For those collection completists amongst you, there have been at least two major samplers released to promote Echoes.
UK 6-track promo CD, custom card picture sleeve CDLRL 054
Tracklisting:
1. See Emily Play
2. Money
3. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
4. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
5. Learning To Fly
6. Wish You Were Here
US 8-track promo CD, custom sleeve etc. DPRO-6159912
Tracklisting:
1. When The Tigers Broke Free
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
5. Echoes
6. Hey You
7. Comfortably Numb
8. Money
MARKETING TOOLS:
As with any major campaign,
Echoes has been promoted in a number of ways - from a pig floating over
the Capitol Records tower in the States (observed by a webcam) to
stress toys...
I've been sent some of these
images via email and don't know their true origin - so if the copyright
for them rests with you and you want them removed or a credit added,
please let me know. I just thought them interesting and worthy of
inclusion - I don't want to wind anyone up! Cheers...
Stress pigs and cows, UK promo 3 inch x 5 inch toys with silver title logo on their backs:
From November 26th 2001 for 2
weeks, a carriage on the Vincennes- La Défense tube line in Paris
features Pink Floyd murals. Music from the band is played every morning
and evening.
From a Spanish newspaper, this is
from one of the launch parties. However, Q Magazine state that it is
the German launch. So...why are the Spanish reporting on it (apart from
the fact of it featuring naked botties?)
THE ALBUM'S TITLE:
Over to James Guthrie:
"It really seemed
that the album should have a proper title and not just be released as
"The Best of Pink Floyd" (far too subjective). It occurred to me that
"Raving and Drooling" was a good title and I put that on my first
mock-up. Needless to say the title didn't make the cut, though it was
well received by some. (As hardcore fans will know, "Raving and
Drooling" was the original title of the song "Sheep".) "Eclipse" was
the title on my second mock-up, but in the end "Echoes" (Roger's title)
seemed appropriate and upset fewer people."
Roger revealed at the London Press Conference in October that David's favoured title for the album was "Some Of The Parts" which might not have travelled too well internationally...depends on knowing the phrase that this is a pun on.
MISSING TRACKS:
In order to spark some debate,
here (in no particular order) is a list of some of the songs that were
also considered for "Echoes". Is your favourite not even on the "short
list" below that didn't quite make it?
- Brain Damage
- Eclipse
- Interstellar Overdrive
- Careful With That Axe, Eugene
- Fearless
- Breathe
- Paranoid Eyes
- Mother
- Your Possible Pasts
- Fat Old Sun
- San Tropez
- An edited version of Atom Heart Mother
- If
- Grantchester Meadows
- Scarecrow
- Chapter 24
- Dogs
- Nobody Home
- Young Lust
- The Gunner's Dream
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