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Being the quintessential album rock band, Pink Floyd hasn't had much luck with 'best-of' and 'greatest-hits' compilations, like A Collection of Great Dance Songs and the bizarro follow-up, Works. Since both of those were released in the early '80s (and time travel being unavailable even to Pink Floyd), they obviously left out any tracks from the post-Roger Waters era albums. While countless hours in dorm rooms have been spent laboring over whether or not the post-Waters recordings should even be considered the 'real Floyd,' the later albums nonetheless stand as a further progression in the band's evolution and warrant recognition. The 2001 release Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd does just that, sequencing the tracks non-chronologically in an effort to place more emphasis on the individual songs as opposed to the era they're from. Unfortunately, the effect is rather jarring when the songs transition from the clinical mid-'90s sound of 'High Hopes' directly into the psychedelic groove of the much earlier 'Bike.' Interestingly, as is the case with most of their albums (but a rarity in 'hits' compilations), most of the tracks fade into one another; the hum of 'Keep Talking' segueing into the bleating of 'Sheep,' making for an intriguing listen from one song to the next.

There are many highlights on this collection: the inclusion of the Floyd holy grail 'When the Tigers Broke Free,' a sweeping Waters military dirge that has only appeared in the film The Wall, and the fascinating 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-7,' which has never before been released without the break in the middle (but conspicuously missing parts eight and nine). The confusing inclusion of 'The Fletcher Memorial Home' (possibly just to cover something from The Final Cut) and three songs from the decidedly mediocre Division Bell stand out as obvious head-scratchers, making the die-hard Pink Floyd fan wonder if compiler James Guthrie was really clear on what this album should represent. Guthrie's job was unfortunately doomed from the start; since Pink Floyd's strength has always been in the band's rich, sprawling albums, listening to selections cut and chopped from here and there makes it almost like watching three-minute segments from Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind, and Apocalypse Now, knowing full well that they hold together much better as whole works. Still, Echoes is nearly the best possible assembly of the band's individual songs one could hope for, and collectors and completists should be overjoyed. That being said, anyone just getting into this group's fascinating sound would be much better off starting with Dark Side of the Moon, then working forward, then backward from there: the time honored system of hungrily consuming the Pink Floyd catalog that has stood for generations.

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is the fourth compilation album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 5 November 2001 by EMI internationally and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001, with sales of 214,650 copies.^[1] It remained on the chart for 26 weeks.^[2] The album was certified Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum on 6 December 2001 in the US by the RIAA. It was certified Triple Platinum in the US on 8 January 2002, and Quadruple Platinum on 10 September 2007.

• 4Track listing
  • 4.1CD version
• 7Charts and certifications

Contents[edit]

The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single 'Arnold Layne' in 1967, through to 'High Hopes', the final track from their 1994 studio album The Division Bell. Four of their albums—More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds—are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother^[3] and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation. Each of the 26 tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer/engineerJames Guthrie, to help recreate the concept album feel of the band's mid-period work. All 26 tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order.

The band's longtime guitarist, David Gilmour, said of the process of compiling the tracks themselves:

There’s been the occasional phone call but no great brainstorming sessions to get us all together. All our stuff [is] conducted through our engineer James Guthrie, who coordinated Echoes from his place in Lake Tahoe.^[3]

Curva script after effects free download windows 7. Roger Waters's main contribution was the name of the compilation. 'I had to, because the name the boys came up with was so awful. What was it? 'Sum of the Parts'. See what I mean?'^[4]

Cover[edit]

Storm Thorgerson, who had done the majority of album covers for Pink Floyd, did the Echoes art which features recursive windows in an infinite regression as a nod to his own cover for 1969's Ummagumma, and the objects on each landscape refer to the Pink Floyd discography. For instance, there's the man on fire from Wish You Were Here, another wearing the Delicate Sound of Thunder lightbulb suit, dolls of the Atom Heart Mother cow and the Animalspig, a bike and both a brick wall and the hammers from The Wall. Eventually Thorgerson opted to make two images, with another used for the back cover. To create the idea on a photograph, various walls - which had varied measurements and angles to ensure that 'nothing seemed to fit other than by eye through the lens.' - were built and put in a country landscape in Sussex. Actors, props and fittings were set in and between those walls.^[5] The original design was one of two sketches submitted for Dream Theater's 1997 album Falling into Infinity, with the original being framed and hanging in the home of former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and is pointed out by Portnoy in his Hudson Music instructional drum DVD In Constant Motion.^[6]

Release[edit]

Echoes is Floyd's first album to include 'When the Tigers Broke Free', from the film version of The Wall (the song reappeared on a 2004 rerelease of The Final Cut in a slightly remixed form). It was their first compilation to include songs from The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell and is the only one to include 'Echoes', from 1971's Meddle.

With first-week sales of 215,000 – beating their previous first-week peak of 198,000 for Pulse – the album hit number two on the Billboard 200, behind Britney Spears' Britney (746,000).^[8]

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A week after the band's one-off reunion at Live 8, HMV said sales of Echoes rose by 1343%.^[9]

Track listing[edit]

We’ve been arguing about it [track selection] since May. Nick sent us a list right at the beginning, then he seemed to lose interest. Rick never seemed to want to get involved in it. It wandered along rather fitfully until recently, when I thought I'd better work out what we should be trying to do with it, whether we should try and represent every album or not, and on what basis we should be choosing songs. In the end we had to get everyone to vote on a list. (..) I agree [that most of the songs seemed to have picked themselves]. When I look at it, it's bloody obvious really. It's amazing how long the process has been getting it sorted out.

