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Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

1975
4.3
Rating
31337
Votes
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1%
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4%
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13%
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27%
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55%
Distribution
Genres: Rock Styles: Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock

Reviews (page 6 of 16)

So much depth. I do sometimes wish there were no lyrics. It was just all one ambient piece. I also thought I would find it tough to listen to one song for over 12 mins but because of the amount that’s going on I didn’t even realise.

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.

In just my last review I was shitting on Jeff Beck and his guitar wank. This is guitar wank done right.

Why was this 10 hours long

Shine on you crazy diamond- abnormally long but extremely powerful Welcome to the machine- makes me feel like I'm transcending Have a cigar- groovy, upbeat and generally fun, gorgeous ending Wish you were here- pure and beautiful, I love the tone of the guitar

oh my, this is one of my favorite albums ever. I own it on vinyl. So so good

Obviously great album. All time classic.

Already knew most of these songs, so I liked it. Pink Floyd is definitely a vibe I have to be looking for, but when it hits it hits.

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

not my usual type music but I get why it’s so popular - some moments weren’t super me but I liked it!

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

حلو بس ممل بعطي الباند فرصه ذو

Really pleasant listen, complex instrumentals. Not my favorite Pink Floyd.

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.

This was meh

That is some sweet album art. There's a lot going on in this record. It feels like it's traversing through different rock genres, all while making every track connected to the next. Favourite Track(s): Have a Cigar, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (All Parts) Least Favourite Track(s): Welcome to the Machine

Songs are quite long, longest being track 1 at 13:32.

Before listening: I am familiar with Pink Floyd but do not usually gravitate towards them ever but that's not to say they are bad or anything. The album name is familiar but this cover art is not. I think the cover art is striking and not something i would associate with a band or even music it feels very high art. The framing of the burnt photograph with the subject also burning doing a deal with himself, there's a lot to be said about this artwork. I assume the association with the album will translate to self sabotaging in some capacity along with corporate America and performance of self. Listening: Very Blade Runner start, sadness of place in space. Ethereal. Fever dream energy, will there be singing? almost 9 min i see. Unfortunately the singing does not fit the vibe i was having a second ago. The saxophone is great. We in an industrial building going to work, the world building is cool. Dark energy, i might be darker if i were reading the lyrics but i am not. There is a lot to unpack with this one, very experimental. There is a complexity that requires more focus than I'm giving it. I always enjoy ambient sounds to create a full picture of a setting at the start or end of a song and its done well here. There is a lot of story telling happening, its going over my head a little but the feeling is persisting. Wish you were here was the most digestible, very radio ready in a good way. It feels like being put to bed for the last time, in a child like sense and an end of life sense. After listening: Very somber, profound. Not at all exciting like i thought Pink Floyd was but i also know my limited understanding of Pink Floyd is just wrong. I enjoyed this more in an art gallery type of way not on the way to work kind of way. I feel heavy. 8/10

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

Wish you were here good- not in the mood for some of these songs but I want to revisit cause I know they’re good

Saxophone in the last 2 mins of shine on you crazy diamond 1-5, no notes The synth throughout!!!!

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

Shine on you crazy diamon - I love how they can make guitar speak. Vocals are soft but theatrical. Welcome to the machine - Industial sounds go well with acustic guitar in this song but I don't really like vocals here. Wish you were here - My favourite track on this album. It feels like watching sunset from the porch of cabin, summer evening with your closest friends and/or bitter sweetending. Have a cigar isn't much outstanding for me 'cause of vocals which i don't really like here. Overall really good and iconic album. I liked it even though I wouldn't have listened to it if it hadn't been recommended to me. Itstrumentals were perfect but I'm not a big fan of vocals in all of these songs. But i can feel that Wish you were here will stich with me for a long time.

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

It’s alright, Pink Floyd leave me a bit cold in the main. Couple of tunes that are great. Otherwise just kicks along

Background listen. Got pulled over while listening to this.

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.

Good album overall. Floyd does it like no one else. That being said… there were a few times I found myself saying “could we get to the point?” Bit rambly at points…

A great band, a great album, and just a fun listen. The guitar licks are groovy and this is the kind of album you could bump over and over again

enjoyable as hell

to quote my brother, "wait, this is one song?"

