One of These Days is another masterpiece that succeeds in blending sound effects into the music to create a unified whole. The success of the huge main theme of Atom Heart Mother and the haunting cello section were reflected in the sales of the album which had pushed a Floyd release to No. It was on the previous album that the Floyd had first discovered how even the most unpromising piece could be transformed when the stylistic hallmarks of the Floyd sound were married to really strong expansive melodies for the first time in their career. Although both albums differ radically in form, in retrospect Meddle owes a great deal of its success to the band’s work with Ron Geesin on Atom Heart Mother. However, where earlier albums had relied heavily on repeated patterns with varying loud and soft passages, Meddle was constructed around the sublime melodies of Echoes, the stand out track of the album. Much of the Meddle album is still very much rooted in the mid-tempo four beats in the bar that Floyd favoured. To date the Floyd albums had demonstrated a mastery of dynamics but had consistently lacked the sublime melodies that came to characterise their later work. Most important of all however, the Floyd collectively had finally flowered as composers of outstanding melodies.
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