Quote Originally Posted by Rae
...and is probably my favorite Pink Floyd album. It would be easy to shoot for something more obscure (and Obscured by Clouds is also right up there) or to go the opposite direction and point to one of their huge, definitive hits like Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, or The Wall, but nothing can really touch this one for me. The last four songs on the first side are about the most pitch-perfect run of laid-back, blissed-out jamming that I'm personally acquainted with, and if the darker, trippier Floyd is yr thing, well, you've got "One of These Days I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces" and the entirety of Side Two in "Echoes". I once heard Low cover "Fearless" in an intimate in-store performance at the legendary (and now sadly departed) Let It Be records, and it really made me appreciate the fragile beauty of the song, but even a cover as delicate and reverent as theirs can never replicate the stunning dissolve into distant soccer chants that works so surreally well here.

You guys like this one?

~Rae
Oh absolutely! I sometimes loose patience with Echoes, but those four you speak of are songs that tuned me into Pink Floyd's music way back in the early 70's and have kept them on my list of all time favorite bands.

Ya know, I was trying to think of ways to describe PF's style while listening to the just purchased Division Bell CD over the weekend, and I think you pretty well descibed my vision of them... "darker, trippier", head music also comes to mind. When they did One of These Days live on the Pulse DVD, it just blew my mind! If you're a Pink Floyd fan and don't have this concert DVD in your collection then you just don't know what you're missing. What I wouldn't have given to have been at THAT show!