The Madcap Laughs

by Syd Barrett

The Madcap Laughs cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 January 1970
  • Label: Harvest
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:47
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following his tragic dismissal from Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett's debut solo album was painstakingly assembled with the help of David Gilmour and Roger Waters. 'The Madcap Laughs' is a wonderfully surreal, deeply idiosyncratic psychedelic folk classic, balancing incredibly raw, highly abstract acoustic meanderings with profoundly lonely, beautifully bittersweet and cryptic poetry.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, idiosyncratic, unpolished, acoustic, literary, male-vocals, eccentric, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Terrapin (5:04)
  2. No Good Trying (3:26)
  3. Love You (2:30)
  4. No Man's Land (3:03)
  5. Dark Globe (2:02)
  6. Here I Go (3:11)
  7. Octopus (3:47)
  8. Golden Hair (1:59)
  9. Long Gone (2:50)
  10. She Took a Long Cold Look (1:55)
  11. Feel (2:17)
  12. If It's in You (2:26)
  13. Late Night (3:11)

Credits

  • Syd Barrett - primary artist, composed by, lyrics by
  • Hipgnosis - design [cover], photography by
  • Jeff Jarratt - engineer
  • Michael Sheady - engineer
  • Peter Mew - engineer
  • Phil McDonald - engineer
  • Tony Clark - engineer
  • James Joyce - lyrics by
  • Mick Rock - photography by [cover]
  • David Gilmour - producer
  • Malcolm Jones - producer
  • Roger Waters - producer

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