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
Free Music Notes for Wish You Were Here
Free Music Review: A drastic progression from the previous album, setting the stage for all PF songs to come
Hit: 4 Stars
Pink Floyd's 1975 album WISH YOU WERE HERE marks a major transition for the band. PF had hitherto consistently remained in the rounds of psychadelia, and even 1973's DARK SIDE OF THE MOON has a spirit that is essentially late 1960s. With this album here, however, Pink Floyd displayed a colder production and a new use of synthesizers that was wholly of its decade, David Gilmour's guitar work settled into a groove that continued for all the Pink Floyd efforts to come, and this was to be the first of several albums whose theme was entirely cast by Roger Waters.
WISH YOU WERE HERE contains four songs, of which one, the ambitious 12-part suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is split in two to bookend the album. "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" are criticisms of the music industry, the later having main vocals by Roy Harper, while "Wish You Were Here" is an elegy for a friend suffering from dementia. Though I loved the title track when I was in high school, but now that I've heard its main riff butchered by morons with a guitar on every youth hostel balcony in Europe, I just can't enjoy it much anymore.
Musically, the album is generally of very high quality. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has a variety and elegance well above the band's earlier suites. The use of synthesizers is beautiful, never sounding as cheesy as in the efforts of other groups during this decade. Lyrically, I've never been able to fully enjoy the two songs mocking the industry, because they fail to make clear whether Roger Waters felt he was victimized himself this way, or if the conniving of label executives was a recent development (a lot of people have claimed that the industry changed around 1969).
Wish You Were Here Poster
Original Release Date: September 15, 1975 Track Listing: 1. Wish You Were Here 2. Coming Back To Life 3. Keep TalkingWish 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 Wolk
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