Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

ColumnatedRuins — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:32:51 GMT

Author: ColumnatedRuins

Posted: 05/13/2013 18:32

At least it's not as bad as The Wall.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:33:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 17:33

I would have liked 'Wish You Were Here' the song much better if there was a chorus. It has the potential for an amazing chorus yet the best bit is stuck in the last minute or so of the song. Could have been a 10/10 song. 🙁

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:13:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 17:13

junodog4 wrote:

Better than Dark Side and The Wall.

This.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

junodog4 — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:12:42 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 05/13/2013 17:12

Better than Dark Side and The Wall.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:19:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 08:19

It's a great album for sure-especially the lyrics which emphasize the feelings of alienation, greed and despair, this being almost a concept album about Barrett. The title track is obviously among the finest things they ever did, and SOYCD VI-IX is a brilliant way of closing the album, showing once more Gilmour's amazing skills (and personally I prefer it significantly more than SOYCD I-IV). That said, considering that The Wall and DSOTM are two of my all-time favorite records, this sadly cannot reach their heights. I feel somewhat bad for this, because everybody would underline that WYWH was always so much more sophisticated and understated than these two and I would never seem to get it. Still, it's an amazing album, but there seems to be something there my sensibilities cannot quite grasp. It always amazed me that this album contains, like, 5 tracks, but while other albums are a similar case to this one (In The Court Of The Crimson King comes immediately to mind) this always gave me the feeling that contains more filler than it should have. Welcome To The Machine has great lyrics but musically it's cold, almost uninteresting. Have A Cigar has those incredibly loud keyboards which prevent me from appreciating it for real. In other words, it is amazingly good, but for the masterpiece it is presented to be, it is also disappointing to an extent.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Shadow23 — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:46:36 GMT

Author: Shadow23

Posted: 05/13/2013 06:46

It does not reach the epic heights of The Wall and TDSOTM, but it's still excellent and a true classic. The title song was the first Floyd song I really liked

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

HoldenM — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:22:36 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 05/13/2013 05:22

One the earliest albums I truly loved. Maybe as a twelve year old? Anyhow, not a lot to be said here. Incredible effort from one of the best bands of all time.

Track picks
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. I)
2. Welcome to the Machine
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. II)

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:32:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 04:32

Very good. Not as good as DSOTM (and I've recently been really taken with Piper, though I'm not sure that will last), but excellent nevertheless. Only track I'm not huge on is "Have a Cigar", but even it's pretty good. Opening track is definitely the best.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:38:25 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 03:38

Mostly good, though I've never enjoyed Shine on you Crazy Diamond parts VI-IX at all for some reason.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

SingingPeasant96 — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:10:18 GMT

Author: SingingPeasant96

Posted: 05/13/2013 02:10

Fasinationg album

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:04:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 00:04

I don't really like Pink Floyd. I like this better than the Wall at least.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Anonymous — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:01:55 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/13/2013 00:01

Pinky Floyd's cool. Really like this album.

EDIT: Except for have a cigar, that track is horrid.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Jasonconfused — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:53:09 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:53

Absolutely brilliant. Up there as one of their greatest works. The title track is probably my favorite Pink Floyd song.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Evandar — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:34:33 GMT

Author: Evandar

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:34

IrishMusichead wrote:

A great Pink Floyd album, retaining most of their sound from DSotM while having a major affect by including gorgeous acoustic guitars. The only track that I have trouble liking is "Have a Cigar", it feels like filler and it doesn't do it for me. Apart from that, this is another classic album made by Pink Floyd.

I agree, Have a Cigar isn't that great. The rest is. 😄

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

HazeyTwilight — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:33:16 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:33

A great Pink Floyd album, retaining most of their sound from DSotM while having a major affect by including gorgeous acoustic guitars. The only track that I have trouble liking is "Have a Cigar", it feels like filler and it doesn't do it for me. Apart from that, this is another classic album made by Pink Floyd.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

camsh — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:27:43 GMT

Author: camsh

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:27

Beautiful album that gets better with every listen 😄

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

drakonium — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:11:57 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:11

Very good record, of course. I relistened to TDSOTM recently, and it was not as good as what I remembered, so this could be my favorite 70's Floyd release. I should make a Pink Floyd re-listen session actually.

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Mercury — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:06:34 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:06

By far my fave Floyd album. It's the only album of theirs on my chart.

Features some of the most beautiful, depressive guitar I've eve heard by Davod Gilmour.
Pretty good lyrics and singing and songwriting. Waters hadn't yet become such a shit bag of utter shit, so this was pretty phenom in spite of his basic shittyness.

Really really like it!

Re: Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

revolver94 — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:03:00 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:03

Definitely my favorite Floyd album, but I like it less with each listen... it's just starting to bore me a little at this point.

Album of the day (#907): Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

BestEverAlbums — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:22 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 05/12/2013 20:00

Today's album of the day

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1975.
Country:
Overall rank: 15
Average rating: 89/100 (from 1087 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V
2. Welcome To The Machine
3. Have A Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.