Meddle
Studio album by Pink Floyd
Released	30 October 1971
Recorded	January–August 1971
Genre	Progressive rock, Experimental rock
Length	46:46
Label	Harvest, EMI (UK) Harvest/Capitol, Capitol (U.S.)
Producer	Pink Floyd
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B-) link Progarchives link Rolling Stone (favourable) link
Pink Floyd chronology
Relics (1971) Meddle (1971) Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Alternate cover
U.S./Canadian releases cover

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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. 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.S. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 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, formed by EMI in 1969 to promote progressive rock music and to compete with Philips Vertigo label and Deccas Deram labels. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Kensington in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York. ... Remaster (and its derivations, frequently found in the phrases digitally remastered or digital remastering) is a word and concept ushered into the mass consciousness via the digital age, although it had existed before then. ... Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) is a company that produces audiophile releases of classic CDs and vinyl records. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... For the meaning of cassette in genetics, see cassette (genetics). ... Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL, or MoFi) is a company that produces audiophile releases of classic CDs and vinyl records. ... James Guthrie is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Pink Floyd. ... Shine On is a nine CD box set by Pink Floyd which was released in 1992 to coincide with Pink Floyds 25th Anniversary as a recording and touring band. ... A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is one or more musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related things that are contained in a box. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit ÄŒeské Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Styx, Def Leppard, and Black Sabbath. ...

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)– 2:15
   • Lead vocals: Gilmour

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Side two

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

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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. It enjoyed some commercial success in the United Kingdom (reaching #3 on the charts), but lackluster publicity on the part of Capitol Records led to weak sales in the U.S. However, Meddle would later be 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. Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 (see 1970 in music) progressive rock album by Pink Floyd. ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (born 6 January 1946 in Cambridge – died 7 July 2006 in Cambridge) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ... In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. ... The RIAA Logo. ... March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (71st in leap years). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...

"One of These Days" (a largely instrumental piece) opens the album with an ostinato bassline and uses a slide guitar lick reminiscent of the theme tune from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. One of These Days is the opening track from Pink Floyds 1971 album Meddle. ... In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is persistently repeated at the same pitch. ... In popular music a bassline, also bass line, is an instrumental part, or line, which is in the bass or lowest range and thus lower than the other parts and part of the rhythm section. ... Example of a bottleneck, with fingerpicks and resonator guitar. ... In popular music, a lick is a rock term [meaning]...something like a stock pattern or phrase (Middleton 1990, p. ... The theme music of a radio or television program is a melody closely associated with the show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who explores time and space in his TARDIS time ship with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ...

It is followed by "A Pillow of Winds", which is distinguished by being one of the few quiet, acoustic songs in the Pink Floyd catalogue primarily concerned with love. These two songs segue into each other via wind effects, anticipating the same technique that would later be used on Wish You Were Here. 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 a haunting end in a heavily reverberated fade-out. A Pillow of Winds is the second track from Pink Floyds 1971 album Meddle. ... In music, dynamics normally refers to the softness or loudness of a sound or note, but also to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic (staccato, legato etc. ... 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. ... Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool, who play in the Premier League; they are historically the most successful club in English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. ... Kop or Spion Kop is the name for a number of stands at football stadia in England and abroad, named after the South African mountain Spion Kop, scene of a battle in January 1900 in the Second Boer War where the Lancashire Brigade constituted the majority of the British dead. ... Youll Never Walk Alone is a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for their 1945 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. Pink Floyd give a rare glimpse into their sense of humour with "Seamus", a pseudo-blues number featuring 'vocals' by a friend's dog who could bark in tune with music. "Seamus" was remade as "Mademoiselle Nobs", featuring a different dog, in the film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. San Tropez is the title of the fourth track from the album Meddle by the band Pink Floyd. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... In music, a swung note or shuffle note is the rhythmic device in which the duration of the initial note in a pair is augmented and that of the second is diminished. ... Meddle track listing San Tropez (4) Seamus (5) Echoes (6) Seamus is the fifth song on Pink Floyds 1971 album Meddle and also the name of a dog, owned by close associate of the band Steve Marriott. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ...

The final song on the album, the 23-minute underwater epic "Echoes", is reputed to synchronize musically and thematically with the climactic section of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey (entitled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"). It is rumoured that Pink Floyd purposely synchronized "Echoes" with 2001 because they regretted denying Kubrick the rights to use the "Atom Heart Mother Suite" in his film A Clockwork Orange. However, the song is more notable for being the lyrical centrepiece of the record and the band's most accomplished recorded work yet. "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. In the compilation, multiple edits throughout the entire song cut the running length of the piece down by some 7 minutes. This article is about the Pink Floyd song. ... “Kubrick” redirects here. ... // October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts. ... Atom Heart Mother is a six-part suite by progressive rock band Pink Floyd, composed by the whole band and Ron Geesin. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternate uses: Echoes (disambiguation) Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation album by Pink Floyd. ...

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. 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. 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". This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Live album cover Ummagumma rear album cover Ummagumma is a progressive and psychedelic double album by Pink Floyd released in 1969. ... A grand piano from Schiedmayer & Söhne, Stuttgart. ... 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-channel multitrack recording facilities, which Pink Floyd found insufficient for the increasing technical demands of their project. 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. 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. The band also spent several days in late September 1971 preparing a quadrophonic mix of the album at Command Studios. Reportedly, this was played at the album's press premiere. However, it has never been released to the public. [1] The Tascam 85 16B analogue tape recorder can record 16 tracks of audio on 1 inch (2. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the British music producer. ... West Hampstead is an area in northwest London, England, situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the east, Swiss Cottage to the south, and Kilburn to the west. ... Quadraphonic sound uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other. ...

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[1] from British progressive rock band Pink Floyds 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. ... A bootleg recording is a musical recording, distributed for profit or other financial compensation, that was not officially released by the artist (or their associated management or production companies), or under other legal authority. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Sir Jimmy Young (born probably September 21, 1921) is a well-known British disc jockey and radio interviewer. ...

Album art

The band's associate Storm Thorgerson originally suggested a close-up shot of a baboon's anus for the album cover photograph. The band informed him via an inter-continental telephone call while on tour in Japan that they would rather have "an ear underwater",^{[citation needed]} which was used as the basis for the final design (with slight colour differences on the original U.S. and Canadian issues of the album). The iconic cover of Pink Floyds album The Dark Side of the Moon. ... Type species Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The five baboon species are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger. ... An album cover is a cover used to package commercial audio recordings such as the printed cardboard covers that were typically used to package 12 gramophone records from the 1960s through to the 1980s when the 12 record was the major format for distribution of popular music. ...

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. This is the last time that the four band members appeared on an album sleeve. A gatefold cover or gatefold LP is a form of packaging for LP records which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

Singles

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

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Quotes

"Meddle is amongst my favourites. 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

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Credits

• Roger Waters – bass guitar, backing vocals and 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, keyboards, synthesizer, vocals on "Echoes"
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion, vocal phrase on "One of These Days"
• Seamus the Dog – vocals on "Seamus"

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External links

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