Keep Talking (Early fade-out; The Division Bell ) Gilmour Wright Polly Samson Gilmour 5:57 12.It debuted at 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001, with sales of 214,650 copies.
It remained 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. Four of their albums More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds are not represented, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother 3 and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation. Each of the 26 tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer engineer James Guthrie, to help recreate the concept album feel of the bands mid-period work. All 26 tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order. All our stuff is conducted through our engineer James Guthrie, who coordinated Echoes from his place in Lake Tahoe. I had to, because the name the boys came up with was so awful. For instance, theres the man on fire from Wish You Were Here, another wearing the Delicate Sound of Thunder lightbulb suit, dolls of the Atom Heart Mother cow and the Animals pig, a bike and both a brick wall and the hammers from The Wall. Eventually Thorgerson opted to make two images, with another used for the back cover. To create the idea on a photograph, various wallswhich had varied measurements and angles to ensure that nothing seemed to fit other than by eye through the lens.were built and put in a country landscape in Sussex. Actors, props and fittings were set in and between those walls. The original design was one of two sketches submitted for Dream Theater s 1997 album Falling into Infinity, with the original being framed and hanging in the home of former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and is pointed out by Portnoy in his Hudson Music instructional drum DVD In Constant Motion. Nick sent us a list right at the beginning, then he seemed to lose interest. It wandered along rather fitfully until recently, when I thought Id better work out what we should be trying to do with it, whether we should try and represent every album or not, and on what basis we should be choosing songs. In the end we had to get everyone to vote on a list. I agree that most of the songs seemed to have picked themselves. Its amazing how long the process has been getting it sorted out. See Emily Play (See Emily Play single (1967), with an early cut-off; appears on 1971 Relics (1971), and 1967 USJapan versions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ) Barrett Barrett 2:47 3. The Happiest Days of Our Lives ( The Wall (1979)) Roger Waters Waters 1:38 4. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) ( The Wall ) Waters David Gilmour Waters 4:01 5. Echoes (Edited version; Meddle (1971)) Gilmour Waters Wright Nick Mason Gilmour Wright 16:30 6. Marooned (excerpt; The Division Bell (1994)) Gilmour Wright Instrumental 2:02 8. The Great Gig in the Sky ( The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)) Wright Clare Torry Torry 4:40 9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun ( A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)) Waters Waters 5:20 10.
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