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Music CD - Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
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Music CD: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
Artist: Pink Floyd
List Price: $29.98
Our Price: $10.48
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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1. Astronomy Domine
2. See Emily Play
3. The Happiest Day of Our Lives
4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
5. Echoes
6. Hey You
7. Marooned
8. The Great Gig in the Sky
9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
10. Money
11. Keep Talking
12. Sheep
13. Sorrow
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724353611125
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 2
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Perfect Album to go to Sleep to
Comment: 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?
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Summary: Pink Floyd
Comment: 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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Summary: Buy this if you are new to Floyd or if you want to hear your fav songs BUTCHERED
Comment: Yeah I bought this CD, but only because I would call myself a pretty big fan and wanted a "complete" collection. Here's my biggest problems: they butchered Shine On and Echoes.
That being said, if you are new to PF, this is a pretty good place to start. If you're not a huge fan but already have some PF CDs then do your self a favor and skip this one because you already have 90% of the songs, instead, go out and buy "less common" albums like Piper at the Gates of Dawn or Relics.
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Summary: NOPE.
Comment: Ok. I bought this when it first came out a few years ago, for a pretty hefty price, i might add... ONLY because it was said to have creatively linked all of the songs together in new ways. I am a huge fan of the Floyd, and I was curious as to how they could flow a whole career of tracks together into one seamless mix. Well the answer is simple. They didn't.
I know I have to realize that not everybody may feel like buying all of the Floyd albums the way that I do, and may just want a nicely packaged hits mix for their collection... but to me, this mix is almost impossible to sit through. It's not seamless at all. Everything is thrown together all over the place. Syd era songs from the sixties are placed next to late eighties era songs... and the "blends" are terrible. 95% of the time we just get some sort of fade out into wind, fade back into next song thing going on.
The selection I guess isn't too bad for a career spanning album... but be aware, that you barely crack the surface as to what Pink Floyd has to offer... you barely even crack the commercially huge stuff, let alone the underground stuff. Also... what is the deal with "When Tigers Broke Free." Is that even really a song? I know it was in the movie version of The Wall, but I think even then, they found the tape in the trash can, and were like "hey...this'll fill up some space!" The reason it was never on an album before is because it reeks! Completely a lifeless tune that goes nowhere. I would have taken a song from The Final Cut in place of that junk. The best portion of the mix for me, was when they played Jugband Blues>High Hopes>Bike... I thought those songs blended well... two Syd songs with a nineties Gilmoure era track in the middle.
The title track was about seven minutes longer on it's proper album-Meddle.
I say skip this bit, and get yourself some proper albums. You will be greatly rewarded.
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Summary: Karen of NY
Comment: This is a MUST HAVE CD for ANY Pink Floyd fan. The pleasure of being taken on a philosophical journey through a Pink Floyd individual release, once known as an album and now a CD, should not be over looked. First devour each Pink Floyd album, or at the least their opus maximum The Dark Side of the Moon, as well as The Wall,and Wish You Were Here. Then buy this "best of" and revive the memories etched in you soul.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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