophrenics as well. However Syd was a genius and created Pink Floyd and progressive rock as we know it. The guy was a real innovator, it's just a shame his career was cut short, but thats part of his whole Legend. He's the personification of Psychedelic and thats pretty cool.
@DaveS12382 if you see it that way now... sigh... I like Pink Floyd and it's all thanks to Syd BARRETT, but music industry is much about big money, what was the point to create "The Wall" featuring a LOONY who was no other than Syd BARRETT? (yes I know, played by "Sir" Bob Gerdorf..MONEY if you ask me.) Where's all this now? Why don't the PINK FLOYD react to what's going on? If they hired David then why not others... but can they be bothered, really...Look Mummy, there are Chemtrails in the SKY!
lol if u hear this song it makes me think i of alice and wonder land hehe with the rabit and the big hattt lol gooooo tea party :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
to differentiate him from Sid The Beat Barrett, who played jazz at the local club in Cambridge
I understand he didnt use it much himself
His real name was Roger Keith Barrett - he went to Roger after stardom in the 60s and a breakdown exacerbated by drug abuse that made him an invalid for the rest of his life
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uhm, this sucks in compare to what he did in the early years With pink floyd. Just listen to what he did in the ufo nightclub at "tonight lets all make love in london"!
hey i heard about them but i can't seem to find any good clips/songs. Loves sucha huge keyword for a search engine. Is there anyway you could send be acouple links if you have them?
such an potential ... YOU only can compare HIM with mozart or beethoven in my opinion, the rest is out of competition ... but beethoven didn't go crazy by taking LSD :(
In fact, the woo hoo song is called Song 2 and in the case of wined and dried someone was referencing the similaryties between it and Trimm Trabb By blur... dumbass;p
LSD-triggered schizophrenia has a way of ruining a career (not to mention a life). Syd was still in there somewhere, and David Gilmour had the patience and compassion to bring it out before Syd the innovative musician disappeared and became Roger the recluse. Rest in peace, Roger "Syd" Barrett.
shush up',syd wrote this one in 70' and the neil-crosby style Kurt kobain started his production juat after 87'....so who is the original.....?Howbeit,man who sold the world is by Dawid bowie.....
My 2 cats song.
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Kurt Cobain totall ripped off the opening riff. I guess you can"t blame him but you can hold it against him.
kiesersozay 3 months ago
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kiesersozay 3 months ago
shine on!
herrdruhl 3 months ago
I love Syd's voice. He will always be my favorite vocalist from Pink Floyd. His glissandi are so cool as well.
doughboycod2 4 months ago
my mom likes this too! yay!
charliebubblesoar 5 months ago
mussman717word. When Warren Zevon (Werewolves of London) was dying, an interviewer asked if he had any last words for his fans. Response, "Enjoy every sandwich..." Guess he meant it might be the last. Funny part is I was listening to this song when I read that interview. Ha ! RIP WZ ps.- Have you met Bob Dobbs?
gracealone420 6 months ago
painfully beutiful song
rakefetgal8383 6 months ago 8
This song is WAY CHILL, especially when you've got a good buzz with it.
cosmicforums 6 months ago
perfect! ty syd darlin'
libbyuk2003 6 months ago
a lot of the music of this decade...the 2000's or whatever they call it, is very much like syd....he seems to get lost in his songs though....forgets words or doesent have words....thanks for uploading
damiensongs 6 months ago
@damiensongs can you tell me what actual music is similar to syd barrett songs? if that was true nowadays music won't sucks as it does
yerkil28 3 months ago
@yerkil28 There's this one musician, he's not really similar to Syd (mostly folk, not much psychedelic though), but he's kind of similar to the stuff you hear on meddle and softer floyd (Fearless, Pillow of Winds, Green is the colour etc.). His name is Sufjan Stevens, he's modern and severely underrated. You should check him out (I figure if you have good enough taste to like Syd you might like him). Check out the album Seven Swans first if you do.
pooscifer 2 weeks ago
una vera e propria chicca , insieme a Love song il pezzo migliore dell'album..
BarryLyndon63 7 months ago
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solcit8 8 months ago
i like this song but i prefer syd when he was with pink floyd
boogerbear8766 9 months ago
Couse I like to be wined and dined after I've been FU**ED!
Grooverfc 9 months ago 5
One dislike. Someone wanted some attention. And, here you are! You got it!
portcityperson 9 months ago
when I listen to this one, it's like barrett whispers to my ear : wine and dine me.
jonqeee 10 months ago
Magnificent in it's simplicity !
vintagezigg 10 months ago
The Crazy DIamond Of Pink Floyd
bouli123 10 months ago
I do a Syd revue , here in greater Roswell New Mexico, my band is "the Nashes" and we do the songs like Syd did, same disjointed sound , he was a genius, you, ve got to allow for eccentricitys,
hammeron39 10 months ago
The lead guitar sounds like Syd forgot how to play.
RadioUgly 11 months ago
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This is a fantastic guitar solo - so understated
chrril1976 9 months ago
@chrril1976 I love Syd but you can hear him fading away on these albums.
RadioUgly 8 months ago
What a perfect song to eat a sandwich to.
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linachao5 1 year ago
@mussman717word peanut butter and mushrooms?
M1t20 4 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Syd Barrett
@mussman717word especially with cheese and mustard on it.
sigmundfloyder 15 hours ago
Clearly, someone hasn't been taken out.
glass0bees 1 year ago
real music
THEGREEKPRODUCER 1 year ago
kurt cobain was a big syd fan. can't you you just hear the way nirvana were influenced ( to say the least ) by this beautiful song? love syd so much. thanks for posting.
DiamondSky121 1 year ago 2
I love the arrangement on this! Your sound quality is really good - I'm picking up all kinds of ear candy I never noticed before. Cheers You...n Syd of course!
Mrsjessywessybessy 1 year ago 2
I'm no "fan girl" I am passtionetly inlove and if you can't except that than just leave me alone and don't read my comments, I was never directing them at you anyway.
66MadcapLaughs 1 year ago 3
ME TOO. I thought myself to be the only seemingly sane female out there tremendously in love with Barrett to the point of it being a consuming and driving passion. I thought something to perhaps be a bit the matter with me. But it is rather reassuring to come on Youtube and find so many others just as obsessed! Haha! I don't know HOW in the hell chicks like Iggy the Eskimo could have EVER left this stunningly brilliant and beautiful adonis!!!
Barrett you are literally ALWAYS in my thoughts!
valaurwen 1 year ago 5
Beautiful Song!
kricky71 1 year ago
hey sounds like alice n chains loved syd barrett. just listen
miguelisdistructive 1 year ago
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other way around
SenorPabloHerrera 1 year ago
♥♥Syd~Angel♥♥ is SUCH a ♥♥♥♥ROMANTIC♥♥♥♥ I ♥♥♥♥LOVE♥♥♥♥ YOU SO MUCH MY SWEET & INNOCENT ♥♥♥♥ANGEL~BABY♥♥♥♥
66MadcapLaughs 1 year ago 3
@66MadcapLaughs Holy shit. Jesus, settle down a bit.
ov3rcl0cked 1 year ago
@ov3rcl0cked OH leave me alone!!!! Let me love him in peace!! I'm not hurting you!!
66MadcapLaughs 1 year ago 7
@66MadcapLaughs yes... yes you are... You hurt all of us with your incessant fan girl nonsense. Go worship Paul McCartney
quasiphatpaul 1 year ago
That's what I meant, Tar..belle, if someone is mentally affected by a DRUGS problem, going on and on publicly about it won't help, will it!!!!! What responsibility did anyone else have in NOT helping him at first, then making effing SONGS about it, perhaps the wiser man in all this was the one who withdrew, have you ever thought of that, with all your academic studies on mental illnesses? How MANY People suffer NOW from drugs? What's done about it?
