Wouldn't You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett

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Wouldn't You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett
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Artist: Syd Barrett
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Octopus
  2. Late Night
  3. Terrapin
  4. Swan Lee [Silas Lang]
  5. Wolfpack
  6. Golden Hair
  7. Here I Go
  8. Long Gone
  9. No Good Trying
  10. Opel
  11. Baby Lemonade
  12. Gigolo Aunt
  13. Dominoes
  14. Wouldn't You Miss Me [Dark Globe]
  15. Wined and Dined
  16. Effervescing Elephant
  17. Waving My Arms in the Air
  18. I Never Lied to You
  19. Love Song
  20. Two of a Kind
  21. Bob Dylan Blues
  22. Golden Hair [Instrumental]

Music reviews of Wouldn't You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett

Music Review: Best of Syd review - Shine on RKB!
Rating: 5 Stars

Kinda pointless to release a best of for an artist whose ouevre consists of a couple of solo albums (The Madcap Laughs & Barrett, both '69) but stick with me here

The only reason this was picked up by Syd fans was for the Barrett album outtake, Bob Dylan Blues, and its great. Pretty uproarious track, and it warrants inclusion on a best of

The sounds been remastered, with excellent liner notes (dig the lyrics for It is obvious being used - apparently they were included with the tape at EMI!)

Good pictures as well

"Living alone" (another unreleased track by Barrett) is mentioned in the liners, but does not appear on the album. WTF?

So, really, the only reason this album is out is cos of the new track

Most fans will already have the BBC tracks, those lucky fans will have Have you got it yet?

Did you know Gilmour was thinking about calling the recent Floyd set (of all their albums) Have you got it yet btw?

That was another pointless set - a great band, but do you really need to hear Atom Heart Mother again? I think not!

So a pointless collection. Still, if it had been an Ultimate collection (those tend to be 2 cd compilation) both the solo albums would've fit!

You can probably find Madcap Laughs & Barrett on one cd anyway. Just pick up those albums, cos this one isn't really worth it for a compilation cos the guy only released 2 solo albums while he was still functioning

The music, the musics great, but any compilation that leaves "Maisie" off is simply not to be trusted!

Description of Wouldn't You Miss Me?: The Best of Syd Barrett

UK collection featuring 22 tracks, the finest solo works from the eccentric original Pink Floyd co-founder. Compiled from his solo albums, the rarities and outtakes collection 'Opel', the box-set 'Crazy Diamond' and two previously unreleased tracks, 'Two Of A Kind' (BBC Session Track) and 'Bob Dylan's Blues'.
Pop culture's fascination with the psychically damaged has inspired a pantheon of cult heroes, from Brian Wilson through Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson, and Kurt Cobain, whose enduring--if troubling--appeal could give a cultural psychologist a life's worth of study. Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett has long been one of the most obsessed over. Listening to this first-ever distillation of the "best" of Barrett's brief post-Floyd recording career (which essentially ended in 1970), it's not hard to understand why. Barrett's childlike side (displayed here on such Lewis Carroll-esque fare as "Octopus," "Terrapin," and "Effervescing Rhino") and almost painfully innocent love songs sometimes feel like the lost blueprint of alt rock, while his space-case vocal delivery and distinctly surreal sense of timing and rhythm give each cut a hypnotic sense of intrigue. It's all a far cry from the intricately baroque pop psychedelia of his brief tenure in Pink Floyd. Something (LSD? Insanity? Both?) clearly shattered Barrett's consciousness between the band's debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn (he left the band shortly afterward) and the spare, shattered acoustic ballad poems from his first solo album (The Madcap Laughs) featured here. The more accessible, pop-conscious ethos of its follow-up, Barrett (highlighted by "Baby Lemonade" and the amusing "Gigolo Aunt") were largely studio illusions conjured up by sidemen such as Floyd's David Gilmour and Richard Wright. Barrett fans should also note the presence here of the previously unreleased "Bob Dylan Blues," a wry, talking blues parody of the great Zimmerman and allegedly one of Barrett's earliest compositions. --Jerry McCulley

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