Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Artist: Pink FloydEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5
- Welcome to the Machine
- Have a Cigar
- Wish You Were Here
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9
Music reviews of Wish You Were Here
Music Review: A five star follow up to Dark Side
Rating: 5 Stars
On Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd showed that they had learned to discipline themselves, abandon the long-winded and sometimes aimless meanderings of much of the band's post Piper recordings and thereby produce a masterpiece incorporating into their music all of the things that we loved about the band but in a more structured and cohesive manner than on, say, Atom Heart Mother. Fortunately, throughout the remainder of the 1970's Floyd retained the newly learned lessons and were therefore able to offer their fans a further trio of great LP's - Animals, The Wall and, of course, Wish You Were Here. For me Dark Side will always be the band's crowning achievement. However, I would not quarrel with anyone who argues that Wish is the band's best album. The two records are really quite different from each other. Although Wish does contain two shorter songs - the brilliant and funny Have a Cigar and the emotional title ballad, the centre piece of the album is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, an extended piece of music, in two parts. It is a fabulous example of 1970's prog/psychedelic rock.
Description of Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before: two grimly funny songs about the evils of the music business ("By the way, which one's Pink?"), and two long, touching ones about the band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is the production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under the influence--and pretty great sober too--with David Gilmour getting lots of space for his most lyrical guitar playing ever. And, though the album is big and ambitious, even bombastic, it somehow dodges being pretentious--the Barrett tributes are honest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand gestures and stereophonic trickery. --Douglas WolkGeneral CDs
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