Wish You Were Here

the successful refining of their message. one might fit in the reading of the stellar british writer, ballard, whilst listening. it certainly complements well this awesome band (that was only beginning whilst the beatles were ending). is it j.g. ballard? yes, I think that it is. david Gilmour later played with macca on the cut, NO OTHER BABY, and Sid Barrett played with the Beatles on the very rare cut, WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE HAD A PAIN AT THE PARTY.

Apart from the weird but well developed track one, I didn't like any of the songs and was annoyed by most of them.

The first Pink Floyd album I ever heard. Still beautiful, strange, and moving to this day.

Classic Pink Floyd album- for a reason- it has great songs- still- that hold up over 40 years later.

A++ All the way….A must have CD - worth the long library wait.

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"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish-bowl (year after year)."

Even though Wish You Were Here was hardly what I would've expected to hear from the 70's, psychedelic-rockers, Pink Floyd, as a follow-up album to the mega-successful The Dark Side of the Moon, that doesn't mean to say that I didn't like it.

On the contrary, I was far from being disappointed by this offering, but, all the same, I will say that Wish You Were Here (generously laced with Waters' cynical lyrics) clearly lacked the overall "oomph!" and hard-driving edge that Dark Side of the Moon delivered.

With there being moments that were almost hypnotic in nature, this music-disc was Pink Floyd (in 1975) in a much more mellow and low-keyed frame of mind. And, hey, that's OK!

For my money, "Wish You Were Here" is the greatest album Pink Floyd ever made. With all due respect to "Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here" is more tuneful, more hypnotic, more immersive. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," which tells the sad story of founding Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett's mental breakdown, is both beautiful and heartbreaking. Two other songs here, "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar," are scathing indictments of a music industry that even in the mid-1970s was increasingly driven by corruption and greed. And the title track, co-written by Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and PF bassist Roger Waters, is nothing less than one of the greatest songs in the band's repertoire -- wistful and irresistibly melodic.

Short and sweet, this is one of Pink Floyd's best albums. A perfect example of progressive rock. Highly recommended.