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unusual facts about Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd


Pontarddulais Male Choir

The choir, conducted by Noel Davies performed vocals on The Pink Floyd track When the Tigers Broke Free which features on the album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.


5 Years Time

The style of the video echoes the style of a Wes Anderson film, using the same typefont the director typically uses in his films/music videos.

A Very British Coup

The story also has echoes of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis in which there was alleged CIA involvement to remove a government proposing to close US military bases on Australian soil.

Aleksander Fredro

His memoir Topsy Turvy Talk, which echoes the style of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, recounts his military experiences during Bonaparte's last campaign.

Binson

After using Meazzi Echomatic machines successfully to establish his signature sound, Hank Marvin of The Shadows began using Binson echoes.

Boris Cvjetanović

Bonami, Francesco - Echoes: Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions, (The Monacelli Press, New York, 1996).

Box of Rain

The line "moth before a flame" echoes several proverbs, such as "the fate of the moth in the flame"—Aeschylus, Fragments (Fragment #288).

Brazz Dance Theater

Soledade is a native of Bahia, Brazil; in Music, Cuban-American composer Orlando Garcia created the original score to accompany the choreography; and Jacek Kolasinski the video artist from Poland contributed to the work through an installation at the performance site that echoes the strong transformation element present in the choreography.

Brethren of the Free Spirit

A peculiarity of some of the writings and doctrines of the Free Spirit movement is in their echoes of Gnostic ideas in texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip.

Buckingham Palace Conference

The King's idea of hosting all-party talks on Ireland had echoes in later negotiations that produced the power-sharing executive in the Sunningdale Agreement in the 1970s, and in the negotiations that produced the Belfast Agreement in the late 1990s.

Cathedral of the Archangel

It echoes the layout of the Assumption Cathedral in its use of five domes (representing Jesus Christ and the Four Evangelists.

Charlie Connelly

Connelly's writing exhibits a self-deprecating humour and love of eccentricity that echoes the style of Bill Bryson.

Chronis Aidonidis

An important incident changed his life, when in 1953 the great folklore scientist Polydoros Papachristodoulou proposed him to participate in his radio show entitled Echoes from Thrace, presenting for the first time the musical treasure of his fatherland.

Departure Songs

John Diliberto, the host of Echoes, named Departure Songs the #1 album of the year for 2012 in his annual year-end "Top 10 Albums" list.

Ed Russenholt

He wrote a book on the history of Assiniboia, The Heart of the Continent: being the history of Assiniboia - the truly typical Canadian community, and edited a book on Rockwood, Manitoba Re-echoes from Rockwood.

Fabio Campana

(Souvenirs, Thoughts, Echoes, Sighs, Memories), with each one devoted to a different place which had a personal significance in Campana's life, including Naples, Venice, Rome, Paris, Bagni di Lucca, and Lake Como.

Fat Old Sun

This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001), as remarked by James Guthrie, the producer of Echoes.

FM Towns

The system had ports in the front to accommodate Karaoke, LEDs to indicate volume level, and software to add popular voice-altering effects such as echoes.

Gary Pomerantz

The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20s and the darkness of the Depression when a suave and cunning Russian-born American named Ely Culbertson became the Barnum of a bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Kansas City.

Grecian Echoes

Grecian Echoes is a variety show geared to the Greek American community of the Greater Boston area.

If I Die Young

The video echoes a scene in Anne of Green Gables in which Anne attempts to appear as the Lady of the poem.

Imperial Echoes

Imperial Echoes became a regular part of the repertoire of military bands and was adopted by the Royal Army Pay Corps as its regimental quick march.

Kálfr Árnason

Scholar Claus Krag sees echoes of Judas kissing Jesus in the scenes in Heimskringla between Kálfr and Olaf.

Khosrow and Shirin

Orhan Pamuk's novel, My Name is Red (1998), has a plot line between two characters, Shekure and Black, which echoes the Khosrow and Shirin story, which is also retold in the book.

