“One of These Days” by Pink Floyd

Meddle opens with "One of These Days", Pink Floyd's 1971 instrumental assault, and the engine of it is two bass guitars at once, played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters and run through a Binson Echorec delay until simple notes gallop in triplets. Gilmour first found the riff on guitar; Waters suggested moving it to bass. Each bass is slammed hard into its own stereo channel, one of them deliberately dull and muffled.

Richard Wright piles on Hammond organ, piano and synthesizer, Gilmour cuts loose on electric and pedal steel, and Nick Mason drives it on drums. Mason also delivers the only words, one spoken threat. The band produced it themselves for Harvest, and they would bring the echo-bass trick back later on "Sheep".

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