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It was 1971 and the walls were starting to melt. Someone calls the DJ and asks to hear a Pink Floyd song. Who? we mumble... 20 minutes later we hear this music that sounds like a bad trip but we're all digging it as the night closes in...
...next week at the record shop I pick up my first Pink Floyd LP Relics, which has that song, Careful With that Axe Eugene... and it's not the same version! OK, so what, the album is pure psychedelia, consisting of singles and B-sides that span the group's career before Meddle, their next album. The 4 songs beginning Side 2 are about as spacey as anything Floyd would ever do later.
Years later, after all my LPs had been sold, Relics remained in my memory as an album worth having on CD. But until this issue, it's been treated like a step-sister that nobody cares about. And while it still doesn't restore the original cover image that I loved so much, the art on this one isn't too bad...
The remastering is fine, the music from this era doesn't need the boom box treatment. For both old fans and new, and a flashback of nostalgia for me.
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Superb overview of early Pink Floyd.
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Excellent intro to early Pink Floyd.
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CD arrived in time and in very good condition as stated
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