Oh momma please help, please please help me, I've heard a CD so terrible my eardrums seem to have exploded, momma HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Eric Finners

i warn you, i'm in love with this album so my review might not be objective or even constructive at all...

I discovered the pink floyd with "the wall". I was 15 and i was very curious so i end buying this album without knowing the band at all.
When my father discovered i enjoyed this cd he was very delighted and he showed me his all collection of records: of course "Wish you were here" was his favorite and as soon as i listened to it i was deeply in love with it too.



i think that to listen to this cd you just need to be free of all opinion. to enjoy it you need to be open minded and accept what is strange and new. you must not be afraid to loose you either.


this kind of music is probably not for everybody but take a chance on it, you might be addicted...

Thato My sister now has rabies from listening to your record 'Pink Flu
Thank you Wishyouwer alive today and always.
Thank you Wishyouwernk you yrMy sister now has rabies from listening to your record 'Pink Fluid'. Its aWishyouwerehere people!!! Thank you so much I give you FIVE stars ehere people!!! Thank you so much I give you FIVE stars
Frank Malone, 10 mirs I liid'. Its a mirtto My sister now has rabies from listening to your record 'Pink Fluid'. Its a mirthank you. acle she is alive today and always.
Thank you acle she is alive today and always.ve in that no good city of New York

Thank you Wishyouwerehere people!!! Thank you so much I give you FIVE stars to thank you. My sister now has rabies from listening to your record 'Pink Fluid'. Its a miracle she is alive today and always.

Frank Malone, 10 yrs I live in that no good city of New York

This is by no means my favorite Floyd CD. I like Animals and Final Cut the best. However, there is a lot of great music here. Shine on meanders a little too much but it is a great tribute to their former band mate. I love Have a Cigar and Welcome to the Machine. I read that Barrett returned to the studio while they were recording this album to rejoin the group. This is heartbreaking realizing that he was so far gone. This would be like Hulings or Peloser returning to the Hoax.

Would you mind if I puked in your ears?

For some strange reason I think you would.

Would you agree this terrible crapfest CD is just an atrocity?

For some strange reason I think you would not.

Conclusion: you are deaf dumb and blind when you cannot see that being puked upon and listening to this nutter CD is completely the same.

Thanx for reading.
Gustave Williamson age 10
yes I am

This cd is actually a fecking bore but hey let's give it two stars for strips!!!!!!!!!!


thanks for reading this here my review.

Leroy Parkinson, 10 I was on my birdsday

This cd is actually a fecking bore but hey let's give it two stars for strips!!!!!!!!!!


thanks for reading this here my review.

Leroy Parkinson, 10 I was on my birdsday

When I can lay me hands on the two bozos that recomendad this dreadful CDs to me I will dance on the grave of Robert M. Macclesfield Jr. and Rufus Thorne who are dead 470 years anyway?? Huh? I'll meet you on the dark side on the moon??

Bob 'firebills' Mudhoney

I bought this album because of one song. I found the entire album to be excellent.

Dear people, Although I've grown up on McGuinn, Clark and Hillman I can 'dig ' this poorly edited CD, for starters the vocals are most of the time mixed so deep in the mix you cannot even detect them, this is especially true for large parts of Shine on you crazy diamond and the middle eight section of Wellcome to the machine,tis' just plain inaudible!!! This is a bad quality as POLYDOR JAPAN has left us with.
I really appreciate the superficial tunes by McGuinn, Clark and Hillman better, but OK says I: what gives?

Pink floyd rules, specifically this CD rules.
Hey, Terrence, you are an OK guy, you know? I just wanted to tell you that.


good music makes the world go round eh?

Sebastian Hu

I abstain, I understand Terrence is an OK guy, hey I don't like Britney Spears AT ALL, used to have all the Floyd LP's but couldn't keep em as my life changed dramatically - for the good I might add. I really thought Ummagumma and Obscured by clouds were among their best.

See you Terrence, best of luck in your life,

I abstain, I understand Terrence is an OK guy, hey I don't like Britney Spears AT ALL, used to have all the Floyd LP's but couldn't keep em as my life changed dramatically - for the good I might add. I really thought Ummagumma and Obscured by clouds were among their best.

See you Terrence, best of luck in your life,

A Kid

lf Syd asked Roger or Nick to pinch his taint, he'd probably still be alive. Shine on Syd...shine on.