LaPieinsky 1 year ago
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
iam really proud, just learned this song. its quite easy on guitar, still shows how simple but yet smart the chordprogression is. i think syd was never mentally ill, how could he, we musiclovers love him so much for being such an original. most often when we use terms like disturbed or crazy or even genius or IQ we try to protect ourselves to show us that we can't reach that far... i guess syd was just ignoring the reality but what is reality anyhow?! its slow and lonerlifestyle. so art is cool
checkoutniandra 1 year ago
Cheers for the post, an old fave. rip Syd.
VL1302 1 year ago
great slide work here/
sigmundfloyder 1 year ago
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@Tabstarbelle That's if you assume that he was "mentally ill"... who exactly depicted him as such? Someone in the Pink Floyd band. Ask yourself if someone "crazy" could come out with good songs like he did after 1968. What proof have you got of your accusations? Any or do you merely go with the flow? Is any artist on drugs crazy? He to me was the precursor of underground/ grunge/ else, the make up was copied by The Cure and many others way after him.
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@Tabstarbelle True, I have searched since and when I saw a photo of him with shaved eyebrows and after reading more, I realised that it must have been true, it's the drugs that did this to him i.m.o., but the band (Pink Floyd) and others should have more respect, even now that he has passed away, he has family and it's not nice saying that he was 'crazy', someone in the band said it on interview. May he rest in well deserved peace.
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@Tabstarbelle just go dig a little deeper and you might find out that in fact syd's music will last forever and "dark side of the moon" will not ^^ there is a difference between talking about insanity from a perspective of not being insane himself, so in fact presenting an image of what they claim how it looks like there and being "insane" and being true to yourself. syd was giving it all away. but thats heroic: he's a martyr for beauty, someone to look up to. better be barrett than obama!
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@checkoutniandra Compare how many listen and view Pink Floyd compared to how many know of or even listen to Barrett's music. The only place you find it these days is on YOUTUBE put there by those wishing to exalt him to some level of diety. It's a pity. Let him rest in peace. His life was tragic.
Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@Tabstarbelle i think it isn't about how public something is... i dont think the guys on american idol will be remembered very long. they are not authentic. they are not originals. syd barrett is like a myth. pink floyd is one hell of a band of course even without syd. good music taste you have there, but the walls concept you understand after first listen. its capable to just thinking little deeper... if you think way more deeper there comes syd. there comes aesthetic, there comes beauty...
checkoutniandra 1 year ago
@checkoutniandra To make such a ludicrous statement comparing him to being better than Obama....of for goodness sake. Get off it !!!
Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
i think syd barrett is more a kind of being to look up to. instead of a human to feel sorry for. He isn't a poor guy who took accidentally too much acid. He is the kind of guy who sat at home painted all the time and was in contact with art. has his "Thing" in which he rose each day just like others have their work and instead of regreting he had nice laugh about people amusing themselves about him because he was just for art and not for the will of entertaining. i really cant get your point.
checkoutniandra 1 year ago
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check, i couldn't agree more - i have never felt sorry for syd, i've always just assumed syd knew something most people didn't - it's pure speculation of course, but what i like to think is this: i think syd ventured out into the world against his will - he had his art and that's all he wanted, but art requires some human interaction - and i think his few brief years as a huge rock star gave him all the human interaction he'd ever need, then he retreated to his art again
MultiNickDanger 1 year ago
@MultiNickDanger yeah right. it was a decision he made. this decision in the wake of this modern society seems so unselfish that it must be mentally sick and stupid to so many people nowadays. but it isn't at all! he found his peace. people think you are there at the finish line when you becomes famous and the rest of their life`s they should reap what they once sew. go for the groupies, drive big cars and entertain those people who already fell in love with your music. but it isnt about that.
checkoutniandra 1 year ago
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Syd WAS very sad about his music though and had little confidence in himself, especially after whatever happened that fateful week he spent at 101 Cromwell Rd. He said in several interviews in 1970 - 1971 that he was very unsatisfied with his music and wanted to create something much greater but that he found it difficult to motivate himself. He also said repeatedly that he would love the "luxurious life" so that he could provide for all of his friends. That was our Syd :(.
