Echoes (The Best Of Pink Floyd) - Pink Floyd > Reviews

Advantages: Double CD. everything you need for Floyd. Great art illutrations. good value for money, an Inspirational album
Disadvantages: none

...of this album are in Echoes but one. 'Learning to Fly'. Much like The Division Bell, it is in a complete class of it's own and bothe these album are amongst my most treasured music. I respect the cover illustration for its modern yet strange theme….it conveys an idea of loneliness, beauty and all round uniqueness. I would recommend this album to anyone who is a fan of the following: Pink Floyd Jimi Hendrix Roger Waters The Doors. I've fallen ... Read review

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

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Features all the good stuff :-)
Disadvantages: A few candidates have been over-looked

I'm always a bit apprehensive about buying a greatest hits.....but after looking at the track listings - I was satisfied and decided to buy it. This album has slowly grown to be one of my favourites. The songs encompass the entire career of Pink Floyd (even if they aren't in any particular order). The songs are mixed together well and flow together as if it were a new album of new songs. I was shocked to see a few minutes shaved off some of the ... Read review

Advantages: Nice collection of songs if you're new to Pink Floyd
Disadvantages: Not for people who has the essencial Floyd albums in their collection

If you've never heard about Pink Floyd which I almost can't believe, this is a nice collection to start with. Real Floyd freaks won't buy this stuff however there are some rarities on this album. It's a shame that the title track "Echoes" is a short version of the original song found on the album "Meddle". Also consider that some songs are picked out from concept albums and from my point of view, these songs are not so strong as a stand alone song. ... Read review

Advantages: Best music you will ever listen to
Disadvantages: Can there possibly be anything wrong with pink floyd

Echoes is an album that was reliesed by pink floyd which consists of a compilation of Pink Floyds best musical masterpieces known to man, such as Another Brick in the wall, the 23 minute experience known to you as Echoes, The Great Gig in the Sky, Set the Controls Fot the heart of the sun and money and thats just on the first disc !!! as you can tell from this line up it is going to be yet another great guitar soloing CD from Pink Floyd. The album ... Read review