Giving this album 1 star is actually being way too kind. It's best used as a whetstone to sharpen your cuttingknives before you give this crazy waste of space (OK I hear you think 'now, now, you hold it sonny, don't belittle our pacifier pinkyvoid!) the final blow. Run off into the woods and stay there and leave us kids alone.

Brian Heap (11 yrs old)

'Wish You Were Here' could have been originally, the second LP on the "Dark Side Of The Moon". And it would have certainly reached the same fame & fortune, Pink Floyd reached with 'The Wall'.

It happened to me that, after listening to 'Dark Side...', I found I didn't feel satisfied until I immediately heard 'Wish You Were Here'. This is because both albums, at no doubt, are Pink Floyd (and British Psychedelic Rock) real masterpieces!!!

Very unlucky you, teenager guys and gals of the 2000s, for not having the chance of enjoy Out-Of-This-World bands like Pink Floyd... Anyway, you have the chance of getting these CDs right now, and enjoy them!

I am absolutely shocked to conclude that an album so vile and promoting terrorist acts can be named a classic.
For starters the cover is clearly a suicideattack victim being torn to shreds by some strange mafia character.

The theme Shine on a crazy diamond is clearly a drug-related matter, either opium trade or pcp (remember on their previous album there was a song Any colour you like which dealt with sleeping pills and psycho-medication).
Wish you were here deals with panic attacks, wishing a counsellor was here.,
Welcome to the machine- welcome to the druglaboratory.
Have a cinder: druginduced plans to conquer the world.

and you people call this a classic????

Rufus (Richard) Thorne

By 1975, Pink Floyd was no longer a cult act thanks to the huge success of Dark Side Of The Moon. The success seemed to be a little too late, unfortuantly, as the band felt that they were "creatively spent after making Dark Side." While this might be an argueable claim, I believe the band still had it in them to make some great records, and they at least made 2 and 1/2 great records before things got bad. It's a bit hard to rate this album due to the fact that I'm a bit biased towards Dark Side. Not that there is anything wrong with this album, not at all. It's just not one that I like to put on a lot. The concept of this album is a bit more straightforward than Dark Side, though that may or may not be a good thing. I really liked the surrealism that Dark Side had with it's story, this one is just too straightforward. Band signs to label, gets screwed by their label and distruibution, gets in a rut recording, and wishes their old leader was still sane and with them. Eh. It's alright. The music continues in the same vein that Dark Side had, with a few experimental Meddle-ish tunes to back it up too. Shine On's 1st part is achingly beautiful, but it seems to run on a few too many minutes over. And the keyboard tone on this track is a bit cheesy sounding. Come to think of it, the keyboard tones on this album are severely lacking compared to earlier masterpieces. Only does the keyboard shine during the intro to Shine On's second half (the main reason it remains my favorite track on the album.). All in all, though, it's just your average spacy Pink Floyd tune. There's your choir, there's your slow guitar solos, there's your fade-out using special effects to carry it to the next song. Can't forget the sax solo! Sorry guys, you did this better on the last album. Welcome To The Machine is a bit better, what with it's cold robotic feel and dark lyrics about being sucked into coporate greed. Have A Cigar is another classic, a funky blues number sung by Roy Harper with some excellent guitar solos. When is David not shining with a guitar solo? Wish You Were Here, the title track, is another famous tune with some sweet singing from David. It's a real timeless ditty with a general "lost" atmosphere. Wish You Were Here is not an unworthy album at all. In fact, it pretty much could've been Dark Side Pt. II, had they trimmed some of the excess minutes on Shine On. The band was definetly in a creative rut, and it would take one guy with a HUGE ego to change all that

Not to many bands have made entire albums dedicated to a former band member. Pink Floyd does just that here and turns what could have been a show of sorrow and regret into a serious artistic statement and a celebration of the contributions of former member, Syd Barrett. Though there is some sorrow, most notably on the heart-breaking title track, much of the album honors barrett, not just through its uplifting lyrics, but through the music which, being quite grand and theatrical, is what Syd's life was all about. The surreal textures reveal a creative but also tortured mind that has become all to common for visionaries and artists.