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.

Liked it

I tried to come up with a reason not to give this to a 5 and failed horribly.

4,5/5 - timeless classic. amazing artwork, could stare at it for hours.

A little self indulgent. With their other work, I'm not sure this belongs here. i used to love Shine on you crazy diamond, but lets see what else comes from this app.

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.

Never been a Pink Floyd fan but enjoyed this and it might be the entry for me to listen to some more

Fine - I understand why people love this band.

a timeless masterpiece

extremely long songs, especially / more specifically shine on you crazy diamond, pts.1-5;6-9 the songs aren’t bad, just very long, which I feel like is a bittttt exaggerated but idk maybe it’s some lore of theirs which I haven’t understood yet. I really like the transition from wish you were here to shine on you crazy diamond, pts.6-9.

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).

The first time I listened to Pink Floyd, I ate a pretty large amount of mushrooms and listened to "Dark Side Of The Moon" while watching The Wizard of Oz. Well, it turns out all Pink Floyd albums feel exactly like that.

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.

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

Viisi biisiä? Näin ainakin aple musicissa. No joo. Psykorokkia. Elokuvasoundtrackmaista meininkiä. Ei tätä voi vihatakaan

Good vibes! I would play this in the background while doing something I really enjoy.

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.

This is a good one from start to finish. Enjoyed it.

Syd Barrett's story is very interesting to me. He basically fries himself with LSD to where his band, his best friends basically, can't stand him and leave him and eventually write an album, widely considered one of their best, about him. He shows up to the recording of the album and he's so far gone he can't even recognize that the album is about him. Stick to alcohol kids

Haven't listened to this one in years. I bet it holds up? So musically - the opening track has a 9 minute guitar solo to start, and then the song begins. That's a little much for me. But honestly - it mostly works! David Gilmour's playing is so expressive and lyrical. I don't even mind. And that riff that comes in at 4 minutes is excellent. The second round of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a little less impressive to me, but it's pretty fun overall. The three "real" songs in the middle are all excellent musically. My main issue with this album is the theming. Wish You Were Here seems to be about Syd Barrett and the many pitfalls of the music industry. An industry I am not defending! But I'm sorry - am I supposed to empathize with a rock band that rose to stardom at a time when rock bands had a huge amount of creative control over their work, could make tons of cash from recording as well as touring, and were often seen as gods on Earth? "But I didn't like school!!!" Oh cry me a river, Roger. "THEY WANTED ME TO GET A JOBBBBB" Jesus. Get a grip. FOUR STARS

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.

2/5 not the worst thing I've ever heard guitar parts and vocals were good but the generic use of synths got boring it felt like a 45-minute intro to a song but i appreciate what they where trying to do

Obviously 5/5. No notes.

Sick album

Not for me, need more lyrics. Love wish you were here tho

I enjoyed some of the instrumental jam type sequences throughout the first and closing songs. Nice to get lost a bit in the journey of that, but overall I found this album pretty boring and slow. I didn’t feel any stirring of emotions or feeling as I listened.

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.

I enjoyed this album. Very cohesive and reflective.

Fantastic

Outstanding tbh. Best prog rock I’ve heard. Crazy Diamond man fuck yes life is good.

Great synth, wish the vocals were less forced, I've heard it a hundred times so it's comfy

Wish Animals Were Here

album with excellent songs, very recommended!

Wat langdradig, maar nog best ok. 3/5

No notes

I like Pink Floyd but this was a bit much.

There is some interesting stuff here and I feel for them. It just really doesn't do it for me.

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?

Every time I go to listen to pink floyd I think this will be the time, but every time it just goes on and on. It all just feels so ploddy and strained. Shine on you crazy diamond is really good of course, pts 1-5 and 6-9, but everything in between I just can't get on board with

“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.

Good smooth rock album with clean vocals and instruments. While short I really like it. Not much else to add when its a old school rock album. A genre I listen to and have listened to a lot.

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.

Quelques passages iconiques mais je suis pas le plus grand fan de pink Floyd, c'est un peu trop lent à mon goût. Ça reste très bon 4/5

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.

