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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: Wish You Were Here
Year: 1975
Genre: Progressive Rock Classic
Nationality: British

Tracklist:
1. Shine on you crazy diamond, Part 1 (13:40)
2. Welcome to the machine (7:31)
3. Have a Cigar (5:08)
4. Wish you were here (5:34)
5. Shine on you crazy diamond, Part 2 (12:31)

Alignment:
David Gilmour: guitars, vocals
Nick Mason: drums, percussion
Roger Waters: bass, vocals
Richard Wright: keyboards

Con:
Vanetta Fields: vocals
Roy Harper: vocals (3)
Dick Parry: saxophone
Carlena Williams: vocals

Información del disco:

Shine On!

To "celebrate" (or something) my 50 posts in the series taringa "QD" (if set me less is because there are several links deleted by fallen by compulsive accusers estimates) chose a Pink album Floyd. And choosing things are coming more "rare", but must return to the roots from time to time. Warning
As I say, who is writing this is almost unconditional fan of Pink Floyd and his favorite band, so it will be difficult to find something written too objectivity. That's a bit also why not choose "Dark Side of the Moon", simply because it was my favorite record I had been very difficult to put into words something about it, plus you could be as large as the Pyra review of "Lark's Tongues in Aspic."
Finally, located just historically we have for 75 progressive rock was at its highest sales and in fact was about to start to fall (unfortunately), we have Pink Floyd without looking or unwillingly, had become world famous and recognized by that album 2 years before was the "Dark Side of the moon." So with all this, Boys sought to give a twist to his music, but following the path that had been drawing from "Meddle" or "Atom Heart Mother" a few years ago.

addition to being next to the "Dark Side of the Moon" my 2 favorite albums, I also believe that are 2 discs with larger band together quartet, especially Rick Wright. While the "Dark Side" and "Echoes" (from Meddle) is also strongly starring Rick (be why just those 3 things are my favorite band). As I said, is a disc with a lot of work from Rick Wright, and what is not so much compositional (in the "Dark Side" composed "Us and Them" and the idea of \u200b\u200b"The Great Gig in the sky", among other things.) but from the interpretative role. is clear that the sound of "Wish you" is so decisive and original, thanks to their keyboards, which combined with the compositional genius born of Roger Waters, with the sweetness and depth of David Gilmour guitar and timely Nick Mason flashes build what, to this humble fan, is the best part of the band.
is one of those bands, Pink Floyd, who have a broad spectrum of fans, I mean people who listen and really likes Pink Floyd can come from multiple branches style in music, has fanatical followers of rock, progressive music, the psychedelic for its first stage which is then turned to that other sound, so fans of various branches. As we will all agree is that one of the seals, perhaps the most distinctive and Pink Floyd in music is its depth. Musically speaking, because we could talk about the depth of certain letters of Waters and the plot of "Dark Side" or "The wall", I speak musically. Musically that depth, these atmospheres open, slow and quiet, they can also change from one moment to another, along with depth but varying in shades, is one of the hallmarks of the band. Omnipresence keyboards from the back, sound effects, multiple voices, unique style of Gilmour on guitar, at times the acidity and sweetness of Roger Waters moments, combined with the wide and deep sound that said, some will say "spatial" (for me space is another matter) could be a first, possibly worst of all, defining what the band sounds.

And if we talk about depth in the sound, this album is simply outstanding. Created environments, especially on both sides of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" by Wright's keyboards, bass discrete but with some resonant phrases, the superlative guitar Gilmour, Mason ant work, plus "added" as the female voices are ever present in this sound, and input from Dick Perry saxes and some sound effects make "Shine on ... " Is an exceptional piece. As there are "Standards" in jazz, this song has become something like the progressive music world, and why not rock. Sweet melody, lyrically melancholy and deep harmony is a song, for me, none.

But that melancholy which name is a defining feature of the disc, perhaps more nostalgia ( "Remember when You Were Young ... You shine like a sun " are the first lines of the disc, if that's not nostalgia ...). Many say it's an album about absence, is a fairly straightforward interpretation to be called" Wish you were here ", having clear nods to the "hero" symbolic of the band, Barret in "Shine on ...", and is even clearer if one reads the letter of the title track to the disc (which many believe is pifiadamente love).
For Furthermore, the nostalgia and absence are magnified by the disappointment of other issues, as is his (then) recent musical success, "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the machine" so different musically ( one being a symphonic rock song and the other an experimental and environmental) point to the disappointment (with some acidity that then characterize of Waters) for this new world where music is mainly a business, and entrepreneurs art is relegated to plane.
Among these conceptual ideas, some a little disjointed but all pointing to a species of "Paradise Lost" (either by the problems of Syd, the nostalgia of that time when they were young, by the disappointment that was his musical world changing because they became a business, or the loss itself, embodied in "Wish you were here" .) we have a musical work that is in charge of shaping it, in my opinion exquisitely.
In short, I could keep writing more nonsense on the disc, as one of my favorites. But above and to reach and if not I will not re-read or myself.
Conclusion (?), Being subjective, because I can not be objective here, is a masterpiece. Those who do not know do not forget to look for the letters.