Indeed, much of the blame is put on society, most notably the record business or the "Machine",. The track, "Have A Cigar" perfectly illustrates the way record execs turn the true life blood of the music business, the musicians themselves, into a disposable commodity. So, in a way, the album is not only a tribute to Syd Barrett but also a serious jab at the corrupt record business. If the "Machine" is the villian than certainly, Syd and his music are the heroes. Even though Barrett is ultimately defeated through his own excess his music lives on and that is what makes him a legend.

The music here is all driven by texture. Each song is a textured portrait of some aspect of the album's theme. The spacey, surrealism of, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", the lifeless, mechanical, synths of, "Welcome To The Machine, and the warm acoustic guitars of the title track: all add up to a serious masterwork that has stood the test of time just as well as, "Dark Side Of The Moon", or, "The Wall". Through out the 70s, Pink Floyd has put out one masterpiece after another. Wish You Were Here, is their most personal and, quite frankly, most warm and inviting.

This 1975 album is another favorite of mine by Pink Floyd for any number of reasons; the band was in top form, the tracks are very imaginative and on a more personal note, my Pink Floyd obsessed (high school) graduating class selected the track Wish you Were Here to accompany the graduation procession. As I recall, I had suggested Welcome to the Machine.

As far as the overall mood of the album goes, it is very somber and spacey synthesizer washes along with a plodding, 4/4 meter dominate. The real magic of the album however, is the clever layering of a seemingly endless parade of synthesizer, guitar and percussion parts. As such, the music hold my interest even when not much is going on, which is very rare I might add.

The group is in top form and Gilmour's guitar playing and singing are fantastic throughout. Rick Wright does a fantastic job of maintaining the spacey atmospherics that drew me to band in the first place with his banks of synthesizers and Nick Mason provides some understated drum parts that work perfectly with the material. The one marked difference from previous albums is the appearance of Roy Harper on the track Have a Cigar, where he sings lead vocal. Evidently, Roger was a bit dismayed that everybody agreed to have Roy sing the lead vocal - I think it may have been Roger's suggestion in fact. Speaking of Roger, it was with this album that he started to explore his disenchantment with the recording industry and the group's success, as has been well documented elsewhere.

The real centerpiece of the album is the nearly 26 minute long, largely instrumental Shine on You Crazy Diamond suite, which is split into two equal parts that bookend the album. This really is an impressive large scale composition by the band and features loads of great synthesizer tone colors - Rick Wright had purchased a lot of new equipment and it shines on this track. Although 99% classic "Pink Floydian" space rock, this track does feature a short section that features some funky/jazzy "comping" by Rick Wright on a clavinet which is accompanied by some solid bass playing. It is pretty cool overall. Sandwiched in between the two large tracks are three shorter tracks including the gloomy and haunting Welcome to the Machine, the somewhat more upbeat Have a Cigar, and the acoustic track Wish You Were Here. Although I wish they had kept Shine on You Crazy Diamond as a single track, the way each of the five tracks are stitched together works pretty well too. I should note that musicologist Edward Macan presents an excellent structural analysis of the Shine on You Crazy Diamond suite in his text "Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture (1997)".

This reissued version of the CD is a far cry from the LP I owned a billion years ago, although it does attempt to recreate the record jacket and some of the stickers that came with the original LP. There are lyrics and a few additional archival photos of the band members scattered throughout the CD booklet. The sound quality is pretty good.

All in all, Wish You Were Here is what I personally regard as a high water mark for Pink Floyd and is a personal favorite. Highly recommended.

If Dark Side of the Moon was pink Floyd trying to come to grips with the mental deterioration of Syd Barret, then "Wish You Were Here" was the not so always fond farewell. Making a contentious jump from Capitol Records to CBS, the band talks about the machinations of the music biz ("Have a Cigar") and the destructive process of creative fame when it collides with a creatively unstable mind ("Wish You Were Here").

It also begins the trajectory that Roger Waters would ultimately hit his pinnacle with on The Wall, a pessimistic morose look at life and mankind. Even though the title track is meant as a tribute to Barret, it also ends on a bitter note.

"How I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year.
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here."

Yet the song plays out so emotionally, that it's easy to miss the creeping cynicism. Not so with "Welcome To The Machine" or the nasty slap at the record exec in "Have a Cigar" ("By the way, which one's Pink?"). The production all along is still stellar enough to cushion the bile - as there's a certain sense of humor that would have David Gilmour's guitar solo sucked into a compressed "AM Radio" tinniness at the song's fade.