Pretty sweet. It took a couple listens for me to come around on PF.

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).

I like this but it doesn’t totally personally connect for me… will prob revisit it in time!

ok like i hear the music, and I think its good. I like what im hearing... and this album is basically a Roger Waters album so i like it even more... but then i just have never understood the ppl who think floyd is the best band ever... like theyre good!!!! but idk

Would have rated higher if vocals were better. Great instrumentals.

(100/🤪💎💎💎💎💎💎)

Great driving music

They called this shit a concept album but didn’t even stick to a concept. & no, you’re 13 minute tracks aren’t impressive when they’re literally just four separate songs put into one long track. I like two Pink Floyd songs, they suck.

Who gives a shit?

Wish you were here is one of the all time tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond are also stellar. The album loses me a little through the middle with welcome to the machine, and have a cigar. I think it’s probably part of a broader concept. I don’t dislike those tracks, they just pale in significance. It may be a reflection of my attention span, or perhaps my generation more broadly, but there is a lot of ambient noodling on instruments that I find a little tedious. All in all, it’s a stark contrast to my day one Duck Rock. 4/5

Jakoś bardzo mnie to nie grzeje. Nie mój klimat, ale nie jest złe oczywiście.

Wow the electronic instrumentals sounds very dreamy and futuristic. very good background music though

Dope. No notes!

Flawless

The best Pink Floyd album, full stop.

Honestly don’t have anything to say about this one

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.

5 songs all really long, wish you were here carries

The thing about Pink Floyd is they take a lil while to start singing

lovely!!!!! i love a long song

Adore this album.

5/5 It's simply one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Won't say much more.

absolute best

Truly great album - proper ethereal!

Forget albums to listen to before you die… I want to listen to this one as I die. Please make this my life outro.

Riff of first track goes hard. And the “how I wish you were here” line

Welcome to the Machine is a very interesting song with some interesting instrument choices. Very cool. On the whole, it's not the most thrilling album, but it's certainly an interesting one. 3/5 stars.

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.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Levyn alku oli vähän liian rauhallista vaikka kivoja kitara fiilistelyä mutta loppu olikin yhtä ilotulitusta loppuun saakka. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ei ole tämä bändi ikinä uponnut niin paljon kuin sen ehkä pitäisi. Kova levy kuitenkin.

I'm not a big Pink Floyd fan, I've found a lot of their albums pretty hard to get into or a bit boring. I think I like this one a bit more than most I've heard. It has a bit of a different style to it that I prefer Standouts Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V) 4/5

Classic album. Long moody tracks and a little bit self-indulgent, but enough great moments for core and more general fans.

One of the greatest easy-listening albums ever made. Oh, and Have a Cigar. 5/5

Hadn't listen to this album in its entirety before. Started slow and wasn't sure when it was gonna kick in. Gotta have been wild as a teenager in the 70s getting to the record store and queuing this up. Would've blown a lot of minds.

Not my favorite of theirs and yet it is still Pink Floyd. 3.7

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

Fond memories of getting high as shit with Tyler and listening to this on Isaac's couch. Not the world's biggest Pink Floyd guy but this is definitely my favorite. Plus one for the nostalgia piece.

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

Me gusta mucho. Creo que empiezo a entender esta gente. Se parecen mas al jarre o a vangelis que a otras cosas

The birth of chill. One of Pink Floyd's Big Four. Perfection

I just cannot swallow this attempt at emotion, it rings so hollow and trite to me.

this album feels like unc popped a tab around the campfire and started telling you about the good ol days

Too long and boring but my god those guitar tones

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.

Who knew songs could be over ten minutes and good! Very interesting perspective that this record really only has five songs, but is still one of Pink Floyd’s defining works. It’s just not my personal favorite of theirs. Best Track: Wish You Were Here

A few songs--and one of my favourite Floyd songs, "Wish You Were Here"--embedded in a symphonic prog rock elegy that somehow transcends its longwinded excess. Or maybe that's the point. Really sad. Not a real Pink Floyd enthusiast, but I used to play a tape of this in my walkman to fall asleep every night during one particularly angsty phase.

