Wish You Were Here

this isn't a record in the sense of what the separation of tracks is literally. rather, it is one long composition telling a loose framework of events leading up to its creation. several things are happening in this album that pull the curtain for Pink Floyd as a group. its been done to death what they are talking about and what concepts are displayed. i personally like this more in theory than practice. earlier Pink Floyd with Syd is my style, and that era is a huge theme in this. when it comes to prog rock and ultimately the power of storytelling, this is the meta holy grail. besides the wall, (lol) this basically is the artists showing the audience the truth in a way that can't be censored or delineated by forces above them. without being too on the nose, they are saying that the music industry is not a magical place, but instead a slimy organization that causes individuals within it to make horrible, long lasting decisions. from start to end, you are sucked into the shoes of the band from humble beginnings to gigantic undefinable ends. of course on a technical level, this is probably the best that's ever been made. while seemingly short, its so concise that it never skips a beat, never lulls in silence unnecessarily. styles for the time are lightyears forward as what would be standard in rock for incorporating any influence necessary to tell the story that no one genre can. listening to this zaps you to a period in music where a portal is opened and you have this built in lore that goes with the record and follows the band on tour and adds to it with live experiences. it shatters the expectation of song length, adding debate to what is the best of time versus what goes on the radio. i have tried to be into this particular piece, and i do like all the sum of the parts, but its always been an album that friends and music heads talk about more than i listen to alone. 4/5 because of how relevant this is today. the title track hits home because it is famously about the previous singer, his decline, and the remorse felt after his absence. any musician will attest to this feeling.

Damn. Never heard this before. Just damn.

Not all Pink Floyd albums are brilliant. This one is.

i get so unbelievably happy when i get generated an album that I've already heard a million times before. Once in a lifetime band, once in a lifetime album. Nothing I can say will suffice, and there is nothing I could say that has not been said a million times before me.

I’m not sure I really got the concept of this one (something about the corruption of the music industry I think?), but liked it nonetheless. Wish you were here is an all time song.

Struggling to listen to this. It’s good, but there are events of my life associated with this band and. So I never listen to them. Never listened to the full first or last “shine on you crazy diamond”. Skipped “have a cigar”. I’ve heard that one a lot. I’ve always loved “wish you were here”. Listening again and I still love it. I hate admitting that I like this album. Some of the songs are really overplayed or were where I grew up. The second “shine on” to close the album is really great. I think I’m a third through it and I love it. Vocals just kicked on. No one sounds like Pink Floyd.

I've not listened to this one before, I love pink Floyd, this isn't my favourite but it's quite a nice album listened to altogether

2/4

-have a cigar

What a great album cover first thing, that needs extra points. Crazy Diamond is absolutely peak. I was joking about Born To Run having 8 songs but being 40 minutes long, this feels like it earns it by having a much better vibe. You can really fall into the music and get lost in it. Welcome to the Machine is the weakest point here but even then it's still a decent song.

It was fine. Actually enjoyed Pink Floyd.

Easy 5. Glorious and luxurious. Moody but my mood lifted in listening somehow

The best pink Floyd album for me

The second best Pink Floyd album for me

This was a happy reprieve after some of the stuff that we have had lately. A masterwork.

Absolute heavyweight entry. Nasty hooks together with the sort of English brooding that nobody does better than Pink Floyd.

Yes, sure.

Jumallevy. Tää on kuunneltu sata kertaa mutten ikinä tylsisty! 5/5

Kokonainen, letkeä ja ylipäätään hieno teos, vaikkakin poikkeaa hieman aiemmasta tuotannosta. 5/5

Enkelte partier blir litt langdryge, men på sitt beste er dette et mesterverk. Beste låt: Wish You Were Here

There is literally nothing I can say about this album that hasn't already been said.

one of the greatest

Peak absolute peak

I played the hell out of this album when I worked in radio years ago, and it's seared into my soul. That David Gilmour guitar hits those pockets like no other. What a record!

Musically great if you like this kind of thing, but it's almost just instrumental.

4.25

Overall: 10/10 Beautiful. I've always adored this album. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is an epic tribute to an old friend. Welcome to the Machine is electronic goodness. Have a Cigar is the hard rocker with probably my favourite bassline in any Pink Floyd song. Wish You Were Here is just one of the best songs ever written. This is definitely an album everyone should listen to before they die. Fav Song: Wish You Were Here Least Fav Song: Welcome to the Machine

One of the best albums of all time.

Among the best of the band, very few songs, but each and every one were very good in it's own way, the psychedelic waves at the beginning and the end, and the memorable songs in the middle. Very good record all around.

Great album!

Ha...easy.

Falls shy of the massively weird genius of "Dark Side," but follows that up admirably. Much better than the bloated, indulgence of "The Wall." "Welcome to the Machine" grates more than it needs to, but the rest works: "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" could be twice as long, and captures Floyd at its maximalist hypnotically harmonically melodically symphonically gorgeous best. "Have a Cigar" and the title track are both perfect, of course. It's too slight to merit 5 stars, but it's very good stuff - this isn't a one-great-album band.

Geita

wonderful, of course

Album 820 of 1089 Pink Floyd & Wish You Were Here (19756) Rating : 5 / 5 I came to this one later in my music listening life. My sisters had it when I was a kid, but I wasn’t supposed to mess with their albums—I'd just stare at the cover with the man on fire and wonder what kind of music was hiding inside. Now, I totally get why it’s always in the “greatest album of all time” conversations. This morning, 5 a.m., coffee and smoke on the porch—I wondered if it might feel too proggy for my mood. It wasn’t. It was a complete, emotional, sonic work of art from beginning to end. This one will certainly be in the discussion when I have to pick a final top album at the end of this.

