A COLLECTION OF GREAT DANCE SONGS

Pink Floyd

Psychedelic/Space Rock

2.23 | 229 ratings

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milesh

Pink Floyd are one of my all-time favorite bands, so it feels really hard to give a low rating to a band you really like.

Well, I don't know what else to do, but this is one album that just doesn't feel like a good addition. It was released for the Christmas market of 1981 (for the purpose of getting SOMETHING Floyd-related out that year), but with only six cuts and none from any pre- Meddle album? HELLO!!!

The title is totally lame. Even a six-month old knows that Pink Floyd are not a dance band (what were you smoking when you came up with that title, Mr. Gilmour?!?). If this album included a disco remix of "Comfortably Numb," it would have been acceptable. But not even "Wish You Were Here" would qualify as a high school slowdance song, not by a shot glass.

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is without question a great song, but why not the entirety of parts 1 to 5 instead of the poor edit (which misses several best parts, by the way).

What really throws me is that the pretty good but unnecessary re-recorded version of "Money" (which the clever David Gilmour takes full control of - and even handles the drums, though Nick Mason he's not) was included for contractual purposes, because at the time, the band was distributed by CBS/Columbia in North America and EMI in UK and Europe. Yet, here "One Of These Days" is, in its original 1971 recording from Meddle! What's up with THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Given the wide range of material released Pink Floyd during their heyday, and the recent compilation Echoes (which tells the story better), A Collection of Great Dance Songs is about as useful as playing Name That Tune with a deaf person. Yes, you do get the remixed single version of "Another Brick In The Wall," but you've got better things to do with your money.

It's for the medium that I apply this album with 1 star, not the music.

| 1/5 | 2005-3-11

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