Wish You Were Here

Majestic, majestic!!!

No notes. Superb from start to finish. Best Song: Wish You Were Here Rating: 9/10 Stars: 5

I hate to do this as I really wanted to enjoy this album a bit more but it just wasn't for me. I resonate and love their other projects but I couldn't feel the same way for this unfortunately. One thing I will say though is that the quality is music quality is as fantastic as always.

one of my favorite albums of all time, and simply one of the best albums to ever be.

Superb

The last of the great Pink Floyd albums. Downhill after that starting with the abysmal Animals.

5 songs What can I even say that hasn't already been said about this album? Not my first time listening to it, but I'm not complaining at all. Absolute masterpiece, and like most Pink Floyd albums, it is best listened to as a whole, despite every song being more than capable of standing up on its own.

Really not my kind of music. Can’t argue that they are not good at what they do but I am not a fan

Mostly sublime. Each song is a bit of a journey that you feel you’re being taken along for, exploring little musical nooks and crannies. Instrumental brilliance is what you expect and mostly what you get. It’s not perfect but some allowances made given it’s so expressive. There’s weird jangling sections on Have A Cigar and just generally it doesn’t sit as well with the other tracks. Bookended by the always superb Shine On You Crazy Diamond, takes me back to my late teens and uni where I really got into Pink Floyd. Maybe not my favourite album overall but it’s still superb.

The headline for me is instrumental brilliance with volume. What makes the album stand out is its ability to build an immersive, unique atmosphere.  Even with extended stretches devoid of vocals, it retains an incredible sense of dynamic energy that rivals even traditional vocal-heavy records where the vocals are specifically used to help add a missing emotional dimension. However, the album is not completely flawless. At times, the production can sound a bit dated.  Maybe the slow grandiosity and constant mire, can seek to overshadow the album's finesse. Despite these minor clumsy excesses, it remains a brilliant masterpiece. As a footnote and and at risk of being an unnecessary distraction from my review...I think I get the point of literally throwing the sound down the well (to a whisper) at the end of "Have a Cigar" but not sure that translates well to my thinking or enjoyment of the track transition.  Surprised that made the cut but maybe I missed something profound there.

What else is there to say about "Wish You Were Here" that hasn't already been said by critics far more knowledgeable than me? It's a truly great album. Beautiful from start to finish. Potentially the pinnacle of the prog rock genre.

1 - 10/10 2 - 9.5/10 3 - 9.5/10 4 - 10/10 5 - 10/10 5/5 fantástico, nao há mais nada para dizer até as musicas atoa no meio são fantásticas

Classic Provincial Dad album I was listening to long before being a Provincial Dad.

Absolute gem of a record, shine on you crazy diamond inspired so many bands that came after this, its really a true experience listening to it back to front.

Shine on you crazy diamond celkem goated

One of my favourite albums of all time.

It’s just good. I have no further thoughts worth saying.

It's good, with really a single heavy hitter surrounded by really great accompanying tracks. Classic music vibes. Doesn't have the same gravitas as The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon, but altogether it's a solid fare. Would gladly listen again.

This is a very specific style of music and I dig it with a certain mood

I cant tell how much i like it more because its by pink floyd but i like it and great example of ambient music 5/7

I know I'm supposed to gush but I just can’t do 12 minute songs.

I loved one song and i added it to my library ( Wish you were here). But the album itself is not for me

Absolute masterpiece

Pink Floyd’s best album. My biggest complaint about Pink Floyd are Waters’ teenage-level observations that flood Dark Side of the Moon and Animals. Wish You Were Here is far more personal and touches on feelings everyone knows. The title track is probably a top 10 song of all time.

What can I say? One of the great ones, Pink Floyd’s greatest album (and that’s saying a lot for the group that, in the 1970s, had one of the best single runs of albums in the history of rock music), and perhaps the only progressive rock record designed specifically to make you cry. Popular music’s closest equivalent to a requiem mass. Love Syd Barrett or hate him, his immortality is assured with this tribute. Best track: “Wish You Were Here”

Classic album.

Interesting listening

Un álbum increíble. "Wish you were here" es una de las canciones más bonitas de la historia.

Finally, the first 5 star album! Was only listening to this for the first time a few months ago, and thinking it has to be one of the greatest albums ever made. It definitely is! 5/5 Top tracks: all of them

It’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ FFS!!

I have expressed my dislike of progressive rock (Yes… Nope), but his is fantastic. ‘Shine on you crazy diamond’ is sooooo good. The other tracks also stand up pretty well too. This is the pinnacle of Pink Floyd for me.

I’d like to be contrarian but it really is that good. It takes its time to develop, doesn’t show its hand too early and gives a lot of room to breathe. The solos are memorable but not necessarily showy and it has a great blend of proggy synths and other rock instrumentation (plus those gorgeous gospel vocals in ‘shine on you crazy diamond’) that keeps interest whilst shifting but unlike ‘Yes’ and others, never gets so ostentatious to detract from the emotional development of it. Accessible yet complex, it’s got to be up there with some of the best.

Kokia nuostabi, turting, sielą virpinanti muziką. Atrodo vėl pradėjau tikėti aukštesniu tikslu ir absolučia visata. Nežinau kaip neatradau Pink Floyd anksčiau, bet esu labai dėkinga, gal būtent šiandien galėjau išgirst tokią nuostabią muziką pirmą kartą.

Not bad at all but, as every Pink Floyd album, it is b-o-r-i-n-g.

Overall, there are some genius moments on this record but I just feel like it’s over-produced. I like the early Pink Floyd much more. Everything here feels a little too radio polished to also feel psychedelic. Not enough noise.

Take my 5 stars. Jokes aside this is such a great album and such a lovely tribute to Syd. One of the great prog albums of all time that anyone can get into (I would still recommend dsotm first to get people to understand Pink Floyd). I listen to this album very regularly on both streaming and vinyl which I’m lucky to have a first pressing of. Great pacing and just such a great album.

Pink Floyd is not my particular flavor of classic rock but I really enjoyed this listen. Lots of MIDI and orchestras patches that caught my attention. Would def go back for a relisten

#42 A genuine masterpiece, perfect from start to finish. I've listened to this album countless times, and it never gets old. Iconic songs, monumental sound, and poignant lyrics. Truly one of the best albums of all time. 10/5 stars.

Touching and great

fantastic album. thanks for reminding me to listen to it again

Maybe the greatest album of all time, of any genre.

goat

Like a long drink at the oasis after what felt like an eternity of Prince's 1999.

One of the greatest albums ever made

It's pink floyyd

Classic! The whole album is just hit after hit. The Shine on You Crazy Diamonds songs are a tad long for my taste but still epic. Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar were my faves.

I can’t say I love all of Pink Floyd’s albums but this one is great. Headphone album for sure. I’m not always in the mood to melt into the couch but when I am, this hurts just right. Five crazy diamonds. 💎💎💎💎💎

What can really be said? This album is crazy.

