Meddle - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are best known for the best selling album of all time 'Dark Side of the Moon' and the mighty double album epic 'The Wall' and of course insane avant-garde art rock antics. They always had an eye for the bizarre and the downright artistic from the early Syd Barrat led incarnation when the Floyd where kings of the underground (or perhaps not so underground in those glorious 60s!) LSD all out psychedelic music scene. Following Pink Floyd even in retrospect is like one long bizarre acid trip. The path is full of surrealistic images, figures from the past seeming to leave a never ending trail behind and after all the superficial effects a ...

First of all, this came out originally in 1971, it was just the remastered version that was 1994. I see Meddle as perhaps an intermediate step between their 1960's and 1970's output. There are still the long noodling tracks such as there were on Atom Heart Mother and the others but also the brilliantly crafted lyrics are starting to come through, similar to those on Dark Side and Wish You Were Here. The structure is fairly unusual, with four 5 minute + tracks and then the beautiful 30 minute long Echoes finishes the album off. ...

This was pretty much the turning point for the band. The transition from an experimental band trying to find a particular style and sound. This album showed that not only had they actually shrugged off the psychedelia tag but also that they had matured. Roger Water's lyrical imagination and David Gilmour's guitar work had become distinctive, different and yet accomplished. It was a precursor to the legendary Dark Side Of The Moon and it incorporated earlier aspects of their work with what they would go on to become, a true transitional moment. One Of These Days orginal title was 'One Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little ...