Another top tier album. Almost a 5 but not quite there. All great songs though and will listen to again at some point in time. Have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 8.5/10 (4.25/5)

Amazing creativity and song writing, with such iconic songs/sounds.

One of my favourites. Shine on you crazy diamond is perfection

5song album?? 13.5min,7.5min,5min,5min,12min songs. Ridiculous! Still sounds excellent. Except for the 8min of car noise and whooshs at the end of the tracks

I admit to loving Pink Floyd, and I find this to be one of their best albums. There are great songs on here like “Wish You Were Here” and “Have A Cigar”, but what makes this record work is the atmosphere and resulting hypnotic vibe it creates. A mesmerizing and enthralling listening experience that was a seminal one as a young person and still hits home to this day.

Really enjoyed it, and I completely see why and how influential it was. Great instrumental and vocals but got a little boring towards the end

Rock + jazz this is probably one of the best albums there are I really like the line “did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in the cage” for how it challenges pacivity

one of the best

album so good i pissed myself

One of the greatest of all time

Shoulda done acid first

i’ve been in a massive slump for this project but i might as well write something about this. i’ve listened to this album a million times. wish you were here is one of my favorite songs ever. the whole album is just amazing pretty much. i don’t want to write all that much but man pink floyd was so fucking good. wish roger and dave liked each other more back then we could have even more bangers

Not my favourite Pink Floyd album but still very good. 4 stars or B+.

Excellent. Transcendent, deep, moving, and a must-listen for any rock n roll fan.

Really do.

their most iconic album

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, ITS 5 STARS!

No review needed.

What an old favorite. Not much more can be said that hasn’t already. I think one of the first albums I ever bought as a kid when it first came out. Sitting in my room with the headphones on. What a trip.

5/5

Fire

Absolute masterpiece. The story and concert behind this is one of the best ever. All 5 songs are incredible. My second favorite from them 10/10 5*

9/10

Classic Brit Rock.

eh

Have you ever had a friend who thinks of themself as "an intellectual?" In reality their "intellectualism" is just their excuse to be pompous and ridiculous about mundane things or to embrace incredibly unpopular opinions. This album is that friend. I think it wanted to be an intellectual album. Instead, we got an album that takes itself way too seriously while having the overall plot/musical development of the average sea cucumber. What a pompous, unfortunate album.

what am I supposed to say. 5/5 like.. yeah

I'm just not a Pink Floyd fan, sue me

The style of yelling in welcome to the machine made me want to shove my ears into a woodchipper machine. If not for that it would’ve been a 4.

i liked this a lot! good reading music. wish you were here is great

Going somewhere but not totally succeeding. Bonus points for ambition though! 3.5

Not a big Floyd fan but if I was going to like a record it would be this one

♫ Listening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5" by Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here, 1975) ♫

Kult! Avslappende å høre på, uten at det blir kjedelig. Tror det er mange lag å oppdage her ved fremtidige lytt. Noen partier blir i overkant lange og rare, men virker ekstremt gjennomført.

One of my favourites. Incredible

Dark Side may have the most memorable songs, The Wall may have the most memorable story, but I think this is Pink Floyd's best album. The songs are long and slow but they never meander and always feel like thy have purpose. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a psychedelic adventure that bookends everything but Welcome to the Machine, Have A Cigar, and the title track all stand alone as well. Gilmour and Waters obviously have hated each other for 4 decades (and Waters has gone to the loony bin himself) but I'm grateful we got 4 classic albums out of them over 7 years.

Wow

Peak

Fine album.

One of the all time greats and a personal long time favorite

1 star per song

Wish You Were Beer

Goes down like a breeze, great album that deals with what they were at the moment(top rock band with Have a Cigar and Welcome to The Machine) and who they used to be with Syd Barrett (Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here)

S+ tier music, solid gold from start to finish. wish you were here is the weakest song and it's a great song.

I have the records, I have the posters, I have the cigar. They don't tell you how small the man on fire is in the sea of white on the record.

10/10 Which one’s Pink?

Classic Pink Floyd

An album in a world of songs put back to back on a list. An arc of music in a world of squiggly lines. It’s magnificent, still. And the title track is one of the greatest songs of all time. Prog rock artists that remembered to write songs made albums that stand above the rest. It’s such a joy to go back to this album, as I often do.

Welcome to the Machine is one of the best songs ever written

One of my favorite band and on top of that, two of my favorite tunes on a great album.

The shine on you’s en wish you were here geweldig. De 2 andere nummers niet zo. Eigenlijk 3.5 maar Wish You Were Here maakt dat het dan toch een 4 is

Great album, one the best.

Long tracks, alot of music and not alot of vocals. I like their sound. I need to listen to them more.

The title track 🔥

Shine on 1&2 and Wish you were here are otherworldly, but listening to this front to back as an adult just doesn’t hit the same way as when I was 13. If I could do half stars we’d be at 3.5/5

Enjoyable. Won’t seek this out on my own, but wouldn’t hate to listen to it again.

Spectacular band.

It was okay. I'm not going out to buy it, but if someone put it on I'd listen. I think the biggest problem was that the songs felt like they lacked structure. It just felt like some really good musicians noodling around on their instruments.