Meh, too instrumental. I kind of found it boring

The overall production/lyrical quality of this album is amazing, and I appreciate that the album only consists of 5 songs rather than a bunch of mediocre 'filler' songs, although they are admittedly longer. The only issue I have with this album is that all the songs utilise a very similar synth/guitar solo sound - at parts the instrumental breaks do sound quite repetitive. I think the dreamy atmosphere of the songs as a whole inadvertently reinforces the overall message of the album - the acoustic guitar passages can be interpreted as representing the band members' nostalgia for a time before fame, romanticising the freedom and authenticity of their earlier lives. In contrast, the recurring synthesiser textures seem to evoke the presence of "the machine"—the music industry's commercial pressures and expectations. Together, these elements create a compelling musical depiction of the band's struggle to preserve their identity while operating within the confines of the industry. I will say I like how the album concludes on a bittersweet tone - perhaps symbolising how they are able to acknowledge their success and global fame whilst reflecting upon the effects that their negative experiences have had on their present selves - including the loss of Syd Barrett and their disillusionment with the music business. This balance between gratitude and regret gives the ending considerable emotional weight. Overall, this is a beautifully composed album featuring a blend of acoustic, electronic, and heavier guitar sounds. Will definitely be re-listening to this! I'm going to give this album a rating of 4/5 - the lyrics are simple yet clever, and the overall sound of this album is encapsulating, although slightly repetitive at times.

I’ve listened to this already

I never listened to Pink Floyd growing up. They weren't on my radar, and I guess I had some weird perception about them, like they were a genre of music I like (although I have no idea what that genre was). They've come up twice so far, and I'm so impressed. I wish I'd been listening to them longer. There was part of a song on this album that I didn't like (not a fan of whiny guitar solos), but I'll definitely be checking out their entire library. It's never too late to find a new band or song!

Total classic. 44 minutes of pure musical genius, truly. And so glad this came up on the list. Haven’t listened to this record straight through in a long time. I almost forgot how incredible it is. Mind-blowing really. From start to finish. The sounds, the musical journey, the guitar, the keyboards, the bass, the drums, the lyrics, the cohesiveness of the piece. It’s all there. And with the exception of the song Wish You Here, you really can’t just list listen to tracks. It’s meant to be taken in as a whole… listened to as one singular work of art. It’s an immersive experience. Such a remarkable album.

This a top 10 all time on every list imaginable.

Initial post listing ranking: 8/10 Type of music / Reminds me of: Thoughts: Me likey. but some parts took me out of it Favorite Track: Wish You Were Here

I have been a fan of Pink Floyd since the late 1960's. I am unable to present an unbiased review.

That was a very long intro song. The first 3 minutes seemed unnecessary I was a little bored. Some of the guitar stuff was fun

Absolute master class love this album

Tender and personal, the “difficult” follow up to Dark Side is one of their best.

It was mostly fine, don't think i'm a fan of their longer songs, as I didn't like Animals either. Highlights-Have A Cigar and Wish You Were Here.

Me tuve que levantar a aplaudir

Iconic album cover, but not my favorite Pink Floyd album.

The vibes? Immaculate. I need not explain myself further. Perfection and its not even my favorite Floyd album

Favourite Songs: Welcome To The Machine

A good time! Liked it better than I thought I would

Best album ever.

Not necessarily my jam but I do admire the skill

I reckon everyone knows this album :-) Five brilliant tracks, 5 stars...

theyre actually so goated

I liked this.

Heartfelt, classic, semi-psychedelic-and-occasionally-funky.

Pretty good

It's beautiful.

Not what I was expecting when I started this album. I had previous listen to wish you were here. I love the song but had never listened to the entire album.

(4.5/5) I am torn. I like Floyd. I don't love them, but I really, really like them. I've always enjoyed "Dark Side.." & I appreciate "The Wall" for it's 'swing for the fences' grandeur. I get shades of both of those here and I definitely know the radio-friendly hits, "Wish You Were Here" and "Have a Cigar" from the album. I sit on the fence between a '4' and a '5' for it's obvious Prog rock-ness and my (arbitrary, sure) criteria that a '5' has got to be an easy selection for everyday listening. Not sure a 40+ minute album, like "Wish You..", qualifies, and most Prog rock bores the shit out of me. The bookends (".. Diamond.." tracks) of the record were solid, but they need the rest of the album to keep them together. I think my disconnect really comes from my lack of caring (really, even knowing before now) the story behind this. It's a gorgeous, longing sound but I just don't have the context for the lyrics. I'm going to keep it balanced (for me) at a (4) because "The Wall" and "Dark Side.." will get my '5'. That feels fair to me, my tastes, and weighted against their ouvre.

How do you follow up one of the greatest rock albums in history? Why, with another of the greatest rock albums in history, ostensibly condemning the experience of making the previous album and regretting that the good friend you lost along the way hadn't been along for the ride, of course. The three singles here were all monster hits, and the nearly 26 minutes of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pts. 1-9) stand as some of the greatest prog rock ever recorded. It's a shame we only got a few more years of true Pink Floyd greatness before the ego and bickering led to them parting ways and warring over rights and royalties, but I'd make the case that they found their true sound and stride in Meddle and this album is the middle of a 5 star five album wave they rode it through. A solid 7/5 that I'll round down becuase I have to.

112. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (1975) 6.14.26 Variety: 5 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 5 Emotionality: 5 = 5.0 "What did you dream?/ It's all right, we told you what to dream" Floyd are a band I did not have much exposure to as a kid aside from the hits played on the radio and occasional partial tv viewings of The Wall which confused the hell out of me. I didn't listen to any of their albums all the way through until Dark Side of the Moon ( I just had to know what all these pop culture references were) and then much later on a girlfriend introduced me to their back catalogue and I remember being most blown away by Wish You Were Here ( Animals was a closely behind it). Late to the game as I was, I quickly devoured the cd box set she had, and even read a few books about the bands history, learning about the story about Barrett being kicked out of the band and then this album's composition and recording added some mystique and legend to an already fascinating band. As much as I still love their output, it's been some time since I gave this a full listen, and while I haven't soured on them at all, other bands have moved up in the canon to swipe their spot. Expect high numbers. We'll see just how high. THE TRACKS Side one "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part I) - Right away we get a funereal layer of synths and Hammond organ that you can really feel in your bones ( seriously, turn this shit up to where you can just still tolerate it - there's So much texture hidden in the nooks and crannies). This is in the same league as a lot of Brian Eno's best mood pieces, and it delivers and then some on laying the emotional bedrock for what's to come. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part II) - When that Gilmour's ringing guitar comes in it's recalling church bells and maybe warning bells simultaneously, and the tension is HIGH before Mason's drums and Waters finishes up the mix with his bass. Gilmour's bluesy, mournful guitar wanders through the graveyard while Wright's organ provides the tone. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part III) - Wright get's his spotlight with a Moog solo that continues the eerie, sorrowful mood before Gilmour's guitar returns, a little angrier. Not a single word yet, and these guys gave more than established the atmosphere we'll be sitting in for the duration. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part IV) - This has all been preamble to this moment. Though part II is my favorite of the suite, this is the centerpiece I think. Waters comes in low and slow with his vocals and then it SOARS into the choral refrain, and even without knowing the story behind the words, the sadness, regret, and call to maybe some sort of redemption or at least motivation is very, very clear. Or is this a dirge or requiem of some sort? A retelling of a life for sure. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part V) - We finish up with a sax-led section ( credited to Dick Perry) which rolls into a sort of funky , yet still sad and maybe slightly wistful variation on all the themes we've been introduced to. And near the end, the clamor fades into a cold mechanical hum. "Welcome to the Machine" - That industrial hum carries us into the next track ( headphones - seriously guys) where the base ingredient is a driving, dreadful anxiousness. Gilmour's heavily processed vocals along with the synths and effects almost overpower the acoustic guitar that strums along, barely staying afloat in all the technological noise, at all times threatened with drowning in it. This is the sound of dreams being crushed in real time, processed into a slurry and then fed back to you while you're forced to watch and smile along. It evokes a "boot stamping on a human face—forever" much better than anything in The Wall, in my opinion. Side two "Have a Cigar" - We get the Floyd at their funkiest here ( except maybe on "Money" - which I see as a sort of twin to this) with Waters's bass high in the mix. We get guest vocals here from folk legend Roy Harper, who is the star here, his phrasing oozing with the slime and casual indifference of the music executive character he's embodying. The inflection he puts on the last syllable of 'Everybody else is just green" is iconic. The band tales over here and we get an pretty blistering guitar solo before one of the best audio gimmicks in rock history pops up and we somehow are able to zoom out in audio form to the pov of someone just listening to any bi of randomness on our tinny little radio, tuning out before the solo even finishes. Is there anything else interesting on? "Wish You Were Here" - the staticky radio fizz stays over the opening of this one before we zoom way back in and the reality of the song space slowly is layered back in, first with the fingerpicked (I think?) acoustic guitar, and then with Gilmour's vocals and the rest of the band joins in. The emotional weight here is petty evenly distributed among the vocals, the acoustic guitar, a pedal guitar a bit of piano. This is one that has never lost its effect on me, and despite knowing the story of the song and album, it exists out there in the ether for anyone to project whatever feelings of loss, or regret, or just plain old yearning that they want to. For my money, it's the most universal and humane entry in the band's catalog, and one of the most in rock history. This one easily makes it into the Valhalla of all time great songs. From here til the end, it's all gravy, baby. Get on that train and ride it out. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part VI) - And so begins the full side of closing credits. That's not a dig. It's just what it is. Anything after the last track has to be a come down, be default. And the band goes hard pulling us along here , galloping away slowly but steadily on Waters's bass line "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part VII) - And here we get our refrain to Part IV, with Waters leading the way. This time we get the descending line that signals the end is near. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part VIII) - Weariness translated into music, and we can see the sun setting fast on all this. Maybe we're too tired to do any thrashing around, but we can certainly buy a few extra moments with some funky rhythms. But it all winds down at the end. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Part IX) - And we all get swept into the funeral dirge, whether we like it or not. Wright's haunting keyboards guide us along, and we at least end the very final bit on a not of prettiness and light. HIGHLIGHTS - All of it, but "Wish You Were Here" deserves special notice MIDLIGHTS - LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS 11/10 - no skips. My favorite Punk Floyd album, and one of my favorite of all time still I think. While over all it's a bummer of a concept, spending most of the running time down in the smothering, stifling funk of depression and broken dreams, and it rarely comes up for air. But it's a beautiful realization of all those things, done with an artistry and craft that seems to have disappeared. I like quite a bit of punk rock, but I disagree with what became the tenet that effort was uncool and to be despised or looked upon. Sure, effort and craft was a sort of default form of gatekeeping, but everyone who ever went on to learn and master their craft were beginners at some point. So the philosophy doesn't hold much water in my opinion. Yes, some prog stuff got very self indulgent and there was much wankery involved, but Pink Floyd rose above this in my opinion, by just taking the proggy stuff as another tool in their belt to be used when needed, and not an end unto itself. This album and Dark Die of the Moon serve for me as the exact middle ground between that more heady approach and the more practical method of aiming square at the public with awesome melodies and hooks, and they serve up a final product that is both listenable AND enlightening. Dark Side I think is just on the side of the more mainstream, and this one just on the side of the more intellectual wankery side of things, and I don't think either suffer very much at all for it. This one though got a little less appreciation at the time though I think as it proved more difficult a listen outside the hits. Maybe not even difficult, but the remainder of the tracks ( as listenable as they were) just didn't fit the mold of the radio, and really still don't I guess. it succeeds on every level for me. Mood, tone, atmosphere, lyrics, storytelling, emotional, performance in both instrumentation and vocals are top notch. Production-wise, these guys were unparalleled at the time. There's just not anything about this experience I can find fault with. And most importantly of all, it still moves me. Rare is the piece of entertainment that can get me riled up, or feeling more than just a baseline bit of pleasure. This is prog blues. You want to listen to sad music when you're sad, but you also really like synthesizers? Then this is your thing. Do yourself a favor and get some headphones for this. if you got a quadrophonic setup - all the better! It's entirely worth the extra effort. And while not needed, a dark room and a rainy day wouldn't hurt either. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Not a chance FURTHER LISTENING - Larks' Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson - Mirage by Camel - The Power and the Glory by Gentle Giant - Crime of the Century by Supertramp - I Robot by the Alan Parson's Project - OK Computer by Radiohead - The Raven That Refused to Sing by Steven Wilson

I think few bands are capable of conjuring such precise visions with sound as much as Pink Floyd. There is a nostalgia at work, on the track “Wish You Were Here” that borders on actual magic. Maybe thats just how it works on me because I am susceptible to acoustic guitars. That opening though, of tuning the radio through different channels until it settles on the guitar strumming into the longing lyrics, can stop me cold nearly every damn time. The rest of the album cannot, and one can argue shouldn’t try to, evoke the same feelings. Yet they still manage to achieve remarkable results. “Have a Cigar” is another great track of regret and misgivings. I think Dark Side of The Moon really captured regret and the entropy of life in amber. Wish You Were is much more wistful. Wish You Were Here falls into that category of “Follow-up-to-one-of-the-biggest-albums-ever.” My group has had a number of those already during this project but not the hit yet. We got “In Utero” but not “Nevermind, we got “Tusk” but not “Rumors,” now we have “Wish You Were Here” before we get “Dark Side of the Moon.” I wonder if that will impact our perceptionof the big hits having already reviewed the follow-up. Maybe none. Who knows. Great album. 4/5.

I almost gave this a 4 but then I listened to it again and came to my senses.

Never really listened to Pink Floyd before so was excited when I opened this one up. And this was cool.

Pretty good. Kind of trippy. Bit repetitive.

I'm wondering if I'm missing context to this album. I liked the title track and the rest of the songs are technically really good. But I'm not sure why this is as important as something like The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon.

