Wish You Were Here | 
| Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 154
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 29750
UPC: 724382975021
EAN: 0724382975021
ASIN: B000024D4S
Release Date: August 1, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Shine On You Crazy Diamond | | • | Welcome To The Machine | | • | Have A Cigar | | • | Wish You Were Here | | • | Shine on you crazy diamond pt.2 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Wolk
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
BEST ALBUM THEY HAVE DONE!!! January 6, 2009
The best album they have done is not The Wall or Dark Side Of The Moon it is this one for me anyway. Everybody has their own views which is what makes the world go round but these handful of songs are top draw. This is sheer brillance from the minute you press play so buy it!!
 Please! Nooo! Anything but the machine ! December 3, 2008
A fine example of a '70s, coked-up, cocktail bar, interpretation of a vision for an apocalyptic future, which is kind of cool in it's own way.
I like destruction and despair I can tap my toe to.
What can I say, I just can't take this album seriously at all really, unlike Floyd who are clearly taking themselves far too seriously and from that perspective it's fantastic!
'Welcome to the machine', I find just hilarious!
I've given it 4 stars for tongue in cheek entertainment value and probably 2 stars for it's contribution to music as a whole.
Pink Floyd's Masterwork November 13, 2008
No, not Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall, this is Pink Floyd's greatest work. Only 4 songs (one split in two) but they're absolutely sublime. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is an amazing song and, I think, the Floyd's longest, Welcome to the Machine is eerie but compulsively listenable, Wish You Were Here one of their most gorgeous songs, and Have a Cigar is very underrated, in fact one of my favourite tracks and a nice change of style, without which the album might have felt a bit too heavy. You have to listen to the album in one sitting to truly appreciate it, and it's a hugely rewarding experience with not a duff second on it. And the ending of the album is truly gorgeous, possibly the best ending to an album ever. Absolutely essential listening.
 We Don't Need No Remastered CD - Where's the SACD ??? October 18, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Stop messing about with yet another remastered CD - BRING OUT THE SACD VERSION THAT WE ALL KNOW HAS BEEN PRODUCED. Storm has done the cover art, all the work has been done on the 5.1 mix - please Please PLEASE cut it to SACD and bring it out before December 2008 and make my Xmas.
ALBUM 2 IN THE SERIES OF GREAT ALBUMS FROM FLOYD August 16, 2008
This album is without doubt my favourite Floyd album. It has everything you need in a concept/prog rock/Floyd album. Some say its the last of the great Floyd albums, before waters took over, and it was more of waters solo work. Although Mason is never credited, his classic drumming is always there to help the flow the immense music. Again, we have a short number of tracks, but we still get a blistering 44 odd mins. With the epic that is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the first five parts are 5 brilliant pieces of music, I think we've all heard Shine On part II (if not, look it up) with the combination of Ricks excellent Piano and Synth work, and Gilmours quite frankly perfect guitar, the first few pieces all fit together, and then we get waters lyrics, reminiscent of their old front man Syd, and how cool is the wording, Shine on You crazy Diamond, waters was really on fire that day. The first 5 parts flow seamlessly into Welcome To The Machine. This monster of a track just shows waters at his best, attacking government with some fab guitar, and synths, the drums in this are really cool too. Then we come to side 2 and the opening song which became a single, Have A Cigar. This bass driven, funky vocals and again perfect guitar from Gilmour, show what Floyd are made of. With the voice of Roy Harper, because waters had strained his voice doing Shine On, we get a sort of folk rock version of vocals, and it works so well. And alas we come to the title track, and indeed possibly floyds most famous song. Wish You Were Here, is the writing partnership of Gilmour/Waters at work. That beautiful riff that just gets better every time you here it, and those immortal words. Again its an album where waters wrote all lyrics, but you wouldnt ask for any better ones on this song. Its an anthem that will see Floyd remembered well after their gone. To end the album, Floyd then return the the Shine On suite, to add 4 more parts to end the album. Albeit, in my opinion not as good as the first 5, but parts VI-IX really show what Floyd are made of. They had wanted all of Shine On to be one long track, but it was too long for a side of vinyl they had to split it. All in all, this is the only Floyd album I can listen to for pleasure. I love Floyd and they have some brill albums, but I have to say that this is my favourite to listen to, dark side is more of a rocky hey lets get up and play air guitar to Money, whereas WYWH is an album for listening to, its immortal and will never die, even after 30 years people still buy it, and for very good reason.
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