CD version[edit]

Disc one[edit]

Disc two[edit]

Vinyl version[edit]

Rejected songs[edit]

According to James Guthrie, the following songs were considered for inclusion:^[10]

• 'Interstellar Overdrive' (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967
• 'Scarecrow' (Barrett) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967
• 'Chapter 24' (Barrett) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967
• 'Careful with That Axe, Eugene' (Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason) B-side of 'Point Me at the Sky', 1968; also appears on Relics
• 'Grantchester Meadows' (Waters) Ummagumma, 1969
• An edited version of 'Atom Heart Mother' (Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason, Geesin) Atom Heart Mother, 1970
• 'If' (Waters) Atom Heart Mother, 1970
• 'Fat Old Sun' (Gilmour) Atom Heart Mother, 1970
• 'Fearless' (Gilmour, Waters) Meddle, 1971
• 'San Tropez' (Waters) Meddle, 1971
• 'Breathe' (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
• 'Brain Damage' (Waters) The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
• 'Eclipse' (Waters) The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
• 'Dogs' (Waters, Gilmour) Animals, 1977
• 'Mother' (Waters) The Wall, 1979
• 'Young Lust' (Waters, Gilmour) The Wall, 1979
• 'Nobody Home' (Waters) The Wall, 1979
• 'Your Possible Pasts' (Waters) The Final Cut, 1983
• 'The Gunner's Dream' (Waters) The Final Cut, 1983
• 'Paranoid Eyes' (Waters) The Final Cut, 1983

Credits[edit]

Pink Floyd

• Syd Barrett – guitar and lead vocals on 'Astronomy Domine', 'See Emily Play', 'Arnold Layne', 'Jugband Blues' and 'Bike'; guitar on 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun'.
• Roger Waters – bass guitar, rhythm guitar on 'Sheep', tape effects, lead vocals on 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives', 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part II', 'Hey You', 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun', 'Sheep', 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond', 'Comfortably Numb', 'The Fletcher Memorial Home', 'When the Tigers Broke Free', backing vocals.
• David Gilmour – guitars; fretlessbass guitar on 'Hey You'; bass guitar on 'Sheep', 'High Hopes', and 'One Of These Days'; keyboards; drum programming on 'Sorrow', lead vocals on 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part II', 'Echoes', 'Hey You', 'Money', 'Keep Talking', 'Sorrow', 'Time', 'Comfortably Numb', 'Us and Them', 'Learning to Fly', 'Wish You Were Here', 'High Hopes', backing vocals.
• Richard Wright – keyboards, organ, piano, synthesizers, clavinet, co-lead vocals on 'Astronomy Domine', 'Echoes', 'Time', 'Us and Them', backing vocals.
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion, tape effects, vocalisations on 'One of These Days'

Additional personnel

• Sam Brown – backing vocals on 'Keep Talking'
• Jon Carin – keyboards on 'Marooned', 'Keep Talking', 'Learning to Fly' and 'High Hopes'
• Lesley Duncan – backing vocals on 'Time' and 'Us and Them'
• Venetta Fields – backing vocals on 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'
• Donnie Gerard – backing vocals on 'Sorrow' and 'Learning to Fly'
• James Guthrie – remastering, percussion on 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives'
• Islington Green School – choir on 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)'
• Michael Kamen – orchestrations
• Carol Kenyon – backing vocals on 'Keep Talking'
• Darlene Koldenhoven – backing vocals on 'Sorrow' and 'Learning to Fly'
• Tony Levin – bass guitar on 'Learning to Fly'
• Durga McBroom – backing vocals on 'Keep Talking'
• Dick Parry – saxophones on 'Money', 'Us and Them', and 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'
• Pontarddulais Male Voice Choir led by Noel Davis – choir on 'When the Tigers Broke Free'
• Guy Pratt – bass guitar on 'Marooned' and 'Keep Talking'
• The Salvation Army (The International Staff Band) on 'Jugband Blues':
  • Ray Bowes (cornet)
  • Terry Camsey (cornet)
  • Mac Carter (trombone)
  • Les Condon (E♭ bass)
  • Maurice Cooper (euphonium)
  • Ian Hankey (trombone)
  • George Whittingham (B♭ bass)
  • One other uncredited musician
• Phyllis St. James – backing vocals on 'Sorrow' and 'Learning to Fly'
• Barry St. John – backing vocals on 'Time' and 'Us and Them'
• Liza Strike – backing vocals on 'Time' and 'Us and Them'
• Storm Thorgerson – cover design
• Clare Torry – vocals on 'The Great Gig in the Sky'
• Doris Troy – backing vocals on 'Time' and 'Us and Them'
• Carmen Twillie – backing vocals on 'Sorrow' and 'Learning to Fly'
• Gary Wallis – percussion on 'Keep Talking'
• Carlena Williams – backing vocals on 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'

Charts and certifications[edit]

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