5 tracks. 3 stars. Look, it's good music, and wish you were here is a 5 star song. I just don't feel the need to ever listen to this again. I already gave Dark Side 5 stars a couple of weeks ago, I can't turn around and do it again for this one. I just have trouble resonating with an album with 5 songs and barely any lyrics, but that's not to say it's bad.

Unreal. 4.5

It's hard to explain why this work's so well but it simply does,This album makes you feel like you're floating in space with how the synths and chord progressions feel and the lyrics help to add to the psychedelic feel of this album.

An awesome followup to their Dark Side of The Moon album. Gilmour's guitar is exhilarating and Waters lyrics dripping with sarcasm and wanton pain. So good the 40 plus minutes go by like a daydream.

Sentimientos encontrados. Las dos Shine On You Crazy Diamond me parecieron eternas e insoportables, las otras tres canciones no estuvieron tan mal, pero sólo rescataría Wish You Were Here.

Another masterpiece from Pink Floyd. Somewhat forgotten about. Maybe overshadowed in my mind by The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. This album to me is the one that can most easily be classified as "Space Rock". The 6 parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond in particular are very spacey with their synth heavy instrumentation bolstering a variety of jazz and electric guitar solos. I did not realize that this album is about one of the band's founding members. I had always assumed "Wish You Were Here" was about an old girlfriend or something. Learning it is about Syd Barrett and more generally just friends who have been lost to self isolation and mental illness, that puts the album into a whole new perspective for me which is more relatable. I have grown closer yet another amazing Pink Floyd album today thanks to this project.

Absolute cinema

juro soundtrack de película de ciencia ficción

Simplemente una obra maestra

no es como que fuera de mis favoritos, pero debo reconocer que es un muy buen álbum.

Nostalgic for a time before my own.

I really enjoyed the first song, long but special all the way through. then throughout the album I started losing interest because i heard almost a country influence or tone to it in some parts which doesn't appeal to me personally.

This feels correct being my first album suggested. My love for music begins with my dad, and Pink Floyd is one of his favorites bands. I like to picture my dad listening to an album like this for the first time. Younger, more naive, inexperienced - something similar to where I’m at currently in life. I can only imagine how this music must’ve made him feel listening for the first time. Having the ability to transcend time through music is a gift, and Pink Floyd is a gift in their entire being.

Absolut legendär, das einzige Lied bei dem ich akzeptiere, dass es 13 Minuten lang geht. Warum muss ich zur Zeit von KI links alternativ am Leben sein und nicht für Pink Floyd

One of my favourite albums about the industry. Beautiful production, one of the best art-pop albums.

I mean.. An absolute classic. Not the first time hearing these tracks and it won't be the last!

i was able to tell more and more songs/albums influenced by this record alone, but i only truly liked the album-titled track

Aside from the Beatles, it's difficult to think of a band that had a run of albums like Pink Floyd did from Dark Side of the Moon to The Wall. Maybe the Stones from Beggar's Banquet to Exile on Main Street. Each of these albums - Dark Side; this one; Animals; and The Wall - are solid, absolute, stone cold classics and whichever you prefer the other three are equally as good. This is a meditation on Syd Barrett, on the Music industry and about being creative artists when you're getting demands for hits. Dark Side of the Moon had propelled Floyd to a level.that few, if any bands, ever reach. There was certainly a push for them to produce Dark Side 2 ( More Dark, More Moony) The band resisted and produced this completely different album. Two long tracks instead of the pop radio friendly numbers on DSOTM, a guest vocalist, some of the most poetic lyrics they ever wrote. Of course it's 5.stars and maybe an extra invisible star for resisting the temptation to just repeat the successful pattern.

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Los 1001 álbumes DE ROCK que deberías de escuchar antes de quedarte dormido. Esta fue la rocka que derramo el vaso. Definitivamente no soy a quien esta dirigido el rock, mas de la mitad de álbumes de este proyecto son del mismo género o ramificaciones de este. Wish you were here, no es la excepción, no le encuentro nada de valor ni interesante.

One of my all time favourites. A perfect album.

This is one of the albums that I've played so many times and I've become so familiar with it that I actually started avoiding listening to it. At this point, it's been nearly a decade since I've given it a proper listen. Well, listening to it again today made me incredibly nostalgic, but also very happy that I had taken a break from it so that I could appreciate it properly. Honestly, there's not much else that I really need to say about this album. It's a masterpiece.

great álbum, change lifes

Must be one of the all time classic albums. Rate it with Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.

10/10 so fire

Nice

An absolute stunner that sometimes gets overlooked because of the classic that preceded it…but spoiler alert: This one’s even better than Dark Side!!!

Probably in my top two or three albums of all time. I love everything about it.

i think i need to want to like this in order to buy into it. I'm hesitant because this is pretentious and indulgent boomer music. However, it could be a work of genius. The guitar sound is incredible, the confidence to let tracks breathe and become their fullest versions of themselves is welcome and the tracks are very good. maybe when this project is done, i'll spend a few weeks with their discography and some good headphones.

Easily my favorite Pink Floyd album, and probably their best. Not a single song I would skip. It's hard to put into words how much I love this album, but it's definitely in my top 5. Favorite Songs: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (1-5) & (5-9), Have a Cigar

Un classique.

Vous y croirez pas là, mais m'a la jouer pareil! Je peux pas m'empêcher de penser à notre John the Wolf national qui en fait un cover chaque fois que je l'entends. Pas beaucoup de moments dulls sur cet album, mais je suis très biaisé, très nostalgique comme album pour moi. RIP Syd Barrett!

Shine on you possiblement la meilleure chanson de Pink Floyd! Et Wish you Were here, que dire! C’est si beau!

Good prog rock sounds I heard during splatoon on a Thursday

Was originally gonna hate when i saw the first song is 14 minutes but after the 4 minute mark it was beautiful from then on and all the songs

No creo que se pueda decir nada que no esté dicho ya salvo que es mi top2 de pink floyd y que me gusta mucho

The titular song is one of the great songs of all time. The rest of the album is also very good. It's probably closer to a 3.5, but that title track, man.... Post review edit: This may be the first time that I liked an album a lot and my score was lower than the average....that's kinda wild

A very melancholy album but quite nice.

Much better than I expected. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5) was a wonderful ride from start to beginning. It set the atmosphere for the rest of the album perfectly. The guitar solo at the end of Have A Cigar makes you lock back in to the album. Shine On (6-9) is a great call back to sandwich the album as it rides off into the sunset

I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would

So poetic. I love it. It's a big fluid emotive expression. It's a fantastic expression of the blues for me - in contrast to half of this list which sometimes feels like fairly dry rehashing of blues in slightly different contexts. Even when using 12 bar blues here I think it does it in a fairly free pleasing way. Gilmore's guitar is so good on this record. That might be the one thing record has over dark side of the moon for me. Otherwise this feels slightly less powerful to me across the board

An album I've listened to so many times. I love it.

Reminds me of high school, smoking in my friend Barbara’s attic bedroom. Her older brother was so cute.

Great

This feels like the standard for this website - its undeniably goodass rock music that i enjoy quite a bit but dont have a ton of feelings about.

