Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

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Product description Pink Floyd Echoes (1 & 2) We receive various CDs from the
radio cores that we remanufacture. As a result, we are are now selling them!
Our CDs are professionally resurfaced and are guaranteed to work or your money
back! These listings are for the disc only and do not come with the case,
album art, or inserts. If you have any questions about the CDs, please do not
hesitate to get in touch. 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

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Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.42 x 5.16 x 0.47 inches; 4.87 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Parlophone
• SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 27, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Parlophone
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
• Best Sellers Rank: #8,533 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #18 in Classic Rock Supergroups #86 in Classic Psychedelic Rock #136 in Progressive Rock