Wish You Were Here
| Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 12 September 1975 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and a day later in the United States by Columbia Records, their first American release for the label. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
(1975) In offering not so much as a hint of liberation, that’s where this album leaves Pink Floyd.
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BBC Music
Punk was just around the corner and it’s easy to see why, but mid-seventies post-psychedelic angst seldom sounded so chilled.
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All Music
While it's short on actual songs, the long, winding soundscapes are constantly enthralling.
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Sptunik Music
Timeless, emotionally relatable and in some ways quite ahead of its time, Wish You Were Here exists as one of the most essential progressive rock albums ever conceived.
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Pop Matters
The Band's Most Haunting and Affecting Album.
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Only Solitaire
Wish You Were Here is essentially the closest rock music ever came to producing a meticulously structured and engineered, yet also totally heartfelt requiem mass - and that, I think, is the angle under which one should always judge it.
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Second Inversion
You listen to this album for the symphonic arrangements and in every way they deliver.
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Rockhaq
Even if the album is made up of just five songs, the album is incredibly moving, intelligent and soulful.
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Best Classic Bands
Wish You Were Here, is a triumph of atmosphere, a record that is entrancing without being particularly pleasant.
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Something Else Reviews
Wish You Were Here (no matter how it stacked up commercially with the 15-times platinum Dark Side) ought to be every serious Pink Floyd fan’s favorite album.
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Entertainment Focus
Wish You Were Here Symphonic translates the sounds and melodies of the original album into a classical music setting – and the results are electrifying.
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Icon Fetch
The Experience Edition of WYWH [is] essential listening for any Pink Floyd fan.
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WSOU Radio
“Wish You Were Here” will always be the album that stands very real to me and it will continue to inspire me and other musicians to go against the “Machine”.
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Muso Scribe
Wish You Were Here: Experience Edition is an essential purchase.
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Scene Point Blank
Wish You Were Here is still a perfect album, and the bonus material on this reissue actually augments the listening experience incredibly.
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Record Collector Mag
Sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, engineer Brian Humphries and artist Gerald Scarfe all contribute to the bigger picture, while some contemporary solo acoustic performances prove that Gilmour still handles those high notes, while Waters growls like an itinerant.
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Seattle PI
It is really quite remarkable, even on my thoroughly average-priced equipment.
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Vinyl Reviews
This version of Wish You Were Here is more balanced than its earlier counterpart, a trait that allows some of the elements in the recording to emerge with more clarity.
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Puluche
The overall album is a strong example of poignant storytelling and expressing genuine feeling through music.
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The Pink Floyd Fandom
The album on a whole, works on may levels. All the songs can stand on their own, and yet make complete sense when paired on the album.
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The Absolute Sound
Wish You Were Here has an elegiac quality throughout. It’s best experienced in a straight-through, 45-minute sitting.
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Classical Album Sundays
“Wish You Were Here” with time has become one of the most important works of the Pink Floyd cannon.
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Gold Mine Mag
Some albums never get old. Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” is one of those albums.
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The AU Review
Overall, there are some unexpected delights here that should delight even the most hardened Floyd fan. Definitely worth a listen or two.
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Uncut
Those of you who don’t possess a stereo system worth as much as a house will be pleased to see that this particular package contains more than an hour of illuminating bonus tracks.
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Brain Damage
The album itself sounds great, and the second disc holds a nice mix of live and recently discovered studio gems.
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Sonic Abuse
This is worth a fair mark at worst and certainly not the reams of criticism currently devoted to it.
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The Student Playlist
The record’s themes are made physical by the image on its front cover: a man being metaphorically burned by a business deal he’s completing. It may not be their most famous record, but it’s thought of by many Floyd fans as their best.
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Music Box Online
Over the years, Wish You Were Here has been remastered on multiple occasions, but the latest version by James Guthrie might be the best yet.
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Spotlight Report
Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Remastered is an absolute must have for every Pink Floyd fan and music lover…an album full of brilliance!
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