Reviews (page 4 of 15)
I love ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ so much, my only complaint is that those songs are too short. Such a classic album!!
This album gives me goosebumps. I've heard in many times and I will listen to it many more. I wouldn't change anything about it. I don't believe in perfection but this one is close to it.
Amazing album. It’s between this one and Animals for my favourite Pink Floyd album. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, all parts/both songs, is of course an awesome track. Although very long, it keeps me engaged by introducing various riffs and repeating them throughout. The other songs are great as well, especially the title track.
Wonderful prog rock album that still sounds good today mostly due to David Gilmour’s guitar playing. I could listen to him all day!
das konzept eines 15 minütigen lieds ist craaazyyy, trotzdem FIREEE
Loved it! Amazing concept!
absolute class. one of my all time favourite albums. teleporting, mesmerising, exquisite
One of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. Shine On are bright spots to the album but the whole album is excellent. The 50 anniversary has some nice extras.
Perfection
Ageless
Just as good in its own way as Dark Side of the Moon. Plus, it's David Gilmour's favorite record Pink Floyd made...that really says it all.
Ohne worte
A+++. Probably most underrated Pink Floyd Album, besides Meddle. Sounds modern. Doesn't sound dated at all.
Pink Floyd is epic. Space rock is so sick, and this was so good. Even though it's only a few songs, they all hit, and I am blown away.
Practically perfect. Emotional, and mechanical.
One of the best follow up albums ever made. This was follow up to Dark Side of the Moon. It is very good.
A very easy 5 stars for me. Not only am I a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but this album contains one of my absolute favourite songs of all time "Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts 1-5" - the song is completely flawless and the progression is perfect. I could listen to it all day and wish the song lasted forever - the band is at their peak with Gilmour shining with his guitar work. His phrasing, sense of melody and knowing when not to play are what makes him so fantastic. "Welcome to the Machine" is a haunting, trippy ride and I'm here for it. There's such a sense of dread that you're not in control and never have been - everything has been decided for you in one or way another - is very eerie. No band can write stuff quite like this. "Have A Cigar" is a great commentary on the music industry and is so damn groovy and funky, and has one of Gilmour's most underrated solos at the end. "Wish You Were Here" is the 'hit' off this album that even non Floyd fans will know. Though arguably overplayed it still lands whenever I hear it - and is just a really nice song with a beautiful message. The closing "Shine On" parts perfectly wrap up with callbacks to the opening track - it really doesn't get better.
Not quite my favorite Pink Floyd album but man, is it great.
son pocas canciones pero bien largas, la intro de la primera no me gustó pero ya cuando cantan chimba, que hpta álbum, excepto por la intro de la primera esta de buena que muy chimba, está todo experimental todo extraño pero de forma chimba, durísimo
Good album
Pink Floyd MAY at times be called a rock band, a classic rock band, ... but I don't think so. Sure, some of their albums and songs are heavy enough to be rock, but I would argue that they are much more than that. This IS opera, maybe rock opera, sort of. but more jazzy, more subtle ... and hella deeper if taken as a whole. Funny how I am one of those people that often is critical of listening straight through or too long to one album or one band and here I am saying you MUST do it this way to understand the journey Pink Floyd is taking you on. This is ultimately sublime and meaningful beyond what people who have not heard Pink Floyd might be led to believe. This. Just listen!
One of my favorites albums ever. Love this so much.
10/10 no notes
It’s Pink Floyd. You know what you’re getting. This was too early in their career to not be good. Choice cut: Wish You Were Here
It just an amazing album that is required listening in the history of rock and pop music.
now i'm not just saying this because ana has me at gun point, but i enjoyed this a lot! i really love the guitar tones over the course of this album. they all sound fantastic, especially with those delicious synths in there too. it's the kind of album that makes me want to lay in bed with headphones on to appreciate every bit of the instrumentation so i appreciate how clear the mix is. i'm late to the game on an album like this so me saying "yeah this sure does evoke a strong mood" is another drop of water in the ocean, but hey so it goes.
Okay so I've listened to this album so many times in my life I have genuinely lost count, it is probably in my top 10 favorite albums ever. Shine on You Crazy Diamond is an incredible, mostly instrumental ode to a former band member. The titular song helped keep me sane in my first couple of years of University when I felt very isolated and alone. This entire album just sounds so spectacular. I feel like I can't say anything about this album that hasn't been said hundreds of times before, the highest of 5 stars.
I love it
Masterpiece, no more to add
Amazing rock album first time sitting through it and my favourite was definitely have a cigar and wish you were here i had already heard shine on you crazy diamond so i don't rate em in my first time review
One of the greatest albums by one of the greatest bands.
Gooooood
Favourite Song: Wish You Were Here
Shine on you crazy diamond and Wish you were here are both commonly known to be written for Sid Barrett. Post his drug induced psychotic break. So I suppose this is his epitaph, in a way. Full of squashy synth, R&B guitar and experimental sound effects. I especially liked the dystopian story that was played out in Welcome to the machine and the feeling that someone was playing along to the radio in Wish you were here. I liked this a lot. (4.755)
Better than I remembered. Peak
Picking up where The Dark Side of the Moon ended… superb
Right now this is probably my favourite Pink Floyd album. The masterpiece that is Shine On You Crazy Diamond of course takes the prize for the best song. All 9 parts are magnificent, and the fact that they're divided into two tracks —first and last in the album— really gives the album a full circle feeling. What I love most about Shine On You Crazy Diamond is probably that one four note phrase in Part II diamond is so simple, but at the same time so magical. I love the sax solo at the end of the first half. The glass harp at the beginning is fully engraved in my mind with the many times I've listened to it. But most of all, it's David Gilmour's guitar work throughout the whole Shine On You Crazy Diamond that makes it so great. He's truly a master of his craft; definetly one of the best guitar players I've ever heard. It's also interesting to just listen Shine On You Crazy Diamond from beginning to end, all 9 parts without the other songs in between, as a way to appreciate the piece in full. The title track is obviously a classic, but I like Welcome To The Machine even more. Again, I love Gilmour's guitars in this, but the synth solos in this song are exceptional and so powerful. Roger Waters did a phenomenal job in the writing and composition in this album, but for me it's Gilmour's guitars that really make this whole album a masterpiece. The fact that my least favourite track in Wish You Were Here is Have A Cigar, which is still great, says a lot about not only the overall quality of the album, but throughout every second of it.
