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	The Madcap Laughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Madcap Laughs was Syd Barrett's first solo album after being replaced by David Gilmour in Pink Floyd for his erratic behaviour.
		One of the features of the album was that Syd's songs were often recorded beforehand with him and his acoustic guitar, with Barrett completely skipping and adding beats at will (much to the frustration of the session musicians who had to follow the unpredictable recordings).
		Still, despite the sometimes raw quality, The Madcap Laughs stands as a highly inventive album, full of melody and playfulness, though underscored by a sense of personal torment that makes the listener feel almost guilty for enjoying the recording.
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	Madcap Laughs: Mick Rock Photo-Sessions -- 1993
		Fields discovered the flat that would later feature on the cover of "The Madcap Laughs", but it was the more affluent Barrett who signed the lease.
		He would be laughing and telling us a joke one minute and then suddenly go back to his land of never-never.
		Barrett's first solo LP The Madcap Laughs was released a few months later in January 1970 and by then his mental condition left much to be desired.
	www.luckymojo.com /barrett/refs/9300ufo.html (4317 words)

	Syd Barrett - 'The Madcap Laughs'
		The startling colour images were taken in a single two-hour session in the autumn of 1969 in the spartan bedroom of Syd Barrett's Earls Court flat in London.
		His enigmatic half-Eskimo girlfriend Iggy was in bed with him and it is her striking figure that is seen in the background of many of the Madcap pictures.
		And that is almost the end of the story of the pictures that adorn The Madcap laughs.
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	SYD BARRET — ( Madcap Laughs Album ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
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	Floydian Slip(tm) : The Pink Floyd Experience > Albums > Syd Barrett > The Madcap Laughs
		Work on "The Madcap Laughs," Barrett's first solo album, began at EMI's Abbey Road studios on April 10, 1969.
		The version of "The Madcap Laughs" we play on "Floydian Slip"™ comes from the "Crazy Diamond" box set, a U.K. import released in April 26, 1993.
		The box set includes "The Madcap Laughs," "Barrett" and "Opel," and a 24-page, longbox-sized booklet about the recordings.
	www.floydianslip.com /discs/tml.htm (501 words)

	Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs (1970) Reviews - - Hippyland
		‘The Madcap Laughs’ is Syd Barrett’s first solo album and exposes the two things Syd is most known for: interesting musical ideas that got started one of the most important bands ever (if there are indeed some who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s ‘Pink Floyd’) and, well, madness.
		‘The Madcap Laughs’ is far less experimental, actually it is what I would call ‘psychedelic folk’ (but don’t rely on this; I can think of NOTHING to compare this album to!).
		The Madcap Laughs is in my opinion my favorite album of his.
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		THE MADCAP LAUGHS was Syd Barrett's first solo album.
		Although MADCAP is not as lyrically obscure as most of Barrett's work with Floyd, the album nonetheless proves that Barrett could mutate a simple love song ("Love You," "She Took a Long Cold Look") past the realm of the expected into something chilling.
		MADCAP is a rich distillation of the triumph of creativity over self-destruction.
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	Syd Barrett
		The album may theoretically sound like an improvement over Madcap, but the problem is that it "improves" on Madcap in exactly the wrong way.
		It helps considerably that it ends with a song that Syd wrote when he was 12, called Effervescing Elephant, which puts his silly ditty skills on display front and center, but one clear dose of genius does not an album make.
		This is just not the kind of thing that can be taken out on a regular basis and enjoyed by people like me, and I say that as somebody who loves Syd to death as a concept.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Madcap Laughs may be one of the very few glimpses into the mind of Syd Barrett, the original lead man for Pink Floyd, the world will ever see.
		To understand The Madcap Laughs you must understand the state of mind of the artist.
		Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs is quite possibly one of the hardest albums to review.
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	Syd Barrett Reviews
		While outtake recordings that have surfaced have sadly shown much of his psychic dislocation, his two solo albums he released have much idiosyncratic beauty to offer.
		Barrett is the second solo album, joining The Madcap Laughs as a solid representation of Barrett's innate tunefulness and bizarre, surrealist imagery.
		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.
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	TrouserPress.com :: Syd Barrett
		The Madcap Laughs sounds as though it was a difficult record to make.
		Considering the uncommon qualities of The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, this collection of early/alternate/unaccompanied versions and otherwise unreleased material — including "Golden Hair," "Octopus" (then titled "Clowns & Jugglers"), "Dark Globe" (aka "Wouldn't You Miss Me") — make just as cohesive an album.
		None of these tracks shed any new light on Barrett as a person or an artist, but this is a major addition to his slim solo catalogue.
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		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 Dave Gilmour and Rick Wright riding shotgun with him in the studio.
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	Syd Barrett
		Madcap Laughs makes Barrett's marginal functionality obvious, with rambling, occasionally incoherent lyrics, strangely out-of-time backing tracks, and half-spoken, thickly accented vocals that occasionally yelp and howl ("If It's In You") and other times just mumble.
		And the best is saved for last (laughed?) - a joyful little tuba-plus-acoustic guitar romp entitled "Effervescing Elephant." If nothing else, the improved production values here make this the easiest entree to Barrett's work.
		Assembled from alternate takes and unreleased tracks from the Madcap and Barrett sessions, this is actually quite interesting, with Barrett's guitar sounding clearer without the overdubs, and his singing often stronger on what amounts to a bunch of acoustic demos ("Wined and Dined").
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		'The Madcap Laughs' as well as 'The Piper at the Gates' and Syd's other work rest on the laurel of unbridled genius of Syd's lyrics.
		One might call Tom Petty a genius: despite writing the simplest rock lyrics ever to hit a record, his work was accessible and tangible to a huge base of people, hence his success.
		Take away the music and leave Syd with an acoustic guitar, and you have 'The Madcap Laughs'.
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		Wisely, The Madcap Laughs doesn't even try to sound like a consistent record.
		Half the album was recorded by Barrett's former bandmates Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, and the other half by Harvest Records head Malcolm Jones.
		But for that misstep, however, The Madcap Laughs is a surprisingly effective record that holds up better than its "ooh, lookit the scary crazy person" reputation suggests.
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	Making of The Madcap Laughs -- 1982
		[Malcolm Jones' Book "The Making of The Madcap Laughs"] Echoesians: Any historian knows that if you mean to advance your understanding of a specific portion of history, it is extremely important to obtain as many actual facts as possible.
		Legend or otherwise, I was able, in a modest way, to be able to assist Syd in recording some of his best remembered solo recordings (I produced the first 'Madcap Laughs' sessions amounting to half of the album).
		It is these sheets which, as producer for Syd, I kept and have used for the section relating to 'The Madcap Laughs'.
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	The Madcap Laughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Buy this album if you want a good laugh at the expense of someone whose inherent instability was pushed over the edge by a diet of good strong mind-altering drugs.
		Oh yeah, THE MADCAP LAUGHS, Syd Barretts first solo project.
		This was recorded shortly after he was kicked out of Pink Floyd, the band which he founded, due to the fact that he was completley out of his mind on LSD.
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		The main aim for the Barrett sessions was to give Syd the structure and focus many felt was missing during the long and unwieldly sessions for The Madcap Laughs.
		In addition, with the unpredictability and at times despairing nature of Madcap greatly decreased, the rigid format of the new sessions ended up giving Barrett a less inventive flavor, as a result.
		UK version (with bonus tracks not found on the domestic U.S. version), of what is largely considered to be a companion album to The Madcap Laughs and Barrett.
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	Floydian Slip(tm) : The Pink Floyd Experience > Albums > Syd Barrett > Barrett
		The "Barrett" album, like much of "The Madcap Laughs," was produced by David Gilmour, who also played bass on the project.
		(1974's "Syd Barrett" double album was a reissue of "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" —; the first time that material was made available in the United States.
		"Opel," released in 1988, was simply a collection of the many alternate takes and unreleased material that came out of "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" sessions.) A failed attempt at a third album in late 1974 involved a few days of unproductive sessions, before the project was scrapped.
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	Malcolm Jones Interview, Producer of Syd Barrett's Madcap Laughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Not only was he responsible for producing the solo sessions, he also took the time and trouble to document “The Making of The Madcap Laughs” in a booklet of the same name.
		Malcolm was digging through folders and assorted bits of paper, like an envelope with Jerry Shirley/Willie Wilson's addresses on that he wrote when they turned up during the Madcap sessions.
		The recording sheets were like the one at the beginning of the Making of The Madcap Laughs.
	www.brain-damage.co.uk /interviews/mjonesiv.html (3251 words)

	The Madcap Laughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ive heard Skip Spences album OAR several times; in comparison to MADCAP LAUGHS, its musically richer and grounded in something closer to his peers.
		But somehow Syd Barretts music has a charm that the other loonies of rockdem lack: Its kind of childish, it is kind of love-lorn, sort of romantic tipping back into the tragic.
		Like finding an old record in your grandmothers attic and listening to it constantly - a sonic snapshot of a few random moments that will never be again.
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	Individual Album Reviews :: B [www.progweed.net] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Essentially a document of the disintegrating psyche of rock and roll’s most famous acid casualty, former Pink Floyd leader Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs is an appropriately fractured and obtuse work.
		The tone is more detached and self-satisfied, even sardonic and condescending (“The madcap laughed at the man on the border”), yet obviously rife with the same mixture of whimsy and biting pop genius one would expect from the brains behind Piper.
		The fuzz guitar of “No Man’s Land” is sublime, as is the maddening, irresistibly tuneful trip-account of “Octopus,” and the surprisingly tender psychedelic ballad “Golden Hair.” The Madcap Laughs is undoubtedly an inconsistent listen, but that’s really half the fun.
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		Amazon Review - Madcap Laughs, Syd Barrett CD A delightfully ragged and low-key solo debut from the man who in his previous incarnation was the leader and founder of the space-rock outfit Pink Floyd.
		Despite his role in that band, he was kicked out for erratic behavior, and, after a brief hiding-out, he returned to the studio to knock out this collection of pop-folk-psychedelic gems.
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	Adrian's Album Reviews : Syd Barrett
		'Barrett' doesn't have as many highpoints as 'Madcap', and a few songs are hardly essential pieces of Barrett, were it not for the fact he never really recorded again.
		The title song, a song unjustly overlooked for inclusion on 'Madcap' - lost in the shuffle according to producer Dave Gilmour, is simply glorious.
		Yes, there are similarities between "Madcap Laughs" and "OPEL" butI still think OPel stands alone as a decent album all together as original as any one of his other two releases.
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