Product Details

* Audio CD (November 6, 2001)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 2
* Format: Original recording remastered
* Label: Capitol
* ASIN: B00005QDW5
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette | LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 388 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #708 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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Disc: 1
1. Astronomy Domine Listen Listen
2. See Emily Play Listen Listen
3. The Happiest Day of Our Lives Listen Listen
4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) Listen Listen
5. Echoes Listen Listen
6. Hey You Listen Listen
7. Marooned Listen Listen
8. The Great Gig in the Sky Listen Listen
9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Listen Listen
10. Money Listen Listen
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Disc: 2
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) Listen Listen
2. Time Listen Listen
3. The Fletcher Memorial Home Listen Listen
4. Comfortably Numb Listen Listen
5. When the Tigers Broke Free Listen Listen
6. One of These Days Listen Listen
7. Us And Them Listen Listen
8. Learning to Fly Listen Listen
9. Arnold Layne Listen Listen
10. Wish You Were Here Listen Listen
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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 Rós, Radiohead, and the Beta Band will attest. --Kevin Maidment