Sad existential bromance album without a single song under 5 minutes
A vibrational experience, howling out for a lost compatriot
One of my all time davorotes
Mellow and good. Probably unfathomably groundbreaking compared to everything else back then
ich liiiiieb das album. ziit lang gfunde s sseg besser als dark side. shine on you crazy diamond fangt sooooo guet aah. d synths de akkord wo afoch liit und denn gilmour soooloo. aso perfekti melodie über de komisch moll-blues wos do zemekocht hend. insaane cool. uuh denn de chord. fuck yeh. sooo guets solo. i chas immerno. aso mitsinge. de gsunge teil scho au seeeehr geil. welcome to the machine isch de ersti the wall song irgendwie. aso finden suuuper.
WUHUUUUUUU shine on you crazy diamond isch halt sooo schön UND eis vode beste albumcover findi WRLCOOOOOME TO THE MACHIIINE ICH LIEBELIEBELIEBE have a cigar de synthi am ahfang isch eifach so guet vlt spinn ich grad au aber wish you were erinneret mich auchli ah comfortably numb hans gfühl trz de lange lieder etc. ischs album eig reecht zuegänglich? bim synthi am ahfang vo pt. 6 mussi immer an manfred mann denke hahahah au d idee vomene lange stuck, wo als ahfang und endi vomene album dient findi SO GEIIIILLL call me usain bolt ade weltmeisterschaft 2009 in berlin will ich töne wie ein gebrochener rekord: FUNF
Easy 10/10
01) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–V) - 10,0 02) Welcome to the Machine - 9,0 03) Have a Cigar - 8,0 04) Wish You Were Here - 10,0 05) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI–IX) - 9,0 TOTAL: 9,20 (92/100) Current ranking: 40/784
I wish I could give this album 6 stars. Love it
Classic. Incomparable. A must.
I mean, this album might not be for everyone, although for a lot of people it its great. You can say all you want. But this album has the ability to be enjoyed in special ways that give it a whole new dimention. I have memories with this album long before we started this. Im nog too big into this gerne of music, but im big into Pink Floyd. Love their stuff and love this album.
Some of the fastest 45 minutes to pass. Dreamy, but somehow also energetic. The guitar cries like it is in beautiful anguish. If I had to pick a gripe, I dont appreciate the parts that are noise/not music, but hey it kinda fits the vibe 5/5
Look, I am a white man who listens to prog rock/metal. I pray daily to the Holy Trinity: the father (Steven Wilson), the son (Mikael Åckerfeldt), and the holy spirit (Maynard James Keenan). I cannot pretend I won't give this amazing album a 10/10. I am also the target audience as I am spiritually a stoner from the 70s.
This website is now just spitting out random album notes from previous when it comes to rating time. It replaced my album notes for this album with Pronce ones done ages ago! Frustrating. Anyways. Love this album. First track is heartbreaking. Dave Gilmour’s guitar is so emotional and beautiful. Its his favorite Floyd album and i think i agree with him.
Very psychedelic. Perfect mix of psychedelia and prog-rock. Have a Cigar is one of their heaviest tracks. Really great album! Welcome to the Machine sounds like Wish You Were Here and Have a Cigar combined. Wish You Were Here is very chill and acoustic. Good for a funeral.
I have not listened to this album or Pink Floyd in a long time. Remember getting into this in college, so years ago. The album dedicated to Syd Barrett is a great one, interesting songs and musicality abound in the album. 5.
50 years later, this holds up very well. It's impossible to believe that for teenagers today, listening to this is the equivalent of us as teens listening to something recorded in the 40s. THE FORTIES. Jesus Christ.
An amazing album - my favorite from this band. "Shine On" with all its parts that bookend the album, with my most beloved song ("Wish You Were Here") landing perfectly in the track list...it's just a great listen.
Heard it before. Oh man, I have an interesting relationship with Pink Floyd because I used to really dislike them when I was younger. Then something clicked one day and Wish You Were Here definitely was one of those albums that converted me. It's just perfect length and every single song here is gooooood. Perfect in every way 5/5
Es git en grund wieso de papi da sals platte het. Incroyable. Magnifique.
More Pink Floyd. Why? Always theatrical. Always creative. Listened before? N Saved tracks? N ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Liked it a lot
One of my favorite albums. 10/10 front to back.
Hall of famer right here
Um álbum completo, equilibra as evocações emotivas com uma técnica refinada de composição e arranjos. Maravilhoso!
Flawless from start to finish
Guitar and surrounding instruments definitely stands out in this album. The work it self is very hypnotic and feels ahead of its time for an album produced in 1975. This album is the perfect depiction of Pink Floyd as a band.
Fantastic album where the space between the notes is important as the notes themselves.
Halfway through the first song and I already know this will be my first 5 star rating. The vocals aren’t as gripping as the instrumentals - wait no vocals do the heavy lifting in Have a Cigar. Ironically, Wish You Were Here is my least favorite track
All time classic, I've loved this since I was 16. A real gateway record I think away from the 3 minute pop song into more experimental interesting stuff. 50 years ago is mental
Incredible. No stand-outs, they’re all great.
It has been many long years since I’ve played this sucker. I still felt familiar. Have a Cigar and some parts of Shine On would fit seamlessly onto Maggot Brain. Roger Waters little rants against UK’s social infrastructure are sadly, still relevant. For me, this is the best Pink Floyd ever got.
