HYGIY 18 contents:
001 360s - Long Gone
002 Acid Casualties - Point Me At The Sky
003 Architectural Metaphor - Echoes
004 Area Code - Astronomy Domine (4/20 1981 McVan's, Buffalo NY)
005 At The Drive-in - Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
006 Awaken - Left Alone (Ballad Of Syd Barrett)
007 Kevin Ayers - Oh! Wot A Dream
008 David Bowie - See Emily Play (1973)
009 Chandeen - Apples and Oranges
010 Changelings - See Emily Play
011 Cleaners From Venus - Song For Syd Barrett (1984)
012 Damned - Arnold Layne
013 Doglegs & Feet - Effervescing Elephant
014 Eden - Jugband Blues
015 Electric Hellfire Club - Lucifer Sam
016 Elevator Through - No Good Trying
017 Marianne Faithfull - Incarceration of a Flower Child (1968 Waters song
about Syd)
018 Faraday Cage - Set The Controls/Storm
019 Matthew Fischer - Octopus
020 Flaming Lips - Lucifer Sam (London 22Jan03)
021 John Frusciante - Jugband Blues (live Paradiso)
022 Ron Geesin - To Roger Waters Wherever You Are
023 Grapes Of Wrath - See Emily Play
024 Half Japanese - Candy and a Currant Bun
025 The Iditarod + Drekka, Ring & Peter Scion - Julia Dream
026 In the Woods - If it's in You
027 LaMarque Jaune - Lucifer Sam
028 Jeff the Hobo - Feel
029 Jesus and Mary Chain - Vegetable Man
030 Lightning Seeds - Lucifer Sam
031 Livid - Love Song
032 Los Planetas - Baby Lemonade
033 Lost & Profound - Dark Globe
034 Love & Rockets - Lucifer Sam
035 Mandra Gora Lightshow Society - Point Me At the Sky
036 Marc & the Mambas - Terrapin
037 Mike McInnis - Effervescing Elephant
038 Melting Euphoria - Point Me At The Sky
039 Melvins - Interstellar Overdrive
040 Minimal Compact - Late Night
041 Moonboy - Matilda Mother
042 Neil the Hippie - The Gnome
043 Okey-Pokey Band - See Emily Play (1st Syd cover version, 1967)
044 Pearl Jam - Interstellar Overdrive
045 Peter Principle - No Man's Land
046 Placebo - Dark Globe
047 Primal Scream - Vanishing Point - Burning Wheel
048 Quasimojo - Late Night
049 Replicants - No Good Trying
050 Ritalin - Scarecrow
051 Shockabilly - Lucifer Sam (1984)
052 Skullflower - Golden Hair
053 Slowdive - Golden Hair
054 Smashing Pumpkins - Terrapin
055 Smell of Incense - (Smell Of) Interstellar Overdrive
056 Soundgarden - Dark Globe
057 Sprout & The Orange - Set The Controls
058 St.Hubbins - 9 Miles High - Light Globe (Syd tribute)
059 Tangerine Dream - Monolight, concl - live Spr77 (Celestial Voices)
060 This Mortal Coil - Late Night
061 Three To One - See Emily Play
062 Wellwater Conspiracy - Lucy Leave
063 Widespread Panic - Astronomy Domine Jam (incomplete)
064 Wondermints - Arnold Layne
065 Worms - A Tribute to Syd
CAMPER VAN
BEETHOVEN:
066 Interstellar Overdrive (1986)
067 Interstellar Overdrive (1986 outtake)
068 Interstellar Overdrive--> Porpoise Mouth (Davis, CA 10Jun87)
DAVID GILMOUR:
069 Dominoes - 18Jan02
070 Terrapin - 22Jun01
MONKS OF DOOM:
071 Let's Split
072 Let's Split (live Austin 1992)
PHISH:
073 Love You (unknown show)
074 Love You (10May91 3rd gen sbrd)
PSYCHIC TV:
075 A Star Too Far (A Lullaby for Syd Barrett)
076 A Star Too Far (1994, Space Daze compilation)
077 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
R.E.M.:
078 Dark Globe
079 Dark Globe (live in Italy)
RED TEMPLE
SPIRITS:
080 Nile Song
081 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
SOFT BOYS/ROBYN
HITCHCOCK:
082 Astronomy Domine (Mar80 London "Two Halves")
