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My second favorite Pink Floyd album ever?

On the low side, beside "Echoes" and "One Of These days", I do not find excellence in the other songs. They are, how is normally said here, "they are good but not essencial".

So, we must set the focus on those two songs, in order to justify this album status as a masterpiece. In "One Of These days" what is there more to be enjoyed are the rhythm section. The bass (if I were to be a musician, I would like to be a bass player), part drives you to a musical way no other bass line may ever conduct you, that bass line cannot be changed in order to preserve the essence of the song! Related to drums, it seems Mr. Mason has always being an underrated drummer. He is one the players I can more easily recognize, he has a very particular way of kicking. And if he changed his playing in this song just a little bit, the whole thing would be compromised as well...

Finally, "Echoes". The great rival of "Atom Heart Mother", and here we see what can be considered the best way the band sing their songs, and it is when Rick and David shares vocal parts. This is the song that made me understand what a "epic" is; and, as well, turned me into a prog fan since? 1979...

PS - By means of curiosity, In the end of de seventies I was a teeneger, and in that slow instrumental part halfway to the end of "Echoes", dominated by Roger´s rhythm on the bass, I imagined myself slowly riding "Tundro" (from the comic "Herculoids"), through a strange and dark forest...

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