Typically throughout this list l, I’ve not enjoyed “Psychedelic Rock” and I’ve never been a big Pink Floyd fan. Some of their songs are okay. I found this album intriguing though. Maybe it finally clicked? It’s definitely a “sink into the couch” kind of album, but there’s something about this particular Pink Floyd album that got me. I think it was the intricacies of the instruments.

First duplicate band. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I wouldn't relisten.

Solid 4.5, classic album, wish it went out a little bit more absolutely though

An easy 5

mate, its wish you were here. the best pink floyd album.

Before University gave me much better things to do on a late Friday night, I was a Friday Rock Show regular (God bless Tommy Vance). Shine On You Crazy Diamond was a fixture in the annual Top 10. And deservedly so.

 I have heard most of the tracks on WYWH over the years but have never listened to the album end to end. “Shine On” is a masterpiece. It’s a track that feels far shorter than its actual length. I wasn’t sure about reprising it at the end of the album. I thought it was lazy. But on subsequent listens, I appreciate the bookend. Of the other 3 tracks there’s no weakness, though it does seem odd to have Roy Harper singing on Cigar - but it works. Of the Pink Floyd albums I know (this, The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon), this is my favourite.

i like it!

3,9/5

One of those albums you sent to aliens because it is so good. I won’t hesitate to give this to anyone that wants to expand their tasting music.

A classic and a favorite.

My favourite pink Floyd album

One of my favourite Pink Floyd albums.

A masterpiece and not even my favorite album by Pink Floyd.

Welcome to the machine och Have a cigar öppnade mina öron på ett sätt som få låtar nånsin gjort när jag hörde dem under tonåren men resten av albumet har växt på senare år och alla fem låtar är bland dom bästa låtar som gorts. Tror inte det finns ett enda album med högre lägstagrad än detta. Det enda negativa är att albumomslaget är lite tråkigt, annars total perfektion från början till slut.

Gillade mer än förraa gången jag lyssnade! Titelspåret är 5/5.

All time great

Very vibey, felt like I should be high

5 sterne

Perfect

43 minutes for 5 songs is quite a length. Lots of hype around Pink Floyd I've heard some of their stuff before including the titular track, but never listened to this whole album. First part of Shine On is kinda haunting. Welcome to the Machine is interesting and experimental. Have a Cigar is great. Weirdly, the well known title track is probably the weakest song on the album for me. Overall, an excellent listen.

Just not my thing

This album is one of my favorites!!

Заслушанный до дыр.

Like the vibes and instrumental Fav song - Welcome To The Machine 4/5

One of those really classic albums I just never listened to. It was pretty good. Glad I finally heard it but also who cares.

I was obsessed with this album around 1994. Music like this just doesn’t exist anymore. In my top10 all time

LOVE IT. know that isn’t too surprising but first time I’ve actually properly listened to them. Maybe helped by just waking up, having the headphones in and going on a proper journey through all the soundscapes and many, MANY layers to each song. SUCH great production. Enjoyed ‘wish you were here’ the song, but actually my least favourite on the album, which was surprising. Great bookends in the intro and outro too. Great album in so many ways. Excited for the next PF albums on the list now.

Top Three Songs: 1) Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 2) Wish You Were Here 3) Have A Cigar Bottom Three Songs: 1) Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 6-9 2) Welcome To The Machine 3) Have A Cigar

This is awesome. I like The Wall even better, but this is great as well.

This album makes me understand why pot was such a big deal in the 70s.

Kom igen, get aload of This guy

Uno de los mejores álbumes de la historia.

I DISTINCTLY remember hearing this album for the very first time... heck, it was Pink Floyd... so you KNEW to take that precious record to your room... put it on the stereo... get your headphones on, and spark up your... um... relaxation method of choice... ahem... and as the kids say, "get into it"... if you are not of a certain age... if you are not used to being ENGULFED by a sonic piece of ARTWORK... the beginning of this record will hit you differently, but to me... it was the ULTIMATE way a record should start... "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"... is a masterpiece in and of itself... from it's opening strains... to when the whole band kicks in... it's like when "The Wizard of Oz" turns technicolor... The Drums... the arrangement... everything... BEAUTIFUL... PERFECTION... and when you think, how can this get any better... "Welcome to The Machine"... wow... EPIC piece... number two... and then... "Have a Cigar" sung by Roy Harper... they say Roger couldn't sing it, and David turned it down... turned it down??? lol... whoa... anyway... all three songs to begin the record were tape measure HOMERUNS... and then you heard the beginning acoustic guitar part of... "Wish You Were Here"... one of the greatest songs of my lifetime... and you knew Roger meant Syd Barrett... the crazy diamond, himself... poignant... beautiful... and then close with "Shine On..." as a reprise/curtain closer... an absolute breathtaking piece of art... Five stars... six if it were allowed.

I guess I'm a Pink Floyd fan now. This is why I started going through this list for. I found a masterpiece that I had never heard before. The only bad thing I can say is that I liked Welcome to the Machine a bit less than the rest of the album.

Having now listened to this and the wall i assume they felt one decent track was sufficient to justify an album and then then name it after that song. This album could and should have been a single with s shortened version of track 5 as the b-side. Overblown pretentious crap

My biggest problem with this album is that it feels like hard work to get to the good stuff - and this has some good stuff (compared to The Wall, which I heard earlier in the project, and was utter tripe beyond the title track). It just doesn’t really feel like it was worth the effort, which takes all the shine (ahem) off of it.