083 Vegetable Man (Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ, 06Sep80)
084 Astronomy Domine (Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ, 06Sep80)
085 Gigolo Aunt (live 1980)
086 Vegetable Man (studio)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK:
087 1974
088 Arnold Layne
089 Chapter 24 (live)
090 Dark Globe (live)
091 Dominoes 1
092 Dominoes 2
093 Long Gone
094 Surgery
095 The Man Who Invented Himself (1981 mix with horns)
096 Wolfpack
SPIRAL REALMS:
097 Interstellar Overdrive
098 Interstellar Overdrive (Boulder, CO 30Jul95)
TELEVISION
PERSONALITIES:
099 Bike (live)
100 I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives (live)
101 I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives (original)
102 I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
103 Matilda Mother (live)
104 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
THE THREE
O'CLOCK:
105 Lucifer Sam
106 Afterinbetweentime (fanclub flexidisc, first release as 3 O'Clock)
TRUE WEST:
107 Lucifer Sam
108 maS reficuL (rare 1983 single, 500 made)
TWINK:
109 Psychedelic Punkaroo
110 Psychedelic Punkaroo (live w/Plasticland, 22Oct88 Chicago)
111 You Reached For The Stars
VOIVOD:
112 Astronomy Domine
113 Astronomy Domine (Stockholm 14Oct99)
114 The Nile Song
HYGIY #18
-random notes-
It's damn near impossible to assemble the definitive comp
of Syd covers, so we didn't try. What we have here is a
wide selection of faves and obscuros for every taste. We
have the Okey-Pokey Band (first Syd cover EVER) ripping
through "See Emily Play" and we have Three To One ripping
off the Okey-Pokey band years later. We have a half-
accidental live cover from Tangerine Dream. We have Area
Code emptying out a half-empty Buffalo dive with "Astronomy
Domine." There's a cover of "Echoes," included because...
well, they covered *Echoes*...! (There were *two* covers of
"Echoes" to choose from, in fact. Count your blessings.)
You'll appreciate some, you'll hate some, you'll ignore a
lot of them.
Fine. This
is the do-it-yourself volume of HYGIY. Take
what you like, load it onto your MP3 player, burn your own
CD, whatever. Most songs are by Syd. Others are about him.
Others are early Floyd. We're not fussy; this is Casual Day.
Here are comments
on a few of the songs, when we could think
of something to say. More notes can be found in individual
folders elsewhere on the disc. Enjoy.
ACID CASUALTIES:
This California band somehow considered Roger Waters to be
a kindred spirit; they opened their 1985 album "Panic
Station" with this excellent cover of "Point Me At The
Sky." Features Arthur Barrow (ex-Zappa) on keyboards.
No obvious Syd connection but a fine cover nonetheless.
AREA CODE:
An early-1980s "real music" band from Buffalo, NY, playing
"Astronomy Domine" at the now-defunct McVan's on 4/20/81.
McVan's had been the first rock club in the city, premiering
such diverse talents as Little Richard, Foreigner (as Black
Sheep), Hendrix (pre-Experience), Frank Sinatra, John Cale,
the B-52s. At this point it was a punk dive on the skids.
This is the last known instance of "Astronomy Domine" being
played there.
DAVID BOWIE:
This isn't quite on the level of Pat Boone covering Little
Richard, but only because Syd saw a lot of money from it,
enabling him to move to London's fabulous Chelsea Cloisters.