Classic. Love all the soaring moments, but the end just seemed to be phoned in.

It’s hard to listen to this with fresh ears since, amazingly enough, all the songs are classic rock radio staples. And PF have always been too ponderous and self-important for my tastes. But they also had a keen sense for melody and the guitar work and arrangements can be stunning.

this one is a classic

Great performances and atmosphere. Felt a little samey to other Floyd stuff I've heard in the part though

really long but enjoyable journey, looking forward to the others

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.

Pretty cool, but not as good as Dark Side of the Moon. Liked the instrumental sections and the electronic aspects. Favorite Track: Wish You Were Here

Really liked this — started off poorly because I wasn’t open-minded wrt the intro but picked up throughout the project

Yeah, I like it! Didn't expect that. This is slightly more subdued Pink Floyd? Not too spacey, not too weird, good vocals. Yeah, nice.

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.

A solid, but overrated Pink Floyd album

> dark side

On continuous play.

Another great band! Great music, unique sound. Music spans generations.

nicht wirklich meins, hab mir halt nirgends gedacht wow wie cool

The individual tracks were quite long and didn’t really grab my attention but nonetheless a decent album

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

not everything on this album is perfect for me But Wish you were here now is great

Best of the big 3

they were kinda dragging it a bit too much...a couple of good songs a couple of bad ones

Wow. I never really sat down and listened to Pink Floyd. This was quite a journey. The tracks are long but don’t feel like they drag on. The production is perfect and every note feels immaculately placed (even the sexy sax solo!). I’m looking forward to hearing more from them.

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

The third best Pink Floyd album.

Approaching its 50th anniversary in a few weeks and this still sounds fresh and interesting. A true classic.

Firstly, I’ve never liked “Welcome to the Machine”, which, given its length and the fact that it’s one of only five songs, is a lot to overcome. Secondly, although I like everything else, I differ from the mindset that others have shared so far: for me, it’s absolutely no contest between this and Dark Side, which is as five-star an album as five stars can be in my book. Pink Floyd isn’t even one of my absolute favorite artists (they probably wouldn’t crack my top 50, at least), but Dark Side has always sounded like sheer perfection to me, whereas WYWH has always “merely” been an album I really like. I think “Have a Cigar” is cool as hell, SoYCD is a hell of a composition (I particularly love parts 1-5), and though I may have suffered from burnout in the title track at one point in my life, I’ve come back around to having no issues with it (and thinking it’s a gorgeous, flawless song). As always for Floyd, the performances are nothing short of stellar, and if someone were to argue that it was the emotional apex of their catalog, I wouldn’t disagree at all (if anyone is somehow still unaware of the story surrounding this record, it’s well worth your time to read up on it). It’s just not my preferred album of theirs, or in general. Undoubtedly a 5-star achievement that, in this horrific game of applying a stupid fucking number to assess personal enjoyment, is a high 4 stars for me. 4/5

What a 5 breathtaking 5

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

Wishy washy arena rock silliness, but I like it

One of the greatest.

Classic album for me.

Probably the only Pink Floyd album you don't need chemical enhancement to appreciate. Wrapping "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" around the album hits is an interesting move. The middle of the album is foundational to every classic rock radio station in the world. My Rating: 4/5

I've been wanting to listen to this album. It is not as good as dark side of the moon, but it was good in giving that classic Pink Floyd aesthetic of vocal free music. It is much shorter than I was expecting. If I came across a used version of this, I would probably get the vinyl. I gave it a second listen, and it is an amazing rock background music, and when the vocals finally come in for "shine on you crazy diamond," very soul lifting

Klassiker

Molt bo...i molt tranqui...7'5.

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

This was great - I get the hype and the songs were fantastic, journeys into themselves as well as contributing to the whole album journey.

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

i hate pink floyd, pretentious dinosaur rock

A classic favorite. I've listened to it in it's entirety hundreds of times over the years.

I listened to this album too many times as a teenager... I still acknowledge its merit but I can't think of it anymore as music for grown-ups. In particular, they take themeselves so fucking seriously: not a glimpse of irony or detachment here. Especially in your lyrics, Roger. It's still somewhat touching how you talk about Syd but, hey man, let's not forget you kicked him out of the band!

