The Career of Pink Floyd - non-stopBy Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY (Sep 28, 2001)Pink Floyd echoes in the music of countless prog-rock offspring
who have emulated and embezzled the band's dark, ambient
experiments since the mid-1960s. Now the groundbreaking British
group is reviving those blueprints in its first offical career-spanning
collection, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
Due in November on Capitol in the USA and EMI elsewhere, the
double album includes nearly 2 1/2 hours of remastered tracks
mixed as one continuous piece of music. Songs include See
Emily Play, Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Wish You
Were Here, Comfortably Numb, One of These Days, Arnold
Layne and, for the first time on CD, When the Tigers Broke Free,
a song from The Wall film that was released only on a limited-edition
vinyl single. The 26-track set, to be available on CD, cassette and
vinyl, was assembled by producer and engineer James Guthrie with
input from Floyd alumni David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason
and Rick Wright.
"The trickiest thing is getting four strong personalities to agree on
what to include," Guthrie says. "About 80% was unanimous, and
the last bit involved a bit of diplomacy. It's impossible to represent
Pink Floyd on two CDs, but within this limited framework, it does
contain some of the band's favorite songs."
Longer tunes required prudent editing, including shaving 7 minutes
off the title track's original 23 1/2 minutes. "We're close to finalizing
the running order," Guthrie says. "The band is going over three
different mock-ups. We decided early on that a non-chronological
order would be more interesting to listen to." |
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