Pink Floyd 4 LP Box Set "Echoes": Best of Pink Floyd Sealed EMI 180 Gram Vinyl

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This auction is for an “unopened” 4 LP box set of Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”…The Best of Pink Floyd.

It is the original 2001 box set, unopened, containing 4 audiophile quality (180 gram pure vinyl) LP’s.

EMI Records catalog #7 243 5 361111 8.

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation album by Pink Floyd.

It was released by EMI Records in the United Kingdom on the 5th of November 2001 and the following day in the United States through Capitol Records.

It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001, selling 214,650 copies, remaining 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.

Through their long history, Pink Floyd moved through psychedelia, prog-rock, space-rock; emerging as pioneers in all of those styles.

This four LP 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 Syd Barrett (the loopy "Bike," the otherworldly "Astronomy Domine").

The most overtly progressive tendencies of '70s Floyd are aired on the glorious epic "Echoes," whose suite-like construction shows off both the band's technical facility and orchestration skills.

Naturally, there are some cuts from the band's watershed album DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, one of the best-selling LPs of all time (the gospel-tinged "The Great Gig in the Sky," the near-funky capitalist plaint "Money").

Hardcore Floyd fans might object to the number of songs from the post-Roger Waters era, but even these less-celebrated tunes work in the overall historical context. While it's easy to quibble about the absence of various Floyd favorites (no "Interstellar Overdrive?"), there's so much crucial music on this collection that it's impossible to come away from it without a strong sense of what Pink Floyd such an important band.

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A nice box set of the hard to find Best of Pink Floyd compilation: Echoes.