It's okay I guess. Not really memorable though.

Fire

mais um que eu tenho memórias fortíssimas de infância shine on you crazy diamond é uma das minhas favoritas desde que eu era guilherminho, 6 anos e grande fã de pink floyd os cara tava muito a ponto de bala nesse vsf

bom, eu nunca fui mto do pink floyd não. mas ouvindo esse aqui inteiro, eu entendi a pira. apesar de meio lento, o flow das músicas e a tracklist ajuda bastante, o album passa rapidinho e é delicinha demais. sintetizador torando, guitarrinha bacana. enfim. vou dar 5 pelo impacto que tem até hoje e pq me ajudou a tirar um pouco do preconceito que eu tinha com eles. sem contar que nenhuma música eh ruim também, o que ajuda demais

🫶🏼

This album really surprised me. I saw how few tracks there were on a 45-minute album and instantly assumed I was in for a very tedious time. I had not listened to any Pink Floyd before listening to this album, and I was unsure about how I would feel. As soon as noticing how long the first track was, I was completely dreading it, to be honest. However, as soon as those first notes hit, I was in awe. The cinematic feel that this album gives off is unreal. I loved the instrumental throughout, and could listen to it for hours. The vocals are quite few and far between, but they don't come in at a time where they don't belong; They add just as much as any other instrument, and the smooth vocals just work so well with the instrumentation. A really beautiful album to listen to. Favourite track: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts.1-5)

SHINE

They call it riding the gravy train.

Best Floyd? Best Floyd.

Are there mainstream bands making albums like this nowadays? Were Pink Floyd considered mainstream when this was released? A 14 minute mostly instrumental opening track just feels quite far away from where we are as a society at the moment. We should return to that.

Yeah, wow. I loved this on the whole but fuck me, Wish You Were Here (the song) is just that good.

listened to this a week ago and didn’t have many thoughts to write then and seemingly have even less to say now. those songs were long and did not seem to do enough to justify their length to me

This is Pink Floyd’s best album, because it keeps their silky smooth production but combines it with something real (a rarity in Pink Floyd music) as they lament Sid Barrett’s rapidly fading cognitive function.

Perfect record! Classic Pink Floyd in their heyday! Love it

A great sounding album. The title track is wonderfully written and my favorite of the album. Every track was good, though the last track dragged on a little a bit.

Pink Floyd is very similar to Radiohead in the sense that they’re both great examples of mass hysteria resulting in shit and boring bands being highly rated.

I loved this album. I listened to it several times. Favorite: wish you were here

I've listened to this album so many times and love it more each time. Shine On is a masterpiece, wish you were here might be the best 12 string guitar work ever and it all fits together in a nice package.

I mean its a good album. Not among my favourites but still good.

Just an effortlessly cool album. A lot of fun to listen to, but not as good as some of their other ones.

pues una jam session

I enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting. I was thinking I'd be a hipster snob and not like what everyone else does, but this is actually a really solid album.

Tuesday, 26 May, 2026 In between their two magnum opuses (Dark Side… and The Wall) Pink Floyd release a masterpiece.

Great album. So weird and different.

Ricardo. Ya tenia en mi cerebro algo de ésto. Welcome to the machine helloooo Nota: 4.0

One of my favourite albums of all time. No notes just love

One of my favorite albums of all time. Made my heart flutter to see it pop up as today’s album, even though I just listened to it in its entirety last week. After some very middle-of-the-road albums the past couple weeks, I’ve been spoiled getting Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way and this one back to back!

I think the problem with being the group that made the wall is that all your other albums will be compared to the wall. This was good but a little slow for me!

NO ONE IS DOING IT LIKE THEM I’m a die hard pink floyd fan and I don’t care if that’s basic — this album actually fights with The Wall for my second fav spot (Meddle truther otherwise) but it’s still an all time banger

Experimental music that fits perfectly in the open credit panning shots of films, or to do night driving to. Otherwise, some incredibly talented musicians largely making music nobody wants to listen to day-to-day, punctuated by a few genuinely enjoyable moments

Trippy

it's an adventure, first and last songs are long but don't feel excessive.

Lots of people were disappointed when this record came out after Dark Side of the Moon. I was not one of those people. I loved it. Still listen to it on occasion. It's even better when you learn the back story.

Yeah that was good

While never my favorite Pink Floyd album as a whole, with 1001+ albums, it certainly deserves a spot here. Have a Cigar is amazing and Wish You Were Here is one of my favorite songs ever. The textures on this album are top notch. My issue here is that I have never been able to really latch on to Shine On You Crazy Diamond in the ways I feel its intended. Its good, unique and exploratory but I find it just doesn't stick the landing.

Te llena el alma y te lleva a otra realidad

Not the biggest Pink Floyd fan, but can't deny their influence

It was ok. Enjoyed the instruments on both Shine On tracks the most. 3

2nd favorite Floyd album. Masterpiece.

Achingly beautiful

Maybe I enjoyed it more than the last Pink Floyd I was generated but it’s still nothing really for me

Dober

Mon album préféré de tous les temps je pense (shine on you crazy diamond est mon son préféré de tous les temps)

Was okay, knew a couple of the big songs but not blown away. Maybe need to be in the right headspace, could be good if high

i am questioning my committment to listen to 1000+ highly regarded popular music albums. is this objectively good? it is important? did i appreciate this more at a different point in my life? is the cover art kind of neat? do i ever need to hear the song "wish you were here" from pink floyd's 1975 album "wish you were here" ever again? i just dont know. fave track(s) shine on you crazy diamond

Floyd be Pinkin'

ARTE, PERFECCIÓN

personally not my thing really, but i do appreciate it

Fucking fire album live changing which was in my girlfriend in arms

Shine on …, Wish You Where here, …. Meisterwerk!

Another easy 5/5 for Pink Floyd. Has to be two of the best back to back albums of all time. Shine on is a beautiful ode to Syd Barrett, taken together I think it's some of the greatest rock music of all time. Wish You Were Here is 5 and a half minutes of pure beauty. Listen to this album, read about Syd Barrett, and drift away. Perfection.

I like wish you were here but it's a bit bloody long

Have a Cigar and give this a listen.

Always a hoot. Top 5 band for me. I’ve probably heard this record 50 times, and I still internalized a lyric I had never really paid attention to before. Pink Floyd records are like great psychological thrillers, there’s always something new to discover and gnaw on with each new listen. Doesn’t quite get me to where Dark Side does, but can’t be any less than a 5/5. Will probably listen 3-4 more times today.

This is not just rock music. It is rock, jazz and classical rolled into one!

9/10 Excellent album, so creative

so great

Really a 3.5, but no such option here

Haven’t listened to Pink Floyd in a while. This album is one I remember as having the long songs to open and close. Excited to reslisten. That long intro. Great stuff to open the album. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is awesome as an opener. Prog rock at its best. Guitar heavy and fantastic. Sax solo is a little weird, but it’s fine. Album starts great and doesn’t let up. Every song is top tier Pink Floyd. Wish You Were Here is one of their very best. By the time Shine on returns to the opening theme, you’re like this is something special. A great classic rock album. Pink Floyd is at their best here and Dark Side of the Moon. An easy 5. Love this.

