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Wish You Were Here
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MSRP: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Additional Wish You Were Here Information
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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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What Customers Say About Wish You Were Here:
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i HAVE A stiff one because of my niece Alberta.She has promised to bj me for my next birthday.all the while I'm singin 'oooooooooooooooooohhh how I wish you were hear-Tom
I liked it very much. I received it few weeks ago here in Brazil and the CD arrived perferctly. Fantastic. It was easy to find and easy to buy.
I contacted Amazon. When I didn't receive the exact item I ordered. Within two hours they contacted me accepting responsibility for the error and crediting my account.This is one of the reasons that I look to Amazon first for all of my online purchases.Philip Gross
It is a fabulous example of 1970's prog/psychedelic rock. However, I would not quarrel with anyone who argues that Wish is the band's best album. For me Dark Side will always be the band's crowning achievement. Although Wish does contain two shorter songs - the brilliant and funny Have a Cigar and the emotional title ballad, the centre piece of the album is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, an extended piece of music, in two parts. On Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd showed that they had learned to discipline themselves, abandon the long-winded and sometimes aimless meanderings of much of the band's post Piper recordings and thereby produce a masterpiece incorporating into their music all of the things that we loved about the band but in a more structured and cohesive manner than on, say, Atom Heart Mother. Fortunately, throughout the remainder of the 1970's Floyd retained the newly learned lessons and were therefore able to offer their fans a further trio of great LP's - Animals, The Wall and, of course, Wish You Were Here. The two records are really quite different from each other.
And another CD is made of pointlessly meandering pulp. Ka-ching. Yes, pulp, for that is what this CD's all about.There4 1 star.They should have slept close to Jesus.Josiah Nones
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