Echoes - Pink Floyd

Forthcoming like a tropical flower of a plant that only bears colour ever fifty years, each Pink Floyd creation has been of wonderment, extraordinary imagination and of the very era that they represented. Taking part in each genre through the blues of the mid Sixties to Psychedelic rock towards the end of the same decade, then on to the rock Gods of the Eighties, they gave us an indication of their mind altering allure. Strangely never individually making a statement apart from the Pink grand master, Syd Barrett, this band stuck together rather silently like glue. Appearing, at first student like with shallow faces and long beards, the members of this giant band ...  Read the complete review

I am sure everyone on the planet has heard of Pink Floyd - one of the most famous, yet mysterious bands of the latter parts of the 20th century. And here they are reminding us that they are still around as we take a few early steps into the 21st century where we are ruled by manufactured pop bands and money hungry music-executives, who seem more interested in merchandising revenue than in originality, freedom and musical talent. Lets face it, if Pink Floyd were just starting now they would get nowhere. But, fortunately for us Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright formed a band in the late 60's when anything goes....LSD, marijuana ...  Read the complete review

I am a bit biased because Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands, and because of my bias, I expect only the best from Pink Floyd. I feel this is a CD that lives up to the Pink Floyd name, despite not having all of the best songs on it, but in order to get every good one into one set, you'd need atleast 5 CDs (all of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall; and then a mix of Animals, Division Bell, and Momentary Lapse of Reason). Even though this is a compilation, it still stays true to the Pink Floyd style. For instance, if you listen to The Wall or Dark Side of The Moon, there is rarely a definate ending to a song. All the songs flow into ...  Read the complete review

I write about Pink Floyd, one of the great bands that have marked the history of music. WHAT?!? But who said that? I know that the double CD “Echoes” is a “Greatest Hits”, but, before listening to it, I didn’t know this group, so I write a review of what I listen to at present. Before, I knew only the song “Another Brick In the Wall” (to tell the truth, I had also listened to “One of These Days”, because it is the theme song of an Italian TV programme, but I didn’t know that it was sung by the Pink Floyd); now, this is still the only song that I know. And why? The answer is simple: the other ...  Read the complete review

As the full title suggests, Echoes is a collection of some of Pink Floyd's best songs. The double CD also serves as a kind of documentation of the band's history. Even today, 'the' Floyd remain one of music's biggest influences, with bands such as Radiohead singing their praises. In an era of the supergroup and when live music was an art form, Floyd were sitting at the top of the tree. And it's all here some 30 years of awesome back catalogue dusted up and put together in the form of one double album. It is worth reiterating that, despite a fondness for pyrotechnics, Pink Floyd were no gimmick band, and they played all their instruments. ...  Read the complete review