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Meddle

Pink Floyd · 1971

• Scores: Noise 2, Unease 3, Complexity 3 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
• Mood: eerie, drifting, hypnotic
• Sound: side-long suite, long songs, sound effects, slide guitar, ambient passages, bluesy heavy moments

Pink Floyd recorded this between January and September 1971 at AIR, EMI and Morgan studios in London. Echoes grew from a single piano note by Richard Wright fed through a Leslie speaker, which gave a sonar-like ping the band could not recreate in the studio, so the demo version was kept. One of These Days runs its bassline through a Binson Echorec, and Nick Mason's single line was recorded at double speed and played back at normal speed. Fearless includes a field recording of Liverpool fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone.

Track list

1. One of These Days (5:57)
2. A Pillow of Winds (5:13)
3. Fearless (6:08)
4. San Tropez (3:44)
5. Seamus (2:15)
6. Echoes (23:30)