Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd
by Pink Floyd

Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd by Pink Floyd
(Compilation album)
Year: 2001
Release date: 2001-11-06
Overall rank: 6,417th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 232 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2001 (113th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,114th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,417th)

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Pink Floyd bestography

Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd is ranked 21st best out of 37 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 57,155.

Pink Floyd album bestography « Higher ranked (6,203rd)
Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81
This album (6,417th)
Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd
Lower ranked (7,465th) »
The Dark Side Of The Moon (Live At Wembley 1974)

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,417th | 2000s rank: 1,114th | 2001 rank: 113th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 232 votes)
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06/04/2026 21:09 Helios  Ratings distribution  6,19969/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.4/100, a mean average of 80.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.


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From 06/15/2025 18:30 | #309544
I’d agree with the previous comment. Some phenomenal tracks here but they sound so much better as part of the whole album.
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From 06/11/2025 10:25 | #309427
A decent playlist, but these tracks must be listened to within the context of the albums.
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If you are new to Pink Floyd, get this album, it's essential music, (though in no way covers all of Pink Floyd's best tracks). Once you become familiar with these tracks, then you will need to get all the albums, this collection has then done its job.
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From 09/13/2020 04:20 | #258148
Great compilation if your a Floyd starter and haven't got the studio albums as with 26 tracks it's well covered. I've got all studio albums but pull this out when the occasion arises where I want a taste of all in one hit. Good selection. Of course there's songs that should be on here that aren't, but with so many tracks to choose from, well......
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90/100
Great compilation and with the track listings could never achieve a low score. I would like to have seen 'Careful With That Axe Eugene' and 'Paintbox' or 'Remember A Day' in place of 'Jugband Blues' and 'Bike' from the Sid era but that's just personal.
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From 02/15/2019 04:21 | #231961
Easily one of the best double disc best of collections out there. I love listening to each album in its own context but this is so beautifully constructed with the intros/outros that it’s a real fun listen a couple times a year.
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From 11/01/2018 21:16 | #223699
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85/100
I recommend getting the albums. This material needs to be heard in relation to the other tracks on the records.
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One of the best compilations of all time, they could have made an Echoes Vol. 2 and 3 with all the great music Pink Floyd have made over the years. If you want to start getting to know what Pink Floyd are all about get this and then explore their back catalogue.
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95/100
95/100. One of the greatest bands of all-time, but a catch-all compilation can't really do them justice. I don't really like the later stuff, it's pleasant enough, but it's completely irrelevant to the other music of it's time (1987-1994). And Pink Floyd were always ahead of the pack and hugely influential.
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