Fitter Stoke wrote:
Syd Barrett ‘The Madcap Laughs’ and ‘Barrett’ - much as I love both of these records, they fill me with too much sadness when I play them. I can’t help feel that I’m intruding in their creator’s mental breakdown. Am I alone in this?
No, I'm very much with you, ditto Nick Drake. Such wonderful songs, but they just leave me, well, as you stated, sad.