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In de beschrijving van deze guy stond dat ie pink floyd had opgericht.. what happened

Grosser Name - aber es fehlt mir der intellektuelle Zugang ... oder etwas LSD.

Further Evidence that not everything should be recorded.

Fucking really?

Dreadful

Got almost two full songs in before I gave up on this one. Just awful.

Unlistenable.

It’s interesting as a curiosity but my word it’s a shambles. He wasn’t fit to record and it’s mess of half written and half performed songs. I never really got the Sid was the genius story. He wrote whimsical songs. He fell apart. This seems half a sincere attempt to get him through his problems and half an attempt to exploit them.

moments that were ok but come on this is pish

When man and rhyming dictionary combine.

I don’t think I’m going to make it through this entire thing. Not a fan of any adoration of Pink Floyd add to that a healthy dose of exploitation of someone with a mental illness and I’m incredibly uninterested.

Did not enjoy.

Sad. Mostly in a bad way. This list is too British.

Unzumutbar!

This is just dire. I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, but really the music only started getting interesting after SB left. It's interesting (for Pink Floyd nerds like me) to listen to the individual members' solo stuff (and also the albums they released as a group when not all of them were part of the band). Roger Waters clearly adds the edge, David Gilmour makes it melodic, and Syd Barrett makes it whimsical and lacking in any depth. This album is atrocious, it starts of kind of okay as psychedelic folk type stuff, but towards the album just completely degenerates into a mess. Guy can't really sing, the songs aren't interesting lyrically or musically, 1/5.

Never understood the obsession people have with this dude. This album is forgettable and bland. Definitely didn't need to hear it before I die.

Nie dokończyłem nawet takie chujowe

Not good

Combines the worst of early prog and psychedelia with hints of lame folk vocals. Early Pink Floyd had good moments courtesy of Syd, but he also contributed some awful guff.

This is one of the worst things I've ever heard with no redeeming qualities. It sounds like you gave a drunk homeless man a guitar and told him to record an album that day and you'll give him more hooch. Lyrically, melodically and artisticly devoid of anything. Give me a guitar and 24hrs and I truly believe I could do better. Solid 1

I tried but I couldn't find a reason why this is on the list. Also, i did not enjoy the album at all :( Sorry

Not my tempO

A little out there for me.

Nope

Just a blank canvas of same-sounding acoustic guitar and singing. I got nothing at all out of it.

Not too good.

Ok

Rating: 1/10 Absolutely awful album. Hated everything about this, the vocals are awful, the musicianship sounds demented in the worst way possible. A truly awful album, quite possibly the worst one yet and one of the worst albums I have ever heard.

Not sure why Syd Barrett is on this list. "Long Gone" sounds like an early Rolling Stones song.

Inte min kopp té

Rough, maybe bootlegged version o youtube? Whimsical but pshcy rock in this way is not my thing

Uninspired psychedelia. Not my jam.

I know this album came out before a lot of Pink Floyd's more successful albums. But it really feels like a bad Pink Floyd knock off. It's terribly boring.

BORING

Okay. Det her album kunne beg overhovedet ikke lide og det var et mirakel at jeg var stædig nok til at lytte det hele igennem. Jeg kan forstå at det er skrevet af et tidligere medlem af pink Floyd. Jeg ved at man kan have forskellig smag og derved er der nogen der kan værdsætte dette album. Men det er ikke mig, og jeg ved ærlig talt ikke hvorfor man skulle kunne lide dette album.

awful singing

This record is the soundtrack to a cautionary tale of mental illness. It’s the Syd Barrett story laid out musically and it’s just as sad. His influence is obvious and important on tracks like Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive, but this is not that. So much so in fact, that it showcases how much he missed the rest of Floyd, not the other way around. I had to listen to Meddle to clean me ears. 1/5

Not my thing

Pink Floyd regards Syd Barret very high and has mentioned how influential he was for their sound and how he was a cornerstone in the band, basically pulling the strings. That might be true, but it's a bit funny how they made their best stuff after he left the band. I can see many resemblences between this album and the first two Pink Floyd albums as well, but those albums at least had some songs that were pretty good, and they sounded like they were mixed by professional musicians. This has nothing of that. It sounds terrible, the songs are jibberish and incohesive. Maybe some songs reflect his mental wellbeing at the time, which would be both interesting and a bit sad, but it's still not anything I would put on or listen to.

Sorry Syd, I know you were instrumental to Pink Floyd and probably a great musician in your own right but I didn't like this. The album is all over the place and feels often like listening to the first demos of songs. It feels a bit anti-folk. Some songs have potential like "Golden Hair" and "Long Gone"(although just turning the volume up in the mixing instead of a crescendo is cheap)". All in all it will get a one but a strong one as I feel it has potential just the execution is not really worthy of an album.

Not very memorable

To me, it seemed like he was trying too hard to sound like The Beatles and The Doors.

Oh no..

Starts off okay, but just descends into madness, pretty sad considering the situation

He's a fucking terrible singer. The rest was ok

I like PF but not a fan of this.

This is a 1 I don’t give lightly. I love Floyd, and the legend of Barrett is fascinating. But even by his own admission, this is not a representative artistic statement from him.

So you know how sometimes, band members get booted for having creative differences, and the person getting kicked out says "screw you guys, imma write the music I like and it's gonna be awesome!" And then they produce absolute swill? This feels exactly like that. They say Pink Floyd was never the same once he left, I can only assume that's true because they got better.

If you like a droning monotone singer you'll like this. I don't.

Trash.

This is... Appalling. It's Beatles-esque late 60s psychadellic pop way past the pinnacle of Beatles-esque late 60s psychadellic pop. Syd sounds almost exactly like Neil from the Young Ones. From a musical history perspective, this may be an album to include. From an objective point of view, this album is terrible. It shouldn't have been made at all. It definitely shouldn't have been included in this list on the basis of any merit inherent in the work. Dear gods. "If it's in you" is atrocious in a way that actually, legitimately gives me a headache. This is a car-crash of an album and it feels ghoulish to be even listening to it.

It's not the worst thing I've ever heard. It's not good at all, either. I honestly couldn't wait til it was over so I think it has to be a 1. On a wider note I'm not sure I get this one's inclusion. I guess it's a historical interest thing to know what Syd Barrett was doing after he left Pink Floyd, but like, who is this for? This album feels more like a set of demos or 30 mins of noodling around in the studio than an album. Best song: Octopus? maybe?

Nope.

This sounds like a Ringo Starr album if Ringo didn't have the benefit of John, Paul, and George helping him write and perform any of it.

Jesus wept, this was hard work!

I think this might be what I sound like when I'm in the shower, singing, after having had a few too many. It isn't a very appealing thing to listen to. Most of this is incoherent. I wouldn't know that this was in any way someone attached to the formation of Pink Floyd. This was just not very good.

I know Syd Barrett's name from Pink Floyd, but I've never listened to any of his music before (not even Piper at the Gates of Dawn). I know the man was going through some pretty heavy stuff when he made this album, and I feel a tad guilty being critical of it, but woof, this was not my cup of tea. All of the songs just kind of blended together. Nothing really stood out to me, and there was nothing about this album that even separates it from other psychedelic music of the era. It honestly sounds like someone was making a movie about England in the late sixties, and just as they were wrapping production, they realized they forgot to have a soundtrack, but they only had $400 left in the budget to put towards the music, and this was the result. I listened to about 30 minutes of this on my drive to work, and when I got out of the car, I went to check how many more songs were left, and when I saw that I was only about halfway done with the album, I fell to my knees and cried out to God, demanding to know why he would make me suffer more than Job. I'm going to listen to Spoon's Hot Thoughts to cleanse my palette.

Sounded slowed down. Appreciate someone getting critically acclaimed and having my shower voice though.

this album was a mess. I feel like there was some flashes of brilliance but it was mostly just rambling and jangly noise

A wandering tirade of musical randomness. Very disappointing.

I find it totally fine and 100% acceptable for artists to complete vanity albums. There is nothing wrong with that and there are times when they come out great. I say that to make it clear that I don't have a problem with this record existing. But despite it's historical context, it has no business on this list. It doesn't show the listener anything special about Syd and the songs themselves are not good. So I'm afraid this one is a dud.

Fuck off, Pink Floyd wanker.

This just feels like the exploitation of mental illness. There are fragments of good songs on here (No Good Trying, Late Night), but the majority of it has the feeling of watching something you’re not supposed to be privy to. If It’s In You is a horrifying listen.

So sloppy I kinda hoped this was a mental asylum recording like skip Henderson

Mostly random strumming. Some songs sounded like a dog giving birth. Just feels like someone real high threw shit at the wall to see what stuck.

