Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd by Pink Floyd

Pros: Great music, great lyrics
Cons: Syd Barrett

Pink Floyd is a mystical and eclectic mixture of love and lust, dreams and desires, mesmerizing and meaningful and an echo of things lost and things found. Like most successful bands, they have few middle of the road fans – you love ‘em or you hate ‘em....

Pros: The digital remastering of Shine on You Crazy Diamond and some other Floyd hits
Cons: Some major Floyd flops

Pros: Marvelously conceived compilation album... genius editing.
Cons: No "Run Like Hell"?

Heavy-handed space-rock troupe Pink Floyd have always been the center of the musical universe for those with a vested interest in hallucinogenic drugs. Perhaps to sit through an entire Pink Floyd album is to expand your head space with a substance that...

Pros: It's Pink Floyd!
Cons: Some of the content doesn't sit well on it's own.

Intro - Pink Floyd’s music, generally speaking, does not lend itself well to “Best Of” compilations. Why? Well, if you’re a fan, you probably know why. For everyone else, it's because of the fact that from 1973’s “Dark ...

Pros: Excellent remastering, some songs of genius, musicianship is top-notch.
Cons: Unevenly arranged, glaring ommissions, some songs don't work out of context

On 6th July 2005, Bob Geldof’s Live 8 concerts were beamed out across the world to an estimated (potential) audience of three billion people, many of whom will have found much of the proceedings to be typically lachrymose and simplistically ...

Pros: What the album is: nearly all songs are brilliant works
Cons: What the album isn't: a few classics excepted.

Pink Floyd are, in many ways, three bands. The first was formed in Cambridge, 1963, by high school buddies Syd Barrett and David Gilmour, who would go busking together in the south of France. The name 'Pink Floyd' was taken from a jazz album by Floyd...

Pros: The digital mastering of these tracks is probably the best yet.
Cons: Do you already have the albums that this music is compiled from?

If you find yourself at your favorite multi-media outlet, standing at the CD rack, wondering whether or not you should buy Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd, you might want to ask yourself: Do I really need another one of these? Do I need to buy this...

Pros: Good representation of most of the Pink Floyd albums from its thirty years.
Cons: This album is also notable for some of the excellent songs missing from it.

It's not often you come across a group who manage to withstand thirty years (1965 - 1995) and see them produce quality material right to the end of the group's lifespan. It's even more rare to find a band of that sort who have managed to withstand the...

Pros: Gives Pink Ployd newbies the chance to sample cuts from their whole career.
Cons: Is this all there is to Pink Floyd's career?

First off - I am NOT an avid fan or expert on Pink Floyd. I have always been curious about PF. I know they are one of the "Classic" rock bands that emerged in the "Sgt. Pepper" era, had two monster albums in "Dark Side of the Moon" (which can be played...

Pros: What can I say...classic Floyd is classic Floyd
Cons: A few tracks that were included and a few that were not

Pink Floyd has always been a band that could be described as somewhat of an enigma. Almost everyone has heard the classics like "Money", "Another Brick In The Wall pt.2" and "Wish You Were Here" and liked the songs a lot. There are Floyd fans and...

Pros: You don't have to be a revolutionary student to enjoy!
Cons: Aging hippies in Armani suits telling us that we don't need education...

I was in my teens the first time I heard of Pink Floyd. We were all meeting in a French café after class, and while sipping endless cups of strong coffee and smoking countless cigarettes, we would discuss how we would change the world, grow our hair,...

Pros: A comprehensive track list spanning Pink Floyd's entire career
Cons: Track list contains several tracks that don't belong on a greatest hits album

When I first heard that Pink Floyd was releasing a greatest hits album, I had my doubts, wondering if it would follow in the footsteps of 1981's A Collection of Great Dance Songs. I soon realised my mistake when the album rose to number 1 on the...

Pros: 2 CDs for the price of one and an eighth.
Cons: Missing a few "faves" for the Older Andydammit

Ah, my youth! Pink Floyd...I remember them well.
I was the first on my block, so to speak, to succumb to the other-wordly sonic voyages of Pink Floyd. I was such a musical pioneer, believe me. This was before they hit paydirt with "Dark Side of the...

Pros: The biggest pro about this album is that it was a GOOD greatest hits album.
Cons: A few greats missing, but they make up for it.

Pink Floyd....every music fan knows them. Since there formation in the 60's with the lineup of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright they have been a big part of music today. You may not see it in many bands, but the influence of...

Pros: This is a good compilation for the not so dedicated fan
Cons: As with all these kinds of compilation, you may already possess the tracks.

The Pink Floyd compilation Echoes is a good example of their work from the early days with Syd Barrett to the work produced after the departure of Roger Waters.

Waters himself was asked in an interview if there were any tracks he would not...