Pink Floyd : Wish You Were Here (Experience Edition) [Remastered]

 

WE'RE JUST

TWO LOST SOULS

SWIMMING IN A FISH BOWL

YEAR AFTER YEAR

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Wish You Were Here

 is the ninth

 studio album

 by the 

English 

Rock band

 Pink Floyd 

released on

 September,12th 1975

 through

 Harvest Records

 in the UK 

and

 Columbia Records

 in the US,

 their first for the label. 

Based on material 

Pink Floyd 

composed while performing

 in Europe,

 Wish You Were Here

 was recorded over

 numerous sessions

 throughout 1975 

at 

EMI Studios

 in London.

The lyrics express

 alienation and criticism 

of the 

music business. 

The bulk of the album

 is taken up by

 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", 

a nine-part tribute

 to the 

Pink Floyd co-founder 

Syd Barrett, 

who had left

 seven years earlier

 due to his

 deteriorating 

mental health. 

Barrett coincidentally 

visited during 

the recording.

 As with their 

previous release, 

The Dark Side of the Moon

 (1973), 

Pink Floyd 

employed studio effects 

and synthesizers. 

Guest singers 

included 

Roy Harper, 

who provided the

 lead vocals 

on

 "Have a Cigar",

 and

 Venetta Fields, 

who added 

backing vocals to 

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

 To promote the album,

 Pink Floyd

 released the

 double A-side single

 "Have a Cigar" / "Welcome to the Machine".

Wish You Were Here 

was certified gold

 in the UK 

and the US 

in its year of release 

and topped the charts

 in several 

European countries. 

By 2004, 

it had sold an estimated

 13 million copies worldwide. 

It initially received

 mixed reviews; 

critics found its music 

uninspiring and inferior 

to Pink Floyd's 

previous work.

 It was later acclaimed 

as one of the 

greatest albums of all time, 

appearing on lists

 including 

Rolling Stone's

 list of the 

500 greatest albums

 at which it was ranked 

at #264 in 2023. 

It was cited by

 the keyboardist, 

Richard Wright,

 and the guitarist, 

David Gilmour, 

as their favorite

 Pink Floyd album.

Background

During 1974, 

Pink Floyd

 sketched out 

three new compositions, 

"Raving and Drooling",

 "You Gotta Be Crazy" 

and

 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". 

These songs were performed 

during a series of concerts

 in France and England, 

the band's first tour since

 1973's 

The Dark Side of the Moon. 

As Pink Floyd 

had never employed 

a publicist and

 kept themselves

 distant from the press, 

their relationship with

 the media began to sour.

 Mason said later that a 

critical NME review 

by Syd Barrett 

devotee

 Nick Kent 

may have had an

 influence in keeping

 the band together, 

as they returned

 to the studio

 in the

 first week of 1975

TRACKLIST

CD 1

Shine On You Crazy Diamond 

(Parts I-V)

Welcome to the Machine

Have a Cigar

Wish You Were Here

Shine On You Crazy Diamond 

(Parts VI-IX)

Have a Cigar 

(feat. Roy Harper) 

 (Original Version ) [*]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

 (TXE Remix) [*]

CD 2

Shine On You Crazy Diamond 

(Parts 1 - 6)

 (Live At Wembley 1974)

Raving And Drooling 

(Live At Wembley 1974)

You've Got To Be Crazy

 (Live At Wembley 1974)

Wine Glasses 

(From 'Household Objects' Project)

Have A Cigar

 [Alternative Version]

Wish You Were Here

 (Feat. Stéphane Grappelli)

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