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| | Wish You Were Here | | | Music Artist : | | Pink Floyd | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Capitol | | Release Date : | | 2000-04-25 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5
2. Welcome to the Machine
3. Have a Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9
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 A drastic progression from the previous album, setting the stage for all PF songs to come
Submitted on: 2009-11-25 |
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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). |
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 i mostly just wanted to comment about the crazy daimond song
Submitted on: 2009-09-12 |
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| don't know what more to say other than to say it . . . the crazy daimond songs reminds me of Johann Strauss's "The Blue Danube."(it's that famous 2001 music). If you've listened to both, I think you'll know what I mean! |
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 way too much, way too less
Submitted on: 2009-08-23 |
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1.0 out of 5 stars way too much ego, way too little experiment, August 23, 2009
A Kid's Review
This here album must surely be the kind of stuff that meat pigs dig because it is highly atrocious. I would even say this disc is a DOWNRIGHT INSULT on the name pink floid!
On a good day I would give albums like Saucerful, Ummagumma, More and Obscured by clouds 5 stars if they only would not be totally outdated and passé.
DSOTM is a commercial, lacklustre experience compared to the earlier Floid name and fame, WYWH is in all reality without basis and mature instrumentation, Animals is painstakingly boring and The Wall is a complete disaster, weak songs, even weaker themes and an instrumentation to abhor. I'd take Absolutely curtains or Party sequence every day above the later Barf Void!
Joe Staniakovski |
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way too much, way too less
Submitted on: 2009-08-23 |
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1.0 out of 5 stars way too much ego, way too little experiment, August 23, 2009
A Kid's Review
This here album must surely be the kind of stuff that meat pigs dig because it is highly atrocious. I would even say this disc is a DOWNRIGHT INSULT on the name pink floid!
On a good day I would give albums like Saucerful, Ummagumma, More and Obscured by clouds 5 stars if they only would not be totally outdated and passé.
DSOTM is a commercial, lacklustre experience compared to the earlier Floid name and fame, WYWH is in all reality without basis and mature instrumentation, Animals is painstakingly boring and The Wall is a complete disaster, weak songs, even weaker themes and an instrumentation to abhor. I'd take Absolutely curtains or Party sequence every day above the later Barf Void!
Joe Staniakovski |
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Missing the full quadrophonic effect
Submitted on: 2009-08-17 |
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| As Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered one of the definitive stand out stereo recordings, often used by audiophiles to show off their systems, I was always under the impression that Wish You Were Here was intended to be the same for the short lived Quadrophonic recordings. I had thought this was Pink Floyd's only Quadrophonic recording. Pink Floyd On-line states that Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were all Quadrophonic recordings. It would of course be easy to give this recording 5 stars, but since the original was intended to have a fuller presence with 4 channel sound, I can't give it 5. Especially since the technology of most systems people are using to play this recording (5.1 home theater receivers) have the capability to do so. Would it really be that hard for a recording engineer to remap the 4 channel original recording to a 5.1 (or just 4.1, leaving the center quiet and since the sub is omnidirectonal) channel recording. Release it as DVD audio. I suspect the audience for such landmark recordings could justify it. If it is true that Atom Heart Mother and Dark Side of the Moon were Quadrophonic recordings as well, then there are 2 more DVD audio remasters of Pink Floyd I'd like to hear. |
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