MEDDLE

Pink Floyd's Meddle is an amazing album, any way you look at it. It starts off of an amazing track, "One of These Days," one of the only times you'll hear Nick Mason on a Pink Floyd song, but that's not important. What is important, though, is how excellent this first track is. I must admit, though, when I first started listening to this song, I never could really get into it, but now I see it for what it is. A masterpiece. A stunning song to start off with. That song ends, and then you get into "A Pillow of Winds." This song goes off in a completely different direction than "One of These Days." It has more of a bluesy feeling to it, and is airier. While it is fun to listen to, it's still a pretty boring track. That ends and you go into "Fearless," a song that really pulls you in more and more into the album, as opposed to "A Pillow of Winds" which pushed you away more than anything. "Fearless" is a cool song to listen to, and it is interesting to listen to at any time. After this, is "San Tropez," a fun song, which, is like "A Pillow of Winds" in most respects. Then comes "Seamus," the worst track on the album. This song is boring, uninteresting, and barely listenable at points, but gives off a feeling which is essential to this album. This ends, and we come into the real deal of this album. "Echoes." The best Pink Floyd, and arguably the best song ever. This song starts off with only a few pings of the guitar, and develops into a song with amazing lyrics, and morphs into a jam section. Everything from Gilmour's guitar riffs, Waters's funky bassline, some of Wright's best organ work, and Mason's simple, yet amazing drum work, is perfect. They all seem like they are on the same plain of thinking, while recording this song. This song is also amazing live. Anyone who hasn't heard this live should definently hear it as soon as possible. It is great, and is almost spot on to the studio version, which ends on, what feels like a sad note, to me at least, because I know this song is coming to an end. Hard to believe one of the neatest effects on this album (Gilmour's guitar screeching towards the middle of the song) was made by accident one day when he plugged his wah pedal in the wrong way. It's amazing how one mistake could feel so right, which is sort of how this album feels to me. Most songs on it are boring, uninteresting, and downright bad in some cases, but the feel they give off while listening to this album, building up to one of the greatest songs ever, is amazing. Anyone who is interested in prog-rock at ALL should at least hear "Echoes," and once you've heard that, I know you'll want to hear the rest.