01	One Of These Days						05:58
	02	A Pillow Of Winds						05:11
	03	Fearless						06:09
	04	San Tropez						03:44
	05	Seamus						02:16
	06	Echoes						23:31

Released November 1971.

Produced by The Pink Floyd

Recorded at AIR Studios, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, Morgan Sound Studios between January and September 1971

Remastered 1992

Track Listing:

1) One Of These Days (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)
2) A Pillow Of Winds (Waters, Gilmour)
3) Fearless (Waters, Gilmour)
4) San Tropez (Waters)
5) Seamus (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)
6) Echoes (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)




Artist Pink Floyd
Album Title Meddle
Date of Release Nov 11, 1971

Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its follow-up, Meddle. Opening with a deliberately surging "One of These Days," Meddle spends most of its time with sonic textures and elongated compositions, most notably on its epic closer "Echoes." If there aren't pop songs in the classic sense (even on the level of the group's contributions to Ummagumma), there is a uniform tone, ranging from the pastoral "A Pillow of Winds" to "Fearless," with its insistent refrain hinting at latter-day Floyd. Pink Floyd were nothing if not masters of texture, and Meddle is one of their greatest excursions into little details, pointing the way to the measured brilliance of Dark Side of the Moon and the entire Roger Waters era. Here, David Gilmour exerts a slightly larger influence, at least based on lead vocals, but it's not all sweetness and light - even if its lilting rhythms are welcome, "San Tropez" feels out of place with the rest of Meddle. Still, the album is one of the Floyd's most consistent explorations of mood, especially from their time at Harvest, and it stands as the strongest record they released between Syd's departure and Dark Side. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

1. One of These Days (Gilmour/Mason/Pink Floyd/Waters/Wright) - 5:56
2. A Pillow of Winds (Gilmour/Pink Floyd/Waters) - 5:13
3. Fearless (Gilmour/Pink Floyd/Waters) - 6:08
4. San Tropez (Pink Floyd/Waters) - 3:43
5. Seamus (Gilmour/Mason/Pink Floyd/Waters/Wright) - 2:15
6. Echoes (Gilmour/Mason/Pink Floyd/Waters/Wright) - 23:27

Roger Waters - Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Vocals
Nick Mason - Percussion, Drums
Richard Wright - Keyboards, Vocals
Robert Black - Engineer
Peter Bown - Engineer
Pink Floyd - Producer, Cover Design
David Gilmour - Guitar, Vocals
John Leckie - Engineer
Roger Quested - Engineer
Hipgnosis - Photography

1991 CD Capitol C2-46034
198? LP Mobile Fidelity MFS-1-197
1971 LP Harvest 832
1995 CD EMI 7243 8 29749 2
1971 CD Mobile Fidelity UDCD-518
1990 CD Mobile Fidelity 518
1990 LP Capitol 832
1991 CS Capitol C4-46034
2001 CD EMI 65738








One of These Days
Composed By Gilmour/Mason/Pink Floyd/Waters/Richard Wright
Performed By Pink Floyd
Length 5:56
Appears On Meddle [1971]


AMG REVIEW: "One of These Days" is an instrumental composition used as the lead-off track of Pink Floyd's album Meddle. It begins with the sound of wind and two alternating bass guitars playing single-note parts through an echo chamber and expands to include a recurring organ figure, drums, and finally aggressive lead guitar playing. Three and a half minutes into the six-minute track, drummer Nick Mason is heard declaring, "One of these days, I'm going to chop you into little pieces" in a distorted voice as the music builds ominously, only to recede back to the sound of wind. Pink Floyd first played the song in France on June 12, 1971, more than four months before it was released on record. Upon the release of Meddle on October 30, 1971, "One of These Days" became a favorite of FM radio programmers, its spacy sound seeming to typify Pink Floyd's style. The album spent more than a year in the charts and eventually sold over two million copies in the U.S., helping to set the stage for The Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd was seen performing the song in an empty amphitheater in the 1972 film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii. The group continued to play "One of These Days" in its shows of the early '70s, but later retired the song. It was reissued as the lead-off track of the compilations A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1983) and Works (1985). After Pink Floyd was reorganized in the early '80s, the band reintroduced "One of These Days" on its tour promoting its 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and used it as the lead-off track of the second CD of the resulting concert album Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988). It was also featured on the video Pulse (1995), which chronicled the tour promoting 1994's The Division Bell, though it was not included on the Pulse CD. - William Ruhlmann



Echoes
Composed By Gilmour/Mason/Pink Floyd/Waters/Wright
Performed By Pink Floyd
Length 23:27
Appears On Meddle [1971]


