Hahaha.

Nah. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison all wrote songs about some very deep things.

Barrett wrote songs about...... Gnomes and bicycles.

very true

oh, and scarecrows

Yeah and Yellow Submarines, Octopuses Gardens... Besides notice how I didn't specify which half I was talking about. The Beatles weren't very deep at all until Revolver and some of Rubber Soul.

I'd say Rubber Soul is a very deep album. And even if they wrote mostly love songs in their early career, they still wrote some pretty potent songs.

Syd had some potent moments yes, Jugband Blues is one. But most of his songs were just incoherent ramblings of a man in serious need of help.

And thats a bad thing because?

I didn't say it was a bad thing. It's just not my idea of a deep songwriting genius.

IMO Waters and Gilmour are better songwriters, lyricists, singers and musicians. And since they relied on each others talents so much, I wouldn't even call them geniuses, at least as individuals. And if Waters and Gilmour aren't geniuses then Barrett most certainly isn't.

Genius is not a word I think should be thrown around loosely, Miles Davis was a genius, Stravinsky was a genius, Dylan was a genius at least lyrically, Lennon and McCartney were genius pop songwriters. The guy who wrote Bike, a genius? Nah.

Fairy muff

Barrett-Bike-Genius. you just don't get it yet.

I know I'm coming in late on the conversation but just to put my two cents in I have to go with David Gilmour. Put on a set of good headphones and listen to that soaring guitar. Very few people have such a personal tone as he! I think it was the element of their music that made Pink Floyd a much loved group. The songwriting is great but in the mind of the average listener (and myself as well) it was the guitar that set the mood and tone of the music and made it so spacey and enjoyable.

What's Frank Zappa not doing on that list? :nono: