Syd had it, even when he didnt, Syd at his his worst is still better than anything off Dark Side or WIsh You Were, Syds musical appeal is that it lays somewhere between a garage rock anyone can do it approach and absolute conceptual noone can touch him genius.

@Syfoll

5 жыл бұрын

Shut the fuck up

@vladdrakul7851

4 жыл бұрын

@@Syfoll What a vile comment. Who the hell do you think you are?? Do you own this site. Are you God's anointed one. You don't even make a point just act like a football hooligan in print and verbally assault someone for an opinion on a song!!. Why don't YOU go and fuck yourself DOUCHE!.

@LosHuxleys

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@scottmooneyham5521

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, yeah, yeah-ah yeah

@emilyoshiro

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!

Totally agreed . Vegetable man was the first punk song ever . But a punk song will never has lyrics like this . Syd was tooooo goooood

Syd was born on this day. Stars that shine do not fade into darkness.

Syd gets inside a spider and rides an octopus

Syd is a mad genius. Legendary just like Lennon, Hendrix, Hunter Thompson, etc

@jenniferbeck2108

4 жыл бұрын

I want to LOVE This comment but only get to "like" here on youtube..... ♥

Syd was a poet of the invisible.

Fucking hell, this song messes with my head! XD

Syd Barrett + E chord =

I'm confused as to how this shows any disintergration. According to his own description of this song it's essentially a poem. He always loved to play with words. This song is in the same style as his earlier works with the Floyd. Everyone playing into the whole "he couldn't control his own mind" bull. He very well could and DID, just not in the best of ways. When he wasn't high he was all there, alright - so says EVERYONE but Gilmore, of course. Syd was emotionally unstable but not insane.

@Sandwich13455

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, he was doing concerts 4 years after being pushed from the band!

@stefaniecarter3721

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful mind🌞

@ge2623

3 жыл бұрын

And they always said john lennon was a wordsmith.....which he was ( And i LOVE the beatles) but compared to Syd.....he was a HACK

@BiffChunksteak

3 жыл бұрын

This is a solid song imo. Typical Barrett in that the individual instruments' scores all seem very disjointed and dissonant and other words that start with dis and indicate the opposite of coherent or euphonic, but when they are put together they're clockwork. Also typical is how the rhythm seems to skip. He was a pretty decent songsmith.

@ThisisNOHA

2 жыл бұрын

@@ge2623 If you took the lyrics of Rats and wrote John Lennon's name at the top, you'd have entire books fawning over its staggering genius (see also Octopus).

i've probably heard Madcap Laughs a couple dozen times. my first time listening to this album i'm impressed, because the documentary of syd barrett seemed to favor the madcap sessions over this better produced one. BUT DAMN, this song reminds me of the Magic Band, in the best way, similar feeling to the captain.

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

skinnydoggyz, Magic Band for sure. Crazy rhythms. Seat of the pants stuff. I have been a long time fan of this album, some hate it. I don’t care. I saw Dweezil Zappa and his band in February. That was an intense and stunning performance. They played Hot Rats in its entirety and all the live Zappa classics.

@Claytone-Records

3 жыл бұрын

Johan Hansén, Was it not AWESOME.! They wore my ass out.

@Valientlink

Жыл бұрын

Barrett would have been better if the other members didn't hijack it. Rats on Opel is SO much better

This song reminds me of a confusing high school winter.

This song is bad ass....love the little guitar licks in between everything....such a catchy song

Syd did not have the problems attributed to him as being mad ,he may have had some problem But his ability as a writer and arranger shines thru , he lived in a world of words and music We all miss syd

Syd Barrett; You Rock!!

Fuck the CRITICS THIS ALBUM IS MY FAVORITE PINK FLOYD LP WITH SYD. Syd's creative GENIUS peak! 'RATS; RATS, LAY DOWN FLAT, YES YES YES, lay down flat!!'

Can this song get out of my head please?

@NimrodelMirage

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday Mr. Barrett 🖤🥳

The way the drummer has trouble making sense of the song is so typically Syd.

