I was listening to this whilst doing some mindless antique ornamented letter writing! Well, this lasted quite a while less than the time it took me to finish writing it,
but let us say never mind,
and board ye on every side! :D
The introduction was wonderful! If it weren't for the repetition of the base note, I could imagine it as a sort of theme to a fugue, though the way you continue reminds me more of those really free preludes of the renaissance! When you bring in the awesome-piano I love the rhythms, they're so... sick (in a good way, they make me feel rather uneasy!). Oh, and the first nananana part is great! I'm kind of wishing it were an octave lower, but I guess that's the pneumatic influenza talking.
(P.S. work on your screaming! Imagine me hitting you with a tiorba or better yet, your best friend's fist.)

Well, I'm glad to hear you were at least well enough to do some letter ornamentation or somesuch artistic busy-thing.

I must say I'm partial to these progressions and the way they work. The entire point in making them work here lies in a halfway bad, halfway calmly good delivery. The ending pseudo-wail is the climax of that, but I understand why you'd think it a scream.

12-8 years ago I only screamed (bar the opera type singing), but sadly noone told me that to scream well tonally you should first know how to sing. But anyway, that's not what I sound like when I scream. Basically, I was torturing my voice while I exhaled softly. In fact, this entire vocal is quite a bit softer than my speaking voice but uttered straight into the microphone while the guitar was actually more than twice as loud - which meant I couldn't actually hear myself and was left to imagining myself as a strangely emotional subterranean creature that doesn't transmit sound outside of shaking walls from it's tunnels.

Maybe I should've gone a bit lower there in the break though, but I'm glad you like it. :)

Some strikingly effective instrumentation on this track.

Thank you Dash! And I suspect you've done a great job on a beat similar to this double guiro pattern here.

Oh my, I'm actually really digging this. Didn't notice it much listening to the album as a whole. But I'm repeat listening and really liking the way your voice flows from one part to the next and wiggles up on the refrain. I think I like this better than the original.

Repeat listening? Should I feel a bit nervous now? :3 Personally I like both approaches because they're actually different.. can't beat Syd at being Syd afterall. I like doing some eccentric stuff, but it's not all a good idea. First intent was to do the intro acoustic and the rest with triple-layered electric guitars.. what foolishness!

perhaps the intro was a bit long, but I did enjoy it. I'm a pushover for the toy piano...

V.

Hehe, I do think you're required to like that piano to enjoy this! And I guess you'll be happy to know that this intro is the 'short' version, the long version has a ~2 minute jazz jam after the first part and a double length second part. But who really has time for a song after such an onslought? :D

This cover is absolutely charming. Also the off-kilter-ness of this recording adds your own sort of edge to it while also keeping Syd's idiosyncratic everything intact as well.

Thank you kindly! It's surely a fun song to play with, and I'm glad you feel it's respectful. :3

No problem and thanks for lookwatching.