I'm glad this exists, and it's too historic to omit, but
the track hasn't aged very well. It appeared on "Pinups,"
Bowie's oldies-remake album of 1973.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL:
It turns out Marianne is old friends with Roger Waters of
all people. In 1999, she finally got around to asking if
he'd care to donate a song to her new album. He eventually
came up with "Incarceration Of A Flower Child," supposedly
written in 1968 and his first-ever song about Syd. Both
the music and the lyrics suggest he revised it afterward.
Rewriting songs about Syd is something of a hobby with him. ;)
FLAMING LIPS:
America's premier psychedelic band (on a major label anyway),
they've been playing the occasional Syd cover for years. The
earliest we're aware of is their rendition of "Opel" from 1994.
It had been intended for this collection, but they stretch out
the coda for eight minutes... that's great if you're already
a fan, but it wouldn't win them any new ones. Here they are
doing "Lucifer Sam." All well and good, but what you really
want is to run out and buy one of their albums. Any album from
1993 onward will do. Go ahead: buy a Flaming Lips album. All
things will be revealed unto you. We'll wait right here until
you get back.
RON GEESIN:
>From the 1973 "As He Stands" album, this is another of those
no-Syd-but-oh-well. Geesin didn't rate Syd at all but he thought
highly of Waters, enough to record "To Roger Waters, Wherever
You Are." It was too much fun to leave out, so here 'tis.
LaMARQUE JAUNE:
I can't even remember where this came from. I believe somebody
emailed it to me, but it was some time ago. Another fine
version of "Lucifer Sam," more laid-back than many (semi-
acoustic), but retaining that "Secret Agent Man" feel. He
has a track on HYGIY15 as well.
MARC &
THE MAMBAS
This is the singer from Soft Cell. His "Terrapin" imagines
it's Burt Bacharach on Mars. Surprisingly it works--for
maybe four minutes. This goes on for 4:18.
NEIL THE HIPPIE:
>From "Neil's Heavy Concept Album," this version of "The
Gnome"
is everything one could hope for after having read the liner
notes. (I could never get through them, but dig those horns!)
The OKEY-POKEY
BAND & SINGERS:
Their "Flower Power" album was the sort of thing you'd see in
the bargain bin for $1.99 in the drugstore. A concept album:
anonymous session musicians recreate recent chart hits. The
liner notes go out of their way to reassure us there really
is a place for this sort of album. (Would YOU buy an album
whose liner notes are half-apologetic about its very
existence?) All kidding aside, it's reasonably well done.
This sort of LP would do quite well in countries like
Paraguay, where kids couldn't tell the difference. However,
this was aimed at the American market, which makes "Emily"
a curious selection. (Whoever compiled it may have been
connected with Tower Records on some level?)
It's notable for being THE very first known cover of a Syd or
Pink Floyd song. All the tunes on the LP charted in mid-1967,
so this would have been produced a month or two after that.
SHOCKABILLY
The problem with assembling a comp like this is that everybody
does "Lucifer Sam." Even so, nobody does it like Shockabilly.
Nobody ever will. Recorded in 1984, now it belongs to the ages.
TANGERINE
DREAM:
"Monolight" (conclusion), from the LP "Encore." Live
in
North America, March/April 1977.
The piece takes up an LP side, and this is the end--after
the usual festivites, a piano takes up the main four-chord
theme of "Celestial Voices." The band picks it up from
there, for a pleasant two or three minutes. They don't
get any further than those four chords, but we could count
it as a cover version nonetheless. Homage. The liner notes
to their first LP ("Electronic Meditation," 1969) mention
"Saucerful Of Secrets" as an influence.
THREE TO ONE
What's this??? We thought nobody else even *knew* about
the Okey-Pokey Band. We were wrong. Three To One not only
copped the same crappy album, they stole... errr, they
sampled? they appropriated the Okey-Pokey version of "See
Emily Play" and made it their own. (Just barely.)