MUSIC/Music Part 3



PART 1 - WITH PINK FLOYD PART 2 - SOLO ARTIST PART 3 - BELATED RELEASES



Trying to cover the insistent requests from fans who knew about unreleased Syd Barrett recordings, a company was able to release some material on a CD maxi single shortly after that the Syd Barrett solo albums appeared on the then-new CD format, selling very quickly in some of the record shops where it was available, and a 12" vinyl EP version was released the month after.



1. Terrapin

2. Gigolo Aunt

3. Baby Lemonade

4. Effervescing Elephant

5. Two of a Kind

Written by Syd Barrett

Produced by John Walters

Recorded on 24 February 1970 at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London

Engineered by Tony Wilson

Released on January 1988 by Strange Fruit Records

Distributed by Pinnacle Records

Notes: Radio show on Top Gear, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on 14 March and 30 May 1970. Syd Barrett performed live with David Gilmour and Jerry Shirley. Made for a series of radio recordings, this CD contained the only Syd Barrett recording officially released since the end of 1970, with the unreleased track "Two of a Kind", once credited to Richard Wright but claimed to be one of his own songs by Syd Barrett himself. However, many of his unreleased tracks were not unknown to the audience around the illegal bootleg market: tracks 2 and 4 were already on the first of these bootleg Unforgotten Hero, circulating in 1977, which included also two of the most important Syd Barrett compositions, "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", recorded for his band in 1967. Instead, Two of a Kind and all of the songs from this and the only other radio show outside Pink Floyd appeared on the 1984 bootleg Tattood.

From the local newspaper Swindon Evening Advertiser:
 * Welcome back Syd Barrett - new hero of the compact disc age. Syd's CDs are selling like hot cakes in Swindon. A five-track Syd Barrett CD single is disappearing from the shelves of the town's only CD shop as fast as they can get them in. Owner of the Victoria Road shop, Geoff Miles, says: "I'm into my third batch of Syd Barrett singles. Who'd believe old Syd would sell so many discs?"

Malcom Jones wasn't able to accept that songs like his favourite Opel were still unreleased. He died the year before this compilation was released, also thanks to a petition he promoted.



A1. Astronomy Domine

A2. Lucifer Sam

A3. Matilda Mother

A4. Flaming

A5. Pow R. Toc H.

A6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

B1. Interstellar Overdrive

B2. The Gnome

B3. Chapter 24

B4. The Scarecrow

B5. Bike

Written by

Syd Barrett (Tracks A1-A4, B2-B5)

Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason (Tracks A5, B1)

Roger Waters (Track A6)

Produced by Norman Smith

Recorded from 21 February to 21 May 1967 at EMI Studios, London

Engineered by Peter Bown

Cover photo by Vic Singh

Released on 5 August 1967

Notes: Opel was one of those songs that Syd Barrett introduced to Malcolm Jones at the beginning of their work for the first album, intended to be in the tracklist until the last days of work with David Gilmour, who eventually decided the final tracklist and the title The Madcap Laughs. Syd w Peter Bown: "I had certainly never heard anything quite like it before."

Vic Singh: "It was unusual and different, and they were delighted with it."

John Cavanagh, on the back cover of his book on the album:

The single Apples and Oranges was released towards the end of that year after a disastrous US tour: an increasingly alienated Syd Barrett would be only a guest on A Saucerful of Secrets.



A. Apples and Oranges

B. Paint Box

Written by Syd Barrett (Track A), Richard Wright (Track B)

Produced by Norman Smith

Recorded on 26 and 27 October 1967 at EMI Studios, London

Released on 18 November 1967

Syd Barrett: "It's a happy song, and it's got a touch of Christmas. It's about a girl who I saw just walking round town, in Richmond."

Roger Waters: "Apples and Oranges' was destroyed by the production. It's a fucking good song."



A1. Let There Be More Light

A2. Remember a Day

A3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

A4. Corporal Clegg

B1. A Saucerful of Secrets

B2. See-Saw

B3. Jugband Blues

Written by

Roger Waters (Tracks A1, A3, A4)

Richard Wright (Tracks A2, B2)

Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour, Nick Mason (Track B1)

Syd Barrett (Track B3)

Produced by Norman Smith

Recorded from 7 to 8 August 1967 (Track A3) and from 18 January to 3 May 1968 (Tracks A1, A2, A4-B2) at EMI Studios, London; on 19 October 1967 at De Lane Lea Studios (Track B3)

Released on 16 June 1968

Notes: A promotional video was recorded for Jugband Blues. The band's management wanted to release the song as a single, before being vetoed by both the band and the producer.

From the lyrics: "It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here / And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here."

Performing many gigs turned out to be exhausting for their creative leader who, years after he left the band, said: "…there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things."

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