"The album begins with a long instrumental preamble" says Wikipedia and it was accompanied by a long sigh from me. Pink Floyd are a band where I really love parts of songs (the actual lyrical part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond is great*) but you have to wade through so much noodling to get to the good bits. I could have also done without the parts that made it sound like my headphones were broken. I like the majority of the title track though. * I absolutely accept this might be down to nostalgia - both parents loved that song, and Pink Floyd in general, so I heard it a lot as a kid. I enjoyed this more than The Wall, so I'm going for a 3, even though I think it's technically a 2.5. 3/5

One (maybe one and a half) good songs strung out into a whole album … yawn

All time God tier masterpiece

Masterpiece - nothing less🤌

3.5 I’m not a Pink Floyd guy, never have been, not one of my classic bands. This is the first album of theirs I’ve listened to all the way through. Also crazy it took over halfway through this project to get my first album of theirs. I know they show up multiple times on this list. I really liked the middle three songs. I found Crazy Diamond a bit indulgent, and that’s over half the album, so! But production is amazing and practically perfect. I definitely see why this is people’s favorite band of all time.

Loses one star for wankery self indulgence but there's some genuinely inspired guitar playing and very cool song structures.

The GOAT

all time classic

Trying to get through this backlog and I do not need this depressing shit right now! But it was mostly pretty good. Did not enjoy as much as The Wall, but enjoyed more than The Rainbow Triangle One.

Synth rock. Just really don’t like this type of psych rock. One more star for the title track, which is wonderful.

I do wish the tracks were shorter, but that's prog for you, eh. Obviously good, not sure if I'll save any cos they're long, but I liked it.

Another top 10 prog classic…

I don’t think I’ve ever listened to this album during the day before, and certainly never just with tea and biscuits to imbibe. I still really enjoyed it though. So that’s good.

Off the cuff remark: Hated self-indulgent, bombastic splurge of Floyd when I was, ahem, younger. Old dads hippy nonsense. As an old Dad it holds a little more interest and certainly recognise influence on other stuff I like much more, but... Standout Track: Wish Yo Were Here Revisit?: probably not.

Opmerkingen niet nodig.

Legendarisch.

Peak Pink Floyd sans the concept. Five (well, technically four) killer tracks.

One of my favorites. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a masterpiece.

Not bad, 3/5. Didn't like two of the songs.

Legendary

fairly decent!

Ok

Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.

It takes me places every time

Found this strangely melancholy and menacing at the same time. Ot really felt like an opera, no one track stood out (well except maybe the eponymous track) you had to listen to it as a whole. I own both the Wall and Dark side of the moon, but this was different,more subtle, more wounded. It's almost operatic. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” is broken into two long bookending parts that frame the whole thing, like the overture and finale of an opera. The middle tracks — “Welcome to the Machine,” “Have a Cigar,” and “Wish You Were Here” — are like dramatic arias or scenes, each adding layers to the themes of disillusionment, exploitation, and loss. Loved it.

One of my all time favs, prolly favorite pink floyd album

A classic! Better than Dark Side or the Wall, but not as good as others.

One of the greatest. All top class sounds. Pure brilliance. May even be better than Dark Side in some ways, although I'll always love that more. They really are the finest prog rock stars of all time

A perfect mix of aching heartbreak and seething anger make this superb album a must listen. This is gorgeous, visceral and achingly sad which is best suited to listen with headphones late at night. Just magnificent!

thought pink floyd was kind of boring but i liked this a lot!

While this isn't my favorite Pink Floyd record (that would be Animals, criminal that's not on the list), its still damn near flawless, and one of the greatest albums of all time. At one point in my life, Wish You Were Here was my favorite song of all time, and the lyric "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year" is easily my favorite lyric of all time. Never fails to get me to tear up. The psychedelic prog epics of Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 and 6-9 are masterful, and never feel indulgent, masturbatory, or like a Frankenstein's monster of different songs like a lot of prog does (Yes, Genesis, Dream Theater - but to be honest, Pink Floyd has never "felt" like stereotypical prog. Their music, even at the longest run times always felt focused. Perhaps its the psychedelic aspect shining through). Welcome to the Machine is one of the best The Wall songs (Hey You is the only track on that album that matches the quality of Welcome to the Machine), and its not on that record. I've never been a fan of The Wall, and I'll get to that when the project throws it my way, but Wish You Were Here is the record The Wall wishes it was. Focused, concise, whole tracklist of bangers. Have a Cigar is the only track on this record that I think doesn't rise up to the same level as the rest of the track list, it's got some of the style of The Wall that I don't care too much for, but its still a great song. Overall, masterpiece of a record.

jeden z lepszych kawałkow shine

Perfect

My least favorite Floyd album

Epic landscape, Ennio Morricone style motif, keyboards sounding like horns. There’s sadness, anger and loss in the lyrics before the sax solo brings the love. The last few bars then become corporate and dark sounds begin. Welcome to the Machine… Country blues guitar herald Roy Harper in a big Stetson singing in American accent, Have a Cigar. Title track is angry and spikey. Shine parts 6-9 doesn’t quite echo the majesty of the opening. Brilliant nonetheless.

Fell asleep until Have a Cigar then went back to sleep after, like other Pink Floyd albums much better

One of the greatest in all universe and every universe.

Clasic

I love this album

4.5

Who doesn't love Pink Floyd?

Completely perfect

Classic Album

very nice experience, great instrumentals. i’m between a 4.5 and a 5 but i’m picking 5 stars.

