Below is the Track Listing of the other 10 Syd Barrett discs:
Disc #11 - Photo CDRom
This is a CDRom that you can browse from home on your PC as if yuou were
on the internet but dont need to be connected to the net! It features many
galleries of Syd Barrett photos for your enjoyment.
Disc #12 Omnibus - Crazy Diamond - VCD
This VCD tells the story of early Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett. Well worth
having in your collection.
Disc #13 VH1 - Crazy Diamond - VCD
This VCD is similar to the one above but there is extra footage like the
American Bandstand performance as well as additional editing of the
programme. Well worth having the two of them.
Disc #14 - Pink Floyd - The Story (1994) - VCD This VCD is similar to the one above but there is extra footage like the American Bandstand performance as well as additional editing of the programme. Well worth having the two of them.
Disc #15 - Let's Try It Another Way
Disc #16 - VCD
Disc #17 VCD
Disc #18 MP3 CDRom
Syd / Pink Floyd OOPS (Out Of Phase Stereo) Mixes-
HYGIY #18
-random notes-
It's damn near impossible to assemble the definitive comp
of Syd covers, so we didn't try. What we have here is a
wide selection of faves and obscuros for every taste. We
have the Okey-Pokey Band (first Syd cover EVER) ripping
through "See Emily Play" and we have Three To One ripping
off the Okey-Pokey band years later. We have a half-
accidental live cover from Tangerine Dream. We have Area
Code emptying out a half-empty Buffalo dive with "Astronomy
Domine." There's a cover of "Echoes," included because...
well, they covered *Echoes*...! (There were *two* covers of
"Echoes" to choose from, in fact. Count your blessings.)
You'll appreciate some, you'll hate some, you'll ignore a
lot of them.
Fine. This is the do-it-yourself volume of HYGIY. Take what you like, load it onto your MP3 player, burn your own CD, whatever. Most songs are by Syd. Others are about him. Others are early Floyd. We're not fussy; this is Casual Day.
Here are comments on a few of the songs, when we could think of something to say. More notes can be found in individual folders elsewhere on the disc. Enjoy.
ACID CASUALTIES:
This California band somehow considered Roger Waters to be
a kindred spirit; they opened their 1985 album "Panic
Station" with this excellent cover of "Point Me At The
Sky." Features Arthur Barrow (ex-Zappa) on keyboards.
No obvious Syd connection but a fine cover nonetheless.
AREA CODE:
An early-1980s "real music" band from Buffalo, NY, playing
"Astronomy Domine" at the now-defunct McVan's on 4/20/81.
McVan's had been the first rock club in the city, premiering
such diverse talents as Little Richard, Foreigner (as Black
Sheep), Hendrix (pre-Experience), Frank Sinatra, John Cale,
the B-52s. At this point it was a punk dive on the skids.
This is the last known instance of "Astronomy Domine" being
played there.
DAVID BOWIE:
This isn't quite on the level of Pat Boone covering Little
Richard, but only because Syd saw a lot of money from it,
enabling him to move to London's fabulous Chelsea Cloisters.
I'm glad this exists, and it's too historic to omit, but
the track hasn't aged very well. It appeared on "Pinups,"
Bowie's oldies-remake album of 1973.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL:
It turns out Marianne is old friends with Roger Waters of
all people. In 1999, she finally got around to asking if
he'd care to donate a song to her new album. He eventually
came up with "Incarceration Of A Flower Child," supposedly
written in 1968 and his first-ever song about Syd. Both
the music and the lyrics suggest he revised it afterward.
Rewriting songs about Syd is something of a hobby with him. ;)
FLAMING LIPS:
America's premier psychedelic band (on a major label anyway),
they've been playing the occasional Syd cover for years. The
earliest we're aware of is their rendition of "Opel" from 1994.
It had been intended for this collection, but they stretch out
the coda for eight minutes... that's great if you're already
a fan, but it wouldn't win them any new ones. Here they are
doing "Lucifer Sam." All well and good, but what you really
want is to run out and buy one of their albums. Any album from
1993 onward will do. Go ahead: buy a Flaming Lips album. All
things will be revealed unto you. We'll wait right here until
you get back.
RON GEESIN:
>From the 1973 "As He Stands" album, this is another of those
no-Syd-but-oh-well. Geesin didn't rate Syd at all but he thought
highly of Waters, enough to record "To Roger Waters, Wherever
You Are." It was too much fun to leave out, so here 'tis.
LaMARQUE JAUNE:
I can't even remember where this came from. I believe somebody
emailed it to me, but it was some time ago. Another fine
version of "Lucifer Sam," more laid-back than many (semi-
acoustic), but retaining that "Secret Agent Man" feel. He
has a track on HYGIY15 as well.
MARC & THE MAMBAS
This is the singer from Soft Cell. His "Terrapin" imagines
it's Burt Bacharach on Mars. Surprisingly it works--for
maybe four minutes. This goes on for 4:18.
NEIL THE HIPPIE:
>From "Neil's Heavy Concept Album," this version of "The Gnome"
is everything one could hope for after having read the liner
notes. (I could never get through them, but dig those horns!)
The OKEY-POKEY BAND & SINGERS:
Their "Flower Power" album was the sort of thing you'd see in
the bargain bin for $1.99 in the drugstore. A concept album:
anonymous session musicians recreate recent chart hits. The
liner notes go out of their way to reassure us there really
is a place for this sort of album. (Would YOU buy an album
whose liner notes are half-apologetic about its very
existence?) All kidding aside, it's reasonably well done.
This sort of LP would do quite well in countries like
Paraguay, where kids couldn't tell the difference. However,
this was aimed at the American market, which makes "Emily"
a curious selection. (Whoever compiled it may have been
connected with Tower Records on some level?)
It's notable for being THE very first known cover of a Syd or
Pink Floyd song. All the tunes on the LP charted in mid-1967,
so this would have been produced a month or two after that.
SHOCKABILLY
The problem with assembling a comp like this is that everybody
does "Lucifer Sam." Even so, nobody does it like Shockabilly.
Nobody ever will. Recorded in 1984, now it belongs to the ages.
TANGERINE DREAM:
"Monolight" (conclusion), from the LP "Encore." Live in
North America, March/April 1977.
The piece takes up an LP side, and this is the end--after
the usual festivites, a piano takes up the main four-chord
theme of "Celestial Voices." The band picks it up from
there, for a pleasant two or three minutes. They don't
get any further than those four chords, but we could count
it as a cover version nonetheless. Homage. The liner notes
to their first LP ("Electronic Meditation," 1969) mention
"Saucerful Of Secrets" as an influence.
THREE TO ONE
What's this??? We thought nobody else even *knew* about
the Okey-Pokey Band. We were wrong. Three To One not only
copped the same crappy album, they stole... errr, they
sampled? they appropriated the Okey-Pokey version of "See
Emily Play" and made it their own. (Just barely.)
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN:
DAVID GILMOUR:
MONKS OF DOOM:
PHISH:
PSYCHIC TV:
R.E.M.:
RED TEMPLE SPIRITS:
SOFT BOYS/ROBYN HITCHCOCK:
ROBYN HITCHCOCK:
SPIRAL REALMS:
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES:
THE THREE O'CLOCK:
TRUE WEST:
TWINK:
VOIVOD:
Disc #10 Apocrypha (length -- 79:51)
Most of these are credited to Syd or Pink Floyd, although if they were REALLY Syd or PF they wouldn't be here. Common sense dictated it was easier to list them as you see them than to put quotation marks around every other word. When in doubt, consult the Liner Notes--SHN copies of this disc come with nine pages of twisted tales, explanations and debunkings.
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