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Going to buy Meddle next available opportunity
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For me,
Meddle is "Echoes", and "Echoes" is that minute-and-a-half after the squawking when the rhythm section works itself up to Gilmour's triumphant, Edge-influencing entrance. I think that
Meddle is a great album, but I don't see that it has the depth of
Wish You Were Here. "One of those days", the other album highlight, isn't the sort of thing that I would seek out to play: like "Money" on
DSotM, it's something I'm more likely to hear out of the context of the original album.
I have a similar problem with
Ummagumma. Sure, an album that has "Careful with that axe, Eugene" and "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" is always going to be a good album, but there are three sides of vinyl there that really aren't pulling their weight.
It's very difficult to find any fat to trim on
The Final Cut. Everything from first to last is a good track: more so than even
The Wall, which is pretty lean but maybe has one too many versions of "Another brick ..." and a ballad or two too many. At its best - "The Gunner's Dream", "The Fletcher Memoral Home", "Not Now John" -
The Final Cut is exceptionally good, but at its very worst ("Your Possible Pasts"?) it's still no slouch.