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
could be my favourite syd song...and definitely my favourite pic of syd...wonderful RKB RIP
neilus 1 year ago
@Way2manydoses yes you're right, he is one from a few that speak honestly through his music,he doesn't care if others don't like it and that's just great,because there are many toughts that I would like to express,that are hidden in my head and through his music he speakes to me litteraly about the same toughts.It's such a nice feeling,Shine On Syd...
Chio95nwfan 1 year ago 2
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
He is the kind of love i've never seen, I will always love him forever...even as I never meet(born to late) I've always felt that we all kind of involved, I saw a strange connection between us and in a way I find myself into his person, he is really special and will live forver
Chio95nwfan 1 year ago
@Chio95nwfan I can really really relate to the way you find yourself "into his person", and I think that's because of the way syd wrote, unfiltered and honest, so a person is able to relate because all of us have those same feelings from time to time.
Way2manydoses 1 year ago
Very soft melodic masterpiece, the guitar slide up's (probably gilmour) sets the mood....I would love to see a good cover of this one, not to say I don't love the original.
Way2manydoses 1 year ago
I love the dreamy, hypnotic feel to this song. Only Syd can do this
waaben 1 year ago 2
Kind of love iv never seen:))..Just love Syd..
redwhitch17 1 year ago
This is a song I have been missing without knowing it.
HommaHieno 1 year ago 2
Syd...we miss you...RKB RIP xxx
neilus 1 year ago 4
weird, this song is scaring the shit out of my pug, and i've never seen her do that to any kind of music before
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funny0000000 1 year ago
hahahahahaha, love it!!
pdm636 1 year ago
awesome
pdm636 1 year ago
R.I.P. you god of psychedelic rock!
Aikito666 1 year ago 79
@Aikito666. Shine on you crazy diamond. BTW. I've just started to listen to Syd's solo stuff and my favourite song is "Long Gone".
GordonFr33man 1 year ago
@Aikito666 its acid folk, isnt it?
chang00w 5 months ago
This, in Syd Barrett's music, is where I find peace.
68Strut 2 years ago 6
Happy Birthday Syd, Shine on your Crazy Dimonds
howniabi 2 years ago 4
happy bday syd my love. diamond in the sky
madcapblue1 2 years ago 4
syd is without a doubt one of the best songwriters ever
floyd were never the same and neither was everyone else when he left
TheDalaiLuke 2 years ago 6
one of my faves ever!the sound of this song is way ahead of its time!!
syd was a true visionary...RIP bruthah
zigato 2 years ago 2
I could play this song over and over forever! There truly is a God! And Syd is with He/She!I mean,whoever created Syd Barrett created a true genius! We all adore you Syd!Your friends are here on earth while you currently compose new songs in Heaven!
68Strut 2 years ago 7
My favorite song of ALL time! A man is sure to get a lot of love from his girl by playing this song. Absolutely gorgeous.God knows how much I adore this song. Syd,R.I.P. We all love you,brother!
68Strut 2 years ago
such pleasent harmony! :) super performance!
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Daxmcneil377 2 years ago
AND.. bigtig.. isn't his name Gilmour? not Gilmore ?
IKnowitAllYeah 2 years ago
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IKnowitAllYeah 2 years ago
hey.. bigtig9.. do you have proof of that? I suggest it wasn't Dave good looking Gilmour that arranged that. If anything it would have been his other band mates out of pure GUILT
IKnowitAllYeah 2 years ago
Kurt Cobain you copy cat you... look up ABOUT A GIRL by Nivarna xxx
IKnowitAllYeah 2 years ago 2
i love this song
mudoctave223 2 years ago 3
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poor Syd you took too much LSD
InMedioStatVirtus 2 years ago
or did the rest of floyd not take enough? i think syd was the psychedelic element in pink floyd the band pink floyd is syds innovation...the rest were followers than thieves later on stealing it for theyre own.. but whatever
rickhorror 2 years ago
David Gilmore made sure SYD got all his Royalties and many of Syds songs where
in a best of Pink Floyd. Syd left his Family over 2 Millon upon his death
bigtig9 2 years ago 7
One of the best musics I've ever heard.
