Make your own "The Best of Floyd!"

Echoes: The Best of Floyd is frusturating in that it captures MOST of their best work but still leaves some key tracks (On the Turning Away) and some key albums (Atom Heart Mother) out. So how would you have done it? You get 2 CDs, 80 mins. each. Go at it!

CD 1

1. Astronomy Domine (Barrett) - 4:12
2. The Gnome (Barrett) - 2:13
3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Waters) - 5:28
4. Cymbaline (Waters) - 4:50
5. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Ummagumma version(Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 8:50
6. Summer '68 (Wright) - 5:29
7. One of These Days (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 5:56
8. Echoes (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 23:27
9. Time (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 7:06
10. Money (Waters) - 6:32
11. Wish You Were Here (Gilmour/Waters) - 5:34


CD 2


1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond [Echoes Edit](Gilmour/Waters/Wright) - 17:32
2. Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 1 (Waters) - 1:25
3. Dogs (Gilmour/Waters) - 17:08
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) - 1:51
5. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Waters) - 3:59
6. Mother (Waters) - 5:36
7. Hey You (Waters) - 4:42
8. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour/Waters) - 6:24
9. Not Now John (Waters) - 5:02
10. Learning to Fly (Carin/Ezrin/Gilmour/Moore) - 3:53 [custom edit - cut out a minute from the middle ]
11. On the Turning Away (Gilmour/Moore) - 5:39
12. Coming Back to Life (Gilmour) - 6:19



I had to cut out 'Young Lust' due to time constraints

go here www.allmusic.com to get the track times, etc.

I'm going to cheat here. Total Eclipse IMO is the definitive Pink Floyd best of album.
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Disc 1
1. Arnold Layne 2:56
2. Candy And A Currant Bun 2:46
3. See Emily Play 2:53
4. Flaming 2:49
5. The Scarecrow 2:02
6. The Gnome 2:11
7. Mathilda Mother 3:22
8. Scream Thy Last Scream 4:41
9. Vegetable Man 2:28
10. Apples And Oranges 3:08
11. Pow R. Toc H. 2:56
12. Jugband Blues 3:49
13. Nick's Boogie 11:48
14. It Would Be So Nice 3:44
15. Julia Dream 2:25
16. Let There Be More Light 3:42
17. Murderistic Women 3:50
18. Massed Gadgets Of Hercules 2:51
19. Point Me At The Sky 3:34
20. Baby Blue Shuffle in 'D' Minor 4:03

Total Time Disc 1 72:00
Disc 2
1. The Embryo 3:26
2. Green Is The Colour 3:28
3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 7:15
4. The Narrow Way part 1 4:37
5. Biding My Time (Work) 5:06
6. Oneone/Fingal's Cave 8:11
7. Rain In The Country 7:01
8. The Violence Sequence 4:33
9. If 4:27
10. Cymbaline 10:50
11. Atom Heart Mother 20:13

Total Time Disc 2 79:09
Disc 3
1. Blues 5:07
2. Breathe 3:00
3. On The Run 6:22
4. The Great Gig In The Sky 4:32
5. Money 1:43
6. Brain Damage/Eclipse 3:27
7. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 23:31
8. Raving And Drooling 10:45
9. You've Gotta Be Crazy 13:10

Total Time Disc 3 71:39
Disc 4
1. Echoes 21:25
2. Pigs On The Wing parts 1 & 2 3:35
3. Comfortably Numb 2:39
4. When The Tigers Broke Free 2:55
5. Mother 6:40
6. What Shall We Do Now? 4:42
7. Bring The Boys Back Home 1:47
8. Outside The Wall 4:09
9. The Hero's Return parts 1 & 2 3:58
10. Run Like Hell 7:24
11. On The Turning Away 6:48
12. Money 11:33

Cheater!!

If you dont mind me asking: if you have that set, how did you come across it?

i'm too lazy to do this.

Me too.
Anyway I would:
take all the stuff from "Echoes";
add a few songs (Mother, Dogs, Have a Cigar, etc);
reset all the songs in chronological order.

I am firmly anti-best of. Especially for Pink Floyd. I say don't waste your money on a PF best of...go buy Animals and Meddle (or some 2...ya know). This is also why I just can't put my music on random, or listen to mixes. Every album has a heart and soul, and needs to be heard the way they were made, in that order (that's especially true for Floyd albums).

I just realized that was semi-irrelevant....but all the same...trying to create a "Best of" for the Floyd, limited to 160 mins, would likely drive me insane.

1. One Of These Days (5:57)
2. Time (5:55)
3. The Happiest Days of Our Lives (1:20)
4. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (3:59)
5. Comfortably Numb (6:40 - cut off near the end)
6. Wish You Were Here (5:40)
7. Astronomy Domine (4:08)
8. The Great Gig in the Sky (4:47)
9. Money (6:30)
10. Marooned (2:02)
11. High Hopes (8:30)
12. Echoes (23:31)

I don't know if that'll fit but it kicks ass.

I bought it on Ebay...really nice packaging too.

Dark side of the moon.


~Fletch

uh...what songs would you guys definetly -not- want on a 'best of' set?

I've had the Total Eclipse for over 8 years. It's good. But "best of's", are too commercial for me. Echoes pissed me off when released. It cheapens music, same went for Bob Marley.

WhiteHouse

"Learning To Fly" (cough-overrated-cough) or "ABITW pt 2" (cough-samereason-cough).

I found the damn thing at a local record store that specialized in "imports". Paid $100 seven years ago for it. The downside is that's the whole thing is in mono. Take it for what it is. None of those tracks are really that rare anyways.