espsummer
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songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 08:22
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I've always thought that there is a special kind of insanity or psychedelia about Piper at the Gates of Dawn which can hardly be touched. Sure there are oodles of variations of psychedelic-ness out there but the purity of a song like "flaming" has a strength that is hard to top.
Strangely i've always thought that one of the closest things i've ever heard to channel that insanity was the Traffic song "house for everyone". I cannot listen to that song without laughing and thinking of how over the top it is. The only thing else i can think of similar at this moment are Mark Wirtz produced songs like "sam" or "weatherman". Sure people like Robyn Hitchcock and even Julian Cope are known for their Syd Barrett-ness but they do not really convey the complete insanity of Syd during the Piper at the Gates of Dawn time period.
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Popel Vooje
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Edited Jul 28, 2014, 14:42
Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 12:50
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"Defecting Grey" by the Pretty Things comes close, but that's probably down to Norman Smith's production as much as it is to the song.
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Sin Agog
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 12:53
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If Barrett were a total sociopath, he may have written The Styrenes' Drano In Your Veins.
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Lawrence
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 15:50
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I think the Michael Yonkers Band is pretty close to anything Syd did.
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MC
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 16:01
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a bit of early Alice Cooper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGUIlThV2s
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MC
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 16:08
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That's a cool song, never heard it before. What's the rest of the Best of America Underground cassette like?
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fat_fleet
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 16:44
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The Dukes of Stratosphear records are pretty close, though more to the entire band than Syd particularly.
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billding68
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 17:24
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Ween had bits of Syd here and there like the song mutilated lips kinda brings his lyrical style to mind.
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Sin Agog
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 19:31
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MC wrote: That's a cool song, never heard it before. What's the rest of the Best of America Underground cassette like?
Couldn't tell ya. Though any cassette that's got Armand Schaubroeck nestling shoulders with R. Stevie Moore, The Residents and Algebra Suicide has to be at least decent. I found that track on a Styrenes comp called It's Still Artastic (an expansion of an earler comp, 'It's Artastic 75-79'). They were part of the the whole Rocket From The Tombs Cleveland crew, but were arguably the sharp, arthouse-movie watching, coffee-sipping, subversive intellectuals of the bunch (with The Dead Boys being the dimwitted doofuses). I think they're probably one of the great unsung Art Rock bands. Also got a wicked Krautrocky treatment they did a few years back of Terry Riley's In C which is my favourite version.
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zphage
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Re: songs that channel syd barrett's pink floyd era
Jul 26, 2014, 19:31
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eps, you are pretty knowledgeable
so I can't imagine there is anything here you have not heard:
Tyrn Around - Carroll By Candlelight
http://youtu.be/aGnooFbSflg
Group 1850 - 1969 - Paradise Now
http://youtu.be/rQAbVS4a9pI
Jason Crest - 1998 - The Collected Works Of Jason Crest
http://youtu.be/YT-V0OOQIw0
JULY - July (1968)
http://youtu.be/8sajg_GFFzM
Holy Modal Rounders - Indian war whoop
http://youtu.be/EUhmXM7sZwQ
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