Some commenters here remember a mate playing the album for them. I heard OotD first when our music teacher in the second year of secondary education, must have been 1977/78, played it for the class. It made a lastig impression. And it was the first PF track I was aware of listening to. It was light years beyond what I heard on the radio or my dad's Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald records.
Thank you Phil for your thoughts about a particular favourite album, with the still wonderful Echoes. Your sentiments and memories match my own, listening in the dark after school. I got this album soon after release, having got AHM before(the 1st Floyd album i heard). Then to see them perform it live the following year! Timeless!
Hi Phil, I and two of my mates saw the Floyd perform Echoes in 1971 (yes I’m old lol) at the Lads club Norwich. At the time it was called Return of the son of nothing. It was the first time ever that the piece was performed, it was not a public performance as it was for the University of East Anglia behind closed doors. The first public performance was Crystal Palace bowl a couple of months later which l also saw. I’ve seen Pink Floyd a dozen times over the years. By the way UmmaGumma was the first time l was introduced to Floyd and l never looked back. Sadly one of those mates has gone to the great gig in the sky. Fantastic channel Phil, l watch it all the time. Regards 🎸👍
'Meddle' rivals 'Wish You Were Here' as my favorite Floyd album (I should note that I've never been a particular Floyd fan, though highly respectful of their artistry and importance); it's arguably more experimental, if not perhaps as polished, as 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Wish You Were Here'. In spite of the epic scope of "Echoes", my two favorite tracks are "One of These Days" (almost proto-metal in its sheer acoustic power) and "Fearless", and even the LP's weakest track, "Seamus", has its own unique charm. There is a quite interesting animated short, called 'French Windows' (directed by Ian Emes in 1972), which uses "One of These Days" as its soundtrack. This haunting little film is a kind of precursor to the music videos that began to germinate later in the decade and into the Eighties.
Saw them live in 1974 Jacksonville, Coliseum, Florida and the most impactful memory was the 360 degree surround sound. They were innovators way before their time. Thanks for this review and another memory Phil
Thanks Phil. Echoes was used at our school film nights as a soundtrack to surfing films. Along with Hendrix hear my train a comin which accompanied train films. I to bought the single but never the album. Then i bought echoes best of..so got meddle on cd. Funny really cos i have all the others on vinyl.
Meddle was the first album I ever bought. I came to Pink Floyd via the 6 o’clock news. They used One of These Days as their theme song. I don’t remember how I found out it was Floyd but I found out and went out and got the album with my newspaper route money. After hearing Echoes as a kid it totally changed my life.
Superb album. It's a toss up whether Animals or Meddle is my favourite PF album. Echoes is sublime. Especially the version live in Pompeii. As always, love your enthusiasm. I really remember putting an album on, turning the lights off and laying on my back with a ciggie and going on a journey. Brilliant!
Thanks Phil, great video and the perfect steer towards what I’m going to play next which I find myself very much in need of right now! It’s too easy to accept “Dark Side” as the summit of Floyd’s achievements but with the benefit of hindsight, and we now have over half a century of that, the exact co-ordinates of this “summit” leads me to “Meddle” and, in particular, to side two. That they had to make this record to make “Dark Side” is as true as it always was, however “Echoes” was where the treasure was buried, this was as far as they could ever get and the questions were how does one go about following up “Meddle” and, as crass as this sounds, how do you continue to make a living out of music. Without “Meddle” they couldn’t have made “Dark Side of the Moon“. “Meddle“ and in particular “One Of These Days” and “Echoes“ gave them the tools they needed, to captivate a global audience by spoon feeding them a more dramatic and more easily accessible form of rock music en masse. Compared to “Meddle” it’s easy to see “Dark Side” for what it is; popular or populist music, ie pop music, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s ying and yang. Just as you need the concept of evil to have goodness then, equally, perfection cannot be achieved without imperfection. The utter ordinariness of those tracks that find themselves book ended by these two ambitious and seminal pieces of musical achievement renders “Meddle” a work of perfection made possible through the imperfections that bind the whole together. All that followed was easy, well let’s say “achievable”, for a band like Pink Floyd thanks only to the Midas touch of “Meddle”.
I remember being at my buddies house, in the basement. Upstairs my buddy's brother put on Meddle album on in his bedroom. I heard it downstairs and the sound completely stopped me in a midsentence conversation and ran upstairs to find out what was that music. It was an extraordinary revelation of sound and time !!!
For over 40 years Floyd has been at the top of my favourites list, never to slip from number one. A perfect band for lights off and headphones. Echoes is still amazing, RIP Richard Wright.
