Artist: PINK FLOYD
Album: ECHOES: THE BEST OF ... (2CD)

Year: 2001/ 2003
EAN/UPS: 0724353611125
Media type: CD

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation album by Pink Floyd. It was released by EMI Records in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2001 and the following day in the United States through Capitol Records. It debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001, with sales of 214,650 copies. It remained on the chart for 26 weeks. The album was certified Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum on 6 December 2001 in the US by the RIAA. It was certified Triple Platinum in the US on 8 January 2002, and Quadruple platinum on 10 September 2007.

Echoes is the first album released on Compact Disc that includes "When the Tigers Broke Free", which appeared in the film version of The Wall (the song later appeared on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut in a slightly re-mixed form). It is also the only compilation album so far that includes Echoes from the 1971 album Meddle, although in a more than half-edited version.

The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single "Arnold Layne" in 1967, through to "High Hopes", the final track from their 1994 studio album The Division Bell. Four of their albums—Soundtrack from the Film More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, and Obscured by Clouds—are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation. Each of the twenty-six tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer–engineer James Guthrie to help recreate the concept album feel of the band's mid-period work. All twenty-six tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order.

TRACKLIST CD1:
No. Title Writer(s) Original album Length

1. "Astronomy Domine"   Syd Barrett The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 4:10
2. "See Emily Play"   Barrett Non-album single; appears on Relics, 1971 and original USA/Japan versions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 2:47
3. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"   Roger Waters The Wall 1:38
4. "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)"   Waters The Wall 4:01
5. "Echoes" (Edited version) David Gilmour, Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason Meddle 16:30
6. "Hey You"   Waters The Wall 4:39
7. "Marooned" (Edited version) Gilmour, Wright The Division Bell 2:02
8. "The Great Gig in the Sky"   Wright, Clare Torry The Dark Side of the Moon 4:40
9. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"   Waters A Saucerful of Secrets 5:20
10. "Money"   Waters The Dark Side of the Moon 6:29
11. "Keep Talking"   Gilmour, Wright, Polly Samson The Division Bell 5:57
12. "Sheep" (Early fade-out) Waters Animals 9:46
13. "Sorrow"   Gilmour A Momentary Lapse of Reason 8:45

TRACKLIST CD2:
No. Title Writer(s) Original album Length

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–VII)" (Edited version) Gilmour, Waters, Wright Wish You Were Here 17:32
2. "Time" (Includes "Breathe (Reprise)") Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason The Dark Side of the Moon 6:48
3. "The Fletcher Memorial Home"   Waters The Final Cut 4:07
4. "Comfortably Numb" (Includes ending of "Bring the Boys Back Home") Gilmour, Waters The Wall 6:53
5. "When the Tigers Broke Free"   Waters The Wall film soundtrack, also on 2004 remaster of The Final Cut 3:42
6. "One of These Days" (Edited version) Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason Meddle 5:15
7. "Us and Them"   Waters, Wright The Dark Side of the Moon 7:51
8. "Learning to Fly"   Gilmour, Anthony Moore, Bob Ezrin, Jon Carin A Momentary Lapse of Reason 4:50
9. "Arnold Layne"   Barrett Non-album single; appears on Relics 2:52
10. "Wish You Were Here"   Gilmour, Waters Wish You Were Here 5:21
11. "Jugband Blues"   Barrett A Saucerful of Secrets 2:56
12. "High Hopes" (Edited version) Gilmour, Samson The Division Bell 6:59
13. "Bike"   Barrett The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 3:24