PINK FLOYD Echoes THE BEST OF 180 gram Audiophile LIMITED EDITION 4 LP Set
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PINK FLOYD Echoes
The Best Of Pink Floyd
EX/NM Used Audiophile Vinyl 4 Record Box Set
Record Label: EMI 7243 5 36111 1 8 (Netherlands)
2001. Four LP Box set pressed in The Netherlands. Audiophile 180 Gram HQ Vinyl.
Condition: Outside deluxe laminated box is like new. Corners are sharp, sides rigid and no wear. All four LPs have their own individual jacket and printed, full color inner sleeve. All four outer jackets have a small split (less than an inch) on the very middle top of the... the set's only flaw. Vinyl on all four LPs is like new and play beautifully.
Record One
1. Astronomy Domine
2. See Emily Play
3. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
4. Pt. 2 Another Brick in the Wall
5. Echoes
6. Hey You
7. Marooned
8. The Great Gig in the Sky
9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
10. Money
11. Keep Talking
12. Sheep
13. Sorrow
14. Pts. 1-7 Shine on You Crazy Diamond
15. Time
16. The Fletcher Memorial Home
17. Comfortably Numb
18. When the Tigers Broke Free
19. One of These Days
20. Us and Them
21. Learning to Fly
22. Arnold Layne
23. Wish You Were Here
24. Jugband Blues
25. High Hopes
26. Bike
Review: Through their long history, Pink Floyd moved through psychedelia, prog-rock, space-rock, and more, emerging as pioneers in all of those styles. This four-disc compilation takes on the formidable task of creating a definitive Floyd collection. Though there's no chronological running order to give a sense of the group's development, there are plenty of key tracks from all the eras of Pink Floyd's career. We're given a healthy dose of material from the band's psychedelic '60s period, when they were spearheaded by the ultimate acid-damaged genius Syd Barrett (the loopy "Bike," the otherworldly "Astronomy Domine"). The most overtly progressive tendencies of '70s Floyd are aired on the glorious epic "Echoes," whose suite-like construction shows off both the band's technical facility and orchestration skills.
Naturally, there are some cuts from the band's watershed album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, one of the best-selling LPs of all time (the gospel-tinged "The Great Gig in the Sky," the near-funky capitalist plaint "Money"). Hardcore Floyd fans might object to the number of songs from the post-Roger Waters era, but even these less-celebrated tunes work in the overall historical context. While it's easy to quibble about the absence of various Floyd favorites (no "Interstellar Overdrive?"), there's so much crucial music on this collection that it's impossible to come away from it without a strong sense of what Pink Floyd such an important band.
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