Sentence examples for madcap laughs from inspiring English sources

Listening now to The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, those meandering, often unsettling, solo albums from 1970, one hears so many shadows and omens.

Cruelly, the recordings of his solo efforts, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" (both 1970), caught everything: the nervous coughs, the desperate riffling of pages, the cries of frustration ("Again? I'll do it again now?"), the numbers of takes.

In 1969, the Softs played on Ayers' Joy Of a Toy album and overdubbed two tracks on The Madcap Laughs, the first solo album by the former Pink Floyd mainman Syd Barrett.

He made two albums from this material - The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1971) - with considerable assistance in the studio from his ex-Floyd cohorts Waters, Wright and Gilmour.

The Madcap Laughs (1970) – the solo album that Syd Barrett released after leaving Pink Floyd – T Rex's Electric Warrior (1971) and Wishbone Ash's Argus (1972) all benefited from Hipgnosis's visual mystique.

Until LSD's psychological wreckage began washing up in rock via Skip Spence's Oar and Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs, artists tactfully ignored the dark side of the psychedelic experience.

Today, the madcap laugh is much in evidence.

It is difficult to do justice to Felix Dennis's madcap laugh, a full-blown, slightly demented cackle that shakes his whole torso.

Barrett's writing is given serious consideration: for example, a line such as "The Madcap laughed at the man on the border / Hey, ho, Huff the Talbot" emerges as not some sort of nonsense about a grumpy fish but a reference to Shakespeare's Henry VI and Lord Talbot.

For a quite different kind of humour, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre's Pugs of the Frozen North is a madcap, laugh-out-loud adventure which begins with the story of the survival of Shen the cabin boy after all his shipmates desert him when the ship is stuck in the ice.

Indeed, only the assumption that Gore intends her protagonist to be essentially appealing, and her adventures to be madcap and winning and laugh-out-loud funny, leads me to see this book as an exceedingly tedious comedy of manners rather than a cutting, realistic portrait of a rising young hack.