Pink Floyd: Meddle [PINK FLOYD RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

Meddle is where Pink Floyd figured out who they were. "One of These Days" is a menacing instrumental, and "Echoes" fills all of side two with 23 minutes of slow-building, sonar-pinging wonder.

This edition

• Single LP, 6 tracks
• Pink Floyd Records pressing
• Remastered
• Includes the 23-minute "Echoes"

About the album

After the sprawling experiments of Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd spent much of 1971 bouncing between London studios, building Meddle piece by piece between tour dates. What came out of it was the first album that really sounds like the Pink Floyd most of us know: patient, atmospheric and big enough to get lost in.

Side one is a grab bag in the best way. "One of These Days" rides Roger Waters and David Gilmour's twin bass lines into one of the band's heaviest grooves, "A Pillow of Winds" and "Fearless" are gentle acoustic beauties ("Fearless" fades into Liverpool fans singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"), and "Seamus" features a howling dog. Side two is "Echoes," all 23 minutes of it, a slow, gorgeous journey that pointed straight towards The Dark Side of the Moon.

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On Pink Floyd Records, a remastered reissue of the 1971 album.