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MEDDLE

Pink Floyd

 

Psychedelic/Space Rock

4.30 | 3494 ratings

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Gustavo Froes
4 stars Pink Floyd albums are particulary hard to review,seeing as they usually don't follow tightly 'album structuring' standards.How many stars does an album which in one half contains completely ignorable tracks,and in the other one of the best pieces of music ever wrote in this so called progressive rock genre deserves?

What we get in Side A is a bunch of songs which lead to nowhere,totally insignificant and irrelevant,yet not exactly bad.Yes,there is a fair amount of trash here,the only way I feel able to classify Seamus and Fearless. But there's also a nice intrumental(even if it's too easily forgetable)named One of These Days,the blues track San Tropez which may even be quite enjoyable,and the harmless(but nothing more than that)A Pillow of Winds.What's worse about these group of songs casted into an extremely poor vinyl side is the feeling that the band wrote a lenghty composition they were pretty conscient to be groundbreaking, and just made four or five fillers to complete the 20 remaining minutes necessary on an LP.But enough talking about the bad half.

As one turns the vinyl side(or make it through the other tracks on CD)and get to listen to water drops,there's an immediate feeling that the band's up for something special now.And boy,do they make up to it.Echoes just gotta be one of the ultimate experiences rock music ever provided us with.Though my personal vote for best Floyd album goes to Dark Side,it's pretty safe to say this is the best piece they ever wrote.

Brilliant lines,uncanny climaxes and constant changing moods define this 23 minutes opus.Here is where the band's experiments with space/psychedelia truly flourished,so being that by the time the band comes back in the up-tempo beat for the last verse(after an indeed scarry mid-break),we're transported to wherever our minds are willing to take us with a simply unmatchable naturality.So being,Echoes is a masterpiece,one that only Pink Floyd could possibly create.If ever a piece of music deserved the tag 'not for the faint hearted',this is it.

I'll take the deepest of breaths:any album that contains Echoes in one of it's halfs shoud not be granted with less than four stars,no matter how despisable and fogettable is the other half.For what it's worth,this is their last proper album before they became stadium fillers all around the globe.

Gustavo Froes | 4/5 |

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