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• Jrbosch from New YorkMatila Mother ...
  I love Syd Barrett's songs
  And this is probably the best of all his songs!
  It has a wonderful descending chord progression.
  Something that seems to be in the pink floyd bible
  of building eerie songs. And descending chord progressions , whether done this way or cromatically
  as in Interstellar Overdrive and Astronomy Domine' , are all.over this first album.
  Influencing future works the floyd would record even years after Syds departure from the band
  The original lyrics were copied directly from the English
  Book 'Cautionary tales for children '
  But the authors estate would not let the floyd use the original lyrics so syd was forced to write new ones and he and rick had to re-record the vocal tracks
  It's a good thing that happened because the new lyrics
  Syd came up with are so beautiful and charming.
  Although the original lyrics, which can be now heard on the version of this song on the 'crazy diamond best of syd barrett ' album / although they capture the creepy , yet campy nature of the original classic book.
  The new lyrics take away that books influence on the song and now , though you still have a song about a boy sitting at his mothers knee in wide eyed wonder of the woderous fairy tales stories being read to him by his mum.
  Now instead of the verses quoting directly from a classic children's novel, you now have syds wonderful imagery of the story being read to the child.
  Complete with "crossing streams in wooden shoes"
  And "a thousand misty riders climbing higher once upon a time" Its absolutely wonderful lyrically and musically .
  The middle section ,which features rick wright on organ
  Is a wild Arabian sounding psycadellic section that
  Plays itself out in such intensity until you can almost hear
  the producers sizzer slice edit you right into to the last verse
  All and all a brilliant song that is NEVER played
  on classic rock stations .
  The beatles influenced EVERYONE
  This is the stuff that influenced the BEATLES in 1967
  They were in the next room recording Sgt. Pepper
  At the very same time
  And as important as this.Album is said to be
  even by Rolling Stone
  You will rarely if NEVER hear it on the radio
  
  When Syd Barrett passed in 2006
  It really ticked me off ...all these d Jay's
  Talking about syd dying and and how sad it was and
  "HA HA Yea he was a freaking nut"
  Telling you how they are tributing him.today
  And then they go ahead and play shine on you crazy diamond
  Didnt even play ONE SONG from.his catalogue
  Matila Mother is a song that should have been played
  In his honor that week because it's a song that influenced many to take psycadellic music and change it into
  prog rock
  But they didnt play it
  They didnt play any of his great solo work
  Sure a lot of it , most people can't get into
  But Giggalo Aunt or Baby Lemonade
  would certainly have sounded great on the radio that day
  At the very least at least play Arnold Layne or See emily
  Play.
  The guy just died and you dont even have the respect to play one of HIS songs?
  This is why you do not hear piper at the gates of dawn
  On classic rock stations
  Cause they really dont care how influential that first album was to the prog rock movement that happened directly after it
  But like the entire album itself
  Matilda Mother is the crowning achievement
  Of syds crowning achievement that is piper at the gates of dawn
  
  
  
• Shane from Bloomington-normal, IlI really love the 2010 remix of this on _An Introduction to Syd Barrett_... it now is one of my favorite Barrett compositions and easily one of the all-around coolest tunes to bubble up from the late 60's.
• Terry from Wickford, RiA staple of their early live set as well...there's some decent recordings floating about of them playing this in the clubs...
• Chloe from St. Louis, Mowoah. id never heard this song until now...a fantastic combination of trippiness and nostalgia. yet another example of the tragically fleeting stroke of mad genius that was syd barrett.
• Oldpink from New Castle, InThis song is so childlike, and yet I love it.
  Think of it as a little kid sitting up in bed after his mother has just read him something he really likes, then he says "tell me more!"
  It takes you back to the point before you even got into music, and you wanted to hear things that sparked your imagination...the seed that was planted in your mind, so to speak.
• Tristan from Philadelphia, PaWhat an incredible song! The nastalgia is an acquired taste, but Wrights vocals are great. What else could be said about this song besides how great it is?

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