Is this Syd Barrett’s best song with Pink Floyd?!
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A slight detour before showing him parts 6-9 of Shine on You Crazy Diamond, a little on context for him. What were your guys’ first thoughts on this song, what are your current thoughts?
I think you could have shown Alex a better example of Syd's better songs. Flaming, bike,astonomie domine jugband blues etc. This song is good but Syd's lyrics are epic.
Madcap laughs solo work still great song writer, but had help from Gilmore and waters, and you can hear the decay of him losing his mind . But always remember syd is the original songwriter and he owns the name of the band
Trippy music, Lennon ( Sean ) and claypool was amazing!!!!!!
Jugband Blues is crap. I hate that song. Should have played Alex Astronomy Domine.
Felt lost at first, but gradually was taken in, and eventually liked it...alot
Yep, context and band/genre roots is huge.
It's a great instrumental and shows off Syd's guitar playing, but the best one with Syd is "Astronomy Domine".
“Astronomy Domine” is a great song; I love the Pulse version, it is more driving and forceful than the studio version, 🔥
See Emily Play.
I was thinking the same thing. Astronomy Domine is my preference. It stays on point and doesn't fall off into extensive meandering.
I like the Astronomy Domine version from the Ummagumma album.
Dave Gilmour taught Syd all his tricks whilst at School. Gilmour was the Genius.
Their early singles are my favorite stuff with Syd: "Arnold Layne", "Candy and a Currant Bun", "See Emily Play"
Apples and Oranges as well.
"There's a fine line between genius and crazy." Lol welcome to Syd Barrett.
I think that line is called "stoned".
“There’s a fine line between clever and stupid”- Spinal Tap
Syd straddled that line, then tipped over to crazy for good. This is what you get when a group does a jam session from different buildings, then throwing the results together without an edit session.
Nailed it. Described Syd to a tee.
Wait until he hears Syd's solo stuff.
Syd Barrett set up Pink Floyd's sound, the band refined it later. The Crazy Diamond is Syd
You really need to cover the full album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". The greatest psychedelic album ever recorded.
Andy did start the channel with this.
Recorded in the same building around the same time as Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.
My favorite with Sid is “Careful with that Axe, Eugene”. Just love the creepy scream part. So excited to see some of the early Floyd reaction!🤩
This is mine too. Such a calming start and then the screams come in. And then it goes back to a calming end. Mesmerizing.
Syd had departed before that was recorded. The scream is Roger.
Syd Barrett was not involved in the writing or recording of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene".
@@ronnelson7828 I wasn’t commenting on Syd necessarily. I was commenting on the song I liked the best.
@@DazzleMonroe thank you. I somehow got it mixed up throughout the years.
Don't know if you saw Dr. Strange, but that was one of the best scenes...Benedict Cumberbatch speeing down the road to this song.
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This song always reminds me of a Scooby-Doo chase scene.
edit: Alex's confusion is priceless. Floyd was much more...abstract with Syd.
someone who enjoys this channel, just had a flash back. Hope it was a good trip. I enjoyed it guys, thanks for the under looked songs always.
You don’t have to be stoned and sitting in a dark room with incense burning to really enjoy this, but it helps 🤫
Chocolate mescaline and Houses of the Holy 🤩. Oh boy
I always liked Syd's more whimsical psychedelia, Arnold Layne or See Emily Play. It doesn't have the kick of guitar workouts like Astronomy Domine or Interstellar Overdrive, but those songs are really strange in their own delightful ways.
You should show him Astronomy Domine and See Emily Play as well. They're still trippy but more "radio Friendly" than this one
Those would probably be my 2 favorites.
See Emily Play is great.
The very first time i got stoned is the very first time I heard this tune. Lying in a dark room, on the floor, wearing headphones, i listened to the entire album. I DEFINITELY got it in that environment.
Imagine, if you will, being in the Navy doing laps off the coast of Oman on an aircraft carrier, trippin' BALLS, listening to this on headphones while watching "The Fly" in your berthing compartment's lounge. Yeah, I did that. :D
Hubby used to chill in the nets, Vietnam era.
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days" are probably some of my favorite early Floyd, although this song (the whole album really) is awesome!
This was just a couple years before I started listening to Pink Floyd, but Andy was sitting there grinning like I do when I see someone react to Angelina Jordan at 9 years old doing Screaming Jay Hawkins version of "I Put A Spell On You" from 1956.
