Echoes (The Best Of Pink Floyd) - Pink Floyd > Reviews > Echoing back as far as 1967

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks	A couple of weak links
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Good
Value for Money

Advantages:	Two discs of musical brilliance
Disadvantages:	Misses out a few of my favourites

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I'm surprised that this album works. Take something like The Wall, an album with a story to tell. Put it in your CD player and press the Shuffle button. Sounds awful, doesn't it? The fact of the matter is that you can't just shove Pink Floyd songs together without some serious thought. It's with some trepidation that I parted with cash to buy Echoes, fearing a poorly made compilation taken off other albums. Thankfully, that's not the case. Everything has been put nicely together with tasteful mixing to get from one tune to another. Naturally, I don't agree entirely with all of the choices here. There's a couple of songs that I would have put in to replace some of the tracks on here, but that's always going to be a tough choice when making an album from such a diverse band as this.

The album is the usual Pink Floyd fare, with lyrics ranging from "I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like" to Time's somewhat more profound "The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death". This album really does demonstrate a good cross section of Pink Floyd's musical and writing talent.

The performance is, as ever, breathtaking, the musical talent within the band being expertly combined at times with orchestras and male voice choirs.

In short, this really is a remarkable album. A great addition to the collection of any Pink Floyd-ophile, and a brilliant place to start for those dipping their first toe into this pool of musical brilliance.