forge wrote:Funny, I thought it was the Beatles at first....I had never heard this before. I still can't figure out what I think of it. Right now I'm at a 6....

bluedot wrote:
Just like 'Money' hey?

This song is it, the one that got me interested in PF. Yup I'm kind of old.

Hehe, I was just thinking "Gee, this sounds like an early Floyd tune," and sure enough it is. They were such a trip. I think I preferred this slightly oddball Floyd to the later over-produced, so-full-of-themselves-it-hurt-to-listen Floyd (even though that music was pretty good too, if that makes any sense).

p.s. I was in a Publix supermarket in Boca a few weeks ago and "St. Tropez" came on the Muzak system. I thought I was having a flashback. I think I actually *did* have a flashback actually...

Syd!! Let's get some solo Syd Barrett on RP.

Shesdifferent wrote:

Someone once asked Ringo Starr if he was a Mod or a Rocker. He said, "I'm a Mocker."

Gotta love that harpsichord riff.

This really needs to be followed by 'Go Now'

Whoa, I always thought this was by the Rolling Stones, for some reason. And it was the only Rolling Stones song that I liked!

Dig that organ!!! (pimp)

neoconette wrote:


well du'h

neoconette wrote:
So what, pray tell, is your excuse?

I suppose next we'll need to toss the simple Beatles, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Hank Williams? Some of their music is as simple-minded as it gets. It might have something to do with the time in which it was recorded...

Simple-minded indeed, and decades ahead of everything else. Classic Floyd.

Ah, LSD and madness, how fickle thy inspiration. What was it... tune in, turn on, drop out.

Ridiculous it may be, very LSD inspired yes.....but it's one of my memories from the Mods and Rockers day of the British scene. One of those nostalgia pieces that are good every once and a while.

What a rediculous song! This must be from some drug-induced trance - how else to explain its simple-mindedness?

Ah, but I love Syd, his later apparent insanity is what made early Floyd wonderful. Some of the lyrics are so strange their hilarious. Indeed, a trip back in time, not amazing music.

it's a cool timepeice, but c'mon peeps, this hasn't aged well. It's archeology, and it's cool enough, but you really don't trip to this anymore. Perhaps heretical, but yes, imho, the post Syd Floyd is the one that made the music for the ages.

brighthue wrote:

Oh, yeah, I hear you there. I started off on this stuff, and next thing my mom knew, I was soon into the harder stuff like Hawkwind and Zappa. Total downward spiral from this.

Jimmy86 wrote:
More than a genius a manipulative egomaniac... Without the Floyd he was nothing and viceversa

Shimmer wrote:good point, but even roger waters qualifies as "commercial" compared to syd barrett! roger's lyrics are absolutely tripped out, but musically, his stuff is, obviously, um, commercially palatable. it's dependably very slow and always in 4/4 time, never with any fast or particularly challenging aesthetic moments.

don't get me wrong; i love it! but it ain't rocket science. it's commersh.

jkamm14 wrote:

Interesting idea...

Episode I: Relics, Atom Heart Mother, Saucerful of Secrets
Eipsode II: Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH
Episode III: The Wall, etc

Jimmy86 wrote:

this song isn't about roger waters' genius. it's about syd barrett's genius.

Jimmy86 wrote:

Just say "I like dreary and depressing vomit" and be done with it already.

I was thinking that they shouldn't be allowed use the Pink Floyd name for all of their albums (you know, like Van Halen, but different). So to clarify, I think they should apply some George Lucas-esque revisionist history and call their different permutations the following:

"Pink Floyd: Episode I" (The Syd Barrett Menace)
"Pink Floyd: Episode II" (Attack of Roger Waters)
"Pink Floyd: Episode III" (Revenge of the Gilmour)

It would make things so much easier while shopping for CDs. Just a thought.

Johray63 wrote:
You're right :nodhead:

"Where's the confounded bridge"? What are we talking about? And if it's PF we're talking about, did they steal it from Zep? Or vise-versa?

Sid, no Sid . . . it's all about Gilmour's guitar, if you ask me. THAT's how it's done.

Second best song on this album. IMHO Cirrus Minor is better.
Still love this period of PF

Hannio wrote:

Just say, "I don't understand Pink Floyd", and be done with it already.

Roger Waters is a genius. Proof on Obscurity thru Amused to Death.

This is one of the classics of the psychodelic era and, for me, Pink Floyd's best song by a psychodelic mile.

beelzebubba wrote:

It's not the lyrics, it's the music that expanded my awareness beyond the mundane.