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.
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