Meddle
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Publication |
October 30, 1971 |
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
46min 46sec |
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Studio (s) |
January – August 1971, Air Studios , Abbey Road Studios , Morgan Studios |
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Meddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd , which was released on October 30, 1971 in the USA and in November in Europe. It marks the band's transition from psychedelic rock to art rock . The album was very successful, reaching number 3 in the UK album charts and going double platinum in the USA in 1994.
classification
Meddle is considered to be musically more closed compared to the previous album Atom Heart Mother , even if the individual tracks differ stylistically very much. Meddle contains some motifs that reappear in the later albums The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here , such as the wind noise during the transition from the first to the second track. According to many critics, Pink Floyd has finally emancipated herself from Syd Barrett with Meddle and found her programmatic style, which forms the basis for the two successful albums The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here .
What is striking compared to the previous albums is the growing influence of guitarist David Gilmour, who sings most of the pieces. The album's harmony is more elaborate in A Pillow of Winds , Echoes and San Tropez .
The psychedelic- experimental part is used more sparingly compared to the previous albums. The sound experiments in the middle section of Echoes refer to the previous albums A Saucerful of Secrets and Ummagumma .
In the intro, Richard Wright mimicked the sound of an echo sounder with a high pitched tone (a three-stroke h) on the wing. The grand piano was played through a Leslie loudspeaker cabinet, giving it a tremolo . The Beatles had already done something similar on their “ White Album ” in the song Don't Pass Me By .
The piece One of These Days is also known . It begins with the rush of wind, above which two electric basses set in one after the other, which are played over a Binson Echorec . One bass was played by Roger Waters and the other by David Gilmour. The only text of the piece, spoken in the middle part by Nick Mason and slowed down a lot, is “One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces” (“One of these days I'll cut you into little pieces”).
The lively San Tropez has similarities with the gypsy jazz of the twenties and thirties, as invented by Joe Venuti , Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt .
Track list
- One of These Days (Waters-Wright-Mason-Gilmour) - 5:58
- A Pillow of Winds (Waters-Gilmour) - 5:17
- Fearless (Waters-Gilmour) - 6:08
- San Tropez (Waters) - 3:43
- Seamus (Waters-Wright-Mason-Gilmour) - 2:16
- Echoes (Waters-Wright-Mason-Gilmour) - 11:31 pm
The title Echoes takes up the complete second page of the LP version of the album.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC Music Review Everything about Meddle is allowed to breathe and grow.