A Collection of Great Dance Songs

A Collection of Great Dance Songs
Greatest hits by Pink Floyd
Released	23 November 1981
Recorded	1971–1981
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	42:01
Language	English
Label	Harvest/EMI
Producer	Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Bob Ezrin
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A Nice Pair (1973) A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) Works (1983)

A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by Pink Floyd released on 23 November 1981 on Harvest/EMI in the UK and Columbia Records in the United States. The album was released against the will of Roger Waters.^{[citation needed]}

History

The title is facetious, given that Pink Floyd is not known for making particularly danceable music.^{[citation needed]} This is perhaps evidenced by the album art, which featured a photograph of ballroom dancers guyed to the ground so they cannot move. The Hipgnosis design team did the cover under the pseudonym TCP after falling out with Roger Waters a few years earlier.^{[citation needed]} The inner sleeve had pictures of dancers in either a white (UK) or black (U.S.) background. The picture labels were a black background with blue lines and red sketch lined dancers on side one and reverse on side two.

The album contains alternate mixes of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (which comprises parts 1–3, 5 and 7) and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (which combines the intro from the single mix with the album version which fades out during the "if you don't eat your meat" ending). Also, the track "Money" was re-recorded as Capitol Records refused to let Columbia Records in the U.S. use the track. David Gilmour re-recorded the track himself playing all of the drums, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar and vocals and co-producing the song with James Guthrie. Dick Parry reprised his saxophone role on the track. There are some slight differences between the re-recorded version and original, mainly in certain sections of the saxophone and guitar solos. The drumming is noticeably different from Nick Mason's.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 29 January 1982 and Platinum on 6 July 1989 and Double Platinum in August, 2001. The album reached #37 on the United Kingdom charts and #31 in the United States. Columbia issued the remastered CD in 1997 in the U.S. and most of the world save Europe. Then a 1997 remastered CD was re-released in 2000 on Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI for the rest of the world including Europe.

Track listing

Side one

1. "One of These Days" (David Gilmour/Roger Waters/Rick Wright/Nick Mason) (Meddle)
2. "Money" (Re-recorded in 1981 at New Roydonia Studios) (Waters) (original version from The Dark Side of the Moon)
3. "Sheep" (Waters) (Animals)

Side two

4. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Edit) (Gilmour/Waters/Wright) (Wish You Were Here)
5. "Wish You Were Here" (Waters/Gilmour) (Wish You Were Here)
6. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" (Edit) (Roger Waters) (The Wall)

8-track cartridge

Program 1

1. "One of These Days"
2. "Wish You Were Here"

Program 2

3. "Sheep"

Program 3

4. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Edit)

Program 4

5. "Money" (1981 re-recording)
6. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (new edit)

Personnel

Pink Floyd

• David Gilmour – guitar, bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Wish You Were Here" and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II", all instruments on "Money" (except saxophone)
• Roger Waters – bass guitar (except on "Money"), vocals, rhythm guitar on "Sheep", lead vocals on "Sheep", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
• Richard Wright – keyboards, synthesizers (except on "Money"), vocals
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion, vocal phrase on "One of These Days"

Additional personnel

• James Guthrie – remastering production
• The Islington Green School – vocals on "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
• Dick Parry – saxophone on "Money", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
• Doug Sax – mastering and remastering
• TCP (pseudonym for Hipgnosis) – sleeve design and photos (Storm Thorgerson, Peter Christopherson, and Aubrey "Po" Powell)

Sales chart performance

References

1. ^ "Chart Stats - Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs". www.chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=5560. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
2. ^ allmusic ((( Pink Floyd > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))
3. ^ "norwegiancharts.com - Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs". norwegiancharts.com. http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Pink+Floyd&titel=A+Collection+Of+Great+Dance+Songs&cat=a. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 

External links

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