What is your Favourite Pink Floyd Compilation?

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What is your Favourite Pink Floyd Compilation?

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Compilations are useful in the early days of a band to help them make a bit of money whilst recording a new album, or being on tour and not putting material out. They are also good as a retrpspective, to help new fans discover the band. They are also a good way for copyright owners to make money from back catalogues!

What is your favourite? What would you recommend to a new fan?

Pink Floyd Discography -> Pink Floyd Compilations

Tonight Lets All Make Love in London (1968)
The Best of Pink Floyd (1970)
Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air (1970)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Relics (1971)
A Nice Pair (1973)
A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981)
Works (1983)
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001)
The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door (2011)
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Re: What is your Favourite Pink Floyd Compilation?

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Echoes by a mile. I've always enjoyed the segues on that one
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Oof! Relics third album bought (Dark Side and Piper).
But Echoes is such a beautiful collection. Every compilation since diminishing returns compared to Echoes.
Hardly bothered with Works or (even as dirt cheap as it was) A Collection Of Great Dance Songs.
How would have turned out if I bought Relics and A Collection of Great Dance Songs after Dark Side I've no idea. And that never happened anyway. After that it gets sketch which album bought next!
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Should I cheat and go for the Australian CD of Relics that's got Crumbling Land on it?
Wow, the Echoes compilation with Crumbling Land on it.
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Echoes - The Best Of, by a very wide margin.
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Echoes for mainly nostalgic reasons, helping me to discover more of pink floyd before "learning" to properly listen to full albums
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Relics - cost less than £1 new when it was released and my first introduction to early Floyd