Syd Barrett ~ Rats (Different Version With Spoken Intro) ~ Rare Pink Floyd !

Different version with Syd introducing and describing the song in the studio !

[@Hootiebird61]

It is always a great thing when Syd talks. It enriches the whole experience tremendously. Too bad there was no video of his solo work. Can you just imagine studio outtakes on video??

[@periscopio6401]

simply great Mr Syd Barrett, now I am 56 years old and I listen to Pink Floyd since I was 11 years old, I love you Syd you are a Genius, Thank you for your love and Music,

[@Xk_Mike]

I'm 17 years old and I value the art brought upon by "The' Pink Floyd, syd barret in himself i have been so interested in , the use of his classical old-new English romanticism is so beautiful , the way "syd" writes and speaks feels so eerily deep to me

[@martinkent333]

BEATLES PRO STUDIO TECHNICIANS MAKE ANYONE A STAR, DUDE! RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD.................

[@milkywayexplorer942]

I really love his voice

[@onabussound5185]

Davvero un’occasione mancata…

[@richyrich5489]

Love his slide work. 64 year old fan and will be forever..

[@jeffstewart3342]

well now youre 67 and Im 70

[@garryiglesias4074]

@@jeffstewart3342 69. you 72, and me 48... Loving Syd since I was around 12.

[@sydbarrett2778]

7 "not liked" how is possible??? the master must to be loved

[@zandranika]

Yes he was making songs about Animals long before than Roger thought about Sheeps, Dogs and PIGS

[@raycroal]

3 little ones

[@StrangeMachines1]

Yesssss

[@swk38]

several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict

[@swk38]

@@troglodyteproductions2211 and roger was syd's first name

[@swk38]

@@troglodyteproductions2211 OK, Roger 'Syd' Barrett released rats November 1970, roger waters released ^'several...' November 1969, a full year before- to answer Zandranika that Roger had done 'animal' songs before Syd did. and Roger is the name of both performers. Sorry for the confusion.

[@markco61]

He was labeled as the Lennon and McCartney of Pink Floyd. He was the founding genius that Roger Waters and David Gilmour owed all of their future success too. That’s why they did paid tribute to him with one of their most popular songs - Shine on, you crazy diamond.

[@periscopio6401]

I'm TOTALLY Agree with you

[@garryiglesias4074]

At least 3 of their 4 golden albums mention Syd one way or another.

[@hermanbruner2913]

Better comparison would be to think about him as a PF's Brian Wilson! The genius composer from LA, also flown away with drugs... But he was able to return while Syd wasn't...

[@Agent-dj8nx]

Its..irellevant...the animals...Ya dig it's my own fetish

[@rogerkis5677]

cool groove, crazy diamond!

[@uuupeipe]

Really cool to hear Syd talking in the beginning. Finnish band Circle made a great cover of this song.

[@denniskretschman9827]

sometimes discovering a new reality is called madness...

[@lanabanana68]

Dennis Kretschman ain't that the truth.

[@mysteryjesus]

Sometimes discovering madness is called a new reality...

[@arasozan1875]

and whatever sometimes it's ever and for ever. and bla. what abott that? add it up..

[@deanhunt2691]

Or sanity.

[@Sandwich13455]

He wasn't going mad,just a bit woozy with the quaalududes and heroin .

[@alanwood5857]

That's a really good version with intro of Syd speaking in studio

[@flanneldaniel9414]

I always loved this song. The end almost gives me a punk vibe. This isn't a different version btw it's just before they added the lead the drums and bass.

[@taniabecker6663]

Flannel Daniel I thanks this sounds punk, too!!

[@taniabecker6663]

I mean say I think

[@Valientlink]

It's the Opel version just with him mumbling before recording.

[@alex79teramo49]

Just a genial piece!! R.I.P. Roger Alex from Italy.

[@EPJamesMacAdams]

Said THAT'S LOVE

[@periscopio6401]

Mark Colburn: He was labeled as the Lennon and McCartney of Pink Floyd. He was the founding genius that Roger Waters and David Gilmour owed all of their future success too. That’s why they did paid tribute to him with one of their most popular songs - Shine on, you crazy diamond

[@TDWE]

Only Syd could make such a great song all with one chord.

[@terrypussypower]

+CosmicDayz It's two chords actually

[@mimidean6950]

which chords?

[@caveguy22]

E and E7 And alot of bluesy stuff. Thought i keep hearing like An A or something though, my ear isn't that great , and since its Syd, its even harder for me to tell xD.

