Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
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Free Music Notes for Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
Free Music Review: Greatest Hits Compilation--Pink Floyd style!
Hit: 5 Stars
Let's be honest here. Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands of our time. Can you think of any other band (that retained majority of the same members) who went on to produce GREAT music in three distinctly different decades? There is the Syd Barret-era Floyd which is high on psychedelic appeal (pun intended? who knows?) There is the David Gilmour-era floyd which soars into another galaxy with the great album Darkside of the Moon (among many others of course.) Finally there was the Roger Waters-era floyd which was, if nothing else, great in its own unique way--but still Floydian in style. Now, how do you fit all of these "eras" onto just one "greatest hits" album? Well it would be easy, but just filling two discs full of PF's music wouldn't be fitting for this band. No, we needed something unique, something crazy, something greater than the sum of the music contained therein--well, let's not get too gimmicky here. It still has to be tasteful and elegant. In that vein, then, Echoes delivers. It delivers BIG. The songs mesh together into a cornucopia of ingenuity, originality and inspiration. Everything flows together and it's almost like listening to the music again for the first time. Floyd's music, although it spanned some 30 years, still remains uniquely Floyd. All songs work and flow together. That is why this album is so great. It's not just another "greatest hits" album, it is a completely "new" album for music fans the world over.Free Music Review: One of the best "Best Of" sets out there
Hit: 5 Stars
<Echoes> has some of the best prog rock/rock songs by one of the best bands that has ever existed. From the rebellious "Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2)" to the soothing, deep "Wish You Were Here," to the power-driven "One of These Days," and to the irresistable "Bike," <Echoes> houses everything. If you start at the beginning of the first disc and listen all the way to the end of the second, you'll have gone on a vertible roller coaster of emotions, ranging from sadness to anger to bliss. Pink Floyd are masters at that, screwing with your feeling through the power of music. The gems on this two-disc set include such works as "Wish You Were Here," "High Hopes," "Learning to Fly," "Hey You," "Sheep," and my personal favorite Pink Floyd song, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." The range of music on here is vast: some songs are fast, powerful songs, others are touching, sad songs, while others are completely blissful and beautiful.But, Pink Floyd botched, if just a little. They left out some vital songs that would have made this an essential collection: "Welcome to the Machine" is probably the most obvious, but other songs like "Speak to Me/Breathe" would have been a pleasant addition.
Nonetheless, <Echoes> is a must-have for any Pink Floyd fan, plus for those who are just getting onto them. <Echoes> has songs that will please a wide range of people, so it should be in almost any music fan's collection (unless your idea of "music" is rap).
Free Music Review: I've never seen so many whining babies!
Hit: 5 Stars
First, let me say right off the bat that I'm hardly a Floyd connoisseur. I've always been a casual fan, owning a couple of discs, and basically familiar with thier 70's heyday albums (Dark Side thru Wall). But I do consider myself a music fan, and as far as compilations go, this one's great.I can't believe so many of the comments I've read that this package is not worth the $$. What did you expect? For one, if you can fit all of a band like Floyd's greatest songs onto a 2 disc set without leaving anything worthwhile off of it, then they can't really be that great, can they? And sure, songs like "Mother", "Have a Cigar", "Not Now John", or other pre-Dark Side songs may be more worthy than say, "Keep Talking" or "Sorrow", but to be a true, carreer spanning retrospective, every period should be represented.
Could there have been a third disc? Of course, Floyd was around for a long time and had a lot of worthy material. But then the same complainers who say they're "gouging" their fans would complain about the price even louder (and as far as I'm aware, nobody in the band is holding a gun to anyone's head, forcing them to purchase this - if you don't like the song selections, don't buy it - where does this gouging (...) come in?).
Bottom line, "Echoes" is a thorough musical history of Pink Floyd. If you think of it that way, rather than a "Best Of", which the subtitle labels it as, than you'll see it's a great set to have in your collection.
Free Music Review: The Best Pink Floyd collection there could possible be
Hit: 5 Stars
Although this reviewer is a new Pink Floyd fan, I am kicking myself for not getting into this music earlier. The reason that I bought this cd was for Another Brick In The Wall (Part II). After listening to some other tracks, I was hooked. On Disc 1 the good songs that are really worth lisening to are: 1. See Emily Play. 2. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives. 3: Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. II). 5. Hey You. 6. Marooned. 7. Money. The great songs on the second cd are: 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7). 2. Time. 3. Comfortably Numb. 4. Us and Them. 5. Wish You Were Here. The other songs are great but those in my mind stand out to be the choice songs on the cd. Like I said before, I was not really a fan before I bought this cd. Oh sure, I had The Dark Side Of The Moon and thought that that cd was their only good cd with their only good songs. Boy was I sure wrong. If you do not have this cd now, I suggest you go out and buy it. If you feel like you can't buy it because you are too young for groups that were around in the 1960's then you have no clue in the fact that both the type of music came from this style and that quite possibly the artists that you like also listen to this group. That is how I get into music that is before the 1980's. Find out what my favorite artists listen to and then try to find a "Greatest Hits" cd. Enough of that rambling, go out and buy it if you do not have it.Free Music Review: Echoes, The Dark Side Of The Moon of greatest hits albums.
Hit: 5 Stars
Usually when you think of Greatest Hits Albums you think of heartless compilations with all the hits and popular songs, with no interesting cult-classic tunes, and no artful reception, a good example of that is The Who's: 20th Century Masters Collection. But there is no way you can call this a greatest hits album, because it doesn't contain all the greatest hits, and it negates what most greatest hits albums are.
But what Pink Floyd did for Echoes is something much more amazing, they do for all of these tunes (which are put in no chronological order whatsoever), and give them a Dark Side Of The Moon makeover, with crossfading, additional effects, and what makes it more interesting is that they used the original 1/4" master tapes, so they sound so close to the original album.
This album contains it all; some mega-hits, early-day Syd Barrett psychedelia, deep cuts, and (though not being a fan of the Post-Waters Floyd) they make the Post-Waters Floyd Cuts sound good with the rest of the music.
This album is an artistic treasure, good for any audiophile or any artist. Soak in the good vibes that this album will give to you. Paint a picture, form a band and make some far-out music yourself. The inspiration possibilities are endless, but if you buy this album, even if you're not much of an artsy or musical type of person, you will be inspired to do something artistic. Trust me.