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Ok, here we go again , I gotta review this album , This is a great and important album; Pink Floyd is very much still a band in developement at this point, AND still very experimental and very "jammy" ( note in point: One of these Days w/ the whole first minutes built around "echo bass guitar", sychronised backward cymbal hits, stabbing dramatic single organ thrusts)--- Yea you know and all this with really no synthesizers. Im a total gear whore and i study everything related to gear, so i really watch for clues etc; Pink Floyd never one too much to talk about gear like others, you know. But , I swear i see no evidence of much synthesizer usgae at all at this pont ( note: Pink Floyd "Live at Pompeii" the movie , me see's no synthizers anywhere in that movie , not even a VCS3; which was about exactly AFTER this record was done, cause in the movie they show scenes of them working on "Dark Side...").. After this record Pink Floyd was sort of BIG TIME forever, really and truelly the greatest rock band ever by any standard. What is Important also historically at this point when Pink Floyd released this record is that Pink Floyd starting doing things that were kind of AvantGarde and were selling millions of records doing it. So they were given total creative license to go crazy... at times , you know, Pink Floyd is not even that complicated musically. A lot of people have droned a single note over the last 40 years, but possibly no one with as much success as Pink Floyd Theres really only two tracks on this album, all the rest are crap in my opinion ( like a lot of old psych records). but man, the two important tracks on this album are so good they make the album essential. "One of these Days" could have sounded like crap like a lot of old psych stuff, but Pink Floyd sound to me like they really sat and mapped all this stuff out before the even started recording, One of the Days was undeniably spawned from a jam. Again, not one of those tracks with a lot of musical athletics, its the idea that counts. Roger just siting there wailing away on his bass guitar through an echoplex creating the whole intro part9 I can recall this from the movie "live at Pompeii"), and the rest of the band just making some really tasty noise, correct me if im wrong , but my brain recalls some trivia that its Nick Mason thru a ring modulator saying: " One of these days im gonna cut you into little pieces" and the whole band busts in with a nice frenzied psychedelic jam groove that take the piece to close. Simple.Total great early Pink Floyd their best before they were big giant mega rock stars. Onto "Echoes" , muy importante side long suite- Opens with a submarine bell; that be one of the high notes on a grand piano fed thru an echo plex with repeats set to like just a few milliseconds and the amount of repeats very long, how brilliant, what a beautifull simple non musician thing, very ambient... just that single note... this why Pink Floyd Rules in my opinion and most bands just dont get it... the whole thing builds so beautifully into a groove. Like Pink Floyd have really only ever done except on "Shine on you crazy diamond" and some "komische music" things. Pink Floyd is really really the odd ball in a lot of the famous prog bands, because they dont do in your face musicianship. The lyrics and the concepts started becoming dominated by roger after this record, until he took total control..... Honestly, I have all the records previous to this one, and there all really kind of "big deal" except a few tracks: Astronomy Domine, Care full with that Axe Eugene, A Saucerfull of secrets, Set the controls.... what else.. i dont remember: To me Pink Floyd starts here, I own way to many albums to bother with listening to that other stuff.. Dang I forgot to mention the HOT HOT jamming in Echoes; this was the end of this stuff. Pink Floyd never really jammed again, after this with al their success and all everything was very very planned.