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 Discography : Meddle |
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Release Date - November 13, 1971
UK Chart - #3; US Chart - #70
David Gilmour - Guitar & Vocals
Roger Waters - Bass Guitar & Vocals
Nick Mason - Percussion
Richard Wright - Keyboards & Vocals
Recorded at - Air Studios, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, Morgan Studios, London 1971 Engineers - Peter Brown, John Leckie, Rob Black and Roger Quested
Album Cover Designed by - Pink Floyd
Outer Sleeve Photos by - Bob Dowling
Inner Sleeve Photos by - Tony May
Band Photos by - Hipgnosis
Remastered Design by - Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon
All Material Composed and Produced by -
Pink Floyd Words and Music
Pink Floyd Music Publishers LTD
Fearless Includes - You'll Never Walk Alone
(Rodgers Hammerstein II)
TRACKS
One of These Days (Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason) [05:57] Vocals by Nick Mason.
A Pillow of Winds (Waters, GIlmour) [05:07] Vocals by Gilmour.
Fearless (Waters, Gilmour) [06:05] Vocals by Gilmour.
Saint Tropez (Waters) [03:40] Vocals by Waters.
Seamus (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) [02:13] Vocals by Gilmour.
Echoes (Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason) [23:31] Vocals by Gimour and Wright.
Total Playing Time: 46:33
INFO
Release date: November 11st, 1971
This was the album which streamlined and established the hallmark of
the Floyd's mature style: a dense and colourful blend of actuality
sounds and original electronic textures, and more conventional rock
instrumentation. This is more of the old school Pink Floyd style.
"Meddle" contains two extremely important songs in the Pink Floyd
story. One, the powerful, spacey "One Of These Days", marked a welcome
return to their style of simplicity; while the other, the LP entire
side-long "Echoes", is a progressive rock classic (one of my favorites
auctually). On this track they managed to dispense with additional
musicians and became, in effect a four-piece orchestra. The song marked
the first real appearance of the lush, symphonic sound that was
such an obvious feature of their music from then on. "Echoes" featured
Dave Gilmour's first major contributions to the Pink Floyd sound.
QUOTES
David Gilmour: "We did loads of bits of demos which we then pieced
together, and for the first time, it worked. This album was a clear
forerunner for Dark Side Of The Moon, the point when we first got our
focus."
Nick Mason: "We spent a long time starting the record. We'd worked
through the Sounds Of Household Objects project, which we never
finished. The idea was always to create a continuous piece of music
that went through various moods and this was the album that established
that. Rick was the guy who got it off the ground with that
one note at the beginning."
Rick Wright: "I was playing around on the piano in the studio but it
was actually Roger who said, Would it be possible to put that note
through a microphone and then through the Leslie? That's what started
it. That's how all the best Floyd tracks start, I believe." The title
"Meddle" was meant to be a pun - "a play between 'medal' and
'interfere'".
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