Excellent album

Risk of Rain 2

Very interesting sound, very pleasing to listen to but seems very different for the time period, much more electronic focused. Seems to have less of a focus on Vocals and more of an emphasis on the instrumental as a way of expressing itself. As my first album I’ve ever listened to by Pink Floyd I am pleasantly surprised. The Track have a cigar seems to end on a whim without any real definition of an ending, just going into the next track, interesting but well deserved choice. The albums sound is consistently shifting from track to track

I have heard this album a number of times before, and expected going in that I would be rating it a four or five. However, it was really just OK for me today. The three shorter songs are all pretty great. However, the very long “Shine on You Crazy Diamond“, two versions of which bookend the album, just doesn’t do it for me.

+5

Ahh, the legendary Pink Floyd. From 1973 to 1979, they could do no wrong. This album is Pink Floyd doing what they do best, making thought-provoking prog rock with excellent musicianship and songwriting. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" starts and ends the album with a moving tribute to former member Syd Barrett, who appears on this list with a solo album and on this very band's "Piper At the Gates of Dawn". The other three tracks are haunting, often political, prog rock that aims to present the listener with a scathing critique of Big Music and succeeds. Yet, this album reached the masses, and it became legendary. Really, I'm not going to argue with how great this album is. Not that I'd want to, anyway.

I've really only seriously listened to Dark Side of the Moon, so this album was mostly a new one for me. I found this wonderfully depressing.

good

Headphones and some minor substance abuse really made this album a lot of fun. Production is complex and interesting and the vocals have that lovely haunting quality. I kind of wish it was a little more cohesive as a Syd Barrett concept album/tribute. Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar are both great songs but they don’t really seem to fit the theme. Or maybe they do and I'm just missing the connections. Anyway it was fun to revisit after a couple of decades.

No puedo darle mil estrellas?

Pink Floyd is either hit or miss for me. I love the Wall. Dark side of the moon is great. Some of the 80s stuff is just okay. This album is great. But I kind of tuned out Shine on you Crazy Diamond. But the album is really good.

Now THIS is where it's really at with these guys...

#357/1001. 2nd Pink Floyd album here. I always think beforehand that this was the boring album, but after playing realise that this is crazy diamond. But starting to sound very commercial and stadiumsize, somehow it would have been interesting to hear that album made with kitchen utensils and machines or what was it after dark side of the moon. Some great songs, some of good that they play them twice or extend in to 10 minute lengths, but we still tend to forgive them.

cabrón lo escuché y a los dos días se muere dick parry, valv. mi favorito de pinfloi (creo?)

Great Songs: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5, Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9 Good Songs: Have a Cigar Mid Songs: Bad Songs:

> the Beatles Wish You Were Here is one of the greatest songs of all time. Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar are great songs. I unfortunately lose interest in the Shine on You Crazy Diamond segments

Better than the last

Masterpiece.

absolutely perfect album, beautiful

Title song aside, I've never really gotten the overwhelming love that this one receives. I'm just not prog, I guess!

She shine on me till I'm a crazy diamond 5

Album

Brilliant!!

One of my favorite albums. Amazing guitars. Amazing lyrics. Wish You Were Here is iconic. Have a Cigar is a great upbeat song compared to the rest of the album.

Thats one of myfav albums ever

Probably my favourite Pink Floyd album. It’s the perfect length, the long tracks sweep along elegantly, and the title track still astonishes.

#938. Pretty great. No notes here. 5/5: fantastic

not my favorite of theirs, but good

I always had trouble getting into Pink Floyd. I should like it. It's prog, melodic guitar solos and concept albums. I think there is something about the vocals I can't quite place. But it irks me. Prefer this album over Moon/Wall tho.

I didn't hate it but it doesn't stand out to me. I even gave it a few listens to try and understand the hype (top 10 rated albums on this site, really??) but I just can't really imagine myself putting it on for anything other then background music at work. Good instrumentals, but the tracks are way too long for me. Maybe I needed to have grown up in this era to understand it. TOP 3: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 1-6), Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here 3/5

Goated

Really solid jam album! I had only heard wish you were here before listening the whole thing down. I am not normally a fan of rock without words but there was such a thick presence that I didn't mind

I am either getting used to Pink Floyd or this one one was not too bad. One of his better ones.

Shockingly enjoyed this album. Good vibes

A different vibe from Dark Side of The Moon, but this album is such a complete masterpiece. It takes you on a ride so effortlessly. Starting and ending with Shine on You Crazy Diamond and anchored down with Wish You were Here in the middle, this is what an album as one piece of art should be

Boring Band, boring album. Includes one masterpiece.

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Closed Artwork: 🤵🤝🔥 Production (2011 Remaster): 🎧😘🤌 Music: 🕯️👨‍👦🌟 Rating: 💎💎💎💎💎/5

Couple of great songs, but I've never like songs about the music industry. Can't exactly relate lol.

Once again another album I listened to not long ago. but it is still about time a pink floyd album appeared on here. So i used to hate pink floyd. I thought they were too slow, too energy sapping and too pretentious to enjoy. Nowadays I see The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and this some as the best progressive rock albums I have ever listened to. While the other two have certain themes that are easy to understand, this one goes into more of an emotionally complex journey which was clearly inspired by the life and death of Syd Barrett. The first son always sends shivers down my spine whenever I listen to it.I will only give this one four stars but thats only because The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are better. Although I do need to listen to Meddle and Animals more.

Absolutely perfect, not a single bad second on this album!

Is it possible for Pink Floyd to write an album non bloviated and self obsessed and taking themselves SO SO seriously?!? Look, Waters is not my jam but the song wish you were here is beautiful and parts of shine on can shine…so I guess if I had to have one Floyd album..

perfect

So I'm one of those Pink Floyd fans (?) who thinks that Wish You Were Here and Animals are the classics, that Dark Side of the Moon is ok but overrated, and The Wall is a couple phenomenal songs in an otherwise mostly dreadful album. There I said it. You can judge my opinion in that light. Wish You Were Here has great guitar work, great songs, and hangs together as a great rock and roll album with symphonic scope. It might be on my personal list of 100 albums, and definitely, objectively belongs on a list of 1001 albums people oughtta know. As a bonus, I would argue that if they can get familiar with this one, they are exempted from any obligation to listen to DSOTM or The Wall. 5/5

My favorite Pink Floyd album.

6/10

1001 stars.

The goat

I enjoyed “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and “Welcome to the Machine,” but the other songs didn’t fulfil me as much. It is a Progressive Rock, Art Rock, and Experimental Rock album that was released on 12 September 1975.

I already listened that album and i love it since i heard it first time. Its very different, really must be listened album.

Been waiting for this, one of my favorite albums of all! Didn’t really have to listen to know I would give this 5/5, but I didn’t need much persuasion..

