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, an empty way... dry tears... crisp ... ...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 than was ...
drewish 24.03.2005 (14.12.2006)
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