Dan5482 2 years ago
Did Syd barrett write most of the ummagumma album? I think he did, but I'm not sure?
TwilightBracer 2 years ago
no... he didn't write any of it.
athrough0 2 years ago
How do you Know?
TwilightBracer 2 years ago
well, he isn't CREDITED for any of it. and the way he left the band was kind of unfortunate, I dunno if they would've been able to get over that anyway.
02nothing 2 years ago
Well, he did write Astronomy Domine of course, but if you check Wikipedia you'll see he's not credited with anything else. (And I doubt they'd not credit him for something he wrote, considering they were all friends of his and had great respect for him and his writing).
athrough0 2 years ago
I think good friends wouldn't leave you on the corner of a street. Of course, i wouldn't know how that feels since all the people i hang out with are not concidered my friends. Wiki is the worst web to get info from.
TwilightBracer 2 years ago 2
Name a better source than Wikipedia... You are incredibly ignorant to think that since "well anyone can edit it" means that it's consistently unreliable and disreputable... The fact of the matter is that it is often more accurate than a normal encyclopedia because it is constantly being fixed in a collective effort by thousands of intelligent people who know what they're talking about.
Either way, none of the album sounds like Syd Barrett's style... it's as simple as that.
athrough0 2 years ago
agree completely.
anitasseo 2 years ago
wikipedia says "jean michel basquiat -born 1940 (69 years)".
he died at 27.
anitasseo 2 years ago
not at all, syd barrett had already left
94mrwhite 2 years ago
No, only Astronomy Domine, which was on Piper at the Gates of Dawn as a studio track, not live like on Ummagumma. It was, in fact the other members of Pink Floyd, the ones who were still in the band, who wrote all the new stuff for Ummagumma.
wireandwood 2 years ago
Syd was no longer in the band when Ummagumma was made and has not wrriten any of the material for this album. He was left out of the Floyds by April 1968.
His last contribution to the band was the song Jugband Blues from the album A Saucerful of Secrets that was released in July 1968. However, Ummagumma ( released October 1969) is a double album which consist of the studio album, and a live recording in which Pink Floyd perform Astronomy Domine which was written by Syd.
RedStarHaifa 2 years ago
I think I read that it was on the way to a PF gig at Southampton University, at this time, that they first chose not to pick Syd up, because he'd been so out of it on their recent gigs. Sad, sad loss for them - I wonder how much they really realised it?
stuarthants 2 years ago
he wasn't in the band anymore for ummagumma, but what they did in that album was HEAVILY influenced by what they had donde with syd, so it's only natural you thought he wrote it. actually A LOT of the material after syd left sounded like something he would have done.
ghonzalo 2 years ago 26
@ghonzalo that's true, at the time he was working as chair in a pair at the park
overban888 1 year ago
@ghonzalo Yeah and after the heavily influenced albums that sounded like him, They started writing lyrics and making albums about him and his actual life. Enough to make anyone go into seclusion if they had issues and left the business because of it.
DaveS12382 1 year ago
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@Tabstarbelle Syd left them? incorrect boyo, he became a liability to the band because of his "Zombie stunts" as you put it and general erratic behavior. One day the boys were on their way to a gig and someone said "Shall we pick Syd up?" and the response was a resounding"No, lets not bother". So the legend goes. And for your information Barret was very upset by the way things went down and years after at the mere mention of "Pink Floyd" its said he'd go into depression for weeks at a time.
