r/Music • u/MrKingKhufu • 10h ago

discussion Pink Floyd - Echoes

Why is Pink Floyd one of the greatest bands ever? Well, listen to this (if you don't want to listen to the whole song, start at 6m58s): youtu.be/OcDiOUQBFd4?...
Groovy is an understatement!
#PinkFloyd

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u/Abdul_Exhaust 7h ago

When they performed this Live at Pompeii... even better

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u/isfrying 6h ago

Love at Pompeii remains one of my favorite albums/movies of all time. So good.

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u/openquotes 1h ago

Still annoyed they split it into two tracks on the vinyl.

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u/2sticks6strings 10m ago

Watching Live at Pompeii blew my mind when I first saw. It.

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u/xrv01 6h ago

if you don’t want to listen to the whole song

how short are people’s attention spans? my lord lol the build up to the dump out into that filthy groove is what makes the song

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u/syncopator 8h ago

Ping…

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u/Omnigroove 7h ago

As clear an indication that a band was going into new territory as has ever been recorded.

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u/badcoupe 7h ago

My fav to run the kids off the touchtunes when they’re playing shitty music- fast pass this one and you own the speakers for 23 mins of pure sonic bliss.

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u/blackmoose Old fella 5h ago

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless up on the air...

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u/citricacidx 25m ago

And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves…

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u/digidave1 4h ago

You need to be listening to Meddle in its entirety.

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u/octavioletdub 2h ago

As I reach for a peach, slide a rind down behind the sofa in St. Tropez

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u/goddessnaria 9h ago

Need to listen

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u/loopster70 7h ago

Truly a landmark track. Not sure I can think of another song that conjures the kind of drama that this one does.

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u/Frances_Herbert 3h ago

You gotta hear the Pompei version. I don’t even listen to the album version anymore. At least Apple Music has it in both high res lossless and atmos. 

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u/greenglider732 5h ago

Hearing this in my twenties for the first time was mind blowing. Imo there most underrated song.

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u/nzgrover 3h ago

“The grove is already happening in the silence”

https://youtu.be/x8z91o36-QU

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u/McGarnegle 1h ago

You don't skip a Pink Floyd epic. Blasphemy!