MUSIC/SONGS

Lupus Music Ltd.

Baby Lemonade

Clowns and Jugglers

Dark Globe

Dominoes

Effervescing Elephant

Feel

Gigolo Aunt

Here I Go

I Never Lied To You

If It’s In You

It Is Obvious

Late Night

Long Gone

Love you

Love Song

Maisie

No Good Trying

No Man’s Land

Octopus

Rats

She Took A Long Cold Look

Swan Lee (Silas Lang)

Terrapin

Waving My Arms In The Air

Wined And Dined

Wolfpack

Another song, Golden Hair, had the lyrics written by James Joyce.

Westminster Music Ltd.

Apples And Oranges

Astronomy Domine

Bike

Chapter 24

Flaming

Jugband Blues

Lucifer Sam

Matilda Mother

The Gnome

The Scarecrow

See Emily Play

Scream Thy Last Scream

Vegetable Man

Other two songs, the instrumentals Interstellar Overdrive and Pow R. Toc H., were co-written with Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason).

All songs later published also by Magdalene Music Ltd.

Dunmo Music Publishing Ltd.

Arnold Layne

Candy And A Currant Bun

Note: All the songs in this column are Pink Floyd songs.

Rock Music Company Ltd. administered by BMG

A Last Recording

A Rooftop In A Thunderstorm

Birdie Hop

Bob Dylan Blues

Butterfly

Dolly Rocker

Double O Bo

Early Morning Henry *

I Get Stoned (Stoned Alone)

In The Beechwoods

Intremental *

Lanky (Part 1)

Let’s Split

Lucy Leave

Milky Way

Opel

Reaction In G

Remember Me

Rhamadam

She Was A Millionaire *

Two Of A Kind

Untitled

Word Song

* No known recordings exist

It's unclear if the song "Two of a Kind" was possibly written by Richard Wright.

You can count 64 Syd Barrett's own compositions, plus 3 co-written ones, although the instrumental Rhamadam is considered very similar to Lanky (in this way "Clown and Jugglers" and "Octopus" would be the same song, since only the lyrics changed, as it happened to "Matilda Mother") and it's considered doubtful if Syd actually wrote Two of a Kind instead of Richard Wright. Also, A Rooftop In A Thunderstorm should be a poem never set to music, and someone thinks it was not even written by Syd. Of course, there are other theories about the most unknown songs.

If you like to know about songs details by searching around recordings, master tapes, reissued records and remastered releases, then you should go to the SYD'S RECORDINGS sub-section.

Instead, if you prefer to see an overview of the songs released through his musical career, you should go back to the main MUSIC section, which begins with three introductory links to pages where the main releases are shown splitted in three parts. You can also click below to start with the first part:

By the way, on the bottom of second part it can be shown a reduced version of the detailed list below (which here includes some songs not actually written by Syd Barrett):

LIST OF ALL SONGS WRITTEN, RECORDED OR PERFORMED BY SYD BARRETT Where it is not specified Syd Barrett performed vocals and guitar. For the songs not written nor co-written by Syd Barrett original titles and publishers are left blank and the titles are in grey.

All information taken from David Parker's book Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett 1965-1974, and according to Syd Barret Estate manager Paul Loasby.

Each publisher is a private company limited by shares (Ltd.). Rock Music Company Ltd. is administered by BMG.

To know more about the songs not written by Syd Barrett, but that he performed with Pink Floyd or with others, go to this page:

However, those were just a few songs written by Roger Waters or Richard Wright that Syd played with Pink Floyd, while his total guest appearances would have been even less in number: we have to add some of the covers he played live in the early years to have no more than 20 songs, as you can see in the list below.

The remaining unreleased songs perhaps may need to be treated as a separate group, also because of the legends surrounding them... (the master tapes of 3 songs were erased or lost and the lyrics of 2 songs are unknown). They consist of at least 10 songs. Below is the relative page and the short list to see what songs they are.

Julian Palacios, author of one of the best biographical books on Syd Barrett, described very well and in detail the techniques Syd used on his songwriting on an essay on the internet, which you can find listed on the REVIEWS sub-section, or see by clicking below:

Seeing how Syd Barret's songwriting is worth some analysis much more than the standards, it may be interesting to compare the 60 and more songs of his repertoire under various aspects, not only about those techniques which led to pleasure and admiration, but also about what was behind his creative process. This is hardly possible, but only on an accurate retrospect. The good thing should be that the infinite possible cross-references are limited within his own repertoire. A basic first step could be to search any sort of recurrence in his songs, starting from the words used, then the sentences, the types of rhyme and assonance, and so on, as well as starting from the occurrences of the chord sequences, then the techniques of guitar-playing and recording, and so on. This would help to search what occurrences are the most significant to study them individually or for the totality of the work of the songwriter, trying to embrace it as a whole.

In order to establish some timeline about the rather unknown periods when Syd Barrett wrote his songs, an attempt was made by two fans on the internet forum Late Night using the occurences of words and sentences in all of his lyrics. That produced at least an exhaustive analysis of the occurences (at the moment only as excel file). Out of curiosity, putting some of the results into the online tool Wordle (www.wordle.com) it was produced also the image above.