The best songs Syd Barrett never wrote

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1992 - Blur
Lots of Jennifer Gentle Songs

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Buch of Olivia Tremor Control songs.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

OMG for the second night in a row someone starts a thread by mentioning one of my favourite songs. 1992...don't quite see the Barrett connection (Syd? Space-age effects pedals? Self-indulgent lyrics about an ex-girlfriend?) but great song, best on 13.

It's Not Too Beautiful by The Beta Band would be my pick. Either that or Beck's amazing Cold Brains.

xpost OTM, Goldberg. 'Train Director' being my personal fave.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I love Define a Transparent Dream. And I Have Been Floated. Those are rather Barrett-ish. It's obviously psychedelic-Beatles-influenced, too, but stuff like the spliced in noise bits and out of tune strings on Floated would've been a little too out there for The Beatles, I think.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Soft Boys - Kingdom Of Love

― zeus (zeus), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

the 1992 connection is the odd chord changes leading to hooks you'd just never expect.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

plus, yes, the squealing guitars

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. It's not something I'd have ever really called, but actually, as that brief, bizarre keyboard solo plays all over the guitars I begin to see what you're getting at. Syd Barrett to William Orbit still seems a link too far though; the guitar sounds that make the last three minutes of the song what they are just aren't Barrett.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Blue Orchids - Bad Education

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Robyn Hitchcock: My Wife And My Dead Wife

(In fact, Robyn Hitchcock pwns this thread)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Quality factor check plz.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

timotm

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

XTC: "Towers Of London" and "Senses Working Overtime"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Senses Working Overtime" sounds more like Sesame Street than Syd Barrett.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popsike.com/pics/frozenriver/20040423/4009268286.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Another Robyn Hitchcock- "Madonna of the Wasps"

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

No disrespect for the dead intended, but Barrett - great as he was / is - never wrote a song half as good as "Madonna of the Wasps," friends.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Robert Wyatt - "The Duchess"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 13 August 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

and continuing on the canterbury kick, just about anything kevin ayers ever wrote

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Sunday, 13 August 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Roger just consigned himself to Hell.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Anthony Moore-Lover of Mine

He'd later go on to collaborate with Gilmour on Momentary Lapse of Reason, for better or worse.

The Homosexuals-The Total Drop, or maybe something else

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

A. More is too precise

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon "French Film Blurred" by Wire is plenty Syd-like. Hi Andrew!

― LC (Damian), Sunday, 13 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

the wombles theme

maybe.

― richardmarks (umbrella candy), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd - "Corporal Clegg"
Gong - anything on "Magick Brother, Mystic Sister"

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Lone Pigeon - almost every song

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

If XTC, than: Dukes Of The Stratosphere - Have You Seen Jackie?
Pretty obvious, but still.

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Guided By Voices, Dragons Awake

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Syd Barrett - "Two of a kind"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

"In The Beginning/The Thing" by (wait for it)...the 1910 Fruitgum Company. From their final album, HARD RIDE, which was their balls-out attempt to go psychedelic.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I've always thought that the Verlaines song "Burlesque" sounded like Syd era Floyd.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Super Furry Animals - "Zoom"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

the shins - "weird divide"

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Just rediscovered the first album by Bipolaroid "Transparant Make Believe", who are basically a Syd Barrett tribute band when you get right down to it. Not Great or Classic, but definitely enjoyable.

They have a new album due out this year...seems like a band who could potentially put out something really terrific (though they probably won't). Fingers crossed.

― dlp9001, Monday, 6 August 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

goodly portions of the village green preservation society. e.g., "phenomenal cat," "wicked annabella" and "down by the riverside" DEFINITELY could've been syd barrett songs

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

Faine Jade - "People Games Play"

― briania, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

The Chills - Satin Doll

― zeus, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

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