My favorite Floyd album

Great album 3/5

Classic Pink Floyd. Again an album I have not enjoyed in its entirity for a while. Enjoyed it!

I used to listen to this album all the time. Perfectly atmospheric, easy listening but intense at the same time. Fantastic work and a classic for a reason

10/10: one of the best albums ever by one of the best bands ever. I got into Pink Floyd relatively late in my musical discovery but my god am I glad this band is in my life. Best song: Wish You Were Here

A very focused, almost understated album, especially compared to what came before and after. 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 doesn’t try to overwhelm — it builds a mood and sticks with it. The whole thing revolves around absence, distance, and disillusionment, with the presence of former frontman Syd Barrett quietly shaping everything in the background. 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗜-𝗩) A slow, patient opening that sets the tone immediately. It takes its time, letting the atmosphere form before anything really happens. When the band finally comes in, it feels earned rather than dramatic. It’s less about progression and more about space and memory. As a tribute to Syd Barrett, it feels respectful without turning sentimental. 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 A sharp contrast. Cold, synthetic, and deliberately uncomfortable. The production does a lot of the work here — the mechanical sounds mirror the lyrics about being shaped and consumed by the music industry. It’s one of the most direct tracks on the album, and it cuts through the more reflective mood without breaking it. 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗖𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿 On the surface, more relaxed and groove-driven, but still pretty biting. The chorus sticks immediately, but the lyrics are all about industry cynicism. The guest vocal adds a bit of distance, which actually works in the song’s favor — it feels like you’re hearing the voice of the system itself. 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 The emotional core. Stripped back and direct, almost disarmingly simple after what comes before. It’s probably the most accessible track here, but it doesn’t feel like a concession. Instead, it grounds the album, bringing everything back to something personal. Again, it circles back to Syd Barrett without needing to say it outright. 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗩𝗜-𝗜𝗫) Not just a reprise, but a quiet resolution. It doesn’t try to build to a big ending — instead, it gradually lets everything drift away. It feels more distant than the opening section, like looking back rather than reaching out. A very fitting way to close the album. 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙡 What really stands out is how cohesive it all is. Nothing feels out of place, and nothing feels unnecessary. It’s not trying to be bigger than it needs to be — it just stays consistent, both musically and emotionally. That restraint is exactly what makes it so effective.

Classic

Finally - FINALLY - I get a Pink Floyd album. Just incredible. Grand, sweeping, rocking, thought-provoking, and incredibly touching. These guys are so far above almost every other band ever, it's hard to believe. Is this their best album? No. Is it still a 5? With zero fucking question.

Arguably the best album of the arguably greatest bands ever. That should about cover it.

Puta barbaridad. Welcomeeee toooo machineee!!!!

would be 5 stars if the intros wouldnt have been so long

Decided to go on a walk, put my headphones in, put this album on and… went on a trip.

What is there to say, except that this is an excellent album. I have listened to it countless times and was very excited to see it pop up and hear it once more.

Musicalmente muy bien. Transmite emociones desde los instrumentos. Me gustaría más letra para cantar

amo, creo que me olvidé de ponerlas al playlist, pero todas son buenas.

Actual favorite album. So good

Musically a good album, limited variety. Strong tracks.

Feel like I’m in a small club but Pink Floyd is not for me

Pink Floyd doing Pink Floyd things. Wouldn't have it any other way

Impossível dar menos de 5.

Never really got all the clamour for Pink Floyd. Background music at best IMHO. The opening track is fine but the rest just blends into the 70s wallpaper and plastic flying ducks.

Absolutely loved this album, it’s slow but the build ups are worth it. The guitar, the synths, the composition, everything is beautiful This is a contender for one of the greatest albums ever created. Incredible. Favourite Shine on you crazy diamond

One of the greatest albums of all time. The music is deliberate. It conveys raw emotion in a way few other artists have managed to capture. The lyrics mean a little something different each listen; sometimes it's a harsh critique of the music industry and the modern world, other times you can feel the longing for a lost friend, lover, or the hopes and dreams you once sought after. It's a showstopper each time, however. While I sometimes struggle to justify why this book has me listening to some sloppy album put out by a one-hit-wonder band, this record would have been one of the first names I scribbled down when writing my own list.

Наверное это самый прослушиваемый мной альбом в последнее время. Шедевр на все времена

Brilliant

If you get the opportunity to make enough records, you will make a road album eventually. Of course, at their imperial pomp, Pink Floyd were in the air on private jets, rather than on the road, and in studios for months, rather than in hotels far from their loved ones, making them further isolated from regular people and their concerns than most musicians. This might explain why Wish You Were Here loses some of the universality of theme that characterised its predecessor - although, isolation may also explain why Dark Side of the Moon tackles broad generalities rather than emotional specifics. It is hard to tell, nine albums in and millions of sales later, how the rock star is meant to connect with anybody. A little luck. Some pandering. A bit of guesswork. Roger Waters certainly doesn't know. And it is amazing that this piece of 'inside baseball' is as successful as it is. He will tackle the core issues of WYWH again later on The Wall, but WYWH is, I think, the more concise, targeted statement - if you can call all nine parts of Shine On You Crazy Diamond either concise or targeted. It's more effective too. For, while the record is not shy in presenting harsh, unpleasant music - Welcome to the Machine and Have A Cigar are intentional grotesques, very hard to listen to for pleasure - it is bookended by some of the angry Waters' most humane and specific writing: a portrait of Syd Barrett, the rock star so disconnected from everybody that his own bandmates hardly recognise him when he visits the studio; and the title track, which also addresses the death of Waters' father. It is hard to gauge what self-awareness Waters has here: in writing about these personal subjects is he being honest and, therefore, creating honest relatable music (universal sentiment mined from biographical specifics) or is he merely feeding material to the machine? Is the Crazy Diamond suite just more myth-building that isolates Barrett - and all rock stars after him - further? Reflecting on the dehumanising effects the industry hand on his friend does nothing to change the industry - it shifts more records and it risks dehumanising him further by abstracting him into mythos. And mythos sells! So when Waters turns that truth into total abstraction on The Wall, creating the rock star avatar, Pink, it feels cheap to me. When he returns to his father's death on The Final Cut, he makes a full album - that's an artistic statement and its a product. Once you're in the machine, it's hard to get out. Even the title track, the most straight-forward sentiment on the album recognises this. It's corny E minor country riff performs authenticity from the get-go, even when filtered through a tight envelop, suggesting a radio speaker - the medium through which all pop music comes to us. When it bursts into technicolour (a closer mapping to The Wizard of Oz than Dark Side of the Moon), it feels more realistic, despite the obvious contrivance. But everything the rock star does is mediated. They are always in the isolation of the vocal booth. Yet, while Pink Floyd acknowledge that here, it doesn't stop Wish You Were Here from being effective. The song is performed at house parties and open mics the world over. Possibly because its sentiment is universal. Possibly because its corny riff much easier than the band's other epic compositions. It's a little luck. Definitely some pandering. And all the guesswork. Once I got deep into Welcome to the Machine, I was certain that I would mark this album lower than expected. I never liked Have A Cigar, but Welcome to the Machine - with its cold washes and dystopian swooshes - felt like seeing how the sausage was made, then having the hard metal sausage shoved down your throat. But I've talked myself out of such sensitive critique. I've talked the album back up. Pink Floyd may be deep inside the machine here, but the machine depends on humanity to keep it running and the humanity here is desperate, sad, and affecting. 4 [our car approaches IKEA as ‘Welcome to the Machine’ plays] Me: “Pink Floyd is making this trip to IKEA feel dystopian”. Fiona: “Every trip to IKEA feels dystopian.” Recently I have indulged in a couple of long(ish) negative reviews. I say indulged because there is such pleasure to be had in negativity. It is moreish, like crisps. Coldplay? Green Day? Why shouldn’t I eat a whole ‚sharing bag‘ in one sitting? Now comes Wish You Were Here to sharpen those pricks of conscience telling me it would be all well and good if I could write a long positive review for a change. Well part of the pleasure of negativity is how easy it is to find fault. Part of the challenge of positively analysing a piece of great Art is that its greatness is often inscrutable. Wish You Were Here is doubly challenging because it genuinely ought to be awful. Successful rock stars moaning about how gross it is to be successful. 25 minutes out of a 45 minute record dedicated to mythologising a former band mate as a ‚legend‘, while throwing in plenty of solos. Synth melodrama. Now that I think of it - my 5 star review for Dark Side of the Moon was wholly negative. I hate this band. Anyway, it’s a really beautiful album. Even, perhaps especially, the solos. Bah. [on the way home from IKEA as the lap steel guitar solo in ‚Shine On… (part 6)‘ plays] The Child: “I don’t want this music.” Me: “Is this not good?” The Child: “No, this is not my favourite.” Me: “What music do you want?” The Child: “I want Bonzo Dog Doh-Dah Band.” 4.5/5

