Meddle LP

Meddle is where Pink Floyd stopped treading water and found footing, pieced together in 1971 at Abbey Road, AIR, and Morgan Sound for Harvest Records with no outside producer, the band running its own session. Everything builds toward "Echoes," a nearly 23-minute piece credited to all four members that once carried the working title "The Return of the Son of Nothing." Stand close and you can hear the last of the Syd Barrett haze on one side and the tighter, grander Dark Side of the Moon, still two years off, taking shape on the other.