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Pink Floyd – Meddle / Pop Classic / Audio CD
UPC 5998490700225
Product Details:
Meddle is the sixth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 31 October 1971 by Harvest Records. The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road Studios and Morgan Studios.
With no material to work with and no clear idea of the album's direction, the band devised a series of novel experiments which eventually inspired the album's signature track "Echoes". Although the band's later albums would be unified by a central theme with lyrics written entirely by Roger Waters, Meddle was a group effort with lyrical contributions from each member, and is considered a transitional album between the Syd Barrett-influenced group of the late 1960s and the emerging Pink Floyd. The cover has been explained by its creator Storm Thorgerson to be an ear underwater; as with several previous albums designed by Hipgnosis, though, Thorgerson was unhappy with the final result.
The album was well-received by critics upon its release, and was commercially successful in the United Kingdom, but lacklustre publicity on the part of the band's American label Capitol Records led to poor sales there upon initial release.
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Echoes Written-By – David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters |
23:31 |
| 2 |
One Of These Days Written-By – David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters |
5:58 |
| 3 |
A Pillow Of Winds Written-By – David Gilmour, Roger Waters |
5:13 |
| 4 |
Fearless Written-By – David Gilmour, Roger Waters |
6:11 |
| 5 |
San Tropez Written-By – Roger Waters |
3:46 |
| 6 |
Seamus Written-By – David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters |
2:19 |
Song-list:
1. Echoes (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason)
2. One Of These Days (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason)
3. A Pillow Of Winds (Gilmour, Waters)
4. Fearless (Gilmour, Waters (including Rodgers, Hammerstein II))
5. San Tropez (Waters)
6. Seamus (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason)
More Details:
- Bass Guitar, Vocals – Roger Waters
- Composed By [All Material] – Pink Floyd
- Design [Discovery Design] – StormStudios
- Engineer [Air, Emi] – John Leckie, Peter Bown
- Engineer [Morgan] – Rob Black, Roger Quested
- Guitar, Vocals – David Gilmour
- Keyboards, Vocals – Richard Wright
- Mastered By – James Guthrie, Joel Plante
- Percussion – Nick Mason
- Photography By [Background] – Peter Curzon, Bob Dowling
- Photography By [Cover] – Bob Dowling, Tony May (4)
- Photography By [Inner Spread] – Hipgnosis (2)
- Producer – Pink Floyd
- Sleeve [Original Design] – Hipgnosis (2), Pink Floyd
About the Band:
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining a following as a psychedelic rock group, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the progressive rock genre. They are one of the most commercially successful and influential bands in popular music history.
Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals). Under Barrett's leadership, they released two charting singles and a successful debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined in December 1967; Barrett left in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concepts behind the albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). The band also composed several film scores.
Following personal tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1979, followed by Waters in 1985. Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd, rejoined later by Wright. The three produced two more albums—A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994)—and toured both albums before entering a long period of inactivity. In 2005, all but Barrett reunited for a one-off performance at the global awareness event Live 8. Barrett died in 2006, and Wright in 2008. The last Pink Floyd studio album, The Endless River (2014), was based on unreleased material from the Division Bell recording sessions.
Pink Floyd were one of the first British psychedelia groups, and are credited with influencing genres such as progressive rock and ambient music. Four albums topped US or UK record charts; the songs "See Emily Play" (1967) and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979) were their only top 10 singles in either territory. The band were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. By 2013, they had sold more than 250 million records worldwide, with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall two of the best-selling albums of all time.
