Nick sent us a list right at the beginning, then he seemed to lose interest. A week after the band's one-off reunion at Live 8, HMV said the sales of Echoes rose by 1343%. It is the first compilation that includes songs from their last three albums- The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell-and is also the only compilation album so far that includes " Echoes" from the 1971 album Meddle.
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Release Professional ratingsĮchoes is the first album released on Compact Disc that includes " When the Tigers Broke Free", which appeared in the film version of Pink Floyd-The Wall(the song later appeared on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut in a slightly re-mixed form). The two original sketches are framed and hanging in the home of former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and is pointed out by Portnoy in his Hudson Music instructional drum DVD In Constant Motion. The second ended up being used by Pink Floyd for Echoes four years later. One became the cover that was used on the release. Storm Thorgerson, best known for creating the majority of album covers for Pink Floyd, worked with the band Dream Theater on their 1997 album Falling into Infinity and submitted to the band two sketches for possible covers. All our stuff conducted through our engineer James Guthrie, who coordinated Echoes from his place in Lake Tahoe." "There’s been the occasional phone call but no great brainstorming sessions to get us all together. All 26 tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order. Each of the 26 tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer– engineer James Guthrie, to help recreate the concept album feel of the band's mid-period work. Four of their albums- Soundtrack from the Film More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds-are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation. The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single " Arnold Layne" in 1967, through to " High Hopes", the final track from their 1994 studio album The Division Bell.