Meddle
Studio album by Pink Floyd
Released	30 October 1971
Recorded	January–August 1971
Genre	Progressive rock, folk rock
Length	46:46
Label	Harvest, EMI (UK) Harvest/Capitol, Capitol (U.S.)
Producer	Pink Floyd
Professional reviews
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Pink Floyd chronology
Atom Heart Mother (1970) Meddle (1971) The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
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Originally released in the U.S. on 30 October 1971 by Harvest/Capitol and in the UK on November 5 by Harvest/EMI, the album was later remastered three times: first by MFSL in 1984 on high-quality vinyl and cassette, then in 1989 for Ultradisc, and finally by Doug Sax (supervised by James Guthrie) for the 1992 Shine On box set. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Harvest Records was a Record label created by EMI in 1969 to promote Progressive rock music and to compete with Philips' Vertigo and Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music – which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in Mastering, a form of audio Post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a Data storage device Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ( MFSL or MoFi) is a company that produces reissues of classic albums A gramophone The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a Magnetic tape sound Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ( MFSL or MoFi) is a company that produces reissues of classic albums James KA Guthrie (b November 14 1953 in London is a British Recording engineer and Record producer best known for his work with the Progressive A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings Films Television programs or other collection This latter digital master was used for a CD reissue with additional artwork by Hipgnosis, released August 1994 in Europe and April 1995 in the U. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the Albums of rock musicians and bands most notably S.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Overview 3 Recording and release 4 Album art 5 Singles 6 Quotes 7 Charts 7.1 Album 8 Personnel 9 External links 10 References

Track listing

Side one

1. "One of These Days" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 5:57
   • Spoken line: Mason
2. "A Pillow of Winds" (David Gilmour, Roger Waters) – 5:10
   • Lead vocals: Gilmour
3. "Fearless" (David Gilmour, Roger Waters) – 6:08
   • Lead vocals: Gilmour
   • Interpolates "You'll Never Walk Alone"
4. "San Tropez" (Roger Waters) – 3:43
   • Lead vocals: Waters
5. "Seamus" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 2:16
   • Lead vocals: Gilmour, Seamus

Side two

1. "Echoes" (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright) – 23:29
   • Lead vocals: Gilmour and Wright

Overview

Though the tracks have a variety of moods, Meddle is generally considered more cohesive than its 1970 predecessor Atom Heart Mother, and is thought by many fans to be Pink Floyd's first truly great album recorded without Syd Barrett. " One of These Days " is the opening track from Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England) is the Drummer for Pink Floyd. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 &ndash 15 September 2008 was a pianist and Keyboardist best known for his career with Pink Floyd " A Pillow of Winds " is the second track from Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician " Fearless " is the title of the third track on Meddle by Pink Floyd. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician In Music and Musical composition, especially 20th century and later interpolation is an abrupt change of elements, with (almost immediate " You'll Never Walk Alone " is a Show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. " San Tropez " is the title of the fourth track from the album Meddle by the band Pink Floyd. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician " Seamus " is the fifth song on Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England) is the Drummer for Pink Floyd. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 &ndash 15 September 2008 was a pianist and Keyboardist best known for his career with Pink Floyd " Echoes " is a song by Pink Floyd, including lengthy instrumental passages sound effects and Musical improvisation. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England) is the Drummer for Pink Floyd. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 &ndash 15 September 2008 was a pianist and Keyboardist best known for his career with Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 Progressive rock album by Pink Floyd, engineered by Alan Parsons and Peter Bown Syd Barrett (born Roger Keith Barrett; 6 January 1946 - 7 July 2006 was an English singer songwriter guitarist and artist It enjoyed some commercial success in the United Kingdom (reaching #3 on the charts), but lacklustre publicity on the part of Capitol Records led to weak sales in the U. The UK Albums Chart is a list of Albums ranked by sales in the United Kingdom. S. However, Meddle was later certified Gold by the RIAA in October of 1973 and then double platinum on 11 March 1994 following the added attention garnered by the band's later successes in America. In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of Albums and singles sold through retail and Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)

"One of These Days" opens the album with an ostinato bassline, played by both Gilmour and Waters, with Gilmour playing slide guitar. " One of These Days " is the opening track from Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. In Music, an Ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn" see also Oscillation) is a motif or phrase which is persistently A bassline (also spelled bass line) is the term used in many styles of Popular music, such as jazz blues funk and electronic Music for the low-pitched In later years, Gilmour would play the slide part with a lap steel guitar, mounted on legs, similar to a pedal steel guitar. A largely instrumental piece, the only lyric, 'One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces', is spoken by Nick Mason. It is followed by "A Pillow of Winds", which is distinguished by being one of the few quiet, acoustic love songs in the Pink Floyd catalogue. " A Pillow of Winds " is the second track from Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. In Music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a Sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece either stylistic A steel-string acoustic guitar, is a modern form of Guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter louder sound These two songs segue into each other via wind effects, anticipating the same technique that would later be used on Wish You Were Here. For the album by The Jam see Sound Affects. Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced Sounds Wish You Were Here is a Concept album by Pink Floyd. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios between January and July 1975 and released on 15 September

