SYD BARRETT "THE MADCAP LAUGHS" UK MINT - with Matrix

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This is a Pristine copy of SYD BARRETT "THE MADCAP LAUGHS.

(I have copied some of writings about this LP, from another listing, for your information)

CAT NO: HARVEST SHVL 765  
MATRIX NOs. ON RUN-OUT GROOVE - side 1 -  SHVL 765 A-2G      side 2 -  SHVL 765 A-2G

TRACK LISTING…
Side 1.
Terrapin 4:04    -   No Good Trying 3:16    -  Love You 2:23    -   No Man's Land 2:57     -  Dark Globe 1:57   -   Here I Go 3:05

Side 2.
Octopus 3:43      -   Golden Hair 1:56      -     Long Gone 2:45    -        She Took A Long Cold Look 1:48        -       Feel 2:13      -     If It's In You      2:22    -   Late Night 3:12

The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by Syd Barrett. It was recorded after Barrett had left Pink Floyd in April 1968.

The album had a chequered recording history, with work beginning in mid-1968, but the bulk of the sessions taking place between April and July 1969, for which five different producers were credited ? including Barrett, Peter Jenner (1968 sessions), Malcolm Jones (early-to-mid-1969 sessions), and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Roger Waters (mid-1969 sessions). Among the guest musicians are Willie Wilson from (Gilmour's old band) Jokers Wild and Robert Wyatt of the band Soft Machine.

The Madcap Laughs, released in January 1970 on Harvest in the UK, and on Capitol Records in the US, enjoyed minimal commercial success on release, reaching number 40 on the UK's official albums chart, while failing to hit the US charts. It was re-released in 1974 as part of Syd Barrett (which contained The Madcap Laughs and Barrett). The album was remastered and reissued in 1993, along with Barrett's other albums, Barrett (1970) and Opel (1988), independently and as part of the Crazy Diamond box set. A newly remastered version was released in 2010. It is now considered as one of the most influential albums of its era and has proven to be a massively collectable and rare vinyl.

After Barrett left Pink Floyd in April 1968, Peter Jenner and Andrew King, from the band's management, followed suit. In May, Jenner led Barrett into the then-named EMI Studios, on Abbey Road in northwest London, to record some solo material, only part of which would later appear on The Madcap Laughs. Jenner thought Barrett would like to finish the tracks that Jenner transferred the previous October, Barrett on the other hand, had other plans. During these first, tentative sessions, Jenner failed to properly record any vocals at all, for the tracks "Golden Hair", "Late Night", "Clowns and Jugglers" (later retitled "Octopus"), "Silas Lang", or "Lanky (Parts One and Two)". After recording had resumed in June and July, progress continued on these tracks, especially "Swan Lee", and a new, improved version of "Clowns and Jugglers" was taped at this point also.

"Octopus" was released as a single in November 1969 and The Madcap Laughs followed on 3 January 1970. The album was released by Harvest in the UK, while in the US it was issued by Capitol Records. It sold 6,000 copies in the first few months and reached number 40 in the Uk, where it was fairly well-reviewed by music critics. Upon release, Gilmour said: "Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like. But perhaps we were trying to punish him ..."  Waters was more optimistic, declaring Barrett a "genius". Initial sales and reaction were deemed sufficient by EMI to sanction a second solo album.

Barrett later said of the album: "I liked what came out, only it was released far too long after it was done. I wanted it to be a whole thing that people would listen to all the way through with everything related and balanced, the tempos and moods offsetting each other, and I hope that's what it sounds like." In a bid to increase sales, Jones wrote a letter to music magazine, Melody Maker, under an alternate name, writing how great the album was.