I wonder if they considered releasing it as a single, may have done some good. San Tropez is one of the most underrated songs they ever did, while it doesn't accomplish much, it's a pleasant little tune that's hard not to enjoy. Fearless seems to be a bit of a cult classic, which it deserves, even if it does have Liverpool fans (ugh). One of These Days is one of the best instrumentals ever recorded (yes, I know Mason has the one line in the middle, but I've yet to see that included in the lyrics on a copy of this album).Ī Pillow of Winds may seem lightweight, but it is one of the most beautiful songs in their catalog. With the possible exception of Seamus, this album is perfection. Shane Reho: The golden age of Pink Floyd starts here. Their new album, Meddle not only confirms lead guitarist David Gilmour's emergence as a real shaping force with the group, it states forcefully and accurately that the group is well into the growth track again." ( Rolling Stone) "Pink Floyd has finally emerged from the Atom Heart Mother phase, a fairly stagnant period in their musical growth, marked by constant creative indecision. "If there aren't pop songs in the classic sense (even on the level of the group's contributions to Ummagumma), there is a uniform tone, ranging from the pastoral A Pillow of Winds to Fearless, with its insistent refrain hinting at latter-day Floyd. Pink Floyd were nothing if not masters of texture, and Meddle is one of their greatest excursions into little details, pointing the way to the measured brilliance of Dark Side of the Moon and the entire Roger Waters era." ( AllMusic) And Richard Wright, who would later suffer the indignity of being fired(!) from the band, plays with Fearless abandon and lays open the depth of his musical soul." ( Soundlab) Gilmore comes into his own guitar sound that sonically melts blues, psych, and hard rock into prog heaven. Together they ignite all the funky dung from those Atom Heart Mother sessions that never managed to catch fire. "The real heroes here are Dave Gilmore and Rick Wright. Arguments as to whether Meddle belonged in the same file as Fragile, Tarkus or Nursery Cryme now seem fatuous.Įvery week, Album of the Week Club listens to and discusses the album in question, votes on how good it is, and publishes our findings, with the aim of giving people reliable reviews and the wider rock community the chance to contribute. Some seemed to miss the point: one reviewer compared Meddle unfavourably with More and Ummagumma. It’s a sobering lesson for anyone who makes a living writing about music to go back and read the sort of reviews that were written in the music press at the time of an album now considered an undisputed classic. Reviews of Meddle were lukewarm though favourable. It certainly fit with the mood of the album in a way that somehow you don’t feel that an ape’s anus would have done. The band told him that they wanted something to do with water, maybe an ear underwater. The cover was supposed to have been a close-up picture of a baboon’s bum. It was packaged in a sleeve that Hipgnosis partner Storm Thorgerson has said was his least favourite Pink Floyd sleeve: “I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover,” he said. Meddle was released in October 1971 in the US and November in the UK. But Air was state-of-the-art.” They also recorded at a third studio, Morgan in Willesden. there was already a lot of change, though. EMI was very established, had the big canteen. So we went to Air studios, which was great. Nick Mason remembers: “Abbey Road had just invested in an eight-track, but were ready to go 16-track. They continued to gig, setting up the gear in the studio then going off at night to play headline shows, albeit at colleges and polytechnics. Starting in early 1971, the band recorded at Abbey Road, sometimes bringing in ideas that they had worked on at home. Meddle, although it was an album that revelled in its use of the recording studio, was the first album to capture some of the potency and excitement of the Floyd live experience. By the end of the 60s they had developed into a formidable live touring band.
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