It’s a classic. Pretty much perfect start to finish. Not much I need to add

Perfect listening. Made me cry for obvious reasons

No words - just Collin...Wish You Were Here. Thanks for sending this to us today. You're always with us.

Everything you encounter is so lush; amazing sounds, masterful recordings, and that plate reverb softening and blending it all; tracks crafted so meticulously into this luxurious whole; delivered with perfect calm and patience. It rambles and it wanders and it gets lost and found and in the end its just this indulgent sonic experience that never gets old.

One of my favorites albums

Damn. Masterpiece - Front to back. The 2nd of four consecutive 5 ⭐️ albums from Pink Floyd. All 4 are in the top 100 all-time. 🔥🔥

Classic. So good. Could play this forever. Studied them in college so some nostalgia hitting here probably.

3.5 stars: I really like what it stands for conceptually and contextually, but another album I wouldn't just put on to listen to again.

David Gilmour has absolutely mastered the emotional pull of his soundscape. This richly gorgeous and funky album is no exception. I love pretty much everything he does. The rest of Pink Floyd can come too.

It's a nice listen. For some reason, I sort of didn't want to like it - some kind of prejudice against the idea of Pink Floyd and how they come across - but it's a really nice sounding piece of art.

10/10

Ganska bra men betydligt svagare än Dark side of the moon och The Wall.

One of the all time great rock records, the production is amazing, Gilmour's guitar work is fantastic. A conceptual album that really needs to be listened front to back to appreciate

Their funkiest, proggiest, and most beautiful work — all on one 44-minute LP. Pure magic.

Tremendously good. Great guitar work, light and airy, lots of room in the music for each instrument.

A true classic that stands the test of time. This is an album that I will definitely listen to again!

Masterpiece

Shine On should have been its own album. The other three songs on this album are just filler.

Brilliant but boring, across the album and even within tracks. Title track is wonderful, but even that is flawed, I never liked the keyboards towards the end. And why two variations of such a long track to open and close the album? Not their best, too proggy. Punk was a welcome reaction to stuff like this.

I do love the title track, and parts of the lengthy opener were great, but this one does feel slightly self obsessed and anti-listener compared to some of their better albums.

Mostly sensational but just begins to lose my interest in a couple of places.

Favourite songs: Wish You Were Here, Have a Cigar, Shine on you crazy diamond (pts, 1-9)

I felt the "Crazy Diamond" guitar solos ran long, but the songs in between are all just first tier Floyd...

really good rock album. there's definitely a story here but im not sure what loving the instrumentals as always

Very cool album

Hadn’t listened to this from start to finish for many years, and it was such a treat to spend time with it again. No songs skipped, even after multiple listens in one day I was hearing new things.

Beautiful album, will defiantly listen again

Another classic Floyd album

Pink Floyd is iconic. They're objectively a good band. I thought this album was fine.

Niti je ovo najbolji prog album ikad niti su oni najbolji prog bend ikad ali je ovo izuzetna muzika.

Love it. Long time favorite. Perfect.

I mean, it's Pink Floyd.

Just a fantastic album with so many incredible riffs and solos and moments. Pure mood. A scary dream.

One of the greatest albums of all time, and this isn't even my favorite Pink Floyd record. Goes to show what an incredible band they were.

My all time favorite Floyd album. Incredible headphone album with great instrumentation, meditations on grief and loss, and a farewell to Syd Barrett. "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"

Favorite pink Floyd and not even really close. Five stars for five masterful, cohesive, terrific songs

Slightly overrated, but ultimately a journey with some truly beautiful songs

Peak Floyd

3.5

Being the most turgid Pink Floyd album is an achievement unto itself.

This was the first time in several decades I have listened to Wish You Were Here, an album that was foundational to high-school me. Yet while the odes to erstwhile bandleader Syd Barrett are poignant — the song "Wish You Were Here" is a classic — this has never been one of my favorite Floyd releases. To me, it marks the point where Roger Waters’ various obsessions and unresolved manias began eclipsing the band and he exerted an increasingly heavy hand over Pink Floyd’s musical and lyrical direction. Things from here would get increasingly heavy, and less fun, conceptually. Musically, I also feel like WYWH personifies the mid-70s rock bloat, with lethargic tempos, fat synths and a reliance on studio wizardry over songcraft. It's kind of a depressing listen.

Had never listened to this album before. It sure gets noodly!

First, it's a shame that in the cd/streaming era, listeners won't see the amazing sleeve photos from this LP. About the music: while I know how they are related, I always had a problem balancing the heartfelt tributes to their broken former band mate ("shine on you crazy diamond" and "wish you were here") with two largely throwaway songs about how the music industry is full of vapid cheats. This was always the gamble with PF albums: if you dont like a song, you're stuck with it for 7 to 22 minutes. I like 3 of the 5 songs here and actively dislike the other 2, so how to rate this? Three it is!

I suppose my favorite Pink Floyd album. Not sure what else to say about it.

While my rating will show 5 stars. I’m rating it 4.99, I have to deduct something for that sax solo on Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt1. This the first time listening to this album in some time. An enjoyable listen.

a little less accessible than Dark Side or The Wall, but just as epic and well-built.

Perfect

Eigentelch send alli lieder no zemlech geil, dör das dass sie jedoch huere lang send wärdes ergendeinisch au chli langwiilig. För e Hendergrond esch es aber super.

It’s just perfect. Handily a greatest album of all time contender.

