Meddle

Though the tracks have a variety of moods, Meddle is generally considered more cohesive than its 1970 predecessor Atom Heart Mother, and is thought by many fans to be Pink Floyd's first truly great album recorded without Syd Barrett. It enjoyed some commercial success in the United Kingdom (reaching 3 on the charts), but lackluster publicity on the part of Capitol Records led to weak sales in the U.S. However, Meddle would later be certified Gold by the RIAA in October of 1973 and then double platinum on 11 March 1994 following the added attention garnered by the band's later successes in America.
"One of These Days" opens the album with an ostinato bassline, played by both Gilmour and Waters, and uses a slide guitar lick. A largely instrumental piece, the only lyric, 'One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces', is spoken by Nick Mason.
It is followed by "A Pillow of Winds", which is distinguished by being one of the few quiet, acoustic songs in the Pink Floyd catalogue primarily concerned with love. These two songs segue into each other via wind effects, anticipating the same technique that would later be used on Wish You Were Here.
The song "Fearless" employs field recordings of the Liverpool F.C. Kop choir singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", their anthem, which brings the song to a haunting end in a heavily reverberated fade-out.
"San Tropez", by extreme contrast, is a jazz-inflected pop song with a shuffle tempo, composed by Waters in his increasingly-deployed style of breezy, off-the-cuff songwriting.
Pink Floyd give a rare glimpse into their sense of humour with "Seamus", a pseudo-blues number featuring 'vocals' by a friend's dog who could bark in tune with music. "Seamus" was remade as "Mademoiselle Nobs", featuring a different dog, in the film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.
The final song on the album, the 23-minute underwater epic "Echoes", is reputed to synchronize musically and thematically with the climactic section of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey (entitled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"). It is rumoured that Pink Floyd purposely synchronized "Echoes" with 2001 because they regretted denying Kubrick the rights to use the "Atom Heart Mother Suite" in his film A Clockwork Orange. However, the song is more notable for being the lyrical centrepiece of the record and the band's most accomplished recorded work yet. "Echoes" also gave its name to the compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, on which a much-edited version of the title track was included. In the compilation, multiple edits throughout the entire song cut the running length of the piece down by some 7 minutes..PEACE: and ENJOY the music...
Live at Pompeii - Echoes Part I
Live at Pompeii - Echoes Part II