@crisprtalk6963

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Shirley

@jamesbuntin1541

4 жыл бұрын

Mason would have got it, shame he didn't help.

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

James Buntin, It is great having a drummer friend. I am fortunate as I have crazy rhythm.

@Felipe-nh5tg

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@marcsalzman8082

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree with your analysis of Jerry Shirley's percussive work on Syd's "Rats". It was obviously different than Humble Pie,

How some songs never get forgoten!

there are fantastic elements to syds later works. i imagine that the sounds he hears in his head are much more elaborate and flowing and that they don't quite the flow no matter what medium he would have used to create them. not like i think this is bad. i just think that if there was a way to transmute brain activity into music straight away, from one persons mind into a computer program or something.... that syd would be able to come up with the best stuff around

I keep waiting for Barrett to repeat the chorus at the end of the song but he doesn't. It's still an incredible song, though.

reminds me captain beefheart. great song.

@prod6mill.512

8 жыл бұрын

was just thinking that

@mickaelprevost273

7 жыл бұрын

2 capricorns, 2 genius.

@lo0ksik

7 жыл бұрын

what if they were psicians

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6 жыл бұрын

2 capricorns. 2 GOATS. Captain Beefheart: GOAT Greatest Of All Times in Rock music. Syd Barrett: GOAT Greatest Of All Times in Folk Music.

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

Sheriff Lophophora, That is wild, Goats. I am nothing but Fish.

Just because one is a few boards short of a barn, or a bit under the weather moodwise, does not mean one can't still, musically speaking, raise the roof rocking. I give you 'Maisie', 'Effervescing Elephant' and 'Dark Globe', all from Mr Barretts post-diagnosis canon, in evidence, and bid you goodnight, good Sire. Truly, Buzz Killington.

"Got it hit down ..." *And then I don't remember anything about my first acid trip.

I always thought the song opened with, Got it hit down his head bit off by a spider. says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

@sergioomaraltuna7341

3 ай бұрын

Oooo

@fmxkool I agree- they are, and I love those albums. its not the obscurity of the Barrett recordings I love but the pockets of sheer genius contained within in them.

Got it hit down Spot knock inside a spider Says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" Says: "That's love, all know it TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" Like the fall that brings me to I like the fall that brings me to I like the cord around sinew I make a cord around sinew Duck, the way to least is less Tea craving of the metal west 'ell tomorrow's rain and test 'ell tomorrow's rain and test Love an empty son and guess Love an empty son and guess Pimples dangerous and blessed Heaving, arriving, tinkling Mingling jets and statuettes Seething wet we meeting fleck Seething wet we meeting fleck Lines and winds and crib and half Each fair day I give you half Of each fair day I give you half I look into your eyes and you, Flathe in the sun for you Bam, spastic, tactile engine Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham I'll have them, fried bloke Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle Sploshette moxy, very smelly, Cable, gable, splintra, channel Top the seam he's taken off Rats, rats lay down flat We don't need you, we act like that And if you think you're un-loved Then we know about that Rats, rats, lay down flat! Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!

♥♥ Syddie♥♥

This songs so dope lol love it

Allways the nr 1 SYD

2:18 sounds like the doors kind of. best part of the song, also the most musical part of the song...

Cold, falls, fluids and smalls got under rain and slipped off the walls.

@Garrysullivanjones

5 жыл бұрын

Diana Loginova I hear that the last bit jangly

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....Superman

i was right the first time i listened to this it was a wednsday

So deeply poetic ❤

well described ease please me brilliant and bizarre

In all of the billions of years and more since the universe has existed there will never be anything ever again like Syd Barrett's music. It's like he had seven senses and it lead him to experience the other dimensions that are not exposed to human kind as we know it because we only have five.

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6 жыл бұрын

His Third Eye was burning...

@Syfoll

5 жыл бұрын

Pink Floyd's music. With or without him. They are all amazing.

@makenoises Finally someone says this rock and you didn't say something like this is too depressing or this isn't even music or singing...thank you for being different! :)

KING PSY

Great

Questa è poesia

that's right bitches this is love!

