Avis sur le produitEchoes: The Best of Pink Floyd by Pink Floyd (CD, Nov-2001, 2 Discs, Capitol)

Great for casual fans of the band.

I am not a Pink Floyd fan. They have been making music for over 50 years, and in that time, they have released fewer than half a dozen songs that I like. So, buying four or five CDs to get those songs was out of the question. This greatest hits had all of the songs I wanted on it. In fact, there is a single disc greatest hits that also contained all of the songs I wanted on it, and it was around 50 cents cheaper...but for only half a dollar more I got another disc worth of songs that I thought may contain a song or two that I would also like. After having listened to all of the songs, I can say that I would have been fine with the single disc version, but I definitely don't feel ripped off here.

Actual fans of the band will tell you not to buy a greatest hits of this band because the songs on the original albums form some kind of cohesive whole that is lost if you cherry pick the songs. Not sure on that, but I think I'll be okay.Lire l'avis complet...

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Superb compilation. But buy the back catalogue instead.

This compilation spans Pink Floyd's career from 1967s 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' to 1994s 'The Division Bell'. There has been an attempt to segue many of the tracks into each other and the tracks selected do represent a sizeable portion of Pink Floyd's best songs (the selections were voted for by the band themselves and Roger Waters). If tracks like 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond', 'Comfortably Numb', 'Money', 'Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)'and 'Time' do nothing for you then you should perhaps be out buying the latest Crazy Frog record. So, a double CD compilation of great songs from one of the most popular bands ever sounds great. And it is. But...
Pink Floyd were (and are, if applicable) predominantly an album band. Their biggest sellers - 'Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here' and 'The Wall' - are albums that function as units and are so strong that I would actually recommend them more than this compilation, which, in its attempt to collate everything ends up sounding patchy. British television runs any number of top 100 shows (top 100 films ever, top 100 comedy shows ever, etc.) the basic format of which is to run down the list from 100 to 1 showing excerpts from each and having people talk about why they were so good. I always feel after watching one of these programmes that the clips from the featured shows are great, but it's not the same as seeing the show itself. This is how I feel after listening to this compilation.
It could have been more satisfying if it had been compiled chronologically, but the truth is that given the strength of all the main Pink Floyd albums in their own right, any compilation (bar maybe material previously unavailable on CD) is almost certainly redundant.Lire l'avis complet...

Best fo Pink Floyd, Echoes

One of the better Pink Floyd G.H. Discs. Although it could have more songs on it, the discs cover quite a bit of albums. Some are represented more than others. I did like that many older songs are on it than other PF G.H. from them. There is overlap from other G.H. discs too. Overall a nice addition to my collection.Lire l'avis complet...

Best of Pink Floyd - a great point of beginning

Pink Floyd is the one of the few bands who can escort the listener on a journey, without the use of any substances whatsoever. Good earbuds or headphones, and you're on your way. This should be the FIRST Pink Floyd CD one should buy, as people tend to either: a) love Pink Floyd or b) hate Pink Floyd. Should one love their unique music and style, it is almost a certainty that one will delve into the individual CD's that made this group unlike any other in musical history.

When the Tigers Broke Free is a Pink Floyd love song, much akin to a dirge; very moving. The Fletcher Memorial Home is just right for those political afficionados, and is itself a brief history lesson without the drone of traditional education. Great stuff. Start here, and stay Pink.Lire l'avis complet...

A flawed filet of Floyd

Any 'greatest hits' compilation from Pink Floyd is inherently going to be flawed because once you mix together tracks from disparate albums, you lose context. Pink Floyd was never a singles band, quite the opposite. They were absolute masters of the concept album. Their albums were expansive works that are, more often than not, greater than the sum of their tracks. That said, the selection of tracks contained in 'Echoes' is an okay sampling but the jumbled sequencing makes absolutely no sense. Random juxtaposition of tracks from, say 'Saucerful of Secrets' and 'The Wall' is just too jarring and the impact of each track is diminished by being taken out of context. The more logical approach would have been to sequence the tracks chronologically as to create an overview of the band's evolution over four decades, during which their sound dramatically changed from psychedelic avant garde to progenitors of progressive rock to theatrical arena rock. Doing this would have created more of a 'filet of Floyd', rather than the 'Pink hash' this two-disc set ultimately is.Lire l'avis complet...

