Pink Floyd - Meddle(1971)

Meddle is an album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was recorded at various studios in between the band's live touring commitments from January through August 1971.
Originally released in the U.S. on 30 October 1971 by Harvest/Capitol and in the UK on November 5 by Harvest/EMI, the album was later remastered three times: first by MFSL in 1984 on high-quality vinyl and cassette, then in 1989 for Ultradisc, and finally by Doug Sax (supervised by James Guthrie) for the 1992 Shine On box set. This latter digital master was used for a CD reissue with additional artwork by Hipgnosis, released August 1994 in Europe and April 1995 in the U.S.

Though the tracks have a variety of moods, Meddle is generally considered more cohesive than its 1970 predecessor Atom Heart Mother, and is thought by many fans to be Pink Floyd's first truly great album recorded without Syd Barrett. It enjoyed some commercial success in the United Kingdom (reaching #3 on the charts), but lackluster publicity on the part of Capitol Records led to weak sales in the U.S. However, Meddle would later be certified Gold by the RIAA in October of 1973 and then double platinum on 11 March 1994 following the added attention garnered by the band's later successes in America.
"One of These Days" opens the album with an ostinato bassline, played by both Gilmour and Waters, and uses a slide guitar lick. A largely instrumental piece, the only lyric, 'One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces', is spoken by Nick Mason.

The final song on the album, the 23-minute underwater epic "Echoes", is reputed to synchronize musically and thematically with the climactic section of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey (entitled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"). It is rumoured that Pink Floyd purposely synchronized "Echoes" with 2001 because they regretted denying Kubrick the rights to use the "Atom Heart Mother Suite" in his film A Clockwork Orange. However, the song is more notable for being the lyrical centrepiece of the record and the band's most accomplished recorded work yet. "Echoes" also gave its name to the compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, on which a much-edited version of the title track was included. In the compilation, multiple edits throughout the entire song cut the running length of the piece down by some 7 minutes.

Personnel
Roger Waters – bass guitar, backing vocals and rhythm guitar on "Fearless''
David Gilmour – lead guitar, bass guitar
Richard Wright – piano, keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
Nick Mason – drums, percussion, vocal phrase
Seamus the Dog – vocals on "Seamus"

Songs:
1 - One Of These Days
2 - A Pillow Of Winds
3 - Fearless
4 - San Tropez
5 - Seamus
6 - Echoes

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