DaveS12382 1 year ago
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
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Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@Tabstarbelle Yes he was mentally ill, unbalanced and using heavy drugs. But I think Syd deliberately made an effort to sabotage the band during some of the live performances and was trying to prove a point with his famous "Have you got it yet" business. Perhaps a rejection to fame.How much was he in control of his behavior how much was drug inspired and how much was simply madness? I think lines all start to blur at a certain point. Far too easy to just write him off as a mentally ill lunatic.
DaveS12382 1 year ago 2
@DaveS12382 But WHO did he start having drugs with? Bands are well known for not being choir boys, aren't they. Each time I see an interview with early Pink Floyd there is alcohol drinking within the group. That isn't much different than drugs. Sabotaging? if you're right, would he have had a reason?
His style after 1968 was completely different than Pink Floyd, who knows what really happened...?
LaPieinsky 1 year ago
@DaveS12382 it's true, David said this in an interview to a famous music magazine, I find it on Wikipedia today. David was the one telling the others not to bother, but... poor Sid was controled by drugs, it was his own fall, that's why I hate drugs so much, it's hell, so many nice People's Lives are wrecked by this and it hurts everyone around them too.Can't help thinking that someone in the band should have alerted his family before though..LSD was common but it didn't seem to hit the others..
LaPieinsky 1 year ago
@LaPieinsky LSD didn't seem to hit the others because they didn't eat it like candy like Syd did. And the most important thing, the others weren't schizophrenics as well. However Syd was a genius and created Pink Floyd and progressive rock as we know it. The guy was a real innovator, it's just a shame his career was cut short, but thats part of his whole Legend. He's the personification of Psychedelic and thats pretty cool.
DaveS12382 1 year ago
@DaveS12382 if you see it that way now... sigh... I like Pink Floyd and it's all thanks to Syd BARRETT, but music industry is much about big money, what was the point to create "The Wall" featuring a LOONY who was no other than Syd BARRETT? (yes I know, played by "Sir" Bob Gerdorf..MONEY if you ask me.) Where's all this now? Why don't the PINK FLOYD react to what's going on? If they hired David then why not others... but can they be bothered, really...Look Mummy, there are Chemtrails in the SKY!
LaPieinsky 1 year ago
we salute You
batalion666 2 years ago 2
Best S.B. song ever.
SuperYoyoChan 2 years ago 2
lol if u hear this song it makes me think i of alice and wonder land hehe with the rabit and the big hattt lol gooooo tea party :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
OH AND GOOOOO SYYYDDD BAAARRRREETTTT
Xpsychedelic60sX 2 years ago
this is my favorite syd song
XxwherefashionsitsxX 2 years ago 2
Dont know why today's bands do not make covers on Barretts songs?
someoneinthedark1 2 years ago 5
hypnotizing =]
shagix 2 years ago
Its a good album. He only made 2 solo albums (Madcap laughs, Barrett) in his career; both are well worth checking out, in my humble o
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
why do they call him syd?
swampmanx79 3 years ago
beceuse its his name?:)
choclatejesus25 3 years ago
to differentiate him from Sid The Beat Barrett, who played jazz at the local club in Cambridge
I understand he didnt use it much himself
His real name was Roger Keith Barrett - he went to Roger after stardom in the 60s and a breakdown exacerbated by drug abuse that made him an invalid for the rest of his life
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
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uhm, this sucks in compare to what he did in the early years With pink floyd. Just listen to what he did in the ufo nightclub at "tonight lets all make love in london"!
edwinderwael 3 years ago
is beck somehow influenced by syd???
AdlejandroP 3 years ago 2
By Nick Drake, sure (one track on Sea Change has the same melody as "River man")
I don't see much of a Barrett influence myself
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
Which track is that? I know the album, but I can't find that melody in any of the songs.
joaofelixsilva 3 years ago
"Around the bend" off Sea Change is VERY reminiscent of "River man" off 5 Leaves left
"Sunday Sun" seems to be a nod to "Saturday Sun" - 5LeavesLeft closer
I think there are a couple of Drake covers on Becks webpage - "Parasite" and one other
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
it is # 10
dbh35963 2 years ago
methinks many artists are influenced in one way or the other by him....
zigato 2 years ago
i love this
Domytar 3 years ago
LoVE's a good band too! a big influence on Syd!
