Up until now, there had been no single disc overview of Pink Floyd\u2019s career, only the superb double disc Echoes <\/i>set.<\/p>\n
This is not strange. Floyd has many studio albums, each of which has a particular sound and style, none of which sound terribly similar to each other. One is compelled to view Dark Side Of The Moon<\/i>, Meddle<\/i>, <\/i>or Wish You Were Here <\/i>as works of art, not collections of songs, so cherry-picking the \u201cbest\u201d of these is like taking a chapter out of a book; it may be good on its own, but it loses something without the context.<\/p>\n
Echoes <\/i>did a fantastic job of at least trying to condense Pink Floyd\u2019s diverse and wonderful catalog into a balanced overview of the band, making it hard to quibble with the finished product. A Foot In The Door<\/i> condenses that release even further by sticking with only the top classic rock radio hits, the ones you hear at any time on every station. If all you know or care about by Floyd is \u201cComfortably Numb,\u201d \u201cAnother Brick In The Wall Pt. 2,\u201d and \u201cMoney,\u201d then this is for you.<\/p>\n
This collection doesn\u2019t even try to be balanced. As far as it\u2019s concerned, Pink Floyd did not exist until 1973\u2019s Dark Side Of The Moon<\/i>, so only one song of the 16 here predates that period (the dated single \u201cSee Emily Play\u201d). It keeps with the theme of the compilation \u2013 one never hears \u201cOne Of These Days\u201d or \u201cAstronomy Domine\u201d on the radio anyway \u2013 but it\u2019s disheartening all the same.<\/p>\n
Half of Dark Side <\/i>is present (expected culprits \u201cTime,\u201d \u201cMoney,\u201d \u201cBrain Damage\/Eclipse,\u201d and the female vocal gyrations of \u201cThe Great Gig In The Sky\u201d), and three songs from Wish You Were Here <\/i>(the title track, \u201cHave A Cigar\u201d and the band\u2019s best song of all time, \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond\u201d) do that album justice. \u201cShine On\u201d is present in its first part (parts I-V) with two minutes edited out; only longtime fans of the song will really notice where the cuts were made, and it doesn\u2019t hurt the piece.<\/p>\n
Nothing from Animals <\/i>appears; the two aforementioned songs from The Wall<\/i> are here as well as \u201cHey You\u201d (which inexplicably starts off the set), with radio hits like \u201cYoung Lust\u201d left off. Of the latter-day tracks, \u201cLearning To Fly\u201d and \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d are probably the best from their respective albums, while \u201cThe Fletcher Memorial Home\u201d makes an appearance to, yet again, try to remind people that The Final Cut <\/i>was a band album and not a solo Roger Waters disc, although it clearly was.<\/p>\n
No doubt this release is little more than a cash grab, since three-quarters of the songs come from the band\u2019s three biggest albums and nearly all of these get constant radio airplay. And, of course, all of this is quite good music (except for \u201cThe Fletcher Memorial Home\u201d and \u201cThe Happiest Days Of Our Lives,\u201d the oft-heard lead-in to \u201cAnother Brick\u201d). If you are one of those who simply wants those radio hits and nothing more, or if you\u2019re a Pink Floyd neophyte who is curious, this collection does the trick. <\/p>\n
But because it ignores the first seven albums by the band as well as Animals<\/i>, and because \u201cShine On You Crazy Diamond\u201d is here in an edited form, Echoes <\/i>remains the definitive and balanced overview of the Floyd canon\u2026although, more than most others, the individual albums remain the place to truly discover the essence of the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":31193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5677],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-42885","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pink-floyd","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42885"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}