Product ReviewsMeddle by Pink Floyd (CD, Apr-1989, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Meddle review

Meddle is an album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was recorded at various studios in between the band's live touring commitments from January to August 1971.

Originally released in the U.S. on 30 October 1971 by Harvest/Capitol and in the UK on November 5 by Harvest/EMI, the album was later remastered three times: first by MFSL in 1984 on high-quality vinyl and cassette, then in 1989 for Ultradisc, and finally by Doug Sax (supervised by James Guthrie) for the 1992 Shine On box set. This latter digital master was used for a CD reissue with additional artwork by Hipgnosis, released August 1994 in Europe and April 1995 in the U.S.

Track listing

Side one
"One of These Days" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 5:57
Spoken line: Mason

"A Pillow of Winds" (David Gilmour, Roger Waters) – 5:10
Lead vocals: Gilmour

"Fearless" (David Gilmour, Roger Waters) – 6:08
Lead vocals: Gilmour
Interpolates "You'll Never Walk Alone"

"San Tropez" (Roger Waters) – 3:43
Lead vocals: Waters

"Seamus" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 2:15
Lead vocals: Gilmour

Side two
"Echoes" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 23:29
Lead vocals: Gilmour and Wright

Overview
Though the tracks have a variety of moods, Meddle is generally considered more cohesive than its 1970 predecessor Atom Heart Mother, and is thought by many fans to be Pink Floyd's first truly great album recorded without Syd Barrett. It enjoyed some commercial success in the United Kingdom (reaching #3 on the charts), but lacklustre publicity on the part of Capitol Records led to weak sales in the U.S. However, Meddle was later certified Gold by the RIAA in October of 1973 and then double platinum on 11 March 1994 following the added attention garnered by the band's later successes in America.

"One of These Days" opens the album with a Binson Echorec bassline, played by both Gilmour and Waters, and uses a slide guitar. A largely instrumental piece, the only lyric, 'One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces', is spoken by Nick Mason. It is followed by "A Pillow of Winds", which is distinguished by being one of the few quiet, acoustic love songs in the Pink Floyd catalogue. These two songs segue into each other via wind effects, anticipating the same technique that would later be used on Wish You Were Here.

The song "Fearless" employs field recordings of the Liverpool F.C. Kop choir singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", their anthem, which brings the song to an end in a heavily reverberated fade-out. "San Tropez", by extreme contrast, is a jazz-inflected pop song with a shuffle tempo, composed by Waters in his increasingly-deployed style of breezy, off-the-cuff songwriting. Pink Floyd give a rare glimpse into their sense of humour with "Seamus", a pseudo-blues number featuring a dog howling.

The final song on the album, the 23-minute underwater epic "Echoes", is notable for being the lyrical centrepiece of the record and the band's most accomplished recorded work at the time. "Echoes" also gave its name to the compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, on which a much-edited version of the title track was included. In the compilation, multiple edits throughout the entire song cut the running length of the piece down by some 7 minutes.

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