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Exclusive releases by The Beach Boys and Syd Barrett on Record Store Day

– February 24, 2011Posted in: New releases

To support Record Store Day on April 16th, Capitol/EMI will release limited edition vinyl titles from The Beach Boys and Syd Barrett, to be sold exclusively by participating independent music retailers across the U.S.

The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations/Heroes and Villains will be released as a limited edition double 78RPM vinyl single set with the songs’ original single release mixes on one disc and alternate versions of both songs on the other disc.

An Introduction to Syd Barrett will be released as a limited edition, 180-gram double vinyl LP package with gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeves. The collection, executive produced by David Gilmour, was released on CD and digitally in November 2010, bringing the tracks of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett together for the first time on one compilation.

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Syd Barrett – An Introduction to Syd Barrett [Harvest, 2010]

– February 16, 2011Posted in:

Syd Barrett - An introduction to Syd BarrettThe late Syd Barrett was the creative fulcrum of the first line-up of Pink Floyd. While the Floyd embraced the emergent genre of prog-rock after his 1968 departure, Barrett engaged in music far less easy to categorise and with far less commercial success, before drifting into complete inactivity after two albums.

This release compiles together for the first time Barrett tracks from both his Pink Floyd days and his solo career. Previously unreleased 20-minute instrumental Rhamadan can be downloaded by purchasers via a dedicated webpage. This will all go down well with his fan base. Not so likely to provoke universal appreciation is the remixing of five tracks and the overdubbing of a new bass part on one cut by Barrett’s ex-Floyd colleague David Gilmour (although as production member on both Barrett’s albums, if anybody has the right to make the latter call, he probably does).

The six Pink Floyd tracks (which naturally include his two most famous songs, Arnold Layne and See Emily Play) are far smoother than Barrett’s post-Floyd selections but far less likeable, being rather chilly and know-it-all. Solo, Barrett had an erratic charm, demonstrated by Here I Go, a good-humoured denunciation of a girl who had the bloody cheek to prefer big bands to his songs. However, what we now know about Barrett’s psychological deterioration also makes that erratic nature borderline disturbing. His wobbly mental state seems reflected in his melodies, which by now frustratingly wander in and out of catchiness (Love You, Dominoes, Gigolo Aunt). The false starts and the dialogue between Barrett and his producer that begin If It’s in You are symptomatic of the chaotic nature of Barrett’s talent, as is the fact that on the take proper his singing is painfully out of tune.

Barrett has often been bracketed with Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green in that he was the leader of a band that went on to far greater success without him after he became an LSD casualty. Green, though, was infinitely more talented as an instrumentalist, singer and composer. That Barrett would not be as well-regarded as he is if it weren’t for the myth-making seclusion in which he spent the bulk of his life is proven by An Introduction to Syd Barrett, a compilation that is discomforting in more ways than one.

Sean Egan

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. Originally published on BBC Music.

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New Syd Barrett Album with David Gilmour Additions

– August 13, 2010Posted in: New releases

A new compilation album called “An Introduction to Syd Barrett” will be released by EMI on 4th October 2010 in the UK and Europe.

The album features 18 songs by Syd Barrett from his solo albums as well as Pink Floyd.

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Five of the songs have been re-mixed and added to by the album’s producer Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour as well as Damon Iddins and Andy Jackson at Astoria Studios.

The album features brand new artwork by long term album artwork provider Storm Thorgerson.

Pre-order An Introduction to Syd Barrett from Amazon.com

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