Release
After the unexpectedly massive success of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, EMI re-issued the Barrett-era albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets as A Nice Pair in the hopes that the fans may be interested in the band's earlier work with Barrett. Once that was a success, primarily in the US where both albums had initially flopped, Syd Barrett was compiled to meet demand.
As a result, The Madcap Laughs/Barrett (as it was titled in the US) made number 163, giving Barrett his only US chart album.
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“As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of morality ... only by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.”
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