My friend Tim at school kept going on about Pink Floyd. 'Never heard of 'em.' He asked me round to his house, bunged head phones on me and played me Dark Side. It blew my head off. He taped me some other albums and I began my journey into music that existed outside of the top 40, or 30 as it was then, I think. Meddle he couldn't tape for me, because he only had it on pre-recorded cassette, so he loaned it to me. I listened to it for the first time on the bus, playing on a portable tape recorder. I was sat at the back, o the top deck. The only other passenger was a woman sat at the front, who looked confused when the Kop sang 'You'll never walk alone.' I bought the One Of These Days single, along with Free Four, on holiday in Ibiza. This was the same holiday where I sat outside a cafe reading Sounds which had an article about Led Zeppelin's Knebworth gigs - which I wasn't allowed to go to because I was only 14 - when I looked up, and on the other side of the street was Robert Plant ! The following Christmas I had Meddle and Wish You Were Here as presents. Wish had a pressing fault, so it had to go back to HMV and I had to settle for a copy of Atom Heart Mother instead. I eventually saw Floyd live three times...without Roger, Roger twice, David Gilmour solo and Nick Mason three times. The third of which, at Birmingham Symphony Hall, was the only time I sat in a venue and heard 'Ping !.......Ping !...' Echoes live, not a bad version, which I captured on my phone in surprisingly good quality. The best version of Echoes live though, has to be Live in Gdańsk....Rick Wright having the time of his life before he sadly left us. Check it out on CZcams if you haven't seen it folks...
I too heard Meddle because of it being in the record collection of my best mate's older brothers - probably around 1974, so after Dark Side Of The Moon (which was also in that collection) but before Wish You Were Here. I think they also had Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, but of the 4 albums I think Meddle was my favourite back then. I probably have to give Meddle and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come "Journey" album (which was also in that collection) as being the joint catalysts for getting me into ambient and synth-based music - after those for me came Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream, Michael Garrison, Jean Michelle Jarre and Klaus Schulze. So as an album it sits at an important point from where my musical tastes started to widen when, around 1974, I had been listening to Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, T.Rex, Sweet, Slade, Sparks and Yes.
@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 You sound like you're in (what I term) that "lucky" slightly older generation than me that included my friend's older brothers. I was slightly too young at the time, my first live concert was probably Gillan or Reading Rock Festival back in 1979 - but my mate's older brothers got to gigs like Black Sabbath at Reading Town Hall as well as the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin at smaller non-stadium venues. Having said that, I did see both Saxon and Iron Maiden (with Paul Di'anno) at Bracknell Sports Centre (two concerts, not the same one) so I can't complain too much! But I still love the "Kingdom Come" album to this day - albeit back in the day it was one of the ones that got played when the "wacky baccy" got passed around, like "Echoes" on Meddle too!
Hi Phil, Yes Echoes and Meddle still hold a profound special spot. The first time I heard this album and heard Echoes.... I was in complete musical extacy. Thank you for honoring this masterpiece in only the sumptuous way you know how.... . Always palpable your love and passion for music. I know I am an aficionado and will remain for the rest of my life. God bless you dear Sir and your exquisite work on CZcams.
Hi Phil .. nice review….strangely like The Beatles is was always aware of The Pink Floyd ..they have just always been there … I think mainly it’s because of the improvised music they played on BBC for the moon landing and also the appearance on Tomorrows world both of which I remember quite clearly even though I was very young ..I do remember liking it … worlds youngest fan 😂..
There is a connection, of course, between Pink Floyd and The Beatles - given that many people say that the three greatest British psychedelia albums were all recorded at Abbey Road. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (that Dave Gilmour and Arthur Brown played on when The Pretty Things recorded a live version of it at Abbey Road in 1998)
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My favorite Pink Floyd long player !
Meddle / Echoes never-ending personal heaven
Some commenters here remember a mate playing the album for them. I heard OotD first when our music teacher in the second year of secondary education, must have been 1977/78, played it for the class. It made a lastig impression. And it was the first PF track I was aware of listening to. It was light years beyond what I heard on the radio or my dad's Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald records.
Thank you Phil for your thoughts about a particular favourite album, with the still wonderful Echoes. Your sentiments and memories match my own, listening in the dark after school. I got this album soon after release, having got AHM before(the 1st Floyd album i heard). Then to see them perform it live the following year! Timeless!
Great description Phil, Echoes is the track that defines the word epic.
