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Meddle [Original recording remastered]

~ Pink Floyd
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  • Audio CD (1 Aug 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000024D4W
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
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Listen  1. One Of These Days (1992 Digital Remaster) 5:58£0.69
Listen  2. A Pillow Of Winds (1992 Digital Remaster) 5:11£0.69
Listen  3. Fearless (1992 Digital Remaster) 6:09£0.69
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For all that menacing, hatchet-happy growl at the beginning of Meddle's opener, "One of These Days", Pink Floyd really weren't about to "cut you into little pieces". Meddle did, however, show that the reigning British monarchs of 1970s-era psychedelia could rip into galloping jams. It also showed what its predecessor, Atom Heart Mother, promised--that the band could excel in long, breathtaking suites that revealed strains of late-classical music, Sun Ra-inspired space explorations, and a patchwork approach to colliding sounds that together took on acid-drenched proportions. And if all that isn't enough, "San Tropez" revealed a playful side of the band, playing footsy with loungy jazz and having good fun in the process. --Andrew Bartlett


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MEDDLE was the first album to hint at the musical identity that would define Pink Floyd in the mid to late '70s. Whereas prior releases like UMMAGUMMA and ATOM HEART MOTHER announced the presence of new singer/guitarist/songwriter David Gilmour, MEDDLE represents the band's Gilmour-influenced evolution toward a sleek, epic, spacey sound. In "Echoes", an ambitious 23-minute soundscape, the pinging of a synthesizer greets the listener before Gilmour's warm, open guitar and gentle crooning gives way to a repetitious, workmanlike rhythm.From here, the music fades into an abyss of whale calls andeerie sonic reverberations.
Elsewhere, Floyd dabbles with straightforward cocktail-hour jazz ("San Tropez") and a twisted slow blues ("Seamus"). But it is "One Of These Days", MEDDLE's opening track and lone radio staple, that truly previews things to come. Roger Waters's bass, played through a Binson echo unit, establishes the song's manically hypnotic groove, as Richard Wright's synthesizer bursts in and out, Nick Mason's off-kilter drum fills get tossed around, and Gilmour's guitar dive-bombs through it all. These varied sound effects, packaged in a song that clocked in at less than sixminutes, were a precedent for the masterpiece that was two years away: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Start of The 'Real' Pink Floyd, 2 Mar 2004
By L. Hutchinson (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Britain) - See all my reviews
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The first ‘real’ Pink Floyd album, ‘Meddle’ leaves the last remnants of the group’s psychedelic past behind them and marks the beginning of their most productive decade. Guitarist David Gilmour’s growing confidence within the band is almost palpable as the trademark sound begins to coalesce. There’s also a new sense of purpose and direction about the album’s two standout tracks, ‘One of These Days’ and ‘Echoes’, despite the fact that both rely on ideas that have already been explored on earlier Pink Floyd albums like ‘Atom Heart Mother’ (1970) and ‘Saucerful of Secrets (1968).

The menacing, echo drenched bass riff that kick starts the opening ‘One of These Days’ soon turns into a relentless pounding which is double tracked on guitar, while keyboard player Rick Wright toys with the Dr. Who theme motif. After which, drummer Nick Mason’s disembodied voice intones ‘One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces’, Gilmour takes over with some searing slide guitar.

However, ‘Meddle’ is dominated by the 23 minute ‘Echoes’, which builds up gradually but deliberately from the opening piano sonar ‘ping’ through a series of cleverly linked fragments, to the tension of Gilmour’s exquisite guitar crescendo before the final verse lets you down with a cosy glow.

The other four tracks on the album are largely forgettable, although the wistful ‘A Pillow of Winds’ has a certain pastoral charm. But, it matters not: Pink Floyd had reset the controls for the heart of the 1970’s and beyond, and in the process revealed their true, wonderful potential.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A pure classic., 28 Feb 2000
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Meddle came after 'Atom Heart Mother' and showed Pink Floyd in a whole new light. Rather than being a reinvention of themselves Meddle shows another side to the four members, with an overall laid-back jazzy feel coming through. The opening number 'One of these days...' has become a standard and is way ahead of its time. The numbers that follow it up to 'Seamus' take the beat and slow it down to a toe-tapping rythmn, lulling the listener into a false sense of security. 'Echoes', the major track on the album at around 22 minutes long, has become a revered member of the Pink Floyd canon, and justly so. Opening with a single note from Rick Wright which sets the scene the song progresses into darker territory via Dave Gilmours almost violent crashing of chords into the eeiry wind-swept gothic towers of the middle section. Rick Wright once more brings light into the piece before the whole thing is rounded off in an almost fin de cycle.

