Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

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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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Visitor comments about Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

“the band were revolutionary, the song inspirational”

“"Some of life's greatest mysteries are really simple, and this exemplifies that, the greatest ever made for it will last until time itself stops."”

“How can Pink Floyd not make the top ten, the Daves Matthews Band Song definitley can go”

“Eclectic and sheer beauty in its every chord”

antonyuk

“The song is a definate classic with beautiful guitar and lyrics”

“a song that you can listen to over and over again that transcends time...gilmour and waters at their best”

“Shine on you crazy diamond= best song ever! Ideally with some pot....”

“this is such a sick song. it is peacful, mellow but still gets the best rock out of the song. best song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Amazing song ,one of the best ever of course,but I think Shine on you crazy diamond is even better !”

“Probably the most beautiful, meaningful song I have ever heard. Still continues to bring tears to my eyes, till this day.”

“ASTOUNDING.”

“Haha half of these songs don't even belong here, XXL, Barracuda, and One included. WYWH needs to be, of course. But honestly...?”

“Should be number one, great song.”

“One of the best songs from most definitely the best album ever made.”

“Nothing short of music excellence!

THE song of all time!

Tremendous perfection!”

“really great in every way...perfect music perfect lyrics perfect voice...perfect song”

“this song is great! it really makes you think of the unknown... and thats the beauty of it!”

“Pink floyd is just plain awesome.”

“Yeah... just incredible.”

walter34

“In my opinion probably the ultimate!”

“Don't know if it's necessarily the best, but there are too many good candidates and this is just a great song. Pink Floyd has so many good songs, and this is just one of them.”

“It's a brilliant song, and David Gilmour's voice makes it heartbreaking. It's legendary.

If I had to sum up mankind in a couple of songs, this would certainly be one of them.”

“Great Song since it still has not dated like most of the songs in this list”

“Wish You Were Here is a classic Pink Floyd Song... has a great vibe to it... David Gilmour... Roger Waters... Keep on doin what you do”

9AustinMcCrea9