amazing, vocals were brilliant (9.1/10)

is it objectively fantastic music? yeah, is it also kinda boring? also yeah

Solid!!

Thanks a lot, I absolutely hated it.

Have heard of Pink Floyd Have not listened to Wish you were here Know the singles. Never really dig that deep into Pink Floyd. Had mostly liked what I'd heard expect piper's at the gates of dawn, that did not resonate. This is incredible. A masterpiece. Wow.

Highlights: ALL OF 'EM, BUT WITH AN ASTERISK ONCE AGAIN

This is a great album for letting music wash over you while doing something else. I think it would be a great album if you were doing nothing else as well.

Una obra maestra....

pink floyd fans when they tell you to wait 8 minutes for the song to get to the good part fave track: shine on you crazy diamond (pts. 1-5)

I really hated this. Droning, depressing, felt like a run-on sentence. I don't like Pink Floyd in general, this was probably my least favorite of the 3? 4? I've already listened to. Giving it a (2) because Wish You Were Here is ok.

Good album.

El punto más alto al que ha llegado la música.

More and more I realize that I am drifting away from caring about guitar playing

Love this record. When you understand some of the Sid barrett story and read these lyrics it feels different. Welcome to the machine is super boring but has its place. Wish you were here is one of my favorite songs ever.

The textures, the writing, the feeling, the playing. I think it is just all there in this album. I don't think Pink Floyd always got things right, but I think this album is a contender for their best and best example of what they could be.

No. 176 Pink Floyd is a very good band. They don't disappoint; this album has good sound. I'm not familiar with their early work, but I liked it.

I have to admit that considering the amount of music I listen to on a daily basis, I never got around to check out one of the most famous albums from Pink Floyd. I am not a Pink Floyd fan, I just listened to the most famous tracks, so this was completely new to me (appalling lol). I imagine that going to a concert, dropping a tab, and listening to these tracks must’ve been mindblowing. Best track is, to me, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts 6-9). Such a beautiful way to close an album as intense as this. I feel like I should give this a 5 even if I don’t know if I’ll ever revisit the whole album. But the last song will definitely end up in my rotation lol

Never really “got” Pink Floyd, and a few spins of this didn’t clarify much. It’s solid, well-performed, well-recorded 70s rock. Nothing more, nothing less.

4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/pink-floyd/wish-you-were-here/ This guy Pink and I, we just don’t really click. Personally like this more than DSOTM because of the consistency, but the consistency also gets a bit boring sometimes.

Standouts Shine on You Crazy Diamond 1/2 Welcome to the Machine Have a Cigar Wish You Were Here

Quite beautiful, awfully short. Reminds me of my father. I think I would appreciate this more if I was a boy in his mid-20s, just like how old my father was when this album came out. How I wish I could tailor my body to fit into the target audience for each of these albums.

Didn't think I'd like it. Loved it. 5 Stars.

Absolute masterpiece. I will never forget hearing this in its entirety for the first time and being absolutely blown away. The textures they created, the feel, it's unlike anything else out there. This is an album where you really need to sit with it, let it play (loud!) and just be for a while. Probably in my Top 10 all time, this is my personal favorite Pink Floyd record.

incredible to get this record as I'm going through major life changes. one of the best prog record ever.

Amazing album, not their best imo, but still such a great experience listening to it all. Great. 1. Wish You Were Here 2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts. 1-5 3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts. 6-9

So much better than Dark Side of the Moon. I was a bit hesitant seeing the two 13 minute tracks bookending this record but man what a journey it was. So many good guitar licks and lyrics and bass lines and ugh, I loved it. And the sleeve too, a piece of art. I wish this got the same attention DSotM got but I guess the sleeve there is more memorable. It's maybe due to that record being more accessible to prog rock newbies. You tell them to sit through a 13 minute song, a majority of it instrumental build-ups, and they will scoff. I also loved all the tiny bits to reference Syd Barrett. The random laughing and the way the track Wish You Were Here was built around a riff that sounded like it was coming from a nearby radio was genius. I truly need to make a deeper dive into Pink Floyd's discography. 5/5

Dope

Sublime

I just don’t like pink floyd

This is a clear cut 10/10. Probably the greatest album in the history of prog rock, and a major landmark in the history of music. 10/10 [KEEP]

Even though I like other albums by them more than this one, I must admit that this is beautiful and relaxing. I liked it a lot. At times I got bored because it kinda got monotonous but it was still very good. Also, as a paranthesis, fuck Roger Waters.

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Not my favorite Floyd, though it does have a few bangers for sure. Pretty subtle album.

Classic one. Overhyped, yes, but incredible album. One of, if not THE BEST album by Pink Floyd

One of the best from one of the best. Every song is a masterpiece, and the album just sounds so damn good sonically. Pink Floyd in their prime was a special thing.

Not my favourite, but I've never been a Pink Floyd fan. I like slower music, I like meditative music, but not this.

Great PF album, others are better, but this one is good.

The lyrics might be the dumbest “I’m 14 and this is deep” shit ever, but god damn it slaps. Seriously. Anybody else on the list would be ripped to shreds for this. Nobody else can do this and I don’t know why. Shitty audience samples, weird computer sounds, dumbass lyrics.