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 [Larger view] | Pink Floyd - Meddle
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| Let's Burn our Brains ! | |
| Fantastic ! No words to say about this album... Many of 70's rock lovers will dislike this pearl, but Floyd's real fans simply love it ! After the great and genious Atom Heart Mother, Floyd made one of his finest works. Acoustic Guitars, Organ and Gilmour's precise solos mixed with a lot of pos-psychodelia ideas. Everything from Floyd's "first" phase are present in Meddle. One of These Days, the first track, is a Bass-Distortion-Spacial-Noise-Trip, a very dense and hard track for 71, great idea, creating an intense sounding tunnel to some strange and apocalyptic land ! After this "brain ... ", Gilmour and Waters show us Pillow of Winds, a beautiful melody, with Ac. Guitars and a soft keyboard. A gentle lyric, very lovely. Fearless, the third track, is another acoustic track, with another interesting lyric. Nice melody, with a soccer team fan's chorus at the end. Not as good as Pillow, but great track. Saint Tropez changes the direction of the tracks: A jazz, blues, 50's rythm, with Waters on vocals. Very simple, well done and funny. Seamus is the "experimental" track of this album. A typical american south blues, with a fantastic Gilmour's slide guitar and a lot of dogs barking without stop. A little bit psychodelic, strange, but funny like Saint Tropez. This side A, with 5 tracks, show us pure Floyd's vocals, with Gilmour starting leading Floyd's harmonies. But here, B side, is the great moment of the album: Echoes ! An incredible 23 mins track with all Floyd's greatest attributes: Beatufiul vocals (Gilmour and Wright in a perfect combination), Spacial-Softly harmonies (Mellotron and Organ creating a paradisiac atmosphere), Good Guitars interventions (Gilmour at one of his most creative moments), Delightful lyrics (Waters showing us a minimalistic, simbolic world) everything in Echoes fit perfectly. Meddle is a classic, an unbelivable work. A few bands in the 70's could record such wonder. If you don't have this genuine Floyd's piece of magic, buy it now, and listen it carefully, feeling the sound, reaching the skies... | |
| One of the the finest musical recordings of modern time. | |
| Pink Floyd's Meddle to me is the most beautifully put-together album ever. With such an eclectic and diverse range of songs, The Floyd really demonstrates their mastery of progressive rock. From the dramatic "One of these Days", to the light-hearted "San Tropez", this album is Pink Floyd at their most creative level. The finale "Echoes" alone makes this album stand out from other Floyd classics. Perhaps withstanding the exception of Wish you were here's "Shine on you crazy diamond", echoes is Pink Floyd's most elaborate and layered work, and consequentially their most impressive. No song that I have ever heard left such a profound impact on me. Like a successfuly artistic movie, with every listen you can hear new components, experience new sounds, and enjoy further mind-blowing instrumentals. With its dramatic symphonic impression, overtoned by a collection of intelligent, jazzy tunes, Meddle is the complete progressive rock compilation. Perhaps providing some evidence towards the impact of this album, anyone familiar with a little British act known as "The Charlatans" may be able to detect a bit of sampling from Meddle within their work. The Charlatans song "Here Comes a soul saver" has within it a guitar riff very remeniscent to one heard in Meddle's "Fearless". | |
| Perhaps Pink Floyd's best pre-Dark Side album | |
| Meddle was the Pink Floyd album were they seemed to have finally gotten rid of many of the '60s psychedelic gimmicks and started going for a more '70s progressive rock sound. Most of the first half of the album (side one if you own the LP) is like the second, more song-oriented half of Atom Heart Mother, although I felt the stuff on Meddle was definately better executed. Some of the more undesirable experiments of Atom Heart Mother (specifically "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfeast") had been luckily thrown out the window. The album starts off with "One of These Days", always been a favorite. It's a really heavy piece, with loud use of bass. I have always felt this was the closest to heavy metal the band ever did. "A Pillow of Windows" is an organ-dominated ballad with acoustic guitar with plenty of that '70s Pink Floyd trademark. Roger Waters' "St. Tropez" is a rather upbeat number, although the album does feature one one misstep and that was Wright's "Seamus". It was basically a misguided attempted at doing country blues complete with a howling dog. It sounds so un-Pink Floyd. I guess the band wanted to be less serious here. But I had always felt the album's other crowning achievement (aside from "One of These Days") was the 23 minute side-length epic "Echoes". A lot of the style which would make them famous with "Dark Side of the Moon" could be found here. The album starts off with Richard Wright's use piano. Here you get to hear David Gilmour use this spacy slide guitar, which became a Pink Floyd trademark. When the vocals come in, you hear many of the same vocals harmonies that you recognize on albums like "Dark Side of the Moon". In fact this part of "Echoes" sounds like a pre-cursor to "Time". Then the band starts going in to a lengthy instrumental passage which then fades in to some truly bizarre use of wind sounds and electronic seagulls. Eventually those wind and seagull sounds fade with just spooky organ from Richard Wright, then Waters comes in with his bass, then the whole band kicks in before the main vocal themes return. Eventually the song ends once again with those wind sounds. This had been always my favorite pre-Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd album. There is no doubt if you're in to this band, you need this album. |