@animesocialgreengodgamingn7826

4 жыл бұрын

Snitch 😍

You better lay down. Make no mistake.

This song would've sounded awesome with full Floyd treatment and a few lyric adjustments, it's got a discordance that makes sense, it moves and gathers pace.

"Love and empty son and guess."

@curtgobra8319

Жыл бұрын

does he sing that?

@Sandwich13455

Жыл бұрын

Guest

Syd Barrett => First Punk.

@freddiesimmons8730

5 жыл бұрын

No

@Syfoll

5 жыл бұрын

Research more you dumb fuck

@vladdrakul7851

4 жыл бұрын

ACID PUNK YES. BUT THAT FREAKY FREEDOM GENIUS IS THE TRUE HIPPIE SPIRIT NOT THE FUCKWIT Fashionistas' and MSM myths. See Lennon, Morrison, Hendrix, Parliament Funkadelic, VLEVET UNDERGROUND. IGGY and the STOOGES. !FREAKS WITHOUT RESTRAINT = PUNK. I AM AN ACID HIPPIE PUNK! I was a skin head on acid in the early 80s! LAY DOWN RATS!

@DieterTews

7 ай бұрын

This have nothing to do with punk you dumb

[12 April 2021] Oh, this must be the real *MUTANT BLUES* that I did dimly strive towards. Have I really given it up now, to sing (and listen to) the mutant pop?

This song would have fit onto any Floyd album from the 60s.

@kalikristos8693

8 жыл бұрын

+Wil Hobbs Too good for Floyd to do it credit. They never could adequately convey the subtle nuances and complexity of Syd's unique way of delivering the goods. Waters tried, after Syd left, but only managed to sound gloomy. When he wasn't drawing on how much he wished Syd was there, he was sobbing about Daddy not coming home from WWII. Gilmour was capable enough, but had a much narrower scope than Syd, and to be fair, he never tried to emulate anything other than his own style. But when Roger got all prima-donna and litigious with everyone, it all got far too deeply mired in nasty pointless bullshit. Like there wasn't enough fucking money to go round? I hope the mopey cunt is thoroughly ashamed of instigating that ugliness. It tainted everything that came afterwards. TYou can't just shrug off stains like that Roger. Still, props for the good stuff, and everything.

@wilhobbs207

8 жыл бұрын

+Kali Kristos Absolutely agree with you. Waters even kicked Richard Wright out of the band. Said that he didn't contribute anything. Then hired him back as a session player and paid him scale! I lost all respect for Waters after that.

@BiffChunksteak

5 жыл бұрын

@@kalikristos8693 it explains his recent attempts at becoming thrift store bono.

@raunaqbedi2852

5 жыл бұрын

Kali Kristos u so true none of theband members had sys charisma his timing Nd yeahrogers lyrics r so gloomy would rather listen to bike nd vegetable man any day nd b enthralled by syd unpredictable sense

@Syfoll

5 жыл бұрын

@@kalikristos8693 Why must Syd fans be so retarded?

He is a modern blues musician.You wouldn't tell John Lee Hooker that he is couldn't play in time or tune, right?

Subbed

🐰🇺🇸🎤🎸🐰01-24-20friday. *VIVE SYD*

Hey babe Sarah, Thats love yeah....

Yup. He's nuts.

05-12-20tue/fri🐰🎸🇺🇸🎤🐰. *BEAUTEOUS MAGUS*

rad

Pats pats hungry stats, had your crisp shirt now shut up, eat hats!

Idk but i think the lyrics might be inspired by his feelings towards his ex band mates. For example, the way he says ''rats, rats lay down flat we don't need you, we act like that and if you think you're un-loved then we know about that... rats, rats, lay down flat! yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!'' sounds a bit suspicious.. just a thought so feel free to disagree

@jeffstewart9622

8 жыл бұрын

Syd at his worst is better than Floyd at their best

@gromitpesley

8 жыл бұрын

Could be, I also wonder about the "I make a cord around sinew". It means to hang someone. Sinew is a type of muscle in the neck.

