Maybe Bill will play this next time he watches 2001: The Pink Floyd song 'Echoes', which clocks in at 23:27 on the album Meddle was inspired by and is perfectly timed to the 'Stargate' sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

How funny, this song comes up as THE #12 SONG in the RP Classics list, and ITS NEVER BEEN PLAYED?
There seems to be some sort of disconnect here.  Personally,I don't think it should be #12, all of Pink Floyd's music comes up with way too high of a rating in the Classics list IMHO.

You would think that one day this song will be played here on RP. Even if it's 3am on a Saturday or Sunday morning. It would surely indelibly etch that moment in time on someone's memory bank.

DSOTM got me interested in Pink Floyd, but Echoes totally blew me away.  The Live at Pompeii version I think is still the best; Meddle version is a bit polished.

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Last played in 2001?  That's a crying shame.

One of my all-time favourite songs ever, and certainly the best PF song. Please play this song once in a while... but only the meddle version!

Never, ever play a butchered or "shortened" version of echoes.  That is a travesty.  The original version from Meddle, or don't play it at all.

Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time. Echoes is by far the best piece of music they ever recorded. I wish there was an 11 to distinguish it from my other very favorite cuts. The atmospherics & intangible or unconcious elements of this song are part of a mental journey that the listener takes with the composers. This is a tour de force of songwriting genius.

This is Floyd at their best. If it's too long to play the entire piece -- and it's such a shame to cut it down -- then play part one of the "Live at Pompeii" version.

either play the 24 minute original meddle version or dont play it at all. lets not insult echoes.

...the fact that this is already in the libary makes it all the more a travesty that the butchered version gets prominent rotation instead...

This one has been my favourite through 15 years, I will never stop loving it. I feel pity for all who havent heard it yet.

Please Bill play this song, it's only like 7 minutes longer then the one you currently have in rotation

busch wrote:

Not to worry. There's that version in the "echoes" album that is in rotation. Does not *rotate* that much here, but hey there's a lot of other floyd songs going around here too. Sterling stuff this.

This song needs to be on the playlist. It is difinitely too esoteric to be common on the air but it needs to be in there somewhere so it can pop up and remind us all what rock also was once upon a time.

This is Floyd at their best.