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Music CD - Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
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Music CD: Wish You Were Here
Artist: Pink Floyd
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $8.39
Your Save: $ 9.59 ( 53% )
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One)
2. Welcome To The Machine
3. Have A Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part Two)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724382975021
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 2000-04-25
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another master piece
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Pure Magic...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: One for the Madcap
Comment: 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?"
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Summary: Not for everyone...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Best of Floyd
Comment: 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!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Wish You Were Here is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before: two grimly funny songs about the evils of the music business ("By the way, which one's Pink?"), and two long, touching ones about the band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is the production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under the influence--and pretty great sober too--with David Gilmour getting lots of space for his most lyrical guitar playing ever. And, though the album is big and ambitious, even bombastic, it somehow dodges being pretentious--the Barrett tributes are honest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand gestures and stereophonic trickery. --Douglas Wolk
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