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Albums similar to The Madcap Laughs

These are the albums most often named alongside Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Syd Barrett, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. The Incredible String Band - The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
2. Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
3. Liz Phair - Juvenilia
4. Magnapop - Magnapop
5. Prince Far I - Message from the King
6. Radical Dance Faction - Raggamuffin Statement
7. The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing
8. The Dream Syndicate - Ghost Stories
9. The Seeds - Evil Hoodoo
10. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
11. Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong
12. Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs
13. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
14. Venom - At War With Satan
15. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
16. Queen - Queen II
17. Bob Geldof - The Vegetarians of Love
18. Beck - One Foot in the Grave
19. The Primitives - Lovely
20. Spearhead - Home
21. Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
22. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
23. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
24. Robyn Hitchcock - Eye
25. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
26. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
27. Daniel Lanois - Acadie
28. Shellac - At Action Park
29. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
30. Fugazi - Repeater

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