Hi Phil, I and two of my mates saw the Floyd perform Echoes in 1971 (yes I’m old lol) at the Lads club Norwich. At the time it was called Return of the son of nothing. It was the first time ever that the piece was performed, it was not a public performance as it was for the University of East Anglia behind closed doors. The first public performance was Crystal Palace bowl a couple of months later which l also saw. I’ve seen Pink Floyd a dozen times over the years. By the way UmmaGumma was the first time l was introduced to Floyd and l never looked back. Sadly one of those mates has gone to the great gig in the sky. Fantastic channel Phil, l watch it all the time. Regards 🎸👍
'Meddle' rivals 'Wish You Were Here' as my favorite Floyd album (I should note that I've never been a particular Floyd fan, though highly respectful of their artistry and importance); it's arguably more experimental, if not perhaps as polished, as 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Wish You Were Here'. In spite of the epic scope of "Echoes", my two favorite tracks are "One of These Days" (almost proto-metal in its sheer acoustic power) and "Fearless", and even the LP's weakest track, "Seamus", has its own unique charm.
There is a quite interesting animated short, called 'French Windows' (directed by Ian Emes in 1972), which uses "One of These Days" as its soundtrack. This haunting little film is a kind of precursor to the music videos that began to germinate later in the decade and into the Eighties.
Saw them live in 1974 Jacksonville, Coliseum, Florida and the most impactful memory was the 360 degree surround sound. They were innovators way before their time. Thanks for this review and another memory Phil
Being of a certain age yes the OGWT is how I found this album! Just think how many of us went through the same journey brilliant!
Thank you :)
Saw them at the Birmingham Hippodrome 1974.Did echoes with dry ice etc.Plusca quad sound system!!
Thanks Phil. Echoes was used at our school film nights as a soundtrack to surfing films. Along with Hendrix hear my train a comin which accompanied train films. I to bought the single but never the album. Then i bought echoes best of..so got meddle on cd. Funny really cos i have all the others on vinyl.
Meddle was the first album I ever bought.
I came to Pink Floyd via the 6 o’clock news.
They used One of These Days as their theme
song. I don’t remember how I found out it was
Floyd but I found out and went out and got
the album with my newspaper route money.
After hearing Echoes as a kid it totally
changed my life.
Echoes is wonderful. Meddle my favourite Floyd album. Apparently the dog on side one was Steve Marriott's.
'Echoes' was my first such listening experience too. You never forget those.
Thanks Phil, I feel your passion towards music and it is exactly how I feel about music too. Time to go listen to Echoes.
Superb album. It's a toss up whether Animals or Meddle is my favourite PF album. Echoes is sublime. Especially the version live in Pompeii. As always, love your enthusiasm. I really remember putting an album on, turning the lights off and laying on my back with a ciggie and going on a journey. Brilliant!
Thank you 🙏
Thanks Phil, great video and the perfect steer towards what I’m going to play next which I find myself very much in need of right now!
It’s too easy to accept “Dark Side” as the summit of Floyd’s achievements but with the benefit of hindsight, and we now have over half a century of that, the exact co-ordinates of this “summit” leads me to “Meddle” and, in particular, to side two. That they had to make this record to make “Dark Side” is as true as it always was, however “Echoes” was where the treasure was buried, this was as far as they could ever get and the questions were how does one go about following up “Meddle” and, as crass as this sounds, how do you continue to make a living out of music. Without “Meddle” they couldn’t have made “Dark Side of the Moon“. “Meddle“ and in particular “One Of These Days” and “Echoes“ gave them the tools they needed, to captivate a global audience by spoon feeding them a more dramatic and more easily accessible form of rock music en masse. Compared to “Meddle” it’s easy to see “Dark Side” for what it is; popular or populist music, ie pop music, and there is nothing wrong with that.
It’s ying and yang. Just as you need the concept of evil to have goodness then, equally, perfection cannot be achieved without imperfection. The utter ordinariness of those tracks that find themselves book ended by these two ambitious and seminal pieces of musical achievement renders “Meddle” a work of perfection made possible through the imperfections that bind the whole together. All that followed was easy, well let’s say “achievable”, for a band like Pink Floyd thanks only to the Midas touch of “Meddle”.
I remember being at my buddies house, in the basement. Upstairs my buddy's brother put on Meddle album on in his bedroom. I heard it downstairs and the sound completely stopped me in a midsentence conversation and ran upstairs to find out what was that music. It was an extraordinary revelation of sound and time !!!
For over 40 years Floyd has been at the top of my favourites list, never to slip from number one. A perfect band for lights off and headphones. Echoes is still amazing, RIP Richard Wright.