Why was this 10 hours long
oh my, this is one of my favorite albums ever. I own it on vinyl. So so good
My favorite album thus far on this journey
Perfect album
An unbelievably fantastic follow-up to one of the best albums of all time. This displays Pink Floyd at their peak of creative flair and instrumental powers. Gilmour quite heavily outshines his bandmates on this record, from the unforgettable riff on 'Shine On', to the acoustic behemoth of the title track. We even see Floyd at their strongest lyrically, lambasting the music industry and a deep yearn for connection with their former bandmates. Best Tracks: - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Wish You Were Here - Welcome To The Machine Worst Tracks: N/A Rating: 10/10
5/5
Een van mijn favoriete albums ooit. Inspirerend, hartbrekend ronduit geweldig. Een geweldig psychedelisch rock album.. Favoriete nummer: wish you were here/ shine on you... pt 1-5 Minst favoriet: geen
Ah, encore un album qui mérite totalement sa place sur cette liste (c’est pas si courant, hohoho). En matière de prog, on fait difficilement mieux. C’est un album riche, planant, créatif, ultra-personnel et tout simplement sans défaut. 5 étoiles, ça ne se discute même pas.
Me too.
Another classic. I had this one on vinyl too, until the fire. Fuck you, fire.
For me, Music should make us feel. Some feelings are unintentional- like that weird shit on the list that just makes you feel angry - but good music endeavors to make us feel intentionally a certain way. The gold standard for that type of music is Pink Floyd, who effortlessly evoke emotion through sound.
Fucking awesome
Fantastic! Top to bottom. Complete listen. My rating 4.8
An absolute monster album. Love this so.much
Good progressive album wish you were here best stand alone song
Before I started listening it I was wondering "Is it really that good?" Then I got goosebumps when vocals started on the opening track.
Amazing album. I love smoking a fat doobie to this and chugging some good ol’ miller lite
Just listened to this and now gladly doing it again on the 50th anniversary remix. One of the first albums I truly loved when getting into music in junior high. Only low point to me is Welcome to the Machine which is a bit too drudgy. But easy five stars for this prog rock masterpiece.
Not even their best album and it's an easy 5. Shine on you crazy diamond is just so good. The whole album is amazing.
Is this the greatest Pink Floyd Album ever?!?
Overall rating: 9.5 Favourite tracks: Wish You Were Here (classic), Have A Cigar
Love this album, Shine on You Crazy Diamond may be a top Pink Floyd song for me and then just every song after is a classic.
It's really difficult to try and listen to this album objectively, having listened to it almost daily in high school and countless times since then. Still, I picked up a few new nuggets like the cough and light breathing in the beginning of the title track. This whole album just transports you to another world and shine on feels like the vehicle that takes you there. A great example of when gimmicky production tricks pay off and create a true soundscape. Love this album, king of kings.
I'll start by saying that "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is my favorite Pink Floyd song (or parts 1 -5 are?), and probably one of my favorite guitar songs ever - such an incredible journey to open an album with. Also David Gilmour's tone, economy, and touch make me want to cry, especially given the topic of the song. (And it even has a bari sax solo!) Whenever I listen to this album however, I always feel a little disappointed by "Welcome to the Machine", like there's a drop-off and its kind of just a slog. But they pick it back up with "Have a Cigar" and the title track is obviously a classic...I am so torn between a 4 and 5, because it's an awesome album and includes my favorite Pink Floyd song, but only has 5 songs and one of them I don't care for. I'll go 5 because we're on a heater of classic albums lately.
I mean.
I tried to come up with a reason not to give this to a 5 and failed horribly.
Another flawless album.
My third favourite Pink Floyd album and still unutterably brilliant. Honestly you have to be a total psychopath not to absolutely adore this album.
a timeless masterpiece
Was already in love with the song wish you were here so was cool to hear the rest of its album. Classic pink Floyd, long builds and random sounds that work. Have a cigar reminded me of Ronnie from work? None the less this is a 5/5.
"Welcome To The Machine" is very good, but something had to fall off to stick to my top 3 songs per album rule. This is meant to be enjoyed as an album, the 3 songs in the middle lose their luster if consumed as singles. An amazing experience, probably the "highest" 5 star rating so far (though I'm still at the beginning of my journey). Fav Tracks: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (all parts, 1-10) > Wish You Were Here > Have A Cigar Current Fav Album: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (#11/1089)
What can i even say about pink floyd?
not long enough Can I give more stars?
Somehow i've never sat down and listened to this properly, even though it's iconic.
PERFECT Best Song: WYWH Love the album, very thematic although I needed to read about the context to appreciate it, which is fine. Love Have a Cigar and WYWH, balances Shine on... and makes the album more accessible. PERFECT
10/10 Amazing follow up to Dark Side, I loved the classic Floyd blend of psychedelic and progressive rock but also the bluesy feel. Sandwiching a few shorter songs between two (one technically??) epics felt like a great example of not sacrificing quality for quantity. I like that you can sit down for an hour and experience the album as a whole without distraction and how this allows you to feel the mood shift from dark to light. Vocals on wish you were here are amazing and you can really feel the deeply personal emotion while listening. Best song: Wish you were here Worst: None?? This is where PF peaked in my opinion everything, pace, structure, tone was beautifully crafted. This is the perfect album.
Instant 5/5
Amazing every song is amazing
It's been a while since I listened to all of Wish You Were Here and I remembered it being a solid 4/5. But relistening to it, it's actually even better than I remembered. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is way better than I remembered, Welcome to the Machine is fantastic, Have a Cigar is one of my all-time favourite Floyd songs and Wish You Were Here is absolutely beautiful. Zero filler even though Shine On You Crazy Diamond runs for 26 minutes in total, and I'm generally not a fan of extremely long tracks. I think I'd be lying to myself I gave this anything less than 5/5 when everything about it is so great. Even the cover art is iconic.
One of the best albums I've heard.
First Pink Floyd album! yesssssssssss. Not much left to say about this album that hasn’t already been said. Life changing piece of work both for those that made it and those that get to listen to it. SYD is just beautiful from top to bottom. The intro to this album is so etherial. Backstory, production, mastering, weight - all there. I still remember being slightly baked driving around my hometown as a lost 17 year old preparing for the unknown that comes after graduation of High School, I know you do too. Shine on, you crazy diamond. 10/10
Probably my favorite Floyd album and one I ritually came up to while tripping my freshman year of college. One of the most impeccably produced albums of all time with an insane story behind it (Syd visiting the studio while recording is an all timer).
I really love this album. Even after high school, even after pot, I just like to put this one on.
Their best album in my opinion. The first from them that I've listened to where I didn't think that a few of the tracks could be dropped, or felt indifferent to. I like every song here. 5 Stars.
Yep, 5.
Legendary
This record is a masterpiece. I would argue that it’s their best and most inspired work. The subject matter is so personal and the music is perfectly executed. They’d found a perfect musical and lyrical balance and they captured everything perfectly. There’s just so much emotion packed into it and even in the parts without lyrics it shines through.
10/10. No notes.
One of the greatest albums of all time. Nuff said
Can be a little laborious to get through Shine On but it has its high moments. And Wish You Were Here is one of the best songs ever written.
legends
I’d never listened to Wish You Were Here (1975) in its entirety before. I’ll admit, I was immediately skeptical when I saw it’s just five tracks but 44 minutes, thanks to the Shine On You Crazy Diamond bookends. I was expecting another The Wall, which I thought was good but not great. Instead, what you get is something more akin to Dark Side of the Moon. This truly felt like a perfectly cohesive album. I don’t know if it’ll end up beating out Dark Side when I get there, but this has risen to the ranks of 5/5.
Obviously 5/5. No notes.
Sick album
3/1089 no lyrics for the first 9 minutes but that doesn't matter at all. This album is amazing. Shine on you crazy diamond, all 9 parts, has been one of my favorite songs for over 30 years. Chills hit when this album starts. Hits...all of them.
Fantastic
Classic
Wish Animals Were Here
album with excellent songs, very recommended!
No notes
Depois dessa pedrada estou com medo do próximo
Top 3 Floyd album, probably a top 20 album ever for me. Not much else for me to say. Other than Wish You Were Here, which is still a great song, every other song rocks.
Even the really long songs were enjoyable.
This is an incredible album honestly. I would listen to it 1000 times more.
first one i've listened to on vinyl. an all-time favorite, no notes. rip syd
'Wish You Were Here's is not my favourite Pink Floyd album, but it is my favourite PINK FLOYD album, if you see what I mean. Obviously I STAN SYD and he is the creative genius/painter/martyr/legend whose name should always be marked in the history books next to this bands legacy. No amount of public bickering, name calling or general posturing on David Gilmore or Roger Waters part could ever see them bestowed with such titles. However, this fantastic album is testament to the groups collective creative powers in the absence of their seer of visions. It was not pioneering in any sense as far as I can tell - but find me a guitar solo which tells a story better than that in 'Shine On' and I'll eat Bela's copy of 'Piper'. Add 'Wish You Were Here' to that and you've already got five stars. The rest is a bonus. Which is why, for me, this is the classic PINK FLOYD album. It's straightforward storytelling so deeply meant that you can feel it in your bones. Syd was still shining in 1975.
high 5 pink floyd are so good you forget how proggy they are. im not saying its bad to be proggy, but usually when you listen to something proggy you just think, "wow this is proggy", with this album you just think "damn this good". How many 10 minute guitar solos are there where your on the edge of your seat the whole time?
“Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?” Professional frustration and personal grief entwined on record with each band member at their best. I would readily call this album perfect.
I fell asleep to this disc in the changer with 4 other PF albums more nights in college than I could possibly count.
Immediately said hell yeah when this one popped up! Perfection
One of the greatest of all time
Banger, culte, quoi dire de plus
Qu’est ce que vous voulez que je vous dise ?! Encore un album banger, un de mes préf de pink Floyd. D’ailleurs « wish you were here » est peut-être bien ma préférée. Elle n’est pas représentative de PF; elle est simple mais elle fonctionne sur moi. De longues chansons pour album assez court, c’est une vibe.
Already listened to this one too sadly! One of the best albums ever created. From start to finish a work of art. Like a river flowing into the sea, each track seemlesly connects to the other. Though in isolation, each track can stand apart from the others successfully. So much raw emotion this album has pulled from me over the years, with special attention to the first Shine On and the title track. The chomping cynicism of Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar bites through to the aorta of capitalism, only to realize how poisonous that blood was. A masterpiece
One of Floyd's most iconic works, with memorable riffs and lyrics. A true masterpiece of prog rock
One of the greats by one of the greatest.
I’ve always been a Pink Floyd fan, and while this isn’t the album I personally reach for first, it’s hard to deny how powerful it is. You can hear a band wrestling with the weight of its own success, in a kind of creative vertigo. Dark Side of the Moon didn’t just make them famous; it rewired what they thought their careers were going to be. When you actually reach the summit you’ve been climbing toward for years, what’s left to push against? That tension saturates this album. The sessions famously drifted: long periods of aimlessness, experiments, jams, false starts, like they needed to exhaust every distraction before they could face what the record really wanted to be. And then it crystallized into something stark and vulnerable: a tribute, a longing, and a quiet admission that success can hollow you out if you’re not careful. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” isn’t just a eulogy for Syd Barrett—it’s a mirror the band had to hold up to themselves. Wish You Were Here feels like the sound of a group trying to re-anchor their identity, trying to remember why they even started making music in the first place. It’s beautiful, yes, but not in a polished way. More like the beauty that comes from honesty after a long period of drifting. A band suffering from their own success, rediscovering purpose through grief, nostalgia, and a plea for connection.
One of the best Pink Floyd albums out there. Shine on you crazy diamond is a fantastic prog psych rock song, and it makes up like half this album. Not much else to say. This album is great.
