Here's a top shelf version of the Television Personalities song "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" by an Italian group called Sixtynine and the Continuous People. [Download MP3] The original has been a favorite song of mine since forever.
If YouTube commenters are to be believed in this instance, the song got the TVPs booted from an opening slot on a David Gilmour tour, when bandleader Dan Treacy allegedly revealed Barrett's home address to a hall full of Gilmour-supporting Floydos. (Not surprisingly, Gilmour was unamused.)
This version is more haunting and less twee than the TVPs, but still quite excellent—that the band is singing in a second language is obvious, and at the same time endearing. Sixtynine and the Continuous People apparently make regular worship at the altars of Barret and Treacy, as there are some other related covers available on the band's webpage.
Shouldn't it now be 'I know where Syd Barrett used to live'? Nice to hear this song again.
Posted by: David | May 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Believe me, David, I struggled for a good five minutes to determine the proper syntax for this post's title...
Posted by: r:m:b | May 17, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Pretty cool version. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: jeff | May 17, 2011 at 09:00 PM