Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Syd Barrett.Producers inlcude: Pink Floyd, Michael Kamen, Bob Ezrin, Joe Boyd, Norman Smith.Compilation producer: James Guthrie, Pink Floyd.Digitally remastered by James Guthrie.Personnel: David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (keyboards); Nick Mason (drums).Photographers: Rupert Truman; Sam Brooks.Through their long history, Pink Floyd moved through psychedelia, prog-rock, space-rock, and more, emerging as pioneers in all of those styles. This two-disc compilation takes on the formidable task of creating a definitive Floyd collection. Though there's no chronological running order to give a sense of the group's development, there are plenty of key tracks from all the eras of Pink Floyd's career. We're given a healthy dose of material from the band's psychedelic '60s period, when they were spearheaded by the ultimate acid-damaged genius Syd Barrett (the loopy "Bike," the otherworldly "Astronomy Domine"). The most over