The album opens and ends with the multi-part "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," which will give any Pink Floyd fans pretty much what they were looking for. Spacey, texturally-dimensional and expansive, with some of Gilmour's lyrical and stately guitar. In short, it's a great follow-up to "Dark Side of The Moon" and less scathing than the bitter Animals.

I bought this CD since I've always liked Pink Floyd. Hearing "Shine on you crazy diamond" on the radio one night sent me to Amazon to find the album. In its two parts this song provides 25 minutes of a reflective, somewhat calmer, but still quintessential Pink Floyd with liquid electronics, soaring guitars, and angsty vocals enhanced by their tribute to a fallen band member. "Wish you were here" is in the same vein. "Welcome to the machine" and "Have a cigar" are nice to have for old time's sake. A calmer Pink Floyd to play on the family stereo.

Until they hit it big with Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd was a prolific band, cranking out at least one album every year. But it took a long time -- two and a half years -- before they released a sequel to their surprise smash hit.

After Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's music began to change. Roger Waters took over all lyric writing. The music itself became less of a collaborative effort - Nick Mason stopped contributing, followed by Rick Wright and eventually David Gilmour. The experimental edge that Floyd had in their early days was already fading fast, and disappeared completely by the late 1970s to be replaced by a more radio-friendly format. And the group's sound began to change, with the gritty and rough sound present on Meddle and Dark Side becoming more slick and clean.

That transition was still in its early stages. Waters's lyrics, while cynical at points, do not yet have the extreme bitterness present on ensuing albums; indeed, his tributes to Syd Barrett on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here" show a side to his writing that would recede in a few years.

Both halves of "Shine on" -- the album's highlights, despite receiving less airplay than the middle 3 songs -- showcase the power of the Rick Wright/Roger Waters/David Gilmour team. It would be the last time those three names would share composer credit, in my opinion to the detriment of the music. Rick Wright's substantial contributions to Floyd's music were sharply curtailed after this album. Musically each does his bit as well - Wright's keyboard playing, particularly in Part I and in Part IX, is among his finest with the band; Gilmour's biting, passionate guitar solos, are among those that created his reputation; and Waters's singing, which is more assertive and rich than on earlier albums but without the narrow emotional and tonal range of later work.

The other three songs provide a nice interlude. The synth-heavy "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" rail against the musical industry, one grim and the other cynically humorous. "Wish You Were Here", despite being interpreted by many as a love song, is really just a heartfelt tribute to their former colleague; the combination of Waters's lyrics and Gilmour's rough voice completely avoids the schmaltzy blandness of later live versions.

Highly recommended. Dark Side may or may not be better overall, but to this listener Wish You Were Here is the more meaningful album.

Wish You Were was one of the first rock albums I've ever listened to. David Gilmour's does an awesome solo on the lap steel guitar on the second part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This album is a tribute to the band's legendary founder Syd Barrett.

Wish You Were Here shows signs of the band starting to become ordinary. The title song is a pretty boring attempt at slow country rock (or soft ballad rock) and the guitar strings that sound to me like they're just repeating the same four or five notes, up and down *over and over* again gets boring after a while. "Welcome to the Machine" has some really good atmosphere but you have to do your best to ignore the average vocals and strange lyrics.

However, what makes the album good are tracks such as "Have a Cigar", which sounds like it tries the same kind of bizarre atmosphere as "Welcome to the Machine" but works REALLY well here, thanks to some solid vocal work.

The meat of the album are the two lengthy tracks. Both of the "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" songs rule a LOT. Some excellent instrumental work, and a build-up that works really well at melody and atmosphere. These two songs are the reasons this manages to still be a very impressive album, so I still recommend you purchase it.

Purchased this music CD for our 21 year old son who has a great appreciation for really good music. The music being produced since 1995 is a "joke" and our son knows that. He fully appreciates the genius of late 60's, 70's and early 80's musicians who knew how to write not only the music but also the lyrics. This album was a landmark album and still better music to listen than anything on the public airways today.

Pink Floyd are an all-around amazing band. There is nothing quite like them. And with members such as Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour and Richard Wright, the group made some of the best records of the late 1960s and 1970s.

'Wish You Were Here' is my personal favorite Pink Floyd record. While not as musically complex as 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and nowhere near a 'Wall' type of album, it is one of those timeless classics.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' was written as a tribute to original guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett, who passed away in 2006. The song is divided into parts, which makes the song even more interesting. And some of Gilmour's best guitar work is on that song.

'Have A Cigar' features Roy Harper on the vocals. It's a pretty good song, and Harper proves he can sing progressive rock.

And of course 'Welcome To The Machine' and 'Wish You Were Here' rank as some of PF's all-time best songs.

Overall, if you've never listened to 'Wish You Were Here' and you really enjoyed 'Dark Side Of The Moon,' 'The Wall' and 'Meddle,' or you are new to Pink Floyd's legendary music, than buy it. It's a masterpiece.

Highly recommended for anybody who enjoys great music. A classic. ENJOY!!!

What is the only way to continue impressing the world after the succes of The Dark Side of the Moon? With another master piece. "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is a song that deserver the descrition of "sonic cathedral". And "Wish You Were Here" contains the best Gilmour's guitar riff.

This album is by far my favorite Pink Floyd release. Each track is a kind of magic that words cannot describe. Have a Cigar, Shine On You Crazy Diamonds, Wish You Were Here, Welcome to the Machine. Each track really conveys the magic that Pink Floyd experienced during this time, perhaps even more than DSoTM.

If you're new to Pink Floyd, this album and DSotM should be a must buy. They're on iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store as well, if you disdain physical media. But, as with the music, there's something magic about owning the physical product in your cupboard. I highly recommend this album, perhaps just as much as Abbey Road and the White Album by the Beatles. These albums will go down as some of the best humankind has ever produced.

This album is basically a period of great catharsis. Syd barrett had sunken deeper into his drug-created
psychosis ("Now there's a look in your eyes/Like black holes in the sky"), and all members of The Floyd
hurt because of their fallen friend.
Waters dedicated Wish You Were Here to Syd. All of the songs and music was a personal tribute to the Madcap; this set was Waters's own want to tell Barrett's story, and every note of this great session (like Dark
Side of the Moon before it) drew a grave, yet proper and provocative, portrait of the man whose entire body
of work was the main blueprint for acid and space rockers everywhere.
This set was Waters's answer to "Oh, by the way,/ which one's pink?"

Reviews of any form of art are subjective. What I like is not what other people might like. In fact, my tastes vary according with the mood: Sometimes I feel like listening to Classical music, sometimes Jazz, Ambient, 60's Psychedelic, Movie soundtracks, J-Pop, and sometimes I really crave for a dose of Pink Floyd. And the particular Pink Floyd track I choose depends on the mood, too. Pink Floyd covered may types of music, among them Hard Rock, Blues, Jazz, "Ambient", etc.

That's why I try not to flame against someone else's opinion in comments or reviews of music and movies. Opinions vary from person to person and depend on that particular person's mood of the moment.

Now, if you are already a fan of this era of Pink Floyd (From The Dark Side of The Moon to The Wall), it does not mean you're going to love the whole album. In fact, I tend to listen to only 3 from the 5 tracks. That's where the beauty of mp3 distribution comes into play: Now you can download only what you like.

If you are new to Pink Floyd, my first advice is: Before buying, go to a site that allows you to hear LONG samples, or even better, whole tracks (Try Goear, Youtube, Google Video, etc). Some Pink Floyd albums, like this one, feature really long songs, and listening to a 30-sec or even 1-min sample will not give you a good idea of how good it is.

Looking for a Pink Floyd's 'definitive' work? This is the album you're searching for: excellent songs, acid and critic lyrics, all dressed with the sound of a decade.
Just to compose a PF "triumvirato" we can pick up also "The Dark Side Of The Moon" and "The Wall". (OK, you can grab couple more: "Meddle" and "Animals").
One of my 70's Rock favorite albums, ever!

I like this album, it keeps in true form of Pink Floyd. Any Pink Floyd fan will most likely have this, but it is a good album to have, just the same, even if you are just getting in to Pink Floyd. The songs are good and it's an enjoyable listen.

Written as a tribute to their lost compatriot, Syd Barrett, this album remains one of Pink Floyd's timeless classics. Soaring guitars, strong lyrics, and great song writing all make this album one of the band's strongest releases. Bookended by the epic "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," the second and third tracks depict a band's rise to fame in a cynical, profit driven industry, while the fourth track, "Wish You Were Here," plays almost like a what-if, unrequited love song, dedicated to their lost genius. This also shows Floyd's ability to get a fully satisfying album out of only five songs.