A mistake we've made twice now with both our last two albums has been to bend to external pressures - that's only in my opinion, mind you, I'm not saying this is for the rest of the group. I quite like the rest of it, but really in a kind of half-hearted way - I'm not really crazy about the rest of that side. I really love Echoes and I really like One of These Days, the first track on the other side. Roger Waters: "Basically I feel quite good about it. Roger gave an overview of how he felt about the album upon its release.
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All of the songs, and especially Echoes, demonstrated that more than any other band, the Pink Floyd really knew how to use the studio effectively, incorporating up to the minute technology to create their otherworldly sounds. One of These Days, perhaps the most intense, true hard rock song the band ever did, continues to be performed live to this day. Though none were really up to Echoes standards, most were better than anything on side two of Atom Heart Mother. The songs on the other side of the LP ran the gamut from classic Pink Floyd (One of These Days, Fearless) to utterly forgettable easy-listening (San Tropez). Echoes succeeded in all the places the Atom Heart Mother Suite didn't: it was a richly complex and layered piece, captivating in its textures, lengthy but never boring, climactic, powerful, and possessing a positive direction, with an obvious beginning, middle, and end. Reaction to the album varied, but most people, including the band themselves, realized something important had been achieved. Since the story of Meddle is largely synonymous with the story of Echoes, more information on the album's development can be found in the entry for that song. Mixing finished in September, and the band had barely decided on the titles for all the songs when the album was rushed into production to be ready for Christmas sales. At this point the band realized too much time had been wasted, and under pressure from the record companies, they recorded material for the other half of the album in a relative rush in July and August. Pink Floyd's lengthiest recording process ever continued throughout May, amidst a grueling tour schedule, and work on Echoes at last wrapped up in July. These ideas developed throughout March and April, when Echoes finally reached a cohesive form. Nick Mason: "Another LP is being made now, but we go into the studios with the idea of putting down rough ideas instead of actual tracks - we're consciously approaching this one differently." Rather than following the normal procedure of going into the studio with preconceived ideas and recording them, the group went in with virtually nothing and spent a tremendous amount of time fiddling about, and developing ideas through the recording process itself. Recording for the album began in January of 1971, when the band began laying down various ideas for Echoes, the centerpiece of the album. It was around this time that the innovative experimentalism of Pink Floyd would begin to merge with a greater sense of musicality and melodic richness that would lead to Dark Side of the Moon the following year. The band was beginning to combine musical ideas more effectively than ever before. It was obvious that at this point, the creativity of the group was acquiring a certain kind of synergy and would soon reach a climax of inspiration. The album which, in the minds of many, began Pink Floyd's glory years was Meddle.
US: Harvest SMAS 832 (30 October) Reached #70 on the US charts
UK: Harvest SHVL 795 Reached #3 on the UK charts Recording details: 4-6, 9-11, 19-21, 24-26 January 7, 11-12, 14-15, 19, 21, 25, 26, 28 March 8-10, 13-14, 26-28 April, all of the above at EMI Abbey Road 1-2, 6, 9-11, 24-26, 28 May at Abbey Road and Morgan Sound Studios, Kilburn 19-20, 22 July at Morgan Sound Studios 23-25, 27 August at AIR Studios, Oxford Street 21, 26 September at Command Studios for the Quad mixĮngineers: Peter Bown and John Leckie at EMI and AIR Rob Black and Roger Quested at Morgan Sound * Re-released in the Shine On box set, 1992
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