Artist: PINK FLOYD
Album: A COLLECTION OF GREAT DANCE SONGS (CD)

Release date: 1981/ 2000
Media type: CD

A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd released on 23 November 1981 (1981-11-23) on Harvest/EMI in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in the United States.

HistoryThe title is facetious, given that Pink Floyd are not known for making particularly danceable music. This is perhaps evidenced by the album art, which featured a photograph of ballroom dancers guyed to the ground so they cannot move. The inner sleeve had pictures of dancers in either a white (UK) or black (US) background. The picture labels were a black background with blue lines and red sketch lined dancers on side one and reverse on side two.

The album contains alternate mixes of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (which comprises parts 1, 2, 4 and 7) and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (which combines the intro from the single mix with the album version which fades out during the "if you don't eat your meat" ending). Also, the track "Money" was re-recorded as Capitol Records refused to license the track to Columbia/CBS Records. David Gilmour re-recorded the track himself playing all of the drums, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar and vocals and co-producing the song with James Guthrie. Dick Parry reprised his saxophone role on the track. There are some slight differences between the re-recorded version and the original; mainly in certain sections of the saxophone and guitar solos and the overall use of reverb and Gilmour repeating "away" at the end instead of the high pitch scat singing on the original. The drumming is noticeably different from Nick Mason's.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 29 January 1982 and Platinum on 6 July 1989 and Double Platinum in August, 2001. The album reached #37 on the United Kingdom charts and #31 in the United States. Columbia issued the remastered CD in 1997 in the US and most of the world save Europe. Then a 1997 remastered CD was re-released in 2000 on Capitol Records in the US and EMI for the rest of the world including Europe.

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

1. "One of These Days"   Gilmour/Waters/Wright/Mason Meddle 5:49
2. "Money" (Re-recorded in 1981 at New Roydonia Studios) Waters original version from The Dark Side of the Moon 6:45
3. "Sheep"   Waters Animals 10:25

4. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (edit) Gilmour/Waters/Wright Wish You Were Here 10:41
5. "Wish You Were Here"   Waters/Gilmour Wish You Were Here 5:25
6. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" (edit) Waters The Wall 3:52

LINE-UP:

David Gilmour – guitar, bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Wish You Were Here" and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II","Money"
Roger Waters – bass guitar (except on "Money" and "Sheep"), vocals, rhythm guitar on "Sheep", lead vocals on "Sheep", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
Richard Wright – keyboards, synthesizers (except on "Money"), vocals
Nick Mason – drums, percussion (except on "Money"), vocal phrase on "One of These Days"

Additional personnel:
James Guthrie – remastering production
The Islington Green School – vocals on "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
Dick Parry – saxophone on "Money"
Doug Sax – mastering and remastering
TCP (pseudonym for Hipgnosis) – sleeve design and photos (Storm Thorgerson, Peter Christopherson, and Aubrey "Po" Powell)