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Album Details: Madcap Laughs

Release Date:12/15/2007
Label:Capitol
UPC:077774660723

Track List: Madcap Laughs

  1. Terrapin  
  2. No Good Trying  
  3. Love You  
  4. No Man's Land  
  5. Dark Globe  
  6. Here I Go  
  7. Octopus  
  1. Golden Hair  
  2. Long Gone  
  3. She Took A Long Cold Look  
  4. Feel  
  5. If It's In You  
  6. Late Night  

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    Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 21, 2006

    Pros: Pink Floyd's Founder at the acoustic guitar.....

    Cons: Nothing really.....

    Pink Floyd's father Syd Barrett....on his own first solo LP...a pretty interesting listen but far removed from his work on Floyd's 'Piper at the gates of Dawn'...alot of acoustical work...but very interesting to hear for Syd and Floyd... fans alike. "Terrapin" kicks off the album and is a very focused song and tighter than alot of the songs on here...very nice track and very Syd..."It's No Good Tryin" gets a little more "rockish" with some actual band backing by some assorted 'Soft Machine' band members...another underlooked classic rock band of the 1970's...Syd's lyrics are so off the wall and bizarre...makes Nirvana's Kurt Cobains stuff pale about in comparison, "Love you" is kinda a silly happy go lucky feely song backed again by 'Soft'...funny cute lyrics...and once again...very Syd. "No Mans land" is up next and VERY weird....Syd mumbles off weirdly at the end of the song, very cool song though...but average. "Dark Globe" is really interesting and more reconizible Syd song...very bizarre lyrics for one...his 'pleaseee pleassse lift a hand....Im only a person....with eskimo chain, I tattoed my brain all the way'....LSD reference? I dont know. "Here I Go" is kinda be- bopish...lol, kinda beats along in a weird kinda sluggish trance, once again, funny but weird lyrics. "Octopus" is kinda the solo Syd 'hit' here...catchy and cool...nice song, "Golden Hair" is a James Joyce poem set to music, and very effective and works. Awesome to hear...."Long Gone" is kinda average...not bad, but...average. "She took a long cold Look" is part of a 3 song studio outtake here, pretty cool song...all acoustic 100%, produced by Roger Waters and David Gilmour - the entire album (Pink Floyd)...in some parts you can hear Syd reading the music..turning the pages while playing the notes...kinda cool, but very raw. Then he comments "Thats short..."...and Waters says "Feel take 1!" on the studio speakers...onto "Feel", another average track, and BIZARRE lyrics...cant hardly understand them, but cool. "If it's in You" starts out with more Syd banter while hes trying to hit the beginning notes singing and goes off key (and gets pissed) then Gilmour tells him to tune his guitar down which Syd gets kinda pissy but agrees...not a bad song...some mess ups, but works. "Late night" closes it off...nothing special on it though. Summing it up....Cool listen, I mean come on...Syd Barrett...Floyd's founder, but way different than his Floyds work...get the one with the bonus tracks...he never played the same song twice and the outtakes are funny and cool! RR Read more Less

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    Syd Barrett back from the blue

    By Andrew  Mar 15, 2004

    Pros: A selection of good songs

    Cons: Syd lost some of his songwriting abilities

    In 1967, Syd Barrett's band Pink Floyd released "Piper At the Gates of Dawn". Throughout the months that followed that brilliant release, Barrett would indulge himself in daily doses of LSD. By the following year, Syd began to suffer fr...om some severe mental illnesses due to the drug. That same year, Pink Floyd fired Barrett, and Roger Waters took the role as the bands new frontman. Syd's next effort in his music carreer was to begin recording solo. Throught 1969, Barrett recorded his first solo effort "The Madcap Laughs", with Pink Floyd's new guitarist David Gilmour, and Pink Floyd's frontman Roger Waters. Released in 1970, three years after "Piper", the album recieved a few good reviews, but it didn't get the same attention that "Piper" did. The reason why this came about was the fact that Syd Barrett's mental state was interfering with his music. Sure this record has some excellent cuts in it, such as "Dark Globe", or "Terrapin". This is a very good record, but it's not as innovative as "Piper". On "Piper", we saw Barrett use multiple sounds and themes that made that record so bizarre. Here, Barrett doesn't use that same formula. The songs are still pretty creative, because afterall, Barrett was a genius. Still though, if you really did love "Piper", then I do reccomend this. This is a record that will please any harcore Barrett fan, but it won't please those who want to collect the highlight albums of classic rock. Read more Less

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    Wisely, The Madcap Laughs doesn't even try to sound like a consistent record. Half the album was recorded by Barrett's former bandmates Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, and the other half by Harvest Records head Malcolm Jones. Surprisingly, Jones' tracks are song for song much stronger than the morelauded Floyd entries. The opening "Terrapin" seems to go on three times as long as its fiveminute length, creating a hypnotic effect through Barrett's simple, repetitive guitar figure and stream of consciousness lyrics. The much bouncier "Love You" sounds like a sunny little Carnaby Street pop song along the lines of an early Move single, complete with music hall piano, until the listener tries to parse the lyrics and realizes that they make no sense at all. The downright Kinksy"Here I Go" is in the same style, although it's both more lyrically direct and musically freaky, speeding up and slowing down seemingly at random. Like many of the "band" tracks, "Here I Go" is a Barrett solo performanc...e with overdubs by Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, and Robert Wyatt of the Soft Machine; the combination doesn't always particularly work, as the Softs' jazzy, improvisational style is hemmed in by having to follow Barrett's predetermined lead, so on several tracks, like "No Good Trying," they content themselves with simply making weird noises in the background. The solo tracks are what made the album's reputation, though, particularly the horrifying "Dark Globe," a firstperson portrait of schizophrenia that's seemingly the most selfaware song this normally whimsical songwriter ever created. Honestly, however, the other solo tracks are the album's weakest tracks, with the exception of the plain gorgeous "Golden Hair," a musical setting of a James Joyce poem that's simply spellbinding. The album falls apart with the appalling "Feel." Frankly, the inclusion of false starts and studio chatter, not to mention some simply horrible offkey singing by Barrett, makes this already marginal track feel disgustingly exploitative. But for that misstep, however, The Madcap Laughs is a surprisingly effective record that holds up better than its "ooh, lookit the scary crazy person" reputation suggests. - Stewart Mason, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Syd Barrett

Like a supernova, Roger "Syd" Barrett burned briefly and brightly, leaving an indelible mark upon psychedelic and progressive rock as the founder and original singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist of Pink Floyd. Barrett was responsible for most of their brilliant first album, 1967's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but left and/or was fired from the band in early 1968 a... Read more
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