This is a top 3 Pink Floyd album of all time. Not a single miss. Every song seems to build on the one before it with a crescendo in the final minutes of Wish You Were Here. Then it lulls you into a feeling of relaxation in the first few minutes of Shine On to raise you up again and say farewell.

One of the best prog albums ever. I semi understand the hype, although it's not one of my favorite genres. 9/10

I don’t think there’s anything left to say about this album. Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands and this album is a masterpiece.

With the weight of public opinion so dreadfully pitched the other way, I’ll just have to wear the accolade of “most tedious contrarian” when I say that “Wish you were here”, one of the 20th century’s most popular and regarded songs, does Pink Floyd a disservice. For the longest time – 35 and a half years plus “Shine on …” and a minute of “Welcome to the machine” – I thought that Pink Floyd was essentially “The Wall” and milquetoast soft rock (would we say pumice?). You have to laugh. Or, more accurately, you have to join the millions before you who, hearing “Welcome to the machine” for the first time, had sat and felt the synths slicing through their matter; calved as the down stroked acoustic guitar startled them into an alertness that, with a simple vocal harmony, so quickly becomes transcendental; rising, rising; back down to the interminable throb of the machine’s whirring engine. And all of that over the course of about a minute. (Note: a quick search reveals I’m not alone in hearing Stranger Things’ theme here… but it’s a small club!) This album puts me in my mind of early Mars Volta, contemporaneous Steely Dan (I’d imagine there was some mutual admiration going on) among others – a good mind to be put into. “Wish you were here”? Nah, still a bit fusty for me. The rest of it? Fucccckkkkkkkkkk…

So far the streak has been absolutely incredible. I absolutely love Pink Floyd and have been a fan before taking on this challenge. I love WYWH, although its probably not my favorite Pink Floyd album and I dont always want to listen to "Have a Cigar" and "Wish you were here" (because I've listened to it so many times already) I absolutely love "Shine on you crazy diamond" and "Welcome to the machine". Even if lyrically I am still a bit uncertain to which degree the latter resonates with me, musically I adore every second of it. This is an absolutely definite and easy 5/5.

Rare to find an album where each song is a five star banger. I know it helps there are only 5 songs. This is my 3rd favorite Pink Floyd album, you'll never guess 1 and 2.

Such a legendary record

Excellent! Absolutely loved it!

Pink Floyd is that constrained my any typical song structure or even album structure. When I listen to a 10+ minute song from a jam band or a prog rock group, I get bored. It sounds like they are wasting my time. But when Pink Floyd does it, I understand why each minute of the song is important. I understand where it's going, and why the full progression is needed for the full impact.

One of the greatest of all time

A few cool moments. But mostly just boring.

Calming. Bit weird, but I really enjoyed it.

What is there to say about this album? Absolutely formative in my development as a music listener and a musician. Nostalgic beyond belief. Without a doubt in my top albums of all time. My wife and I still use "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" as our headphone and speaker test song. An album that defines timeless.

4.5/5, such a tight album with some all time songs, great story and commentary, only thing is the last song takes slightly too long

It’s all about Syd, right? “Shine on…” is famously about him, but hearing all the other songs bookended with “shine on” got me thinking the album is a love letter.

I can tell that there’s artistry here but not for me

An all-timer from the prog rock masters during their peak. None of their other albums can top Dark Side of the Moon, but this comes close, along with The Wall. But that one is so goddamn depressing to listen to, at least this one has a few fun moments amid the darkness. And by that I basically just mean their one fun kinda upbeat song that's still a funky, cynical take on music industry executives. But some of the Shine on You Crazy Diamond sections are fun, too. And though the title track is a somber, melancholic statement on the loss of Syd Barrett, it always struck me as hopeful or at least, accepting of that loss and not in any of the other stages of grief. There's a reason it was rated #18th best rock song of all time; I'd never rank it that high, but people def respond to it. Pink Floyd's early albums are more fun and weird, and their later stuff is less than stellar but their peak concept album phase is them at their best, and this album fires on all cylinders. It's a more than worthy follow up to Dark Side of the Moon, but I will add that I actually play Animals and Atom Heart Mother more than this album. The songs on those two albums are more enjoyable/easier to relisten to than these, at least to me. But I'm sure part of that is having way more fatigue with this album from classic rock radio growing up. Wish You Were Here is a better album than either of those two, though its inclusion on this list is interesting. The Wall is probably more popular/has a bigger cult following and DSOTM is an all-timer, so I'd expect those two to make it over this. But it's not a bad pick!

Must have really been something to have Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd making new music at the same time. Wish You Were Here reminded me of Animals, which I adore! Have a Cigar is a trip.

I know I should like this more, but I just...don't?

Devastating. Unless I want a good cry, I’m not putting this on..so that complicates the ranking. But god it just oozes emotion.

very sweet of them to dedicate a whole album to their best friend who went insane

Needs no explanation

Amazing. I'm happy this was suggested - I haven't listened to it since the first time I heard it five years ago. I'm happy this album made its way back to me.

This was good overall! I think the musicianship and production were fantastic, they really created a vibe that was compelling by and there were ebbs and flows through the album. I think I didn’t “get” a lot of it though, with the many parts and lack of an overall message in a lot of it. Its again not really my taste, and also I think I have heard other Pink Floyd songs that were more my speed.

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

This album on repeat man! Love how the album starts and ends with “Shine on”, makes it into a story or journey. “Welcome to the machine” and “Have a cigar” are great biting parodies/criticisms. But musically not that special. “Whish you were here” is very special, pretty emotional song to me.

