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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 967
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $7.23 |
| Used Price: $5.25 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Meddle Track Listing:
1. One of These Days
2. Pillow of Winds
3. Fearless
4. San Tropez
5. Seamus
6. Echoes
Editorial Review:
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
Meddle Reviews:
After I heard "Dark Side of the Moon", I heard some of these tracks playing on FM radio back in 1974 
2009-11-08 -
The opening instrumental track on this album, called "One of These Days" was one of those kind of songs that made me worship the DJ's of WRIF FM Detriot back when I was 13. I then noticed that "Fearless" was also playing on the radio pretty regularly, which was cool, but when I bought this album and played the track "Echoes", I was blown away! My taste in music pretty much changed over night.
Back in Detroit, in the late fall of 1974; I was still listening to AM radio. Of course, every Saturday, I tuned in to the Casey Kasem American Top Forty. Disco was just beginning and some of the silliest songs started to become the most popular songs. So, my aunt introduced me to an FM rock station, and I started to hear music with more depth and intensity. I started to listen to Robin Trower, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Queen, Aerosmith, and the such.
But then, I started hearing those FM rock stations playing older, more unusual expressions of rock. I paid more attention to the instrumentation of the music, and in turn, I discovered Progressive Rock. In one day, I discovered King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King", then "And You and I" by Yes, and then the title track from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's "Trilogy." That was it! I never played AM radio again. In fact, I began to hate the songs that I thought I loved earlier. Nevermore. I was on a new path for what music meant to me. I never played my 45's ever again (well, not for quite a long time anyway). My first stereo that I bought was an 8-track tape stereo, with a turntable on top. I started buying 8-track tapes for rock albums, but I definitely bought vinyl LP's for my favorite Progressive Rock albums. I started buying all the available Pink Floyd albums, and when "Wish You Were Here" came out in 1975, I never listened to AM radio ever again.
Here it is, nearly 2010, and I'm still loving music from nearly 40 years ago, that sounds more futuristic and advanced than music has sounded for the past 20 years. Progressive Rock is magical, mystical, and optimistically psychological.
The first GOOD pre-dark side pink floyd album 
2009-08-31 - Obviously Echoes is the main attraction here, but the other songs are all OK as well (Seamus being the only weak track). A curious mix of musical styles but bookended with unmistakablely classic Pink Floyd. And for once, the writing duties are shared...
It's hard to be objective, but... 
2009-07-18 - Pink Floyd is such an iconic band - and has such a loyal fan base - that it's hard to assess the group's work free from outside pressures and influences. For starters, rabid Floyd fanatics consider every note of every album (at least until bassist Roger Waters left the band!)to be pure genius, so any criticism is GUARANTEED to generate a hailstorm of negative response. It's no wonder that most of the Amazon reviews give Meddle five stars!
So at the risk of alienating millions of PF disciples, I'll say it: this is not a very good album. Several of their records are among the best rock music ever recorded, but Meddle one ain't one of them. The opening track ("One of These Days") is first-rate Floyd, but the rest of side 1 is fairly forgettable filler. If you don't believe me, ask yourself why the band almost NEVER plays this material in concert or includes the songs on compilation CDs or videos.
Then there is Echoes, the album's magnum opus. It's one of those things that's better in theory (or in hazy memories of hazy college dorm rooms) than in reality. Yes, it was groundbreaking for 1971, but it's also hard to listen to from start to finish. Want proof: on PF's compilation album (called "Echoes") the song was cut down to less than eight minutes!!! And even at that, it's still too long.
Buy The Wall. Buy Dark Side. Buy Radio KAOS (Waters' solo album). But don't waste your time with Meddle.
Meddling with powers they were beginning to understand
2009-05-08 - It was becoming clear at this point that this group would be for more than the acid-hippie-freakout demographics they played into priorly. Meddle showed Floyd at their straightforwardly best, effortlessly substituting psychedelic folk for blues rock without the slightest contrivances.
if u don't get it...you don't
2009-04-12 - much of pre-DSOTM pink floyd is an aquired taste...if you don't get it...you don't
you should start with relics (a kind of greatest hits of there early period) and then obscured by clouds...then try umma gumma, atom heart mother and meddle
i love it all but then...I'm into textured music
There's no crime in liking the later floyd...but the middle period is just as relevant and rewarding
