Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation of British band Pink Floyd. It was published in 2001 by EMI.

Creation and publication

The live albums as eg pulses 1995 and Is There Anybody Out There - The Division Bell Although since no new material was created in 1994, Pink Floyd recordings regularly came on the market? The Wall Live 1980-81 2000. During 2001 should follow a best-of compilation, the first since Works 1983.

Echoes, named after the piece of Meddle was produced by James Guthrie and Pink Floyd, Doug Sax, James Guthrie and Joel Plante mastered. On the double album pieces from all periods of the band were put together, but not in chronological order. The cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson.

Title list

CD 1

CD 2

"Echoes is nearly the best possible assembly of the band 's individual songs one Could hope for, and collectors and completists shoulderstand be overjoyed. "

"With the exception of the debut single and rather unnecessary 'Set The Tigers Free, ' which was previously only heard on the soundtrack to ' The Wall ', the album consists of studio versions already known. This is only at first glance disappointing because the manic quest for perfection is an essential part of the sound, the revised digital still partially bombastic acts as in the first publication. "

"All the usual suspects are here with a few glaring Omissions and several quite brave choices. [ ... ] What brings thesis tracks back to life after so long at the back of our record collections is the way they've been segued in non- chronological order, creating startling new contexts and contrasts. "