@alexalex-fp2fo

8 жыл бұрын

its very possible!

@arf410

8 жыл бұрын

They were all on this album, so I kind of doubt it.

@raunaqbedi2852

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Stewart how true moment i start time by roger waters think of dynamic bike by syd

I love this stuff from syd shame he was ill and the lsd probably made his condition worse But maybe we would not have so many different songs

probably!! but beefheart is great as well

Nobody knew the Pink Floyd would hit it big with dark side of the moon.syd wanted to go solo. He thought he was the Reason Pink Floyd had success and he was right. But they hung in there without him and after a few albums they hit big with dark side of the moon. Part of Pink Floyd's Mystique is having the madcap in their past

@Leadhead444 you're welcom, i just say the ture.. I apologize for my english but i'm a mexican! Jaja..

1:56 is where this song intensifies!!

how the fuck clever they played here !

All guitar is done by him i am right ??

Splosh at moxie, very smelly

i believe the lyric is 'dimples, dangerous and blessed', not pimples.

@sidarthur8706

7 жыл бұрын

it's clearly pimples

Syd wears a crucifix in part of this video. Was he Christian? God bless Syd Barrett! Love his music.

Idk but i think the lyrics might be inspired by george orwells 1984 for example the way he sais thats love sounds a bit ironic or the thing with the rats and something about a meeting fleck.. just a thought so feel free to disagree

@MissMichSan

7 жыл бұрын

Leon Pascal just a silly fact i was born in 84 im born in the year of the chinese horoscope sign rat. :)

@bignook7168

5 жыл бұрын

Well this was released before the 80's

@Twistedhippy

4 жыл бұрын

@@bignook7168 The book 1984 was printed in the 1940s about the future year 1984. Its a vision of a dystopian version of Britain where a totalitarian government controls its populace with propaganda and constant surveillance.

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

Twistedhippy, And in the movie version the rat was featured in a cage along with Smith’s/John Hurt’s face.

🐰🎤🎸🇺🇸🐰02-13-20thu. *LOVELINESS*

Okay kiddies! Let's all just calm down about what 'theblahman' just said. Okay, let's just breathe in the air... Don't be afraid to care... Okay. Good. My three favourite songs are 'Hey You' 'Any Colour You Like' and 'See Emily Play'. I love all Pink Floyd and all the individual solo stuff. :) Let's just unite under our love of Floyd and not be nasty and call people poser, okay? Be nice, kiddies! Pinkfloydian99 keeping an eye out!

@Syfoll

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

Just let me got out of here... fast!

Syd rats song too true in this dog eat dog world today

Is this the missing piece of Pink Floyd's best Hardrock Album called...?

@MegaRaven100

4 жыл бұрын

*'Barrett'* is the LP. Check it out. A masterpiece! One of Floyd's best LP's.

fuckin nuts

@MissMichSan

7 жыл бұрын

Aztec Martian amazing right.

1:37 hver dag i give you huug , each hver dag i give you huug :D han synger dansk , eller prøver pået :D

I think this is the first punk song in history.

@crisprtalk6963

5 жыл бұрын

Vegetable man is.

@pepeluis6923

4 жыл бұрын

It´s not. Vegetable man is. Greetings

Anyone know why Syd says ‘Paki’ at 2:09

@jagdeepkaul1261

2 жыл бұрын

I caught that too. Therei s never a good time to use that word or any racial slur, period. So I was upset and angry when I heard that, especially when you consider that his girlfriend was part-Inuit and born in Pakistan. I know racism was more open and thrown around more in the 60s/70s so I guess the word wasn't as frowned upon back then, who knows. John Lennon had a song called "Woman Is The N***** of the World" for god's sake, I mean, he wasn't afraid, AT ALL.

This track is from barrett, and by this point, David Gilmour is playing all of the instruments you hear. Syd for vocals and lyrics, thats all.

@HeckTo

4 жыл бұрын

No.

