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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Summary: Attention Pink Floyd fans
Comment: Most of their albums are being terrorized by some complete and absolute moron writing one star review after one star review (simply to get attention). It seems they're under the mistaken impression that this is "clever". Click on the button labeled "report this" for every one of them, then write a short letter to Amazon about them. I've done this before, they WILL disappear.

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Summary: witch hue w'rear
Comment: This is EXACTLY the sound of a live kitten being dissected.

buyers beware!

Mark Tinderson

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Summary: fallacious cock
Comment: Hey, the artists make up this dungheap of a cd must have been fallacious cocks, I see no other alternative except colonization of moonbase Six

Bernie my guy

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Summary: fallacious cock
Comment: Hey, the artists make up this dungheap of a cd must have been fallacious cocks, I see no other alternative except colonization of moonbase X

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Summary: I'm gonna throw up!!!!!!
Comment: Hey guys, one moment longer and I,m gonna throw up. I'm practically calling out for my mamah, God, the utter noise and syncopates.

This Cd is bad for yah, says I.

that fat prick Cheney

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