Mixed 17-18 July 2006

I don't idolize Rock Stars, or get caught up in nostalgia trips for music made before I was old enough to read, but there was something uniquely cool and tragic about Syd Barrett, and his recent death touched me. I wrote elsewhere that it was a weird combination of pathos and bathos — the inevitable conclusion of a sad story that most of us had forgotten was still going on.
But then again, who are we to say it's sad? For all I know, Syd Roger led a perfectly nice, ordinary life in the 35 years since he cocooned himself away from the public eye. Meanwhile, other artists were clothing themselves in the butterfly skin he shed, viz.:
(since there is only one file, the start time of each track is shown.)
| 00:00 | Pink Floyd — “Arnold Layne” 7" single (1967) |
| 02:52 | Robyn Hitchcock — “Brenda's Iron Sledge” from Black Snake Dîamond Röle (1980) |
| 05:45 | Pink Floyd — “Lucifer Sam” from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) |
| 08:48 | The Dukes Of Stratosphear — “Your Gold Dress” from 25 O'Clock (1985) |
| 13:27 | Broadcast — “Pendulum” from Haha Sound (2003) |
| 17:35 | Deerhoof — “Spirit Ditties Of No Tone” from The Runners Four (2005) |
| 20:18 | Pink Floyd — “Interstellar Overdrive” from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) |
| 29:37 | Sigur Rós — “Syndir Guos” from Von (1997) |
| 36:59 | Pink Floyd — “Astronomy Dominé” (live) from Ummagumma (1970) |
| 45:10 | Macha — “Visiting The Ruins” from Macha (1998) |
| 53:06 | Pink Floyd — “Bike” (edit) from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) |
| 55:00 | Tones On Tail — “Slender Fungus” from Pop (1984) |
| 58:30 | Syd Barrett — “Rats” from Barrett (1970) |
| 61:21 | Robyn Hitchcock — “Satellite” from Eye (1990) |
| 63:03 | Syd Barrett — “No Man's Land” from The Madcap Laughs (1970) |
| 65:53 | The Fall — “Bug Day” from The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall (1984) |
| 70:45 | Sonic Youth — “Schizophrenia” from Sister (1987) |
| 74:40 | Danielle Dax — “Cutting The Last Sheaf” from Pop-Eyes (1982) |
| 77:42 | Pink Floyd — “Bike” (reprise) from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) |
| 79:08 | Total |
Last Laughs For The Madcap [73MB MP3]