Both Arnold Layne & See Emily Play were absolutely 💯 Brilliant singles !

Both singles are out of this world thanks to Syd Barrett

I really love See Emily Play. It's haunting and beautiful.

"Jimi Hendrix and his diabolical disciples" What a turn of phrase! If I were the Floyd I would have framed this.

It all happened so fast for the Floyd- probably too fast for Syd.

I love this channel so much that I can't express it. Please always stay in the 60's. 💗

Can you imagine the response if they had released Vegetable Man?

See Emily Play is a truly brilliant song. In my opinion, it beautifully crystallizes 1967 and psychedelia! “There is no other day Let’s Try it another way” If that doesn’t sum up the LSD soaked youthful mindset of a 20 year old hippy then show me a lyric that does better??!!

Simon Dee proving how much of an influence he was on the Alan Partridge character there.

Pop gems, the pair. first of their kind and the musical landscape parted. Bless Syd.

I found a complanation of Syd’s solo albums in the seventies. I was in Central America. I really listened to that double album a lot. I came to States and was introduced to Piper. Later the singles. Syd was a eye opener for me. 👍🌏🌞 🙋🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💭✌️

The fact that Simon " poptastic" Dee was not impressed makes me like Pink Floyd even more.

This is the music that Pink Floyd should be known for. Sadly, most people think that a 1980's dystopian main stream rock album by Roger Waters is what this band was about. RIP Syd Barrett

Key point and absolute truth here. Paul McCartney states the Pink Floyd album is a knockout. The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper in the next studio. Had read this sometime ago, what the Beatles or a Beatle said about you back then could make or break a singer or a band.

i’m from argentina. unless traveling there, this kind of magazines are impossible to get here, even buying it on ebay (in our national mail steals it or surprisingly they charges it with crappy taxes). so naturally i’m a huge fan of your channel, the way you put all this incredible stuff on video. you’re my hero.

Awesome Awesome Awesome More Syd’s Floyd please and thank you!!!

Excellent video. You know, I can actually understand why a lot of people felt compelled to speak out about how weird and outrageous this new music was -- after all this was just four years after the Beatles' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was at the cutting edge of pop music. And despite the first two Floyd singles (and their respective B-sides) being absolute masterpieces, they still don't sound like conventional pop records even today. They still sound ahead of their time. No wonder a lot of people didn't get it, it would've been a lot to take in.

I think on the newspaper article: “Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town” , they mix Syd and Rick photos…

I've always been a fan of early Pink Floyd. Thanks for the video YP. Also, a big thumbs up 👍 to Elaine Kilburn.

Love it, another great video from YP! So fascinating, the regressive attitudes around Floyd, causing mag writers and deejays to wonder if Englebert Humperdink ballads would restore "sanity" to the pop scene. (Because I'm sure Swinging Sixties London was concerned about "sanity"!) Funny that 4 or 5 years later the Kinks would have a worldwide smash with "Lola". :) Arnold was too early, evidently!

both of these songs changed my life, sounds extreme but they got me into music and the 60s (the best Era imo) Love this channel😍

YES!..Syd dug Between the Buttons, that's so cool, one of my favorite Stones albums...

How amazing to sit here today and look how this press guys couldn’t imagine where the Floyd would go.

PS this is very interesting being able to hear real-time reactions . Thanks 😃

Arnold is one of my favs from 67. Along with Paper Sun, Strawberry Fields Forever, I'm a Man, Shadows and Reflections, Waterloo Sunset, Pictures of Lily, Purple Haze, Time of the Season and Tin Soldier to name just a few.

“An awful din” sounds like it should be the title of a Floyd song.

One of the best channels on youtube

Between the buttons,fifth dimension, and Da capo are three of my favorite albums. Syd had great taste! Seems there was a lot of moral trepidation toward both singles. Great work again yesterdays papers.

I had the good fortune to be in England when the good ship Caroline was broadcasting and I heard it first there. Alas "Beat Wave" did not beat the bullys, but I really dug "Emily" from the first time I heard it. I was a US government dependant in Germany, so we'd go to Britain in summer and Christmas time. I remember that Stars & Stripes had tried the contraversy bit by asking teens whether they preferred Psychedelic or Soul, but despite some taking side most said "both". Britain tends to go for that approach a bit more than the US.

