Echoes:Best Of Pink Floyd CD

MUSIC

POP

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Astronomy Domine ~ Pink Floyd

2. See Emily Play ~ Pink Floyd

3. Happiest Days Of Our Lives, The ~ Pink Floyd

4. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) ~ Pink Floyd

5. Echoes ~ Pink Floyd

6. Hey You ~ Pink Floyd

7. Marooned ~ Pink Floyd

8. Great Gig In The Sky, The ~ Pink Floyd

9. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun ~ Pink Floyd

10. Money ~ Pink Floyd

11. Keep Talking ~ Pink Floyd

12. Sheep ~ Pink Floyd

13. Sorrow ~ Pink Floyd

Disc 2

Song Title

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) ~ Pink Floyd

2. Time ~ Pink Floyd

3. Fletcher Memorial Home, The ~ Pink Floyd

4. Comfortably Numb ~ Pink Floyd

5. When Tigers Broke Free ~ Pink Floyd

6. One Of These Days ~ Pink Floyd

7. Us And Them ~ Pink Floyd

8. Learning To Fly ~ Pink Floyd

9. Arnold Layne ~ Pink Floyd

10. Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd

11. Jugband Blues ~ Pink Floyd

12. High Hopes ~ Pink Floyd

13. Bike ~ Pink Floyd

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Pink Floyd: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Syd Barrett.
	Producers inlcude: Pink Floyd, Michael Kamen, Bob Ezrin, Joe Boyd, Norman Smith.
	Compilation producer: James Guthrie, Pink Floyd.
	Digitally remastered by James Guthrie.
	Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett (vocals); David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (keyboards); Roger Waters (bass guitar); Nick Mason (drums).
	Through their long history, Pink Floyd moved through psychedelia, prog-rock, space-rock, and more, emerging as pioneers in all of those styles. This two-disc compilation takes on the formidable task of creating a definitive Floyd collection. Though there's no chronological running order to give a sense of the group's development, there are plenty of key tracks from all the eras of Pink Floyd's career. We're given a healthy dose of material from the band's psychedelic '60s period, when they were spearheaded by the ultimate acid-damaged genius Syd Barrett (the loopy "Bike," the otherworldly "Astronomy Domine"). The most overtly progressive tendencies of '70s Floyd are aired on the glorious epic "Echoes," whose suite-like construction shows off both the band's technical facility and orchestration skills.
	Naturally, there are some cuts from the band's watershed album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, one of the best-selling LPs of all time (the gospel-tinged "The Great Gig in the Sky," the near-funky capitalist plaint "Money"). Hardcore Floyd fans might object to the number of songs from the post-Roger Waters era, but even these less-celebrated tunes work in the overall historical context. While it's easy to quibble about the absence of various Floyd favorites (no "Interstellar Overdrive?"), there's so much crucial music on this collection that it's impossible to come away from it without a strong sense of what Pink Floyd such an important band.

Compilation Appearances

Ultra Dance 8

Associated Artists and Works

	Easy Star All-Stars
	London Philharmonic Orchestra
	On, Pickin'
	Original Soundtrack
	Out Of Phase (Rock)
	Out of Phase (Rock)
	Phase, Out Of
	Phase, Out Of (Rock)
	Pickin' On
	Prydz, Eric
	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
	Back Against The Wall ~ Various Artists
	The Piano Tribute to Pink Floyd ~ Various Artists
	Vitamin String Quartet

Technical Info

	Release Date : 10/03/2006
	Original Release Date : 2001
	Catalog ID : 74543
	Label : Capitol/EMI Records
	Number of Discs : 2
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00094637454329

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (11/16/01, p.133)
- "...A smartly nonchronological, cross-fading song sequence flitting between the butty-Syd, ranting-Rog and spacey-Dave eras..."

Q (12/01, p.153)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Captures the essence of one of our major rock bands, from Barrett to Waters to Gilmour as CEO, and distilling this 30 years war into something coherent. It certainly has a pop..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(12/01, p.108)
- "...Beautifully remastered and carefullt sequenced, allowing unexpected juxtapositions to throw up nice effects..."

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