Phil thank you for sharing, my experience was very similar.
My friend Tim at school kept going on about Pink Floyd. 'Never heard of 'em.' He asked me round to his house, bunged head phones on me and played me Dark Side. It blew my head off. He taped me some other albums and I began my journey into music that existed outside of the top 40, or 30 as it was then, I think. Meddle he couldn't tape for me, because he only had it on pre-recorded cassette, so he loaned it to me. I listened to it for the first time on the bus, playing on a portable tape recorder. I was sat at the back, o the top deck. The only other passenger was a woman sat at the front, who looked confused when the Kop sang 'You'll never walk alone.' I bought the One Of These Days single, along with Free Four, on holiday in Ibiza. This was the same holiday where I sat outside a cafe reading Sounds which had an article about Led Zeppelin's Knebworth gigs - which I wasn't allowed to go to because I was only 14 - when I looked up, and on the other side of the street was Robert Plant ! The following Christmas I had Meddle and Wish You Were Here as presents. Wish had a pressing fault, so it had to go back to HMV and I had to settle for a copy of Atom Heart Mother instead. I eventually saw Floyd live three times...without Roger, Roger twice, David Gilmour solo and Nick Mason three times. The third of which, at Birmingham Symphony Hall, was the only time I sat in a venue and heard 'Ping !.......Ping !...' Echoes live, not a bad version, which I captured on my phone in surprisingly good quality. The best version of Echoes live though, has to be Live in Gdańsk....Rick Wright having the time of his life before he sadly left us. Check it out on CZcams if you haven't seen it folks...
Fabulous memories, thank you so much for sharing - Phil :)
I believe the ‘you never walk alone’ bit came via John Peel who was a big fan and supporter of the Floyd and Liverpool FC
Thanks Phil -nice one -love Echoes !
I too heard Meddle because of it being in the record collection of my best mate's older brothers - probably around 1974, so after Dark Side Of The Moon (which was also in that collection) but before Wish You Were Here. I think they also had Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, but of the 4 albums I think Meddle was my favourite back then.
I probably have to give Meddle and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come "Journey" album (which was also in that collection) as being the joint catalysts for getting me into ambient and synth-based music - after those for me came Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream, Michael Garrison, Jean Michelle Jarre and Klaus Schulze.
So as an album it sits at an important point from where my musical tastes started to widen when, around 1974, I had been listening to Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, T.Rex, Sweet, Slade, Sparks and Yes.
Yes Arthur Brown Kingdom Come and ‘ journey ‘ was a great album and I was lucky enough to catch them in Canterbury Westgate Hall circa 1973
Fantastic memories - thank you for sharing - Phil
@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 You sound like you're in (what I term) that "lucky" slightly older generation than me that included my friend's older brothers. I was slightly too young at the time, my first live concert was probably Gillan or Reading Rock Festival back in 1979 - but my mate's older brothers got to gigs like Black Sabbath at Reading Town Hall as well as the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin at smaller non-stadium venues.
Having said that, I did see both Saxon and Iron Maiden (with Paul Di'anno) at Bracknell Sports Centre (two concerts, not the same one) so I can't complain too much!
But I still love the "Kingdom Come" album to this day - albeit back in the day it was one of the ones that got played when the "wacky baccy" got passed around, like "Echoes" on Meddle too!
A nice album! You should also do obscured by clouds !
Meddle & AHM, twins had made PF a great band future !
Hi Phil,
Yes Echoes and Meddle still hold a profound special spot. The first time I heard this album and heard Echoes.... I was in complete musical extacy. Thank you for honoring this masterpiece in only the sumptuous way you know how.... . Always palpable your love and passion for music. I know I am an aficionado and will remain for the rest of my life. God bless you dear Sir and your exquisite work on CZcams.
Thank you so much for your kind words - Phil :)
Hi phil nice video as always, somedays this is my favorite pink floyd album 👍✌️
Hi Phil .. nice review….strangely like The Beatles is was always aware of The Pink Floyd ..they have just always been there …
I think mainly it’s because of the improvised music they played on BBC for the moon landing and also the appearance on Tomorrows world both of which I remember quite clearly even though I was very young ..I do remember liking it … worlds youngest fan 😂..
There is a connection, of course, between Pink Floyd and The Beatles - given that many people say that the three greatest British psychedelia albums were all recorded at Abbey Road.
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (that Dave Gilmour and Arthur Brown played on when The Pretty Things recorded a live version of it at Abbey Road in 1998)
Thanks Phil and good afternoon from the U.S.A.
my fav album cover esp the inside four guys serious about the music