#Pink floyd albums free windows#

Actors, props and fittings were set in and between those walls. To create the idea on a photograph, various walls-which had varied measurements and angles to ensure that 'nothing seemed to fit other than by eye through the lens.'-were built and put in a country landscape in Sussex. Eventually Thorgerson opted to make two images, with another used for the back cover. For instance, the man on fire from Wish You Were Here, another wearing the Delicate Sound of Thunder lightbulb suit, dolls of the Atom Heart Mother cow and the Animals pig, a bike and both a brick wall and the hammers from The Wall.

#Pink floyd albums free windows#

Storm Thorgerson, who had done the majority of album covers for Pink Floyd, did the Echoes art which features recursive windows in an infinite regression as a nod to his own cover for 1969's Ummagumma, and the objects on each landscape refer to the Pink Floyd discography.

See what I mean?' Cover ДЄlternate cover used for certain releases and rereleases 'I had to, because the name the boys came up with was so awful. Roger Waters's main contribution was the name of the compilation.

All our stuff conducted through our engineer James Guthrie, who coordinated Echoes from his place in Lake Tahoe. ThereвЂ™s been the occasional phone call but no great brainstorming sessions to get us all together. The band's longtime guitarist, David Gilmour, said of the process of compiling the tracks themselves: All 26 tracks were newly remastered specifically for this compilation and are not sequenced in chronological order. 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. Four of the band's albums- More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Obscured by Clouds-are not represented, though multiple tracks from Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma were planned to appear on the compilation. Original frontman Syd Barrett is featured on six of the album's 26 tracks, providing lead vocals on five. 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.