"Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is the fourth compilation album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 5 November 2001 by EMI internationally and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States.
"It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001. It remained on the chart for 26 weeks.
"[It was certified] quadruple platinum on 10 September 2007.
"The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single "Arnold Layne" in 1967, through to "High Hopes", the final track from their 1994 studio album The Division Bell.
"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 band's mid-period work.
"Echoes is Floyd's first album to include "When the Tigers Broke Free", from the film version of The Wall
"It was their first compilation to include songs from The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell and is the only one to include "Echoes", from 1971's Meddle.
"Original frontman Syd Barrett is featured on six of the album's 26 tracks, providing lead vocals on five.
"All 26 tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order."
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