Barrett de Syd Barrett
Álbum de Syd Barrett
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 14 de Noviembre de 1970
- Sello Discográfico: Harvest
- Compositores: Syd Barrett
- Productores: David Gilmour, Richard Wright
Barrett es un álbum de Syd Barrett, publicado en 1970 por Harvest. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «Baby Lemonade», «Love Song», «Dominoes» y «It Is Obvious».
Introducción: el último vuelo
"Barrett", lanzado a finales de 1970, es el segundo y último álbum de estudio de Syd Barrett. Grabado en un período de tiempo mucho más corto y con un enfoque más estructurado que su caótico debut, el álbum fue producido por su ex-compañero de Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, con la ayuda del teclista Richard Wright. El resultado es un álbum de folk psicodélico más pulido y musicalmente más rico que "The Madcap Laughs". Aunque la naturaleza errática de Barrett sigue presente, la producción de Gilmour y Wright le da a las canciones un sonido de banda más cohesivo. Es un disco a menudo melancólico pero lleno de momentos de una belleza extraña y singular. "Barrett" sería la última grabación oficial de su carrera, un canto del cisne que cerró uno de los capítulos más trágicos y fascinantes de la historia del rock.
El proceso de grabación
Preocupados por el estado de Syd y convencidos de su genio, David Gilmour y Richard Wright decidieron producir su segundo álbum para darle una estructura y un apoyo que no tuvo en su debut. Las sesiones fueron más organizadas, con Gilmour y Wright trabajando pacientemente para construir arreglos alrededor de las a menudo fragmentadas composiciones de Barrett. Gilmour tocó el bajo, Wright los teclados y Jerry Shirley (de Humble Pie) la batería, creando un sonido de banda completo. Pese a la estructura, las sesiones siguieron siendo un desafío, con Barrett a menudo distante y desconectado, pero el afecto y la dedicación de sus ex-compañeros lograron sacar adelante el proyecto.
Un vistazo a las canciones
"Baby Lemonade": Una de las canciones más enérgicas y accesibles del álbum, con un riff de guitarra memorable y una letra surrealista. Se ha convertido en una de sus canciones más conocidas.
"Dominoes": Una pieza de folk psicodélico hipnótica y melancólica, famosa por su solo de guitarra slide tocado al revés por David Gilmour.
Resultados comerciales y críticos
El álbum no logró entrar en las listas de éxitos en el Reino Unido ni en Estados Unidos en su lanzamiento original. La crítica fue en general respetuosa pero tibia, viéndolo como una continuación de su debut pero sin el mismo impacto crudo. Sin embargo, al igual que su primer disco, su reputación ha crecido enormemente con el tiempo. Muchos lo consideran una obra más consistente que "The Madcap Laughs", y es una parte esencial de su pequeño pero inmensamente influyente legado.
Listado de Canciones
- Baby Lemonade4:10
Letra
In the sad town Cold iron hands clap The party of clowns outside Rain falls in gray far away Please, please, baby lemonade In the evening sun going down When the earth streams in, in the morning Send a cage through the post Make your name like a ghost Please, please, baby lemonade I'm screaming, I met you this way You're nice to me like ice In the clock they sent through a washing machine Come around, make it soon, so alone Please, please, baby lemonade In the sad town Cold iron hands clap The party of clowns outside Rain falls in gray far away Please, please, baby lemonade In the evening sun going down When the earth streams in, in the morning Send a cage through the post Make your name like a ghost Please, please, baby lemonade - Love Song3:03
Letra
I knew a girl and I like her still She said she knew she would trust me and I, her will I said, "OK baby, tell me what you'll be And I'll lay my head down and see what I see" By the time she was back by her open eyes I knew that I was in for a big surprise I knew a girl and I like her still She said she knew she would trust me and I, her will I said, "OK baby, tell me what you'll be And I'll lay my head down and see what I see" By the time she was back by her open eyes I knew that I was in for a big surprise - Dominoes4:08
Letra
It's an idea, someday In my tears, my dreams Don't you want to see her proof? Life that comes of no harm You and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by... You and I in place Wasting time on dominoes A day so dark, so warm Life that comes of no harm You and I and dominoes, time goes by... Fireworks and heat, someday Hold a shell, a stick or play Overheard a lark today Losing when my mind's astray Don't you want to know with your pretty hair Stretch out your hand, glad feel In an echo for your way It's an idea, someday In my tears, my dreams Don't you want to see her proof? Life that comes of no harm You and I and dominoes, the day goes by And by, and by... - It Is Obvious2:59
Letra
It is obvious May I say, oh baby, that it is found on another plane? Yes I can creep into cupboards, sleep in the hall Your stars, my stars, a simple cock bar Only an impulse, pie in the sky Mumble listen dolly Drift over your mind, holly Creep into bed when your head's on the ground She held the torch on the porch She winked an eye Reason it is written on the brambles Stranded on the spikes, my blood red, oh listen Remember those times I could call Through the clear day Time be there Braver and braver, a handkerchief waver The louder your lips to a loud hailer Growing together, they grow to each either No wondering, stumbling, fumbling Rumbling minds shot together Our minds shot together So equally over a valley, a hill Wood on quarry stood, each of us crying A velvet curtain of gray Mark the blanket where the sparrows play And the trees by the waving corn stranded My legs move the last empty inches to you The softness, the warmth from the weather in suspense Mote to a grog, the star a white chalk Minds shot together, our minds shot together - Rats3:00