Hard to say a whole lot about a perfect album. When I'm not in the mood for the 25 minutes of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" I still have 3 of my top 5 Pink Floyd songs here. That being said, that 25 minutes is nearly perfect.
The best Pink Floyd album, pretty easily in fact. Its actually pretty crazy that an album that sounds like this is as big as it is. Fully deserved tho.
It took me 351 albums but I finally got a Pink Floyd album! Pink Floyd is probably my favourite band of all time. I’ve listened to all their albums countless times (yes, even The Endless River) and I love pretty much all of them. This album was never going to get less than 5 stars from me, it’s just incredible. They set an insane standard with Dark Side of the Moon and to follow it up with this, just wow! Interestingly, of the famous four album run of Dark Side, WYWH, Animals and the Wall, this one is possibly last for me. It’s a phenomenal album though and everyone shines on it(no pun intended).
(100/🤪💎💎💎💎💎💎)
Dope. No notes!
Flawless
The best Pink Floyd album, full stop.
The best Floyd album, with meditations on loss and the price of fame. The big question throughout: was it worth it? Pink Floyd equalled this several times, but they never surpassed it. The shimmering textures and expressive performances seem like they would feel self-indulgent, but instead there's an aching feeling. This is some of the finest rock music from the 1970s, and some of the finest music ever.
Adore this album.
5/5 It's simply one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Won't say much more.
absolute best
Forget albums to listen to before you die… I want to listen to this one as I die. Please make this my life outro.
A solid jam album with some classic hits
Tämä Pink Floydin levy oli minulle vieras, mutta on kyllä melkoinen helmi! 6/5 ja täytyy laittaa hankintalistalle.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of the greatest easy-listening albums ever made. Oh, and Have a Cigar. 5/5
Dare I give a 5 star??
the guitar tone on shine on you crazy diamond is so tasty. Those licks and riffs are delicious and the build up is so well crafted. Could listen to that song all day. Machine is a bit odd, I’ll grant ya that, but it goes hard. have a cigar is such a funky treat and wish you were here is the greatest platonic love song ever written
I always wrote this album off for the songs being too long. I don't think you could fairly say I was too wrong. Banger
The birth of chill. One of Pink Floyd's Big Four. Perfection
I'm familiar with most of these songs but I'm not sure I've ever actually listened through. It was a great one to settle into. So much going on and still feels so self-assured in its style.
I love this intro so much. Textures + synth sound are perfect. That clean compressed guitar lead. Oof the chord changes. There are few more iconic 4 note figures in the history of music than this guitar part. The first time I really listened to this record I was dog/house-sitting for my friend's dad, and he had a huge speaker set up in his basement. Perfect way to experience this record. It is also amazing on headphones though. Welcome to the Machine is absolutely massive. The way the synths climb! Roy Harper on vocals on Have A Cigar. Listen to 'Forever' if you haven't heard his own work! Wish You Were Here. One of the first songs I learned on guitar. Classic, beautiful, a hit for a reason. I've come to realize that this is my favourite Pink Floyd record. It's still sprawling and epic like some of their earlier stuff, but when the songwriting really kicks in, it's precise and beautiful. Guitar work is amazing and synths are otherworldly.
I’m a big Pink Floyd fan so have listened to this album countless times over the years. Love them and love this.
Is this the best pink Floyd album ever I think it could be. I think it's certainly the one that I would keep if I could only keep one
It's not really my thing as a whole, but it was perfectly enjoyable. It just doesn't engage me that much....... and then Wish You Were Here starts. There are very few songs this emotionally powerful. It's up amongst the absolute best, especially knowing the story of Syd Barrett. I try hard not to let a single song influence the overall score too much, but this makes every other moment of the album worth it.
Amazing
I’ve loved wish you were hear since I first heard the song in middle school. Been a while since I’ve listened to the whole album. Wonderful.
5 ⭐
> dark side
On continuous play.
Another great band! Great music, unique sound. Music spans generations.
Interesting album. I love the way David Gilmore plays those solos on guitar. My favorite? Wish you Were Here! This is when I pick up my acoustic and follow along with the music.
Probably the best prog album ever made
9.5/10
Best of the big 3
One of THE albums for me. Perfect in every way. One of the few albums I rate six out of five.
Syd Barrett had been out of Pink Floyd for six years by the time the band reconvened at Abbey Road Studios to attempt the impossible: following up 'The Dark Side of The Moon'. The 1973 hit record had brought Pink Floyd kicking and screaming into the mainstream rock world, a newfound status the band were never comfortable with, and would eventually bring about the capitulation of the group's classic era in the mid-1980s. So, with a lot of pressure on the band to follow up what has since become one of the most important records ever made, what did they do? They ruminated on "the madcap laughs" they once shared with their former bandmate. 'Wish You Were Here' is Pink Floyd at their most solemn and introspective: using the example of Syd Barrett's mercurial genius and descent into madness to craft an unbelievable work of art that, in my view, betters and outshines 'The Dark Side of the Moon' in every respect. 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pts 1 & 2) is a seminal menagerie of synthesized transcendence (courtesy of Richard Wright), explorative guitar (courtesy of David Gilmour), epic percussion (courtesy of Nick Mason) and an extraordinarily dense concept (courtesy of Roger Waters). This is, bar none, one of the greatest pieces of popular music ever recorded, and easily Pink Floyd's finest 25 minutes of tape. And yet, they still find time to attack the music industry ('Welcome to the Machine'), call out greedy executives ('Have a Cigar') and lament on the loss of Syd from their tribe ('Wish You Were Here'). Pink Floyd leaves no stone unturned here. They do it all with intensity, fury, parody and sadness. Syd Barrett actually showed up during the recording sessions for 'Wish You Were Here': overweight, with a shaved head and eyebrows: and the band, initially not recognising him, were greatly emotional once they put two and two together. He said 'Shine On' "sounds a bit old", engaged in more awkward conversation on and off, and was out of their lives again, never to return to the fray of Floyd. 'Dark Side' may be Floyd's most iconic album, but 'Wish You Were Here' is their true masterpiece: a sprawling achievement steeped in sadness, reflection, anger and higher thought. It's the perfect culmination of Pink Floyd's transcendental journey up to this point, but also paves the way for Waters' growling megalomania and distrust of authority that would manifest on the group's next two releases. Best songs: Who listens to a Floyd album for a particular song? Hilarious!
