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. Opel

A2. Clowns & Jugglers (Octopus)

A3. Rats

A4. Golden Hair (Vocal Version)

A5. Dolly Rocker

A6. Word Song

A7. Wined and Dined

B1. Swan Lee (Silas Lang)

B2. Birdie Hop

B3. Let's Split

B4. Lanky (Part 1)

B5. Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)

B6. Milky Way

B7. Golden Hair (Instrumental)

Written by Syd Barrett

Mixed by Gareth Cousins

Released on 17 October 1988

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.

Julian Palacios, from his book Dark Globe:
 * The corpus of unreleased Syd songs in EMI's vaults caused a steady stream of petitions demanding they be issued … Diagnosed with liver cancer, Jones kept up the pressure … Jones died before he could see an album's worth of out-takes and unreleased tracks issued as Opel.



Other compilations were made afterwards, with bonus tracks and remastered versions, but apart some remaining alterate takes, the only really new song was Bob Dylan Blues.

Obviously they could never reach the importance that the Opel compilation had.



Octopus: The Best Of CD

1. Octopus

2. Swan Lee (Silas Lang)

3. Baby Lemonade

4. Late Night

5. Wined and Dined

6. Golden Hair

7. Gigolo Aunt

8. Wolfpack

9. It Is Obvious

10. Lanky (Part 1)

11. No Good Trying

12. Clowns and Jugglers

13. Waving My Arms in the Air

14. Opel

Released on 29 May 1992



Crazy Diamond 3-CD box set

Bonus tracks in The Madcap Laughs:

1.14. Octopus (Takes 1 & 2)

1.15. It's No Good Trying (Take 5)

1.16. Love You (Take 1)

1.17. Love You (Take 3)

1.18. She Took a Long Cold Look at Me (Take 4)

1.19. Golden Hair (Take 5)

Bonus tracks in Barrett:

2.13. Baby Lemonade (Take 1)

2.14. Waving My Arms in the Air (Take 1)

2.15. I Never Lied to You (Take 1)

2.16. Love Song (Take 1)

2.17. Dominoes (Take 1)

2.18. Dominoes (Take 2)

2.19. It Is Obvious (Take 2)

Bonus tracks in Opel:

3.15. Gigolo Aunt (Take 9)

3.16. It Is Obvious (Take 3)

3.17. It Is Obvious (Take 5)

3.18. Clowns and Jugglers (Take 1)

3.19. Late Night (Take 2)

3.20. Effervescing Elephant (Take 2)

Bonus tracks mixed by Gareth Cousins

Supervised by Brian Hogg & Phil Smee

Illustrations by Alan Rogers

Released on 26 April 1993



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

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)

Remastered by Peter Mew

Released on 16 April 2001

Notes: "Bob Dylan Blues" previously unreleased.



The Radio One Sessions CD

Remastered tracks from The Peel Sessions (tracks 1-5), plus:

6. Baby Lemonade

7. Dominoes

8. Love Song

Released on 29 March 2004

Notes: Tracks 6-8 recorded off air on 16 Feb. 1971 during the radio show Sounds Of The Seventies.



The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 3-CD box set

Remastered tracks from original mono mix (disc 1)

Remastered tracks from original stereo mix (disc 2)

Bonus tracks (disc 3):

3.1. Arnold Layne

3.2. Candy and a Currant Bun

3.3. See Emily Play

3.4. Apples and Oranges

3.5. Paintbox

3.6. Interstellar Overdrive (French Edit)

3.7. Apples and Oranges (Stereo Version)

3.8. Matilda Mother (Alternative Version)

3.9. Interstellar Overdrive (Take 6)

Remastered by James Guthrie & Joel Plante

Released on 3 September 2007

Notes: Tracks 3.7-9 previously unreleased. Track 3.8 lyrics from Belloc's Cautionary Tales. Also in 2-CD version (discs 1-2 only).



An Introduction to Syd Barrett CD

1. Arnold Layne

2. See Emily Play

3. Apples and Oranges (Stereo Version)

4. Matilda Mother (2010 Mix)

5. Chapter 24

6. Bike

7. Terrapin

8. Love You

9. Dark Globe

10. Here I Go (2010 Remix)

11. Octopus (2010 Mix)

12. She Took a Long Cool Look (2010 Mix)

13. If It's In You

14. Baby Lemonade 15. Dominoes (2010 Mix) 16. Gigolo Aunt 17. Effervescing Elephant 18. Bob Dylan Blues Downloadable bonus track (file): Rhamadan

2010 Mixes by Andy Jackson, Damon Iddins, David Gilmour

Remastered by Andy Jackson

Released on 11 October 2010

Notes: "Rhamadan" previously unreleased instrumental. "Matilda Mother" lyrics from Belloc's Cautionary Tales. First Syd Barrett compilation with Pink Floyd tracks.

Among the complete list of the recordings that Syd made you may find all the possible bonus tracks you want: