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Meddle |  | Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 593
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 724382974925
EAN: 0724382974925
ASIN: B000024D4W
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | One Of These Days | | • | Pillow Of Winds | | • | Fearless | | • | San Tropez | | • | Seamus | | • | Echoes |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
For all that menacing, hatchet-happy growl at the beginning of iMeddle/i's opener, "One of These Days", Pink Floyd really weren't about to "cut you into little pieces". iMeddle/i did, however, show that the reigning British monarchs of 1970s-era psychedelia could rip into galloping jams. It also showed what its predecessor, iAtom Heart Mother/i, promised--that the band could excel in long, breathtaking suites that revealed strains of late-classical music, Sun Ra-inspired space explorations, and a patchwork approach to colliding sounds that together took on acid-drenched proportions. And if all that isn't enough, "San Tropez" revealed a playful side of the band, playing footsy with loungy jazz and having good fun in the process. i--Andrew Bartlett /i
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 Start of The 'Real' Pink Floyd March 2, 2004
L. Hutchinson (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Britain)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful
The first #8216;real#8217; Pink Floyd album, #8216;Meddle#8217; leaves the last remnants of the group#8217;s psychedelic past behind them and marks the beginning of their most productive decade. Guitarist David Gilmour#8217;s growing confidence within the band is almost palpable as the trademark sound begins to coalesce. There#8217;s also a new sense of purpose and direction about the album#8217;s two standout tracks, #8216;One of These Days#8217; and #8216;Echoes#8217;, despite the fact that both rely on ideas that have already been explored on earlier Pink Floyd albums like #8216;Atom Heart Mother#8217; (1970) and #8216;Saucerful of Secrets (1968). pThe menacing, echo drenched bass riff that kick starts the opening #8216;One of These Days#8217; soon turns into a relentless pounding which is double tracked on guitar, while keyboard player Rick Wright toys with the Dr. Who theme motif. After which, drummer Nick Mason#8217;s disembodied voice intones #8216;One of these days I#8217;m going to cut you into little pieces#8217;, Gilmour takes over with some searing slide guitar.pHowever, #8216;Meddle#8217; is dominated by the 23 minute #8216;Echoes#8217;, which builds up gradually but deliberately from the opening piano sonar #8216;ping#8217; through a series of cleverly linked fragments, to the tension of Gilmour#8217;s exquisite guitar crescendo before the final verse lets you down with a cosy glow.pThe other four tracks on the album are largely forgettable, although the wistful #8216;A Pillow of Winds#8217; has a certain pastoral charm. But, it matters not: Pink Floyd had reset the controls for the heart of the 1970#8217;s and beyond, and in the process revealed their true, wonderful potential.
A pure classic. February 28, 2000
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Meddle came after 'Atom Heart Mother' and showed Pink Floyd in a whole new light. Rather than being a reinvention of themselves Meddle shows another side to the four members, with an overall laid-back jazzy feel coming through. The opening number 'One of these days...' has become a standard and is way ahead of its time. The numbers that follow it up to 'Seamus' take the beat and slow it down to a toe-tapping rythmn, lulling the listener into a false sense of security. 'Echoes', the major track on the album at around 22 minutes long, has become a revered member of the Pink Floyd canon, and justly so. Opening with a single note from Rick Wright which sets the scene the song progresses into darker territory via Dave Gilmours almost violent crashing of chords into the eeiry wind-swept gothic towers of the middle section. Rick Wright once more brings light into the piece before the whole thing is rounded off in an almost fin de cycle.pA TRUE MASTERPIECE.
A saucerful of surprises June 2, 2006
Roberto Basura (UK)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Pink Floyd presented a wide range of styles on this album which very much went against the conventions of the genre at the time. I think for this reason Meddle was controversial right from the beginning. I bought this in the Musicassette format when I was 15 (it was presented in a cardboard flip top pack, like a cigarette packet) after hearing "Fearless" on John Peel's BBC "Top Gear" radio show. That track gave little indication of what else was in store, but it was ultimately "Echoes" that prompted me to rebuy it later, in vinyl and finally this CD edition.
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br /This reminds me that the two-sided format of vinyl (and cassette) is crucial to the way this album is paced. San Tropez and Seamus, both stylistically odd for Floyd, were the last two tracks on one side, and if you didn't like them, especially Seamus (and I don't like either of the two) you could take the needle of the record and flip it over. In CD format having these two tracks in the middle is understandably annoying.
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br /I would still have bought this for Echoes alone, though. What I really like about this track is the sense of going on a journey through an imaginary landscape. At first I imagined a night train journey through some kind of alien desert (there are very trainlike rhythms at one point) with the guitar near the end sounding like a sunrise. Ultimately, though, I guess it's an undersea voyage, as announced by the sonar ping-like opening (however the sound was achieved!) and the faux whale-song with seagulls section later (this was long before the whale song sound became a newage cliché).
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br /I think it's fair to say that you never know what to expect from one Pink Floyd album to the next, and that was never more true than with Meddle.
One of the best Floyd albums March 8, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When people consider the best Floyd albums, "Darkside" and "The Wall" are usually the two that first come to mind. With Meddle you can turn off the light lye back and relax and let all of the hassles of modern life stroll away, even if for only 40 odd minutes. p"One of these days" is an excellent track which could well be one of their all time best songs as it has everything you could want in an instrumental if you usually find them hard to swallow. "San Tropez" is also overlooked as a real classic as it has a very upbeat sound to it and you can imagine yourself listening to it just about anywhere. Then of course the last track "Echoes" is featured and it is because of this that this is an essential album. At 23 minutes long it is almost worth the money alone and not just because it is long but because it is a fantastic track and you have the ability to imagine you are somewhere else before coming back to reality soon after.pFor best results listen to in the dark, alone and you will see for yourself why this album is essential.
Pink Floyd At Their Very Best! March 25, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Meddle I would say, is the culmination of what Pink Floyd had started out to achieve, and are/were all about. From 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' Pink Floyd's progress through the follow on albums, as psychadelic/space rock band, finally conclude in a masterpiece - 47 minutes of rock ingenuity. 'One Of These Days' is probably THE best opening track on anything I've heard: it could be an ideal replacement for the theme tune of Dr Who (indeed both came together during the Earls Court gigs in October '94), then flows beautifully into 'A Pillow Of Winds''Fearless' is an anthem (although the accents singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone'should have been Glaswegian)'St Tropez'is an okay go at jazz, the band demonstrate an ability to pen a humerous, but bloody good little blues number with 'Seamus'. 'Echoes' is something else! Perhaps ranking at least alongside Yes's 'Awaken' or 'Close To The Edge' as THE best all time one side track in rock history. From the opening note/echo from Wright the array of sound, vocal and musical ingenuity that makes up the track are breathtaking. The way the band were able to hold this wall of music together for over 25 minutes and with the technology that existed nearly 30 years ago beggars belief. 'Meddle' is Pink Floyd at their absolute best, and probably happened at just the right time. The following albums had the band (I think anyway) heading in a new direction, but, for me, until the release of 'The Division Bell' this is my very favourite PF album.
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