I hate giving more than two stars to a Pink Floyd album but it's quite nice to put on in the background if you're busy. It's hard to be bored to tears by a 14 minute song if I'm answering emails and enduring the stale wit of coworkers at the same time. Almost any song of 3.5 minutes is too long, but I will say they were good at what they did. Drugs would make this album better- maybe not an office record. Best song: ¨Wish You Were Here¨

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

Very good.

Good album, familiar with lost songs

pretty good

It’s a solid album, although Wish You Were Here is by far the best song on it.

I feel like this list has made me truly understand the appeal to Pink Floyd. As I seen (or rather heard) on Dark Side of the Moon, Floyd is about the whole journey, rather than the singles. The way they mix the ethereal, the darkness in a beautiful manner is exceptional. I love the way everything flows together and how they blend synths and sound effects to make all the songs pop. I can’t say this gave me the same impact that Dark Side had, so I don’t exactly think it’s the band’s best album. But it’s still a great album, especially given the context of it as a tribute to Syd Barrett. Favorite track: Wish You Were Here Other hits: Welcome to the Machine, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (all the parts)

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.

it was a good listen. Wish you were here is one of my favorite songs

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.

Great album. Goosebumps included ——————————— Liked: — Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5); — Have a Cigar; — Wish You Were Here; — Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9)

It sounds like a Pink Floyd album. That is all.

I know it's not cool to like this, but it kind of slaps in an old white dude kind of way

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.

Wish You Were Here is bangin'.... the rest of the album is such a snooze. Shoulda' been a single.

I'd put this on after DSOTM to keep the good vibes going, but they just don't keep going in the way I would want.

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

The rumors are true: it's amazing

very self-indulgent, very good.

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

Reminds me of mum. Oh How I Wish You Were Here.

Powerful instrumentals, but I want more vocals and better vocals

Fantastic

I LOVE THIS ALBUM I LOVE PINK FLOYD I LOVE WISH YOU WERE HERE. so perf for studying vibing anything

I was never really sure if I liked long, jammy, wankery instrumentals but I've realised that - shockingly - it comes down to whether I like the music or not. Pink Floyd do these phenomenally. But the stuff in-between the two prog rock noodling doesn't really hit it for me. It's not terrible, but it's not really any good either. It's just there, just a bit meh. Pink Floyd have definitely done better things.

epic, timeless masterpiece

Liked this, but it’s not 5 stars. There’s not enough there and some of the tracks are poor in comparison to others.

Classic for a reason

Enjoyable. It is good Floyd. It’s a 3-4 but I think shine on tips the scales in its favour such a good track

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.

Bon ben c'était quand même moins chiant que le reste.

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!

good, some bangers

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.

Out of all the Pink Floyd albums I’ve gotten (this is my 4th), I think this is my favorite. The actual music on this album is just downright fantastic. The only thing that drops this from being a 5 is the vocals. Every time someone started singing, I kept wishing they’d shut up so I could go back to listening to just the music.

väldigt bra hela vägen igenom, hade lite svårt för några val gällande ljuddesign och sången gjorde stundtals inte resten av elementen rättvisa, men det är relativt små saker.

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.

oh pink floyd thank you for the album

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.

Couldn’t listen to this on a Monday. Mondays are bad enough as it is.

Incredible. You should already know that

Pink Floyd has always been interesting to me in the sense that, when speaking with their fans, you always get a different opinion on their favorite album: DSOTM, Animals, Syd Barrett solo work. Their body of work and the way that (mostly) Roger Watters mined himself for material is so impressive. Love this album.

I'm not the biggest fan of prog concept albums. In general, I find them pretentious and self-indulgent. This is an exception to that rule. It's still a bit overwrought but it is still beautiful and highly listenable.

Beautiful album. 4 perfect songs, 40 great minutes. Can’t go wrong. Loved every second.

I knew and liked Wish You Were Here. I didn’t like any of the other songs. They were way too long. It took almost 9 minutes for someone to sing in one of the songs. Not for me.

Amazing album. Perfect in every way and I was thrilled to listen to this again.

Nostalgic

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.