Nick Mason picks out the best Pink Floyd songs by Syd Barrett
Some gems from Pink Floyd’s early psychedelic era.
Syd Barrett
The Pink Floyd era David Gilmour called awfully bad: “Incredibly undisciplined”
The sound of everything falling apart.
“Perfect”: the album David Gilmour says will make anyone love Pink Floyd
Getting used to prog rock brilliance.
The song that inspired Weyes Blood to be a musician: “It was so out there and dreamlike”
The musical awakening moment.
When Syd Barrett called his former Pink Floyd bandmates “rather unexciting people”
“Rather unexciting people, I would’ve thought, primarily”.
The Syd Barrett song that Roger Waters “gets chills just talking about”
“It was so weird and crazy.”