Absolute classic

Certainly one of the all time great album. This record has a dear place in my heart and reminds me of my best friend and his cool ass dad who introduced me to Pink Floyd as a kid. A ten star record.

I can’t comment on this because it is one of my all-time go-to favourite albums. Automatic 5-er.

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hell yeah

Brilliance. Tenderness. I love this album, always have but it makes me sad for Syd's demise.

It's an epic tale that's best when accompanied by visuals from a show. I can listen to a few of the songs over and over, but for the majority, they float around into the background.

Complexity arises from simple elements. Those simple elements in the right hands create sublime compounds.

Oh look! A Few Lines of Code told my brain to manipulate my pocket-sized supercomputer into playing one of the best sequences of sonic vibration in the short history of recorded music, thank you A Few Lines of Code!

2nd favorite Pink Floyd album after Dark Side

Good album, not as good as dark side. Have a cigar and to a lesser extent Welcome to the machine feel a bit forced and clunky. Shine on 1-5 and Wish you were here are all time great songs.

Absolut classical album that keeps getting better and better with every listening

A timeless classic, that always brings me joy to listen to. I cannot tell which Pink Floyd album fullfills me the most, but second to "Animals" this is probably on the top.

I listened this Album on Eastern Holiday with my kids (6 and 7 yo) while we were building Lego. The album supported perfectly atmosphere. The non typical musical instruments, like the clock sound, caught their curiosity and kept them calm and concentrate. "Wish you were here" is definitely on my list for children.

I am not the right demographic for this record. What others love about this, I really don't like. This is only 44 minutes long, but my god. I feel like those 44 minutes warped and expanded somehow. A lot of these songs fail to really get going. I am far too sober and it is way too early in the morning for me to appreciate this. Ok--now to the songs: Shine on you crazy diamond (pts 1-5): wow. Way too long. Nothing interesting happens, there's some singing, then it is all wrapped up with god awful saxophone. Not compelling. Sax can be grating. Welcome to the machine: why is there so much synth on this record? I can totally see why there are Pink Floyd laser shows. I suddenly feel like watching bladerunner or a clockwork orange. Have a cigar: this one is a little more promising than the rest. It's also the shortest. It's still kinda boring. Wish you were here: west coast country meets synth. I'm glad I'm not "here." Shine on you crazy diamond (pts 6-9): oh good, there's more! And this time, it's screechy. I feel like I'm trapped in a boomer's garage while he plays records from his youth, drinks brown liquor, and waxes poetic about his college years. Get me out of here!

can not give less then 5 stars for the album with the best song by pink floyd (shine on you crazy diamond)

Not my cup of tea, but it’s a great album. Very good!

As near to perfect as albums get. It’s pretty hard to put down in words just how great this album is, but it’s Floyd firing on all cylinders: Wright’s delicate build up of synths during the intro and outro tracks, Waters’ acerbic lyrics, Gilmour’s unmistakable guitar doing unspeakable things, and Mason’s rock steady rhythm keeping it all together. Nestled amongst this, one of the most beautifully heartfelt songs ever written about their former band mate. It’s a good one this.

An album about loss and disillusionment and a critique of the music business (which by this point has made them millionaires). It is as prog rock tends to be; ponderous, self-indulgent and self-importantly sententious. It is also beautiful in its way and very much of its time, in terms of the soundscape. It has the trademark atmospheric sound effects, overlong solos and some creative chord work from Rick Wright (always my favourite band member). It’s two shortest tracks, the title track and Have A Cigar with Roy Harper singing lead are the best tracks. As always with Floyd in this period I wonder what they thought would happen if they ever broke above their walking pace slow rock tempo. At least 50% of Nick Mason’s career is spent playing the same beat at the same speed! I also wish Rick Wright had played more piano and less plastic sounding synth. Overall the creative concepts are, well, creative, but they do sound a bit tired and lacking in energy and and commitment.

Very 70s, I didn't like it much

A beautifully progressive mixture of just enough rock, contemplative atmosphere and striking lyrics.

Sounds like guitar and saxophone and a little alien feel. Reminds me of animusic. A little Beatly. Short album. Also reminds me of Alan Parsons.

This album's a real pleasure. I was particularly struck by the mix of synths and analogue instruments on Welcome to the Machine, still managing to sound quite contemporary to me, despite being 50 years old! Amazing foresight, continuing influence, or mere coincidence of the neverending roundabout of musical fashion: you decide!

I enjoyed the single, but the other tracks were not my thing.

Pink Floyd's best album (in my opinion) and one of my favorite albums of all time. A flawlessly executed work. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is genuinely one of the greatest songs ever conceived, and all other songs except Welcome to the Machine slap (it's not bad, I just don't really like the vocals, and the synths are a bit too much). It's not quite a 10/10 for me since “smooth” music like this is not really my thing and I like something more energetic, but it's extremely close. I'm totally nitpicking, by the way. It's a phenomenal album, but it doesn't suit my tastes as well as some others. 9/10

Solid and unique music style. Definitely shows psychedelic rock’s origin in blues music. Too short and nothing really stuck out to me. The Wall is much more of a fun listen.

