Pink Floyd - Collection of Great Dance Songs
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Artist: Pink FloydEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Music Label: Capitol
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- PINK FLOYD A COLLECTION OF GREAT DANCE SONGS
- One Of These Days
- Money - (1981 version)
- Sheep
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond
- Wish You Were Here
- Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
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Free Music Review: Why Pink Floyd's second compilation album gets a bad rap I don't know
Hit: 5 Stars
Pink Floyd's 1981 compilation album A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a fairly good compilation if you ask me.
Released in November of 1981, the album has a nice mix of songs from the band's classic period of 1971-81.
The first compilation was 1971's Relics. 1973's A Nice Pair was a re-packaging of the group's first two efforts as one double album.
In 1981, EMI wanted Pink FLoyd to put out a rarities album while its US label Columbia/CBS wanted a new album PERIOD! Sine the band had no outtakes, singer/guitarist David Gilmour put together this compilation. Interestingly enough, half of the tracks are altered in one way or the other on ACOGDS, so it is a pretty good collectors album for people who have most Pink Floyd albums, as opposed to many other artists' compilation albums that are boring because the songs are the same exact version as they were on their original albums.
Since Pink Floyd were not a band known for hit singles, they were a band known for concept and theme albums. The Floyd album covers, this one included (done by Hipgnosis as the pseudonym TCP after they severely fell out with Roger Waters over the Animals sleeve), are always cool to collect.
This compilation starts with the standard version of "One of These Days" (a/k/a One of These Days I am Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces) is a good classic spooky song, which is always a good song to be on an album and is the same version from Meddle. "Money" is great. The version of Money on Dance Songs is done by guitarist/singer David Gilmour by his lonesome with James Guthrie co-producing and engineering (Gilmour plays all guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals and produces himself here except saxophone was played as always by Dick Parry) because Capitol/EMI in the US and Canada would not let the band license the song to the band for the compilation for fear it would kill Dark Side of the Moon's sales so David re-recorded this track note for note (some parts of the solos and the drumming are different and you can tell soundwise the recording is from 1981). "Sheep" is the original version found on the album Animals.
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is altered here to include Parts 1, 2, 4 and 7 and not badly edited by Gilmour himself. "Wish You Were Here" is the regular standard version which it comes in segue from the looped ending of SOYCD. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" has the single mix intro as found on the 45 single and is the album version with the "don't eat your meat" ending so a unique version here.
There are a whole lot of Floyd compilations, but I'd have to say this is one of the best (in fact first introduced me to material from Wish You Were Here, Meddle and Animals as a 5 year old when my mom had the original vinyl record) and was the only best-of to sell well in the US in its initial run as it hit the US Top 40 hitting #31 and going Gold within two months of release, eventually Double Platinum (two million copies in US sales).
The remastering on this 2000 Capitol remaster was superbly handled by James Guthrie and Doug Sax as the remaster was done back in 1997 for when Columbia Records (outside Europe) initilally released these remasters.
If you want to get a good Floyd compliation but don't want to pay $30 for Echoes, get this collection.
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