Another where another opinion on this one isn't going to make much difference. I like this album, I was later to it than other Pink Floyd big albums but now really love it
Approaching its 50th anniversary in a few weeks and this still sounds fresh and interesting. A true classic.
What a 5 breathtaking 5
Love it
Not entirely sure where to begin with this one. I’ll start with this though. Earlier in the week, I rolled a Syd Barrett album. The odds of me then pulling this album only days later are nothing short of amazing. This is one of those albums where nothing I could possibly say hasn’t been said before. If you like Floyd, this is their absolute best album in my opinion. If you don’t like them, you’re objectively wrong and have bad taste. Them’s are the rules. Every single song on this album works, and they all add so much to it as a whole. The first and last songs, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-9”, are an absolute love letter to Prog Rock and I could listen to them all day. “Welcome to the Machine” and “Have a Cigar” (My favorite Floyd Song) are both pointed jabs at the music industry in general, and also just rock. Finally, “Wish You Were Here” is a sad, but otherwise sweet tribute to Syd. Every one of these songs is absolutely amazing, and it’s another one of those albums where every song is going to be someone else’s favorite. It’s perfect. Not many albums on this list are going to come remotely close to just how much I love this album. You should listen to this one from top to bottom and just let it take over you for a bit. It’s magical. First Floyd album down, and they started with the best of the best.
What a way to follow up on dark side. I thought this was my favorite of theirs but in this listen I didn’t enjoy it as much as past times and might move this down to 2 or 3. It’s still fantastic and Shine On is my favorite song of theirs. Rating: 4.7
One of the greatest.
Klassiker
I mean this really is just an incredible album from start to finish. I prefer earlier Floyd (pre-Dark Side) but it's hard to deny the quality of this record.
As good as it can be. This is what separates the boys from the men. It’s so utterly moving
Crazy consistantly euphoric album. Doesn't quite reach Dark Side levels, but gets close. The title track is one I've probably heard my entire life thanks to my dad always spinning Floyd at some point on the weekends
A classic favorite. I've listened to it in it's entirety hundreds of times over the years.
An undeniable classic of music. Such an important album in my personal music taste and development with deep family connections. Love every moment of it.
not skipped once
First Pink Floyd album I bought which had a black plastic cover with a sticker back in the day. Terrific album which still sounds fresh all these years later. This deserves to be on the list.
Even if I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, I see no reason not to judge a cover by it's cover. And the cover for Wish You Were Here is among the most striking and beautiful *ever*. Tender and earnest, but presented in a way that makes it appear deeply uncanny, solid 5/5. But now let's talk about the album. You can find literally any opinion possible published on the topic of Pink Floyd's run from Dark Side to The Wall. "Dark Side is overrated" "Wish You Were Here is Underrated" is just the start of it. Wish You Were Here has been underrated so long that it may technically be overrated now??? Then that may make Dark Side underrated. Then Animals is underrated, and The Wall was overrated, but now it isn't? Point is that these albums have been talked about to death, and I don't think it's possible to be underrated when a part of one of the most well-loved string of albums ever. But also, I'm pretty sure that doesn't really matter. For my money, Wish You Were Here is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Spacier than Dark Side, more compact than The Wall, and more personal than Animals, Wish You Were Here occupies a particular space. And while it's certainly not the most ambitious album in the run, I think it may be the most flawless. I can poke holes in the other 3, in fact, even though I love it, The Wall is *messy*. Wish You Were Here also holds the distinction of being the saddest album in the run, in my opinion at least. For those who somehow don't know, the legend goes that this album was chiefly inspired by Pink Floyd being visited in their studio by a disheveled, mentally absent incarnation of their former band member Syd Barrett. And if the material on here is any indication, the experience seems to have really weighed on them. In fact, reading the lyrics here, and even just listening to these songs, (with the exception of the funky, sarcastic takedown of sleazy music execs on Have A Cigar, which is as good as anything else on here) almost any song here can be read as a eulogy for the still living Barrett. Maybe most literally on Welcome To The Machine, the only song here that just *may* be underrated. The lyrics blatantly read like an "In Memorium", and the music, courting both coldness and triumph, sells the weight immaculately. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, cleaved into two bookends spells it out in its title. It's a celebration of someone flawed, misunderstood, and ultimately doomed to burn out quietly. It is also a piece of expansive, gorgeous space rock, which manages to justify its staggering runtime. And, for last, I have saved the title track. Wish You Were Here is one of Pink Floyd's warmest, most poignant moments. It is absolutely heartbreaking if you let it be. And it has been rightly celebrated amongst the band's strongest material for a hot minute. From start to end, Wish You Were here is beautiful and compelling. I really do think it's nearly flawless. It's just this perfect little gem that feels divorced from Pink Floyd's In-fighting, their fall from grace, and even, to an extent, its contemporary canon. It just feels like the band simply made an unspoken agreement that nothing could be as important as celebrating their friend, if only for an album's worth of time, and it has given Wish You Were Here a heat-shield of raw humanity. Truly beautiful.
An iconic and flawless album
Это шедевр, мне зашло даже сильнее, чем The Wall. Какие же у группы грустные, но красивые песни. В особенности гитара и звуковые спецэффекты понравились.
All time classic. Shine On part 1 starts a little slow, but the album is out together so well. Title track one of the best songs of all time.
