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Wish You Were Here
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) |
2 | Welcome to the Machine |
Disc: 2
1 | Have a Cigar |
2 | Wish You Were Here |
3 | Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9) |
Editorial Reviews
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later by Columbia Records in the United States. Inspired by material the group composed while performing around Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded during numerous recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Some of the songs on the album critique the music business, others express alienation and the track "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a tribute to Syd Barrett, whose mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier after the release of the group's debut studio album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It was also lead writer Roger Waters' idea to split "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" into two parts and use it to bookend the album around three new compositions, introducing a new concept as the group had done with their previous album, The Dark Side of the Moon. As with The Dark Side of the Moon, the band used studio effects and synthesizers, and brought in guest singers to supply vocals on some tracks of the album. These singers were Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and the Blackberries, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". - Wish You Were Here was an instant commercial success (despite the fact that Harvest Records' parent company EMI was unable to print enough copies of the album to satisfy commercial demand), and although it initially received mixed reviews, the album has since gone on to receive critical acclaim. It appears on Rolling Stone's lists of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour have cited Wish You Were Here as their favourite Pink Floyd album, and many critics and fans have considered the album to be the band's magnum opus.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 12.4 x 12.5 x 0.3 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Pink Floyd Records
- Item model number : 88875184261
- Original Release Date : 2016
- Run time : 44 minutes
- Date First Available : September 23, 2016
- Label : Pink Floyd Records
- ASIN : B01LTHMF1Y
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #152 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #55 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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'Wish You Were Here' is an album of loss, a loss of a gifted musician and the loss of artistic integrity in the cutthroat culture that was the record business of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as an acknowledgment of possibilities in rock and roll that were never realized. Gilmour, Waters, keyboardist Rick Wright, and drummer Nick Mason try to connect with Barrett and their audience less with words than with sounds; when "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," divided into five distinct parts on side one, resumes with a second suite of four parts on side two after a three-song interlude, the music is more violent, with a wash of white noise and guitar lines that scream like ghosts, brittle synthesizer riffs and strong bass undercurrents. It all finally dissolves into a mournful piano and electronic keyboard requiem that ends on the same note that the record began on. Gilmour has noted that the pressure from their record company to follow up 'The Dark Side Of the Moon' with an equally worthy album fueled Pink Floyd's playing, which dovetailed with the band's increasingly negative attitude toward record company executives; the result is fascinatingly compelling.
Lyrically, 'Wish You Were Here' concerns the artist as the second person; the words in the songs address speak to "you," and the second party presented is the tormented artist who is cynically manipulated and by record companies while celebrated by his peers. It's Barrett, but it's also any artist whoever dared to dream. "Welcome To the Machine," carried along by tape loops, Gilmour's acoustic guitar and Wright's explosive keyboard fills, finds the young rock musician sold dreams of stardom that are meant to turn him into a company man doing the bidding of the music "industry." The blistering rocker "Have a Cigar" - with a comically devastating performance by guest vocalist Roy Harper - skewers haughty music moguls who profess to love music they don't even understand from bands they know nothing about ("Which one's Pink?" Harper's clueless A&R man asks of the band).
The most astonishing track on 'Wish You Were Here', however, is the conventionally arranged title song. Carried by a mostly acoustic guitar line rich in treble that vaguely recalls the Beatles circa 'Rubber Soul', "Wish You Were Here" is a loving, highly emotional open letter from Waters (with Gilmour's vocals as the medium) to Barrett that expresses solidarity between kindred spirits ("We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year") and even as it mourns the turn of events that allowed Barrett's spirit to be broken ("Did you they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?"). It's hard for me to listen to it without tearing up, and the opening guitar riff, transmitted through a tinny speaker, is chilling. It's the most personal expression that Pink Floyd, famous for having hidden behind its music and surreal album covers, ever offered from their side of a wall Waters would spend the next several decades trying to tear down.
--Steven Maginnis
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180g, capa de proteção extra, perfeito.