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
hey i heard about them but i can't seem to find any good clips/songs. Loves sucha huge keyword for a search engine. Is there anyway you could send be acouple links if you have them?
binks9997 2 years ago
I love this song
PackLeader1990 3 years ago
this is lovely cheers
Domytar 3 years ago 3
such an potential ... YOU only can compare HIM with mozart or beethoven in my opinion, the rest is out of competition ... but beethoven didn't go crazy by taking LSD :(
iwannabeyourdog90 3 years ago 3
Though, I think the Beet did have a tendency to go crazy with his temper.
Ninyae1 3 years ago
I dont know Blur . Is it important to know Blur?
bassfeile 3 years ago 6
yes, it is
patatemauve 3 years ago
of coarse youve heard of blur just that you might not have known it.have you heard the woo hoo song thats by blur
BeatlesSydBarrett9 3 years ago
In fact, the woo hoo song is called Song 2 and in the case of wined and dried someone was referencing the similaryties between it and Trimm Trabb By blur... dumbass;p
patatemauve 3 years ago
Graham Coxen is a big fan of syds work and must have been heavily influenced by syds genious
tstoakley 2 years ago 5
Graham Coxon is amazing. Thanks for putting him on your comment. He is a pure genious and should be heard! Kudos!
ryu0wnz124 2 years ago 4
Sorry , man .. This is a great song !!! With or without dave.
bassfeile 3 years ago 2
i think it sounds a like trimm trabb by blur
BeatlesSydBarrett9 3 years ago
Spot on. Same here. Mind you, half of Blur's songs sounds like Apples and Oranges anyway. No bad thing! Also great musicians.
SlugThumper 3 years ago
yea blur rocks! so does syd barrett!
BeatlesSydBarrett9 3 years ago
I might be wring but wasn't the instrumental contributed by the soft machine?
cuttee4579 3 years ago
Unfortunately, the whole backing track of this song has done by David Gilmour alone, except for Syd's acoustid guitar.
fleetwoodmac1982 3 years ago
I believe Richard Wright was doing the piano here. And Dave said that Syd was an absolute genius while recording this..
antivert 3 years ago 2
a 'fav' of mine so much these days...ahh..
sonicjay007 3 years ago
wined n dined...always ......another prodigy of syd!!
shobyms 3 years ago
This is great song. So sad he went recluse. If only he would have returned to PF. Personally for me Pieper at The gates of dawn is my favorite album
LVKING999 4 years ago 3
LSD-triggered schizophrenia has a way of ruining a career (not to mention a life). Syd was still in there somewhere, and David Gilmour had the patience and compassion to bring it out before Syd the innovative musician disappeared and became Roger the recluse. Rest in peace, Roger "Syd" Barrett.
Ocelot1962 3 years ago 4
shush up',syd wrote this one in 70' and the neil-crosby style Kurt kobain started his production juat after 87'....so who is the original.....?Howbeit,man who sold the world is by Dawid bowie.....
shobyms 4 years ago
the beginning of the song does sound like nirvana... not that i like nirvana at all
tumultus101 4 years ago
You're an idiot!
zeppaman 4 years ago
Wow...calm down. I was just explaining. Fuck Face : )
fckrocknroll 4 years ago
don't waste your time, some people are just born assholes.
farboid16 4 years ago
chek out some "King Crimson", (twenty first century......and court of the crimson king)
farboid16 4 years ago
This doesn't sound anything like the man who sold the world, and that's not even a nirvana original!
zeppaman 4 years ago
No one said it did. farboid said it sounded like a nirvana unplugged song and some1 suggested one.
fckrocknroll 4 years ago
Great number, one of his best solo works, along with Octopus, Terrapin and Baby Lemonade.
MichalFokt 4 years ago