Le Smoking

Fashion photography echoes the influence of this suit in shoots that feature androgynous models with slicked-back hair in a mannish three-piece suit, a style that was first popularised in photographs by Helmut Newton.

Long delayed echo

Duncan Lunan proposed the radio echoes observed by Størmer and Van der Pol in 1928 might have been transmissions from a Bracewell probe, an artifact of aliens trying to communicate with us by bouncing back our own signals.

Marie Weaver

In "Four Voices: Echoes," (Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL) her work was shown with Janice Kluge (sculptor), Lucy Jaffe (painter), and Sonja Rieger (photographer) and Marie Weaver (printmaker).

Mercedes-Benz CLR

Despite the second incident and its echoes of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, Norbert Haug decided to go ahead and enter the other two cars in the afternoon, with additional modifications and instructions to the drivers not to follow other cars closely over humps.

Mike Andersen

In Trumpet Magazine, a Danish Music Union publication, Mike tells the story of how he was able to connect with the Grammy award winning album producer and mixer Russell Elevado who final mixed echoes.

Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

The central relationship between Mr Puntila and Matti—in which Puntila is warm, friendly and loving when drunk, but cold, cynical and penny-pinching when sober—echoes the relationship between the Tramp and the Millionaire in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931).

Parashqevi Simaku

In 2006 she signed a contract with Sony and BMG for her new Albanian language CD entitled Echoes from Iliria (Jehonë nga Iliria).

Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America

Its title echoes the Parental Advisory message affixed to music that some consider offensive.

Peter Fribbins

A number of his key works are literary-inspired, and much of his music is for strings, notable exceptions being the early wind quintet 'In Xanadu' from 1992 (after Coleridge), 'Porphyria’s Lover' (1999) for flute and piano (after Browning), and the clarinet and piano '...That Which Echoes in Eternity' (after lines from Dante's Divine Comedy).

Piccola Accademia degli Specchi

Their music has been featured on Echoes (the syndicated NPR show) and New Sounds on WNYC in the U.S., and on Concertzender in the Netherlands.

PMSE

Polar mesospheric summer echoes, the phenomenon of anomalous radar echoes found in the Antarctic atmosphere.

Ron Przybylinski

Przybylinski has actively trained meteorologists, for example, participating heavily in the National Center for Atmospheric Research COMET training (particularly on bow echoes), as well as mentoring and collaborating with university students, both graduate and undergraduate.

Serge Schmemann

1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Echoes of a Native Land

Star's End

Echoes, a nightly ambient music show produced by music critic John Diliberto.

Talofa

Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana.

Texas in July

Texas in July headlined a follow-on show to Van's Warped Tour 2013 on August 6, 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama with support from Of Empires, Strength from Within, Echoes of Creation, and OMAAF; and are currently providing support to The Devil Wears Prada on their headlining tour (November - December 2013) with additional support from The Ghost Inside and Volumes.

The Body Snatchers

This echoes a familiar notion, the spore theory of Arrhenius.

The Dykeenies

The band announced on 18 July 2011 via their Myspace and Facebook accounts that their new album 'Canyon of Echoes' will be released on 3 October 2011.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines. NY: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-195-34120-1

The Evolution of Cooperation

The winner was a very simple strategy submitted by Anatol Rapoport called "TIT FOR TAT" (TFT) that cooperates on the first move, and subsequently echoes (reciprocates) what the other player did on the previous move.

The Swimming Pool Library

Will takes Phil to visit Staines, a successful studio photographer who echoes Cecil Beaton.

The Sword of Kahless

Composer David Bell created music for the episode that had echoes of the operas of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner.

Tonzang

Tonzang echoes the name of an older Burmese settlement of the Zou community by the same name (Sim Tonzang) which still exists today.

Urban Interventionism

This also echoes other art forms that are connected to urban interventionalism like the 1960's Happenings and Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk.


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