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... I used to know a friend who said that Opel was the worst album he had ever heard. I think it is probably one of the best I have ever listened to. However, it takes a while to become accustomed to Syd Barrett's strange world. This is a record which will grow on you. Opel starts off with ... Read review

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Release Date: 1994-05-03, Audio CD, EMI

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Tortured masterpiece

Advantages: A beautiful, haunting album. Very mournful lyrics.
Disadvantages: Not an easy listen. I didn't like it immediately.

...a friend who said that Opel was the worst album he had ever heard. I think it is probably one of the best I have ever listened to. However, it takes a while to become accustomed to Syd Barrett's strange world. This is a record which will grow on you.

Opel starts off with the haunting title track, which has a wistful melody, and sparse, intense lyrics:

A bare winding carcass, stark
shimmers as flies scoop up meat, ...
...his former joy for life. Opel is a collection of tracks lost for years in EMIs vaults and made after Syd's tragic mental breakdown. It seems that the combination of drugs and pressure to deliver album success was too much for him. Unlike other casualties of the sixties counterculture, however, with the exception of Brian Wilson, Barrett portrayed his breakdown on vinyl.

The next track is a slower and to my ear superior version to Octopus ... more

drewish 24.03.2005 (14.12.2006)
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A lost genius

Advantages: A wistful and highly original album. Very poignant.
Disadvantages: Not most people's cup of tea. Depressing.

the recording sessions which produced The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. However, the official albums are more accessible and less raw than Opel and some people may prefer them. The next track "Love Song" is ostensibly a simple love song, but it contains the same dark undercurrents which pervade all of Syd's work. Dominoes is an outstanding song, "You and I in place. Wasting time on dominoes. A day so dark, so warm. Life that comes of no harm." - a beautifully haunting melody celebrating the ordinary. Part of what makes Syd so unique is his ability to create strange scenes in the listener's mind, very ordinary, yet far removed from the everyday world. It Is Obvious is one of the weaker songs, I think, yet there are still moments of intense poetry "mark the blanket where the sparrows play / and the trees by the waving corn stranded / my legs ...

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