PF Echoes box set

Packaging is OK but I am not sure there would be much here if you already have all the albums.

Bruce

Good for non floyd fans? Thats about it.

Echoes and Shine on have been cut to fit on CD aswell, a shame.

Best,

Alex

Bruce

Check out wish you were here first on echoes, then from the original, I think its faster!

Bruce

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Check out wish you were here first on echoes, then from the original, I think its faster!

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I hear they have hacked the track Echoes down to about half its length plus speeded it up. Don't like the idea of that. How you can have a Floyd best of without Interstellar Overdrive is totally beyond me, it being their best track and all.

DIY Floyd box set idea:

• Find a nice box.

• Place Piper at the gates of dawn, Saucer full of secrets, More, and Ummagumma (remembering only to play the live album, the studio album is pure evil) gently in the box along with the 7" singles Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, and Point me at the sky.

• Write 'The best of Pink Floyd' in big letters on the box.

There you go, a perfect Floyd compilation with everything at the right speed and length.

Tony.

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Couldn't you put "Relics" in the homebrew BoPF box set instead of the singles? You'd have a bit more filler, but there you go.

I'd also put Meddle in there and maybe Wish You Were Here, but there you go.

I've got an old cassette copy of the "Zabriskie Point" soundtrack that has got a couple of Floyd tunes including an alternate take of "Careful with Axe Eugene" under the name "Come in Number 51, your time is up".

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The album to put in would be 'The best of Pink Floyd', it was a European release from the late 60s or early 70s on Columbia and contains the A and B side to all the early Columbia singles except bizarrely Point me at the sky, which was one of the best and had a studio version of Careful with that axe Eugene as the B side. I have a really clean copy of this album plus the original 7" singles of Arnold Layne and See emily play (though the singles are more than a bit ropy condition wise). I also have the Zabariski Point album on vinyl (that is a different version of Careful… than the Point me at the sky flipside). I'm still chasing that elusive mint mono original of Piper… (I've got a nice stereo one, but the mono is a better mix).

Floyd's reluctance to plunder their 60s and very early 70s back catalogue really irritates me, they did some absolutely stunning stuff at that point. I used to own a few bootlegs from that period, and the live versions of Set the controls, Saucer full of secrets etc were simply stunning, Ummagumma more than hints at what they could do, but there are recordings that prove they took it way further. I remember a lave version of Cymbaline from More that went into a brilliant trippy spacerock for the middle, it lasted about 15 minutes. I would kill to get a copy of that again.

The other thing is concert footage, every now and again the BBC show some stunning early live footage from the UFO club period, but just show a half minute of so. The recent woefully short TV documentary on Syd Barrett had loads of excellent footage, but I really want to see the whole lot uncut, not just snippets.

Tony.

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I hear they have hacked the track Echoes down to about half its length plus speeded it up. Don't like the idea of that. How you can have a Floyd best of without Interstellar Overdrive is totally beyond me, it being their best track and all.

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"Echoes", the song, was absolutely butchered. It would have made much more sense to just burn a third CD and put Atom Heart Mother on the rest of it.

I broke down and got my own copy a month ago, mostly so that I have a decent collection to play in the car without having to burn my own. Because of that, I didn't even consider getting the vinyl version (betcha they were digitally remastered anyways).

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Floyd's reluctance to plunder their 60s and very early 70s back catalogue really irritates me, they did some absolutely stunning stuff at that point. I used to own a few bootlegs from that period, and the live versions of Set the controls, Saucer full of secrets etc were simply stunning, Ummagumma more than hints at what they could do, but there are recordings that prove they took it way further. I remember a lave version of Cymbaline from More that went into a brilliant trippy spacerock for the middle, it lasted about 15 minutes. I would kill to get a copy of that again.

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Agreed, at least though they included some - the previous "greatest hits" album (A Great Collection of Dance Songs) barely hinted that they had albums before DSOTM.

Tell me more about that version of Cymbaline - I might have a copy of it.

Cheers

Keith.

Loverly.

I am still bitter and twisted by the echoes CD.

I should spend the moneis on any parts of the collection missing. But in gods name not atom, its not the talk of breakfast that gets me but the 'sounds like it was recorded though a wall' sound.

Now if they could master that out of the equation I would buy it again.

It sounds like kac anyway, but I would be interested to know how much better the remaster is. I felt the remaster of DSOTM made waters bass sound really mushy and nondistinct (probably on purpose, he he)

Goose_PT_Lover