Track Listing

1. Octopus
2. Late Night
3. Terrapin
4. Swan Lee (Silas Lang)
5. Wolfpack
6. Golden Hair
7. Here I Go
8. Long Gone
9. No Good Trying
10. Opel
11. Baby Lemonade
12. Gigolo Aunt
13. Dominoes
14. Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)
15. Wined And Dined
16. Effervescing Elephant
17. Waving My Arms In The Air
18. I Never Lied To You
19. Love Song
20. Two Of A Kind
21. Bob Dylan's Blues
22. Golden Hair

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46208 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
The gifted leader of the earliest incarnation of Pink Floyd, and the mastermind behind the peerless psychedelic pop of that group's PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN, Syd Barrett's playful, subtly deranged musical sensibilities inspired an entiregeneration of British songwriters. His brief but inspired solo career, and subsequent retreat into seclusion and obscurity, have only amplified his already considerable popular mystique.
WOULDN"T YOU MISS ME compiles 22 tracks from Barrett's two post-Floyd solo records for EMI as well as a handful of rarities from the outtakes collection OPEL. Though these spare, often chaotic compositions are a far cry from the tightly wound psych-pop of Floyd tracks like "See Emily Play", they are possessed of their own undeniable dark grandeur.Barrett completists will need this collection for its inclusion of the previously unreleased "Bob Dylan Blues".

Customer Reviews

damn those marketing men!
syd barrett is the lost genius behind the first pink floyd album and one of the most original recording artists of the late sixties. as a lyricist, he is without peer, his words never fail to strike a chord and are more poetry than song. this album represents a selection from his output recorded after leaving the floyd. syd was apparently not in good mental health at the time and many of the tracks here are unfinished but no less beautiful for all that.
syd is (did you guess?)one of my heroes, so why the low rating? Well, this is an odd collection which omits some of his best songs whilst including some weaker ones (swan lee, for example) and i would advise buyers to go for either the double cd of the original two solo albums ("the madcap laughs" and "barrett") or the triple cd which couples the afore mentioned with the out takes album "opel" (there's not much to write home about on opel). BUT this album is doubly annoying because it includes the reputedly excellent and long lost track "bob dylans blues" which has never been released before and which i have never heard. AND THAT MEANS I WILL PROBABLY BUY IT AND I HATE THAT!!!
cleverer people than me might be advised to hang back on that though because there apparently exist a few more lost tracks (not to mention the unreleased floyd tracks) and these are bound to come out on another collection soon.

Send a cage through the post..
...a new decade, another repackage. thankfully, the sleeve notes are up to snuff and the research is well done. the selections are the right ones, but as others have stated, the absence of that last fabled missing track, 'living alone', currently in the hands of one david gilmour and the lack of the unreleased pink floyd era 'vegetable man' and 'scream thy last scream' leave us waiting for something a bit more authorative. a nice companion to palacios' 'lost in the woods', though. and if you have never dug into the man's music, now is the time.

Solo Barrett's Best but...
This is indeed a great selection of Syd Barrett's solo material, and if you buy one Barrett album this is it.

However, his best work is what he did with Pink Floyd on their early singles and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" album. The ideal Syd Barrett tribute would include some of this material, as well as the unreleased gems "Vegetable Man" and "Scream Thy Last Scream". Those two tracks are far more interesting than the only previously unknown track included here.

Still, the music is good but this compilation could have been better.