Jugband Blues. His last song with Floyd and he basically says I’m going insane and the band is excluding me. Heartbreaking yet a brilliant pop song.
this album was recorded in Abbey Road down the hall from the Beatles recording Sgt. Pepper and it had a huge influence on John and Paul.
Every time I hear this I expect Damo Suzuki to chime in at any moment...
VERY Can-esque tune.
Probably his best instrumental space rock tune, in which there are two on "Piper", with "Astronomy Domine". Syd's lyrics were whimsical and child-like. That said, I liked "See Emily Play" and "Lucifer Sam" best.
There are a few theories on why Syd went crazy. He was already a gentle, fragile person before all the drugs. Family, friends, and band members believe he already had some kind of mental illness, and when he overdid the drugs, it acted ad an accelerant, or catalyst. It did something to him that he never recovered from. On top of that, they also say that Syd was never truly into the popular music scene. He wanted to start a band and play music, but once they took off and were getting pressure from the label for "hits," he got over it all and wanted out, and being crazy and not contributing was his way of quitting the scene, at least according to Nick Mason. Or it could be that he did too much LSD and his brain got fried. Could be one or a combination of reasons.
I vote for a combination of those reasons. I found a good telling of the Syd story with the band in the book "A Saucerful Of Secrets".
All of the above!
It would be cool if you did See Emily Play. A little more pop, but definitely has that psychedelic feel!
I never noticed this before but that down chord at 11:23 is full on The Wall
always bang this song when I'm on acid back in the day, this song is my anthem of tripping balls. the visuals was like I was an astronaut stranded in the space bcs of a rocket crash and just completely lost in there, wandering the unknown- i can remember vividly. but astronomy domine for me was his best, it was just a perfect opening song for a phenomenal album and the built up was just simply crazy, IO is the no.2 best for me.
Piper & Pepper were recorded at the same time in the same studios together.
You guys should check out the 13th Floor Elevators, a legendary psychedelic garage band from Texas also from the late 60s. Many parallels between their lead singer and Syd Barrett.
Lol at 4:45 Alex is literally, "Am I being pranked here...?"
I'm with ya Alex.
After the final parts of Shine on you, you guys should listen to Jugband Blues. I feel it would really drive the emotional impact of Syds departure both mentally and physically.
Syd has solo records which are pretty amazing, produced by his former bandmates (who found it a very trying experience). "The Madcap Laughs" is one of the album titles; "Octopus Ride" is one of the standout tracks. It's pretty amazing, albeit crude material. Syd's damaged mental state is evident in the recordings, making them even more powerful.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!, This is how it was back then for "Pink Floyd". They loved Sid and knew something was REALLY OFF, but, they seemed to be curious about where it was going to take them, so they allowed him to do his creative thing, til one day I guess they figured it was just too much and had to replace him, really sad.
Music is all about how much it resolves in the way it expects and doesn't challenge, versus how much it doesn't do what you expect and it does challenge you. And every listener wants a different balance. The more you hear, the more you're ok with being challenged by and large. For me today this song isn't that shocking or hard to follow, but a few years ago I would be right there with Alex's opinion. I bet Alex can come back to this years later (or maybe sooner) and have a different opinion.
There are live recordings of that song around that are way longer and they go totally off the deep end with improvisations on those. Even more off the deep end than the album version, that is.
I’m with Alex on this. I don’t enjoy most of the Syd era stuff. I understand that it’s probably my fault, not theirs. But I just don’t dig it. I feel like the Floyd are learning their craft, but they’re not great yet. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is about the earliest of theirs that I like. But it’s cool that the guys are checking this out.
I'm like Tom Hanks in that movie BIG where he's in the meeting about a skyscraper that turns into a robot. Tom says... "I DON'T GET IT"
Syd’s solo stuff is way more accessible and more folky and feels like raw emotions. We need to see your reactions to his solo albums.
Particularly "Dark Globe", which is for me the song WYWH answers to... And is, at least, a kind of "testament" for Syd, or an attempt to explain how he felt "half the way down".
When it comes to Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, Interstellar Overdrive is certainly indicative of his 'sound painting' approach to musicianship, it's overtly free form and enormously expressive! However, I think either See Emily Play, Matilda Mother, Flaming or Bike best illustrate his peculiar gift for melody and wordplay. Nobody wrote tripped out Pop like Psychedelic Syd, back when he 'Shone like the sun.'
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The influence for the riff came from a combination of 'The Theme From Steptoe' and Love's 'Little Red Book'!
This is vicious, Andy 😂 I love "Interstellar Overdrive", but as an introduction, "Astronomy Domine" or "Lucifer Sam" would have been fair.