@falsavidahipocresia

3 жыл бұрын

guitar is all by syd

@chadpittman3025

2 жыл бұрын

Sid Sid plays the guitars

@MelchizedekKohen

11 ай бұрын

syd did love song, rats, Masie and wolf pack on his own the rest are gilmour due to him and Richard on on tour with pink floyd in 1970 in the usa

@scottmooneyham5521

10 ай бұрын

That is a lie. Gilmour insisted on Barrett doing the guitar, despite the pain of getting him to play in time, because he did not want to be accused of exactly this - propping him up. Gilmour played bass. Jerry Shirley played drums and Wright on keys. There is no listing on the liner notes because all those guys were under contract to others. Shirley said Syd played absolutely brilliantly on Gigilo Aunt, first take out. Then absolutely could do nothing on the Dominoes lead until Gilmour played the other tracks backwards and that is how you have all the backwards lead.

@MrOCSlim maybe I'm insane too, but I cannot agree - this song is pretty weird, not mad. Listen for example to Stupid Mop by Pearl Jam - is Eddie Vedder in bad mental condition???

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

crossEyedMary69, He is having a Revolution #9? Hmmm...

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Kinda sounds like 2D from gorillaz

haha these lyrics are so far out

It would be a pink floyd song

I completely disagree with you about DSOTM, The Wall, Roger Waters' supposed talent and whether what he created was either amazing or unique...but we differ. You can make your point without shitting on someone else's approach to music or labeling them a 'poseur' with whatever preconceived notions you have about their musical tastes.

jerma reference?????

Geez, you can see the disintegration of his mind in his lyrics. Pretty sad.

@BiffChunksteak

5 жыл бұрын

He often wrote by association. It just seems that now he felt less of a need to tell a linear story about gnomes or bikes or scarecrows or whatever and just kind of jazzed it. I think "Of each fair day I give you half" is a beautiful line.

Demorats!

Well I was enjoying this song until Syd said that word at 2:09, It's never a good time to be using words like that, period. But I hope he meant nothing by it.

@curtgobra8319

Жыл бұрын

i doubt meant anything, i myself was troubled by the line " if you think you're un-loved then we know about that" some reason i thought he meant me

@Sandwich13455

Жыл бұрын

@@curtgobra8319 maybe he'd on about immigration,our own gov hates us,so where are they headed for?and from whence did they came?

@Sandwich13455

Жыл бұрын

Smelly flip flop,you've words for us too like Kaffir!

@curtgobra8319

Жыл бұрын

@@Sandwich13455 oh dont know it might be aliens bro

@Sandwich13455

Жыл бұрын

@@curtgobra8319 damn, you've have opened my eyes.thanks kind stranger.

David Gilmour is a terrible producer and ruined this second take of such an amazing song that had so much potential to be something groundbreaking, exposing the music industry as the rats den it is. Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham.

This is awful. Piper was better than this, but that was childlike drivel more so than not. Here his guitar playing sounds like a kid who never played before & who just learned 3 chords about an hour ago & decided to blend them together. I have to agree with Gilmour. Syds 2 officiall solo releases were really bad & Gilmour said the deno tapes(this shit here) should've been burned.

@MegaRaven100

4 жыл бұрын

You're well named. Utterly clueless. It is a deep, dark and prophetic song. This is word magic. Like Lennon's 'I am the Walrus! but with deep sadness and anger at humans selfish materialism and how angry and hurt he is at his betrayal by his so called friends. Gilmore did NOT say that. Both Albums were great, this LP being the best. At this point 918 like it and you are one of the clueless ELEVEN who don't. Hendrix considered Syd of the the best users of guitar an original. You moron he CREATED the Floyd and continued to influence their best work later. It's brutal soul poetry! And you actually want to burn this genius piece like an ISIS barbarian. 'I don't like or understand this deep POWERFUL art, Burn it!' Yeah the Nazis did that to 'Jewish degenerate art' that is now recognized as modernist brilliance. When they said 'everyone has an opinion like everyone has an asshole' you must have been the role model they were thinking of.

@falsavidahipocresia

3 жыл бұрын

bet you can put something better than this ? empty words and talentless .. keep quiet