I am finally through Meddle. I am slow, and find that I listen to podcasts more than music lately; the surest sign of my age. God, that first song, One of These Days, just blows you right on out and gives the indication that this album is "the later years origin stuff" that I have been looking for! I knew instantly I had heard the song before without knowing the title, but it did not ruin the sheer power of it. A Pillow of Winds was kind of a disappointment as I did not like the singing style of it at all. But man oh man oh man, when Fearless starts . . . you are taken to that Pink Floyd place where the past mental problems crawl out of. The singing style is still bothering me here, but the lyrics come across as so impressive and flowing with the guitar riffs!
San Tropez is fucking awful, sounding like a Grateful Dead throwaway. And what the hell is Seamus, but a song that I can tell sounds wonderful in rooms overflowing with bourbon and marijuana smoke. And then there was Echoes; the final cut bridge homage to what was coming from them later musically, as if they could foreshadow witness the icons of those three albums that I feel define them as a band. The ending of Echoes, when they come in like a cannonball shot singing at mark 19:13 to form what seems like a new song altogether, it is there you see the Pink Floyd that I lost my mind to from ages 16 to 19.
I am now curious, what Obscured by Clouds sounds like!
