World Famous Comics: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
By: Pink Floyd Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Original recording remastered Label: Capitol Number of Discs: 2 Publication Date: 2001 Release Date: November 06, 2001
Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: PINK FLOYD Title: ECHOES-BEST OF PINK FLOYD Street Release Date: 11/06/2001 Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com: Echoes is a double-CD collection of some of Pink Floyd's best songs. It's also a fascinating document of the band's history. They began life as Syd Barrett's phantasmagoric plaything before clasping the wings of Icarus and ascending toward the sun on an epic space-rock odyssey, eventually turning left once they reached the dark side of the moon and burning up on reentry, crash-landing on every earthlings' home hi-fi. And it's all here--30 years of the Floyd's awesome back catalog trimmed down to two handsome CDs. It's worth remembering that, despite a fondness for pyrotechnics, Pink Floyd were never a prog-rock band. Sure, some of their songs are a bit long, and they never released singles (at least not for 11 years), but the same could be said for Led Zeppelin. Clinically devoid of the faux-classical overtures and vainglorious musicianship of that era, Pink Floyd were a pole apart; Meddle's epic maritime tone poem "Echoes" remains the Floyd's apogee. But here, on this collection, "the albatross" which "hangs motionless upon the air" has had its wings clipped--seven full minutes are missing, but you'd never be able to tell. The sonar bleeps, the screeching seagulls, the howling winds are all retained, and whoever wielded the editorial axe, Eugene, did so carefully.
Interestingly, the album's nonchronological track listing works--the summery, childhood enchantment of "See Emily Play" is right next to the school discipline of "Happiest Days of Our Lives"--and at least this way no one will switch off when material from A Momentary Lapse of Reason comes around. Despite the curious omission of "Atom Heart Mother," this really is the very best of the Floyd--from the throbbing "One of These Days" to the pop operatic "Great Gig in the Sky" to the genius silvery fluidity of Dave Gilmour's guitar work. This is timeless, as many members of Sigur Rós, Radiohead, and the Beta Band will attest. --Kevin Maidment
good for the casual listener this is a good CD if you're a casual listener looking for Pink Floyd's best songs. less expensive and less cumbersome than buying their complete set and not bogged down by lesser songs. if you're a hard core fan you will probably find this CD lacking in continuity. Pink Floyd albums were not simply a collection of singles they were a coherent continuous package. that continuity is lost when compiling a greatest hits album.
Great songs, but this isn't how Pink Floyd is meant to be listened to I've heard all of the songs on this compilation, and I own most of the albums that they are from. To me, it seems that these songs lose a lot of their appeal and meaning when they are separated from the albums in which they were originally released. In particular, The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are best listened to from start to finish. Part of the reason I love Pink Floyd so much is that they could create an entire album that was in itself a work of art.
Pink Floyd worked on a scale that is beyond most artists, especially today's sound bite radio-friendly pop and rap artists. (Some rappers have shown some serious talent and artistry, but almost none of the marketable, wealthy ones do.) Pardon the digression...
Anyway, this is a compilation of some excellent songs, and for the person interested in the individual songs it's a good buy. However, I think that what made Pink Floyd music truly great was the way it was composed as an album.
Echoes - the best of pink floyd This product has not been used yet. It is a present for Father's Day. Sorry I couldn't have been more helpful.
Perfect Album to go to Sleep to Let's face it, I don't want to follow the plot of "the Wall" when drifting off. Do you? This disc does the job of sending me off to sleep when I need to be counting sheep (pun almost intended). Few albums do that job well and that in itself makes this a classic compilation.
This is the perfect mix tape of Pink Floyd done in digital perfection. The way the song run together, almost makes it a new Floyd Album. It's nice to see Syd represented very well and maybe some of the new Floyd fans will Discover Piper at the Gates of Dawn because of this. Additionally, if I were to introduce someone to Pink Floyd, I would buy them this and Dark Side of the Moon. Who would have ever thought that a 16 minute track would have sounded short, but the Echoes edit is done masterfully. I call this set, the "Portable Pink Floyd." You will love it. Now how about some classic live material?
Pink Floyd An essential collection for Pink Floyd lovers-though Pink Floyd lovers probably already have all of these songs in other places!
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