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DISCID=350a6205,3f0a6005,420a5a05,420a5f05,430a6005,440a5905,440a5e05,460a6105
DTITLE=Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here (Original CD Edition)
DYEAR=1975
DGENRE=Progressive Rock
TTITLE0=Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
TTITLE1=Welcome to The Machine
TTITLE2=Have A Cigar
TTITLE3=Wish You Were Here
TTITLE4=Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
EXTD=Wish You Were Here (Original CD Edition)\n\nOriginally Released S
EXTD=eptember 12, 1975\nCD Edition Originally Released 1986 ??\nGold C
EXTD=D Edition Released July 1994, List Price: $29.98, Master Sound/Le
EXTD=gacy\n"Shine On" Boxed Set Released November 17, 1992\nRemastered
EXTD= Edition Released 1995\nJapanese Mini LP Version Released May 16,
EXTD= 2001\n2001 Toshiba-EMI Ltd. - Japan\n\nAlbum Details (Mini LP CD
EXTD= Packaging)\nSmall quantities of this limited Japanese pressing w
EXTD=/miniature LP sleeve packaging available again. This collectors e
EXTD=dition includes a bonus poster & postcard with the original black
EXTD= shrink wrap that covered the 'controversial' artwork. 2000 relea
EXTD=se. Toshiba/EMI Japan release. \n\nAlbum Details (Anniversary Edi
EXTD=tion)\nDeluxe CD Repackaging; Includes all of the original artwor
EXTD=k plus bonus Anniversary Edition photos.  Digitally remastered un
EXTD=der the band's supervision.\n\nAlbum Details (Gold MasterSound Ed
EXTD=ition)\nThis is part of Columbia/Legacy's Master Sound series.\nM
EXTD=aster Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from first-
EXTD=generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and S
EXTD=ony's "Super Bit Mapping" system. \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Pink Flo
EXTD=yd followed the commercial breakthrough of Dark Side of the Moon 
EXTD=with Wish You Were Here, a loose concept album about and dedicate
EXTD=d to their founding member Syd Barrett. The record unfolds gradua
EXTD=lly, as the jazzy textures of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" reveal
EXTD= its melodic motif, and in its leisurely pace, the album shows it
EXTD=self to be a warmer record than its predecessor. Musically, it's 
EXTD=arguably even more impressive, showcasing the group's interplay a
EXTD=nd David Gilmour's solos in particular. And while it's short on a
EXTD=ctual songs, the long, winding soundscapes are constantly enthral
EXTD=ling. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com essential recordin
EXTD=g \nWish You Were Here is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's 
EXTD=original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before: tw
EXTD=o grimly funny songs about the evils of the music business ("By t
EXTD=he way, which one's Pink?"), and two long, touching ones about th
EXTD=e band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is t
EXTD=he production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh
EXTD=-wow under the influence--and pretty great sober too, with David 
EXTD=Gilmour getting lots of space for his most lyrical guitar playing
EXTD= ever. And, though the album is big and ambitious, even bombastic
EXTD=, it somehow dodges being pretentious--the Barrett tributes are h
EXTD=onest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand gestures and stereopho
EXTD=nic trickery. --Douglas Wolk \n\nCD Now Review (May 4, 2001)\nIn 
EXTD=1975, following the massive success of Dark Side of the Moon, Pin
EXTD=k Floyd released the moody, largely instrumental Wish You Were He
EXTD=re. Founding member Syd Barrett had long ago exited the group, ac
EXTD=id damage having exacted a heavy toll; this album was the group's
EXTD= tribute to him. \n\nThe heart of the album lies in "Shine on You
EXTD= Crazy Diamond," a nine-section piece that opens and closes the r
EXTD=ecord. The vast majority of the sections are purely instrumental,
EXTD= with some of David Gilmour's most inspired guitar solos and Rick
EXTD= Wright's spaciest keyboard effects. There are some funky moments
EXTD=, but it's mostly reflective, with bittersweet nostalgia the domi
EXTD=nant mood. \n\nThe second track, "Welcome to the Machine," is als
EXTD=o largely instrumental, but more menacing in its vision of enforc
EXTD=ed automation, with bassist-vocalist Roger Waters' singing oozing
EXTD= desperation and despair. "Have a Cigar," a sardonic caricature o
EXTD=f a label executive's schmoozing pep talk, displays Waters' cynic
EXTD=ism about the music business. \n\nThe title track, the shortest o
EXTD=n the disc, is a complete change of pace. It starts out dimly, as
EXTD= if heard over a lo-fi radio, then goes into an acoustic guitar s
EXTD=olo that recalls the origin of the band's name (old-time blues me
EXTD=n Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). Even after the volume goes up
EXTD=, and the electric instruments join, acoustic riffing continues a
EXTD=s the basis of the song. If the lyrics are not obviously about Ba
EXTD=rrett, the mood they create speaks to his memory nonetheless. \n\n
EXTD=Over the course of Pink Floyd's next three albums, Waters would i
EXTD=ncreasingly dominate. On Wish You Were Here, however, the balance
EXTD= between musical and lyrical concerns is ideal. -- Steve Holtje, 
EXTD=CDNOW Senior Editor, Classical\n\nCD Connection Review\nAdditiona
EXTD=l personnel: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone); Venetta
EXTD= Fields, Carlena Williams (background vocals). \n\nRecorded at Ab
EXTD=bey Road Studios, London, England from January-July 1975. \n\nDig
EXTD=itally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, Ca
EXTD=lifornia). \n\nThe breakthrough success of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 
EXTD=made WISH YOU WERE HERE a crucial follow-up in strictly commercia
EXTD=l terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first r
EXTD=ecording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band o
EXTD=nly provided Roger Waters with more fodder for his lyrics, which 
EXTD=glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities
EXTD=. \n\nThe mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a r
EXTD=epeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome To The Mach
EXTD=ine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money th
EXTD=an creative music-making. "Have A Cigar" further establishes Wate
EXTD=rs' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of
EXTD= a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pi
EXTD=nk?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casual
EXTD=ty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett
EXTD=. \n\nThe 20-minute-plus "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has its roo
EXTD=ts in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes."
EXTD= But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics mak
EXTD=e it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent
EXTD= breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the 
EXTD=album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did
EXTD= on DARK SIDE. The final four sections, which close the album, fo
EXTD=rm a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour
EXTD='s guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid
EXTD=-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicat
EXTD=ely fading out. \n\nThe title track deals also with Barrett, as w
EXTD=ell as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling th
EXTD=e greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillu
EXTD=sionment planted throughout WISH YOU WERE HERE would eventually s
EXTD=prout full-blown on THE WALL. \n\nQ Magazine (06/01/2000)\nRanked
EXTD= #43 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums - Stuck with the impossib
EXTD=le task of following DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Pink Floyd did it wit
EXTD=h panache....'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is the mellifluous rock
EXTD=-gospel opener, but there's weirder stuff here...\n\nROLLING STON
EXTD=E REVIEW\nPink Floyd sometimes confused musical virtuosity and me
EXTD=lodrama with emotion. The restrained title track of Wish You Were
EXTD= Here, however, remains one of their most affecting songs -- and 
EXTD=the closest the band ever came to country music. The instrumentat
EXTD=ion suggests Nashville: slide guitar, gentle honky-tonk piano, ev
EXTD=en some fiddle. And Roger Waters' lonely lyrics -- "We're just tw
EXTD=o lost souls swimming in a fishbowl" -- would sound natural comin
EXTD=g out of the mouth of, say, Willie Nelson. As is, sung by guitari
EXTD=st David Gilmour, they're heartbreaking. \nMost of the rest of th
EXTD=e album stays on that sorrowful human scale; all four of its song
EXTD=s are at least tangentially about Pink Floyd's founder, Syd Barre
EXTD=tt, who left the band in 1968 due to mental illness, possibly exa
EXTD=cerbated by too much LSD. More overtly, two of them ("Have a Ciga
EXTD=r" and "Welcome to the Machine") are complaints about the commerc
EXTD=ialization of the music industry, always a bit hard to swallow fr
EXTD=om millionaire rock stars. But since Barrett actually didn't surv
EXTD=ive his encounter with show business, both songs have a haunted q
EXTD=uality that suits their industrial throb. \n\nOn one of the last 
EXTD=days of mixing the record, the band had a surprise visitor in the
EXTD= studio: a wild-eyed overweight gentleman in a trench coat, shorn
EXTD= of hair and eyebrows. It was Barrett himself. As he listened to 
EXTD="Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and the band members blinked back te
EXTD=ars at what their "miner for truth and delusion" had become, he s
EXTD=howed no signs of recognition that the song was about him and his
EXTD= departure from our world. (RS 927, July 24, 2003) -- GAVIN EDWAR
EXTD=DS
EXTT0=you prisoner, and shine!\n
EXTT1=So welcome to the machine.\n
EXTT2=Gravy Train.\n
EXTT3=Wish you werehere.\n
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