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Best of Pink Floyed CD ` ECHOES

I liked the way the CD takes you from the beginning of the bands Journey into what in later years becomes the bands original and distinct sound. There was nothing really that I did Not like about the CD. I decided to buy it cause while at afriends house we watched Pink Floyed Live on his Big screen projection TV . I then remembered all of the great songs I used to hear Blasting from past yrs coming from my older brothers room.Lire l'avis complet...

Think Floyd.

I just want to say that everyone whom enjoys the pink floyd legacy will find the title "ECHOES Best of Pink Floyd" all the band has left itself to.From the first song with disc one all the way through the last of disc two will find this complation rather Good.While we,all of us who know the band has had its time with and without its moments.The three or four songs found with the creative genious of Syd Barret will see the true clarity of poetic justice that Syd left.Afterway,enter David Gilmour the Guitarist for which pushed the Floyd on also did two albums without creative popular,Roger Waters,found a vioce in such songs as "Sorrow" and "Marooned" will always show David is just as potentual.The collection spans the lot of most popular cuts that bring the Pink Floyd into their own rights.If you are unfamiliar with the band these selections are "all dressing" with "great" stucture,(I do not know if I could have disected just the Darkside of the moon,as well.Quite a great profile.Ofcourse there are Six or Seven other Floyd Classics.What surprised me was the fact that the two parts of Wish You Were Here`s Shine on you crazy diamond was added as one selection,(although the two parts are played together on the "Great Dance Songs" LP.The collection though would not be complete without Roger Waters,"When the Tigers Broke Free" from the Wall soundtrak.All in all this combination fits well with my palate,I think everyone who enjoys the Floyd will agree;this is a "Great Gig in the Sky"Lire l'avis complet...

Classic Pink Floyd

I'm a big Pink Floyd fan and I already had dark side of the moon and the wall but these this disc has some some other greatest hits, CDs are coming back in fashion you can play them on demand and the clarity surpasses any kind of streaming service I highly recommend this discLire l'avis complet...

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Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd 2 CD Collection

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is an excellent collection of Pink Floyd's music, spanning the entire catalog of Rock's Psychedelic Masters. Pink Floyd's long time studio engineer, producer and re-mixer, James Guthrie built aural bridges between the tracks, to give each disc continuity and flow. David Gilmour, guitarist and vocalist for Pink Floyd, included 4 tracks written by Syd Barrett, Floyd's original guitarist and vocalist.
At the time of this release in 2001, Barrett was still alive and the inclusion of Syd's work on this collection would produce more royalties in his favor. This is a great collection to experience without having to dedicate the time to listen to a whole Pink Floyd album. If you have never heard Pink Floyd before, this would be a good collection to start with to get a complete range of Pink Floyd's evolution into one of Rock's all time greatest musical groups.

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd has tracks from 10 different albums, plus a couple of singles. 26 tracks split evenly over 2 CDs, including the 23 minute masterpiece - Echoes from the album Meddle, which originally was the only song on side 2 of the vinyl release.

Storm Thorgerson once again designed the album cover for this release, creating all new imagery built on elements from the albums represented in this collection. Storm was one of the founders of Hipgnosis, a company that designed not only the cover for Dark Side of the Moon, but all of Pink Floyd's Releases, except for the first album, designed by Syd Barrett. Hipgnosis also designed album covers for Genesis, Led Zeppelin, 10CC, Paul McCartney/Wings and many other bands through the 1970's.Lire l'avis complet...

If you want some Pink Floyd

I heard a couple of Pink Floyd songs on the radio and decided I wanted to add some Pink Floyd to my ipod. I looked around and decided this was the best cd to get. I was looking for all the standard greats, Money, Another Brick in the Wall, Us and Them, etc..., I was surprised at all the songs on this cd. This cd hard more hit songs than I was looking for. It also haa a couple of long songs on the cd. Something the truest Floyd fan will appreciate. So, for all you big Pink Floyd fans out there, this cd will not disappoint you. For those of us who like all kinds of rock music, you'll love it too.Lire l'avis complet...