Yeah..might have been a bit much, definitely threw him in the pit
@@andyandalex 😆 that's what friends are for, right? 😉
Remember hearing this on a stereo system connected to highschool-made light organs. Needed some green afterwards.
There’s about 100 killer riffs in this song. But Syd just tosses them off and throws them into this chaos. The music is meant to be about outer space and I think it actually sounds like it.
it's the birth of galaxy. going from pure chaos to the beginning of life.
This is credited to all four members, Barrett, Waters, Wright, and Mason. For a Barrett song off their first album I'd suggest "Astronomy Dominé"
If I was doing a film on a lsd trip this is the track I'd use
From the Floyd hit album, Noodling While High.
I don't dislike "Saucer" or "Piper" but they always seemed trippy for trippy's sake. It could very well be that Syd had to leave Pink Floyd in order for me to enjoy them more in the albums that followed.
Back in the 60s & 70s a lot of these were listened to by teenagers and early 20somethings that didn't have the money to spend on expensive stereo equipment. Most listened to this on a mono portable record player. I think that might have mellowed the trip for a lot of people making this a bit more.. palatable.
The bass carried the "melody" if you can call it that. Waters's bass line gave Syd a foundation from which to experiment with the guitar. It's kinda cool because it does kind of give you a sensation of floating in interstellar space. But with the word Overdrive in the title, it seems like it needed to be more fast paced and aggressive. The felt like an experience that influenced a sort of passive musical response as opposed to a piece of music that elicits an experience.
Well said. Roger Waters has come up with many epic and melodic bass lines over the years!
Love The Floyd, especially the stuff with Syd. I think you guys would be great to react to a lesser known band called Gong. Maybe Master Builder or Oily Way. Love that physicodelic stuff.
I seriously want to go to a bar with you guys! And of course talk about music.
Played this song in my band in HS in the late 80s...a real room emptier! LOL! That and Rush's YYZ! Do early Kraftwerk! Autobahn!
Keep it up guys..... top tier reaction..... RIP Syd
Arnold Layne and Bike are my two favourites from this era.
Squee! It's Andy & Alex!
Considering Syd's choice of substances "peak" is a perfect word.
You should listen to the version in the 1966-1967 UFO Tonight Let's All Make Love in London, they use the echo boxes there and it sounds amazing, it's all so freeform and weird. This was actually played twice and the 2nd one was dubbed over the first, creating this storm of sounds. Definitely not his best song to me though, I'd go with Flaming or See Emily Play, hell even Vegetable Man
It's like organized chaos It was awesome I can't imagine a band sitting down and practicing that over and over again and then recording it It sounds like a free form jam maybe they wrote the skeleton of it and just everybody cut loose when they wanted to and then just recorded that I can't imagine being able to reproduce that note for notes in a live concert
You guys should listen to Syd's "Arnold Lane".....more of a hit for the Pink Floyd of 1967....also...."See Emily Play"..... another great Syd tune
Cracked me up when Alex said " there isn't anyone doing this now"!
those suburban mom's in '67 were actually going "Oh my son's on LSD like all the other kids around here"
I know that they have sometimes extended it to up to 1 hour on live performances. I wish I had a recording of one of the longest versions.
“See Emily Play” is the best Syd era song in my humble opinion.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun, is more palatable to the newbie!.
Frank Zappa pokes a bit of fun at Pink Floyd on his album Freak Out.
Few song reactions I'd love to see from ya.. If ya haven't heard these already -
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense
You must hear 'Astronomy Domine' by Voivod, a Quebec band.
I love all the later stuff, but this is a pure acid freak out. Even without the drugs if you really get into it the sound affects start to sound like voices in places. It does take you to some other dimension. I never took acid and listened to this but had I did I might never have come back!
Yeah, think I'm still out there.
Written in 1966 and released August 5 1967, Sergeant Pepper released May 26, 1967. So Sad wrote it first but Beatles released theirs first
It’s hard for bands to jam free form this well.
I saw Gilmour play this at MSG a few years ago. It was awesome, the lights made it look like he was jumping three feet back and forth. Amazing how PF is ending up in some of the biggest pop culture events now. This was in Dr. Strange, we had songs from DSotM in West World, Dune trailer, and now Eternals. Can't wait for more.
I totally agree with Alex (finally).
Def my fav PF song with Syd.
This is my favorite early Pink Floyd song. I like it much more than Echoes, because that bass groove is unforgettable. For context of what made it onto the radio from the band back then, you should do See Emily Play.