Someone has mentioned this before somewhere.. The Beatles recording Sgt Pepper in one studio at Abbey Road and Pink Floyd recording their first album at the same venue , same time.. McCartney nipping in to see what Syd and the lads were getting up to.Paul always seemed to be on the lookout for new sounds, new ideas. I wonder did Lennon say, get in there Paul , see what these new guys are up to😀

Jimi Hendrix & His Diabolical Disciples!!!

This was recorded in January and February 1967 Syd Barrett and Richard Wright on vocals this was recorded in Chelsea not Abbey Road

I'm not surprised that Syd Barrett listened to Da Capo a lot. While they're very different to Floyd, there's a whimsical feel to both.

Syd era was the best era, his solo work is incredible. So much better than anything the Floyd released after.

Strange, I was just playing “Shine on” when I saw this. Love Syd and love The Floyd.

Has it been commented around 6:15 the NME got the pics mismatched - wrong names?

Notice at 6:16 they've transposed the captions to Syd and Rick's photos!! That had me confused for years till I finally realised what must have happened.

Best episode yet!

Awesome video!!

Great job you did again.

I was thrilled to find the "Piper" album in an American department store record bin around 1968, and became a huge fan of the early Floyd sound. Curiously, I didn't get to hear "Arnold Layne" until decades had passed because it wasn't on the album. By the way, I'm continually amazed at the background sound that you use on these videos - always reminiscent of the band under discussion, but not actually a recording. Kind of faux-Pink Floyd here, and faux-Animals in a previous video and so on. Maybe one day you'll make a long video of just these faux- sounds ?

Happy to see the Pink Floyd got off to a good start. ... See Emily play was my favorite of the 2 singles, one of Syd's finest.

Great video 🤩

There's a book by Rob Chapman called A Very Irregular Head about Syd and its probably the best book on Syd you'll ever read. A must for any fan of Syd and early Pink Floyd 💗 💕

Love this channel. Like The Floyd, you're doing something different.

My friend jack is such a great tune and so are early floyd singles

amazing how influential love was without even touring steve cropper is a guitar god it's clear that arnold layne was very influential on bowie's early sound as the who had already come out with "im a boy"...not sure why arnold layne was so shocking to some always wonder what floyd wouldve sounded like had syd not had his breakdown the concert tech didnt catch up to the floyd until the early 70s...so that their live sound came close to what it was on the albums

6:43 Oops 😬 ! - They Got Syd right , but Barratt ! C'mon Man 😆

Thanks for this. At the time I only had the music. Intellectual criticism did not exist in my world. I knew what I liked and grew to be a buyer of the band's LPs.

I think I might start saying 'Scene' a lot

I know I must just be a sucker for this whole scene and this entire period, because whenever I hear stories of guys saying they'd had songs foisted upon them by a producer and/or the record label which they considered "too pop" (and therefore unserious), I always think to myself "But I LOVE that song!" This applies to both THESE singles, to the radio-friendly hits the Yardbirds did (causing Clapton first to fret, then to leave), or Hi Ho Silver Lining, which Jeff Beck always hated Mickey Most apparently shoving on him in hopes of scoring a hit. But I ALWAYS like these tunes, whether or not they're "heavy enough" for the guys. I mean, if I could have begged Steve Marriott to make Humble Pie a side project while continuing to lead the Small Faces I would have stood outside his flat every day in the sucky English weather just to make the case to him he should still produce those "mere" pop songs Small Faces were putting out. I think they're pretty much all brilliant.

YP, I loved that you followed the Gary Brooker new music review with this. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion (except Simon Dee?), so I can't fault Gary for criticizing the Floyd's organ sound, but I loved hearing that organist Steve Winwood liked Rick Wright's playing.

Syd's Floyd is for me the best version of the Floyd......

First record I ever remember hearing - was probably about 3 at the time as my oldest bruv played it consistently 😎👍

Great music of you, love the mellotron

SYD BARRETT R.I,P! x

El Pink Floyd de Syd Barrett me sacó de la Beatlemanía, eso es todo lo que puedo decir.

The New Musical Express (6:17) got Syd & Rick’s pictures backwards!