Big 5 stars on this one. Such a great album
A really enjoyable album. I like the non-"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" songs best but its all great. That being said, I don't like it near as much as Dark Side of The Moon. It's still gotta be a 5 though. As a bonus, here's a disco cover of "Have A Cigar" that was the first version of it I ever listened to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PKHYDqxEAE
Fucking Pink Floyd!
Etheral schön, ne ganze experience Wish you where here (*****)
Dans l'ensemble, pas une aussi grande cohésion que Dark Side, mais la prod, le son, les transitions sont top notch. Les mots et la musique sont à puissance égale, certains passage instrumentaux évoquent autant de choses que les paroles de Waters. 4.5 étoiles
Fantastic
I LOVE THIS ALBUM I LOVE PINK FLOYD I LOVE WISH YOU WERE HERE. so perf for studying vibing anything
...
epic, timeless masterpiece
One of my favorite bands and albums. “Traded a walk on role in a war for a lead role in a cage”
Phenomenal album. Especially when you realize “Shine on you crazy diamond” was the band expressing their loss at the eventual forcing out of Syd Barrett due to his diminished mental faculties and substance abuse. Reading the back story about how they hadn’t seen him in two years and didn’t recognize him when he showed up during its recording is heartbreaking.
One of my favorite albums of all time. Would I listen to again? Hell yes.
This is definitely in my top 3 of my favorite pink Floyd albums and has my favorite song from them in wish you were here, great album!
LETS FUCKING GO! Not only is this my favorite Pink Floyd album, its also one of my favorite albums of all time. I honestly believe that this is the closest there is to a PERFECT album. Also the title track is one of my favorite songs of all time, like easily top 5. Ugh, I just love this album so much. Absolutely flawless. Here's my track ranking: 1. Wish You Were Here 2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) 3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9) 4. Welcome to the Machine 5. Have a Cigar
Shine on you crazy diamond is such a calming song. Perfect brain waves. Pink Floyd really saw the world as it is. My mom said they were ‚too intellectual‘ for her. Dad has 5 non-classical vinyls and one of them is Atom Heart Mother. Wish you were here was my favourite song as a kid listening to the radio (we did not have a TV).
Excellent and powerful listen
Don't need to listen to this one to score it, but of course I did anyway.
Vad mer kan sägas? Det är inte ens topp 3 på mina favorit pink floyd album, men det är ändå peak
Maybe I've just got to a certain age, but I thought this was brilliant.
Love this album.
One of the core albums for people who don't know the band other than Dark Side, The Wall, and Animals. Way ahead of it's time regarding use of synths and its recording quality, especially of the drums. Surely one of their masterpieces. Satisfying, nostalgic, and heartbreaking.
Incredible. You should already know that
Beautiful album. 4 perfect songs, 40 great minutes. Can’t go wrong. Loved every second.
11/10
Amazing album. Perfect in every way and I was thrilled to listen to this again.
I doubt even my own mother would care about MY opinion on this absolute masterpiece. Also, just to give her credit, she's the one who introduced it to me.
Flawless in so many ways. Some hard hitting lyrics too, I always liked the end of Wish you were here 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
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Love
Masterpiece. Even the two filler tracks can't bring this below a five.
My favorite Floyd album
The second best Floyd album. A perfect album.
Just perfect
Amazing album. Truly a classic. Maybe Pink Floyd's best
Well, obviously.
как же я обожаю песню Wish You Were Here просто мурашки
For a long time I avoided Pink Floyd. Maybe it’s an age thing but in recent years I’ve realised that yes, they are great and yes, Wish You Were Here is their best album.
One of the best PF albums
Perfect album.
- shine on you crazy diamond - welcome to the machine - wish you were here
God Album, I may never move on from this one, this is one of my top five albums of all time. I feel genuine love for this💗Wish you were here is my favourite song of all time, the imagery and love for another human being has never been expressed better in a song, I feel teary as I have never written down how I feel about this song.
Everyone has to rate 5*
Pretty stellar. I think I actually like it better than Dark Side of the Moon. Great atmospheric music. I listened on noise canceling earphones and the transition from Have a Cigar to Wish You were Here threw me for a loop. Awesome mix and effect.
Somewhat hot take here: This is Pink Floyd’s best album. Yes, I know “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” exist, and they’re exceptional albums too! But there’s just something about this album in particular that gets me. Maybe it’s the gorgeous instrumental opening in “Shine On”, and the raw pain in the vocals. Maybe it’s the industrial sound of “Welcome to the Machine”, a sound that would crop up again a few years later with “The Wall”. Maybe it’s the funky, sleezy sound of “Have a Cigar”. Maybe it’s my favorite Floyd song, “Wish You Were Here”, a song that’s beautiful and equally melancholic. Or, maybe, it’s the eulogy that “Shine On” enacts again at the closer. I think the last part is as close as I can get to my explanation. There’s a tenderness to this album, which serves as an act of mourning to the former band member Syd Barret. It’s an album that explores how you can lose someone who is still alive, and how the circumstances of that loss came about. This is, in essence, an album of grief, an album where the band has to carry on despite missing someone they treasured and loved deeply. And for that raw emotion which dwells within each track, I can say this is the best Pink Floyd album.
My husband and I have very different opinions of this album. He thinks it's boring - he lacks the patience for a slow buildup of sound. For me, the experience is a delight. I just have to save this listening experience for when I'm wearing headphones or have an evening to myself.
Shine on you crazy diamond brings this one to 5
A fantastic album, succinct and focused. No fat to trim at all.
classic
Supreme album and includes a masterpiece of a song in "Wish You Were Here". Felt like I took a fantastic voyage and now I'm at peace. 9/10
Depending on the day, this might be my favorite Floyd album. Maybe not today, but still an easy 5 stars.
"Wish You Were Here" was my introduction to Pink Floyd. I didn't have access to a lot of music at the time so it ended up on frequent repeat, and my appreciation for the album grew a lot over time- and it did have to grow, I kind of didn't like the album on first listen. But the haunting synths and slowly-evolving melodies drew me back. These days, the title track is probably my favorite Pink Floyd song. I'm leaving out a lot of things that I could say in my review here, but I will sum them up briefly: this is a masterpiece of an album.
