A Collection of Great Dance Songs

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A Collection of Great Dance Songs
Pink Floyd compilation album

Publication
(s)

November 23, 1981

Label (s)

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Progressive rock
art rock

Title (number)

6th

running time

43:00 min.

occupation David Gilmour - guitar, vocals

Nick Mason - drums, percussion
Roger Waters - bass, vocals
Richard Wright - keyboard, vocals

production

Pink Floyd

One of the houses in Dungeness that were the set for the cover of the record.

A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd , released on November 23, 1981 by Harvest Records / EMI in England and Columbia Records in the USA. The title of the album is to be understood as a parody , as Pink Floyd did not publish any pieces that were particularly aimed at a dancing audience.

The album contains alternative mixes of the compositions Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) (this version combines the intro of the single mix with the album version that ends at the point “if you don't eat your meat ” disappears). The track Money was re-recorded because Capitol Records refused to allow Columbia Records to release the existing version in the US. David Gilmour recorded the piece without the rest of the band, sang and played almost all instruments himself. He produced the track together with James Guthrie . Dick Parry played the saxophone on Money . There are some differences between the original recording and the new recording of the piece. The saxophone and guitar solos are recorded differently, and especially the drum style is clearly different.

The photo for the album cover was taken in the English peninsula of Dungeness in Kent by photographer Storm Thorgerson , whose company Hipgnosis (for this album under the pseudonym "TCP") also took on the graphic cover design. Other contributors were Peter Christopherson and Aubrey Powell . The layout, the graphic design and the fonts were created by Neville Brody .

The pieces of the album

  1. One of These Days - David Gilmour / Roger Waters / Richard Wright / Nick Mason (Previously appeared on the Meddle album)
  2. Money (Re-recorded 1981 at New Roydonia Studios ) - Waters
    (The original version is included on the album The Dark Side of the Moon )
  3. Sheep - Roger Waters (From Animals album)
  4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Edit) - Gilmour / Waters / Wright
    (From the album Wish You Were Here )
  5. Wish You Were Here - Waters / Gilmour (Album Wish You Were Here )
  6. Another Brick in the Wall , Part II (Edit) - Waters (From album The Wall )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The album A Collection of Great Dance Songs on the website musicpilgrimages.com (English. With illustration of the record cover. Accessed May 11, 2010)

Web links

Pink Floyd
Studio albums

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn • A Saucerful of Secrets • Ummagumma • Atom Heart Mother • Meddle • The Dark Side of the Moon • Wish You Were Here • Animals • The Wall • The Final Cut • A Momentary Lapse of Reason • The Division Bell • The Endless River

Live albums

Ummagumma • Delicate Sound of Thunder • Pulse • Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81

Soundtracks

The Committee • Tonite Lets All Make Love in London • Soundtrack from the Film More • Zabriskie Point • Obscured by Clouds

Compilation albums

Relics • A Collection of Great Dance Songs • Works • Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd • The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door

Video albums

Live at Pompeii • The Wall • Delicate Sound of Thunder • Pulse

Singles

Arnold Layne • See Emily Play • Flaming • Apples and Oranges • It Would Be So Nice • Let There Be More Light • Point Me at the Sky • The Nile Song • One of These Days • Fearless • Free Four • Money • Us and Them / Time • Have a Cigar • Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) • Comfortably Numb • Run Like Hell • When the Tigers Broke Free • Not Now John • Learning to Fly • On the Turning Away • One Slip • Take It Back • High Hopes • Wish You Were Here (live) • Louder than Words