Our Mini-Syd Barrett-Tribute (MP3s Enclosed)

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Our Mini-Syd Barrett-Tribute (MP3s Enclosed)

Published Tuesday, July 11, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

To honor the passing of Syd Barrett, the founder of Pink Floyd and a major influence on the Elephant 6 Collective, we're offering some MP3s for you to play in remembrance one of the great legends of psychedelic rock. (I'm sure today and tomorrow you'll see many other MP3 blogs doing the same.) Incidentally, the L.A.-based 60's psych-rock showcase She Comes in Colours, which airs every Saturday night on KXLU 88.9 FM 10:30 to midnight PST, will be dedicating this week's program to Syd Barrett, and they promise to play all sorts of rarities. You can stream them at www.kxlu.com. I sincerely hope that all the news items this week about Barrett's influence will get Capitol Records to reissue the first two Pink Floyd albums with bonus tracks and studio outtakes; this band has been bootlegged almost as much as The Beatles.

(1) Pink Floyd: Apples and Oranges - this is the song which inspired Robert Schneider to name his band The Apples (in Stereo)

(2) Pink Floyd: See Emily Play - my personal favorite Pink Floyd song from the Barrett era

(3) Pink Floyd: Lucifer Sam - from Piper at the Gates of Dawn

(4) Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive (full-length version) - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Relics both contain edited versions of this mind-expanding instrumental; here is the epic full-length version

(5) Pink Floyd: Candy and a Currant Bun - for fun, kind of a nutty little track

(6) Syd Barrett: Octopus - a sample from his too-brief solo career, before he went into seclusion