Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd 2001 (Remastered 2016)

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.

TRACKLIST

CD1

01. Astronomy Domine
02. See Emily Play
03. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
04. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
05. Echoes
06. Hey You
07. Marooned
08. The Great Gig In The Sky
09. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
10. Money
11. Keep Talking
12. Sheep
13. Sorrow

CD2

01. Shine On You, Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
02. Time
03. The Fletcher Memorial Home
04. Comfortably Numb
05. When The Tigers Broke Free
06. One Of These Days
07. Us And Them
08. Learning To Fly
09. Arnold Layne
10. Wish You Were Here
11. Jugband Blues
12. High Hopes
13. Bike