Very experimental/trippy album - honestly think I liked that more than the actual songs. Regardless, overall a great album and definitely solidifies the vibe of the mid 1970s. 4/5

4.7- Beautiful instrumentation. Key changes, tempo adjustments, the harmonies, it’s all masterful. In my opinion, this album was created for the ears of other musicians. There’s so much happening and so much to acknowledge as well as appreciate, but it’s not too much where you get overwhelmed. HIGHLY recommended headphones. The only thing I’d take off for is the lack of actual vocals, but that’s just Pink Floyd. It’s experimental and can’t be everybody’s cup of tea… like all music. My favorite song was “Have a Cigar”

This is an old friend. In coming back after a long time, it reveals details and textures I didn't originally pick up on or know about. I really like the way Waters' more chunky disco funk, (my attempt to describe it), is sandwiched between Gilmour's more atmospheric space blues. The moment the electric Rhodes comes in for the last few sections of Diamond was and still is a real treat for those familiar with the song but not the full album version. Really, this all hits harder for me now than it ever once did.

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10/10

mmmm classic. Have a Cigar is one of my fave Pink Floyd songs. 4.5

Pre-lisrening, this is an album I enjoy. And not just because of weed. This listen was no different. A good example of a complete album rather than a collection of songs on an album.

Pink Floyd ought to be a wonder of the world, given that they followed up Dark Side with this, which is also perfection. Amazing production, great playing, deep songs. "Shine On" is so good it fully deserves nine parts. "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine" are equally disturbing and powerful. The title cut is easily one of the top few songs ever penned/performed – heartbreaking, beautiful, an anthem for deathbeds. Their massive commercial success was well deserved; every once in a while, the market gets it right.

3 minutes of ok music, 40 minutes of synth mats, and boring guitar solos. Will never get Pink floyd.

Das Album Wish You Were Here wurde 1975 in den Abbey Road Studios in London aufgenommen. Die britische Rockband Pink Floyd, bestehend aus David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright und Nick Mason, knüpfte mit diesem Werk an den Erfolg des Vorgängeralbums The Dark Side of the Moon an. Es zählt zum Bereich des Progressive Rock, wobei auch Elemente von Psychedelic und Artrock eingeflossen sind. Inhaltlich bezieht sich das Album vor allem auf die Entfremdung im Musikgeschäft sowie auf die psychische Abwesenheit des früheren Bandmitglieds Syd Barrett. Dies wird besonders in dem zweiteiligen Stück „Shine On You Crazy Diamond“ deutlich, das als eine Art musikalische Würdigung Barretts gilt. Der Titeltrack „Wish You Were Here“ wurde über die Jahre hinweg zu einem ihrer bekanntesten Lieder und zeichnet sich durch seine zurückhaltende Instrumentierung und emotionale Direktheit aus. Auch „Welcome to the Machine“ und „Have a Cigar“ greifen zentrale Themen wie Enttäuschung, Zynismus und Kritik an der Musikindustrie auf. Die Produktion zeigt einen klaren, durchdachten Klangaufbau, der oft ruhige Passagen mit experimentellen Elementen verbindet. Dabei bleibt die Atmosphäre des Albums über weite Strecken melancholisch und nachdenklich. Wish You Were Here ist ein ruhiges, durchdachtes Werk, das sich mit persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Themen auseinandersetzt. Durch seine konzeptionelle Dichte und die musikalische Ausarbeitung bleibt es ein prägender Bestandteil des Repertoires von Pink Floyd.

Finally! Probably the closest anyone ever has come to perfection! This album means a lot to me and it's probably my favourite of all time!

Outstanding

6 songs isn’t enough. Only reason it’s not 5 stars

Beautiful music! 5+++++

This album is modern day classical music! Pure genius! The transitions within the songs tug at your emotions and have you yearning for the next note to be played. Every song is a masterpiece! Gilmour’s guitar is a master class in guitar playing! Entire album is just clean and flawless! How does a band follow up one of the greatest albums of time? They create Wish You Were Here! Arguably one the greatest albums of all time!

Epic , but even more epic listening to it for its epicness. Every song interwoven together to tell a story about Syd Barrett

No words

Canny this. Started slow, a bit Dire Straitsy for my liking, but picked up. Have a Cigar was my favourite, possibly bringing back nostalgia from a compilation I had as a kid that had a Foo Fighters cover of it. Can’t see me returning, but it was good. I think I preferred one of the other ones we had, but the fact I cant remember which one it was proves I probably wont be back

Normally I can't see the appeal of Pink Floyd but I have to concede this was great. The dark bladerunnery sound worked so well. Being light on vocals seemed to put the focus on interesting music and 44 mins for a prog album is a good length, felt just right. Even the bass sounded like it was at the right level. 4.5, will listen again.

I know the main songs from the album, and re-listened a few times to solidify my thoughts. Incredibly influential - I can hear Dire Straits on Part 1, I can hear Daft Punk in places, I can even hear Shakira mid-way through Part 3. Thrilling throughout. I do have this unfair view of Pink Floyd associated with a bald, biker-jacket wearing, pool ace from the AJ, who ruined our ownership of the pool table on Fridays between 2011 and 2014. This album is a bit of a work of art. All of the meandering leads somewhere - very little cyclical repetition, plenty of interesting riffs and solos, and I love the sound of the guitar. Pretty timeless, sounds considerably more recent than 1975.

Another great pink Floyd album, I almost think the album art is just as iconic as dark sides.... It's the one that I remember being most interested by as a kid. Shine on (both tracks) and wish you were here are the best bits here. I remember listening as a teenager and being amazed that I had to wait so long for the song to get going, I'm more patient now! I think dark side is better, but still 5

Classic PF.

All timer

Pink Floyd… more like….. Pink Floyd. am I right