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Well, personally I think this to be one of Pink Floyd's top albums, despite its relative lack of popularity. As stated in other reviews, Echoes is the feature song and is indeed quite brilliant. You can search many prog albums and you will be hard pressed to find a song with such sophisticated writing and brilliant musical performances with strong emotional solos and powerful lyrics.

One of these days is also a good catchy song, but it doesn't stand out in my opinion, compared to other solos of the timeframe. But still, it's a great song to start off the album. Pillow of winds, Fearless, San Tropez, and Seamus are also great songs, although none of them really stand out. If you sit down, listen the first side of the LP through, you'll sit back and think, 'Wow, thats an exceptional side of an LP right there', or at least thats what I did. The songs may not be catchy, or particularly skilled as far as the instruments go, but the songwriting and moods created are very impressive, and leave an impression. Then, you flip the LP over and come to Echoes. Wow, that's a fantastic album!

All in all, this is probalby Pink's best, next to maybe Animals, or perhaps Division Bell (yes, I said Division Bell), and is a definite must have to any prog fan.