The reason I love Pink Floyd is that they didn’t do anything by halves. Feeling jaded and like an industry pawn? Write an entire concept album about it. Want to include a tribute to your old band mate? Make it 25 minutes long, bookend the album with it and make it the best goddamn song ever written. Need album art to match the theme? Set a dude on fire. Brilliant.
a classic. don't actually think i've listened to the whole thing in one go before, so still a new experience for me. holy FUCK there's a reason its a classic
Pink Floyd's best. Beautiful album.
Loved Have a Cigar Nice album. Short and Sweet.
Short sweet and amazing
This is my fav Floyd album with bullet.
No notes, good shit
This a 5 record. Amongst the best. Even if you were just grading the transitions between songs, it's the best.
Maybe the best album ever made. Shine on might be the best piece of music ever written. Welcome to the machine is Rick Wright’s best work. Love my man Roy Harper’s vocals on have a cigar. Title track is perfect. 10/10
I can’t believe I forgot about Part VIII
The guitar work on have a cigar is sexier than Barry White’s voice and the guitar work on shine on you crazy diamond is as pure as a Christian 7th grader. The name of the game? Riding the gravy train… Nothing makes me feel as high as a Pink Floyd album. Best enjoyed in a dark room with good sound system or deep in the woods, lost and alone with good headphones. By the way, which one’s Pink?
ABSOLUTE STUNNING ALBUM
Simply put, this is an absolute masterpiece. In my opinion, Pink Floyds finest album and one of the greatest of all time. Top Track - Can’t single one out, all of them are brilliant
well, yes!
10/10 album from shine on you crazy diamond to wish you were here and have a cigar this album is the definition of a perfect album
No words.
Probably the best Pink Floyd album. Sad but relaxing and beautiful. Reeks of melancholy. On a personal level it brings me memories of being slightly drunk in a Chiringuito listening to Shine On You Crazy Diamond during the sunset then falling asleep in the seashore. Ah, those were the days (2 months ago).
GOATD
Definitely a grower, but still excellent on a first(!) full listen.
Love love love. What a journey
IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE
One of the rare albums that never left my headspace ever since I first listened to a couple songs contained in it. Always loved the way Pink Floyd created music. Their music are mostly timeless classics and masterpieces. The WYWH album is pure art in music shape. If you don't enjoy this then you have no taste in music.
A genuine masterpiece and one of my all time favourites. All of the songs are perfect, but the title song and shine on are forever going to be something I come back to. 20/10
This is easily a great album. 10/10 for me. SOYCD is a great tribute to Syd Barrett, and Have a Cigar is a great bop about the evil sides of record companies. Overall, Pink Floyd made an album just as good as the Dark Side of the Moon.
Greatness
This album change my perspective on Pink Floyd. I didn't realize how beautiful their compositions were, or have sophisticated their music was. Five out of five, my life is changed.
Drawn in strictly by the cover art, this was my introduction to Pink Floyd, and the music instantly blew me away. There simply isn't a single bad track on this album
Favorites: The whole album Pure gold. No notes.
Long time Pink Floyd & Syd Barret fan. I love the story that the band tells with this album. It is an all time classic album, every song is great.
In one word... Masterwork.
ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME containing, in my opinion, the great song of all time (Wish You Were Here), which contains the greatest song lyrics of all time: "Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?"
A staple of my early teenage years especially with Welcome to the Machine and the title track. Just wildly amazing stuff. For any other artist this would be their greatest album they would ever make and could ever even dream of making, but for a band of the god status that Pink Floyd is at, it is merely amongst their best.
I need to give this more than 5! It's a 25 compared to most of the other albums I've rated so far..
One of my all time favorites. Great atmospheric composition. Five out of five.
Okay, so, Pink Floyd! One of my favorite bands of alltime and Wish You Were Here - one of my favorite albums. What more can I say, this is an immediate 5 star for me. The atmosphere this album creates is so unique, ahead of its time. Pink Floyd were geniuses. Even now I have a Wish You Were Here poster next to me (as much as I know it's popular, it still feels personal to me). Incredible album, one of the greatest achievements in musical history.
Another Pink Floyd classic?!?! Another track-by-track Fire Joe Morgan/Newman analysis. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts I–V): Fukken phenomenal. This song builds and flows. It has a little something for everyone, except for wrong folks who don't like odd ballads. If you don't know about the Syd Barrett visit, look it up. "Welcome to the Machine:" Fun, robotic track that could serve as good walk-up music. The most boisterous track on the album. "Have a Cigar:" Smoking is bad; this track is not. More great melodies, more of band that is just locked in. "Wish You Were Here:" The title track might be the worst song on the album, but it's still really good. Similar to Beatles' "Come Together," it's just become a little banal for me. Counterpoint: the "living in a fishbowl" lyric continually swims in my brain. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts VI–IX): It's not the earlier amazing parts but chill.
Hell yeah fuck yeah. I just want to be high as fuck in a basement with 10000 cold beers listening to this. Goddamn, that's so good. If I'm honest, Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar do seem a litttttle out of place compared to Shine (1-9) and Wish, but still just a completely wonderful success. 5. Going away.
Probably my favorite album of all time. It’s perfect. Every note, every line, every variation of every theme. 10/10, 5 stars. All favorites, but both parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond + Wish You Were Here top the list. Rest in peace Syd.
Amazing album!
Classic.
One of my favorite albums!
Can't get enough
The tribute to Syd Barrett’s plunge in to and out of rock stardom and sanity. My favorite Floyd album and arguably one of the best ever. I can’t hear Pink Floyd without smelling Lindquist’s basement. “Which one’s Floyd?”
The perfect sounds to sit and stare at the clouds and trees as they move in the wind. Brings about contemplative and nostalgic feelings, the long drawn out songs are a nice change from current media.
My favorite Pink Floyd album.