Meddle is the best Pink Floyd album. It’s the one, where Roger Waters’ phoniness had not yet taken over the band and they are at the peak of their creativity. This album gets overlooked too much because of other Pink Floyd albums, which had more ambition (Dark Side of the Moon, WishYou Were Here and even The Wall). What I like about Meddle is that they don’t seem to want to try to say anything in this album, the ambitions are purely musical. It starts with uplifting and even alerting One of These Days (I’m gonna cut you into little pieces) but then dives into an exploration of musical themes and topics. From soft and whimsical Pillow of the Winds, to fearless Fearless, through very relax and chill San Tropez to American Seamus. It culminates with a journey of a lifetime, the song worthy of the original Pink Floyd Sound, Echoes, that originally took an entire side of the vinyl. Pink Floyd knows how it is are in this album and it shares that greatness with the rest of us.
Listen to it.
