Nick Mason confirmed Corgan’s impression in his band bio, Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd: It’s really on that record that you hear a band fusing and synthesizing something that’s never been really recreated. they really sounded like a band unsure of where to go,” said Billy Corgan in his induction speech welcoming Pink Floyd into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That hardly qualifies as a ringing endorsement, as Pink Floyd could have put out an album consisting of forty minutes of silence and it would have been better than the Meddle cover. For a more insightful evaluation of the album’s value, I’ll turn things over to Billy Corgan:Īfter Syd went wherever Syd went. “I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover,” opined team member Storm Thorgerson. The team at Hipgnosis did own up to their questionable judgment. I guess there’s always one baboon proctologist in every crowd. Let’s have a show of hands-how many of you would want to spend more than five seconds looking at a baboon’s anus? Okay. I have no evidence to back it up, but as I’m always in search of a silver lining, I can easily imagine that the electric ear-and-nose-hair trimmer was invented by a Pink Floyd fan who spent hours gazing at the cover of Meddle.Īt least we were spared the original concept of a close-up of a baboon’s anus. If I encountered such an ear during foreplay, you can bet your bottom dollar that my tongue would beat a hasty retreat. It’s supposed to be an ear underwater soaking up waves of sound. Yes, even the guys who designed the cover thought it was crap.
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