A TRUE MASTERPIECE.

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A saucerful of surprises, 2 Jun 2006
Pink Floyd presented a wide range of styles on this album which very much went against the conventions of the genre at the time. I think for this reason Meddle was controversial right from the beginning. I bought this in the Musicassette format when I was 15 (it was presented in a cardboard flip top pack, like a cigarette packet) after hearing "Fearless" on John Peel's BBC "Top Gear" radio show. That track gave little indication of what else was in store, but it was ultimately "Echoes" that prompted me to rebuy it later, in vinyl and finally this CD edition.

This reminds me that the two-sided format of vinyl (and cassette) is crucial to the way this album is paced. San Tropez and Seamus, both stylistically odd for Floyd, were the last two tracks on one side, and if you didn't like them, especially Seamus (and I don't like either of the two) you could take the needle of the record and flip it over. In CD format having these two tracks in the middle is understandably annoying.

I would still have bought this for Echoes alone, though. What I really like about this track is the sense of going on a journey through an imaginary landscape. At first I imagined a night train journey through some kind of alien desert (there are very trainlike rhythms at one point) with the guitar near the end sounding like a sunrise. Ultimately, though, I guess it's an undersea voyage, as announced by the sonar ping-like opening (however the sound was achieved!) and the faux whale-song with seagulls section later (this was long before the whale song sound became a newage cliché).

I think it's fair to say that you never know what to expect from one Pink Floyd album to the next, and that was never more true than with Meddle.
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5.0 out of 5 stars another great album from Pink Floyd
A great CD with good tracks especially 'Echoes'. I have quite a collection of Pink Floyd albums and CDs and this and Animals have just joined them.
Published 1 month ago by Netherfield4348

5.0 out of 5 stars Pink Floyd Meddle
I had forgotten just how good and innovative this was.
You can hear 'Dark Side of the Moon' waiting in the wings.
Published 2 months ago by A. J. Neale

5.0 out of 5 stars the best floyd album
A lot of people seem to think that "Meddle" is the start of the "real Pink Floyd" and the stepping stone to the megaselling "Dark Side of the Moon". Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. R. P. Wigman

5.0 out of 5 stars A Floyd classic
Two songs, "One Of These Days" and "Echoes" make this a must-have album. "Echoes" was the soundtrack for the cult surfers film "Crystal Voyager [1972] [DVD]". Read more
Published 5 months ago by Fred Dread

3.0 out of 5 stars Great at the time
This album was the start of the Floyd phenomenon (commercially speaking), moving away from the psychedelia & popish toons under the new influence of Dave Gilmour. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ken Grew

5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece of sound scape
can anyone possibly imagine what a record company would make of echoes they would probably get rid of the band in favour of some arse wiggling crotch grabbing pubescent boy band... Read more
Published 10 months ago by D. Janson

4.0 out of 5 stars contains the single best Pink Floyd song of all time..
"Meddle" - the 1971 album - contains the bands signature piece "Echoes" : a massive, definitive space-rock-funk-jam that lasts about 22 minutes, is the perfect accompaniment to... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. M. A. Reed

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget Dark Side of the Moon, THIS is the best Pink Floyd album!
Rating: 9.5/10

Best tracks: "Echoes", "One of These Days", "A Pillow of Winds".

I'm listening to this after having just written a relatively unsavoury... Read more
Published 23 months ago by New Gold Dreamer

5.0 out of 5 stars Echoes: The finest track
I think Meddle was the first album I bought as a teenager, and I've replaced my copy at least 10 times! Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2007 by Mr. A. P. Bartram

5.0 out of 5 stars CD doesn't sound right
I like vinyl, but I'm not obsessive. I have some CDs that sound just as good to my ears as the vinyl version. But this is not one of them. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2007 by Mr. Stephen J. Pratt

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