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Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd | 
| Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  432 reviews
Sales Rank: 1080
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 724353611125
UPC: 724353611125
EAN: 0724353611125
ASIN: B00005QDW5
Publication Date: 2001
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Astronomy Domine | | • | See Emily Play | | • | The Happiest Day of Our Lives | | • | Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) | | • | Echoes | | • | Hey You | | • | Marooned | | • | The Great Gig in the Sky | | • | Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun | | • | Money | | • | Keep Talking | | • | Sheep | | • | Sorrow |
Disc 2
| • | Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) | | • | Time | | • | The Fletcher Memorial Home | | • | Comfortably Numb | | • | When the Tigers Broke Free | | • | One of These Days | | • | Us And Them | | • | Learning to Fly | | • | Arnold Layne | | • | Wish You Were Here | | • | Jug Band Blues | | • | High Hopes | | • | Bike |
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Product Description
Original Release Date: November 6, 2001
Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Astronomy Domine
2. See Emily Play
3. The Happiest Day of Our Lives
4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
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
Disc: 2
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
2. Time
3. The Fletcher Memorial Home
4. Comfortably Numb
5. When the Tigers Broke Free
6. One of These Days
7. Us And Them
8. Learning to Fly
9. Arnold Layne
10. Wish You Were Here
11. Jug Band Blues
12. High Hopes
13. Bike
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
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| Customer Reviews:
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Good cd but.. January 30, 2010
R. Jordan (Olyphant, Pa. United States)
It is a good cd, well recorded but I still like "Dark side of the Moon" better.
 This list should be better! December 30, 2009
Li Munan
Disc1
01.Arnold Layne
02.See Emily Play
03.Astronomy Domine
04.Jugband Blues
05.Remember a Day
06.Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
07.Paint Box
08.It Would Be So Nice
09.Careful with That Axe
10.Green Is the Colour
11.Cymbaline
12.Grantchester Meadows
13.The Narrow Way(Part3)
14.Rain in the Country
15.Give Birth to a Smile
16.Atom Heart Mother[abridged]
16.Fat Old Sun
17.A Pillow of Wind
18.Echoes[abridged]
19.One of These Days
20.Wot's... Uh the Deal
Disc2
01.Breathe
02.Time
03.Us and Them
04.Brain Damage
05.Wish You Were Here
06.Shine On You Crazy Diamond[abridged]
07.Welcome to the Machine
08.Dogs[abridged]
09.Pigs on the Wing&Pigs[abridged]
10.In the Flesh
11.Mother
12.Run Like Hell
13.Comfortably Numb
14.The Post War Dream
15.The Gunner's Dream
16.Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert/Southampton Dock
16.On the Turning Away
17.Learning to Fly
18.Wearing the Inside Out
19.Coming Back to Life
20.High Hopes
 Great collection of Pink Floyd's work October 22, 2009
G. L. Sinsley (State College, PA United States)
This is a great album. It contains most of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, plus some that I haven't heard before. Some of Pink Floyd's early work on this album is great. I didn't know what I had been missing.
Best of: one of the best, Prog. rock bands ever. September 2, 2009
Dr. Feelgood (USA)
Two discs contain some of Pink Floyd's best material from almost ever album, that they have put out. The songs have been carefully edited together, somewhat like radio, songs fading in and out and overlapping slightly at the end or beginning, making for an excellent listening experience in a way you've never heard PINK FLOYD before.
PLEASANTLY SUPRISED June 27, 2009
MRT
i was wondering how this would sound. PINK FLOYD has always done piece recordings and i didn't know had it would sound taking songs out of their element and throwing them together. well the songs fit nicely together and sounds great.
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