Music CD - Pink Floyd: Meddle

	Music CD: Meddle Artist: Pink Floyd List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $10.04 Your Save: $ 7.94 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks: 1. One Of These Days 2. A Pillow Of Winds 3. Fearless 4. San Tropez 5. Seamus 6. Echoes
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077774603423 Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Best Pink Floyd album to get high to... Comment: The music on this album flows seamlessly from the beginning track to the epic 20 min.+ "Echoes". In my opinion the greatest Pink Floyd album of all time, I absolutely trip out to this album, the feeling is 100% euphoria. Best enjoyed with high quality headphones on. Get "up" there, sit back and enjoy the trip. Customer Rating: Summary: Best Pink Floyd Album...Kind of Comment: This album is tied (for me) with wish you were here and Animals for the best Pink Floyd album. I am mainly a metal/hard rock fan. However, I love Pink Floyd more than any band, why? That is because of the lgreat voice of David Gilmour with his lyrical guitar playing and Richard Wright pounding on the keyboards while Nick Mason is doing solid drumming while Waters is on the bass. This album is where Pink Floyd started to sound like...well Pink Floyd. That probably doesn't make sense since their first CD was Piper at the Gates of Dawn and they should sound like that, however I started with the wall, then Dark Side of the moon, then the rest of the CD's. This CD has the gem, Echoes, on it. This is where their true sound started to shine through. In the middle is swans calling or something which is...interesting and if it wasn't Pink Floyd it would be stupid and silly, however that is Pink Floyd. This song is 23 minutes long and is a collaboration of everything awesome about Pink Floyd. *sorry for any wrong spellings Customer Rating: Summary: Lullabies for stoners Comment: Man this is a boring album. There's nothing offensively bad about it's just all so achingly soulless. One Of These Days. Oh! It's actually moderately catchy! For the first minute or so that is. Dum badum badum badum badum badum etc... (and etc etc etc, and even etc) I remember churning out something like this on the bass string of my guitar when I was 13. I didn't leave the tape running though I didn't make millions from it. Darn. Pillow Of Winds/ Fearless. I just don't get these boring acoustic squeaky voiced bits of fluff. Inoffensive and fairly pleasant, but they're the type of songs you're grandparents would approve of. Saint Tropez/ Seamus. Other than hinting at a future prediliction for luxury yachts in the Mediterrean these songs are...well nothing, basically. Echoes. Oh! Duuuuude! A Floydian soundscape! Whooooaaaa! *toke* *toke* Well there were dozens of bands around this era who were doing better, bolder and stranger soundscapes and made PF's sonic wankery sound like Perry Como in comparison. Tangerine Dream were much better at this and also didn't have a vocalist trying to sound like a choirboy trying to please his music teacher. So overall it's hard to know what to make of this album. It's not melodic enough to be good pop, it definitely does not rock and as prog rock/ pyschedelia it's mediocre too. But still, you're not buying it for the music anyway but for the cool factor associated with this band. :p Customer Rating: Summary: Their best musical album Comment: If you were going to buy just one Pink Floyd CD, you'd have to go with Dark Side of the Moon, simply because it's one of the most unique and undeniably great rock albums ever made. But if you are going to buy another, Meddle is the one to get. It's the band's finest *musical* effort in which the lyrics, pioneering aural effects, and musicianship balance each other without one or two dominating the way they do on all the other albums. Ticking clocks and beating hearts, perfectly suited as they are to DSOTM, aren't music. And the increasingly sardonic lyrics in their subsequent albums became more famous - and overbearing - than the tunes. Meddle, as other reviewers have pointed out, lay at the turning point of Pink Floyd's musical development. They shook off the excessive avant-garde noises from the Syd Barrett era but kept the sense of experimentation, disciplining their electronic toys to stay within conventional musical formats. There are shades of the earlier space rock (the opening track, "One of These Days", ties into Ummagumma's "Careful With That Axe Eugene" with the same musical buildup and single lyric near the end). And the "Echoes" suite at the end hints at the album-length explorations so astonishingly perfected on Dark Side of the Moon. Everything on Meddle is music, with thoughtful (and playful) lyrics, and the occasional sonic effect that sets the mood of the pieces without overwhelming the song itself. So buy this album to hear what Pink Floyd could do when they realized just how talented a band they actually were and didn't (yet) have to try and live up to a masterpiece. Customer Rating: Summary: Pink Floyd showed us what they could do Comment: When I was a teenager I first listened to this band. I discovered new sounds, and my perception of music became more acute. Pink Floyd let out Meddle: what an album! All songs seemed to blend together in a perfect package destined to awaken feelings in the listeners. The last song of the album, incredibly long for the time, has always been a special treat for me. I have never gotten tired of listening to it. Beautiful special effects from the synthesizer, eerie and dreamy sounds from the guitar all blending in superbly with the drums, bass and voices give this song a superior level of quality. I recommend this album to everyone, as it is and will always be a true mastepiece! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: For all that menacing, hatchet-happy growl at the beginning of Meddle's opener, "One of These Days," Pink Floyd really weren't about to "cut you into little pieces." Meddle did, however, show that the reigning British monarchs of 1970s-era psychedelia could rip into galloping jams. It also showed what its predecessor, Atom Heart Mother, promised--that the band could excel in long, breathtaking suites that revealed strains of late-classical music, Sun Ra-inspired space explorations, and a patchwork approach to colliding sounds that together took on acid-drenched proportions. And if all that isn't enough, "San Tropez" revealed a playful side of the band, playing footsy with loungy jazz and having good fun in the process. --Andrew Bartlett