This reminds me of going to your friend's cute older brother's performance at an open mic night or something. You know, the instance when your crush abruptly ends bc you realize his art kind of sucks ? :/

Sounds exactly like something a guy who dropped too much acid during his life would make. Would not listen again.

Nope.

Not for me. I’m sure there are people who absolutely love this and can break down every chord and lyric but I just couldn’t get into it at all.

Some absolute shite on this album. Golden Hair was one of the ponyest

Well that was an exercise in trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, wasn't it? Maybe this is the curse of such high art: when it's almost kinda sorta borderline music, that's the only way our mere human minds can process it. In any case, my puny brain gives it a 1/5.

Seems that Syd was as bored singing this album as I was listening to it.

p220. 1970. 1 star. Drug addled half baked outtakes from an acidhead casualty do not make for interesting listening. WTF is this doing on this list? "I tattooed my brain all the way/Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?" Actually Syd, no we won't.

Yeah, there's a reason he wasn't in Pink Floyd anymore

Meandering and dull. He sounds like he's making up the tune as he goes along.

Foei, wat langdradig

Sorry not it, mailed two books today though

Heard before: no Hard to get through, to be honest. To some extent that's personal preference - it just feels like whimsical 60s psychedelic pop, without enough edge on the psychedelia to get me through it. Is it on this list because it's interesting that Syd Barrett was a founding member of Pink Floyd, despite not being there for the band's actually good albums?

Oof

Another awful album

Dreary, meandering and dull.

Kids. Don't do drugs.

If this guy hadn't previously been a part of Pink Floyd, there is no way this album would have been made. I can appreciate a touched mind's deranged performances (RIP Wesley Willis), but this is just nonsense.

Nope

The album is garbage. I realize Syd was in Pink Floyd but that doesn't make his music good. The album is best described a psychedelic folk music. It takes two separate genres that aren't good to create another genre that is worse. Maybe that is the noteworthy part of the album.

weird - aber nicht das gute weird (meistens). Golden hair und long gone sind hörbar, der rest eigentlich nicht.

Not for me

fuck this tedious and boring POS.

Oof, this one was tough. Very all over the place and the songs seemingly kept repeating?? Or else the album was just making me crazy, which is entirely possible. I'm seeing in the other reviews that this album basically documents Syd's degradation and, yep, that tracks.

Did not like it.

This sounds like something I could have made when high

Pretty bad. 1 Def. Some pretty good lyrics, but nothing to redeem it...

Shite

Straight up junk drug music. Hard no for me, dawg.

The vocals ruin this album for me. It sounds like a drunk at karaoke complete with the shitty echo of a school gym. This effect could be used pointedly in a single song, but instead it's throughout the whole album.

didn't enjoy at all

1 Star - Don't know why it's on this list. It doesn't seem remotely psychadelic, which is what I thought his appeal to most people is.

Still not over the Bert Jansch fiasco to get into more folk so this album needed to throw a few upbeat tracks my way. Recognised the name and obviously as he’s a founding member of Pink Flloyd. Reading he was kicked out for “perceived mental illness” and “excessive use of psychodelic drugs”. I’m getting massive Beatles vibes off this record in part. Particularly Ringo-ish. The lyrics are simple and juvenile. And the upstroke guitar style playing in infuriating. I am also sensing a disconnect between the audio quality and style between tracks and further reading shows it was recorded over a number of years and the album has various production credits. I’m feeling quite laboured getting thru these albums as of late so I’m needing something I already know and I’d already rate as a 5 star album. 17 albums in and only one song added to my various Spotify playlists is not a good sign.

It goes against the spirit of the whole album-a-day thing but I stopped listening to this after "golden hair". I can see why some people might like it. Some kinks / small faces / Beatles vibes but overall depressing and folky. Not for me.

Just bad

Hogwash

Not terribly good.

Did not enjoy

never cared much for barrett-era floyd. it all kinda sounds the same. psychedelia on psychedelia. i think i'd have appreciated this more if it was something i had explored in my formative years. hearing it now for the first time its just sad and boring

Highlights: Terrapin Lowlights: Dark Globe, If It's In You A hybrid of folk and psychadelic, nice guitar playing...Improvisational? I don't know, most of the album sounds sloppy and unrehearsed. Contains some of my least favorite tropes in music: The random conversation before/after a track is played because the artist felt it relevant to include it. I did not like this album.

yo, mis gorgoritos y mi guitarra

good lord, what was that. he can't sing.