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Post by seamusthesheepdog on Mar 4, 2016 17:51:35 GMT
Anyone here heard The Madcap Laughs or Barrett? What do you think?
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 4, 2016 17:57:48 GMT
Not yet, but I'm planning to listen to them soon. I've heard ' Here I Go' off Madcap Laughs and thought it was grand.
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Gerald The Mouse
Cluster One
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Post by Gerald The Mouse on Mar 4, 2016 20:49:59 GMT
I've heard part of The Madcap Laughs, and I'm going to listen to the rest and to Barrett when I have time.
From what I heard, I liked Here I Go the most.
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 26, 2016 18:54:31 GMT
Currently listening to The Madcap Laughs for the first time. 'Tis quite pleasant, very dreamy.
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 26, 2016 20:47:12 GMT
Well, I finished the album, and I quite enjoyed it. Not as sweet and poppy as Piper, a little darker, more erratic, but still that same Barrett dreamworld. It's not a very sad album altogether, but it made me a bit sad because you could tell he was goin' down. Rather underproduced, but if you know anything about his story it's easy to excuse and in my opinion adds to the vibe.
Presently I like 'Here I Go' the best (but it's the only one I've heard before, so there's that). One of them-- I don't remember which-- sounded very like 'Hey You' or something on The Wall. It was a bit uncanny because, y'know, Pink and Syd. It was a song in which Syd was shouting 'Will you miss me?' (I would.)
It also helped me appreciate how large a part of the Floyd he played, and how much was the other three.
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 28, 2016 2:04:09 GMT
I just listened to Barrett, and while it's overall better-produced (thanks to Dave), I liked Madcap better. Barrett was less Syddy, in my opinion (ironic, considering its title). And the cover of Madcap was cooler 'Effervescing Elephant' was my favourite (and the painterpiper agrees, it was his favourite too). One thing I find interesting about these albums is how low Syd sings. On Piper and the early singles you don't hear him use the lower end of his range so much, at least not that low. But it's an eye ear opener-- I haven't been notewatching that closely, but I think he's is quite possibly a baritone, or at least a low tenor. He sounds like a tenor, as far as his vocal timbre goes, but his range is lower.
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Post by The Lunatic on Jan 7, 2017 13:17:51 GMT
Ummm... Yeah! I just came here to say what I find I've said before And if you think I'm singing, I confess I amn't sure. That sure sounded like a lyric, anyway... Sorry. Back on topic. Anyway, after further listening to the two albums, I've concluded that: Madcap is slightly more depressing than Barrett, because the production is so patchy, half of it sounds like unfinished demos. With the smooth production on Barrett, it kind of eases the raggedness of the songs and vocals, but Madcap is, at times, raw to the extreme. I can see why David felt it was airing dirty laundry rather -- it's at times an almost painful listen, especially the track with the turning of lyric sheets and false starts. The keyboards on Barrett make the album sound like Pink Floyd might have if Syd had stuck around till the early 70s. It's kinda uncanny. I kind of wish Madcap had gotten similar treatment as Barrett, because the songs themselves are really good, they're just hard to listen to. And then we could have a bonus disk of rougher outtakes.
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