Echoes, Echoes, Echoes!!!!

Now kneel and call me 'Papa.'

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is snuggly

Where's Simon?

I still use square, although it was way before my time, me being born in the eighties. Quality phrase....bunch of squares.

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"rinovellate di novella fronda, puro e disposto a salire a le stelle."

echoes is just as good as SOYCD but I agree with echoes69 echoes rules

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Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin
ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place
well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side
and I cried, cried, cried.

ok

'Echoes' is the apex of everything the band ever did

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it's so very lonely

you're a hundred light years from home

dunno. why??

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It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection.

While Echoes is very very good, I don't think it's their Magnum Opus. Gilmour's guitar bits in it are the highlight for me, the rest of it could be shortened by 5 minutes and it wouldn't hurt my feelings. However, if a single note was cut from SOYCD 1-9 it would be a travesty.

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Taking away from you for the greater good. (The Audacity of Socialism).

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmad (founder, C.A.I.R.)

it seems that ANY versions of 'SOYCD' outside of the WYWH album has been changed notibly.

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"I open the door, to an empty room, then I forget."

Echoes is great. SOYCD is a bit better. Echoes is just an enlarged song, that could have been 5minutes long (the sung part). SOYCD is a mini-symphony.

For another thing discussed in this thread: I don't understand why did they release the double-CD Echoes with such edits, when they re-released A collection of great dance songs in 2001. They should have better created a collection of rarities. still, Storm Thorgerson's artwork for Echoes is great.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

my thoughts exactly!

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"I open the door, to an empty room, then I forget."

BTW A collection of great dance songs is certainly representative only for the Meddle->Wall Floyd, which is the most common start of your Pink Floyd record (or mp3, whatever...) collection (unless you lived in London 1967).
Relics are representative for 1967 - 1969 stuff.
Works are ... weird.
I don't understand messing Syd's stuff and post-Syd stuff and Dark Side and AMLOR and Division Bell together like they did on Echoes.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

Sigh. Yet again, as always, it comes back to "I didn't like what they did on Echoes cuz they edited some songs/put in shitty songs/didn't put in enough good songs." It's meant to be an overview of the career, to introduce the band to new fans, not to be an actual representation of the best of everything they tried.

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

Then why was it called "Best of"?

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stchrissie is not me.