AMG REVIEW: "Echoes" is one of Pink Floyd's extended compositions. On the album Meddle, it runs 23 and a half minutes; on the original LP, it took up all of side two. The group was known for lengthy, mostly instrumental works before, but "Echoes" was their longest yet. Its genesis occurred in January 1971, when Pink Floyd went into the recording studio and recorded a series of sound experiments informally dubbed "Nothing - Parts One to Twenty-Four," culling some elements months later for a suite at first facetiously called "Return of the Son of Nothing," which began with a single piano note played through a rotating Leslie speaker (usually used with the Hammond B-3 organ). After that, the group mixed and edited together various pieces of music, also including three sets of imagistic lyrics sung by bandmembers David Gilmour and Rick Wright in a calm, gentle harmony style they would repeat on Pink Floyd's subsequent album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Other than that, "Echoes" had no unifying themes, instead weaving from one musical passage to another. "Echoes" was introduced in concert at Montreux, Switzerland, on September 18, 1971. Meddle was released October 30, 1971, and became a commercial success, selling over two million copies in the U.S. alone and reaching the Top Tive in the U.K. Pink Floyd performed "Echoes" in its concerts during the early '70s, including a filmed performance that turned up in the 1972 film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii. They briefly reintroduced the song as the opening number on their 1987 world tour, but dropped it after the first few dates. - William Ruhlmann





Meddle
Capitol Records (CDP 7 46034 2)
UK 1971

David Gilmour, guitars;
Roger Waters, bass;
Rick Wright, keys;
Nick Mason, drums

Tracklist:
1. One of These Days - 5:57
2. A Pillow of Winds - 5:10
3. Fearless - 6:08
4. San Tropez - 3:43
5. Seamus - 2:15
6. Echoes - 23:29

total time 46:42


bob

In a David Gilmour interview I once read, he mentioned that many people seem to think the Dark Side of the Moon just came out of nowhere. He then pointed out that if you listen to the previous albums, particularly the title track to Atom Heart Mother, "Echoes" from Meddle, and the film soundtrack Obscured by Clouds, you can hear the band developing the concepts and sound that they would perfect on _Dark Side_.
Meddle opens with the powerful "One of These Days". Most of the energy for this track comes from the dual bass lines - Waters playing on one side, Gilmour on the other. With Nick Mason's distorted line about cutting your head off at the track's midpoint, it blasts off into overdrive. In sharp contrast, the next two tracks show the unplugged, folksy side of Floyd. These two tracks are possibly their best treatment of that style.

Many fans seem to hate the lounge jazz of "San Tropez" and the howling hounddog blues of "Seamus". My take on these songs is that they're sort of the "comic relief" - These tracks are perfectly placed after the heavy opening track and serious lyrics of tracks two and three, and before the epic "Echoes". I like both tracks a lot, but then I go for "comedy music". "Echoes" is a song that took a long time to grow on me. The creepy atmosphere of the screaming seagull section put me off the song for a long time. But once it finally clicked for me, this track became one of my all time favorite Floyd songs. The "guitar orchestra" section towards the end is particularly great.

Overall, this album isn't as instantly enjoyable as later Floyd albums, but is well worth the effort to digest.


sean

Meddle, released in 1971, is a transitional album between the more experimental early incarnation of the band and the later, more "vanilla" progressive rock band of the mid-late 70s. Unfortunately, this album captures the stronger aspects of neither era.
The opening track is one of the strong parts of the album, built upon a monster riff from Roger Waters of all people, entitled "One of These Days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)". This is a powerful six minutes in which we get to hear the "Dr. Who" theme briefly. The rest of the first side of the album consists of pop ranging from mediocre to annoying.

The side-long epic, "Echoes", is a pretty good stab at prog greatness, but falls somewhat short. It seems like there is about ten minutes worth of themes and ideas here, yet the song is 23 minutes long. I don't mean to be overly harsh, because the good stuff here is certainly good, but it could have been great and it isn't. I simply can't agree with those who claim it is the Floyd's greatest hour either.

So there you have it. While I'm sure this album has its supporters, I would mainly recommend it to established fans of the band. Depending on if you are a Waters fan or a Barrett fan, the best was either yet to come or already behind them. Either way, it isn't here.


joe

With the release of Meddle in 1971, Pink Floyd were really beginning to hit their full stride, releasing an album which showed a maturity in both song construction and experimenting with recording technology. The throbbing bass echo, fierce slide guitar and backwards effects of "One of These Days" are by now of course instantly recognizable. "A Pillow of Winds" reveals Floyd at their most melodic and delicate. The side-long "Echoes," with its submarine-like blips and hazy dual vocals of Gilmour and Wright, represents the pinnacle of the album and some of the finest work that the Floyd ever accomplished as a band. Eschewing the wholesale gravity that later defined every other subsequent release with Roger Waters, Meddle even offers some very lighthearted touches as well for balance, such as the loungy "St. Tropez" and "Seamus", a blues duet with a hound.


