SYD BARRETT-The madcap laughs, UK -(EMI Harvest) 1970y. ( EX+/EX+ )or better
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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 more-lauded Floyd entries. The opening "Terrapin" seems to go on three times as long as its five-minute 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 performance 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 first-person portrait of schizophrenia that's seemingly the most self-aware 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 off-key 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.
Syd Barrett ?– The Madcap Laughs
Label: Harvest ?– SHVL 765, Harvest ?– 1E 062 o 04261 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold,Country: UK Released: 1974 Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock
Tracklist
A1 Terrapin 5:00 A2 No Good Trying 3:26 A3 Love You 2:25 A4 No Man's Land 3:50 A5 Dark Globe 2:10 A6 Here I Go 3:13 B1 Octopus 3:45 B2 Golden Hair 1:56 B3 Long Gone 2:47 B4 B5 B6 (7:59) B4 She Took A Long Cold Look B5 Feel B6 If It's In You B7 Late Night 3:12Companies, etc.
- Record Company – EMI Records Ltd.
- Printed By – Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.
- Made By – Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.
- Published By – Lupus Music Ltd.
Credits
- Composed By – Syd Barrett
- Engineer – Jeff Jarratt, Mike Sheady*, Pete Mew*, Phil McDonald, Tony Clark
- Lyrics By – James Joyce (tracks: B2), Syd Barrett (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B7)
- Producer – David Gilmour (tracks: A5, B1 to B6), Malcolm Jones (tracks: A1 to A4, A6, B7), Roger Waters (tracks: A5, B1 to B6)
Notes
Released in a gatefold sleeve (outside laminated) - 6911 TPS Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London.Green Harvest labels with a boxed EMI logo.
? 1970
Label Code (Side A Label): SHVL.765A Label Code (Side B Label): SHVL.765B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout stamped 6 o'clock): SHVL 765 A-2G 1 RA
- Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout stamped 6 o'clock): SHVL 765 B-2G 1 AD
( MULTIPLE PURCHASES...25%- postage cost FOR EACH ADDITIONAL LP )
I offer to buy vinyl records from his own collection, which collected 35 years. Plans to sell about 2,000 of the original, rare and interesting records. Vinyl before selling tapped. Thank you for your interest . Sincerely . Oleg
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