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- Original Release Date: 26 Feb 1987
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| 1. One Of These Days | 6:00 | Not Available | |||
| 2. Arnold Layne | 2:53 | Not Available | |||
| 3. Fearless | 5:38 | Not Available | |||
| 4. Brain Damage | 3:43 | Not Available | |||
| 5. Eclipse | 2:06 | Not Available | |||
| 6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun | 5:22 | Not Available | |||
| 7. See Emily Play | 2:46 | Not Available | |||
| 8. Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict | 4:39 | Not Available | |||
| 9. Free Four | 4:08 | Not Available | |||
| 10. Embryo | 4:41 | Not Available |
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87 of 89 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Quite simply unless you are a Floyd fan you should purchase "Echoes - the best of Pink Floyd" instead of this brilliant compilation. "Echoes" showcases 26 tracks for a couple of quid more.
However, that said if you are a die hard fan then "Works" offers a treat for you. Several of the tracks have noticably different mixes from those on the original studio albums. Possibly these were taken from the quadrophonic mixes, remember quadrophonics? I don't, way too young, but it was similar to todays surround sound.
The music on this collection is varied and interesting if not as commercial as the tracks on Echoes. See Emily Play and Arnold Layne (both hit singles in 1967) are wonderful pop songs displaying Floyd's early psychedelic leanings and Set the Controls (1968) knocks almost anything The Beatles did into touch. Just listen to the drumming (something Ringo was never too good at).
Embryo is here. This is still quite a rarity. Works is the only offical CD to contain this track to date. It is a 4 minute studio track which sounds like... (you decide, I won't spoil it for you).
Free Four is an average track from the bands most underrated album: Obscured By Clouds. I say average but it's brilliant and the album is stunning, it's just average when compared to the other track on OBC. The lyrics are sad (Roger's dad being buried in a foxhole (Anzio)) but are set to a delightful, bouncy tune. A typical Floydian juxtaposition.
You are probably familiar with the remaining tracks so I won't waste your time discussing them, apart from Several Species which has to be a complete rarity on its own has it shows Roger Waters with a sense of humour. (Yes, I know he smiles on the What God Wants video too).
Works is a creative, interesting and well thought out compilation originally release back in the days of 40 minute vinyls. The music dates from 1967 to 1973 but the does not sound dated.
Thanx for reading this.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When Division Bell came out at least one reviewer commented how hard it was to review the album without seeing it as another Pink Floyd album, to judge it in it's own right rather than as an attempt to recreate Darkside of the Moon or 'be different'
If you had never heard Pink Floyd before this isn't such a daft place to start- One of These Days is quite an opener, and pretty representative of mid period Floyd- without the length some people find hard to take, one from Syd, Fearless was my favourite Floyd song thirty years ago, because it doesn't sound like someone cut it out of a concept album.
Several Species .... would only get on a greatest hits album for the title, but at least it has a sense of humour and if you know your Pierre Henry.
To answer the youngster's question about Quadraphonic sound. In quad hi fi the home listener had two speakers in the front, roughly where yours probably are now, and two at the back forming a square with the listener in the middle. (Pink Floyd performed using the far better one in front, one behind with left and right beside the audience - but I digress). Listen to 'Us and Them', the vocals Up, up, up up and down, down, down, down (in the end it's only round and round and round and round) originally rotated round the room (if you had a quad hi fi) If you listen in stereo the voice goes "up, up" on the left "up up' on the right and so on, because going round in a circle there are two left then two right speakers. Once quad was well and truly dead, and CDs had been out for years, someone undid all that clever maths to stop the quad having "a hole in the middle' and made it sound sensible over to channels, alternating left and right. Atom Heart Mother, Darkside and Wish You Were Here are all quad masters, if you listen for it you can tell!
If you had never heard Pink Floyd before this isn't such a daft place to start- One of These Days is quite an opener, and pretty representative of mid period Floyd- without the length some people find hard to take, one from Syd, Fearless was my favourite Floyd song thirty years ago, because it doesn't sound like someone cut it out of a concept album.
Several Species .... would only get on a greatest hits album for the title, but at least it has a sense of humour and if you know your Pierre Henry.
To answer the youngster's question about Quadraphonic sound. In quad hi fi the home listener had two speakers in the front, roughly where yours probably are now, and two at the back forming a square with the listener in the middle. (Pink Floyd performed using the far better one in front, one behind with left and right beside the audience - but I digress). Listen to 'Us and Them', the vocals Up, up, up up and down, down, down, down (in the end it's only round and round and round and round) originally rotated round the room (if you had a quad hi fi) If you listen in stereo the voice goes "up, up" on the left "up up' on the right and so on, because going round in a circle there are two left then two right speakers. Once quad was well and truly dead, and CDs had been out for years, someone undid all that clever maths to stop the quad having "a hole in the middle' and made it sound sensible over to channels, alternating left and right. Atom Heart Mother, Darkside and Wish You Were Here are all quad masters, if you listen for it you can tell!
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