Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)
Barrett....genius
Being a Floyd fan for many years, I never really gave much thought to the original front man. Happened to catch a documentary on Floyd and Barret, and was blown away. Picked up the solo albums, and realised that this man was deeply under-rated. Love this album, it's a must have.
Submitted by KP (Minneapolis, MN, USA) 
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The madcaps keeps laughing
This album almost reaches the brilliance of the first Syd album but sadly lacks the consistency of the last album. It opens with possibly his all time best song 'Baby Lemonade' which contains his best lyric 'In a clock they sent through a washing machine'. These are closely followed by two more classics 'Love Song' and 'Dominoes' but then it all starts going wrong. 'Rats' and 'Maisie' are just messy and unrewarding and 'I Never Lied To You' (which I assume is improvised) is possibly his worst song ever. However there are other gems on this album, 'Gigolo Aunt' is a stand-out track, as is 'Effervescing Elephant'.
Overall, well done, though could have done better. See me for spelling mistakes.
Submitted by a reviewer (Hereford, England)
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More Barrettish brilliance.
Before the genius known forever as Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett withdrew from the public gaze forever, we were left with one more piece of recorded excellence to treasure and reflect on what might have been.
"Barrett" is arguably the better of Syd's solo LP's...although there's not a lot to separate them. Top tracks include "Baby Lemonade", "Gigolo aunt" and "Effervescing elephant" (which apparently was the first song that Syd ever wrote.
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