| Author | Message | ||
     abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 80 Registered: 06-2005 |
another one bites the dust up until the early ninties my grandfather lived on the same street as him and his mother on hills road in cambridge | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 498 Registered: 05-2005 |
RIP Syd, what a unique fellow! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 125 Registered: 01-2005 |
1817952%2C00.html,http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1817952,00.html The BBC documentary DVD I picked up last year of Syd is really good. | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 128 Registered: 08-2004 |
Arnold Layne and See Emily Play are off-the-wall classic pop songs. The Bike Song too! I've recently been listening to the Robyn Hitchcock CD, Luxor, which I like a lot. He cites Syd Barrett as a big influence and I can see the connection - whimsical tunes with almost child like lyrics. Does any one else like him? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 384 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sad to hear about Syd. I hope his post-fame life was as happy and contented as it could have been, given his mental problems. I hate to think he lived 35+ years in the kind of misery Nick Drake did during his last few years. To me, Hitchcock always came off as a sane and calculating person who could do "crazy," unlike Syd, who had no choice. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 80 Registered: 04-2006 |
what should i say. pink floyd were important to me in the seventies. i loved their albums. all. till 'animals'. then all changed. but syd and their first two albums lived on - and that depends not only because of the tv personalities and robyn hitchcock. now -after all the years- i can listen to pink floyd once again without any reserves. rip syd. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 126 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cichli, I have been a huge Robyn fan since 1985. If you like Luxor try seeking out I Often Dream Of Trains from 1984 and Eye from 1990. They are vastly superior to Luxor, if you like the more laid back acoustic Robyn. If you want to try more electric based Robyn, than some of the albums he did with the Egyptians, such as Element of Light or Fegmainia are recommended. Fegmiania got me hooked back in 1985. As a member of The Soft Boys, Underwater Moonlight from 1980 is one of my Top 10 albums of all time. | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 129 Registered: 08-2004 |
Michael, thanks a lot for the information. I was introduced to Robyn through his Dylan tribute 'Robyn Sings', which is great. I then picked up Luxor and I was wondering where to go from there. Sane and calculating is ok by me, Kurt, if the music is ok.  | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 385 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yeah, I agree, Cichli. I didn't mean that as a criticism of Hitchcock. I went off him after being a big fan for awhile ("Globe of Frogs" and "Queen Elvis" are the albums where he started to lose me), but I may have missed some good later albums. Like Michael, I'm especially partial to "Element of Light," which has fewer "wacky" songs than some of his other albums, and his solo debut "Black Snake Diamond Role"--and, of course, "Underwater Moonlight" by the Soft Boys. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 153 Registered: 05-2005 |
How quickly we divert!!! Shine on you crazy diamond Syd!!! I LOVE "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and did not go much past it with Pink Floyd for....decades. To me, it was always the sound of LSD induced madness. Will they play a tribute gig or at his funeral??? | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 131 Registered: 08-2004 |
I agree, Geoff, Piper at the Gates of Dawn is brilliant. I really don't like anything they did after 'Meddle'. I also like Syd Barrett's guitar style. His experiments with noise and feedback seem ahead of their time. I found the following clip of The Pink Floyd performing in London in 1967 and you can hear the interesting things he's doing with his guitar. The main tune is Interstellar overdrive and it is 20-25 minutes long! Pink Floyd 1967, london | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 506 Registered: 05-2005 |
it would be interesting to see what the syd/floyd msg boards are like, if the reaction is anywhere like grant's passing was on here....mind you he did make it to 60, its still very young though... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 127 Registered: 01-2005 |
Here's another good article on Syd. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::67NP> Kurt, "Moss Elixir" from 1996 is very good. As far as Robyn's albums go, if the album color is dominated by the color green, get it. "Fegmania", IODOT, "Eye", and "Spooked" (from 2004 with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)are all great. I also agree with you on "Black Snake Diamond Role", and recommend it highly. The last couple of albums with the Egyptians, "Perspex Island" and "Respect" are lesser works, even though PI was number 1 on the US college charts in 1991 until a certain band grunge band from Seattle knocked it off. |