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Product Description Original Release Date: September 15, 1975 Track Listing: 1. Wish You Were Here 2. Coming Back To Life 3. Keep Talking |
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Product Description Original Release Date: September 15, 1975 Track Listing: 1. Wish You Were Here 2. Coming Back To Life 3. Keep Talking |
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So you think you are smart
you are able to take the dream part
and at times it seems hard
when you realize you are just an old fart
and so it goes
nobody knows
as life's cigarette blows the zone
I'm accident prone
I can write like Pink Floyd in the void
Rob Oates
2010-08-28 A great album by any standards.
In 1973, Pink Floyd released quite possibly the single greatest album of all time. Dark Side of The Moon became not only a best seller in the United States and Kingdom, but it became a worldwide phenomenon. After the huge success of DSOTM, one can only expect their next album to either pale in comparison or be shadowed greatly by it's predecessor. With Wish You Were Here, this is simply not true.
Despite being actually as long as DSOTM (Around 43 minutes), Wish You Were Here contains a simple 5 songs. It's length is thanks mostly to the first and last songs on the record, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) and (Parts VI-IX)" This song is so immensely long that Pink Floyd decided to split it into two parts, the first being 13:38 long and the second being 12:29 long, bringing the total close to half an hour. The 3 songs in between the SOYCD's are Welcome To the Machine, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here, only 7:30, 5:24, and 5:17, respectively.
The album starts with the first half of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, a slow fade in from nothingness into what almost sounds like a Floyd Jam Session, an intro that takes longer then some songs overall! Pink Floyd is known for having long, drawn out instrumental songs, and I as a true Floyd fan typically enjoy these songs. However, Shine On You Crazy Diamond tends to sag along, aimlessly going nowhere with no real climax in sight. It takes almost 9 minutes to get to the lyrics, so I sometimes find myself skipping over the intro or the song overall. Once you get to the lyrics, it's a slow trip, also appearing to go nowhere, yet it somehow manages to entertain. The song is actually a tribute to Pink Floyd founder and pioneer of their first album (Pied Piper at the Gates of Dawn), Syd Barret. After his slow decay into drugs, he left the band, being unable to perform. From the lyrics of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, this is clearly not only a nod to him, but an entire song dedicated to him. "Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!" A beautiful song, no doubt, but one that is for only those with patience and a taste for orchestration.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond fades seamlessly into "Welcome to the Machine." This song is a metaphorical stab at the music business, critiquing many of the aspects of the industry. We start off hearing a Machine running, acoustic guitar and electric sound synthesizers aiding in the ominously dark feeling of the song. Lyrics such as "What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream," show Floyd's (And ultimately Water's as he is the lead songwriter for nearly all of the album) displeasure, how those in the industry control their creativity, telling them what to do. Despite what you might read in Rolling Stone magazine, you can sense the emotion the song, they're mad and they're sure showing it. After a few minutes of eerie lyrics sung by Gilmour with the aide of an acoustic guitar, we're brought into a 3 minute solo with the guitar as a background object to the spine chilling synthesizers. Like them or hate them, they aide in the feel of the song fantastically, creating a wonderfully dark atmosphere.
After Welcome to the Machine, you're greeted with a fast tempo and upbeat rhythm, a tune that sounds almost...fun! What is this song, you ask after the chilling 7 minutes of the previous song? Have a Cigar, the relatively short 5 minute song in the middle of the album. This song uses the some acoustic and electric guitar and a synthesizer just as Welcome to the Machine, but somehow manages to do a complete 180 and practically make you want to dance. You're greeted with lyrics from a completely new voice, folk singer Roy Harper, who as Gilmour did in Welcome to the Machine sings not from Floyd's perspective, but from those their critiquing. The fat cats come through in lyrics like "You can make it if you try, they're gonna love you!" and "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?" (A commonly asked question, there's no one in the band with the name Pink) This song is about as close to actual classic rock as you'll get with Pink Floyd, after the lyrics comes a few minutes of electric guitar, a well done solo that is quite uplifting from the previous track. I can only applaud Pink Floyd's ability to do well in such varying styles of music, while many artists these days can only succeed in one genre and sound, Pink Floyd sounds like a pro in almost all of them. Have a Cigar is one of their best.
Have a Cigar then fades into a radio-sounding tune, and you hear flipping stations, before you find the radio station playing "Wish You Were Here." This is quite possibly my favorite Pink Floyd song ever. Soft, acoustic chords with no aide of synthesizers for nearly the entire track, and soft vocals from Gilmour, contrasting his ominous feel in Welcome to the Machine. Going back to the theme of their wayward band member Syd Barret, Wish You Were Here describes the longing for him back, shown in such lyrics as "We're just, two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground, what have we found, the same old fears? Wish you were here." The song is beautiful, everything coming together in a masterpiece of orchestration. This song makes the album.
Is this Pink Floyd's best work? No, I'd give that to Dark Side of the Moon. Is this a bad piece of work? No (See: The Final Cut) In my opinion, this, being their last real ability to work together as a band to reach a conclusion (After this came the 1977 Animals, when Roger Waters started to take control) is one of my favorites, music you can listen to and enjoy. I think it's definitely worth a buy.
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John o' Mill
2010-07-06 shakes groin and temples
This abhorable CD shakes my groins and temples, it giveth me thee shivers!!
My father John Jackson told his brother Pete Weiner to rob the CD store in my neck of the woods of all stuff PF.
Pretty Funky,eh? and also a good idea for it is atrocious music!!
WUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
I laugh as you please, please!
Eliphas Bangaale II
2010-07-06 shakes groin and temples
This abhorable CD shakes my groins and temples, it giveth me thee shivers!!
My father John Jackson told his brother Pete Weiner to rob the CD store in my neck of the woods of all stuff PF.
Pretty Funky,eh? and also a good idea for it is atrocious music!!
WUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
I laugh as you please, please!
Eliphas Bangaale II