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Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd
100/100
classic
Progressive Rock, Art Rock

I don't know how they do it. It's an extremely beautiful album and a beautiful tribute to Syd. At 5 tracks long there really isn't any song doesn't stand out. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is easily the best pair of bookending tracks and are phenomenal tracks, parts 1-5 gets played on it's own more often but 6-9 is criminally underrated. Welcome to the Machine is just great, Have a Cigar too. Wish You Were Here is such a beautiful song, like truly truly beautiful like everyone I know who likes Pink Floyd want's it played at their funeral level beautiful. Everything that can be said about that song can be said about the album as a whole, it's such an amazing title track and tribute. Gilmour really shines through on this album with the guitar.

This album had such a grip on me when I was around the age of 16, every time I hear parts 6 -9 I think about that time in my life and this specific Minecraft server for me and my friends, all of my diamond tools were named after tracks from this album. I don't think that was a good time in my life at all but I am glad I was listening to this album then. Sometimes you think about your favourite albums and wonder if they hold up to a listen again and there are times where you realise that artistically they are good but they aren't that good and it's just nostalgia. This is one of the cases where I feel like I have made myself think that it's just nostalgia carrying my fondness for this album just to be hit with it and reminded how good it is.

Track Listing
01Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)10/10
02Welcome to the Machine9/10
03Have a Cigar10/10
04Wish You Were Here10/10
05Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9)10/10
fishing