They probably said, hey, which one is Pink?

It’s smooth sailing with the highly successful sound of wonderful Radio London!!! Floyd seems tame compared to the stuff they let on the air nowadays.

Really curious about how you engineer/create those pastiche Beatles-psychedelic background musical bits. Not that I'm asking you to reveal your secrets. I'm only pondering it because I'm impressed, not the least for the fact that it completely undermines KZfaq's heinous copyright robots.

So Pepper, The 1st PF LP and S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things were all recorded at Abbey Road during '67.....unreal

Fantastic!

Arnold Lane and See Emily Play are the best things the Floyd ever turned out: it's interesting Waters says they couldn't necessarily play them all on stage, as with the Beatles and they're turning out their best singles when they gave up touring. The Beatles would be hard pressed to do say Penny Lane or say Strawberry Fields Forever too. Syd was like the grit in the oyster of Floyd's music, the creative germ( cf his Madcap and Opel albums too). After his demise, the Floyd were the creative shadow cast by his creative genius, never to really equal the inspiration of Barret's talent.

This vid reminded me of reviews for Court Of The Crimson King. Many were gobsmacked like some of the reviewers for the Floyd's early singles were but some wrote off Crimso as a 2nd rate Moody Blues or (Gilmour era) Pink Floyd. I think the folks that dissed the Floyd 45's pretty much hated psychedelic and acid rock as a whole and were not the proper people to ask their opinion such as the two reviewers that preferred 'rock and roll' (Elvis) and adult pop (Tom Jones, Englebert). It's good to have varying schools of thought but it has to start with a reviewer that knows and appreciates the genre/style of music being evaluated and could thus compare Floyd to other competing bands in that same style (ie. Traffic, Jimi Hendrix etc)

" What sort of taste do they have in attending concerts to hear Jimi Hendrix and his diabolical disciples like the Pink Floyd and Soft Machine when their only claim to musical ability is to make a goddamn awful din." Best laugh I've had all day. And some of the other critics' comments are priceless too. And then we have the downright stupidity of some of the comments regarding songs recorded in the studio and then played live. You'd think music critics would have a clue, but I guess not. (Big thanks for this vid, mate)

Fantastic, great idea….

I saw Pink Floyd at the Albert Hall either in late 1967 or early 1968. I think both Syd Barrett and Dave Gilmour were in the band at this time. The sound experimentation I recall as being very interesting - sound experimentation seems a better description than music. There was also an ambitious light show - doubtless today it would be regarded as mundane. Pink Floyd's later work was unrecognisable when compared to their early sound.

Aged 15 in early 1980 us fairly uneducated fellows had discovered Pot & were making the obligatory musical adventure through what had come before the ska mod revival , new wave Punk & familiar pop & wanky metal of the day. Posh Richard appeared with the LP copy of Relics & we duly got immersed in the album. After Arnold & the epic trip of set the controls , I couldn’t believe hearing something totally familiar from when I was an infant being exited by big sisters’ daily radio of the late 60s before she’d left home at 19 in 1971 - I hadn’t heard “ see Emily play “ since it’s time in the “ hit parade “ & hadn’t a clue it was by the band now famous as. being the famous Prog dinosaurs ( this was before The Wall was released & PF meant little to my age group whom were nearly too old to be ‘real ‘ original punks ‘ )….🫥😵‍💫❤️

both were awesome

Going to like this. Will watch later 👍

Oh Simon Dee, you were such a square. Honestly. "My friend Jack eats sugar lumps" 😁

Interesting that in the first couple years of their career they were known as THE Pink Floyd. But I noticed in Great Britain the journalists there will attach “the” to the front of any band name whether it’s part of their name or not. They even called ABBA “the ABBA” back in the early 70s.

It’s great to hear contemporary reviews of your favourite songs. Floyd’s first two singles represent a high water mark in music’s progression. These early reviews reflect the buzz that surrounded one of the most influential and important bands ever. In my view, See Emily Play is better than the brilliant Penny Lane and Waterloo Sunset. So much so, I named my youngest daughter after it

MY FREIND JACK ! THE SMOKE!!? yes

Have you got it yet

LOL went to see PINK FLOYD at the CooP Ballroom in Oxford when one or both 'singles' were released. "WHAT were they doing playing that scene" ???? A total disaster. Everyone went to DANCE not to be in total darkness with weired light's and ever stranger music.... Wrong Group - Wrong Place. I loved both 'single's', had 2 or 3 Mother's LP's, Jefferson Airplane & LOVE but hated my night out. I'd gone out to DANCE.....