eric

Meddle continues Floyd's experimentation, and things really gel here. The sidelong epic "Echoes" is a sonic delight which takes on three seperate identities. The melancholic opening, with a gorgeous melody, features harmonized vocals from Wright and Gilmour. Tasteful lead guitar work takes over after this and leads into the soundscapes of heavily echoed Rhodes keyboards and sound effects with the band fading out. The band then returns to close things out. The other standout track is "One Of These Days". This has to be one of the most powerful tracks of their career. The ominous pulsating bass intro, the spoken words that send chills up your spine and the bomb drops with the angry slide guitar fury and the band churning it out underneath. The acoustic guitar has a vital presence on most of the other tracks. "A Pillow of Winds" at times has a country feel but grows darker and again features slide guitar. "Fearless" again showcases acoustic guitar, featuring Gilmour's light drifting vocal. The wispy jazz piano of "San Tropez", and the humor of "Seamus" with its acoustic blues and has a hound dog to accompany the band round out the rest of the tracks. An excellent CD that displays a band about to come into its prime.


brandon

This album is acclaimed by fans of progressive rock but largely ignored by a majority of more mainstream Pink Floyd fans. It opens with a great slice of atmospheric space-rock, the succinctly titled "One of These Days (I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces)". Pretty easy to see why this appeals to prog fans. The next four cuts, though, have less appeal to said fans, being mostly poppy early 1970s English rock. "Fearless" happens to be really good early 1970s English pop rock, though, making up for "Seamus", perennial contender for Worst Pink Floyd Song Ever. The real gem here, though, and the one I'm itching to write about, is the epic "Echoes" - a masterfully moody and atmospheric piece featuring ethereal guitar and keys, altered vocals, and a truly fantastic and lengthy buildup leading to a climax and then the reflective, thoughtful ending. Though perhaps not complex from a musicological standpoint, the sheer mastery of composition here should make most prog fans more than happy. Live versions of "Echoes" tend to smoke, as well - at some shows the band made use of a saxophone which really added to parts of the piece. Get this disc, and if you like it ("Echoes" at least), start hunting for bootlegs. And then move on to similar prog bands - Pulsar comes immediately to mind.






Pink Floyd - Meddle

Release Date: 1971


Member: Thekouderwunz

First and foremost, this is my favorite Pink Floyd album, and not only because of the imfamous "Echoes", but also for great songs like "A Pillow Of Winds", FM staple "One Of These Days" and the wonderful "Fearless". "Seamus" is to this album what Genesis' "Whodunnit" was to Abacab, meaning although I like both songs, the albums would be better off without it.

Meddle is vastly underated as a whole, don't pass it by.

Album Rating: Four and a half stars

Charles

Member: Sean 6/17/03

I had to add a few words about Meddle as well. This is my favorite album from Pink Floyd and one that I am glad I discovered early on in my fandom. This album is often overlooked by the casual Floyd fan, but any diehard knows that this is one that is not to be missed- EVER!

As Charles stated in his review here, "Echoes" is indeed "imfamous" and with good reason. This is the long form piece that Floyd did the very best, they really nailed perfection here. "Echoes" combines the experimentalism of earlier pieces like "A Saucerful of Secrets" and the mellow refinement of their epic style featured on later pieces like "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". "Echoes" meets them both half way. This track builds from basically nothing into this massive piece that glides through many movements. The version in their film "Live In Pompeii" is possibly even more stunning than the studio version here, if you can imagine that.

"One of These Days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" is probably the best known number here. Easily the most aggressive song on the album (except for some of the more intense sections of "Echoes"), "Days" is driven by a repetitive, throbbing bass line and David Gilmour's slide guitar work. A stuttering middle section has a quote from the theme to the British sci-fi TV show "Doctor Who". This is much more obvious on some of the live versions btw, found elsewhere.

The rest of this side of the album is a sublime gem. A very laid back affair that is largely acoustic. Some really memorable tunes are here including "A Pillow of Winds" which features a vocals from guitarist David Gilmour. A yearning slide guitar part is at the core of this tune, that and some nice acoustic guitar work. There are no drums and very little in the way of bass. There is a very nice middle section in this tune as well. This song glides by much like something blowing in the wind.

"Fearless" is the other really notable number on Meddle. It is almost like an acoustic country/folk tune. It sounds to me like it would not be out if place on a Grateful Dead album. It is closer to their style than what you would normally expect from Floyd. This is the tune that has the soccer fans singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" tacked on in the background at the end. It would not be a stretch to hear this on an album like Led Zeppelin III either now that I think of it.....

"San Tropez" is an amusing acoustic cocktail lounge jazz type number. It is quite unlike anything the band did before or since. It is sung by keyboardist Richard Wright.

This is such a diverse album that indulges the part of me that likes to see groups stretch beyond what they are usually expected to sound like. This one is a keeper.