The song "Fearless" employs field recordings of the Liverpool F.C. Kop choir singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", their anthem, which brings the song to an end in a heavily reverberated fade-out. " Fearless " is the title of the third track on Meddle by Pink Floyd. Field recording is the technique for capturing the audible illustration of an environment produced outside of a Recording studio. Liverpool Football Club are an English professional Association football club based in Liverpool England. Spion Kop (or Kop for short is the name for a number of terraces and stands at sports Stadia; so named due to their steep nature resembling " You'll Never Walk Alone " is a Show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. "San Tropez", by extreme contrast, is a jazz-inflected pop song with a shuffle tempo, composed by Waters in his increasingly-deployed style of breezy, off-the-cuff songwriting. " San Tropez " is the title of the fourth track from the album Meddle by the band Pink Floyd. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure Pink Floyd give a rare glimpse into their sense of humour with "Seamus", a pseudo-blues number featuring a dog howling along to the music. " Seamus " is the fifth song on Pink Floyd 's 1971 album Meddle. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression "Seamus" was remade as "Mademoiselle Nobs", featuring a different dog and no lyrics, in the film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii is a 1972 film featuring Pink Floyd performing six songs at the ruins of the empty ancient Amphitheatre in Pompeii

The final song on the album is 23-minute underwater epic "Echoes". " Echoes " is a song by Pink Floyd, including lengthy instrumental passages sound effects and Musical improvisation. "Echoes" also gave its name to the compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, on which a much-edited version of the title track was included. Echoes The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation album by Pink Floyd. In the compilation, multiple edits throughout the entire song cut the running length of the piece down by some 7 minutes.

Recording and release

Pink Floyd began production on the album at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios, where most of their other projects had been recorded and mixed. Abbey Road Studios, established in November 1931 by EMI in London, England, is a Recording studio located at number 3 Abbey Road, Lacking a central theme for the project, the band decided to work on new material individually without listening to the other band members' contributions. They had already tried such an approach with limited success for Ummagumma. Ummagumma is a Progressive rock double album by Pink Floyd, released in 1969 However, this time the band resolved to work on one collaborative piece rather than separate solo efforts. The result of one such experiment, which centered around the sound of a grand piano sent through a Leslie speaker, provided inspiration for what would later become "Echoes". The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The Leslie speaker is a specially constructed amplifier/ Loudspeaker used to create special audio effects utilizing the Doppler effect.

Unfortunately, Abbey Road was still only outfitted with 8-track multitrack recording facilities, which Pink Floyd found insufficient for the increasing technical demands of their project. Multitrack recording ('multitracking' or just 'tracking' for short is a method of Sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create They transferred their best efforts, including the opening of "Echoes", to 16-track tape at smaller studios in London (namely AIR and Morgan) and resumed work with the advantage of more flexible recording equipment. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Engineers John Leckie and Peter Bown recorded the main Abbey Road and AIR sessions, while for minor work at Morgan studios in West Hampstead Rob Black and Roger Quested handled the engineering duties. John Leckie is one of British music's most prolific record producers having worked on such high-profile albums as The Bends by Radiohead, Origin West Hampstead is an area in northwest London, England, situated between Childs Hill to the north Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east The band also spent several days in late September 1971 preparing a quadrophonic mix of the album at Command Studios. Quadraphonic (or quadrophonic) sound &ndash the most-widely-used early term for what is now called 4 Reportedly, this was played at the album's press premiere. However, it has never been released to the public. [1]

Outtakes from the album sessions are rumoured to include an unreleased song entitled "The Dark Side of the Moon", which later became "Brain Damage", and two demo versions of "One of These Days", both of which have been made available on bootlegs and include cut-up speech samples of Radio DJ Sir Jimmy Young. " Brain Damage " is the ninth track (or eighth depending on the album release from British Progressive rock band Pink Floyd 's 1973 A bootleg recording is an audio and/or Video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Sir Jimmy Young OBE, CBE (born Leslie Ronald Young, 21 September, 1921, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England

Soundclips from the album were used in the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his play of the same name.

Album art

The band's associate Storm Thorgerson originally suggested a close-up shot of a baboon's anus for the album cover photograph. Storm Thorgerson (born 1944 in Potters Bar, which was in Middlesex at the time and is now in Hertfordshire) is an English Graphic designer. The baboons are African Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product or Album. The band informed him via an inter-continental telephone call while on tour in Japan that they would rather have "an ear underwater", ^[1] which was used as the basis for the final design (with slight colour differences on the original U. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. S. and Canadian issues of the album).

This image formed the outside of the original gatefold cover, while four superimposed black-and-white photographs of the individual band members were used for the interior. A gatefold is a type of fold used for advertising around a magazine or section and for packaging of media such as Vinyl records. This is the last time that the four band members appeared on an album sleeve. The opened inner gatefold is displayed in what appears to be a shrine in the video for the song 'Push The Lil Daisies' by Ween. A shrine, from the Latin scrinium (‘box’ also used as a desk like the French bureau) was originally a container usually made of precious materials used Ween is an Alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class

Singles

• "One of These Days"/"Fearless" (1971, US and Italy release)
• "One of These Days"/"Seamus" (1971, Japan only release)

Quotes

"Meddle is amongst my favourites. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. I mean that, to me, is the start of the path forward for Pink Floyd, really. "

—David Gilmour, February 1988, on Australian Radio

"Meddle was the first real Pink Floyd album. It set a tempo, a feel and a style that we liked, and it introduced the idea of the theme that can be returned to. It sounds a bit ham-fisted now, but the concept thing I like. "

—Nick Mason, 1994

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1971	UK Albums Chart	3
1971	Billboard Pop Albums	70

Personnel

• Roger Waters – bass guitar, rhythm guitar on "Fearless", lead vocals and guitars on "San Tropez"
• David Gilmour – lead guitar, bass guitar on "One of These Days", lead vocals on "A Pillow of Winds", "Fearless", "Seamus" and "Echoes", harmonica on "Seamus"
• Richard Wright – piano, Hammond Organ, Farfisa Organ, vocals on "Echoes"
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion, vocal phrase on "One of These Days"
• Seamus the Dog – vocals on "Seamus"

External links

• Lyrics
• Album info and trivia
• Did Pink Floyd Meddle with 2001?

References

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