MUSIC/RECORDINGS

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At the end of our "Music Part 3" page, there is this list showing all the recordings Syd made, song by song:


If that wasn't enough, you might see further details for each session, retrieved from David Parker's book Random Precision for kind concession of the author. Go to the pages linked below:

1965/1966 sessions

During early SOUND TECHNIQUES
sessions (January 1967)

The bulk of The Piper
(February-May 1967)

Completing The Piper
(June-July 1967)



During later SOUND TECHNIQUES,
BBC and DE LANE LEA sessions
(August-November 1967)

Last attempts with Pink Floyd
(December 1967 - January 1968)

Sessions with Peter Jenner
(May-July 1968)

Sessions with Malcolm Jones
(April-May 1969)



The Madcap sessions
with David Gilmour
(June-October 1969)

During the other sessions
with David Gilmour
(December 1969 - September 1970)

From the Last Recordings
to the Posthumous Mixes
(February 1971 - Today)

MISCELLANEA


Perhaps for obvious historiographical reasons, it's not by chance that we often find the recordings events listed together, and chronologically, with the record release events, as it happens with both David Parker's and Glenn Povey's reference books. Here this list merges discography and recordings:


The original soundtrack LP Tonite Lets All Make Love in London where Pink Floyd were just among other artists

The three introductory music pages (starting from Music Part 1) may be seen as illustrated discography, with links to each album's page for furher details, but the various-artist compilations are missing there, as well as a Syd Barrett videography. By the way, there is also missing one of the first Syd Barrett works meant to be released: a recording of Interstellar Overdrive for the soundtrack of Peter Whitehead's film Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. The soundtrack was actually released 1968 but it had a second life in 1990 being re-released with the full-length version of Pink Floyd's instrumentals. Originally including several other artists, it turned out to be also a Pink Floyd release in 1991 as promotional mini-album, and then as Pink Floyd EP and video in 1995: see the page Tonite Let's All Make Love in London... Plus.

Coming back to Syd Barrett videography, although it should be limited to a lone live perfomance video (Pink Floyd 66-67), some documentary (like The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story), and some short video (like the Syd Barrett's First Trip), plus, at most, a few promo films with Pink Floyd from 1967 (not released individually on any physical media), there is a separate page on that:

SYD BARRETT VIDEOGRAPHY


For a classical detailed discography, then detached from the recordings but more related to collecting, at the moment the Discogs website offers not only discographic information comparable to that in The Pink Floyd Archives, but it offers even information about the cheapest prices a collector can find for any new or used record or CD, often in a better way than how he could do on Ebay of Amazon. This is the link for Syd Barrett page on Dicogs:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/178489-Syd-Barrett


Here, similar expandable lists offer slight more detailed columns:

Finally, enjoy a collection of Syd single and album sleeves: