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DISCID=350a6205,3f0a6005,420a5a05,420a5f05,430a6005,440a5905,440a5e05,460a6105
DTITLE=Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here
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 September 
EXTD=12, 1975\nCD Edition Originally Released 1986 ??\nGold CD Edition Released
EXTD= July 1994, List Price: $29.98, Master Sound/Legacy\n"Shine On" Boxed Set 
EXTD=Released November 17, 1992\nRemastered Edition Released 1995\nJapanese Min
EXTD=i LP Version Released May 16, 2001\n2001 Toshiba-EMI Ltd. - Japan\n\nAlbum
EXTD= Details (Mini LP CD Packaging)\nSmall quantities of this limited Japanese
EXTD= pressing w/miniature LP sleeve packaging available again. This collectors
EXTD= edition includes a bonus poster & postcard with the original black shrink
EXTD= wrap that covered the 'controversial' artwork. 2000 release. Toshiba/EMI 
EXTD=Japan release. \n\nAlbum Details (Anniversary Edition)\nDeluxe CD Repackag
EXTD=ing; Includes all of the original artwork plus bonus Anniversary Edition p
EXTD=hotos.  Digitally remastered under the band's supervision.\n\nAlbum Detail
EXTD=s (Gold MasterSound Edition)\nThis is part of Columbia/Legacy's Master Sou
EXTD=nd series.\nMaster Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from fi
EXTD=rst-generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's
EXTD= "Super Bit Mapping" system. \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Pink Floyd followed th
EXTD=e commercial breakthrough of Dark Side of the Moon with Wish You Were Here
EXTD=, a loose concept album about and dedicated to their founding member Syd B
EXTD=arrett. The record unfolds gradually, as the jazzy textures of "Shine On Y
EXTD=ou Crazy Diamond" reveal its melodic motif, and in its leisurely pace, the
EXTD= album shows itself to be a warmer record than its predecessor. Musically,
EXTD= it's arguably even more impressive, showcasing the group's interplay and 
EXTD=David Gilmour's solos in particular. And while it's short on actual songs,
EXTD= the long, winding soundscapes are constantly enthralling. -- Stephen Thom
EXTD=as Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com essential recording \nWish You Were Here is a so
EXTD=ng cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd f
EXTD=lamed out years before: two grimly funny songs about the evils of the musi
EXTD=c business ("By the way, which one's Pink?"), and two long, touching ones 
EXTD=about the band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is th
EXTD=e production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under
EXTD= the influence--and pretty great sober too, with David Gilmour getting lot
EXTD=s of space for his most lyrical guitar playing ever. And, though the album
EXTD= is big and ambitious, even bombastic, it somehow dodges being pretentious
EXTD=--the Barrett tributes are honest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand ges
EXTD=tures and stereophonic trickery. --Douglas Wolk \n\nCD Now Review (May 4, 
EXTD=2001)\nIn 1975, following the massive success of Dark Side of the Moon, Pi
EXTD=nk Floyd released the moody, largely instrumental Wish You Were Here. Foun
EXTD=ding member Syd Barrett had long ago exited the group, acid damage having 
EXTD=exacted a heavy toll; this album was the group's tribute to him. \n\nThe h
EXTD=eart of the album lies in "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," a nine-section pie
EXTD=ce that opens and closes the record. The vast majority of the sections are
EXTD= purely instrumental, with some of David Gilmour's most inspired guitar so
EXTD=los and Rick Wright's spaciest keyboard effects. There are some funky mome
EXTD=nts, but it's mostly reflective, with bittersweet nostalgia the dominant m
EXTD=ood. \n\nThe second track, "Welcome to the Machine," is also largely instr
EXTD=umental, but more menacing in its vision of enforced automation, with bass
EXTD=ist-vocalist Roger Waters' singing oozing desperation and despair. "Have a
EXTD= Cigar," a sardonic caricature of a label executive's schmoozing pep talk,
EXTD= displays Waters' cynicism about the music business. \n\nThe title track, 
EXTD=the shortest on the disc, is a complete change of pace. It starts out diml
EXTD=y, as if heard over a lo-fi radio, then goes into an acoustic guitar solo 
EXTD=that recalls the origin of the band's name (old-time blues men Pink Anders
EXTD=on and Floyd Council). Even after the volume goes up, and the electric ins
EXTD=truments join, acoustic riffing continues as the basis of the song. If the
EXTD= lyrics are not obviously about Barrett, the mood they create speaks to hi
EXTD=s memory nonetheless. \n\nOver the course of Pink Floyd's next three album
EXTD=s, Waters would increasingly dominate. On Wish You Were Here, however, the
EXTD= balance between musical and lyrical concerns is ideal. -- Steve Holtje, C
EXTD=DNOW Senior Editor, Classical\n\nCD Connection Review\nAdditional personne
EXTD=l: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone); Venetta Fields, Carlena Wi
EXTD=lliams (background vocals). \n\nRecorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, En
EXTD=gland from January-July 1975. \n\nDigitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Ma
EXTD=stering Lab, Los Angeles, California). \n\nThe breakthrough success of DAR
EXTD=K SIDE OF THE MOON made WISH YOU WERE HERE a crucial follow-up in strictly
EXTD= commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first 
EXTD=recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only prov
EXTD=ided Roger Waters with more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the ba
EXTD=nd's roots as well as their new responsibilities. \n\nThe mechanized throb
EXTD= of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the openin
EXTD=g bars of "Welcome To The Machine," a diatribe against an industry more co
EXTD=ncerned with money than creative music-making. "Have A Cigar" further esta
EXTD=blishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role
EXTD= of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" T
EXTD=he remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floy
EXTD=d's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. \n\nThe 20-minute-plus
EXTD= "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom H
EXTD=eart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian sou
EXTD=ndscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for 
EXTD=his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open
EXTD= the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on 
EXTD=DARK SIDE. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise 
EXTD=that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming an
EXTD=d crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richar
EXTD=d Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. \n\nThe title track deal
EXTD=s also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feelin
EXTD=g in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of 
EXTD=disillusionment planted throughout WISH YOU WERE HERE would eventually spr
EXTD=out full-blown on THE WALL. \n\nQ Magazine (06/01/2000)\nRanked #43 in Q's
EXTD= 100 Greatest British Albums - Stuck with the impossible task of following
EXTD= DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Pink Floyd did it with panache....'Shine On You Cr
EXTD=azy Diamond' is the mellifluous rock-gospel opener, but there's weirder st
EXTD=uff here...\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nPink Floyd sometimes confused musical
EXTD= virtuosity and melodrama with emotion. The restrained title track of Wish
EXTD= You Were Here, however, remains one of their most affecting songs -- and 
EXTD=the closest the band ever came to country music. The instrumentation sugge
EXTD=sts Nashville: slide guitar, gentle honky-tonk piano, even some fiddle. An
EXTD=d Roger Waters' lonely lyrics -- "We're just two lost souls swimming in a 
EXTD=fishbowl" -- would sound natural coming out of the mouth of, say, Willie N
EXTD=elson. As is, sung by guitarist David Gilmour, they're heartbreaking. \nMo
EXTD=st of the rest of the album stays on that sorrowful human scale; all four 
EXTD=of its songs are at least tangentially about Pink Floyd's founder, Syd Bar
EXTD=rett, who left the band in 1968 due to mental illness, possibly exacerbate
EXTD=d by too much LSD. More overtly, two of them ("Have a Cigar" and "Welcome 
EXTD=to the Machine") are complaints about the commercialization of the music i
EXTD=ndustry, always a bit hard to swallow from millionaire rock stars. But sin
EXTD=ce Barrett actually didn't survive his encounter with show business, both 
EXTD=songs have a haunted quality that suits their industrial throb. \n\nOn one
EXTD= of the last days of mixing the record, the band had a surprise visitor in
EXTD= the studio: a wild-eyed overweight gentleman in a trench coat, shorn of h
EXTD=air and eyebrows. It was Barrett himself. As he listened to "Shine On You 
EXTD=Crazy Diamond" and the band members blinked back tears at what their "mine
EXTD=r for truth and delusion" had become, he showed no signs of recognition th
EXTD=at the song was about him and his departure from our world. (RS 927, July 
EXTD=24, 2003) -- GAVIN EDWARDS
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