Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd | 
 enlarge | Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  428 reviews
Sales Rank: 21457
Format: Limited Edition
Media: LP Record
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.5 x 0.9
UPC: 724353611118
EAN: 0724353611118
ASIN: B00005QDYT
Publication Date: 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd, Barrett, Syd | | • | See Emily Play - Pink Floyd, Barrett, Syd | | • | The Happiest Days of Our Lives - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Echoes - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Hey You - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Marooned - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Money - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Keep Talking - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Sheep - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Sorrow - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David |
Disc 2
| • | Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-7 - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Time - Pink Floyd, Mason, Nick | | • | The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | One of These Days - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Us and Them - Pink Floyd, Waters, Roger | | • | Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd, Carin, Jon | | • | Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd, Barrett, Syd | | • | Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd, Barrett, Syd | | • | High Hopes - Pink Floyd, Gilmour, David | | • | Bike - Pink Floyd, Barrett, Syd |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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 Ros, Radiohead, and the Beta Band will attest. --Kevin Maidment
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| Customer Reviews:
Came after Christmas, disappointing January 6, 2009
Linda Stillman (LOVELAND, CO.)
This was a gift for my son. It was sad that I didn't have it on Christmas. I did receive it in the shipping window, but I ordered it on Nov. 30. Almost a month getting it. Dealing with the seller was just okay, and I saw some other responses from him that were NOT nice. Would NOT buy from this seller again!!!
 The only compilation worth buying December 8, 2008
Light of Earendil (Middle Earth)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all excuse any mistakes in my english.
This compilation is a great introduction to Pink Floyd music. Their music is beautiful and soothing, and most of it feel like waking up within a dream and being taken into a strange and wonderful world.
Although it misses some great songs (Fat Old Sun, Brain Damage/Eclipse, Summer 68, Mother and maybe an edited version of Atom Heart Mother) and some songs should have not been here (Set The Controls, Marooned, Keep Talking, When The Tigers Broke Free) and my favorite Echoes was edited, overall this is a great compilation that I like to listen to when I'm working at my computer or when I just sit and sip a good glass of wine.
I ordered the 4 vinyl box set and sounds great, I think even better than the cd, and the artwork is beautiful and sophisticated.
Greetings from Mexico!
CD November 16, 2008
P. Rodriguez Garcia (Spain)
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 October 28, 2008
Incommunicado (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 October 12, 2008
C. vorbach
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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