Syd was a very adventurous guitarist with some balls to be weirdly creative
For more music in this vein, if you're into it, check out early Hawkwind from this same time period (late-'60s)
Possibly do Ummagumma cover to cover? This is the album that my mom said she would put on when she wanted everyone to leave the party. 🤣
You guys should do ‘bike’ next 😂
Thank God Syd left the door open for Gilmour...
If you watch the movie "Doctor Strange" this song is playing when it crashes his Lamborghini!
Let's get high af,turn the lights off,hit the record button and jam...
Oh. good time to mention - check out the live version of Interstellar that Floyd did with guest guitarist Frank Zappa. 1969.
Check out a little known instrumental from Mr. Floyd called In the Beechwoods.
The first time I heard this was the first time I got dosed with acid, it has been burned into my brain.
Frank Zappa was doing music like that in Sixty seven
Someone really should react to "Several Species of Small Fury Animals Gathered in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
A Saucerful Of Secrets
Astronomy Domine
Obscured By Clouds
Stay
Wish You Were Here
Fearless
Echoes
smoke a joint these will all take you for a ride. listen to the studio version before the live.
Re: "Interstellar Overdrive" vs. "Revolution #9", which came first:
Fun fact: this, and the whole album THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN, was recorded next door to the Beatles when they were doing SGT. PEPPER, and there was some cross-pollination, likely. Namely, the similar endings to both albums; compare the SGT. PEPPER sound-effect fade-out of side-two with the sound effect fade out after "Bike", the last song on PIPER.
A cross between David Bowie Space Odyssey and Neil Armstrong on LSD. With a little 2001 Space Odyssey
It makes "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" seem quite lovely
A & A, this was a really good idea to do this song before doing more of Wish You Were Here. Good thinkin'. I would like to plead with you to listen to the whole Wish You Were Here album all in one shot, rather than just listening to SOYCD Pts 6-9. Please! The whole album flows so incredibly well as one work of art. I don't think Alex will feel as much impact from just doing SOYCD Pts 6-9 by itself. The tracks all segue into each other. Except, of course, between Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar. But even there, the mellowness of the end of WTTM moving into the strong smacking of the first sounds of Have a Cigar is just SO dramatic and well orchestrated that it's also a fantastic, thrilling transition. Please! Please! Please! the whole album!
67 Floyd reactions? There's still many bands to get to 1 on. Television, Kraftwerk, Wire, Stooges, Roxy Music.
You guys should do Marillion - Ocean Cloud. One of the best modern prog rock songs.
You should give a listen to early Chicago’s cut “Free Form Guitar”. Terry Kath at his wildest!
ANDY..... you've got to tell Alex that Syd was only on this album and bits of the next one..... then "Wish You Were Here" is 7 years and 7 albums after Syd left.... !!!!
He knows I think he just misspoke, that’s why I clarified soon after that he transitioned out between piper and saucerful
@@andyandalex Got it.... Loving the content as always
You may not be able to play it but Claypool Lennon Delirium do a stellar version of Astronomy Domine. Check it out on your own.
The Batles & Pink Fliyd, you cannot get any more Polar Opposites, in terms of Songwriting & Production Style. Where to g next with Pink Floyd, Obsecured By Clouds "Free Four", "What's Uh The Deal..." "The Gold It's In...", "Childhoods End".
Just a jump in to the Floyd/Oz comment....
If you play Disney's Fantasia ( ESPECIALLY the scene) BALD MOUNTAIN along with BLACK SABBATH'S / DEATHS CALLING .. It'll blow your mind!!
Jack Osbourne also mention how much of Fantasia matches up w/ Sabbath!
Hope you give it a go?! 🎶🎧
This would be cool!
Try "Be careful with that axe, Eugene" live off "Ummagumma" this time with guitar by Gilmour. This album was released in 1969 and was the final experimental break from the Sid Barrett influence.
Having done a few hits of acid back in the day, I would never recommend it to anyone but if you're going to listen to early Floyd it helps.
Hey guys! A song you both need to check out is In Any Tongue by David Gilmour, from the live at Pompeii concert. I swear, the guitar solo is one of his best, right up there with Comfortably Numb!
Just to be clear, this much more in tune with the free jazz and new music of this era. One of their peer bands, AMM, produced music much further out than this. It is part of it's era, but you can hear amazing covers of this from very different bands. It is something I have listened to over and over again. Now it's time to pull out Careful with that Axe Eugene.
I'm with Alex on this one, but for different reasons. He gave it a B. I do too. B as in THIS BLOWS!