Letra
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! - Maisie2:51
Letra
Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, Maisie... bad luck, bride of a bull strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light Maisie, his illuminous grin put her in a spin Maisie, lay in the hall with diamonds and emeralds Maisie, Maisie... bad luck - the bride of a bull Maisie lay in the wall with her emeralds and diamond brooch, beyond reproach bad luck - bride of a bull strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light... Maisie! - Gigolo Aunt5:46
Letra
Grooving around in a trench coat with the satin entrail Seems to be all around in tin and lead pail, we pale Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the gray Seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day! Will you please keep on the track 'cos I almost want you back 'Cos I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Heading down with the light, the dust in your way She was angrier than, than her watershell male Life to this love to me, heading me down to me thunderbird shale Seems to be all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day! Will you please keep on the track 'cos I almost want you back 'Cos I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day Some wish she move and just as she can move jiving away She made the scene should have been-superlative day Everything's all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day! Will you please keep on the track 'cos I almost want you back 'Cos I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! - Waving My Arms in the Air2:09
Letra
Waving my arms in the air Love, my love, got no care No care, no no Pressing my feet to the ground Stand up right where you stand Call to you and what do you do? Laying back in a chair? She's so high on the air She's so high on the air Half and half, half and half All you have to do to call Is hold her hand, stand a while And then smile and we'll understand Yes we do, yes yes we do. Oh what a girl I've got too Oh what a girl I've got too With her slinky look she held her tie to her hair And I could see everywhere No one in the land, no one No one in the land, no one But it rains on Saturday Cats and dogs in the hay Stormy day, hey hey And you shouldn't try to be what you can't be You shouldn't try to be what you can't be Call to you and what do you do? - I Never Lied to You1:50
Letra
There will be shoulders pressing in the hall and I won't know if you're here at all there will be wine and drinking in the yard There won't be anybody very hard There will be lots of things that we can do And all and more will be for you Everything I knew I tried with you But everything to you was never easy So I went ahead around my world I saw the things you do arriving by your side To see you looking too But I know this, I know, I never lied to you It's been just like you're gone For just one day for so long It's been so hard to bear with you not there But though I think of you, the things you do When I'm with you To be with you, to be alone...can only think "Why I am here? What's meant to be?" - Wined and Dined2:58
Letra
Wined and dined Oh it seemed just like a dream Girl was so kind Kind of love I'd never seen Only last summer, it's not so long ago Just last summer, now musk winds blow Wined and dined Oh it seemed just like a dream Girl was so kind Kind of love I'd never seen Only last summer, it's not so long ago Just last summer, now musk winds blow Wined and dined Oh it seemed just like a dream Girl was so kind Kind of love I'd never seen Chalk underfoot, life I should prove Dancing in heat, our love and you Wined and dined Oh it seemed just like a dream Girl was so kind Kind of love I'd never seen - Wolfpack3:41
Letra
Howling the pack in formation appears Diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead Waving us back in formation The pack in formation Bowling they bat as a group And the leader is seen so early The pack on their backs, the fighters Through misty the waving, the pack in formation Far reaching waves on sight, shone right I lay as if in surround All enmeshing, hovering The milder I gaze All the animals laying trail Beyond the bough winds Mild the reflecting electricity eyes Tears, the life that was ours Grows sharper and stronger away and beyond Short wheeling, fresh spring Gripped with blanched bones moaned Magnesium, proverbs and sobs Howling the pack in formation appears Diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead Waving us back in formation The pack in formation - Effervescing Elephant1:52
Letra
An Effervescing Elephant with tiny eyes and great big trunk Once whispered to the tiny ear The ear of one inferior that by next June he'd die, oh yeah! Because the tiger would roam The little one said, "Oh my goodness I must stay at home" And every time I hear a growl I'll know the tiger's on the prowl and I'll be really safe, you know the elephant he told me so Everyone was nervy, oh yeah! and the message was spread to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus who wallowed in the mud and chewed his spicy hippo-plankton food and tended to ignore the word preferring to survey a herd of stupid water bison, oh yeah And all the jungle took fright and ran around for all the day and the night but all in vain, because, you see the tiger came and said "Who me? you know I wouldn't hurt not one of you I'd much prefer something to chew and your all to scant." Oh yeah! He ate the elephant