[@mimidean6950]

Caveguy22 hehe, thanks! :) I keep on playing it using E and E7 chords and somehow change those two throughout the song and it sounds alike, though it's possible, and I do think so that he used some other blues chords in some parts of the song just like you said.. , well yeah, right, it's Syd, so you can never tell, haha (only two easy chords but he can still make it tricky to play! )

[@richflorio8616]

Better ask Neil Young about that......lol

[@Ratelzwatel]

The first 3 seconds are taken from recording 'Dominoes'. They can be found as bonus track on the 'Crazy Diamond'-box. The (unreleased) talking at the beginning of 'Rats' starts with "Hello".

[@survivingthefemaleclusterb5947]

+Ratelzwatel yes!! it was driving me crazy til I heard it again just now.

[@olsonjk2]

Correct. The question I have is where the OP got this recording.

[@Ratelzwatel]

@@olsonjk2 Leaked through an unoffical release. It's the same take as released on 'Opel', where the talking is omitted.

[@villaparis2]

genius

[@Dan-dx3hr]

Hello? Ohh Hello! Hello?! **chuckles**

[@maxtoscano]

fantastic song, uncommon, not easy to read, and great voice.

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

i like the tie

[@cmonroe2010]

thank you for sharing this

[@WoodRatGirl]

He wrote a song about Rats!

[@user-se5gg5cy4y]

WoodRatGirl people

[@righthand7965]

Aka Waters & Gil

[@MadCapDarkglobe]

The Madcap laughs at the man on the border!

[@paulnolan4971]

Got it hit down Spot knock inside a spider Says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" Says: "That's love, all know it TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" Like the fall that brings me to I like the fall that brings me to I like the cord around sinew I make a cord around sinew Duck, the way to least is less Tea craving of the metal west 'ell tomorrow's rain and test 'ell tomorrow's rain and test Love an empty son and guess Love an empty son and guess Pimples dangerous and blessed Heaving, arriving, tinkling Mingling jets and statuettes Seething wet we meeting fleck Seething wet we meeting fleck Lines and winds and crib and half Each fair day I give you half Of each fair day I give you half I look into your eyes and you, Flathe in the sun for you Bam, spastic, tactile engine Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham I'll have them, fried bloke Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle Sploshette moxy, very smelly, Cable, gable, splintra, channel Top the seam he's taken off Rats, rats lay down flat We don't need you, we act like that And if you think you're un-loved Then we know about that Rats, rats, lay down flat! Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!

[@sfender2182]

Thanks for providing the lyrics to read! God bless you and Syd Barrett. 🌅🌅✝️✝️

[@rolfisdreamworld489]

hello, thats love , i like this song, Syd go into ecstasies

[@garciac2852]

Genio barret!!

[@jeffstewart3342]

new subber for sure love Syd everything he did

[@lolah_]

Thats love, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah❤

[@milkeyes1]

In a way your all wrong but still kinda right , his mind was focused but commercial expectations for his work were too high for him to deal with , his loss of his love for him felt like a bolder from the sky..and just what could he do ...strange they asked me to open the Australian tribute show for him on his death..strange so many showed up so early .

[@FBlackRules]

phil ashbrook He had a hard time dealing with the death of his brilliant father, Max Barrett. But I ascribe to this theory too Phil. And the joke was on - record execs who just wanted the next Arnold Layne.

[@BiffChunksteak]

@@FBlackRules 'precise use of language and unbounded curiosity' are qualities attributed to Dr Barrett in his obituary. Mr Barrett seems to have inherited these qualities and to have used them to excel in his own field.

[@mariamery7025]

Little treasures when music was made by hand any computer existed

[@itsalondonthing9562]

Syd barrett was Pure unadulterated genius!!

[@martinkent333]

NAW, YOU'RE JUST GOBSMACKED, BORED AND EASILY ENTERTAINED.

[@frankalbin1957]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

[@danieleandrade6164]

I love you!

[@Rose_Arcana]

I WISH YOU WERE HERE so that I could meet you. Lay down a track or 2... indepth conversations.

[@FoneStar78]

when I listen to his music I just get this biggest smile across my face I can't turn off.

[@juanalbertostheeman1563]

The rats are roger, David, nick and rick, no doubt about it, Syd was so clever

[@Syfoll]

If it really is about Roger, David, Rick and Nick, then Syd really was an idiot

[@roan8889]

@@Syfoll why is that ?

[@Syfoll]

@@roan8889 Because they helped him however they could. They produced and played on both albums, Dave even played bass on the few concerts that he did, they gave him royalties even though he signed a release contract.

[@paulbangash4317]

Juan Alberto Stheeman nope. Just people.

[@BirkinIdk]

​@@Syfoll Roger Waters said he was a genius, but David Gilmour stated "Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like. But perhaps we were trying to punish him".

[@xdef1ne]

0:08 sounds like the Mandys kicked in ...

[@roger6599]

If you walked into a record label company as a total unknown and played this as your audition you would be thrown out of the back door quickly followed by your guitar never to be seen again

[@pedrolloveras1219]

Thanks no one asked tho

[@pepebotella971]

Syd was a vanguardist for sure

[@wetpants96]

Nobody asked 😊

[@gavinstutler2469]

Syd Barrett was exploited. They put a schizophrenic on stage to sell records.

