Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs - 37m 55s

Tracks & Durations

1. Terrapin	5:04
2. No Good Trying	3:27
3. Love You	2:29
4. No Man's Land	3:03
5. Dark Globe	2:02
6. Here I Go	3:13
7. Octopus	3:48
8. Golden Hair	2:00
9. Long Gone	2:50
10. She Took A Long Cold Look	2:06
11. Feel	2:36
12. If It's In You	1:57
13. Late Night	3:13

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Review

Having left Pink Floyd in 1968 after a daily LSD habit had taken its toll, Syd Barrett's first solo album finally appeared two years later with ex-Floyd sidekicks David Gilmour and Richard Wright riding shotgun with him in the studio. The Madcap Laughs is a brilliant but brittle album, with every strum of the electric guitar seeming to take its toll on Barrett's increasingly frayed nerve strings. On songs such as "Love You," his state of mind is well concealed beneath the sort of jolly jangle-pop Blur would later indulge in. On "Dark Globe," however, the strain is palpable: "Please lend a hand ... won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?" he pleads, ominously. The best tracks are "Octopus," which possesses all the controlled mania of early Floyd, and "Golden Hair," a still moment of musical rapture whose lyric is taken from a James Joyce poem. --David Stubbs

Other Versions

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The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 37m 55s

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 37m 49s (-1m 54s)

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 38m 44s (+0m 49s)

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 17 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 50m 2s (+12m 7s)

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 19 (+6 tracks), Disk length: 57m 14s (+19m 19s)

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 19 (+6 tracks), Disk length: 57m 35s (+19m 40s)

The Madcap Laughs

Tracks: 20 (+7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 14m (+36m 5s)

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