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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 1152
Released: November 6, 2001 |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PINK FLOYD
Title: ECHOES-BEST OF PINK FLOYD
Street Release Date: 11/06/2001
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd:
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
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd Reviews:
CD 
2008-11-16 - Very great disc for discover Pink Floyd, if you don't want to buy another expensive PF CDs.
I received it very crashed and I had to change the CD box. I don't know how people can send CDs with no correct protecion boxes...
A good intro for would-be-fans
2008-10-28 - While Echoes or any kind of compilation would never represent Pink Floyd the way they should be reprsented, this compilation is a good intro for those who are curious about the brilliant and sophisticated pieces of Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd, the band, is the creation of Roger Waters who throughout the 70s was running a charity for 3 other musicians and gave them the honour to be a part of Pink Floyd. If you listen to the hilarious David Gilmour's On An Island, you will understand how good Roger Waters is in composion, and how bad David Gilmour is in everything. Only under Roger's guidance David used to be a talented musician.
Excellent choice for the casual fan 
2008-10-12 - This really has all the hits that the casual fan would desire on a convenient double CD. I can see that die-hards would be upset with the way some songs have been edited. Well they can stick to their original collection and stop whingeing as far as I'm concerned. There has been a lot of talk about how Gilmour and Waters have put their differences aside to select the songs. And that means that Barrett songs have been magnanimously included which improves this collection even though these songs have quite a different, "happier" feel. However it seems to me that Gilmour and Waters insisted on some of their very "special" songs to be included just to be difficult leading to inclusions of forgettable songs like Flether Memorial, When the tigers..., Keep talking. These spaces could have been filled by better songs. For a band that IMHO has quite a few duds on their studio albums they have managed to concentrate the good Pink Floyd songs onto a very worthwhile double CD.
A Pleasing Compilation
2008-09-16 - Let's get all the nitpicking out of the way. Firstly, it's a bit funny this compilation is called "Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd," when Echoes is presented in an abridged form. This isn't the only song that suffers from being cut short, as the classic Shine On You Crazy Diamond also suffers from unnecessary edits. Breaking apart the songs from Dark Side of the Moon gets rid of the notion of the album being one 42 minute long song. Original segways of songs into other songs are replaced with new ones to fit the track listing of this album.
So why did I give this compilation five stars? Well, given the few flaws stated above, this is still a really fantastic collection of Floyd songs. Every era of the band is represented, and you're given the early singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play," along with other Barret era songs. Sure, you may feel that there should be more tracks from certain albums, but the track listing gives you a taste of many different times in Floydian history. What's really noteworthy here is the price. For what you're paying, typically no more than $20, you get a hefty amount of material. It's a perfect listen if you want to listen to a Pink Floyd playlist, rather than having to switch out albums.
Really is "The Best of Pink Floyd".
2008-09-16 - I am a big 70s music fan, and Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands from the era. The whole CD is wonderful, and I think all of the songs that are in the compilation deserve to be there. I also like that they included music from the Syd Barrett-led era of the band, as well as the Roger Walters-led era. Great compilation.