[@wetpants96]

@@gavinstutler2469 he was never diagnosed with schizophrenia

[@Valientlink]

Animals "my own fetish" he says lol. He does sing about animals a lot. But jeez you can hear the mandrax in his voice so bad

[@EPJamesMacAdams]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@marinam3607]

Oh, hallo legend❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@vegetableman100]

Can someone write what Syd says before play?

[@therollingbeachfloyd645]

???should we try to sing???That's all right all right..HELLO?...oh hello!...hihi...ok i play another one first in E...There's only three......this one this one's called....well i supposed it's called Rats at the moment???dig the animals it's irrelevant???animals...my own fetish.....

[@thinginground5179]

@@therollingbeachfloyd645 did syd have an animal fetish? lol

[@DeathMetalOnToast]

@@thinginground5179 think it was probably just a quirky way of him acknowledging his interest and habbit of refering to animals in his songs rather than a literal 'fetish'

[@thinginground5179]

@@DeathMetalOnToast lol

[@darringalloway]

How dies it sound, and how does it make you feel? THAT'S what it means.

[@SteveBobinskiSJB]

Where can I download the Rats version including the spoken intro ?? ..Thanks !

[@michaelholtermann9129]

Syd Barett was a talented, gifted young man... Unfortunately he had the wrong friends... He took too many drugs... Drug addiction is an illness!!! Syd Barett could have become something... In 1970 he made his 2nd solo album with the help of David G... It's sad that he continued to take drugs... He should have had therapy... A good psychiatrist could have helped... Everyone ignored it!!! His older brother was a doctor...

[@cynthiamarston2208]

I can’t remember....the guy who did Help I’m a Rock? Well this song makes THAT song kinda phony. I liked that guy. I prefer Syd.

[@silverapple]

frank zappa?

[@lester9330]

Frank Zappa from Freak Out(1966), a big influence on Barrett's Floyd. Curiously, about this time he had disbanded the Mothers and produced his solo album "Hot Rats"(!) so there seems to be psychic connection between these two artists.

[@mmedeuxchevaux]

when was this recorded?

[@richflorio8616]

Sometime in early 1970 I believe.

[@raycroal]

@@richflorio8616 possibly 69 released in 70

[@cliffyoung4612]

Fine version though album version is more bitter.

[@macks00w95]

what does "flathe in the sun for you" mean ? i really want to know

[@flipperbarrett7942]

I think it's an old England term for lying flat. (sort of similar to "lying supine in the sunshine" I suppose).

[@richflorio8616]

I don't think that's what he says.... I believe its "I look into your eyes anew, Bathe in the sun for you!"

[@RedPlasticBuddha]

@@richflorio8616 agreed - there are some very clear errors in the words posted here.

[@raycroal]

@@flipperbarrett7942 yeah its flat defo

[@middarklight]

@@flipperbarrett7942 sounds like "...a new flame in the Sun for you" to me

[@mariamery7025]

The rattest mean

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Like 1000

[@hssmrg]

I thought it was 'Knock knock inside a spider' but this version doesn't sound like that. Any idea what it is, please?

[@Heatherofscots]

+M Godwin I believe it's "spot knock inside a spider"." Gotta get down, spot knock inside a spider, that's love yeah yeah yeah yeah" . A really clever line I think, love can be cruel and repugnant just like that. Just right down in the middle of a spider.

[@hssmrg]

+Heather ofScots Sounds right to me! Thanks a lot.

[@billoliver5242]

+Heather ofScots , spot on

[@WhisperingChocoTaco]

sometimes its just gibberish, but some of the lines are really good like 'a moor in a foreign cline to see farther inside of me'. I wonder if he picked his words out of books or if he just had a very different verbal memory

[@billoliver5242]

I've wondered the same. Brilliant

[@alexhero5172]

Hi doesn't crazy at all. Dislike the song, but love the venturing out on his musical journey.

[@carloslopez1582]

The dots go where I said they go. You're a toons man that's yo trademark.

[@remembererinandrews9150]

Go listen to the band Suicide.

[@amoh5]

He sounds like a very intelligent logical thinking guy with a musical gift for lyrics, instrumentation and creativity. It just goes to show you how powerful drugs can be in ruining a person. Lowering their self-respect, their sense of order and rationale, its so sad that he couldn't control this demon, such a waste of talent...

[@isayoldchap1]

At least he got to live out his last 20 years in relative peace enjoying gardening and painting (he always referred to himself as an artist rather than a musician). It might not be what society wanted for him, but it's what he needed. I am grateful for the gifts we gave us - which are significant and memorable 50+ years later

[@JeniferLohan]

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