I loved "disgusted of Nottingham" and his tirade against psychedelic cacophony. That Jimi Hendrix, no future for him.

Can you make video on the press/public reaction to the Beatles 1963 albums and singles?

Not connected but sad news about Gary Brooker. RIP

4:47 There's a few other pictures of Hendrix from that time; some in which he appears as a celestial doughtnut and a few in which he appears as the usual six-foot plus love god to writhing legions of groovellettes. I have dim memories of seeing him in persona few times but the celestial doughnut was always something I never saw. I remember rumblings of overbooking in Europe, figures.

I've a persistent but possibly mistaken memory that "Emily" was once played on that hopelessly mainstream record-request programme Two-Way Family Favourites. Goodness knows what Jean Metcalfe made of it. (Or was it Judith Chalmers by then?)

The rock and roll dinosaurs never got it. I was very much into the pirates, I also listened to VoA, the middle of the night programmes had some of the up and coming American groups.

It is amazing how conservative the tastes of some of the supposedly fashionable people about town were back then. Simon Dee claimed to be the inspiration for Austin Powers. yet he preferred Engelbert to Syd.

good length

What is the name of the melody that plays at the beginning and throughout the video while you narrate?

The mainstream radio stations were pushing Jim Reeves and the other balladeers.. I was listening to the pirates and luckily there was an independent music shop in the town that got in the more obscure records, including imports

i saw the first performance of Atom Heart Mother. Floyd played psychedelic pop until Dark Side of the Moon. After that the long-form Gilmore tracks were the best of Floyd.

Apparently Emily Young is the same Emily Young who is one of Britain's greatest living sculptures: "The song was reportedly about a girl named Emily, who Barrett claimed to have seen while sleeping in the woods after taking a psychedelic drug. According to A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, by Nicholas Schaffner, Emily is the Honourable Emily Young,[9][10] daughter of Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet and nicknamed "the psychedelic schoolgirl" at the UFO Club.[11] Bassist Roger Waters later said the woods mentioned in the song were based next to the Gog Magog Hills near Cambridge.[1] Emily Young FRBS (born 1951) is a sculptor,[1] who has been called "Britain's greatest living stone sculptor".[2] She was born in London into a family of artists, writers and politicians. She currently divides her time between studios in London and Italy.[3]" Wikipedia

I am surprised radio London banned Arnold lane its the sort of record the BBC would have banned but they played it

Lmfao Syd is hilarious " women's clothing " I love his sense of humor man

I liked their singles from this era better than their dark, depressing and often monotonous work from the 1970s. But I have a feeling that if I had sat through one of their concerts with long stretches of weird noises for the sake of weird noises, I'd have lost patience with that sort of crap. It's one thing to not be able to re-create the sound of a track in concert; everyone understands that, but who wants to pay to watch bands indulge themselves with half-baked sonic experiments?

My Friend Jack is a cool song. The DJ was wrong!

This was at a new time when these new Psychedelic bands were risking these daring new sounds for single releases, rather than sticking to the more obvious commercial style format. Some got away with it (Pink Floyd, Traffic, Procol Harum, and the revamped Moody Blues, while others didn't. But those who succeeded out-fashioned most of the great sounds from the mid sixties British Invasion era. But Psychedelia exploded from both sides of the Atlantic. The West Coast scene changed accordingly with groups like The Beach Boys and The Byrds getting replaced by The Doors and Jefferson Airplane.

Oh Floyds, why didnt you put these songs on the first album? missed chance. One critic says it isnt very psychedelic, I'd say these songs are the best psychedelic songs ever.

See Emily Play: 💯🎶🎵

Viper at the Gates of Dawn!

I love see Emily play.. Quirky, psychedelic!

All the papers switch rick and syd lol

interesting vid could be how psychedelic acts saw the monkees, underrated in my opinion