The Madcap Laughs

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|The Madcap Laughs
lign="center" colspan="3"|
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Album by Syd Barrett
lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded colspan="2" valign="top"|28 May 1968 to 5 August 1969
Abbey Road Studios
lign="left" valign="top"|Released colspan="2" valign="top"| January 1970
lign="left" valign="top"|Genre colspan="2" valign="top"|Psychedelic Rock
lign="left" valign="top"|Length colspan="2" valign="top"|37 min 47 sec
57 min 12 sec1
lign="left" valign="top"|Record label colspan="2" valign="top"|Harvest
lign="left" valign="top"|Producers colspan="2" valign="top"|see article
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"|Allmusic.com review valign="top"|4 stars out of 5 valign="top"|link
The Madcap Laughs was Syd Barrett's first solo album after leaving Pink Floyd. After David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd as a replacement for Barrett (In February 1968, it was rumoured he would continue in the band in a "Brian Wilson" role, writing the material behind the spotlights). Altough months later that option wasn't clearly going to be used, Barrett, with his manager Peter Jenner, began working on his first solo tracks on May 13. After lining out the first tracks (of which some were used not before Barrett and Opel) - Swan Lee, Late Night, Lanky, Golden Hair, Rhamaddan and Clowns and Jugglers, Barrett stopped working until April 1969.

After returning, him and Jenner agreed to look at his new compositions more closely instead of revamping old material, and the first new composition, Opel, took nine takes but was left outside Barrett's two original albums. Before meeting the session musicians for the album, Barrett completed Love You (four takes were recorded; the first being the slower, the third the faster and the fourth what would turn to be the main track) and It's no good trying, and using his Zippo-lighter slide technique, Barrett overdubbed Late Night. Terrapin and Golden Hair were also being worked at the time.

Now, with bassist Willie Wilson and drummer Jerry Shirley, Barrett worked on No Man's Land, Here I Go, No Good Trying and Terrapin, before David Gilmour (who was taking growing interest by the later sessions) suggested that he and Roger Waters should produce some tracks of the album. During June and July 26th the Pink Floyd duo worked with Barrett on a three day sprint (as Ummagumma was being mixed at the same time) and days later Barrett would finish recording for The Madcap Laughs.

Octopus was released as a single (released in December 1969), and shortly after the album was released in January 1970, Barrett accepted to make an appearance at John Peel's Top Gear show (the five live tracks appeared as a semi-official bootleg), where all tracks but Terrapin were from upcoming album, Barrett

Track Listing

  1. Terrapin (5:01)
  2. :Take 1, recorded 11 April 1969, overdubs added 4 May
  3. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  4. No Good Trying (3:21)
  5. :Take 3, recorded 11 April 1969, overdubs added 3/4 May
  6. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  7. Love You (2:24)
  8. :Take 4, recorded 11 April 1969, overdubs added 3 May
  9. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  10. No Man's Land (2:58)
  11. :Take 5, recorded 17 April 1969, overdubs added 4 May
  12. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  13. Dark Globe (2:02)
  14. :Take 1, recorded 5 August 1969
  15. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  16. Here I Go (3:21)
  17. :Take 5, recorded 17 April 1969
  18. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  19. Octopus (3:43)
  20. :Take 11, recorded 12 June 1969, overdubs added 13 June
  21. :Produced by Syd Barrett and David Gilmour
  22. Golden Hair (2:00)
  23. :Take 11, recorded 12 June 1969
  24. :Produced by Syd Barrett and David Gilmour
  25. Long Gone (2:46)
  26. :Take 1, recorded 26 July 1969
  27. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  28. She Took A Long Cold Look (1:54)
  29. :Take 5, recorded 26 July 1969
  30. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  31. Feel (2:36)
  32. :Take 1, recorded 26 July 1969
  33. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  34. If It's In You (1:57)
  35. :Take 5, recorded 26 April 1969
  36. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  37. Late Night (3:12)
  38. :Take 2, recorded 28 May 1968, overdubs added 11 April 1969
  39. :Produced by Pete Jenner, Malcolm Jones (overdubs)
  40. Octopus (3:08)
  41. :Take 1 and 2, recorded 12 June 1969
  42. :Produced by Syd Barrett and David Gilmour
  43. It's no good trying (6:22)
  44. :Take 1, recorded 11 April 1969
  45. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  46. Love You (2:28)
  47. :Take 1, recorded 11 April 1969
  48. :Produced by Malcolm Jones
  49. Love You (2:11)
  50. :Take 3, recorded 11 April 1969
  51. She Took A Long Cold Look At Me (2:44)
  52. :Take 4, recorded 26 July 1969
  53. :Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
  54. Golden Hair (2:27)
  55. :Take 5, recorded 11 April 1969
  56. :Produced by Peter Jenner
1The extra tracks present in the CD version (tracks 14 to 19) add about 20 minutes of other takes of the album tracks.

Staff

Producers: Syd Barrett, Malcolm Jones, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Peter Jenner
Session musicians: "Willie" Wilson (bassist), Jerry Shirley (drummer)

 

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